The human rights activist and lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, has accused the state governments, especially those being controlled by the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), of insincerity in the fight against corruption in the country. He said that was why none of them (except Kano State) out of the 20 states being controlled by the party, constituted a formal structure to fight corruption. Falana stated this, on Tuesday, in Kano, while delivering a keynote paper at a two-day stakeholders’ dialogue on corruption in Nigeria. According to Falana, only Kano State among all the 20 APC controlled states and indeed in the entire country that has been able to establish Anti- Corruption Commission as an agency to fight corruption at the state level. “But if we are to fight corruption effectively as a country, the job shouldn’t be only that of the Federal Government, ” he said.

Source: Nigerian Tribune June 19, 2019 12:11 UTC