It also quoted a former Nigerian government minister as
saying that “Nigeria, is a country where you can disappear
an elephant into the pocket of a shirt.”

The minister claimed that his civil servants offered him a
20 per cent slice off his department’s multi-billion
dollar budget, assuring him they could bury their tracks.

Their expectation, he said, was that they too would be
rewarded with a generous tranche of the loot.

The senior politician, who cannot be named for his own
safety, alleged that he had been approached shortly after
his appointment to cabinet, while staying in a hotel on a
high-profile foreign trip.

He told Channel 4 News that he refused the offer, telling
his civil servants that he wouldn’t be able to sleep at
night.

“The scale of corruption by this country’s political
elite is breaking people,” he said. “Some see it as the
dispensing of patronage, so they can survive. But let’s
say it straight. It is theft. Theft with a sense of
entitlement.”

Jonathan Miller of Channel 4 News said that a couple of days
later, “I was interviewing Nigeria’s flamboyant finance
minister. Inevitably, before long, our conversation homed in
on the C-word. “Your country has become a byword for
corruption,” I said.

“I reject this completely!” Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, shouted
indignantly at me across the six-foot gap between our two
armchairs in her ministerial office, s

GEJ till he's done wif transforming dis great nation(2019)