ICPC’s Red Flag and Tinubu’s Response: Why Nigeria Must Stop Fighting Corruption Backwards
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- The commentary argues that removing ghost workers and recovering money should not be the ultimate measures of Nigeria’s anti-corruption efforts.
- It says the decisive test will be whether authorities identify those responsible and permanently close the channels through which the ghost workers entered the system.
The success of the intervention will not ultimately be measured by how many ghost workers authorities remove or how much money they recover.
The real test, the article argues, is whether Nigeria has the courage to follow the trail back to its source, hold those responsible accountable and permanently close the doors through which the ghosts entered.
“If that happens, Nigeria will”
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