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President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday described corruption as the greatest human rights violation ever.

Justifying the reason why his administration is waging a large scale war against graft, Buhari said the effects of corruption were manifest in suffering, deprivation and deaths that innocent people were afflicted with.

He therefore urged Nigerian lawyers to support his administration to win the war against corruption.

According to a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, the President spoke at the opening of the 55th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association in Abuja.

He called on Nigerian lawyers to support his administration’s war against corruption and help the country return to the path of rectitude by making Nigerian courts functional and effective again.

Noting that lawyers are often in the vanguard of the defence of human rights, Buhari urged them to view corruption too as a gross violation of human rights.

He said, “For the masses of our people, the millions still wallowing in want and diseases, corruption is a major reason why they cannot go to school; why they cannot be gainfully employed; and why there are few doctors, nurses and drugs in their hospitals and health centers.

“It is the reason why pensioners are not paid and potable water is scarce.

“In effect, corruption diverts public resources meant for millions of people into the private pockets of a greedy few, thereby causing a lot of suffering, deprivation and death.

“In my view, there can be no greater violation of human rights.

“Viewed in this way, I think we can all fully appreciate the gravity of this oppressive and destructive evil. This should rouse us to fight it with the same zeal and doggedness as we deploy in the defence of fundamental rights.”

The President also told the lawyers not to sacrifice the integrity of the country’s legal system in a bid to cover the misdeeds of their clients, no matter how lucrative the brief may be.

He said he was convinced that law, lawmakers, lawyers, law courts and law enforcement agencies, all had responsibilities to discharge, if the change Nigerians earnestly seek would ever materialise.

He told the gathering that his administration had taken on the challenge of improving security, fighting corruption and revamping the economy, among many others.

Buhari described the fight against corruption as a struggle for the restoration of law and order.

http://www.punchng.com/news/corruption-gross-violation-of-human-rights-says-buhari/

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Yh, very true. We must win this war against corruption.

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more work less talk

I dedicate this post to the two most jobless nairalanders, ladyf and introvert. Funny enough, both of them are yet to sleep by 10:30pm, waiting to be ftc. However, Introvert showed ladyf that she has been in this job of joblessness, no be today. She carry 1st. Height of joblessness

By the way, Buhari you are right jare. Tell them that corruption and stealing are the same o.

In otherwords Amechi, Atiku, Oshiomh-OLE, Tinubu, Aregbesola, Obasanjo, IBB, Abdulsalami & PMB have violated our rights??







*runs outta thread tearing better race

77al:
more work less talk

'Talk' is necessary abeg.

Baba we dey ur back but other sectors need your attention too. May God bless Nigeria.

Sure!

BeeBeeOoh:
In otherwords Amechi, Atiku, Oshiomh-OLE, Tinubu, Aregbesola, Obasanjo, IBB, Abdulsalami & PMB have violated our rights??







*runs outta thread tearing better race

Evidence or shut up and keep running.