The federal government’s Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) says the National Anti-Corruption Strategy 2017-2021 will soon be extended for another five years.
This was disclosed by a member of IATT, Dr Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, at the commemoration of the International Anti-corruption Day in Abuja on Friday.
According to Dr Orji, the Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI), the first cycle of the strategy ended in July 2021. He also said a report would be presented to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) for an extension next year.
“It is expected that a new action plan would be developed to guide implementation of the strategy,” he said.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that during President Muhammadu Buhari’s election campaign in 2015, he vowed to fight against corruption and insecurity if elected. Since his election in April 2015, his anti-graft war has remained a talking point. Some Nigerian described the war as “perfect” while others described it as “selective”.
