The Chief Promoter of Olokun Festival and National Coordinator of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC),
Gani Adams, has said that Nigeria's endemic corruption manifests in different and divergent forms, saying the trauma and frustration created by the scourge has made it an issue that needs to be urgently tackled.
Adams said this on Tuesday at this year's Ifa Festival held in Lagos. He said the nation's corruption ranges from petty,administrative or bureaucratic corruption that include transactions by individual public official who abuse their office by demanding bribes and kickbacks, diverting public funds, or waiting for favours in return for personal considerations to grand corruption which accommodates theft or misuse of vast amounts of public resources by state officials.
He pointed out that the nation's corruption also manifest in form of patronage, paternalism and clientelism, saying such occurs when officials use their official position to provide assistance to clients or colleagues within the same geographic, ethnic, or cultural origin so that they receive preferential treatment in their dealings with the public sector including public sector employment.
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