Fighting corruption in Nigeria requires sustained campaign — FENRAD

Fighting corruption in Nigeria faces challenges, hence there is the need for sustained campaign against the scourge.

The Executive Director of Foundation for Environmental Rights, Advocacy and Development (FENRAD) Comrade Nelson Nnanna Nwafor stated this Monday as the organization joined the rest of the world to mark the 2023 International Anti-Corruption Day of the UN with a call for sustained campaign.

Briefing newsmen on the occasion, Nwafor said “It is our thinking that to end or at least fight corruption, the nation needs and ought to be doing better. So far, the anti-corruption campaign of the current administration is still imprecise, vague and almost unknowable. Better can be done”.

This year’s observance day, with the theme “UNCAC at 20; Uniting the World Against Corruption”, he said couldn’t have been less ideal, as “It is the duty of all in Nigeria to unite against corruption. If that monster is to be defeated and we need to see that as a national project.

“It is for this reason that the FENRAD calls on all governments to heighten the war against corruption and to tie up the loose ends”.

“Fighting corruption in Nigeria faces challenges such as entrenched systemic corruption, weak law enforcement, lack of transparency, a culture of impunity. Also, limited resources, political interference, and public apathy contribute to the complexity of addressing this issue”, Nwafor observed.

Reminding Nigerian governments of the need to unite in the anti-corruption campaign, especially under the new government, Nwafor noted that, “The Foundation’s reason for this statement is not based on political consideration but largely motivated by the fact that Nigeria has a new government and so the tactics deployed to the war against corruption must change for the better”.

He lamented the ugly corruption trend in the country “especially, where corruption, having earlier permeated our society, took root, deepened and entrenched itself in all our institutions, becoming manifest”, stating, “It is therefore for this and other reasons that the new government must strive to end corruption”.

According to him, “The last administration ruled largely through court disobedience, and without regard to the rule of law. Under its watch animals acquired uncharacteristic traits such that reptiles, primates and rodents swallowed money”.

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