The Centre for Ethical Rebirth among Nigerian Youths (CERANY), an NGO, has commended the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for its recently released Second Corruption Survey in Nigeria.
Mr Chuks Akamadu, President of CERANY, said in a statement on Tuesday that the survey, a comparative analysis of corruption trends which covered 33,000 households in Nigeria between 2018 and 2019, would yield credible results.
Akamadu said that the report revealed that bribery was less prevalent than it was three years ago, when UNODC carried its first survey.
He, therefore, called on the government as well as Nigerians to carry out an appraisal of the situation to ascertain if Nigeria was winning the war against corruption.
“CERANY is proud to applaud the methodology used for this survey and sample size which could only have yielded credible results outcomes with over 33,000 Nigerian households covered.
“The summary of the report is that bribery in Nigeria is slightly less prevalent than it was three years ago.
“UNODC did commendably well by expanding the scope of its second survey through the phenomena of vote-buying and pervasive nepotism in recruitment process within the public sector,’’ he said.
He urged Nigerians to take advantage of the report to fight the cankerworm of corruption in all its ramifications and see to its decline.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the UNODC released its Second Corruption Survey in Nigeria on March 3 in Akwa Ibom.
The survey was carried out by UNODC in collaboration with the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics with support from the Department for International Development (DFID).
The first survey was carried out by UNODC in 2016.(NAN)
