ZERO
CORRUPTION COALITION
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Email: zerocorruption@yahoo.com
Press
Release
CORRUPTION:
ZCC TASKS PRESIDENT ELECT, MUHAMADU BUHARI ON FULFILLMENT OF CAMPAIGN PROMISE.
With the successful conclusion of
the 2015 Presidential election, we heartily congratulate the winner and
President Elect, General Muhammadu
Buhari (Rtd.), GCFR. We believe his resilience in keeping the faith, having
a firm belief in his vision of leadership for our dear country, anchored on
ridding the country of corruption, possibly spurred him on to contesting on
several occasions for the nation’s exalted office, until your recent victory.
Nigerians voted for General Buhari (Rtd.) and his party,
because of the faith and belief they have in General Buhari (Rtd.) and his party’s mantra of “change” coupled
with his campaign promise, to rid the country of the cankerworm of corruption,
which in our humble opinion, currently represents the greatest challenge facing
our dear nation.
Corruption has resulted in the
needless death of many Nigerians, especially as scarce resources that should
have been used to provide qualitative healthcare services for all, particularly
the vulnerable groups in our midst, good roads, qualitative education in public
schools, employment opportunities for our teeming unemployed population
including the youth, amongst others, have been diverted into private pockets,
thus depriving majority of Nigerians the opportunity of benefitting from the
nation’s God-given wealth. This even when we are not meeting our continental
obligations of appropriating at least 15% on our national budget on health.
It is against this background that
many Nigerians voted for General Buhari
(Rtd.) and his party, in the belief, that your administration would fight
strenuously to rid Nigeria of this foremost debilitating disease of Corruption,
once and for all!!!
As General Buhari (Rtd.) commences putting together the core team that
would work with you to achieve your vision of a new Nigeria, where things are
done differently and where the issue of corruption and corrupt tendencies would
be dealt with frontally, thus ensuring that it becomes a thing of the past, we
urge that every member of his team, must be individual that meet the following
criteria:
1. He or she must have recorded high
levels of integrity both in his or her public and private life.
2. He
or she must never have been convicted of corruption or implicated in any
corruption cases.
3. He
or she must not have any allegations of corruption or corruption charges
pending against him or her. Where such exists, the nominee in question must
first ensure that he or she conclusively clear himself or herself of such
allegations using existing official channels before the process of his or her
nomination gets on the way, including before being presented to the National
Assembly for consideration.
4. He
or she must also have declared he or her assets publicly as this later
requirement aligns with your recent comment, affirming your commitment to
ensuring that this constitutional responsibility is discharged by yourself and
by everyone that would be nominated to work with his administration, must be
done conscientiously and made open to public scrutiny in line with the
requirements of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act, 2011.
These requirements should not be
applicable to only members of his cabinet, but also extend to each and every
person that would be considered for appointment into any public office, under
your administration.
We urge you to also encourage
members of your party aspiring to hold leadership positions in the 8th National Assembly to as well do so.
We are also aware of the
challenges the administration will face in relation to revenue as a result of
the falling price of crude oil in the international market. We therefore ask
your government to address all forms of corruption in the tax administration
system. The abusive and arbitrary use of tax incentives, leakages in tax
collection resulting in tax avoidance, evasion and illicit financial outflows
would help shore up domestic revenue needed for development.
General Buhari (Rtd.) and his party would also do well to ensure, that these requirements are
also made applicable to all appointments made by his party at the level of the
States and Local Government Council Areas under the control of your party (the
All Peoples’ Congress – APC), including the leadership of the State Houses of
Assembly, amongst others.
Failure to do this would mean that
the president Elect and his party would have failed the generality of
Nigerians, including the many who died in the process of ensuring that your
party emerges victorious at the polls, including those who died celebrating his
victory.
The souls of these committed
Nigerians, whose lives have been cut short on account of their un-avowed
commitment and belief in the message of “Change” that both General Buhari (Rtd.) and his party preached in the run-up to the
elections and those of many Nigerians who are still alive, would certainly
never forgive him, if he falter or fail to keep to his “Anti-Corruption”
promise!!!
We, the undersigned Civil Society
Organizations and all relevant anti-corruption movement shall keep watching
quite keenly and would not hesitate to call out Nigerians to the streets, if we
notice any sign of weakness or failure to clearly fulfill your Anti-Corruption
campaign promise, beginning in earnest with the kind of individuals who make
the list of nominees for various key positions in the new government. The same
applies to those proposed by your party for election into the various
leadership positions in both Chambers of the National Assembly as well in the
States and Local Government Councils.
1. Zero
Corruption Coalition (ZCC)
2. Say No
Campaign
3. National
Procurement Watch Platform (NPWP)
4. Accountability for
Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Nigeria (AMHiN)
5. Tax
Justice & Governance Platform Nigeria
6. State of
the Union Campaign (SOTU)
7. West
African Civil Society Forum (WACSOF-Nigeria)
Signed:
Auwal
Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani)
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