In furtherance to its tireless advocacy and sensational programmes and activities in ensuring reduction of corruption, a globally identified anti-development parasite of any society, the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) with Support from OXFAM in collaboration with Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), held a 2-Day Sensitisation and Capacity Building on Nigeria’s Beneficial Ownership Register in Lagos.
The event had stakeholders including; the Executive Director of CISLAC, Mallam Auwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani), and the Registrar-General of CAC in Nigeria, Hussaini Ishaq Magaji (SAN), among other discussants as well as participants drawn from across the civil society organisations, anti-corruption and anti-corruption agencies and the media in attendance.
Speaking, Rafsanjani stated that endemic corruption emanating largely due to lack of transparency.
Rafsanjani stressed the need for effective collaboration in the anti-corruption business, adding that the civil society alone has no constitutional power of enforcement.
He wondered why despite being invited to the all-important event, Nigeria’s leading anti-corruption agencies did not show up at day one of the event to provide the needed contributions that are required to move the country forward in terms of commitment to reducing to the barest minimum, “if not exterminating it completely to – like said by former President Muhammadu Buhari – ‘kill the corruption before it kills Nigeria’.”
He urged the media to expose people who hide under government influence and powerful individuals to perpetrate corruption in Nigeria as, according to him, they are indeed the prime anti-development agents militating against sustained national values, peace, unity and development of the country that is much touted to be the Africa’s giant.
(FROM: THISDAY)
