According to President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerians calling for the identities of ex-government officials who have been returning looted funds may have to wait for a while.
Buhari who gave the keynote address at this year’s edition of the annual Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe Lecture in Abuja said that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN would publish the names of looters and amounts returned after much bigger recoveries have been made.
“It is yet early days for government to make the names public as doing so might jeopardize the possibility of bigger recoveries,” he said.
He stressed that his fight against corruption is not about him, but “about building a country where our children, and the forthcoming generations can live in peace and prosperity.”
The president called on Nigerians to “hate corruption with a passion, and collectively determine to root it out of our body polity.
“Any effort to try to deal with corruption without a convinced populace will end as spasmodic, ephemeral exercise, lacking the appropriate social impact. When we are talking about corruption conventionally, it is a manifestation of the human mindset. It is the human beings that manifest corruption.
“To win the war on corruption, therefore, begins with the people accepting that there is an error to be corrected in their lives, that there is a need to refocus and re-orientate the values that we cherish and hold dear. It requires change of mindset, change of attitude and change of conduct,” he said.
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