President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, on Monday tagged the Muhammad Buhari’s anti corruption crusade as five ”minutes sensationalism”
Speaking at Dino Melaye ‘s book launch, Saraki said the fight against corruption should focus on deterrence and not punishment.
He said, “I am convinced that why our fight against corruption has not yielded much success is that we have favoured punishment over deterrence.
”We must review our approaches by building our institutions to make it difficult for people to carry out corrupt practices.
“It is my view that the key area of prevention, we must work on, is to make it difficult for stolen money to find a home.
“We must fight corruption with sincerity, and not fight symptoms… unlike the five-minute sensationalism we have now. It must not be based on individuals but on institutions.
“Let us fight corruption with sincerity. If we fight corruption in a corrupt way, we will not make any headway.”
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On May 16, 2017 5:34 AM, <churchillumoren@gmail.com> wrote:
Saraki describes Buhari’s corruption war as ” five minutes sensationalism”
President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, on Monday tagged the Muhammad Buhari’s anti corruption crusade as five ”minutes sensationalism”
Speaking at Dino Melaye ‘s book launch, Saraki said the fight against corruption should focus on deterrence and not punishment.
He said, “I am convinced that why our fight against corruption has not yielded much success is that we have favoured punishment over deterrence.
”We must review our approaches by building our institutions to make it difficult for people to carry out corrupt practices.
“It is my view that the key area of prevention, we must work on, is to make it difficult for stolen money to find a home.
“We must fight corruption with sincerity, and not fight symptoms… unlike the five-minute sensationalism we have now. It must not be based on individuals but on institutions.
“Let us fight corruption with sincerity. If we fight corruption in a corrupt way, we will not make any headway.”
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