Confession Time! Okonjo-Iweala backs Buhari on corruption war
abiodun KOMOLAFE
Confession Time! Okonjo-Iweala backs Buhari on corruption war
... says president leading by example
A former Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has expressed support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s effort at tackling corruption, saying graft remains Nigeria’s biggest impediment to achieving Sustainable Development Goals.
Speaking on September 30 as a guest lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, United States, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said the president was confronting corruption “head on” and was setting the example that would directly help root out corruption in other sectors of the government.
“The new president of the country who is just taking office has made it the central plan of his administration to fight corruption to root it out, and he sets about restructuring some of the key agencies where things are happening, setting example,” the former minister said at the 2015 Holts Lecture of the Pennsylvania University Law School.
“I think with that when you see example in one place, it sends the message about what should happen in other places. I think this is being confronted head on. And I think and hope that with what is going on and what we tried to do in the previous administration, bringing more transparency to way of doing business.
Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said with “the example being set by the president” she was hopeful Nigeria will get rid of corruption. The former minister discussed Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, and how illicit financial flow could impede the post 2015 development agenda, especially in developing countries like Nigeria.
Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said although funds needed for SDGs are huge, blocking illicit financial flow could help free up the needed funds.
Eighty per cent of the SDGs are infrastructural goals which require $6 trillion in funding for the next 15 years, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said.
She said current global funding for infrastructures stood at $1.7 trillion, and 60 per cent of the SDGs and their funding are to be borne by developing countries – justifying why corruption must be confronted.
Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said as minister, she made efforts to improve transparency and fight corruption in the government, but regretted allegations of corruption directed at her after leaving office.
She also hinted that her decision to join the Goodluck Jonathan government — after serving in the Obasanjo government – may have been mistaken.
“When the opportunity came to go for it for the second time, I went, perhaps unwisely, but I went because no one will fight this corruption for us, we have to do it ourselves….,” she said. “But having left government, I have come under attack with people saying she’s done this or that, trying to join you in the group of the corrupt.”
Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala commented on Mr. Buhari assigning the petroleum ministry to himself.
“I think the president has the prerogative to do a lot of things, and this is not the first time in our country. President Obasanjo was also the president of Petroleum Resources in his time. I am not saying this is the best way or best practice but I am just saying for our circumstances it is not the first time,” she said.
“If that will bring more clarity, more openness, more transparency to the way the oil sector is done no problem, it’s ok. But if it will not, we have to ask questions.”
She lamented the failure of the Nigerian National Assembly to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, a failure she blamed on vested interests.
“This bill has the power to transform the entire petroleum industry where there is a lot of corruption,” she said. “And with that we would have commercialized the oil company (NNPC), made it open up its books but the heavy lobbying by both the domestic vested interests and the international vested interests blocked this.”
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Hehehehehehehhe. Time of reckoning shall soon come. In fact, it is here. The guilty are afraid. Rightly so, I must add. They must be. Very afraid. Blessed be thy name of PMB.Abba
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Wayo Naija! If this woman displays the normal Naija behavior and makes statements that undermines the current government, she will be called names like "wailer", "sore loser" and so on. Thankfully, she's not that kind of an uncouth person. She is a refined professional who knew how to deflect the question lobbed at her to disparage PMB.Now she is characterized as being afraid. Of what, one may ask.Why would she be afraid or ashamed or apologetic of doing a fine job and moving on to a higher plain?Naijaaaa! Dis una narrow partisan politics, na wa o!C. Ukachukwu"More relevant however is that I have always found it despicable conduct when an elected individual diverts the resources of the people over whom he presides to carving out for himself a sinecure. Self-service should not be read in the vocabulary of anyone fortunate enough to be called to serve his or her people."-- Professor Wole Soyinka
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Be careful not to summit to heart attack oooooh. Watch the video, if you can access it, the context and the discussion your exhilaration will tamed. Okonjo-Iweala has always fought corruption and impunity, but being that most of you have been swept along by the momentum of change, the good and the ugly have become tagged with one brush. Time will tell the sterling efforts of this woman to restructure the economy. No one remembers today how she was hounded for refusing to dish out monies to many that have today become the high priests of change and anti-corruption.
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Hehehehehehehhe. Time of reckoning shall soon come. In fact, it is here. The guilty are afraid. Rightly so, I must add. They must be. Very afraid. Blessed be thy name of PMB.
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