7yrs after, Nigeria yet to inaugurate ministerial committee on anti-corruption

Seven years after the adoption of the United Nations Convention Against Anti-corruption, Nigeria is yet to inaugurate an inter-ministerial committee that will implement the global recommendations.

Executive Director of the Centre for Fiscal Transparency and Integrity Watch (CEFTIW), Umar Yakubu disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday at the Public Presentation on Civil Society’s Monitoring Mechanism for Nigeria’s implementation of the United Nations Convention Against Anti-corruption.

According to him, Nigeria cannot fight corruption without setting in place mechanisms to implement the United Nations resolution. 

His words: “Part of the requirements for the adoption of the United Nations Convention Against Anti-corruption was to inaugurate an inter-ministerial committee that will look at all the resolutions and pillars for implementation.

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“Nigeria had made that commitment since 2017 and to date, no ministerial committee has been inaugurated and the committee is supposed to look at the strategies for implementation, which means we have not even started yet,” Umar said. 

Speaking further, he said the launch of the civil society monitor will serve as a mechanism for CSOs to independently monitor and measure the level of progress made by MDAs in compliance with extant anti-corruption regulations as stipulated by the relevant anti-graft agencies.