Leadership (Abuja)
Abdullahi Olesin
8 April 2008
Abuja — Minister of justice and attorney-general of the federation, Chief Michael Aondoakaa has said that more ministers will soon fall prey of alleged corrupt practices.
He said President Umaru musa Yar'Adua will not hesitate to sack any minister found wanting in the discharge of his duties like the way the former two ministers in the ministry of health were shown the way out of government .
"Any minister who awarded contract to contractors and money was not paid to them after the job must have been done, such minister will be called to order," he said Aondoakaa made these disclosures in Ilorin while delivering his paper as a guest lecturer at the First Hon. Justice Mustapha Akanbi Faculty of Law Annual Lecture held at the main auditorium of University of Ilorin, Kwara state.
The minister used the forum to restate President Yar'Adua's committment to wiping out corruption in all its ramification among public officers.
He said democracy in Nigeria was still at its formative stage and that to make it grow into an enviable height, all hands must be ready to till the soil and sow the seeds of democratic culture, water and permissible limits of constitutionalism and the rule of law.
The minister added, "Corruption poses a major threat to the enthronement of democracy in Nigeria and indeed in other parts of Africa and this has made successful coup plotters pointed to abuse of office and official corruption of staging a coup in the country."
He explained that unfortunately till the present moment, corruption has not abated as it continues to assume a frightening dimension, despite the efforts being made by successive governments to wipe it out from the system.
"If we ever desire to have a true and veritable democracy in our beloved country, we must be prepared to pull and put resources together in this regard in order to fight against the corruption apart from the efforts of the two existing anti-graft bodies," he said.
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