Don advises Buhari

 

A former World Bank scribe, Prof. Ladipo Adamolekun, has urged the President-elect, Gen. Muhammad Buhari, to fight corruption to bring change in the country.

Adamolekun spoke at the Silver Knights’ 2015 edition of May Day Lecture held at the International Conference Centre, Lead City University, Ibadan.

He said the only way to bail the country out was by tackling corruption.

Recalling the case of a convicted former governor, who was pardoned and given a national award, Adamolekun said: “A president who says no stealing in my government will not pardon a convicted thief and award him a national honour.

“First evidence from countries that have successfully reduced corruption support the assertion that just as the fish rots from the head, corruption at the head of a national government will permeate the entire government as we have witnessed in the country.

“In order to turn Nigeria into an environment that will remain permanently hostile to leaders with high degree of corruptibility, the president-elect must prosecute a genuine war on corruption during the next four years.”

The professor of Public Administration and former Dean, Faculty of Administration, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, said there were disjunctions at critical points of Nigerian history.