“We’ll change mode of fighting Corruption” -SDP’s Presidential Candidate
Bitrus Kozah & Mercy Gana
The Presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Adewole Adebayo, has promised to change the mode of fighting corruption in Nigeria.
According to the presidential aspirant, the fight against corruption needs to start from inside the government, for it to be successful.
The Social Democratic Party’s presidential candidate said this while speaking at the Integrity Award Public Lecture organized by the Centre for Awareness on Justice and Accountability’s (CAJA), a non-governmental and non-partisan organization that focuses on promoting Justice and Accountability as strategy for promoting good governance.
The event, which was held on Thursday, December 14 in Kano state, North-west Nigeria, had as theme ‘Promoting Integrity as a Way of Fighting Corruption’.
“Our party will change the mode of fighting corruption, as Nigeria has been getting it wrong.
“The government must be willing to keep policemen with integrity at the top in order to help tackle the problem of corruption.
“A good police man knows that people in government will go to jail.
“There is a need to watch out for the institutions used to fight corruption because corruption is capable of capturing institutions.
“Corruption is dangerous to institutions; any institution that you can use to fight corruption, corruption will capture it.
“So, we must watch out for institutions, including religious institutions.
“We are getting something wrong in Nigeria; the government cannot fight corruption in Nigeria.
“The government can only fight corruption inside the government,” he said.
