Raheem Akingbolu reviews the three-year project end line report of the Akin Fadeyi Foundation, which chronicles the impact of the subtle campaigns deplored to address corruption in Nigeria. He reckons that the report has further confirmed that Nigeria has lost over $500 billion to corruption since Independence, despite all efforts to re-orientate the citizenry.
In recent times, stakeholders in Nigeria are concerned about the country’s image crisis and daily attempting various approaches through which they could tame the menace. In local and international dealings, politics and businesses, Nigerians battle daily to convince potential partners. Of course, there are government agencies, saddled with responsibilities to promote positive behavioral change among citizens on issues of good governance, corruption, transparency and accountability but little or nothing has changed. It is believed in some quarters that the nature of the methodology usually adopted tends to operate in a top to bottom mode.