How Nigeria Can Fight Corruption Through Security Votes – Ribadu

The pioneer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, Nuhu Ribadu, says Nigeria can only tackle corruption effectively if the billions of naira being spent as security votes in the country are checked and the justice sector reformed.

Naija News reports that Ribadu made the remark at a convocation lecture at the Federal University Dutsin-Ma, Katsina state, northern Nigeria on Friday, June 14.

According to him, “there would only be limited or no success in the anti-corruption campaign if the justice system is not properly sanitised to shoulder that important responsibility. Every individual within the chain of the justice sector needs to be above board, those who cannot uphold the basic tenets of integrity needed for such job should be shoved aside.

“The practice of political leaders spending humongous amounts of money in the name of security votes should also be checked. For example, I see no reason for governors and some other officeholders to be expending billions of naira without budgetary provisions or accountability under the vague code of security,” Ribadu said.