Bernard Hogan Howe agrees that
if allegations of corruption documents being shredded are true, it is a «serious blot on the Met's reputation».
Perceptions of corruption are heightened
if allegations of corruption are not acted upon immediately.
Not exact matches
According to the Executive Director
of GII, Linda Ofori - Kwafo, such
allegations if swept under the carpet could affect President Akufo - Addo - led government to root out
corruption in the country.
Even
if the state was to carry out raids on the homes
of judges in pursuit
of legitimate
corruption allegations, I am persuaded (and I've not seen any provision to the contrary in spite
of the best efforts
of many pro-DSS persons) that such should have been carried out by the Police or EFCC, and certainly not the DSS.
Adeyeye, a former minister
of state for works, said that «
if President Buhari retains these ministers in the face
of the serious
allegations against them, he will show that the entire judicial
corruption saga is nothing more than a deliberate attempt to blackmail the judiciary in order to subjugate it and make it a rubber stamp institution
of the administration.»
«Those
allegations,
if proven, represent an especially breathtaking bit
of corruption even by Albany standards.
According to him, it is not enough to accuse and prosecute someone on grounds
of corruption allegations if there is no evidence as such.
«
If NJC could do this less than one week ago, has the same NJC been informed
of any
allegation of corruption against the judges whose residences were invaded?»
The AYF stated, «
If you add these challenges to the
corruption allegations that have plagued some top ranking officers
of this administration, the inability
of Mr. President to address same leaves a sour taste in the mouth
of many Nigerians.
«We don't know the impact
of the
corruption allegations, or
if that impact continues despite the terrorist attack,» said veteran political strategist Hank Sheinkopf.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg told Andrew Marr that people would be very angry reading about the «
allegations of total
corruption»...
If anyone needed any reminder
of how threadbare and weak the creditability
of the way we do politics has become, they just need to look at today's headlines,» he said.