Is Nigeria fighting corruption?

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Toyin Falola

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Ango Abdullahi stated categorically that, “we have now seen corruption on a massive scale, and nobody is doing anything about it”.

He stated this while fielding questions from Journalists on Tuesday in Kaduna shortly after opening ceremony of a public lecture entitled, “Education as an instrument for national integration: The northern Nigerian Crisis.”

According to the elder statesman, if President Buhari was committed to fighting corruption, the nation’s courts and prisons would have been congested with corrupt politicians.

He said many corrupt politicians are going about freely because APC has forgiven their sins, pointing out that the case that readily came to mind is that of Senator Danjuma Goje whose ‘sin’ was allegedly forgiven by APC.

He said, “The President said he is fighting corruption, but I don’t believe him because, if he is fighting corruption, our courts and prisons should be full by now. This is because corruption is everywhere.

“You don’t just pick one case and make it a universal example of fighting corruption. We have just seen the conviction of Orji Uzor Kalu and it is becoming something that the world should know, when there are so many people with seventy something billion with them. Those people should be in the same prison with Uzor Kalu.

“And in any case, if you want to say that, Uzor Kalu had committed an offence, but here is a national chairman of a party, the President’s party who pronounces that, don’t worry how much you have stolen somewhere else; as long as you come and say you are a member of APC, you are forgiven. A good example of that is former Governor Danjuma Goje. It was the Attorney General of the Federation himself that went to court to say, they were withdrawing the case from the court. And his offences are not different from Orji Uzor Kalu’s and many others that were reported.

The NEF leader also spoke on restructuring, saying, “If we are going to restructure Nigeria, we must abandon Presidential system of government. If you want Nigeria to function as it used to function in 1960 at the point of independence, we should go and reconsider retention of Presidential system of government, because it is inefficient, it is corrupt and there is no accountability.

“Under the parliamentary system of government, you cannot be a minister until you are elected from your village. So, you are already accountable to your electorate and then, the leader of your party who happens to be President or Prime Minister would make a nomination, which means other members must approve; if you are not a good man, from there you have failed,” he said.

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​The President said he is fighting corruption, but I don't believe him because, if he is fighting corruption, our courts and prisons should be full by now. this is because corruption is everywhere - Ango Abdullahi.

​It is very strange that some Nigerian intellectuals like Professor Ango Abdullahi, are demanding that President Buhari should exercise absolute power in ruling Nigeria contrary to the provisions of the constitution of Nigeria. The President, the executive branch of the government cannot fight corruption alone. The National Assembly (the Legislative) and the Judicial arms of the government must play their parts properly in combating corruption in Nigeria. Speaking at a townhall meeting with Nigerians in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Sunday, 31 January 2016, President Buhari admitted that the war against corruption cannot be won without the full participation of the Judiciary. On the failure of the Judiciary to play their constitutional role, Buhari said, "On the fight against corruption vis-à-vis the Judiciary, Nigerians will be right to say that is my main headache for now. He stated further that "the ongoing fight against corruption in Nigeria can be effectively tackled with the strong support of the judiciary." On assuming Presidential power in May 2015, Muhammadu Buhari had inherited over a thousand cases of corruption filed during the 16 years rule of the PDP, which the courts had failed to adjudicated upon expeditiously and Buhari's government had filed over four-hundred cases within six months of assuming power. Regardless of the consequences of the stolen public funds on Nigerians, the Nigerian Judicial officers granted bails to robbers of public funds and adjourned their cases sine-die. On Wednesday, 10 February 2016, the then President of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Augustine Alegeh, reacted to President Buhari's speech in Ethiopia on 31 January 2016. Mr. Alegeh said, "Such generalisations and categorisations of the judiciary as being an obstacle to the anti-corruption crusade is aimed at intimidating the judiciary." Mr. Alegeh elaborated, "The NBA condemns in its entirety the generalisation and/or categorisation of the Judiciary as being corrupt and an impediment to the zero corruption policy of the present administration." The NBA President did not offer any explanation as to why cases of corruption filed in 2007 were still pending in courts in 2016.

​While declaring that his government had given priority to anti-corruption war at an International workshop arranged by the National Judicial Institute (NJI), Abuja, on Monday 18 July 2016, President Buhari urged the Judiciary to be on the forefront of the fight against corruption. He said among other things, "Critically important also, is the sacred duty of the judiciary to ensure that criminal justice administration is not delayed. I am worried that the expectation of the public is yet to be met by the judiciary with regards to the removal of delay and the toleration of delay tactics by lawyers. When cases are not concluded the negative impression is given that crime pays. So far, the corruption cases filed by the government are not progressing as speedily as they should in spite of the Administration of the Criminal Justice Act 2015, essentially because the Courts allow some lawyers to frustrate the reforms introduced by law. This certainly needs to change, if we are to make success in our collective effort in the fight against corruption. …//… The Judiciary must fight delay of cases in court as well as it fights corruption in its own ranks, perceived or otherwise." (Culled from Nigerian Vanguard online titled : Corruption War, Delay Tactics, Judicial Officers, Hampering Progress - Says Buhari).

​Since the Judiciary remained aloof to Buhari's appeal to act speedily on pending high profile cases in courts, the Executive arm of the government devised a radical means of dealing at least with some corruption suspected Judicial officers. Thus in early October 2016, homes of some High Court and Supreme Court Justices were combed by the DSS and bails of foreign and domestic currencies were recovered including bank account documents testifying to wealth far beyond the legitimate income of the Judges. The very Nigerians who are today blaming Buhari for not fighting corruption, rushed to condemn the invasion of the homes of the Justices by DSS which they regarded as an assault against the third arm of the government. Buhari was branded a Dictator by the same people like Ango Abdullahi who are now craving that he, Buhari, should use unconstitutional means to fight corruption. Nigerian Judicial Officers collude with corrupt officials to share proceeds of crimes and set the culprits free. Even in some cases, the Judges issue permanent injunctions forbidding the investigating agencies from arresting, detaining, interrogating and prosecuting suspected criminals.

​On 23 March 2007, Justice Ibrahim Nyaure Buba granted a permanent injunction forbidding the EFCC from investigating Peter Odili, the Governor of River State for looting the treasury of the state for the sum of N100billion. Peter Odili got the injunction shielding him from investigation and prosecution two months to the end of his two terms tenure as governor of the State (1999-2007). EFCC appealed against the permanent injunction to the Court of Appeal but as year 2019 is closing to an end the appeal is yet to listed for hearing by the Court Registrar. It is often said that, within the judiciary in Nigeria, Court Registrars are the richest because they know judges who can be bribed and they can make casefiles disappear in exchange for suitable price. Before Peter Odili, there was Joshua Chibi Dariye, the Governor of Plateau State, 1999-2007. In January 2004, the Metropolitan police in London uncovered the sum of £11, 560 in a locked briefcase while conducting a search at 127 Chiltern House, Portland St. London SE17, in connection with a suspected case of computer theft via internet purchase. The Nigerian owner of the briefcase, Mr. Christopher Mekwunye, told the police in London that the Governor of Plateau State, Joshua Chibi Dariye, gave him the money to deposit into his account with Barclays Bank, London. Subsequent investigation by London Police showed that Dariye operated eight UK Bank accounts, seven of which were in Sterling accounts while one was in a dollar account. On September 2, 2004, the Metropolitan police arrested Joshua Chibi Dariye in his Marriot Hotel room in London while visiting. Various amount of money in different currencies totalling well over £90, 000 were recovered from him. He was charged to Court for money laundering but he was granted bail and restricted from travelling outside London,while his passport was seized. However, Dariye jumped bail and returned to Nigeria to resume as Governor of Plateau. Olusegun Obasanjo took a radical measure by supporting six willing members of Plateau House of Assembly with security forces to impeach Dariye. A constitutional case was raised at the Supreme Court and the impeachment of Dariye was declared unconstitutional. Dariye enjoyed his two terms tenure. When in early September 2007, the UK government handed over a cheque of N23 million to the federal government as representing the money seized from Dariye, he petitioned President Yar'Adua on 28 September 2007 stating that the actual amount seized from him in 2005 was £2,961,560 which according to him at time was equivalent to N770,056,000.00. In July 2007, the EFCC filed a 23-count charge of embezzling Plateau State's fund against Dariye but the corrupt Nigerian Judiciary pussy-footed with his trial until he was convicted in June 2018 for stealing ecological funds of N1.62 billion belonging to Plateau State. However, the Appeal Court reduced his jail term to 10 years on 16 November 2019 even though the court equated the consequence of his crime to murder. It is remarkable that he defected from PDP to APC in 2015, having been a Senator from 2011.

O​rji Uzor Kalu was the PDP Governor of Abia State from May 1999 to May 2007. Conscious of what awaited him after his tenure in office, he approached Abia State High Court on 31 May 2007 for an injunction order restraining the EFCC from arresting and prosecuting him. However, on 27 July 2007, Ribadu led EFCC arraigned Kalu before an Abuja High Court on a 107 count charge of money laundering, official corruption and criminal diversion of billions of naira belonging to Abia State into his private companies. The presiding Judge, Justice Binta Murtala Nyako, granted Orji Uzor Kalu bail while was asked to deposit his international passport with the court's Registrar. On 5 August 2007, Kalu petitioned President Yar'Adua and complained about the failure of EFCC to obey Abia High Court order of stay of proceedings against him. During the hearing of Kalu's motion on 5 September 2007, the Attorney General of the Federation, Michael Aondoaka, sent a representative to take over the case from the EFCC and urged the Court to respect the Abia High Court order issued in favour of Kalu. Earlier on 7 August 2007, Kalu had presented a letter from a United State's Hospital requesting his presence at the hospital for approval to perform brain surgery on his wife, Ifeoma Ada Kalu. The letter bearing the signature of Dr. Peter Black came from The Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Kalu wanted his passport released to him so that he could travel to the US for his wife's sake. Nuhu Ribadu contacted the hospital in question and a reply by fax signed by the assistant to Dr. Peter Black, Heather Galvin, denied that the hospital sent any letter to Kalu as no patient with the name Ifeoma Ada Kalu was either admitted or a patient in the hospital. In normal countries, Kalu would have been charge to court for perjury and forgery. Almost 9 years after the EFCC first arraigned Orji Uzo Kalu for looting Abia State treasury, the Supreme Court of Nigeria on 18 March 2016 delivered a judgment which stated that the ex-parte order obtained by Kalu from Abia High Court which restrained the EFCC from arresting, detaining or prosecuting him was not bounding on Abuja Federal High Court 
where Kalu was being tried. Thus, the case was remitted back to Abuja Federal High Court for commencement of Kalu's trial. Kalu and others filed another motion in which they wanted the Court to determine whether the EFCC and the federal government were competent to prosecute a case involving the revenue of a State. It was discovered that Governor Kalu as the Chief Security Officer of Abia State had transferred billions of naira from Security Votes to the accounts of his Slok companies.
​ ​Kalu and his hoards of SANs had argued that Security Votes are unaccountable and cannot be retired that is to say, it cannot be returned to the treasury if not spent. The appeal Court dismissed Kalu's argument saying because the Security Votes are not accountable and retire-able does not mean they are steal-able or/and they can be pilfered with impunity. After 12 years of legal wangling, Orji Uzor Kalu was recently jailed 12 years for stealing over 7 billion naira from Abia State between 1999 and 2007 when he was Governor of the State. Yet, he crossed from PDP to APC in 2017.

​Referring to a distorted faction of the statement made by the National Chairman of the APC, Adam Oshiomhole, last year, Professor Ango Abdullahi stated that those who stole public funds but joined the APC have been forgiven their sins. What Adam Oshiomhole said that those who returned stolen public assets with sense of remorse will be forgiven and would be admitted into APC if they wished. Plea bargaining is allowed in law. What professor Ango Abdullahi should be concerned about is why it takes several years for the Nigerian Judiciary to adjudicate on corruption cases. In China a person who steals public funds of the same magnitude as Orji Uzor Kalu will face death sentence, while in Japan or South Korea it is life sentence. Why are Nigerian Judges extremely generous in granting bails to treasury looters and criminals? Former Minister of Interior, Abba Morro, organised a recruitment exercise into the Nigerian Immigration Service on 15 March 2014. 676,675 applicants paid N1,000 non-refundable fee to partake in the exam for admission for about 5,000 cadets. The evolving stamped at the overcrowded centres resulted in the death of 19 Nigerian youths while many were injured. Subsequent EFCC investigation, showed that Abba Moro, Permanent Secretary to the Minister of Interior at that time by name, Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia; a deputy Director in the Ministry, F.O. Alayebami conspired with the owner of Drexel Global Tech Nigeria Limited, Mallam Mahmood Ahmadu to share the recruitment fees totalling 676 million, 675 thousand naira. The EFCC found that Drexel Global Tech Nigeria Ltd was an unregistered company with no legal right to enter such contract. Mahmood Ahmadu withdrew N423,800,000 from the recruitment fees and disappear into thin air till date. Abba Moro and others were arraigned in court but they have been granted bail since 2017. Abba Moro is now even a PDP Senator. Can the Nigerian Judiciary bail the 19 youths to life from their graves? Corruption thrives in Nigeria not because the Nigerian Judiciary has entered alliance with the treasury looters for the purpose of sharing proceeds of corruption against the wish of Buhari and APC. The day Nigerians can direct their angers against the Nigerian Judiciary to do justice according to the law, corruption will disappear in Nigeria.
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Mr. Kadiri,
I used to enjoy your objective contributions to this forum but now you have become subjective and partisan by defending Buhari administration. 
Corruption must be given a broader definition to include nepotism, favouritism, abuse of power, stealing government money, rigging elections, bribery etc. 
Has Buhari adminstration respected judiciary and obeyed all court orders? 
Didn't Mr. President know that the Executive arm of government cannot fight corruption alone right from the beginning? 
To fight corruption in a transparent manner, he has to start from himself, the executive, legislative and judiciary. In my own opinion what he is doing is selective persecution period. 
Segun Ogungbemi.  

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OK.  Nepotism, favouritism and abuse of power are also corruption.  But we need to put things in perspective.  Between someone who stole billions and the Presidents favouritism to a few, which is more harmful to the economy and to the country?  This is why there is a corruption index.  Nobody is and no country is totally clean of corruption.

Should the attempt to reduce corruption in its ravaging scale it is in Nigeria today be stopped?

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Olayinka,
Can you prove that favouritism and abuse of power do not lead to billions of naira stolen in Buhari administration? Can you quantify the psychological and health hazard favouritism has inflicted on the generality of the populace nationally and internationally? 
Segun Ogungbemi



OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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I can not do any such proving.  But corruption involving non favourites surely us more widespread with the anonymity of perpetrators numbing their sense of shame.  

Note that Kalu Orji was reported to have broken down in tears when that anonymity was shattered and his cover was finally blown.  He could no longer look his Principal ( Buhari) and associates and say these are mere unproven allegations.  They have been proven in a court of law and a jail sentence attached.

In most cases if the person doing the favouritism is not bent and crooked beyond redemption the beneficiary does not want to disappoint the ' good turn" by corruptly enriching himself.  At any rate the benefactor then choose those they think they can vouch for.  So the cases of abusers of patronage is minimized compared to a situation where the patron himself is a certified crook.  This was perhaps the psychology behind Buharis much maligned phrase that he would appoint only those he personally knew well.

Most big time crooks in govt thrive under the anonymity of big government.

A minister for power who comes from Katsina state can inure his conscience while stealing from funds meant to generate electricity for Abia state by the fact the victims are faceless and not his own people.

This was the same psychological state that enabled Orji Kalu steal and divert security votes for his State into his own account.  As far as he was concerned it was a victimless crime and it was unlike diverting money meant for payment of nurses salaries in his state into his own account.  As far as he was concerned he was just being smart and no one would know because it was not targeted at anyone.

Also note the defence of the Air Peace chief executive Onyema against money laundering.  He did not see any victims his actions hurt.  Its just creative accounting.

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Olayinka,
Can you prove that favouritism and abuse of power do not lead to billions of naira stolen in Buhari administration? Can you quantify the psychological and health hazard favouritism has inflicted on the generality of the populace nationally and internationally? 
Segun Ogungbemi


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​Professor Ogungbemi,
​I have no reason to defend Buhari but to present the true political and economic situation in our dear country as they have occurred. I do not agree that we need to redefine corruption which euphemistically in Nigeria means stealing of appropriated funds for socio-economic welfare of citizens and extortion of money for services that are supposed to be free by public officials. Instead of concentrating on the ethnic and religious affiliations of public officials, why are we not discussing their competence and abilities to produce goods and services required of their positions. For instance, the ethnic origin and religious affiliation of Minister of water supply are irrelevant if all Nigerians get potable water to drink. Equally true is that lack of potable water for all Nigerians has nothing to do with the ethnic origin and religious adherence of the Minister in charge of water supply but his incompetence.

About your question, whether the President knew that the executive alone could not fight corruption, the answer is yes. Barely a year in office as President on Monday, 18 July 2016, Buhari said at an International Workshop held at the National Judicial Institute (NJI) partly thus, "The Judiciary should be in the forefront of efforts to develop rights based jurisprudence as an element in the multi-disciplinary approach advocated in fight against corruption. …//.. Thus, we cannot expect to make any gains in the war against corruption in our society when the Judiciary is seen as being distant from the crusade." (excerpts from online Vanguard Nigeria, 18 July 2016).

​You wondered if Buhari's administration has respected the Judiciary and obeyed all court orders. If the Judiciary is constantly engaged in abuse of judicial power by issuing ridiculous orders, then it is up to the executing agencies to use its gumption to decide which order of the courts can be complied with. Take the case of Orji Uzor Kalu who obtained court order at an Abia High Court barring the EFCC from arresting, interrogating and prosecuting him. The EFCC simply initiated his prosecution at a Federal High Court, Abuja and the Supreme Court in its decision No.SC/215/2012 of 18 March 2016 approved non-compliance of Abia High Court order by the EFCC. The Supreme Court has the final say in if a court order at the lower courts should be obeyed or not. S.Kadiri
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Sir,

"he has to start from himself, the executive, legislative and judiciary" - great idea and it would have been a good beginning, but,  seriously, how many would survive a scrupulous investigation? It's theoretically possible that after a few weeks, we would be without a president, a legislature or a judiciary if the judges themselves were to be found to be corrupt. 

As St. Paul said,, "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory

We learned from the textbooks, that which we all quote, about the “separation of powers” but euphemistically speaking, and this is putting it mildly, let us say that the Naija judiciary that Brother Buhari inherited from Goodluck Jonathan is “compromised”.

So, how is an honest president supposed to relate to that arm of the executive? He can only wage a successful war against the various forms of corruption that you have enumerated, and against the corrupt elites of the lootacracy with the cooperation of a blameless judiciary.

Baba Kadiri has given many instances of the “insolence of office”,  “ the law’s delay”, the backlog of cases waiting to be heard, all manner of  criminals, lootocrats, to be  put on trial, found guilty  and as we say in Nigeria, for them to “vomit” the money, an impossible feat if indeed some of the Mafia’s best friends are said to be currently occupying the highest echelons of the legal arms of government such as the judiciary, and it’ said ( only gossip?) that some of them (the Mafioso) are even in the police…

I was in Nigeria and I fell in love with the Buhari-Idiagbon duo in 1984, after they instituted WAI (War Against Indiscipline) which cleaned up the garbage at Mile One Market in Port Harcourt within a week and  paid civil servants their several months’ salary arrears, so that they could begin to enjoy a Happy New Year.

 Anti-corruption is in Brother Buhari’s DNA and as you say, “the Executive arm of government cannot fight corruption alone…”

Unfortunately, the problem of nepotism and favouritism is not easily curbed, given the culture and nature of the African extended family, but to some extent, this problem could be circumscribed by law…

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Those who concentrate on ethnic and religious provenance of political office holders ( the Toyin Adepoju group) are in the euphemististic frame that the best hands are in the South because of their exposure to eestern education;  the worst are in the North due to lack of this exposure.  

 This was the  mind set that produced the Jan 1966 coup that set Nigeria on course its subsequent tragedies.  So if a northern leader is elected and he amounts northern administrators as far as they are concerned the result is predictable.  

So it is this First Republic consciousness overhang that must first be battled and neutralized.  It is such consciousness in reverse that makes someone like Farooq Kperogi bend over doubly backwards in his over criticism of northern leaders to show that not all northerners subscribe to 'northern mediocre standards'  There are other northerners who subscribe to West is best and hate northern Arabo backward standards.  He fails to see that not all southerners view the North in this inaccurate manner. 

 Is Jibrin Ibrahim a northerner in this mould? Except Toyin Adepoju met Jibo on this forum he would deny any northerner of his persuasion and caliber exists.

Is the former CJN  (Unnogen or whats he called) a northerner?  Yet he presided over the worst judicial rot in the history of this country that made democracy unworkable making himself the prime example of this rot.  Yet many southerners were up in arms against his removal and saw an ethnic agenda at play.

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​Professor Ogungbemi,
​I have no reason to defend Buhari but to present the true political and economic situation in our dear country as they have occurred. I do not agree that we need to redefine corruption which euphemistically in Nigeria means stealing of appropriated funds for socio-economic welfare of citizens and extortion of money for services that are supposed to be free by public officials. Instead of concentrating on the ethnic and religious affiliations of public officials, why are we not discussing their competence and abilities to produce goods and services required of their positions. For instance, the ethnic origin and religious affiliation of Minister of water supply are irrelevant if all Nigerians get potable water to drink. Equally true is that lack of potable water for all Nigerians has nothing to do with the ethnic origin and religious adherence of the Minister in charge of water supply but his incompetence.

About your question, whether the President knew that the executive alone could not fight corruption, the answer is yes. Barely a year in office as President on Monday, 18 July 2016, Buhari said at an International Workshop held at the National Judicial Institute (NJI) partly thus, "The Judiciary should be in the forefront of efforts to develop rights based jurisprudence as an element in the multi-disciplinary approach advocated in fight against corruption. …//.. Thus, we cannot expect to make any gains in the war against corruption in our society when the Judiciary is seen as being distant from the crusade." (excerpts from online Vanguard Nigeria, 18 July 2016).

​You wondered if Buhari's administration has respected the Judiciary and obeyed all court orders. If the Judiciary is constantly engaged in abuse of judicial power by issuing ridiculous orders, then it is up to the executing agencies to use its gumption to decide which order of the courts can be complied with. Take the case of Orji Uzor Kalu who obtained court order at an Abia High Court barring the EFCC from arresting, interrogating and prosecuting him. The EFCC simply initiated his prosecution at a Federal High Court, Abuja and the Supreme Court in its decision No.SC/215/2012 of 18 March 2016 approved non-compliance of Abia High Court order by the EFCC. The Supreme Court has the final say in if a court order at the lower courts should be obeyed or not. S.Kadiri
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Rabbi Cornelius,
Considering the ethnic and religious consciousness in Nigeria, nobody among the present administration can fight corruption,  if he fails to start from himself. It is not utopia because it is practically possible. You cited the example of WAI when President Buhari was Head of State. It worked for a while until his deputy Idiagbon violated the prohibition of taking children to Mecca for hajj. The death penalty imposed retroactively on the arrested drug pushers made the public to fear the imposition of Shari'a on Nigerians. He lost the support of the public and it ended his draconian regime. 
Nigerian Head of State late Muritala Mohammed demonstrated the leadership in the fight against corruption when he began from himself as a typical example. 
We need such leaders today, Rabbi. 
Segun Ogungbemi. 

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Oga Kadiri,
Corruption is not limited to stealing public funds alone. The word 'corruption' has to be properly defined so that someone who wants to fight it will know its scope and the public will understand it as well. 
We need to know his definition of corruption he wants to fight, the method and strategy he wants to use as well. Fighting corruption requires applying the best method and strategy to accomplish it without violating any provisions of the constitution because it has to be fair and just. 
You talked about competence. Is President Buhari,  in all honesty, competent to govern Nigeria in the present century? In my own view, he is not. Not only that, he is not competent to fight corruption because those who brought him to power have been alleged of corruption. We are are aware that some of them have their cases with EFCC and competent courts in the country. Can you say in all honesty that President Buhari has not benefited from the proceeds of corruption? 
One would prefer what the former Head of State late Murtala Mohammed did when he wanted to fight corruption. He began from himself. That is the kind of moral and ethical leadership Nigeria needs today: that is fighting corruption by example. 
Oga Kadiri, tell your President to follow that example. He should stop selective prosecution of his perceived enemies in the the spirit of fighting corruption. 
Segun Ogungbemi. 



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