Minister of information and culture Lai Mohammed says he has many libel cases filed against him by Nigerians.
The minister stated this on Friday on TVC’s This Morning show while speaking with restraint about corruption cases that the Federal Government is prosecuting.
Asked about the status of the government’s fight against corruption, Mohammed said: “We are on course; we are very much on course. The programmes of activities that the various anti-corruption agencies of government such as the ICPC, Code of Conduct Bureau have been embarked upon.
“But more importantly is that when people talk about corruption, a lot of corruption comes when the system is opaque, not transparent. That is why we were able to identify that 40% of the scoring methodology is around the ease of doing business and unless you address that, you will also be scoring low. That is why we embarked on ports reforms. Ports reforms are very important, it will be slow but it will help the narratives.
“In addition to these preventive measures in the system, we have not halted the prosecution of high-profile Nigerians who are involved in fraud, we’ve not stopped. Of course, some of these things are not what you can say on air because as I speak today, I have various libel cases against me but I know that we have not stopped but we should not focus our attention on the high-profile cases.
“Corruption is something that is a bit systemic and that is why we are taking that approach from the very beginning.”
