Corruption responsible for all socio-economic, political problems plaguing Nigeria—CDHR

The Committee For the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), says corruption among leadership of various socio-political institutions in Nigeria and their collaborators is responsible for the socio-economic and political problems plaguing Nigeria.

Addressing journalists at a press conference in Lagos on Thursday, national president of CDHR, Comrade Debo Adeniran said corruption as evidenced in all dishonest behaviours like stealing, oppression favouritism, embezzlement among many order vices has made an average Nigerian poorer while an average leader unjustifiably wealthier than the capacity of their legitimate earnings.

“Causes of all socio-economic and political problems plaguing Nigeria today have been traced to endemic corruption by and among leadership of various socio-political institutions in Nigeria and their collaborators elsewhere.

“Recently, we heard that some civil servants who have relocated abroad are still drawing salaries from the government. This led to President Bola Tinubu’s order that all civil servants drawing salaries from the government after relocating abroad without formally resigning should be made to refund the money.

“The President also directed that the supervisors and department heads of the culprits must also be punished for aiding and abetting the fraud under their watch. This is a pointer to the fact that corruption in the country is gradually gravitating to another level.

“As we are complaining of losing our best brains to the recent trend of brain drain popularly referred to as “Japa Syndrome”, the corrupt ones among the civil service are desperately wicked to allow people who are no longer working to be drawing salaries from the government.

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“We would like to use this medium to call on the government to bring the perpetrators of these corrupt acts to book. Their names should be made public so as to nail and shame them thereby serving as a deterrent to others.

“ We as activists are not happy with the President’s performance so far. During his campaign, we believed so much in him going by his antecedents as one of those that spearheaded the PRONACO in those days. We thought his reign would bring succor and relief to the people especially as we missed that golden opportunity during the June 12 election, but the reverse is the case right now.

“We would like to call on the President to explore the possibility of reaching out to more professionals even outside his cabinet so that his policies and programmes can have a more beneficial effect on the populace,”
he added.

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