The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offence and the Save Vision Africa, Campaign Against Corrupt Leaders, and the Labour Resources and Development Centre have urged Community Development Associations to prevent corruption from the grass roots.
ICPC Head of Education Department, Mrs Rashida Okoduwa, at a seminar for CDAs in Lagos State on Saturday, said if grassroots leaders shunned corrupt practices, the country would grow.
Okoduwa said, “Leaders at the grassroots level should see themselves occupying a position of trust, and must defend it. We must stop corruption right from home so that it will not grow to an unbearable extent.
“Members of a particular community should see themselves as watchdogs against any illegal act, by pointing out what others are doing wrong.”
The Chairman, Campaign Against Corrupt Leaders, Mr. Debo Adediran, said the CDAs were supposed to engage their respective governments to accede to the yearnings of the people.
He said, “In order to engender a liberated society, the CDAs must attract government’s attention to the needs within their communities and dispassionately explain government’s point of view on any issue to their community.
“Most CDAs never want to criticise their LGA leaders for fear of intimidation or deregistration.”
January 2, 2012 by Sodiq Oyeleke
Written by NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE
Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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