Corruption must end to set Nigeria on prosperity path – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that all forms of corruption must completely be eliminated to set Nigeria on the path of greatness and prosperity.

Buhari said this yesterday at the 2017 edition of the annual national management conference of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) in Abuja.

“To set this country on the path of greatness and prosperity, complete elimination of all forms of corrupt practices must be in the front burner and our collective consciousness always.

“I daresay that the institution of corporate governance has aided my administration in delivering the dividends of democracy to the nation’s teeming populace especially in the areas of providing security, fighting corruption, employment generation and diversification of the economy,” Buhari said.

Represented by the Head of Service of the Federation (HOSF), Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, President Buhari said his administration “will continue to fight corruption and associated social vices at all levels until they are exterminated from our body polity.”

He urged Nigerians to adopt NIM’s code of conduct which mandates its members to be selfless and without corruption as the most efficient and economical ways of getting things done.

President and chairman of council of NIM, Prof. Munzali Jibril said the theme of the 2017 conference is ‘Corporate governance and institutional performance.’

“The reason for poor performance in some businesses and public sector institutions is non-compliance with the tenets and ideals of corporate governance,” Prof. Jibril said.