Consultant Identifies Major Cause Of Corruption

A security consultant, Chief Law Amadi, has identified a lack of regard to due process in public procurements, as a major cause of corruption in Nigeria.

Amadi, stated this in a lecture entitled: “Corruption and Society Interface,” at a three-day sensitisation workshop for staff and management of Anambra-Imo River Basin Development Authority (AIRBDA).

The workshop was organised by the Imo State Council of the National Anti-Corruption Volunteer Corps.

He said that “extreme materialism tendency and get rich-quick syndrome” had led public officers into various corrupt practices in the country.

Amadi noted that government had initiated programmes and increased salaries to encourage workers in the country.

He decried the lack of accountability and transparency in governance, which he said, had ruined many organisations in the country.

“The educational curricular in Nigeria is faulty as it is not vocational, thereby, producing unemployable graduates who take to crime and corruption,” he said.

In her speech, the Acting Executive Director, Finance and Administration of AIRBDA, Mrs Lillian Obikpe, expressed regret that corruption had eaten deep into the fabric of the society and had destroyed the economy of the nation.

She enjoined the security agencies in the country to work round the clock in fighting corruption and other social vices in the country.

Obikpe added that only a corrupt free society would achieve its objectives.

Mr Fidel Onyeneke, chairman of the occasion, stressed that the fight against corruption, required attitudinal change to succeed.

He said that the nation had lost credibility, integrity and economic resources as a result of corrupt practices by some Nigerians.