The immediate past
President, Dr. Goodluck
Jonathan has observed that
there have been corrupt
practices in the country since
Independence, but stressed
that his administration did
very well to curtail it.
Speaking in an interview with
Bloomberg
, the former president
averred that, “I cannot say
that the country since the
beginning of our
Independence, that there
was no corruption. Yes,
there has been corruption.”
Jonathan continued, “I did
very well also to curtail
corruption. My approach to
corruption was: don’t make
money available for anybody
to touch.
“We made sure that the area
of fertilizer subsidies was
cleaned up. The whole
corruption there was
removed. I wanted to do the
same thing in the oil sector
but the very people that
have been accusing us of
corruption are the very
people that frustrated it. It’s
unfortunate.”

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My approach to corruption was: don’t make
money available for anybody to touch.
“We made sure that the area of fertilizer subsidies was cleaned up. The whole corruption there was removed. I wanted to do the same thing in the oil sector but the very people that have been accusing us of corruption are the very people that frustrated it. It’s unfortunate.”