LAGOS State Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has stated that the idea behind Kuramo Conference is to address environmental challenges, saying that a new legal order is imperative to make the world more inclusive and to secure it for the next generation.
Fashola spoke on Tuesday at the opening ceremony of 2010 Kuramo Conference on Law and Development in Lagos.
The development came just as a Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, and former United States envoy, Rev. Jesse Jackson, decried corruption in Nigeria, saying that transparency and accountability remained the key factors to tackling the menace.
The event drew experts from home and aroad while participants from different walks of life attended the conference that would end on Thursday.
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Justice Yinka Ayoola, had chaired the event.
Prominent Nigerians including a former Vice President of Nigeria, Dr Alex Ekwueme, former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola (SAN), former Minister of Works, Chief Femi Okunnu (SAN), also graced the ocassion.
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