THE presidential flag-bearer of the People’s Democratic Party for the 2019 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, says he will use his first 100 days in office to combat corruption if elected as president.

He stated this in his policy blueprint unveiled on Monday as part of his campaign for the next year general election.

In the 186-page document unveiled online, the former Vice President promised to launch a comprehensive National Anti-corruption Strategy that is based on the rule of law, separation of powers, neutrality and non-partisanship to reposition and refocus all Anti-corruption and Law Enforcement Agencies within the first 100 days in office.

He said there would be a safe haven for whistleblowers who are willing to expose corrupt practices in the different levels of government and the society.

“The administration will take steps to ensure that sensitive and critical legislation or amendments relating to the whistleblower, witness protection, electronic evidence, cybercrime, and assets forfeiture are expeditiously passed within the first 100 days in office,” the document stated.

Atiku said his proposed fight against corruption would be an all-inclusive that would involve government and civil society organization in the processes of corruption investigations.

“We will set up Major Corruption Case Monitoring & Review Committee for all major corruption cases under the Office of the Honourable Attorney General and Minister of Justice that would include Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Media as observers to ensure that arbitrary or selective investigation and prosecution of major corruption cases by all anti-corruption agencies is permanently eliminated within the first 100 days in office,” he said.

On budget implementation, Atiku said he would run an open government partnership and public involvement in the process of budget implementation through reduction of opacity within Nigerian government agencies and the media by promoting synergy and ensuring adherence to the Freedom of Information Act.

In addition to that, he said there would be a “launch of a comprehensive ‘Open Governance Partnership Framework’ that ensures the involvement of Community Based Organization (CBOs), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and the Media in monitoring the federal government budget process, budgets performance and project implementation for an independent assessments of the performance of the government within the first 100 days in office.”

“We will set up an inter-ministerial task team and enforcement team for the review and immediate implementation of the recommendations 162 contained in the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency International Reports from inception to date within the first 100 days in office,” he added.

According to him, his government would also inaugurate a Presidential Data Integration Committee for improving the functionality and integration of all the country’s national databases such as the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) International Passport, Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure information and intelligence sharing, robust credit system, assets tracking and detection of financial crimes within the first 100 days in office.