President Muhammadu Buhari has launched the National Ethics and Integrity Policy which “projects government’s aspiration for rediscovery of our cherished traditional ethical values of honesty, integrity, hard-work, truth and justice, unity, faith, and consideration for one another irrespective of status or background”.
According to him, “corruption and corruptive tendencies are abhorrent to these core ethical values”.
The President bared his mind on Monday in Abuja at the launch of the policy and Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC)’s 2nd National Summit on Diminishing Corruption to mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the anti-corruption agency.
The Policy was put together by the ICPC in collaboration with the Office of the Secretary to Government of the Federation, and the National Orientation Agency.
The President recalled that, “as military Head of State, I fought corruption headlong and held public officers who abused their office or misused public funds to account. Furthermore, I introduced the War Against Indiscipline (WAI), one of whose cardinal objectives was promotion of our cherished culture of ethical conduct, integrity and hard work.
“I recognized in 1984 as I do even more now that corruption poses a clear danger to Nigeria, so, we cannot relent in efforts to eradicate it from our society. As I have often reminded Nigerians, ‘If we do not kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria.’”
