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Anti-graft Agency Warns Legislators Against Corrupt Practices

The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission has warned Nigerian Legislators against corrupt practices, saying it will activate the anti-graft law for all corrupt lawmakers and those … Continue reading Anti-graft Agency Warns Legislators Against Corrupt Practices


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lawmakers corrupt practicesThe Independent Corrupt Practices Commission has warned Nigerian Legislators against corrupt practices, saying it will activate the anti-graft law for all corrupt lawmakers and those caught perverting the due process of the law.

The Provost of the Anti-Corruption Academy, an arm of the commission, Professor Sola Akinrinade, gave the warning in Abuja on Tuesday while reading a riot act to legislators across Nigeria.

Professor Akinrinade was addressing State legislators at a workshop on ‘Integrity in the Legislature’.

He said that the long arm of the law was waiting for persons who were in the habit of helping themselves to unfair proportions of the national cake.

The Provost of the academy pointed out that a honest and diligent deployment of some legislative processes such as public hearings and oversight functions were veritable tools of fighting corruption in Nigeria.

Since President Muhammadu Buhari took over on May 29, there has been huge attention paid to the fight against corruption, after the President said in his inaugural speech that he would tackle corruption in the system which had been identified as a major setback to the oil-rich nation’s development.