Posted by The operations of the organizations formed to combat corruption in Nigeria, according to Action Alliance (AA) presidential candidate Hamza Al-Mustapha, are comparable to expecting a rabbit to manage lions.
Al-Mustapha said this during an interview he gave to Channels Television on Tuesday.
The late Sani Abacha’s former aide claimed that if elected president, he would establish organizations and departments that would deal with corruption.
“I think Nigeria’s institutions are ill-equipped to handle security and corruption problems. They are not organized properly and are too small, he remarked.
“In my opinion, it is semantics to refer to a rabbit as the chairman of the committee responsible for apprehending lions in this case.
The lion will be resting however it pleases while the rabbit will be running throughout the animal realm with nothing happening.
“Neither your commission nor the national economic intelligence agency exist.
Additionally, you lack a national electronic agency to manage your economy that would be able to identify corruption in terms of management of domestic activities, international trade, resource movement, activities in your banks, central bank, ministry of finance, ministry of national planning, and understanding what they do with your resources.
Why, when you desire to interact with the global society, do you lack the apparent frameworks and cannot drive? With whom do they interact? Therefore, once they arrive, they are unable to collaborate with pertinent organizations in the contemporary world.
How can corruption be controlled? Therefore, you must first reset the nation.
“So, we are aware that it will grow and two additional agencies will join it. It will follow economic trends.
The presidential contender further asserted that, regardless of their social or political standing, he is courageous enough to face corrupt people.
God willing, I’m not bragging if you’re talking about daring, he remarked.
“I don’t know how you can ask me to paint white [as] black and prevent black [as] white. I don’t know how you can ask me to paint white [as] black and prevent black [as] white.
He continued, “Many of them who think they hated my guts were the ones who chastised me and called me names.