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CDD lists shortcomings of Buhari’s anti-corruption drive in last five years
May 29, 2020
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has published the shortcomings of President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption drive in the last five years.
The report signed by Idayat Hassan, CDD director, said it is a culmination of data-driven analysis of the milestones and shortcomings of the President’s anti-corruption drive, provides a mixed bag of performance in some areas and underperformance in others.
“In the first place, the five-year assessment situates anti-corruption as a signature issue around which President Buhari has built a personal political brand, making it the major plank on which he won the historic election of 2015. This popular appeal, which played a big role in the defeat of the former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, also accounted for the very high expectations of citizens that corruption would be quickly dealt with.
“The report notes the gaps between those high expectations and the Buhari administration’s underwhelming delivery in terms of dealing a death blow to corruption in Nigeria.
“In the area of achievements, the assessment makes the point about how the Buhari administration has worked to elevate the fight against corruption by placing as its top national policy priority. It further notes the empowerment of anti-corruption agencies, and the Buhari administration’s effort to free them up to pursue far-reaching investigations into political and bureaucratic corruption. In the context of empowerment of those agencies in the frontlines of the fight against corruption, the assessment reckons that “appointing capable practitioners to lead the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has been key in reinvigorating them.
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