Nigeria: Nigeria's 'gift' ruling blasted
02.06.2005
Anti-corruption campaigners have condemned Nigeria's senate for refusing to ban the acceptance of "gifts", in its new code of ethics. Auwal Rasanjani, head of the Nigerian branch of lobby group Transparency International, told the BBC that these "gifts" open the way to corruption. Senators argued that accepting gifts was part of Nigerian culture and that bribery was already illegal.