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No contractor can cheat Nigeria without help of civil servants – CCB chairman

 

Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), Isa Mohammed, has said
no contractor can swindle Nigeria without the help of civil servants.
Mohammed spoke on Tuesday at the national workshop on the reform of
the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act which was organised by the
Nigerian Law and Reform Commission (NLRC).
The CCB chairman said the highest level of corruption perpetrated in
the country is mostly within the public service.
He said the bureau has set up a plan to monitor the activities of some
set of public officers to curb the rate of corruption.
“No contractor in Nigeria in terms of works, services and supply of
goods can perpetuate anything by his own right because if you are
supplying to the government, you have to collaborate with the public
officer to perpetuate the needed corruption,” Mohammed said.
“Right now, we are trying to pick a category of public officers and
monitor their conduct, particularly the political office holders,
either elected or appointed.
“Then the top government functionaries, the career civil servants,
from the permanent secretaries and directors. If we are able to do
that effectively, definitely we will have some reduction.”

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