‘We have driven corruption under the table and made it unattractive’

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5cbe38db87333 'We have driven corruption under the table and made it unattractive'

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has said it would be unfair for Nigerians to measure the current administration’s achievements in the fight against corruption by the number of convictions it has secured.  

 

The minister spoke on Easter Monday when he featured on a live TVC where he listed the achievements of the administration, Mohammed said: “Under this administration, we insisted and have succeeded in ensuring that all payments and revenues are paid into the TSA.  “Before we came in, the Federal government had over 2,000 different accounts in various banks, which resulted in paying several billions of naira in charges.  

 

“The government then also never had an idea of how much it had as revenue but today over N9.3 trillion has gone into the TSA and that is why it is possible for us to invest, especially in the area of infrastructure and social investment programmes.”  

On the fight against corruption, he said: “When we say the fight against…



Linda Ikeji