Sunday, August 17, 2025 - Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has said that the greatest challenge facing Nigeria at the moment is corruption.
Owasanoye who stated this at a capacity-building workshop
for members of the House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Corruption, in
Abuja said corruption was responsible for all the negative indexes the country
was known for.
The chairman, however, called for concerted efforts from
both state and non-state actors in tackling the problem so as to create a
better Nigeria.
He urged the National Assembly to deploy its oversight
powers on government agencies and departments as well as its legislative
control over public expenditure and audit of public accounts to effectively
curb corruption in the public sector.
He said, “Corruption is the enemy of development and good
governance. Corruption is Nigeria’s greatest challenge and is directly
associated with national security challenges, current economic decline, poverty
expansion, reduced life expectancy, high mortality and deteriorating livelihood
experienced by citizens.
“The fight against corruption is our collective
responsibility and not the duty of the government alone. We must visualize the
type of country and environment that we want to live in and bequeath to
generations yet unborn.
“Our immediate objective is to reduce corruption in our
lifetime to such an extent that it can no longer threaten our collective
well-being, peace, development. The legislature can lead us to our collective
vision through its constitutional mandate.”
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