Public officials steal through procurement process - Ibrahim Magu
- Ibrahim Magu has revealed how some public office holders steal money in Nigeria
- The EFCC's chairman said stealing from government coffers is perpetrated by head of public sector organisation through procurement processes
- According to Magu, nobody can stop the fight against corruption
The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has revealed how public office holders loot the treasury.
Magu said thees officials steal funds through procurement processes in their various ministries, departments and agencies.
The EFCC scribe said the act of stealing from government coffers is carried out by head of public sector organisation through procurement deals.
While speaking at a procurement retreat for chief executives/accounting officers of public agencies EFCC chairman, Ibrahim Magu, warned the CEOs to stick strictly to the 2017 budget in the award of contracts or face prosecution.
Magu said: “It has come to our knowledge that heads of public offices try to steal from public covers through the procurement processes."
“For us everybody has a duty to fight corruption. I want to warn that only strict adherence to 2007 Procurement Act will save you from jail term.”
Nothing will stop us in the fight against corruption; nothing. I say nothing, nothing at all.
Nobody, nobody can stop the fight; it has come to stay and we are determined. We are unrelenting in the face of serious adversity; serious adversity. Nothing can stop us.
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Even though corruption is fighting back, we will continue to fight and we will win at the end of the day because we are not fighting corruption as an individual.
Every Nigerian should join in the fight against corruption.The appeal is that we want to mobilise everybody. The best strategy in fighting corruption is to bring everybody on board and I am telling you, we will succeed; no doubt about that," Magu said.
NAIJ.com earlier reported that Magu had said that Nigerians have the strength to defeat corruption that has ravaged the system.
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Describing corruption as Nigeria's number one enemy, the EFCC chairman said the commission is relentless in the fight against corruption.
He also said no Nigerian can afford to be on the fence in this effort to rid the country of its "Enemy Number One".
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Source: Naija.ng