“They said my government is corrupt and that we are not fighting corruption. Only yesterday, I addressed anti-corruption agencies and told them that people are deceiving young Nigerians. I said that they must tell Nigerians what they are doing.

“We have arrested more people and done more convictions

kayfra:
Jonathan's method that was as ineffectual as the buffoon himself. Buhari's approach of "all of the above" is proving more effective.
Though a jolt to the corruption laden economy, we are gradually finding a middle ground.

blueto:
I understand that (retribution) punishment for culprits is one of the major ways of deterring potential offenders from graft and depredatory activities but it is not the optimal way of curbing such activities.

Jonathan's strategies were aimed at preventing corruption, while Buhari's method is penalising offenders. And I believe this proactive mechanism by Jonathan is being used in developed nations to curb corruption.

Yes, you may reduce corruption with penalising culprits but what happens when you are not able to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the suspect is culpable? What happens when you are no longer the president, thus people feel the threat to their corrupt practices is over?

Jonathan's proposed method of fighting corruption was ideal because it involved scientific and technological methods that was aimed at preventing people from touching or gaining illicit access to public funds and that was what they were working on and they were succeeding.

For instance, With the support of the World Bank and the IMF to the Federal Government of Nigeria, they helped build an electronic financial management platform-the Government Integrated Financial Management and Information System (GIFMIS), including the Treasury Single Account (TSA) and the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), helping to curtail corruption in the process. As at 31 December 2014, the IPPIS platform for example had eliminated 62,893 ghost workers from the system and saved the Nigerian government about $1.25 billion in the process.

They also introduced the practice of publishing each state's monthly financial allocation from the Federal Government of Nigeria in the Newspapers. This action went a long way in increasing transparency in governance and also curbing financial embezzlement by the State government.

But the defect in Jonathan's administration was his media team. They failed to bring most of Jonathan's achievements to the open. Unlike the youWIN program that was so potent and conspicuous to the extent that the program was evaluated by the World Bank as one of the most effective programmes of its kind globally.

And APC capitalised on the inactions of Jonathan's media team to feed Nigerian Youths of untrue assertions about Jonathan's administration.

Jonathan in turned responded to those allegations during 2015 presidential election campaign and then, and one of his responses was adjuring the anti-corruption agencies to disclose what they have been doing. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/generation-failed-jonathan/

But by then, it was already too late for him, because the reprehensible impression about his administration have already circulated.

Buhari's method is simply not the optimal method because even in his administration, corrupt activities are still perpetuated just like how some State Governments were able to peculate and divert the bail-out funds without any impediments. Jonathan's administration would have devised a blueprint way to thwart every attempts by the State Government to divert the funds instead of waiting to litigate against those that defalcated the funds.

And also, it will take extra temerity to probe and penalise the culprits that are directly or indirectly related to you. Amongst those individuals involves Party affiliates, conjugal relations and consanguine relations. But preventing them from corrupt practises will be a lot more easier.

The idea of apprehending arm robbers today have certainly not deterred other infringers from such criminal activities

OjukwuWarBird:


People voted against Jonathan out of hatred for his ethnicity especially the Afonjas

blueto:
this is it, people believe jonathan was ineffectual in the fight against because they weren't enlightened about them, and this blame can be attributed to Jonathan's media team. APC used their deceptive propaganda to make it seem Jonathan was ineffectual.

And it is factual that Buhari has done nothing to prevent corruption, he is just simply recovering looted funds. that is not a rational way of fighting corruption to me.

kayfra:


So explain the wide adoption of TSA by this government? Something Jonathan sat on for years.

blueto:
seems you failed to read the article, hence this incognizant assertion. please read the article.

kayfra:


You incorrectly blame his media team. I correctly blame his atrophic balls (lack of will by quoting Ngozi) for not implementing anything preventing corruption. He was complicit hence the conflict of interest.

blueto:
your assertions are baseless. What about the introduction of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), that helped to detect precisely 62,893 ghost workers from the system and saved the Nigerian government about$1.25 billion in the process?

The TSA introduced in his administration and wasn't opportuned to implement it because of a change of government which enabled Buhari to inherit one of Jonathan's innovations.

kayfra:


TSA had been sitting as a lame duck since it's pilot scheme in 2012.

"The pilot TSA scheme commenced in 2012 using a unified structure of accounting for 217 government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, for accountability and transparency in public fund management."

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/features-and-interviews/199725-15-things-know-treasury-single-account-tsa.html

If you are going to follow someone blindly at least do it with one eye open.

kayfra:


TSA had been sitting as a lame duck since it's pilot scheme in 2012.

"The pilot TSA scheme commenced in 2012 using a unified structure of accounting for 217 government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, for accountability and transparency in public fund management."

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/features-and-interviews/199725-15-things-know-treasury-single-account-tsa.html

If you are going to follow someone blindly at least do it with one eye open.

Lordemma:
I totally agree with you on this bro.

blueto:


What you just did was to provide an evidence that TSA was actually implemented by Jonathan in 2012 when it was “commenced,” so we can infer from here that Buhari was actually lying when he averred that Jonathan failed to implement the TSA.

I think you are the one that needs to stop following “blindly” .

thanks for your help

oduastates:
Good way to fight kwaraption. The records say something completely different.

1 EFCC Arrests Jonathan’s Cousin Over $40m Contract Scam

2 $2.2 billion illegally withdrawn from Excess Crude Oil Accounts,of which $1 billion supposedly approved by President Jonathan to fund his reelection campaign without the knowledge of the National Economic Council made up of state governors and the president and vice president.

3 NEITI discovered $11.6 billion was missing from Nigeria LNG Company dividend payments.[46]
60 million barrels of oil valued at $13.7 billion was stolen under the watch of the national oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, from 2009 to 2012.

4 NEITI indicates losses due to crude swaps due to subsidy and domestic crude allocation from 2005 to 2012 indicated that $11.63 billion had been paid to the NNPC but that “there is no evidence of the money being remitted to the federation account”.

5 Diversion of 60% of $1 billion foreign loans obtained from the Chinese by the Ministry of Finance [48]
Massive scam in weapons and defense procurements, and misuse of 3 trillion naira defense budget since 2011 under the guise of fighting Boko Haram[49]

6 Diversion of $2.2 million vaccination medicine fund, by Ministry of Health

7 Diversion of Ebola fight fund up to 1.9 bn naira

8 NIMASA fraud under investigation by EFCC, inclusive of accusation of funding PDP and buying a small piece of land for 13 billion naira

9 Ministry of Finance led by Okonjo Iweala hurried payment of $2.2 million to health ministry contractor in disputed invoices

10 NDDC scams and multifarious scams including 2.7 billion naira worth of contracts that does not confirm to the Public Procurement Act

11 Police Service Commission Scam investigated by ICPC that revealed misappropriation of over 150 million naira related to election related trainings. ICPC made refund recommendations, but many analyst indicated prosecution was more appropriate.

otukpo:
GEJ has done his own.

Whether those who don't like his face agree or not, it is Buhari's time to do his own.

OjukwuWarBird:


People voted against Jonathan out of hatred for his ethnicity especially the Afonjas