Graft: Presidential Committee blames anti-graft agencies, judiciary

A member of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Femi Odekunle feels that the fight against corruption in the country has not been as effective as expected because the anti-graft agencies and the judiciary have been largely ineffective against the menace.
The Committee headed by luminary icon, Itse Sagay, was recently inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari.
He lamented, that their officials often appear corrupt and compromised in their operations and decisions, and that as such corruption had remained endemic, pervasive, and systemic in virtually all areas of Nigeria‘s public and corporate life.
Prof. Odekunle, a former pioneer Director, United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime, Kampala, Uganda, stated this during a speech at the 5th convocation lecture of Al-Hikmah University, titled, ‘Tackling corruption in Nigeria: Strategic and operational options for the Buhari administration,’ in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
He said, “The anti-corruption agencies and the criminal justice system are largely ineffective against corruption and their personnel often appear corrupt and compromised in their operations and decisions.”

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According to him, the consequences of corruption for the nation continue to be devastating to the extent that it is ‘killing’ the polity economically, politically and socio-culturally thus resulting in unjustifiable under-development.
“Now, with the emergence of this kind of desirable leadership, (Buhari leadership), all should be well with the fight against corruption – all things being equal. However, all things are not and cannot be equal because as of today, Buhari appears an oasis of integrity in a desert of corruption,” Odekunle said.

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