NIPOST launches anti-corruption stamp, customers’ forum in Taraba
The Nigerian Postal Services (NIPOST), Taraba Territory, has launched an anti-corruption crusade for its esteemed customers across the state, using postage stamps.
Speaking at the occasion tagged, ‘Launching of Anti-Corruption Stamp/Customers Forum’ held at the General Post Office, Jalingo, the Area Postal Manager, NIPOST, Taraba Territory, Mr. Paul Yapilami, said, the Programme was an initiative of Taraba Territory of NIPOST, with a view to taking the Federal Government’s Anti-Corruption Campaign to the members of the public.
“NIPOST management is challenged to queue into the present administration’s change agenda to educate and create awareness on corruption and its effects on our great nation,” he said.
The Area Postal Manager, reiterated the havoc corruption has done to the nation in all spheres of life, describing it as the reason why government deemed it necessary to fight the menace by all available means including postage stamps.
Mr. Yapilami further noted that government chose the postage stamps as one of the means or medium through which messages on the Anti-corruption could be passed to the people noting that the messages can only be disseminated when “we use the postage stamps in our daily affairs, by affixing them on the receipts of our financial transactions of about N1,000.00 and above and to make our documents legal and valid”.
According to him, the issuance of postage stamps in support of the Anti-corruption crusade, underscores the role of NIPOST in the social economic development of Nigeria.
In a remark, the Taraba State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Alh. Hassan Mamman Gassol, who doubles as the Chairman of the occasion, advised NIPOST to organise an enlightenment campaign on how to fight corruption through the use of stamps.
In a Paper presentation, titled, “Tackling Corruption through Stamps”, the guest speaker, Dr. Dauda Ishaya Suntai, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Taraba State University, Jalingo defines Corruption as the misuse of power by those who hold it.
Dr. Suntai added that people, who in their official positions, exploit the power with which they are entrusted by seeking private gains.
While calling on the general public to support NIPOST in their Anti-Corruption campaigns, through the use of postage stamps in all their transactions, the guest speaker advised that NIPOST can still do more in the fight, stressing that the spate of corruption will be reduced to the barest minimum if not totally eradicated.
