cre8tivity:

what are you talking about?

texazzpete:

Sign petitions calling for the recall of corrupt politicians. Forget about the ongoing quarrel with saharareporters and support and encourage keyamo to continue his case against the House exco for the car purchase scam. He still remains the most high profile voice fighting on right now. Excommunicate the Yahoo boys around you, work to ensure people around you do the right thing.

All these will serve to improve Nigeria.

B.O.S.S.:

My friend, why this attack?

Who says your method is the only tried and trusted means? Why do we Nigerians have to go your way? Keyamo is not a saint neither is Ribadu so why rubbish one and not the other. This is a democracy and that's why we all have our opinions on whom we think is corrupt and not corrupt. We can not all go to bed facing your side I'm afraid.

texazzpete:

I prefer to see this as Nigerians fighting corruption. If Keyamo is currently battling his way to exposing the fraud in the National Assembly, then let him be that weapon. However, i will not invest in him my complete trust like you guys seem to be doing with Ribadu.

texazzpete:

it's not about my method. All the things i wrote were examples of things Nigerians can do. The summary of my piece is simply that Nigerians should join in the fight against corruption at all levels.

texazzpete:

i'm curious, though. Please explain to me how saying the truth serves to 'rubbish' Ribadu. Take a step back from listing his achievements and decide how much corruption in Nigeria had actually reduced.

B.O.S.S.:


It's cool if you feel Keyamo deserves your support as the man to abate corruption in Nigeria, that's fine. In actual fact nobody should crucify you for that however these guys pledging their support feel, about Ribadu, the same way you feel about Keyamo.
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B.O.S.S.:

On a personal opinion, neither Ribadu nor Waziri have pleased the Nigerian populace when it comes to fulfilling our dreams of seeing the back of corruption and to an extent I cannot blindly support Keyamo seeing the hard core evidene provided by Sahara Reporters when it comes to allegations against our politicians. I thought I could trust an activist, but seeing the ever vocal Reuben Abati yet to respond to the allegations of receiving land plots in Abuja as a bribe from the same people he's criticising, my brain has woken and now I have to think twice before thinking of trusting any Nigerian activist,politician or whoever, not even Ribadu.

The saying, once beaten twice shy, comes to mind.

texazzpete:

I never said he was the one to abate corruption in Nigeria. All i'm saying is, right now he seems to be fighting the good fight. Let him keep that up while we all take our positions for the battle against corruption.

1. Most of the evidence provided by Sowore are circumstantial at best and will not make for a compelling case. I for one am not eager for us to throw away our chances of nailing these corrupt bastards by getting it wrong the first time.

texazzpete:

Reuben Abati was alllocated land in Abuja, land he applied for. Sowore provided zero evidence that the land was meant as a bribe to Abati.

texazzpete:

In a way, it's ironic. People complain that Ribadu was mistreated, yet they are quite happy to condemn Reuben Abati because of one man's sly insinuation. Sowore insinuated that Keyamo may have been settled with money and keyamo was forced to make a reply that damned him further in the eyes of Nigerians. What incentive does Reuben Abati have to respond? any response will only add fuel to the fire, and Sowore can keep throwing further dirt on the matter until all but himself are besmirched.

texazzpete:

Naturally, Nigerians have come to believe that Saharareporters can do no wrong, so Sowore is in an enviable position indeed.
The Only winner in this is Sowore himself. One sentence from him and people are already readying the tar and feathers for both Keyamo and Abati.

mikeansy:

I think at this point we should give up the fight against corruption and start by defining what really is corruption
How does a Nation fight corruption when they dont know what it means?

The defense these Ribadu supporters advance for their continued support in the face of his one-sided and corruption-laden 'war' on corruption is that "if Ribadu as EFCC Chairman was effective in harassing anti-Obasanjo elements, it should be left to his successor to continue the 'war' on pro-Obasanjo elements upon Ribadu's exit."

Simplistic as the above postulation is, the horrendous mind-boggling looting and brigandage on our national treasury embarked upon by key figures in the administration of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo while Mr. Ribadu served as EFCC boss was largely glossed over. Apparently these pro-Obasanjo elements felt (and were actually) untouchable during the said tenure, thus exposing the Nigerian State to the most obscene and scandalous era in terms of public sector corruption.

Under Ribadu's leadership, the EFCC focused its resources in the area of public sector corruption solely on persons who declined to revere then President Obasanjo and perceived political/filial/traditional opponents and enemies of the Obasanjo presidency. If you were 'for' Obasanjo, you could walk into any government agency and cart away all the funds therein and Ribadu's-EFCC would simply look the other way.

the EFCC under Mr. Ribadu's leadership was aptly described as "the most successful scam operation ever perpetrated by any Nigerian, living or dead, on the international community". Under the guise of tackling corruption, the EFCC under Ribadu's leadership after fleecing the international community and donor agencies of millions of dollars ostensibly to 'tackle' corruption, embarked on a getaspo-like reign of terror calculated at extinguishing any opposition to Obasanjo's rule, only once in a while, did the outfit actually venture into genuinely tackling corruption.

cre8tivity:

@poster: did you say "let's save ribadu"? what about let's jail ribadu and save nigeria?

naijacutee:

As someone earlier mentioned, the fight against corruption neither begins nor ends with Ribadu. We are all so eager to pledge for a better Nigeria, yet when the opportunity presents itself to act, we start pointing fingers at others "What about A?", "What about B?". By now, I'm sure that we can all agree that Ribadu is not the epitome of the fight against corruption. In fact, he is far from it. However, we cannot deny that he was at least a step into the waters which many of you opening your mouths here dare not cross. For the time he spent there, he did do something. There were many powers beyond his control, but he did work within his constraints to achieve remarkable results. Prior to his tenure, who dared question the obvious embezzlement of public funds by those in power? Even those who stood against it, and refuted it dared not act against it. Maybe they couldn't because they were not in a position to, but we find someone who was in a position to do something, and he did - yet we complain about the others who are untouched. I can't understand the way we reason, Nigerians.

I'm not here to sing Ribadus' praises, as he is only a fallible man like the rest of us, however he did something when given the opportunity regardless of whatever bottlenecks/whomeever it was he couldn't challenge. If you could have done better in his shoes, please share with us how.