By Chido Onumah & Godwin Onyeacholem

TODAY, July 14, 2022, the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy, AFRICMIL, in collaboration with Yar’Adua Foundation will launch the Corruption Anonymous, CORA, whistleblowing platform at Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja.

The CORA platform is a secure civil society-driven public whistleblowing tool through which citizens can submit tips on corruption and other forms of wrongdoing anonymously. Jointly developed by AFRICMIL and the Yar’Adua Foundation, the platform aims at strengthening the whistleblowing policy of the Nigerian government. We shall return to this.

It was an unprecedented dramatic exploit, an unforced disclosure least expected from the unlikeliest of quarters. Inside the court at the apex of courts, the presumed fortress of judicial rectitude and the last bastion of cryptic conservatism, the Pandora’s box that has been well preserved for decades was prised open. And the stench was overpowering with allegations of missing funds and gross incompetence.

In the almost 59-year history of Nigeria’s Supreme Court, this is the first time justices would go public with a letter chronicling the iniquities of the institution’s leadership. Not that this is regrettable in any way. On the contrary, it is a pleasant experience observing persons who often bask in the virtuous mantra of “only to be seen and not to be heard” now letting it out in a somewhat no-holds-barred fashion.

Some enthusiastic media colleagues have termed the...

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