Stealing Public Funds By Governmnet Officials Is Not Corruption--- ICPC Boss

Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission Ekpo Nta, said stealing of public funds by government officials and other public office holders is not corruption.e He noted that contrary to popular thinking, most acts credited to corruption have no relationship with stealing.

               According to him, most people, including the educated, did not quite understand what constituted corruption and stressed that it was wrong to classify theft as such.

"Stealing is erroneously reported as corruption. We must go back to what we were taught at school to show that there are educated people in Nigeria. We must address issues as we were taught in school to do" The ICPC chairman said.

           The ICPC chairman went ahead to explain that calling stealing corruption is like the ordinary Nigerian who often called a roadside mechanic an engineer, noting that most contractors often add engineering in their certificates of incorporation and advised COREN to liaise with the Corporate Affairs Commission to correct the anomaly.   

Ekpo Nta disclosed that there are only 23,000 registered engineers in Nigeria, but in practice the country has over 100,000 engineers with quacks being the bulk of it.