The Federal Government, in partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), has presented the Second Survey on Corruption in Nigeria to an international audience in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Nigeria’s permanent representative to international organisations in Vienna, Amb. Vivian Okeke, stressed the need to assess the impact of government’s effort through evidence-based surveys.
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“Data collection is one of the areas we need to improve upon in the fight against corruption in Nigeria,” she added.
Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, acknowledged the room for improvement in the fight against corruption.
Statistician General of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Dr. Yemi Kale, stressed that out of all Nigerian citizens who had at least one contact with a public official 12 months prior to the survey, 30 per cent paid a bribe to, or were asked to pay a bribe by, a public official. Theguardianng