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July 12, 2019
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission has called on the federal government to champion strong conditionalities that would make corrupt public officials punished.
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ICPCChairman, Bolaji Owasanoye, who spoke in Owerri, the Imo State capital at arally commemorating the 2019 African Union Anti-corruption Day by the ICPC saidthat the economic negative impact of corruption on the African continent was ”glaring. ”
Representedby the Imo state chairman, Aruo Udonsi, Owasanoye said that the worst hitvictims of crimes of corruption in Africa were the vulnerable “poor and marginalizedindividuals.”
Accordingto him, the continent would not make meaningful headway unless issues ofcorruption in public offices were decisively dealt with.