The National Legal Adviser of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Dr. Muiz Banire, has attributed the apparent desperation on the part of politicians, particularly, those appointed or elected into office to remain in power at all costs to alleged lack of alternative source of livelihood..
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Banire made this remark in an interview he granted Punch wherein he opined that corruption plaguing the country would be brought to its knees, if in all churches and mosques across the country Christians and Muslims everyday cursed people bleeding the nation dry.
His word, “The problem is that majority of the people that are in politics today, especially at elective level or appointed level, are people without alternative contact address. They have no other job in their lives, so, they can kill or do anything, because they are always desperate to remain in the corridor of power. That is the problem.”
And on how to successfully fight corruption, the APC Legal Adviser told the paper, “For me, I have a different view about that. I have always believed that little would be achieved with the way and manner we are currently fighting corruption. I want to see that document on the socio-economic diagnosis of corruption in Nigeria. Before you can fight corruption, you need to know what the attractions, the causes and what creates the opportunity, the sociologist must tell us. We underestimate the capacity of those people. We need to do the study. It is when we have the study, then you now start gradually to tackle it, like discouraging the attractions. I have always believed that if all of us wake up and every day at our various churches and mosques, we send curses after the corrupt people, I tell you corruption will reduce.”
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