To Tame Corruption: Nigerians’ tolerance level must change – Babawale

…As UNILAG VC calls for mindset shift

By Adesina Wahab

LAGOS — Experts person stressed that Nigerians’ precocious tolerance for corruption indispensable alteration if the state is to efficaciously curb the menace and execute meaningful progress.

Speaking astatine the opening ceremonial of an planetary league connected anti-corruption hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos (UNILAG), successful collaboration with the Panafricana Strategic and Policy Research Group and the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Prof. Babatunde Babawale, retired General Ishola Williams, Mr. Auwal Musa and others urged a corporate rethink successful attitudes towards corruption.

Delivering the keynote address, Prof. Babawale, contiguous past Provost of the National Anti-Corruption Academy, Abuja, described corruption successful Nigeria arsenic “a malignant tumour” that has reached the level of wickedness.

“It has go a menace to nationalist development. Despite the beingness of anti-graft agencies similar the ICPC and EFCC, stealing is becoming official. That is wherefore authorities has turned into warfare and acquiring authorities powerfulness has go a substance of beingness and death. We indispensable rework our justness strategy to region tardiness. We cannot let corruption to go a nationalist identity,” helium said.

He warned that unless followers guarantee that leaders of integrity are recruited into power, the state volition proceed to endure from policies shaped by corrupt individuals.

In her remarks, UNILAG Vice Chancellor, Prof. Folasade Ogunsola, stressed the request for a mindset shift, noting that corruption begins with intent.

“Occupying a presumption does not automatically marque idiosyncratic corrupt; it is the mindset that drives corruption. Nigerians indispensable woody with this,” she said.

Also speaking, General Williams linked the worsening concern to the mentation of primitive accumulation of wealth, portion CISLAC’s Auwal Musa said lone corporate enactment from each Nigerians could escaped the state from corruption’s grip.

The Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, UNILAG, Prof. Adelaja Odukoya, called for a betterment of however corruption cases are treated, suggesting that the load of impervious should displacement to the accused since corrupt acts are usually perpetrated successful secrecy.

The league besides featured presentations from experts crossed assorted institutions, with discussions centred connected applicable strategies to fortify the combat against corruption successful Nigeria.

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