Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday gave reasons why the Federal Government has been unable to prosecute looters.

Osinbajo disclosed the reasons at the 2017 celebration of the International Anti-corruption Day organised by the Inter-agency Task Team in Abuja.

The Vice President was represented by his Special Adviser on Rule of Law, Akingbolahan Adeniran.

What Osinbajo said:

He said strategic advice given to the government has stopped it from convicting looters.

Osinbajo added that the government had succeeded in weeding out 50,000 ghost workers from its payroll in the last two years.

He said, “The administration has relied a lot on strategic advice, looking at the fight against corruption from a broad perspective, and basically relying on independent advice in order to move forward in fighting corruption.

“It is focused a lot on prevention, and this is one aspect that a lot of people do not talk about so much. Then enforcement, this is the key aspect of the fight against corruption, there has to be accountability for those who basically violate the law.

“Then asset recovery, which is a key element of the fight against corruption. As regards assets recovery, where there has been no conviction, it is because of the strategic advice that we were given.”

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