The VP Prof. Yemi Osibanjo gave his remark at the National Conference On the role of the Legislature in the fight against corruption on Tuesday 18th 2016.
He said:

The National Assembly, the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption and the UNODC deserve to be commended for this far-sighted initiative.

Despite the widespread cynicism about the capacity of the political class to fight corruption and graft, we have found the will to open up a public discourse on this all important subject.

Let me also thank Prof. P.L.O Lumumba,(keynote speaker from Kenya) for what, for me, was the most insightful and most eloquent extemporaneous speech I have ever heard on the subject.

I have been involved in anti-corruption advocacy and research, and action since1990. In all of that, I have never heard anyone say with any seriousness that they support corruption. Indeed everyone agrees that corruption is ultimately a fatal scourge.

Let me even argue that it is a crime against humanity, given the fact that in many countries including ours, it is largely responsible for the abject poverty of the majority and the massive fatalities of the most vulnerable in our society.

For the majority of our citizens, the greed and mindless selfishness that portends corruption is bewildering. How do you explain how anyone can embezzle funds meant to equip soldiers for a war that could consume thousands and eventually all of us?

Or how in the midst of so much want, how can some seize the treasury for themselves, their families and friends? And how can anyone argue after all of that, that all that is required and all that we need to pay attention to is the technicality of how such people are possibly arrested?

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Seed of corruption over to you guys

Come and start shouting ameachi,bruntai
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Corruption must be sponged from d fabrics of this country in other for this country to move forward

If dis Government is serious about fighting corruption then it should begin from its cabinet and party members. Till then we see dis as a mere witch hunt

saintkel:
If dis Government is serious about fighting corruption then it should begin from its cabinet and party members. Till then we see dis as a mere witch hunt

well said, even with the so called fight against corruption, Nigeria is in chaos caused by illiterate in various sectors and govt agencies who don't know how to do their job.

saintkel:
If dis Government is serious about fighting corruption then it should begin from its cabinet and party members. Till then we see dis as a mere witch hunt

You will notice the govt does not seek validation from you it simply pursues its policies at the detriment of the corrupt and its supporters. After all witches are meant to be hunted

saintkel:
If dis Government is serious about fighting corruption then it should begin from its cabinet and party members. Till then we see dis as a mere witch hunt

You've said it all

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Whether wailers like it or not

No peace for looters!