President Goodluck Jonathan on
Thursday said his administration’s
strategy against corruption was to
strengthen the capability of institutions
to nip the menace in the bud.
He said his idea of anti-corruption war
was not about arresting suspects and
parading them on the television.
Jonathan spoke during a special New
Year service at the Dunamis
International Gospel Centre, Area 1,
Garki, Abuja.
He admitted that the two main problems
currently confronting the country were
insecurity and corruption.
The President said his administration
was making efforts to tackle the
challenges.
He said, “There are two main problems
confronting us as a nation: The issue of
insecurity in the North where we have
the Boko Haram terrorists and in the
South where we have commercial
kidnapping. The next thing that people
worry about after security is the issue of
corruption.
“We are coming out with programmes
and plans to clean up. These are things
that you don’t just use a magical wand to
wave off, otherwise even before I
became the President, there wouldn’t
have been corruption in Nigeria.
“It is not just about shouting corruption.
It is not about looking at one person,
arrest the person and show him on
television.
“It is about strengthening institutions
and coming up with credible plans to
make sure that anybody who gets
involved with corruption, the system
must have a way of detecting him and
punishing him.
“Until you put such a system on ground,
you cannot talk about eradicating
corruption, you will just be celebrating
corruption.”
On security challenges, Jonathan said
the Federal Government was working
hard to restore peace to the country.
He noted that the festive period had
been relatively peaceful due to prayers
and government’s efforts.
The President said, “You would have
noticed that from Christmas to New Year,
at least, it has been calm. It did not
happen by accident.
“It happened because you have been
praying for this country and the
government has also been doing
something. We do not need to announce
what we are doing.
“With your prayers, we will surely get
there. We will continue to come up with
programmes that will help the ordinary
people.
“The same way we won the war against
Ebola, we shall win the terror war.”
Again, Jonathan described 2015 as a
turning point in the history of the
country because of the forthcoming
general elections.
He said, “2015 is a turning point because
of the elections. Some people will not
mind if half of the country get burnt
because of their ambition.
“I always say that we must have a
country first, we must have a people first
before talking about ambition.
“We must pray that God should give us
the wisdom to do things with some
decorum and we should not compromise
the lives of the people for ambition.
“I always say that my ambition and the
ambition of any politician for that
matter, is not worth the blood of the
smallest Nigerian.”
Jonathan argued that no nation could
move forward without proper vision.
According to the President, before now
the country had, at different times, been
administered based on 25-year and five-
year plans before the annual budget
system was adopted.
He said after sometime, things collapsed
and the government was being run on
emergency basis.
The President said the old days when the
government was run with vision would
be revisited.
“For you to achieve anything, you must
have a clear vision. Even if you look at
what we have been doing as a nation,
you will really see that before this time
when the country used to have this 25
years plan, the budget was based on 25
years clear plan for the country. So you
know where you are going for 25 years.
“Then it was broken down into five years
plan and annual budget and we knew
where we were going.
“But after some time, things collapsed
and we run government on emergency
basis and you see government start
wobbling.
“We are going back to those good days
when we had vision. We have plan for
agriculture, we have plan for industry,
we have plan for automobile and many
other areas.
“If you have a vision, any proposal that
comes in, no matter how good they are,
must fall into your vision for it to go
through. With your prayers, surely as a
nation, we will get to where our vision
will take us to.
“Having passed through school and
being in government for quite some
time, I have realised that for you to
achieve anything, you must have a clear
vision.
“If you have a clear vision, even if you
don’t get the exact target, you will get
something close to the target,” he added.
The church’s Senior Pastor, Dr. Paul
Enenche, had in his sermon titled, “The
life of vision,” pointed out to the
congregation that how they began the
New Year would determine how they
would end it.
While saying that the quality of a
foundation would determine the
integrity of a building, Enenche said the
quality of the year would be determined
by the foundation laid by individuals.
He stated that a clear definition of a
destination was a major requirement for
a successful journey.
“If you don’t know where you are going,
you may not like where you will end up.
Vision is a clear picture of a preferred
future. To live by chance is to end by
chance,” the clergyman declared.
The pastor, however, said it was
important for the people to follow the
right principle if they must get the right
result.
“God is not a respecter of persons. Either
you know Him or not, if you follow the
right principle, you will get the right
result.
“Pastors go on holiday in Dubai without
considering religion in as much as they
get excellence. Nobody cares about your
religion, sex or ethnic group, once you do
it well,” Enenche said.
Jonathan was accompanied to the
service, held under tight security, by his
mother, Eunice; his children and top
government officials.
The special service featured special
prayers for the country, testimonies and
special choir rendition among others.


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Olodo!!! By this time?

An not a Gej fanatic. but if you are a fair analsyt of Gej govt you will understand Gej is not following the badwagon by weeding of curruption using anti graft agencies which the past govt has been doing, invariably this has not been able to eliminate curruption.
Rather he is deracinating it directly from its root source. This is the more reason why we should support privatization, it is the key to elimination of curruption to minimal.

Aderupoko2:
Olodo!!! By this time?

Fool, its better late than never.

Aderupoko2:
Olodo!!! By this time?

That's Mr. President you just addressed. Who is your father? Who are you?

How will you feel if someone addressed your father like that?

How old are you?

Where have you been to?

What have you got?

What part of the country have you been to?

Have you ever traveled out of Nigeria/Africa?

Front page things................





Shoki ah Shoki ........2015 is going to be great for sure

emmyrichie:


That's Mr. President you just addressed. Who is your father? Who are you?

How will you feel if someone addressed your father like that?

How old are you?

Where have you been to?

What have you got?

What part of the country have you been to?

Have you ever traveled out of Nigeria/Africa?

Black man's definition of leadership

Chaiiiiii

Jonathan,you cannot fight corruption because the two of you are life partner.In shame,in disgrace you shall be together

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emmyrichie:


That's Mr. President you just addressed. Who is your father? Who are you?

How will you feel if someone addressed your father like that?

How old are you?

Where have you been to?

What have you got?

What part of the country have you been to?

Have you ever traveled out of Nigeria/Africa?

Some people lack RESPECT

Mr president, the best way to tackle corruption is to arrest them and parade them on television for people to see and others to learn after which you seize all thre properties and put them in jail for a long donkey years.
But unfortunately, your adminitration is not ready to do such because you dont want to step on toes.
See how corruption is glorified in your administration, even you are very corrupt because the last time i checked, you have refused to declare you assets up till date.

Lies.. Since 2011, he is still coming up with a plan.... Olodo..

ARKdiscloser7:


Fool, its better late than never.

In the gathering of FOOLs,you are the chairman.

So he even acknowledges corruption is a problem.
Gej's body language,speech and people he surrounds himself with,however,tells of a president who till kingdom come,will not fight corruption.

ok

doctokwus:
So he even acknowledges corruption is a problem.
Gej's body language,speech and people he surrounds himself with,however,tells of a president who till kingdom come,will not fight corruption.

One thing we fail to remember is fighting corruption is not a one man thing, arresting and parading them on tv would not really stop anything...

The best way to stop corruption is to tackle it from the root, which is changing the orientation of "na my own season to eat national cake" syndrome...

ibrahym47:
Black man's definition of leadership

What a life you've got. You mean white man's mentality is better than ours?

By the way, what has this got to do with racial belief, perception or way of thinking?

Ignorance is really a disease. Smh.

I think it is embarrassing that the president is in the PROCESS of setting up a PLAN (I capitalised those words on purpose) for fighting corruption. This obviously means a lot. First, there is no plan and the Jonathan-led administration had never considered having an anti-corruption plan for 6 years in office. Second, the plan is still a working process and I believe it is yet to be drafted out before even being implemented.

The president's confession has addressed our allegations of him neither having the impetus nor the will to fight corruption. This attitude of the president has translated to the huge corrupt cases (yet to be investigated or trial) emanating from his administration. If the president is considering strengthen institutions, he is yet to mention which institution he intends to strengthen. If the president, by his approach, intends to shy away from arresting and parading corrupt persons on national television then I wonder what anti-corruption plan, which is still under consideration, he wants to implement. However, if the president intends to put in effective controls to ensure that it becomes very difficult to steal money, then that is a welcome idea.

Notwithstanding, the president MUST know that apart from preventing corruption from happening, a good deterrent plan (which includes arresting and shaming corrupt officials) is necessary to reduce corruption in the country. On a final note, I wonder what plan the president is coming up with that includes strengthen institutions and excludes arresting corrupt persons and how effective that plan will fight against corruption.

GEJ has never been the problem but Nigerians because of our unstable way of reasonings and innate habit of making money through the shortest route.