NIGERIA AND OGP: Fantastic Anti-Corruption (how the journey began in 2016)

Many Nigerians remember Buhari's attendance of an Anti-Corruption Summit at Chatham House, London in ,12th May 2016 but not many know about a very critical development that followed shortly after the Summit. And that's because a lot happens behind the scenes of all items of news we take in through the media. That Summit was dramatically punctuated by former British Prime Minister, David Cameron, describing Nigeria as fantastically corrupt. But behind the scenes, after the Summit, Nigeria joined the Open Government Partnership (OGP), a coaltion of about 70 countries dedicated to knocking out the wild beast called corruption, a deadly predator that is destroying Nigeria by feeding on the greed and irresponsibility of those entrusted with judicious management of public money. The termites have certainly eaten very deep into the wood and the building is on the verge of total collapse.

Whether or not the Buhari administration has politicized the anti-corruption war is open to discussion. However the significance of the OGP anti-corruption process in Nigeria cannot be denied even by the most cynical