BEVERLY HILLS, March 02, (THEWILL) – Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, Prof. Itse Sagay SAN, has regretted that the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, are still drenched in corruption even under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
This was as he lamented that notwithstanding all the financial difficulties Nigeria was presently passing through, NDDC recently bought over 70 cars that included eight super Lexus that cost N70m each.
Sagay spoke on Thursday in his opening remarks at the National Dialogue on Corruption organised by PACAC at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where he declared that corruption was omnipresent in the country.
He said despite the purchase by the NDDC, the commission’s Managing Director claimed that the NDDC lacks fund to carry out its responsibilities.
On the Nigeria Customs, the PACAC Chairman said, “There is no difference in Customs since May 29, 2015. If you go to Tin Can Island, it is business as usual.”
Describing corruption as a national tragedy, he wondered why a person will loot what he cannot spend in 10 lifetimes and in the process expose others to poverty.
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