The chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, Okoi Obono-Obla has described Nigerians as pathologically corrupt.
According
to reports, Obono-Obla said this in reaction to the National Bureau for
Statistics report which stated that Nigerians paid bribes to the tune
of N400bn between 2015 and 2016.
Speaking on Sunrise Daily,
a Channels Television program, the presidential aide also alleged that
Nigerians are not supporting the anti-corruption campaign of President
Buhari.
He said “It is chilling,
daunting, outrageous and shocking but I am not surprised because
corruption has become pandemic and endemic. Most Nigerians are
pathologically corrupt.
“This
government wants to fight corruption but what is the challenge?
Nigerians do not want to support the fight against corruption; the
judiciary and the legislature do not want to support the fight against
corruption. It is as if only the President and the Vice-President are in
support of the war against corruption.”
“The
law we are using to fight corruption now has been in effect since 1983
but that law has not been used by successive governments because these
successive administrations did not have the will, did not have the
commitment or dedication to fight corruption and this government has
gone into the archives to exhume that law to fight corruption and the
law is very strict and maybe that is why successive administrations did
not use that law in fighting corruption. That law predates the EFCC and
ICPC Act,” he added.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has constantly said that President Buhari's anti-corruption war is aimed at pulling down the opposition.
The
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) coordinates the production of
official statistics in all the Federal Ministries, Departments and
Agencies (MDAs), State Statistical Agencies (SSAs) and Local Government
Councils (LGCs).
NBS came into being with the merger of the Federal Office of Statistics (FOS) and the National Data Bank (NDB).
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