The African Bar Association (AFBA) has urged African leaders to be serious in the war against corruption and bad governance, adding that the easy access government officials have to public fund is unacceptable and baneful to the Africa’s wheel of progress.
President of AFBA, Hannibal Egbe Uwaifo made the call during his speech ahead of AFBA’s 2022 Annual Conference proposed to hold August 7 to 11 in Bingu International Convention Centre, Lilongwe, Republic of Malawi, at a press conference in Lagos.
“African leaders must put in place mechanism that will prevent public officials from having free accessing to public funds. When government officials realise how difficult and the implications of accessing public funds for personal gain, it will to some extent discourage them from engage in such shameful act,” he said.
Uwaifo who lauded the Nigerian military hierarchy, most especially the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) and the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) for their support and efforts to liberate Nigeria from terrorism, said no African leaders can boastfully of winning war against corruption, because government officials in Africa still have free access to public funds, adding that leaders across Africa continent must make concerted efforts to tamed the monster called corruption for the continent to move forward.
