Nigeria works to strengthen whistle blowing policy

The Nigerian government has promised more efforts toward strengthening the whistle blowing policy in the country, an official said Wednesday.

Presidential spokesperson Garba Shehu said in a statement made available to Xinhua in Lagos, Nigeria's economic hub that the evidence followed breakthrough recorded in the war against corruption and unaccounted wealth.

He said the enthusiastic response of Nigerians to the whistle blowing policy has boosted the tempo of the anti -corruption crusade of the Buhari administration and as a consequence, the government is considering ways of enhancing the structural capacity of the whistle blowing mechanism.

The government, he said, is considering empowering the mechanism by either bringing it under the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) or some other body to imbue the process with a strategic national purpose.

He commended the zeal and patriotism of Nigerians for responding positively to the whistle blowing incentive policy, which is intended to expose hidden looted funds.

Nigeria's anti-graft police recently discovered 43.4 million U.S. dollars in various denominations in an apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos,

The legitimate ownership of the funds has continued to generate arguments. Endit