Whistleblowing Advocacy Coalition said many Nigerians have been discouraged from making disclosures on wrongdoings and corruption by government officials due to a lack of whistleblower protection laws that would guarantee their safety six years after its introduction.

The Programme Manager, AFRICAN Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), Mr. Kolawole Ogunbiyi disclosed this at a press conference on Whistleblowing legislation and Whistleblowing protection in Nigeria to mark the International Anti-Corruption Day 2022 on Thursday in Abuja.

The policy was launched by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in December 2016.

The Coalition said there has been a noticeable severe reduction in people’s interest in passing on information to anti-corruption agencies unlike in the early stages of the policy when people showed tremendous enthusiasm about submitting reports which resulted in the frequent recovery of looted public funds.

Ogunbiyi said the reason for the lack of interest was 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.

Ogunbiyi said, "Many whistleblowers in the public sector have been visited with adverse actions ranging from dismissal, suspension without pay, denial of salary and promotion, intimidation, harassment, etc. Even to...

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