NBS report: Buhari’s anti-corruption war could not save Nigeria N400bn – Omatseye

Frontline Public Affairs analyst, Sam Omatseye has said that if all the efforts of the Buhari administration could not save the nation a whopping N400bn lost to bribery among government officials between 2015 and 2016, then more need to be done for the federal government to achieve its goal in the fight against corruption.
The report of a National Corruption Survey released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has indicted the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan and that of President Muhammadu Buhari.

According to the report published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), about N400b was spent on bribes each year.
Omatseye, who appeared on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday, said: “We have the narrative that indicts both of them.
“2015 – 2016 was under Buhari’s watch and if we spend N400b in bribery and corruption, it is very clear that the war of corruption did not save N400b.’
“President Jonathan does not have much to say about corruption, himself said ‘stealing is not corruption’; he never did anything concrete to fight corruption.

“He, however, put some things in place. but they were not strong enough to save the country from the mammoth scale of corruption on his watch and the revelations in the past two years bear them out,” Omatseye said.