a few persons, the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission has said that stealing is not corruption.
According to the commission, most acts credited to corruption have no relationship with stealing.
The ICPC chairman, Mr. Ekpo Nta, said this when a delegation from the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria visited the commission in Abuja to forge inter-agency partnership against corruption.
Nta noted that most Nigerians, including the educated, did not quite understand what constituted corruption and stressed that it was wrong to classify theft as such.
He said, "Stealing is erroneously reported as corruption. We must go back to what we were taught at school to show that there are educated people in Nigeria. We must address issues as we were taught in school to do."
The commission's boss likened the penchant for referring to theft as corruption to the ordinary Nigerian who often called a roadside mechanic an engineer.
Nta said almost every contractor often included engineering in their certificates of incorporation and advised COREN to liaise with the Corporate Affairs Commission to correct the anomaly.
According to him, there are only 23,000 registered engineers in Nigeria, whereas in practice the country has over 100,000 engineers with quacks being in the majority.
The COREN delegation, led by its president, Mr. Kashim Ali, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the ICPC in a bid to flush out quacks in the profession.
COREN said most engineering projects in the country were given to non-engineers, who were subsequently responsible for the outflow of much of the $63bn illicit funds out of Africa annually.
Ali lamented that most government ministries and other public sector establishments preferred to award engineering contracts to non-engineers.
He said such non-professionals looked for engineers to do the jobs for them after they must have collected huge amounts of money that were taken out of the continent.
The COREN president said, "Recently, there was a report from Oxfam that the illicit funds that go out of Africa every year is $63bn. When I got that report, I sat down and thought, in the whole of Africa, which countries even have up to $1bn in terms of revenue a year? I can only count Angola, South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria.
"So, if you now look at the resources available to the countries, then substantial amount of this money flows out of Nigeria. We do also know that more than 80 per cent of our resources are committed to infrastructure, which are mainly engineering projects, and this means that a substantial amount of that illicit outflow is from engineering projects.
"If we can restore engineering to engineers, our projects will be better delivered. The quality of our projects would be far higher than what we have today. What we have today is a situation where we manage the resources."
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With people like Nta heading ICPC,this country is doomed.Only corrupt people steal,no upright person would steal
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In philosophical, theological, or moral discussions, corruption is spiritual or moral impurity or deviation from an ideal. Corruption may include many activities including bribery and embezzlement. Government, or 'political', corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts in an official capacity for personal gain.
The word corrupt when used as an adjective literally means "utterly broken".[1] The word was first used by Aristotle and later by Cicero who added the terms bribe and abandonment of good habits.[2] Morris,[3] a professor of politics, corruption is the illegitimate use of public power to benefit a private interest. Economist I. Senior[4] defines corruption as an action to (a) secretly provide (b) a good or a service to a third party (c) so that he or she can influence certain actions which (d) benefit the corrupt, a third party, or both (e) in which the corrupt agent has authority.
Someone should please inform this ICPC guy that if the likes of our public office holders who have been indicted for stealing public funds - corruption, were not in public officies they only needed a gun or maybe cutlass to forcefully steal these monies they have stolen anyway, then they would hjave been referred to as armed robbers. In a normal setting, they should get the same punishment as armed robbers.
Nta should check his English dictionary for the meaning of corruption. Or the United Nations library.
ReplyDeleteIs this man sick?. address the issue as it affects people. Corruption is destroying our economy. Note that somebody may not been privelege to read Engineering but can practice to understand what Engineering is all about and such person must be recognised by the socity. Throughout his tenure no Govt. official has been brought to book for corrupt reasons. The type of people that GEJ appointed hence we saying that he is not credible to be there as a Preident.
ReplyDeleteStopped parading certificate. All Nigeria Coren has no head. even Nigeria Engineering prof. This is a Country were reseach is considered as waste, why should we make them important when they are wasteful materials. show stoppers. etc.Don't stopped people who practice Enginering because they are recognised world wide. e.g Nigeria Dangote.should be addressedas an Engineer.
ReplyDeleteThese are d kind of fools advising d president. Continue. It will all end one day!
ReplyDeleteI dond blame u people is bcs u hear people saying corruption thats why all of u are shouting coruption coruption as if u eating garri with fish and some of u dont no the meaning..... u are also corrupt ....no one is free frm the virus we are all same in nigeria
ReplyDeleteStealing is a blessing. ...thunder kill you over there idiot
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