Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Monday faulted the anti-corruption drive of the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration saying it hasn’t ‘yielded much success’ because it was anchored on a ‘five-minute sensationalism’ approach.
Saraki spoke on Monday (today) at Senator Dino Melaye’s book launch in Abuja.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that the book, foreword by the Senate President is titled: ‘Antidotes for Corruption: The Nigerian Story.’
The Senate President said the current government rather than killing corruption was making efforts at reviving it in full force.
He said, “I am convinced that why our fight against corruption has not yielded much success is that we have favoured punishment over deterrence.
”We must review our approaches by building our institutions to make it difficult for people to carry out corrupt practices.
“It is my view that the key area of prevention, we must work on, is to make it difficult for stolen money to find a home.
“We must fight corruption with sincerity, and not fight symptoms unlike the five-minute sensationalism we have now. It must not be based on individuals but on institutions.
“Let us fight corruption with sincerity. If we fight corruption in a corrupt way, we will not make any headway.”