‘Why CSOs must mobilise against dirty money in politics’ | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

Money and godfatherism have always shaped the outcomes of political contests in Nigeria. The irony of this is that many of these persons are people of questionable character, whose sources of fund are clandestine and product of illicit financial flow. And because they have huge sum of money to spend and bribe their way through, those with genuine interest to serve are schemed out, thereby undermining the electoral process and the system.

The mobilisation is being piloted through the Strengthening Accountability Networks Among Civil Societies project in Nigeria. According to Rafsanjani, the project seeks operational independence of anti-corruption agencies; increased enforcement of existing anti-money laundering provisions and policies; improved oversight function of the National Assembly; improved capacity of the media and civil society to investigate the presence of dirty money in Nigeria’s political processes and increased citizens demand for accountability in the funding of political processes.

“On the negative side, we seem to have so much money in politics that it seems to have the power to erode our institutions. Our laws are not enforced or are outrightly ignored. According to the widely shared public opinion, political contest has little to do with ideas, but rather corruption and populism take the upper hand. This crisis of the image of politics has led to widely disillusioned public electorate that expects profiting from the corruption instead of trying to stop it.

He added that critical stakeholders like financial institutions, lawyers, real estate agencies, accountants or corporate service providers do not help the culprits against the law. “It is on this basis that we believe that the efforts of the ED CISLAC and his able team and partners, TI, will challenge us to find ways of reversing these unfortunate trends.

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