Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, has said that he would not focus on corruption, but on law and order.
Speaking in an interview with Stephen Sackur, on BBC’s Hardtalk, Fashola said no country in the world is corruption-free, emphasising that lack of law enforcement makes the difference.
“Well, I think that the clear evidence is that we have done better in the way that we enforce law and order,” Fashola said.
“I think corruption is the symptom of the larger problem of non-compliance and therefore, I will focus on law and order and in such a way that compliance becomes a way of life; people who fail to comply, really, are those who then scandalise us.
“For me there is no corruption-free country; it is a clash between law and order and enforcement and the lack of it and the more of that we see in our procurement process, in our way of life, in how open we are, how transparent we are in doing things, the better of we would be.”
Fashola also spoke on the state of the economy and his plans to explore coal, solar, gas and hydropower as means of generating electricity in Nigeria.