The acting Chairman of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu has described
electoral corruption as the worst form as it undermines the will of the people
and invests power in illegitimate hands.
According to Magu, a government
that pays its way into power is hardly expected to be accountable as its
priority upon assumption of office would be how to recoup its investment.
“That is the open sesame to
corruption in public life, a phenomenon that has held us down as a nation”, he
said.
Magu, who spoke through the
Secretary of the Commission, Ola Olukoyede at the National Policy Dialogue on
Eradicating Electoral Corruption (Vote-Buying) at the Anti-Corruption Academy
of Nigeria on Tuesday, described the timing of the dialogue as apt.
He said the dialogue was critical
to “our collective aspiration to clean up the institutions and process of
election management for the good governance of our nation”.
He said: “It was in appreciation
of the damage, which the incidence of vote buying does to the integrity of our
electoral processes that we resolved to play a more active role in stemming the
practice in the just concluded general election.
“The EFCC’s intervention was
moderated by our understanding of the pattern of vote buying in the elections
that were held in two states, Ekiti and Osun states, in 2018.
“To stem the ugly practice, the
Commission decided to employ a combination of preventive and enforcement
strategies.
“Before the political actors
became aware that the commission had become unusually interested in the
electoral processes, the EFFC held sensitization meetings with critical
stakeholders in the financial sector, impressing on them the need not to lend
their institutions to be used as vehicles to subvert the will of the people.
“Some of the stakeholders
included bankers and Bureau De Change Operators.”
Mumu or Magu are you trying to Nigerians that you don't know those that have payed their way into power? You and I know you know them. Just that power that be won't allow you touch them. So your fight against corruption is Just a fallacy.
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