•Wants greater focus on corruption in IDP camps
By Omeiza Ajayi
Five years after it introduced the whistleblower policy to help combat corruption in the country, the Federal Government has lamented the reluctance of Nigerians to report incidences of corruption, challenging them to be ready to pay the supreme price for the development of the nation.
Executive Secretary, Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti Corruption PACAC, Prof. Sadiq Isah Raddah, stated this yesterday in Abuja at the public presentation of the report of a survey on five years of whistle-blowing policy in Nigeria which was undertaken by the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy, AFRICMIL.
He also challenged anti-corruption advocates in the country to beam their focus on humanitarian interventions, saying there was seeming malfeasance in the distribution of relief materials to Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs.
Raddah said: “The fight against corruption as far as PACAC is concerned will continue. This is because we are convinced that without fighting corruption, we will have a country.
“Corruption is human and requires human efforts to eliminate it. We began the issue of whistle-blowing, believing that our anti-graft agencies cannot be everywhere but the people who perpetrate corruption are everywhere in the country.
”Therefore, somebody has to say something is going wrong somewhere for the authorities to take action.
“Since the idea of whistleblowing began, we have realised some problems...
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