– How to effectively fund and sustain anti-corruption efforts in Nigeria?
– The Convention on Business Integrity and the Integrity Organization will try to find an answer to this question
– Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is expected to be a special guest of honour at the event
The Convention on Business Integrity (CBI) and the Integrity Organization (Limited by Guarantee) is to hold one-day symposium to discuss possible ways of effective funding and reinforcement of anti-corruption campaign in Nigeria.
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The event chaired by Itse Sagay, a professor of law and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, who is also the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption, will be held at the Ladi Kwali Hall, Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Abuja, on Thursday at 10:30am.
The special guest of honour at the conference, which is believed to be a part of the on-going fight against corruption by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government, is Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
A press release reads in part: “Many perceive this administration’s fight against corruption to be more of the same witch-hunt tactics used by previous administrations to settle political scores. For others, the corruption fight is urgently needed but currently personal, and embodied in President Buhari.
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For the fight against corruption to be effective and far reaching, there needs to be concrete ways of funding, driving and sustaining anti-corruption efforts in Nigeria together with the President. Well-meaning Nigerians, leaders of the business community, all arms of government, civil society and the general public must rise in full support of this noble cause to secure the future of our fatherland.
Extensive deliberations on finding an effective Nigerian response to this global problem are now needed. As a former EFCC Chairman once noted, “if Nigeria does not kill corruption, corruption will kill us.
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It is anticipated the event will have in attendance representatives/decision makers/stakeholders in key organizations involved in or affected by anti-corruption work in Nigeria including donor agencies, international and local financial institutions, anti-corruption agencies, media houses (local & international), civil society, local philanthropic foundations, the private sector and the National Assembly.
We hope that this programme, in addition to sensitizing and proffering viable solutions to the issue, will also stimulate reflection and discourse by all stakeholders on the rationale for funding and sustaining anti-corruption work in Nigeria.”
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