Ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the United Kingdom, the presidency has released a new anti-graft measures as Mr Buhari steps up the anti-corruption battle. The perspectives of the President were released last night in Abuja by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu. Read the new 7 new anti-graft reforms after the break:
1. Greater fiscal transparency and and the enforcement of anti-corruption laws in the oil sector;
2. Improvement of anti-corruption laws;
3. Stringent measures against corruption in corporate governance;
4. Enactment of Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Bill, 2016;
5. Restriction of the ability of those who have looted public funds from traveling and investing the proceeds of their corruption in developed countries;
6. Developing list of those who have been convicted as well as those already prosecuted in Nigerian courts and sharing same with other countries; and
7. Contracts within a certain threshold will be published and those behind the companies bidding for the contract to be listed for public scrutiny both at national and state levels.
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari will soon disclose the actual amount of funds so far recovered from those who looted the treasury during the last administration.