Anti-Corruption Body hails Osinbajo for admitting that every arm of government is corrupt

The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, through its Executive Chairman, Mr. Debo Adeniran, has called on the Federal Government to purge the three arms of government of corruption.

The group said the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary arms of the federal government were seriously corrupt.

Adeniran stated this while appreciating the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osibanjo for his acknowledging that there was corruption in all the arms of government.

According to him, “Clearly, there is no doubt whatsoever that no arm of government can exonerate itself from corruption because the truth of the matter is that the problem is systemic in the country. As a matter of fact, any anti-corruption effort or efforts that cannot appreciate that killing corruption will require a system change; an overhaul of the subsisting intrinsically corrupt order will be best described as self-deceiving.”

Adeniran, who lauded ‎Osinbajo, for his honesty and sincerity, however, advised him to match words with actions and expunge corruption out of the system.

A statement by the group’s Media Coordinator, Wale Salami quoted Adeniran as saying that,“It will amount to mere talk, if words don’t match with actions. But beyond honestly admitting to the reality that corruption is systemic in the country where no arm of government can be exonerated in its perpetration; the point is, what can be or what is going to be done concretely to confront the scourge?

“Also, we must make the point that a lot depends on the Presidency itself as the body that superintends over the arms of government put together. The pro-activeness of the Presidency will give a lot of push in terms of galvanizing all the arms of government towards purging themselves of corruption using their own internal mechanisms. The buck invariably stops at the Presidency at the end of the day.

“We hasten to add that the practical purging should begin with the presidency as this will create a situation of ‘going to equity with open arms’.

“And it will further vindicate the Federal government against the enemies of the anti-corruption drive who has continually insisted that the fight against corruption is one-sided and based on vendetta,” he concluded.