Former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has stated that corruption in Nigeria has become “democratised” and likened it to cancer eating into institutions.
Ezekwesili, a former World Bank vice president, made the comment on Saturday at the opening of the Citadel School of Government and the onboarding of its pioneer diploma class in partnership with the University of Lagos Business School.
She urged emerging leaders to resist corruption, warning that it grows when unchecked.
“Corruption starts gently, and when you don’t tackle it, it becomes a monster. It has now become systemic and democratised,” she said.
Pastor Tunde Bakare, founder of the school, said the initiative is designed to raise “a new breed without greed” to provide solutions to Nigeria’s leadership crisis.
Seventy pioneer students were admitted into the programme, joining over 700 trained in similar initiatives in the past five years.
