AFTER investing billions of Naira in fighting corruption, the verdict of the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is that corruption persists in Nigeria because we do not have institutions, systems and processes to prevent corruption. She should know.
"The cause of the disease is that we do not have in place the institutions, the systems and the processes to block and prevent it in the first place. That is the only difference between us and the people abroad," Okonjo-Iweala said at the Catholic Caritas Foundation Forum in Abuja. People, she said, would shun corruption if the appropriate systems were in place.
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