By Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity)
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday hosted members of Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) at State House, Abuja, promising to beam the searchlight on cost of governance, and weed out possible corruption that exists anywhere.
The President appreciated members of the committee for the \u201cmajor sacrifice they\u2019ve made in accepting the assignment to serve the country,\u201d noting, \u201cSome of the elite won\u2019t trust you, and you will be alienated, no matter how close you are to them.\u201d
Recalling experience of the past, in which assets were seized from officials who couldn\u2019t explain how they got them, \u201conly for those assets to be returned to them when government was changed,\u201d President Buhari vowed that such would not recur, as he had given instructions that all forfeited assets be sold, \u201cand the money put in the Treasury Single Account.\u201d
\u201cLet\u2019s see who will now take back the money from the treasury, and give back to those people, as was done in the past,\u201d the President added.
Chairman of PACAC, Professor Itse Sagay, who led the delegation, said Nigeria was lucky more than ever to have a person of President Buhari\u2019s credentials as leader of government.
\u201cWe congratulate you for being a star of the anti-corruption struggle in Africa. You attach a lot of importance to the fight against corruption, and we have tried to achieve the aims you had in mind when you established PACAC,\u201d Prof Sagay added.
He said the committee trains, builds capacity of anti-corruption agencies, and has helped to develop a programme of non-conviction assets recovery, which is recording great successes.
PACAC made some recommendations to the President, in order to move the anti-corruption war many steps forward. They include, reestablishment of the jury system for criminal cases in the country; setting up of a judicial commission on corruption in the judiciary, to be headed by retired judges under the auspices of National Judicial Council (NJC); passage of Proceeds of Crime Act by the National Assembly; the setting up of a Presidential Truth and Restitution Task Force; and a closer look at the cost of governance to weed out all vestiges of corruption.
President Buhari pledged that government would take a dispassionate look into all the requests.
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