- Make indices used public, Keyamo tasks body
A former presidential candidate of the National Conscience Party, Chief Martin Onovo, has said that Nigerians should not discountenance the recent poor rating of Nigeria’s corruption index by the global anti-corruption body, Transparency International.
Onovo described the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress administration as the most corrupt government in the history of the country.
The former NCP standard bearer said this while reacting to the 2017 annual Corruption Perception Index by TI, which rated the country’s corruption index higher, describing the APC government as the worst administration the country had ever had.
He noted that the Buhari administration had been “bad from inception,” stressing that the government was deceptive.
Onovo said contrary to the beliefs being peddled by the APC-led Federal Government, concerning its anti-graft war, the country had further been entrenched in corruption.
He stressed that the TI report validated his position, which he had since maintained that the APC anti-corruption war was a sham.
Onovo said, “The government has been very bad from the beginning and we have been shouting, thinking it would correct itself and amend its ways, but apparently, it has gone worse progressively.
“You can see now that this administration is the worst government in the history of Nigeria. We are dealing with the worst government. This administration is corrupt economically, spiritually, physically, morally and in all forms.
“There has never been a time in the history of this country when we have recorded a whoping sum of 25 billion dollars scam. This administration is the first to record such a huge financial scam figure. And they claimed to be fighting corruption, when they themselves are corrupt.
“A former National Intelligence Agency boss said this government is the most corrupt. And for many of us, the handwriting is everywhere. Look at the issue of Boko Haram, the government budgets N10 billion every year for Operation Lafiya Doyle and now again, they talked about wanting to borrow a billion dollar for the same cause, which they claim they have won. You can see that the government is false; it is corrupt morally. The APC government has zero integrity; every information from the government is false.”
But a human rights lawyer, Festus Keyamo (SAN), said he would neither approve nor dispute the TI report.
He tasked the international anti-corruption body to make public the indices used in arriving at the conclusion on Nigeria.
Keyamo said, “I just want to know how they arrived at that conclusion; the index used in measuring and determining the rating.
“I am not disputing it and I am not also approving it. I am completely in the dark regarding the statistics and the data. I will love to see it before I make comments on it. I urge them to make public the indices used in arriving at that conclusion.”
