The coincidence is instructive. Barely 24 hours after Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, last Wednesday, carpeted the Federal Government for allegedly giving up on the battle against corruption, the Transparency International (TI) released its annual global corruption index whose fatwa aligned with Soyinka’s verdict.
Soyinka, while appearing on Africa Independent Television (AIT’s) morning magazine programme, Kakaaki, noted that the system had been so corrupted that cases are allowed to extend and eventually go silent with the deployment of all kinds of technicalities.
“There are so many people who should be in prison if this government had not run out of steam, and so the system is being manipulated, the laureate said, adding, “there are cases where the prosecution had reached the level where evidence had been given on governors who had been stealing and depositing in bits and pieces so as not to flout a certain regulation.
By Chijioke Okoronkwo
Abuja, Jan. 20, 2021 The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council( PEBEC), chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has received the Cost of Compliance Report, which exposes major pitfalls in operations of some Federal Government regulatory agencies.
Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said that the council resolved that heads of the affected Federal Government regulatory agencies be presented with the outcome of the recent survey.
The Cost of Compliance Report was presented to the PEBEC at its first virtual meeting of the year on Tuesday.
The report revealed persistent corruption, duplicity of functions, poor service orientation, and several anti-business dispositions in some of the regulatory agencies.
A survey conducted by Pricewaterhouse Coopers, PwC, has exposed major pitfalls in the operations of some Federal Government regulatory agencies. The Cost of Compliance Report was presented to the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council at its first virtual meeting of the year on Tuesday. French-speaking criminals invade Yoruba land Amotekun commander Makinde warns Igboho, others […]
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Dennis Naku, Port Harcourt
The Ijaw Youths Council Worldwide has warned that a second wave of militancy is looming in the Niger Delta region if the Federal Government fails to fully implement the Presidential Amnesty Programme.
The council said the country would not survive a return to militancy by aggrieved youths in the region and wondered why the government chose to play politics with an important scheme like PAP.
The IYC President, Timothy Igbifa, in a statement in Port Harcourt on Wednesday recalled that the amnesty project was initiated to take youths out of the creeks and integrate them into the society through a well-organised programme of empowerment and development of the region.
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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has expressed worry over a survey report that highlights persistent corruption, duplicity of functions, poor service orientation and other anti-business disposition in some of the Federal Government’s regulatory agencies.
Osinbajo and the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council therefore resolved to make the report available to the heads of the affected agencies.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President, Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday titled, ‘Osinbajo to regulatory agencies: Everything we do to grow the economy, change lives of Nigerians depends on conducive business environment.’
According to the statement, the survey that returned damning verdicts on the unnamed agencies was conducted by Pricewaterhouse Coopers.