Say No Campaign leads march against corruption to commemorate International Day of Anti-Corruption
- A group of Civil Society Organizations took over major roads in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja today, Friday, December 7
- The groups were led by the Say No Campaign Nigeria in a march tagged 'accountability walk'
- The walk was in commemoration of the International Day of Anti-Corruption
A group of Civil Society Organizations took over major roads in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja today, Friday, December 7
The groups were led by the Say No Campaign Nigeria in a march tagged 'accountability walk'in commemoration of the International Day of Anti-Corruption.
The CSOs say they are staging the walk to educate Nigerians on the ills of corruption and collectively eradicate the menace in Nigeria.
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Legit.ng observed that dozens of youths from different youth organizations were part of the walk which started from the Unity Fountain and ended at the Federal Secretariat.
Speaking at the event, a co-convener of the group, Ezenwa Nwagwu, says corruption is Nigeria's biggest problem till today.
His words: “We want today to become a national day of repentance. It is also a national day of collective action against corruption.
“We are marching against corruption because it impacts negatively on the well-being of our country.
“As I speak to you, over 10 million Nigerian children are out of school. As I speak to you now, unemployment is at the highest level. As citizens of Nigeria, if we don't say anything about it, our country will continue to go down.
“The march against corruption is to incite citizens, to provoke citizens to anger against corruption. If the citizens of Nigeria are not angry and they are calling it President Buhari's fight, the struggle against corruption will not end.
“We need to own it. We need to collectively come together against it and that is why Say No Campaign with its partners are saying no to corruption.”
On his part, Jaye Gaskia, also a co-convener of the group, lamented that there is no government in Nigeria that has not fought corruption, adding that all of them have been defeated by corruption.
“Nigerian citizens need to look inwards. Corruption persists because instead of stoning the corrupt, we praise and support them,” he said.
Similarly, the Director General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Garba Abari, has urged Nigerians to see the fight against corruption as their own fight.
Abari made the comment on Tuesday, November 7, when members of the Say No Campaign paid him a courtesy visit at the headquarters of the NOA in Abuja.
His words: “The fight against corruption is not just a government fight but a citizens fight. One compelling thing we need to do in this fight against corruption is to work together.”
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Source: Legit.ng
