Former CBN Governor and current Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, says that if the Federal Government introduced appropriate sanctions for corruption cases, with the media providing the needed support monitoring mechanism, the war against corruption could be won within six months. He noted that corruption has seen some individuals and corporate bodies hide under the guise of tax haven to avoid paying tax, a situation that has seen Nigeria lose more than 30 per cent of its tax revenue annually. He was speaking on Wednesday, in Ibadan, through Alhaji Shehu Mohammed, the Sarkin Shanun Kano, at an International Conference on Tax Havens and the Developing World: The Global Dimension, organised by Centre for General Studies in collaboration with office of International Programmes, University of Ibadan (UI). Sanusi identified lack of discipline and non-evaluation of corruption cases as some of the major problems facing the country, adding that policymakers were yet ...
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