majekdom2:
its actually an embarrassment because okupe needs not to bring this issue again, its a bad campaign strategy..... It's always hard trying to correct one's known flaws .... Remi oyo who served during objs tenure was a different personality as compared to this man who claims he was born with a silver spoon but can't speak fluently even on media. He should learn to be professional .

Solowande:
U call those bull dogs dat bark but can't bite progressive? how old is Buhari?

tuborme:
get your dictionary....the president is a university don....he makes deep statements not suitable for motorpark politicians.

1Nairaboy:
Stealing is Corruption but Corruption is not Stealing so then what is Corruption? Corruption is the act of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle, the state of being corrupted or debased, loss of purity or integrity, depravity, wickedness, impurity, bribery. If somebody stole ur item, wld u go to the police nd report to them ur item has been corrupted, or u'll rather say ur item/car has been stolen.. pls don't be silly both re nt completely same

Amacaco:
Ask any lawyer and he will tell you there is a difference between corruption and stealing. Charge a man for stealing instead of corruption and you are bound to fail. In the same vein if you charge a thief with corruption, you are bound to lose the case. Corruption is corruption in law and stealing is stealing in law. You cannot use one for the other. Jonathan was being strictly legalistic which I believe was wrong for a politician of his status.

sabdaz:
Let the APC relax on their campaigne. I feel PDP is doing enough for both parties and as it stands, they favour APC than their party.
Too much of everything is bad. Okupe and AbATI talk to much........

mikeansy:


So eventhough in terms of technicalities of English language "Stealing is not corruption" may be wrong. I understand the sentiments behind the argument. There is some truth in it.
What goes on in public offices in Nigeria is stealing but in most developed countries you have corruption in public offices!

1stCitizen:
Doyin Okupe just embarrassed President Jonathan by asking "Stealing and corruption, is there a difference?" See original tweet and responses from Nigerians below

fyneguy:
This is what they call ''Eedi'' in Yoruba. How could aides of the President keep goofing everyday?

holatin:
And the most silly comment of the year goes to ajinatu

eoadeniji:
infact his comment is sillier than silly

barcanista:
Omenka come and see Doyin Okupe at work again...

"Stealing is not Corruption"

wiseguy:


Corruption is like a common name to many acts that are morally wrong. Simply put stealing is an act of corruption. Any thief is simply corrupt. The word corrupt simply means that something or somebody has a behaviour outside the norm. It is not normal to steal. So the persons behaviour or mannerism has been corrupted and the person can even be said to be morally corrupt. So whether you stole money, goods, use your position to get favors, etc. All are forms of corruption.

Dbboy:
Let make this clear can you define stealing explicitly as corruption or the other way round is corruption stealing?

We argue without making any meaning of what we are arguing about.

majekdom2:
how old is john Kerry ... Not supporting Buhari , but this should not be an issue on who to become president.

mikeansy:
In the real sense of the word "some" forms of stealing can qualify as corruption. Some cant.

E.g. A public officer diverting public funds to private accounts qualify as both stealing and corruption

A public officer using his office to ease the process of getting his relative employed qualifies as corruption but that's not necessarily stealing

But an armed robber waiting for vehicles with guns and robbing people is pure stealing but that is not corruption.

The essence of the word corrupt or corruption assumes some level of responsibility and dignity that is being tarnished or adulterated due to some malpractices. Nobody looks up to a thief with some dignity or expect them to operate on a higher moral pedestal that is why it is out of place to describe a thief with the word corrupt.

Hence those who try to distinguish between the word stealing and corruption are not in anyway trivialising corruption. If anything they are emphasizing the enormity of what is going on in public offices in Nigeria when they try to draw a distinction between stealing and corruption. They are arguing that the seriousness of siphoning public funds into private accounts gets downplayed with the word corruption when in truth what is happening is outright stealing.

In 2006 Nuhu Ribadu made a similar argument about Sani Yerima of Zamfara State while accusing Governors of Corruption. In the case of Zamfara he emphasized that what is going on there is outright stealing without the involvement of any 3rd parties because in his words Sani Yerima was simply diverting State funds directly from State Accounts to private accounts. He is not even disguising it by setting up contactors with fronts like you currently have in Lagos where Tinubu's proxy companies do all sorts of work for the Lagos State Government and inflating cost without being subject to competition.

So eventhough in terms of technicalities of English language "Stealing is not corruption" may be wrong. I understand the sentiments behind the argument. There is some truth in it.
What goes on in public offices in Nigeria is stealing but in most developed countries you have corruption in public offices!