Progressive Impact Organisation for Community Development, PRIMORG, has begun a two-year anti-corruption programme.
Supported by MacArthur Foundation, it is designed to promote citizen’s engagement, popular participation and inclusiveness in governance in Nigeria
The programme which was started on April 1, 2019 is to curb unethical practices and address the problem of lack of accountability in Nigeria’s public and private sectors.
This, the organisation said, would be done by amplifying investigative reports on corruption in order to promote collective action for positive result among the people of Nigeria in the fight against corruption.
The Executive Director of PRIMORG, Mr. Augustine Okhiria Agbonsuremi, stressed that the programme would largely dwell on strengthening anti-corruption and accountability by amplifying corruption related investigative reports on the radio and through social media.
He explained further that PRIMORG would produce and air the radio programme, “Public Conscience,” in selected radio stations in Nigeria.
The programmes, he added, would be relayed on the various social media platforms and on primorg.org.
“These individual and organisational corrupt-free efforts shall be highlighted to encourage Nigerians to do things right, and to emphasise there are Nigerians who can be above board,” he said.
He said despite the fact that it had become obvious that corruption was a major problem confronting the nation’s democracy, the anti-corruption agencies set up by the government to fight the menace had not been able to fully do justice to it.
His words: “Sadly, the anti-corruption agencies set up by government – the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), have left gaps in their will and capacity to fight corruption.
“The media, the Fourth Estate of the Realm, which has the constitutional duty of making government accountable to the people, has not created enough room for that role, largely due to economic factors and for want of capacity.”
