Reason; Nigeria is Not Winning The War of Corruption

 Pioneer Chairman, ICPC, Justice Mustapha Akanbi, has blamed Nigeria’s inability to win the corruption war on structural defects in the laws guarding anti-graft agencies’operations. Akanbi noted the non-revision of the law demanding that ICPC can only arrest someone who had committed a crime if a report is made against the culprit by way of petition. The former Appeal Court President said the existence of such law coupled with the requirement that the anti-graft agencies must pass through the Attorney General in prosecuting corruption cases had tended to draw back corruption fight i... more »