CACOL  Sets Agenda For  Sanwo-Olu’s  Anti-Corruption Commission

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The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) has tasked the members of  Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s  Anti-Corruption Commission to intensify efforts in tracking,investigation, arraignment and effective prosecution of all corrupt officials in the employ of Lagos State.
Mr. Debo Adeniran, CACOL’s Executive Chairman,who gave the advice in Lagos,said the development was necessary to avert a situation whereby the court would be left with no other choice than to order the release of corrupt public official, for lack of proper prosecution or perpetual detention without trial.
He also advocated the need for the anti-graft  commission to be independent, autonomous, self-governing, unbiased and  detached from being  an appendage of the executive arm of the state government in the discharge of its statutory duties.
“We also believe the state government would give the commission all the needed financial, human and material support in order for the commission to succeed,”he added.
He  commended  Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration for signing the Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission Bill 2021 into law.
He said the Lagos Governor did well by fulfilling  one of the promises  he made  to the people of the state during his inauguration where he stated that his administration would be accountable and responsible for the appropriation of the state’s resources.
He said the gesture  culminated in Sanwo-Olu’s  signing  a law creating the new anti-graft body, days after Lagos’ parliament approved the bill.
He added:“Against this background, we could see how the Anti-Corruption Commission would be the ‘brain box’ or engine room of the state government in the fight against corruption in the state, especially as they relate to government and public officials.
“CACOL, as an anti-corruption group, with its component organisations, would solidly lend its unalloyed support in this patriotic duty, as the entire world focus on the nation to overcome the destructive ogre of corruption within the shortest time possible.
“We at CACOL have been a frontline campaigner against corruption in Lagos State in particular and the nation in general. Our publication ‘Lagos Open parliament’ (LOP), now in its seventh series, is being used as an evaluation of the level of budget implementation with regard to infrastructural development in Lagos State from time to time.”
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