Exclusive: By Adenike Lucas

One of the problems Nigeria is facing is the issue of corruption. But, it seems that a new policy introduced by the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration might be doing the trick to reduce it.

An insider explained to this blog that sometime in 2015, a whistle blower wanted to pass some information across to the government regarding a huge sum of money that was diverted during the past administration.

Unfortunately, the person met with President Buhari and a presidency staff was directed to take the person to the Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Sadly, DENISAURUS News understands that when the whistle blower was taking to Mr Magu, “instead of appreciating the information from the said person, he detained and locked up the whistle blower.”

According to the source:”Mr Magu used the crude police way of harassing an informant instead of appreciating the effort and possibly rewarding the whistle-blower.”

In other words, the recent recovery of $9.7 million and £74,000 Seized from Andrew Yakubu and the 17 cars retrieved from the Comptroller General of Customs, Abdullahi Dikko Inde “could not have been achieved with Mr Magu’s mind set.”

Our source praised PMB for the great whistle blowing initiative introduced and called for the Government to find ways to build better institution instead of individuals.

“Gullible Nigerians must understand one basic fact. We must stop building individuals (Mr Magu for example.) but rather we should build institutions with good policy and legislation.”

About two months ago, the ministry of finance announced the whistle-blowing policy.

The policy which allowed citizens who report corruption-related offenses earn a cut from the recovered loot has already helped the Government to recover stolen loots.

Among the loots are the 17 vehicles retrieved from the house of the former Comptroller General of Customs, Abdullahi Dikko Inde located at Nnamdi Azikwe Street, Kaduna plus the millions recouped from the former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke and Mr Yakubu (pictured above)

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