I have been active in the anti-corruption field even before the setting up of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Indeed, I was an unpaid volunteer in the Nuhu Ribadu days as the chairman of the EFCC.
Anti-Corruption Revolution, ANCOR that was a major plank of activity by EFCC under Farida Waziri as the chairman of the anti-corruption agency was my brainchild and initiative. This was borne out of my realisation that there was and still is till date, a very huge ignorance by the public of the damage that corruption and lack of public accountability does to the nation.
Indeed most people do not seem to make the connection between official corruption and public poverty. They don’t know that the dearth and decay of public infrastructure is a direct outcome of rampant corruption. How many Nigerians know that citizen wellbeing and welfare suffer greatly and is hugely degraded by corruption?
The major reason why corruption is tolerated in Nigeria and other parts of Africa…
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