For the second time since late 2021, five years after President Muhammadu Buhari rolled out an executive order launching Nigeria’s whistleblowing policy as an anti-corruption programme, the federal ministry of finance is on the road.
It needed to take the walk again as the principal actor in the federal government’s newfound, albeit tepid, crusade against a monster that is eating away at the soul of ethical governance in the country. Being the custodian of a policy designed essentially to rein in endemic public sector corruption, the finance ministry’s whistleblowing management unit in the presidential initiative on continuous audit (PICA) is just about rounding off traversing the country’s six zones, striving to educate workers on the whistleblowing policy and persuade them to embrace whistleblowing as a weapon of choice against fraud, embezzlement and other illegal practices in the workplace.
In the last six months, the ministry has sought to deepen this phase of its sensitisation programme in Lagos, Owerri, Makurdi, Sokoto and Calabar, and hopes to draw the curtains on the campaign in Gombe. But for two main reasons, the experience isn’t altogether cheery.
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