The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Commission, ICPC, has lamented that
instead of supporting security agencies in the fight
against corruption, many Nigerians are busy
accusing the anti-graft agencies of witch-hunt.

The Chairman of the ICPC, Mr. Ekpo Nta disclosed
this through the Head of Department, Education, Mr Geoffrey Anumve, when some students of
Government Secondary School, Kubwa, Abuja, visited
the headquarters of the commission.

Disclosing that Nigerians see nothing wrong with
corrupt practices, he said the aim of all Nigerians
should be to stamp out corruption instead of
concerning themselves with who was being arrested
and who was not.

Nta said, “You see one Nigerian stealing billions of
naira and dollars that could have been used for
education and the construction of bridges and the
irony of it is that many Nigerians do not see anything
bad in it. They justify it.

“At times, they say it is one-sided; why are you not
touching this person? But we ask this question: We
have so many armed robbers and kidnappers out
there. Have we arrested all the robbers at the same
time? It is only when one is caught that he is arrested
and that is what is happening in this situation.”

The ICPC boss, therefore, urged the pupils to shun
corruption in every possible way.