Venchy:

My dear, let's Nigerians express their views, all this are due and let's appreciate NAIRALAND and hopefully there will be a stronger Medium to expose our criminal Leader.

It's a criminal thing to give a wrong information about the issues of Corruption in Nigeria on international TV, same as Mr President gave a wrong information about Electricity on international.

nnenna.1:
I have issues with a few of her comments, yes.

But for the life of me I cannot believe that this one is singled out for dispute.

She should have said that the average Nigerian is lazy and dishonest?

Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala talks to Christiane Amanpour on CNN last night during an interview, when asked about hw corruption has eaten us deep in Nigeria, she responded emphatically that, Nigeria has about 170 million population and 99.9% of the population are corruption free and they are just hardworking pple who go about their businesses everyday to earn a living and that they just need a trusted govt to manage their resources, thats all.

Billyonaire: And if NOI is right, why do we allow these stupid Americans to give 99.9% of us a bad name cos of 0.1% of 170m people.

Use your heads my countrymen, The Americans are here to destroy our reputation and are not encouraging us in anyway.

I still prefer Owerri to New York.

Orikinla: Of course 99.99% of Nigerians are honest liars, honest cheats, honest fraudsters, honest armed robbers, honest kidnappers, honest terrorists, honest kleptomaniacs in public office, honest greedy landlords and land ladies, honest profiteers, honest rumour mongers, honest hypocritical finance minister, honest incompetent cabinet, etc.

Orikinla: Of course 99.99% of Nigerians are honest liars, honest cheats, honest fraudsters, honest armed robbers, honest kidnappers, honest terrorists, honest kleptomaniacs in public office, honest greedy landlords and land ladies, honest profiteers, honest rumour mongers, honest hypocritical finance minister, honest incompetent cabinet, etc.

Orikinla: Of course 99.99% of Nigerians are honest liars, honest cheats, honest fraudsters, honest armed robbers, honest kidnappers, honest terrorists, honest kleptomaniacs in public office, honest greedy landlords and land ladies, honest profiteers, honest rumour mongers, honest hypocritical finance minister, honest incompetent cabinet, etc.

Venchy:

Thank you for saying the truth and the truth shall set you free.

My ears have heard so much in my office, everytime Nigeria that Nigeria that, habaaaa ain't we are shame and this woman went on TV to make Mockery of herself and the entire Nigerians as if we haven't heard enough. ....The country that was voted as the BEST CORRUPT COUNTRY OF THE CENTURY.

playmode:

You need to stop deluding yourself. NOI just made Nigeria look like a nation of clowns.I watched the interview with a bunch of friends who were not Nigerians and their opinion at the end of the interview is that the woman is a con artist.

She just looked like a thief trying to protect other thieves.I swear i thought i was watching a market woman speak.If that is the NOI that Nigerians are bragging about then i am sorry but our standards are very low.You should listen to the former Minister of Finance for South Africa Mr Trevor Manuel. Search for any of his interviews on youtube and compare.Maybe then you will understand how screwed we are to have this corrupt over hyped "economics" fraud as our finance minister.

ndobobo: Buncha Illiterates! She never said that 99.9 percent of Nigerians are corrupt free, rather she said "99.9 percent of Nigerians are honest, hard-working citizens". Hopeless people didn't even bother to read the full text of her response before posting nonsense here. PRODUCTS OF A FAILED EDUCATION SYSTEM!
Mr Literate,are you saying that there is no correlation, btw dishonesty and corruption, a dishonest person is morally corrupt pure and simple and is bound to do anything to have his or her way, or are u telling me that u can be corrupt and still claim u r honest at the same time. And you actually believed d that 99.9% of Nigerians are Honest.....Hmmmmm Funny.

There is a huge problem with corruption in your country. The president promised to address this stuff. And the latest is that an ally of his, a former governor who was convicted of stealing millions of dollars, has been pardoned, embezzling $55 million in public funds.

Now, the U.S. calls that a setback for the fight against corruption.

I mean how do you answer that?

OKONJO-IWEALA: How do I answer that question?

OK, listen to what I have to say on corruption. And I think I have quite a bit to say. I wrote a book recently where I also had a whole chapter on that issue called, "Reforming the Unreformable."

Nigeria does have a problem with corruption. And so do many other countries, including developed countries. I don't like the fact that when people mention the name Nigeria, the next thing they say is corruption.

This is a country of 170 million people; 99.9 percent of them are honest, hard-working citizens who just want to get on with their lives and they want a government that delivers for them.

Seum: For those that did not listen to the interview, please read the transcriptor watch the vide before you comment like Idiotas.
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alexchiny:

Answer a simple question this mad dog. bloody illiterate. How many POLITICIANS do we have in leadership positions? olodo rabata!!!

profstar:
at last i've found somebody saying the very thing i always say from A to Z, i wish you were running for election as president, i will vote for you a million times, this are the very words i've waited to hear on this topic since morning. nigeria still have a future as long as there are still people like you.

alexchiny: Buncha Illiterates! She never said that 99.9 percent of Nigerians are corrupt free, rather she said "99.9 percent of Nigerians are honest, hard-working citizens". Hopeless people didn't even bother to read the full text of her response before posting nonsense here. PRODUCTS OF A FAILED EDUCATION SYSTEM!

Venchy:

How can you say that average Nigerians are Lazy, even the UK government is well aware that some of their citizens are lazy and doesnt wants to work but receive benefit, still they never use the word LAZY,

How can you justify that word?

What she could've said is 99.9% of the people in Government are Totally corrupt including her because she's just covered up for her OGA AT THE TOP.

Marotzke: please 0.1% of 170million is what? How many dishonest people do you actually need to tar everybody with ignominy. Mind you. She never said 99.9% are sinfree. She said honest and hardworking. All of you who wish ill for your country will certainly have your prayers answered personaly.

philips70:

Is it not rather you and others defending this woman's statements that are a product of failed educational system? Have you ever bothered to check the dictionary meaning of HONESTY? Believe it or not 99.9% of Nigerians are not honest not just the politicians. DISHONESTY=CORRUPTION in case you don't know.

toluene12: okonjo didn't address the questions she was asked including the one on corruption, rather she kept comparing Nigeria to other countries. I would have preferred her talking about how we should address our problem rather than taking solace in mexico, india, and south africa.
Its funny how our leaders are quick to remind us of economic struggles in other countries but keeps quiet about these countries giant strides in global economy. just imagine, Iweala even compared our infrastructural development with that of china. I guess amanpour was pissed off, the probable reason she ended the interview unexpectedly.
Get rid of corruption and fix the problem, that's what you are called to do and stop giving excuses.

Chima_Adeoye: It's true.
99.9 percent of Nigerians are honest hardworking people.
If Nigeria is 170 million people, 0.1 percent of that number who are 419 people will be 170,000 people!
I don't believe their are up to 170,000 Nigerians in 419 business.

profstar:
So you even have am office in this CENTURY MUST CORRUPT COUNTRY?, WHY NOT EXILE YOURSELF

There are many branches or dimensions of corruption in Nigeria, which need stringent measures in practice for
effective prevention and control. (1998) highlights some of them to include: abuse of power; ill-treatment of subordinates and indecent treatment of people’s needs; self-award of contract; malicious withdrawal or
‘carpeting’ of personnel files; unnecessary delay of actions on certain demands; fraudulent distortion of facts and figures; nepotism; embezzlement and other financial misappropriation; ghost worker systems; 10% syndrome; transfer of public funds to private accounts; over-invoicing; over-pricing of contracts; and arson, usually to cover-up corrupt practices.

The above 14 dimensions of corruption in Nigeria are not exhaustive. Corrupt practices could, however, be narrowed down to two main types: vertical and horizontal. According to (2003), vertical corruption, which involves managers and decision makers, is more common in less developed countries. Horizontal corruption,in contrast, involves all the official, informed and laymen groups in the countries. The two types of corruption should be seriously addressed and eradicated if any meaningful economic or political progress is to be made. Governments’ commitment towards the eradication of corruption has been a matter of serious concern in developing countries, like Nigeria.