The Europe's €23.3m to Fight Nigerian Corruption
The European Union has disclosed that it would spend €23.3m on a program that would improve Nigeria's capacity to fight corruption.
The EU Ambassador and Head of Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Kurt Cornelis, said this in Abuja during the inauguration of the four-year Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Programme in Nigeria.
He said, “The European Union is providing €23.3m for the initiative, to be implemented at the federal level and in four states of Adamawa, Anambra, Kano and Lagos. Corruption and an ineffective justice system undermine Nigeria’s effort at economic and social development and fighting poverty.”
Cornelis, who disclosed that the British Council office in Nigeria would implement the programme
This is impressive and a lot of money. While the EU will do its normal workshops and seminars, my suggestion (watch video on link) will be for it to focus on processes to actually make it harder for corruption. The biggest corruption is procurement corruption and I have a suggestion on how this can be done. EU can drive a similar project.
The corruption-related revelations of the last Administration in Nigeria have shown that Nigeria needs a world-class Procurement Fraud Unit to reduce or better eliminate procurement related fraud in the nation. Big data analytics is a special area of computer science that uses high-level mathematical models to provide patterns or trends out of large datasets. Procurement related corruption can be drastically reduced in Nigeria through pattern matching and analytics.In this videocast, I present a technology solution that will help Nigeria deal with its corruption issues especially on public procurement.
