Vice-President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, has blamed both religious and political leaders for shielding corrupt public servants. He disclosed this while speaking at 24th Nigerian Economic Summit plenary on corruption and rule of law, in Abuja Monday.
During the plenary session, Ngaire Woods, the founding Dean of Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, who moderated the session, had asked Osinbajo to tell the summit who calls him when he wants to sack someone corrupt.
According to him, whenever he wants to sack a public official who has been found to be corrupt, he gets many calls from religious and political leaders not to do so.
The VP further added that the Nigerian elites most often get in the way of ridding the public service of corrupt executives.
He said, "I would like to refer to the Nigerian elite, and it’s probably not fair to be that broad, but practically, every segment, because people who have access to you, they could be political leaders, religious leaders, business leaders, whoever has access to you.
“We have a system where people just feel like, ‘why don’t you just give this guy a break?’ Which again is part of the problem. You don’t get one call, you get several calls”.
Osinbajo however revealed that the Buhari government is doing so much to tackle grand corruption and systemic corruption. He stated that since he became vice-president, he has seen how much impact corruption can have on a country, adding that it’s more than he ever imagined.
During the plenary session, Ngaire Woods, the founding Dean of Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, who moderated the session, had asked Osinbajo to tell the summit who calls him when he wants to sack someone corrupt.
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| Yemi Osinbajo and Ngaire Woods at Nigerian Economic Summit |
According to him, whenever he wants to sack a public official who has been found to be corrupt, he gets many calls from religious and political leaders not to do so.
The VP further added that the Nigerian elites most often get in the way of ridding the public service of corrupt executives.
He said, "I would like to refer to the Nigerian elite, and it’s probably not fair to be that broad, but practically, every segment, because people who have access to you, they could be political leaders, religious leaders, business leaders, whoever has access to you.
“We have a system where people just feel like, ‘why don’t you just give this guy a break?’ Which again is part of the problem. You don’t get one call, you get several calls”.
Osinbajo however revealed that the Buhari government is doing so much to tackle grand corruption and systemic corruption. He stated that since he became vice-president, he has seen how much impact corruption can have on a country, adding that it’s more than he ever imagined.
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