FORMER military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd), has said that his colleagues in the military administrations were saints compared to the level of corruption going on among the politicians in the country today.

The former military leader spoke in an interview with Trust TV monitored by journalists in Kaduna on Sunday.


According to him, “I sacked a military administrator for misappropriating N300,000. Now there are people we read in the papers, thank God there are papers to read and social media and so on; people who steal N2billion, N3billion.

“And nobody is saying they are corrupt, except us because we were military. I still maintain that we are saints if you compare somebody who is accused of stealing N3 billion, compared to somebody with N300,000, then I think we are saints.”

On the fight against corruption, lBB maintained that “I sold an idea but because it came from me, nobody likes it, nobody will like to hear it. Identify areas of corruption and attack them from the source. I read in one of the newspapers where a judge was complaining that they are not well remunerated by the public and that is a sure source of corruption.”

“And that is why we introduced freeing the economy; you don’t need a license to be graded A in your groundnut or cocoa or cotton or whatever it is; you don’t need to go to Central Bank or to go to banks to get foreign exchange.”

“There are Bureau de Change, they set it up in market areas, where you can easily go and get it; so the sources of corruption have to be identified and attacked,” he said.

The Minna born General recalled that his economic policy of liberalization and government were emulated by Yar’Adua and Obasanjo, saying ‘even the current regime was also doing it, even though in a different name but it is all the same concept,”

When asked which of the economic policies he was proud of and wish other governments continued, he posited, “freeing the economy; allowing Nigerians to use their brains, use their hands, use their innovations, I think the liberalization is, I am very proud of it?”

On political participation, he said, “yes I have not been involved in politics but I am still interested in what is happening in politics because this is my country I don’t have any other country, I have to take interest in what is going on”.

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Saint Babangida they only continued from where you stopped. You were saints in your own time.
They're saints of our time.

Even angels self.....

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Not all but APC government

The forefather of corruption is speaking... Ofcos, the children will always do more than their forefathers.

Your set started it and Tinubu's set took it to another level.
Besides, N300k in 1985 is N3billion today.

Bloody thief!!

Naija na Cruise

Kwantri pepo......they are not comparing and re-comparing themselves in corruption ontop una head

Oga sharap dia.
Nigeria is still recovering the loot of you guys till today.

Maradona himself

Not only saints, you guys were innocents.

If it's possible for IBB to contest for any political position again in this era baba go still do am. I guess he's regreting why he didn't gather more than enough during his own time.

Nonsense and Nigerian Politicians

1000% correct!
Just like JUBRIL will be canonized next year.

VERY GOOD THINKING AND REASONING. WELL DONE IBB. PLEASE KEEP IT UP.

VERY GOOD THINKING AND REASONING. WELL DONE IBB. PLEASE KEEP IT UP. N20million at your time is now $10billion loans at GMB.

IBB that sat on the whole gulf oil windfall money back then??

IBB who's wife was one of the biggest drug pushers back then, using the NDLEA bosses girlfriend as her courier??

IBB that left Nigeria on auto-pilot which resulted in the degeneration of both the environment and the mindset of the average Nigerian, rise of slums nationwide, destruction of the public service etc.

Back then there were fewer thieves but they stole billions of dollars. Now, Democracy has unleashed many thieves in the form of civil servants politicians and the general citizens who were all students of IBB's school of corruption.

No be lie, now they uses Bullion Van to steal national budget.