By Dapo Akinrefon

Lagos—FORMER National Secretary of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Kayode Ajulo has said that it is impossible for President Muhammadu Buhari to combat corruption alone, urging Nigerians to ensure that corruption is dealt with.

According to him, corruption is a cankerworm that must be dealt with in our system and it is so pervasive that President Buhari and his Federal Government can not successfully tackle it alone.

Ajulo, a legal practitioner,  argued that the anti-corruption fight cannot be fought alone by the president, saying: “Individuals, organizations other tiers of government including communities, religious and traditional institutions have roles to play.”

Claiming that in Nigeria today, only Buhari and Federal Government agencies are the one known to be tackling corruption, he wondered what the state governors and their administration are doing about it, expressing worries that the Nigerian Governors Forum has never addressed the corruption issue till date.

He said: “The fight against corruption cannot just be limited to the immediate past regime, just as it must not be limited to past civilian regime while shielding past military leaders some of whom were actually the architects of corruption in Nigeria and who rose from not having a single bicycle to their name when they forayed into governance to owning ships and oil blocs without doing any business.”

While faulting the selective nature of the anti-corruption war, Ajulo said “it would appear as if it is directed more at members and allies of the PDP, while APC members and those PDP and other parties members that have jumped ship seem to enjoy a kind of immunity. There are serious allegations of corruption emanating from states against some of the APC chieftains, even those serving in the present government which nobody is talking about.”

He, however, urged that “our legislators need to pass laws to open the space, in Ghana today, they have a novel Whistleblower Law, with which some corrupt judges were recently exposed through intervention of a lone masked journalist.”

“We must not also wait until when somebody commit crime before running after him like what of some of our traffic wardens are doing but we must create a system that make such crime impossible and undesirable like the new salary paying system”, he added.