An organisation which focuses on anti-corruption has launched a whistleblowing platform to help with safe reporting of corruption-related issues, promising to secure users’ identities.

The platform, Corruption Anonymous (CORA), was established by the African Centre for Media & Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) in partnership with the Yar’Adua Foundation.

Supported by the MacArthur Foundation, the platform, according to the conveners, will secure the identity of whistleblowers in Nigeria.

The Director AFRIMIL, Chido Onumah, said at the official launching of the platform in Abuja on Thursday that the CORA whistleblowers initiative was a vital tool that would address the gaps hampering whistleblowing by citizens.

The platform, according to him, will complement the government’s tip-sharing system run by the Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA) and make it much simpler for citizens to provide tips anonymously without worrying about their identities being revealed, and with the assurance that they would be taken seriously.

”CORA whistleblowing platform, the civil- society-driven public reporting option that we are launching today, serves as an invaluable tool that would fill the gap in the disclosure channels which have made fighting corruption through whistleblowing a challenging exercise for citizens.

”The CORA platform will complement the government’s whistleblowing platform managed by PICA and make it much easier for citizens to submit tips anonymously,...

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