omenka: I think this is a well orchestrated plan by Tinubu to embarrass GEJ!! Just thesame way he travelled to the US to connive with that judge to deny Baruji Kashamu justice over those trumped up drugs charges!!

mrofficial: Good! Seize the money and use it to develop your country like you have been doing. The money was to be used for corrupt practices, thank God they didn't succeed.

waternogetenemy: South Africa is just asking for Trouble! Wat is $9.3million dollars to South African Investment in Nigeria? lmao!


We will surely sieze more than 9.3million dollars in capital!

Punkinmusty: somtin is wrong with ur brain

NosaHenry: SA think that by stealing our money they will pass us as the no1 economy in Africa? No way. What further explanation do they want when the Nig govt already told them that the transaction was authorised by it. SA has been hating Nigeria since 1914

waternogetenemy:

Shut up! foolish fellow! people like u go around giving Nigeria a very bad name. Is South Africa not even more corrupt? Ode!

philips70:


Have you heard the words CAMRY BIG FOR NOTHING before? Keep deluding yourself with big economy whilst majority sleep in darkness with no food, access to clean water, decent schools and malaria treating hospitals. Meanwhile 99% of those in government own the best houses, cars, send their wards abroad for school and fly private jets. No1 economy indeed.

Well, coupled with the fact that an untamed pastor in Nigeria just killed almost a hundred of their citizens this could pass for somewhat of a compensation.

gift01: After una don waste nearly 100 SouthAfricans, una wan collect una money. Who send una message. Oya Na swap deal: Nigeria- #bringbackourpeople vs SouthAfrica- #bringbackourmoney

omenka: I think this is a well orchestrated plan by Tinubu to embarrass GEJ!! Just thesame way he travelled to the US to connive with that judge to deny Baruji Kashamu justice over those trumped up drugs charges!!

shegsky: A foreign affairs source
noted that the Zuma
administration had become
particularly hostile since it
emerged that Nigeria’s
economy might be doing
better than South Africa’s,
which had reportedly put his
administration under
pressure from local activists
who have continually
harassed him for alleged
corrupt practices.
The latest move is being
read in diplomatic circle as
Zuma fighting his own battles
against Nigeria, alongside
with his friend’s.
Saturday Tribune learnt that
Nigeria might in days ahead
resort to the same tactic it
employed during the yellow
fever clearance card which
saw the two countries in
retaliatory passenger-
deporting saga, until South
Africa bowed and apologised
to Nigeria, though it was first
to deport Nigerians over the
controversial card.

ayukdaboss: I'm not surprised one bit....As the Giants of Africa every country would want to run us down whether there's evidence or not. Even Ghana tries running us down at the slightest opportunity.

But this is a totally different case as the Otuoke Master and his cabal have finally displayed their brains full of dirt once more to the whole world just when the #BringBackOurJonathan sack of poo was almost getting forgotten.

The Federal Government should be really ashamed of this show of shame.

AdekunleBalogun:

Ur Mumu no get limit sha....

shegsky: A foreign affairs source
noted that the Zuma
administration had become
particularly hostile since it
emerged that Nigeria’s
economy might be doing
better than South Africa’s,
which had reportedly put his
administration under
pressure from local activists
who have continually
harassed him for alleged
corrupt practices.
The latest move is being
read in diplomatic circle as
Zuma fighting his own battles
against Nigeria, alongside
with his friend’s.
Saturday Tribune learnt that
Nigeria might in days ahead
resort to the same tactic it
employed during the yellow
fever clearance card which
saw the two countries in
retaliatory passenger-
deporting saga, until South
Africa bowed and apologised
to Nigeria, though it was first
to deport Nigerians over the
controversial card.

oathman: They will just seize our money just like that....when most people in Nigeria is complaining about the level of poverty yet we have $9.3billion being seize in south africa...i hate this country

rhadiator15: Tahhhhh go sleep

mrofficial:

Don't mind those deluded fools. I was in South Africa recently which was my first time. Landed at O.R Tambo Intl Airport. None of the Intl. airports in Nigeria can even stand comparison with it. The citizens of Nigeria should wake up every morning and weep at the situation of this country called Nigeria.

Gombs: Well then...if they don't wanna accept our explanation, we have one choice and that is use our diplomatic strength. Cash for arms deal by most government is done, wonder why this one is blown out of proportion, I think it's because Oritsejafor is a pastor and PDP is the government.

mrofficial:

How am I giving Nigeria bad name? I'm sure you're suffering from mental disorder.

If South Africa is more corrupt, how come the country is far better than Nigeria, talk about basic amenities? How come we don't hear about them moving millions of dollar (cash) around the world? Have you been to South Africa before? If you say South Africa is more corrupt and it's still far better than Nigeria, What has Nigeria achieved with her less corrupt practices compared to South Africa with high corrupt practices as you claimed?

Corruption in South Africa
Nkandla in the wind

Why the string of corruption scandals at the top is so disquieting
Apr 12th 2014 | JOHANNESBURG | From the print edition
Timekeeper
Zuma says he’s spotless
“I AM often asked by people from India and Russia, ‘Why do you worry?’”, says David Lewis, head of Corruption Watch, a privately funded watchdog based in Johannesburg. Why indeed? South Africa sits in the middle of international rankings of corruption. It is not Sweden but nor is it Zimbabwe. It has a free and impertinent press. Its constitution gave birth to bodies that check and balance the powers of government. And its judges back their freedoms to poke the executive in the eye.

Indeed, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has been checked-and-balanced recently rather more than usual. The public protector, a body created by the constitution, published a report last month that chastised the president, Jacob Zuma, as partly responsible for the 246m rand ($24m) lavished on his private home in Nkandla, in KwaZulu-Natal. When the Democratic Alliance, the main opposition party, sent a text message to 1.5m voters saying the president stole your money, a court upheld its right to do so; the ANC is appealing against the judgment. Another court said Zwelinzima Vavi, a vocal critic of ANC corruption, should be reinstated as boss of the biggest union federation.

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South Africa has plenty of bodies to be proud of beside its courts. Its treasury is a bastion of rectitude. The revenue service is the envy of richer countries for its ability to harvest tax. The central bank recently raised its main interest rate, despite a weak economy (and a general election next month), to show it is serious about fulfilling its main remit of controlling inflation. The country’s big banks are well regulated and conservative. Its biggest firms are respected multinationals. As long as such institutions stay strong, reckons Mr Lewis, South Africa will not be prey to the sort of endemic corruption seen in Russia, China or India.

Yet there is plenty still to fret about. Start with the Nkandla scandal. Mr Zuma did not quite thumb his nose at the public protector but he came mightily close. Her report recommended that Mr Zuma apologise, pay for some of the refurbishments to his home and report to parliament within two weeks. When the deadline day arrived he airily sent a three-page letter to Parliament’s Speaker, declaring that the report’s findings were at odds with a cabinet investigation, which cleared him of wrongdoing. And he said he would await a third report before giving a further response.

The stalling is not surprising with elections due on May 7th. But the scandal is corrosive not just because of the sums involved but because of the damage it does to South Africa’s institutions. It sullies the presidency as well as the president. And it does broader harm. People feel freer to be corrupt if they sense that people at the top are getting away with it, says Mr Lewis. His biggest worry is the weakness of the police and prosecutorial services. If corruption goes unpunished, it will spread. Most South Africans reckon that corruption at all levels is growing apace, especially in contracts for public works, where lines to the ANC seem increasingly necessary.

And it is hard to avoid an impression that the politically connected are somehow immune to prosecution. The main prosecuting authority is appealing against a court judgment that compels it to indict a former head of the police’s criminal intelligence for fraud, corruption and murder. Meanwhile an investigation led by a senior judge into misdeeds surrounding a big arms deal in 1999 seems to be going nowhere. Mr Zuma’s financial adviser was convicted in 2005 for soliciting a bribe on his behalf from a French arms company. Related charges against Mr Zuma were dropped on the eve of his election as president in 2009. The reasons for that are still far from clear.