Omoyele Sowore, the presidential
candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), says if he is elected president
he will strip all corrupt past presidents of their national awards.
Speaking at the Centre for
Democracy and Development (CDD) BIG Debate, the publisher of Sahara Reporters,
said his party will fight corruption by making the system transparent.
He said all national officers who
have been given national honours in the past, and have then been found to be
involved in corruption, will be stripped of their national honours.
“It is very very important that,
in dealing with corruption in Nigeria, we start using technology to aid
prevention. There is what they call
blockchain technology, there is encryption.
“Our biggest problem is the
opaque nature of how we do our transaction in the public sphere, and the lack
of transparency in the way we conduct our businesses.
“The moment you remove that, all
the thieves will be hung out dry, because before they get anything done, we
have seen it, we have tracked it, and we ensure that we nip them in the bud.
“If we are doing contracting, it
must be transparent to all. There is no reason why an average Nigerian cannot
tell how much we are making in the so-called TSA. How much is there? We are
entitled to it, how is money moving?
“The second thing we need to do
is that a lot of our assets is also publicly available. The land registry of
Abuja, you cannot find it, because the whole of Abuja is owned by a few people.
“The asset declaration forms of
public officers is something that an ordinary Nigeria can download. Without
having to go through the eye of the needle.”
He said corruption should not be
left to the police to fight alone, it should be a collective battle, suggesting
that incentives should be remooved.
“Let us also talk about
enforcement. Sometimes, when money is moving around, there is paperwork and
paper trail, we have an NFIU, they know when thieves are stealing money, but if
you don’t put the right people there, you are wasting your time, because they
would never whistleblow on these guys who are stealing.
“I and our party will remove
everybody who has a national award, who were shown in this movie shown by CDD
today, we would remove all their national awards, all the GCFRs, the GCONs, the
MONs, who are involved in corruption.”
Sowore said he would do this so
young people will know that corruption does not pay.
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