Presidency Speaks About Plan For Whistle Blowers & Recovered Loot (Read Details ) by Adedeji
Vanguard reports that Garba Shehu, the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity spoke on Wednesday, April 19 saying it has boosted the anti-corruption crusade championed by President Buhari.
He said: “The government is considering empowering the mechanism by either bringing it under the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, or some other body to imbue the process with a strategic national purpose.
“In a word, government thinks that the whistle blower mechanism is too important to be left without a strategic, national direction.”
Shehu applauded the zeal Nigerians have shown in the fight against corruption as that is what is responsible for the success of the whistle-blower policy.
“When the citizens realise they are victims of corruption, they may feel encouraged to join the efforts to expose looted funds.”
He said the amount of money recovered by the EFCC “is a revelation about the mindless, callous and reckless scale on which Nigeria had been robbed by unpatriotic and egregiously selfish public officials.’’
He said the government was considering expanding the policy to those owning arms.
“Yes, it is true; the presidency has received suggestions that call for the whistle blower policy to be extended to the possession of illegal weapons by powerful individuals in the country.
“The government will look at all that and make a pronouncement.
“Nigerians would be encouraged to expose the presence of illegal weapons in the homes of powerful politicians and other public figures, who may use those deadly arms for sinister political agenda.
“Those patriotic Nigerians exposing looted funds deserve all the encouragement and protection to sustain their enthusiasm, with a view to encouraging more citizens to participate in the ant corruption crusade
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