Human rights activist and
constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) yesterday said that the present
administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has worsened Nigeria’s pitiable
economic condition and socio-political woes.
Ozekhome, who presented a
detailed analysis of how corruption, money laundering and insecurity have
destroyed the nation’s economic potentials among the comity of nations, added
that something should be done urgently to rescue the nation from total
collapse.
He spoke while delivering a
keynote address at the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Barnawa, Kaduna Branch
Law week.
He also urged patriotic legal
practitioners and other Nigerians to join hands together in salvaging Nigeria
from corruption, insecurity and money laundering that are threatening the
survival of Nigeria as a country.
Ozekhome said: “It is
embarrassingly painful to be told that your country is corrupt—worse still,
that your culture enables or even approves corruption.
“Around the world, people talk
about corrupt cultures, implying a predisposition for a group of people to
behave in corrupt ways and perhaps leading to the conclusion that fighting
corruption entails cultural change.
“Corruption is eating deep into
the fabric of Nigeria. It has defied every attempt at eradicating it. The level
of criminal activities spurred by corruption and witnessed in the country is on
a geometrical ascendance today.”
He also argued that nepotism had
sustained a culture of mediocrity, gross incompetence and inefficiency in
public and civil service, pointing out that this culture has been enthroned at
the expense of other prudent, resourceful and competent Nigerians who epitomize
the ideal opposite of what corruption stands for.
“It is very difficult to find an
institution in Nigeria today that is exempted from this malaise,” he said.
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