Corruption has damaged values in Nigeria

Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim, yesterday said the Federal Government was determined to increase avenues for the fight against corruption in the country, even as he

pointed out that corruption had damaged values in the country.

Anyim, who was delivering a key-note address at the launch of the Technical Unit on Governance and Anti-Corruption Reforms, TUGAR, in Abuja, stressed the commitment of the Federal Government to enact into law the draft Witness and Whistle-Blower Protection Bill in order “to facilitate robust public engagement with the implementation of the National Strategy to Combat Corruption.”

According to Anyim, Nigeria has “encountered the damaging effects of corruption. Inefficiency, dishonesty and all sorts of vices which are by-products of corruption constitute the biggest obstacle to national development.”

The SGF, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary in the Office, Dr. Bede Ibe, added that the self-assessment of the nation’s implementation of United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) 2009 enabled it to take a critical look at the anti-corruption agenda and identify gaps and challenges.

“A direct fallout of this self-assessment is the decision by the Inter-Agency Task Team of anti-corruption agencies (IATT) to develop a holistic National Strategy to Combat Corruption,” he said.-Vanguard

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