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History Of Corruption In Nigeria by AbdulAdam56(m): 11:42pm On Aug 10, 2016
(1) 1960-1966: Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa- no public funds stolen.
(2) 1966 Major Gen. Aguyi Ironsi- no public funds stolen.
(3) 1966-1975: Gen. Yakubu Gowon- little stealing of public funds began gradually.
(4) 1975-1976: Gen. Murtala Muhammad- zero tolerance for corruption and indiscipline.
(5) 1976-1979: Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo- Military egg heads started owning huge property, oil blocs running into millions of dollars.
(6) 1979-1983: Alhaji Shehu Shagari- looting galore by ministers party functionaries and other government big wigs.
(7) 1984-1985: Major Gen. muhammadu Buhari- zero tolerance for corruption and indiscipline. Some corrupt politicians bagged 200yrs jail terms.
(cool 1985-1993: Gen Ibrahim Babangida- freed all jailed politicians; liberalized the architecture. In one fell swoop about $12billion varnished.
(9) 1993-1998: Gen. sani Abacha- over $25billion looted in 4 turbulent years.
(10) 1998- 1999: Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar- about $2b looted in 11 months.
(11) 1999- 2007: Chief Olusegun Obasanjo- His bank account said to have grown from #20,000 after leaving prison to multi-billion dollars with choice properties across major cities. $16b allegedly meant for electric power projects vanished. Another # 300b ($2b) for roads disappeared.
(12) 2007-2010: Alhaji Umar Yar'Adua- reserved and I'll. Looted funds have not been traced to his regime.
(13) 2011-2015: Dr. Goodluck Ebelle Jonathan- in 2011 elections about #2.6trillion disappeared. Over $31b stolen in 2yrs. Another $2.6b was stolen in 2015 elections. More relevations on stolen public funds during his tenure are still emerging.

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Re: History Of Corruption In Nigeria by HungerBAD: 11:44pm On Aug 10, 2016
Jesus.

All the other leaders are learners,where Goodluck Jonathan is concerned.

The guy puts the T in the word Thief.

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Re: History Of Corruption In Nigeria by madridguy(m): 11:45pm On Aug 10, 2016
Chai.
Re: History Of Corruption In Nigeria by SamuelAnyawu(m): 11:50pm On Aug 10, 2016
Mtscheeeeeew cool cool

Northern Military Men Killed this country with corruption IBB,Dasuki,TY Danjuma, Abacha, Abdusalam
Re: History Of Corruption In Nigeria by demarc001: 11:51pm On Aug 10, 2016
Have you Bleamed GEJ today?
Re: History Of Corruption In Nigeria by axishale(m): 12:49am On Aug 11, 2016
demarc001:
Have you Bleamed GEJ today?
undecided undecided
Re: History Of Corruption In Nigeria by tomakint: 1:45am On Aug 11, 2016
@ Op this is not too smart of you perhaps you think some of us here are kids and learners. Go back to your library and dust out your history books and confirm the mess Tafawa Balewa with his Master Ahmadu Bello and their cronies like Chief S L Akintola, Chief Felix Okotieboh etc misappropriated from the national treasury then you will know Jonathan is a learner. Imagine you quoting trillions against Jonathan and yet people are still buying houses, cars, building big houses across the Nation, children are being sent to expensive schools, people are still buying foods despite the astronomical rise in prices of foods and all that.

I ask you, what do you take Trillions of Naira for? Worthless papers? Stop pulling figures out of the air against Jonathan as if Nigeria started nose-diving economically under him. Nigeria's woes started with Tafawa Balewa (gross tribalism and corruption); was triggered by Murtala (emergence of ghost workers in the civil service as a result of unplanned sack of mostly southern civil servants about 10,000 in number and massive waste of the young nation's oil monies on white elephant project like the unnecessary citing of FCT in Abuja when Lagos was still undergoing development); our problem was further compounded when Obj scripted the 1979 Constitution which birthed the unfortunate 1999 miserable, corruption driven Constitution we are currently using and above all gave us the wasteful Presidential System of government. Ask your Pastor or Imam, they will educate you that if the "Foundation be destroyed, what can the righteous do?" Thank me later!

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Re: History Of Corruption In Nigeria by chriskosherbal(m): 2:09am On Aug 11, 2016
This country, imagine if all this cash has been used to develop the economy all this while , hmmmm

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