Former presidential spokesman, Laolu Akande, has mentioned Nigeria wants daring leaders to confront and punish corrupt parts within the nation.
Akande said this throughout a ‘My Take’ section of a programme aired on Channels Tv on Friday.
He mentioned, “The issues as of as we speak, the widespread hardship within the land, and the menacing insecurities require brave management on the very high. Our leaders should be daring sufficient to fireplace appointed public officers who don’t ship on their Key Efficiency Indicators.
“We have now seen on this nation how lack of penalties and impunity have created new issues and made outdated ones worse. There have been claims of collusion of corruption in sure companies our leaders shouldn’t be shy to completely examine, uncover what is going on, and punish these chargeable for the corruption and collusion if that’s established.
“How is it attainable that greater than half of the oil lifted in Nigeria for example is being stolen and nobody has been caught or punished in a number of years? A President or a governor or elected senator or meeting member isn’t any use, in the long term, if she or he fails to make use of the large stick towards these holding our commonwealth down.
“Our leaders should be daring sufficient, sincere, and forthright to attract a line within the sand on the problem of corruption. It requires boldness. Corruption is corrosive. A former President mentioned if we don’t kill it, it would kill us.”
The previous presidential aide additional said that President Bola Tinubu is carrying a heavier burden than the previous president, Muhammadu Buhari.
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