Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, has said Nigerians share in the blame of the country’s bad ranking in Transparency International’s corruption perception index, CPI. The ranking was seen as a blow to the current administration, which claims to have the fight against corruption as one of its core mandates.
But speaking during a Channels Television’s programme on Monday, Adesina said the ranking was about Nigerians and not the Federal Government. He said: “My position is that ranking is not strictly about government, it is about Nigeria and her people. Some people want to make it seem as if it is a vote of no confidence in government or a lower mark for government, I don’t agree.“I think it is a lower mark for the people, because the people constitute the country. And I think if things do not seem to have worked as they should work, the people also have part of the brunt; they have part of the blame to bear.” “As much as I respect Transparency International, I don’t think we necessarily need them to authenticate what is going on in the country because we Nigerians know that there is a war against corruption ongoing and that war is succeeding.
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