{"id":11695,"date":"2019-06-19T13:41:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=11695"},"modified":"2019-06-19T13:41:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:41:09","slug":"apc-controlled-states-not-fighting-corruption-femi-falana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-controlled-states-not-fighting-corruption-femi-falana","title":{"rendered":"APC-controlled states not fighting corruption \u2013 Femi Falana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activist lawyer, Femi Falana, has maintained that states controlled by the All Progressives Congress, APC, are insincere in their fight against corruption.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that other than Kano State, other APC controlled states are insincere in their anti-corruption fight, hence the inability to constitute a formal structure to fight corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The human right lawyer made the remark on Tuesday, in Kano, while delivering a keynote paper at a two-day stakeholders\u2019 dialogue on corruption in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Falana said: \u201cOnly Kano State among all the 20 APC controlled states and indeed in the entire country has been able to establish Anti-Corruption Commission as an agency to fight corruption at the state level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if we are to fight corruption effectively as a country, the job shouldn\u2019t be only that of the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven at the federal level too, Federal Government has too much control over EFCC and ICPC such that they are selective in their probes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also charged the government to be more concerned about wealth creation rather than pursuing corruption across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activist lawyer, Femi Falana, has maintained that states controlled by the All Progressives Congress, APC, are insincere in their fight against corruption. 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