Justice Adewale Abiru, a judge of Court of Appeals in Kano and Femi Falana, human right lawyer, have said there must be concerted efforts to restore Nigerians’ values, moral uprightness, integrity, probity, transparency, accountability, fairness, equity and justice.
The duo spoke at the 4th Gani Fawehinmi Impact and Integrity Awards in Lagos organised by Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) with the support of MacArthur Foundation.
Justice Abiru, while delivering his keynote address titled, ‘Towards ensuring a developed just: The role of transparency, accountability and integrity in public office’, said Nigerians need to go back to the basics.
“We must start by building back better those aspects of our cherished culture that revered honor, that treasured integrity, that prized probity, that appreciated accountability, that valued transparency, that embraced honesty, that practiced fairness, that ensured equity, that dispensed justice fairly and which cherished patriotism.
“The first epidemic we must address is the one affecting our culture and true Nigeria-ness. We must have a nation where national interest buries self-interest.” (Daily Independent)
