Former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo has claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari is fighting the symptoms of corruption and not corruption itself.
Soludo said this at the fourth “Progressive Governance Lecture Series” in Kaduna on Thursday.
Speaking at the lecture, which was organised by the 23 governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Soludo said the fight against corruption should be targeted at fixing the system.
“I feel we are fighting corruption at the symptomatic manifestation level, at the transaction level. For the fight against corruption to become enduring and to achieve a purpose, we need to get to the systemic level,” he said.
“The way we are going about it is fantastic. You finish, you close here, the other place is leaking.
“The system, as currently structured, you can only fight the symptoms.”