Let’s Stamp Out Corruption for A Better Nigeria – Magu

Participants who moved amidst singing and dancing carried banners and placards such as “Say No To Corruption”; “Corruption Kills”; Corruption, Our Greatest Enemy”; “Kill Corruption Now”; “Do not be silent, blow the whistle to fight corruption” and “Let us make Nigeria Great Again”. They also had Red Cards boldly inscribed on their ‘T Shirts”, to symbolically send corruption out of Nigeria.

The walk which held simultaneously in all the cities where the EFCC has offices, featured invited stakeholders from diverse sectors including the Public Compliant Commission, Nigeria Police, Independence Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC; Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC; organized Labour, Ministry of Justice, staff of the Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation, youth organizations, civil society organizations and African Centre for Media and Information Literacy, AFRIML.

In his keynote address, Magu stressed the need to unite to successfully eliminate corruption, so as not to risk economic growth being slowed and prosperity muzzled.

He lamented that Nigerians had for long borne the pangs of corruption, adding that corruption had allowed diversion and conversion of public funds into private pockets and accounts adding that “it is high high time Nigerians are united against corruption for sustainable development, peace and security”.

“Our country has witnessed a torrent of the adverse effects of corruption and we need to kill the monster of corruption before it kills our country”, he said.

The anti-graft czar vowed never to give up in making sure that corruption was completely eradicated in Nigeria stressing that, “the days of impunity are gone”.

Also speaking, the Auditor-General of the Federation, Anthony Mkpe Ayine who participated in the walk urged Nigerians to own the fight against corruption because it had led to the decay of various sectors of the nation’s economy.

“We cannot underscore the effects of corrupt hence we need to join hands and fight corruption, I personally support this fight against corruption and it is when we are united in the fight against corruption that we will succeed”, he said.