Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on media and publicity, says his principal is ready to establish “institutional buffers” that will prevent the public servants from stealing from the national treasure.
Speaking in an interview on AriseNews Television on Friday, Ngelale said Tinubu will not wait for “some people” in the country to amass wealth, and grow influence over the judiciary before he will act accordingly.
“Tinubu is a man who believes that prevention is better than cure. The days of re-actively dealing with corruption where you wait for the person to steal a whole bunch and amass a kind of wealth that will enable them to have some influence over the judicial system because that’s what we have seen a lot of time,” he said.
“What we need to do now, is to, yes, deal with the reactive part of it which is trying to recover assets, and trying to put people in jail even though we know the judicial system is an issue.
“The other part of this is going to be about creating institutional buffers that stop people from doing that in the first place.”
Ngelale added that the president will not be deterred in his bid to weed out ghost workers from the federal payroll.
During a meeting on Friday with Ajay Banga, the World Bank president, Tinubu hinted that a thorough overhaul of the federal civil service payroll is imminent.
