Why Fight Against corruption is Failing- Adebayo

Presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adewole Adebayo, has said the fight against corruption was not yeilding the desired result due to the faulty police system in Nigeria.

Adebayo disclosed this at the second presidential town-hall meetings organised jointly by the ARISE Television and Center for Democracy and Development (CDD).

Adebayo said with good working police said that if the police system in Nigeria, half of those in government would be in jail.

He said tracking corruption currently is the hardest thing to, adding that government officials who would have been charged were the ones preventing the police from doing their constitutional mandate

“Let’s not run away from forming a government. At the federal level, there’s an assisting constitution I’m going to swear in on May 29. In that constitution, it has all it takes to eliminate crime.

“And the two steps to take to eliminate crime is to eliminate crime within government. That is the hardest thing to do in Nigeria.

“One of the reasons why we don’t have an efficient police system is that if we had an efficient police system, half of those who are in government will be in jail.

“So, it’s not in the interest of government as it’s today, to have an effective police. But they need the police for protection. So, I will make that difference.”

The second edition of the town hall has four Presidential Candidates in attendance – African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore; Action Democratic Party, Mallam Yabagi Sani; All Progressives Grand Alliance, Professor Peter Umeadi, and Adebayo.