Main Theme– Setting The Agenda For The Tinubu Administration.
Topic: Can Tinubu Administration (An Encapsulation Of The 3 Arms Of The Nigerian Government) Succeed Without A Blueprint And The Will To Fight Corruption?
DATE : 10TH JULY 2023.
TIME : 11:00am PROMPT
CONCEPT NOTE.
Corruption is the major plague affecting the growth and development of Nigeria and Nigerians since independence. Corruption has degraded the quality of life and living standards of Nigerians, it has caused us loss of international credibility and local esteem, it has also undermined our democratic process and vitality, suppressed the nation’s economic growth, and made inequality, poverty, social division, and environmental crises irretractable and inevitable.
In our view, corruption usually acquires endemic proportions as it has attained in Nigeria for a variety of reasons.
This includes but is not limited to (a), complete absence of the fear of God,
(b), lack of patriotism,
(c), Greed, avarice, covetousness, and a sense of frightful individualism when dealing with the communal affairs of the country as a whole, while using kindred vehicles of favouritism, nepotism, religion, ethnicity etc, to cover up the practitioners’ morbid craze for corruption.
Corruption has now become the order of the day. It is easy to put the entire blame on an individual or individuals, but part of what is to be interrogated is whether we are not communally culpable for the meteoric rise and persistence of corruption in Nigeria.
But before making progress, it is important to appreciate the scope and extent to which the cankerworm of corruption has eaten into the fabric of Nigeria – See and please read the analysis of the irrepressible and indefatigable social critic and anti-corruption crusader Femi Falana SAN on the state of corruption in Nigeria today titled: Catalogue of Lootings in Nigeria: How Corruption Under PDP Became Child’s Play Under APC – The Boss Newspaper https://thebossnewspapers.com/2023/06/11/catalogue-of-lootings-in-nigeria-how-corruption-under-pdp-became-childs-play-under-apc/
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR (Jagaban) is the newly elected President of Nigeria who is faced with the daunting and nerve-wracking task of resetting the focus of Nigeria in every facet of life. While it must be conceded that President Tinubu understands the magnitude of the assignment before him, the way and manner he has gone about dealing with the germane issues leads serious minded Nigerians to entertain the harrowing fear that it may be business as usual.
After all, it is a poignant Yoruba proverb ‘that when the native soap cohabits for a long time with the leaf with which it is wrapped, it (the leaf) assumes the quality of the soap itself’. In other words, that our political leaders without exception have all grown very comfortable with the sweetness of corruption such that they are unwilling to do anything about it. 
We intend to interrogate all the points made above during the webinar under focus, particularly, how to set an agenda for the Tinubu Administration to follow as a blueprint for the fight against corruption and fraud in Nigeria.
To leave this cancer in our body system without fighting it to a standstill is to sound a sure death knell for the entity known and referred to as Nigeria.
To be rushing ahead, arms akimbo, nonchalantly carrying on with the business of Government by way of political appointments, straddling the world stage through foreign visits and international reception is to miss the point in a big way to the detriment of Nigerians.
It is for the foregoing reasons that the Rule of Law Development Foundation has proposed and organised this Webinar on the current state of Corruption in Nigeria and how to comprehensively deal with the said hydra-headed monster under the watch of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR and beyond, which will Deo Volente, take place virtually but powered from the Conference Room of the Rule of Law Development Foundation at No 3, 16 Mafemi Crescent, Utako, Abuja on Monday the 10th day of July 2023 at 11:00am prompt. This sensitive national discourse will be interrogated by a galaxy of the foremost social critics and national icons led by Mr. Femi Falana SAN to be supported by Majeed Dahiru and Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko. Their short biodata is reproduced here below:
FEMI FALANA SAN (Lead Presenter), is a Nigerian Lawyer and human right activist. He graduated from the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University Ife and began his legal practice in 1982. He took silk in the year 2012 and is a past President of the West African Bar Association, a member of the Nigerian Bar Association, a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators, a member of Pan African Lawyers Union, and a member of International Bar Association.
MAJEED DAHIRU, is a renowned Newspaper Columnist, Member Editorial Board of Pilot Newspaper, Adviser at the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation, and currently Technical Committee of the Lux Terra Leadership Foundation’s Network and Advocacy Group). Mallam Dahiru is a prolific, forthright, and down to earth political and current affairs analyst on the issues plaguing Nigeria and Africa.
EMMANUEL NNADOZIE ONWUBIKO, is a Nigerian journalist, a blogger, a writer, a human rights activist, and a philosopher by professional training from Catholic Claretian Institute of Philosophy, Maryland, Nekede, Owerri.
He presently heads the Human Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria (HURIWA).
He is a publisher, editor-in-chief of Icons of Human Rights Monthly Newsletter and Executive Director of Paradise Found Media Company Limited, Chairman of Epikaya Communications Limited, Board of Trustees’ member of the US-funded NGO called Heartland Alliance Nigeria and board of trustees’ member of the Association of African Writers on Human and People’s Rights.
He is also a member of the National Think Tank of the Nigerian Catholic Secretariat in Abuja since 2012.
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Kind Regards,
J. B. Daudu SAN.
Coordinator,
Rule of Law Development Foundation,
Nigeria.
