The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) has expressed concern over the lack of direction of the administration of President Bola Tinubu as regards to the war against corruption.
The Chairman of HEDA, Olarenwaju Suraju disclosed this Tuesday at a two-day National Conference on Anti-corruption held in Abuja.
He pointed out that following the removal of the Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawal, no action has been taken to tell Nigeria what the agenda of this government is in the fight against corruption.
Suraju was of the opinion that there was no good reason to believe that there was going to be any serious fight against corruption.
The chairman further lamented that both the media and the civil society organisations did not put the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio on the spot for alleged corruption cases against him when he was vying for the position of Senate President
He said: “I must confess that we should have put the Senate President on the spotlight. He’s not only being investigated for his term as governor in Akwa Ibom but also as Minister of Niger Delta. These are very critical issues.
“This was the person that was invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and refused to honour the invitation, claiming that he was sick, only to be junketeering around, campaigning to be Senate President and eventually emerge as the Senate President.”
The chairman stated categorically that this left a sour taste in the mouth, both for the President and for this government.
He added: “If we want to go by what has been happening so far in terms of the fight against corruption, we can’t actually for now, say that we have any good reason to believe that there’s going to be any serious fight against corruption .”
Suraju said that was what prompted HEDA to invited the National Security Adviser (NSA) considering the fact that corruption is also at the center of insecurity in the country.