Mr.  Andrew Lloyd, British High Commissioner to Nigeria last week in Abuja said Nigeria must roll up its sleeves and tackle the monster called corruption. Lloyd stated that without a significant drive to root out corruption at its core, Nigeria will not reach its unquestionable potential.
Llyod spoke in Abuja at a one day workshop on anti-corruption, organised by the High commission through the Department for International Development (DFID) sponsored “Justice for All” programme, working closely with the Federal Ministry of Justice. He stated that corruption has remained Nigeria’s greatest impediment to greatness.
“Corruption threatens your development, your democracy and your stability; it distorts free and fair competition and contributes to market failure. It raises the cost of doing business globally and destroys more than a quarter of the value of public procurement in developing countries,” he said.
The high commissioner   further lamented the negative impact of corruption, saying “corruption is not just a problem for British companies or for the Western economies of the world. Bribery is even more damaging to the developing world, where it traps the poorest people and countries in poverty.”
He explained that the passage of the Bribery Act 2011 in the United Kingdom is aimed at sending a clear message to the rest of the world of British government’s determination to fight corruption in all ramifications. According to him, the Act was introduced to “make it absolutely clear that bribery is unacceptable” to the British authorities.
“The Act is not about putting red tape in the way of the multitude of honest and law abiding businesses. It is about targeting the crooks that offer and solicit bribes or at those who permit a bribing culture to flourish”, the high commissioner further declared. 
In his keynote address, Mohammed Bello Adoke, attorney general and minister of justice, said that the present administration has made corruption  “a high risk and low profit” activity.  Adoke stated that government has taken steps to improve legislative and institutional frameworks on anti-corruption in line with international standards.