oduneja:
A former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim
Babangida, has said that he is not corrupt as
being insinuated in many quarters.
He asked any Nigerian with facts on corruption
against him to release them to the public.
He also said the $12.4billion Gulf Oil War
windfall of 1991 was not stolen.
Babangida made the clarifications in an exclusive
interview with a team of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission’s press crew for the
agency’s in-house magazine, “Zero tolerance.”
The EFCC released the transcript of the interview
to journalists in Abuja on Monday.
He denied looting billions from the treasury,
challenged anyone with proof of corruption against
him to reveal it.
He said: “Let me tell you something, maybe you
have a hand in it. I have been the most
investigated President Nigeria has ever had. By
now, somebody should have come forward to
say here it is.
“Every government that came after me
investigated me because of that perception
because they wanted to retrieve the billions I
stole.”
He said he and those who served in his
administration were saints and angels going by the
level of corruption in the country.
“Well, we had different approaches. I think my
government was able to identify corruption prone
areas and checked them. If you remember in this
country, there were things they call essential
commodities. These are also sources of corruption.
You go and buy Omo or food or whatever it is and
we got government to take its hands off such
activities. Let people use their own brains, hands
and labour, nobody has to do it for them. So we
did but I am proud to say that was much more
effective.
“I don’t have the facts but if what I read in the
papers is currently what is happening then I think
we were angels
On the allegation that his military regime
institutionalized corruption in Nigeria, Babangida
said though he had been aware of such insinuation,
the assumption is incorrect.
He added: “Yeah, I know. Maybe I have to accept
that but anybody with a sense of fairness has no
option but to call us saints. I give you an example,
in a year I was making less than $7billion in oil
revenue. In the same period, there are governments
that are making $200billion to $300billion.
“With $7billion, I did the little I could achieve.
With $200billion, there is still a lot to be
achieved.”
The ex-President said being branded as corrupt
was a question of perception.
He said: “It is said that perception is not reality.
Why the perception? I should ask you because it is
the perception of the media. You believed quite
wrongly that we are all crooks and I bear no
grudge whatsoever against anybody but I know
time will come when they will say after all, they
did something and this is what is happening.
“Now, even our fiercest critics give us credit for
certain things we did.”
Concerning the $12.4billion oil windfall from the
1991 Gulf War, Babangida insisted the money was
not stolen.
“First of all, that war lasted three months, about 90
something days. It didn’t last up to a year. So get
the facts straight.
“Secondly, the oil price at that time was below $18
per barrel. So, there is no way you could make
$12.4billion in three months.
“We could not have made that amount of money
but Pius Okigbo knew what he was doing. He had
brains and he said between 1986 or 1988 to 1994,
monies accrued to the Federal Government at that
time was about that money you are calling
windfall. He said so. It is there in his book.
“Then the other thing he said, the monies could
have gone into generative investment. I am not an
economist but I have an understanding of what this
is,” the former president stated.


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So this man still day alive

Story for the birds

Sauce

He said am North's coorupt. You hear am well

IBB is not corrupt?? I beg I no fit laugh, him just sayin he's not corrupt is corruption itself. So all the discretionary allocation of oil blocks dat he gave to his northern cronies is now legal abi?

I beg he shld tell dis to d dead not the living.

He n his wife legalised the abuse of oil block allocation so he shld not pretend to be a saint cos no one has probed him.

U are a lying bastard IBB

Even the devil is innocent of the things we label him with at times.
According to GEJ 101, stealing is not corruption, which makes IBB innocent of any corruption allegations.
IBB the Evil Genius

Nigeria we hail thee!

Maradona, you never gree retire! Ehn. Even the Hausas and fulani will stone you for this