The former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Attahiru Jega, has called for a strategic change in the fight against corruption.<\/p>\n
NAN reports that Jega gave the advice while reviewing a book titled: \u201cCurbing Electoral Spending\u201d launched by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on Monday in Abuja.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere in Nigeria, where corruption is on the increase compared to other African countries, we need to take the fight seriously.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a day for sober reflection for us and for reviewing our experiences and strategising to find better ways and means of improving the successes in the fight against corruption,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Jega commended the EFCC for its successes as well as other anti-corruption agencies for their contributions to tackling crime in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we commend them, they also need to intensify their efforts in the fight against corruption because we see that the more effort is made, the more difficult it becomes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe EFCC and other anti-corruption agencies need to continue demonstrating that there are no sacred cows in the fight against corruption.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will want to see a rededicated effort in terms of effective utilisation of governance of resources saved from corruption,\u201d Jega added.<\/p>\n
The Secretary, Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Sadiq Radda, said that fighting corruption required political will and determination of the leaders.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe, first and foremost, we should acknowledge the political will and the determination of the government led by the president.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout the support of the president, I think the kind of momentum we have regarding the fight against corruption wouldn\u2019t have been this much,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n
Radda also commended the current synergy between various arms of the government in the fight against corruption.<\/p>\n
He said that today, the executive arm of government had said no to corruption, the judiciary was friendly to the executive, while the judiciary also said that corruption must be fought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Attahiru Jega, has called for a strategic change in the fight against corruption. NAN reports that Jega gave the advice while reviewing a book titled: \u201cCurbing Electoral Spending\u201d launched by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on Monday in Abuja. \u201cHere in Nigeria, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":18691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[68,251,1216],"class_list":["post-18689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-efcc","tag-inec","tag-jega"],"yoast_head":"\n