BlackBaron:
Stealing and corruption can be used interchangeably within the right context.

Corruption can have different instances; stealing from the poor(salaries, money for hospitals, roads e.g), skimming, gain unfair advantage, fraud, bribery et al.

This government needs to put a leash on this guy because he is fighting a losing corner the more he utters words.

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.

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.

Alexk2:
this is a shame....God will rescue this country from the hand of selfish, greedy and corrupt set of people....be it in pdp or apc.

AJINATU:
N1GERIA MUST DIVIDE IN JESUS NAME

LONG LIVE BIAFRA

akinyeleaa:
Lmao, and some blockheads will still tell me GEJ till ..... Is the devil playing wif ur destiny?

AJINATU:
N1GERIA MUST DIVIDE IN JESUS NAME

LONG LIVE BIAFRA

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

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.

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.

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.

AJINATU:
N1GERIA MUST DIVIDE IN JESUS NAME

LONG LIVE BIAFRA

Yeske2:
I think Okupe and Abati are covertly campaigning for the progressives with their utterances these days. They both are pushing more people into the APC fold. Good job if you ask me

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.pls stop being silly , theft goes with decadences in moral , sign of corruption. It is an example or type.... Why would one in the first instance say stealing which is crime isn't corruption..

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!

ziccoit:


If you understood how God love unity and strongly discourage divisiveness you would not invoke His name in your evil prayer.

Btw, what are you people being thought in the church nowadays?

omenka:
The most painful part of this is that Jonathan can't risk sacking any of them now no matter the magnitude of their goof. Doyin did it with the Jesus comparism, and now this. Abati did it by showcasing Kwankwaso's achievements as his principal's and bringing up the wikileaks's stuff, the backlash of which the presidency is suffering now. Have forgotten Reno's contribution. Sack any of them now and it will be all too clear the presidency is in disarray and the opposition is sure to make the most of it politically.

Frankly, sometimes I feel some pity for the President.

Ps: where is my brother Firefire?? Would like to hear his opinion about this. Lol.

AJINATU:
B1AFRA REPUBLIC SHALL BE ACCOMPLISHED IN JESUS NAME