Ekpo Nta, the chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission on Sunday, said stealing of public funds by government officials and other public office holders is not corruption.
*ICPC Chairman, Ekpo Nta,
*ICPC Chairman, Ekpo Nta,
The chairman made the assertion in Abuja, while playing host to a delegation from the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria.
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" Nta 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.
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