‘Nigeria Can Grow When It Is Able To Get Rid Of Corruption’ – Saraki

Nigeria’s Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki thinks the country can fulfill its destiny when it is able to get rid of corruption.

He says this in his discourse at the seventh Zik Lecture held at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University on Friday, November 16, 2018. 

While praising the effect the late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe had on his country, Saraki takes note of that managing the issue of defilement in Nigeria can help set a standard for other African nations. 

"When I consider his (Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe) inheritance, I am in reality lowered; and it is a thing of pride to seat this occasion today. 

"As we tune in to the seventh Zik Lecture conveyed by the prominent keynote speaker, given us a chance to recommit ourselves to crushing the beast of debasement in our nation; and by so doing, set a standard for the entire of Africa. 

"It is by freeing our arrangement of administration of the cankerworm of debasement that this nation can develop to accomplish its actual predetermination as imagined by the establishing fathers, one of whom was the incomparable Zik of Africa."