The Whistleblowing Advocacy Coalition has called for the legislation of whistleblowing and protection of whistleblowers in Nigeria.

The coalition made the call yesterday at a press briefing in commemoration of the 2022 International Anti-Corruption day, tagged: UNCAC at 20: “Uniting the World Against Corruption”, in Abuja.

It identified the lack of protection for whistleblowers as a major setback in the fight against corruption through whistleblowing.

“As a coalition, we have identified one of the gaps in the fight against corruption as the undue delay in putting in place a framework for the protection of citizens who are courageous enough to report corruption and illegalities in society.

“We note that unlike in the early stages of the whistleblowing policy when people showed tremendous enthusiasm about submitting reports which resulted in frequent recovery of looted public funds, there has been a noticeable severe reduction in people’s interest in passing on information to the anti-corruption agencies. The major reason is that the whistleblowing policy which this administration introduced six years ago has remained a policy, with no framework for protecting whistleblowers who are continually subjected to all kinds of punishment for reporting fraud and corrupt practices in their offices.

“And so our specific mission as a group is to strengthen advocacy for the passage of the whistleblowing and whistleblower protection bill and its enactment as a law before the Muhammadu...

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