Elder statesman and former
Federal Commissioner of Information, Chief Edwin Clark has called on President
Muhammadu Buhari to engage the services of local forensic auditors to sustain
the tempo in on-going war against corruption.
Chief Clark, who made the call
while speaking at the forum of Association of Forensic & Investigative
Auditors, AFIA, in Abuja, said home-based forensic and investigative experts
were in better stead to effectively tackle institutionalised fraud in the
country.
He said he was optimistic they
could achieve tremendous results in hunting down corrupt persons because they
knew their tricks.
His words: “The organisation came
at the right time in the life of Nigeria. Mr. President (Muhammadu Buhari) told
all of us that we must kill corruption and if we don’t kill corruption,
corruption will kill us.”
“So, when you have this kind of
organisation to kill corruption through auditing, forensic technology we
haven’t heard of before in Nigeria, I think you came at the very right time.
“This is not the time to bring
people from outside the country. Those who know our tricks must also be used in
tracking those tricks”.
In her remarks, AFIA President,
Dr. Victoria Enape, appealed to the Senate for speedy passage of the Forensic
Investigative Auditors’ bill into law.
Enape said that passage of the
bill, apart from helping to fight corruption, will also prevent fraud in the
country.
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