The Federal Government has begun a survey of thirty three thousand, three hundred houses across the nation to know the extent the disease of corruption has eaten into the nation’s fabric, as part of efforts to take the corruption fight to the next level.
The Project Director, Isiaka Olarenwaju while speaking to newsmen in Abuja said that the 2019 survey would not target Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs of government but would target the houses of civil servants.
The survey known as National Survey on Quality and Integrity of Public Servants, follows the 2017 study by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes, UNODC in collaboration of the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS which rated the Nigerian Police and civil servants as the stronghold of corruption.
According to the report, almost a third of Nigerian adults pay bribes when in contact with public officials and almost a third of Nigerian adults, thirty two point three per cent who had contact with a public official between June 2015 and May 2016 had to pay, or were requested to pay a bribe to that public official.
