₦airaland Forum

Briareos:
What we need is a strong anti corruption platform in each state. Buhari can't possibly be running around every state fighting corruption. Our anti corruption agencies have to be spread around; at least one in each geopolitical zones.

Otherwise, the concentration will remain in Abuja while the other 36 states loot to their hearts content.

Firefire:
Do you guys support the probe of Osun State ?

The workers are suffering, no pay since November 2014 and the "Omoluabi" governor have this justification “Before the last time I paid

salaries in November, 2014, I have had to either spent the state’s reserves on salaries or borrow money. Today, I have a loan of N12 billion

that we spent on salaries and I could not go to the banks anymore.” Rauf Aregbesola

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/03/25/why-i-owe-osun-workers-5-months-salary-aregbesola/

Onegai:
4. Don't give up. You're not fighting for Justin, you're fighting for every other child who isn't Justin. You are now their mother, Justin is now their rallying point.

4. Don't give up. You're not fighting for Justin, you're fighting for every other child who SHOULD NOT DIE UNNECESSARILY LIKE Justin did.

jobinto:
The Kowatches site where they manufactured this trash has been disabled

Dorrobucci:
.

Just imagine.

Mehn! This op need hot slap, i swear.

SLIDEwaxie:
whether PDP go die or hang, it is so sure that you cannot go against all people. especially not those who contributed to your success.

now, this doesn't say that PDPigst will go scoff free, we shall jail them all. it is time for political witch hunting, take it or leave it...tinubu is clean, amaechi shall be exonerated...yes, as a clear plot of gratitude...

barcanista:
Bros, has Buhari ever declared asset before?

Eliass:
he has just 1million in his acc and his wife could afford a 10m wristwatch

UncleLondon:
TANist it could be gift and it could be replica. Moreso, She owns a beauty shop that hosts many influential people, one of the sultan's or sheik's wives could have doled it out as a gift.

barcanista:
Why do you think Buhari refused to make his asset public? What do you expect from the Wife of a man that gave Abacha a clean bill of health?

Imagine his wife wearing N10.5M Watch.. Buhari is as "poor" as Abacha

ebosie11:
I don laugh mad here

naijaspeak:
I think our state governors and local government chairman need to change their attitude to governance as development starts from the grassroot. The federal government disburse resources to the state but the state governor spends the money wrongly on project that has no impacts on the lives of the people. Also, corruption and looting of public fund is a common trends among our governors and other public office holder.

Although, President Buhari is the President of Nigeria and the entire country comes under his country there are aread he will find it difficult to supervise like the activities at the state level. A governor might decides to ignore Buhari and go ahead to be stealing.

Despite all this thieving governor, God will help Nigeria and the new President to move Nigeria forward.

NIGERIA: Why Obasanjo's war on corruption is faltering

lagos, 30 July 2004 (IRIN) - When President Olusegun Obasanjo took office in 1999, ending more than 15 years of corrupt and often brutal military rule, he declared it was the end of "business as usual" with graft.

Corruption, he said, was a cancer that had debilitated the Nigerian state and frustrated development efforts, despite the country's huge oil riches. It was,therefore, an enemy to be fought until it retreated.

The first bill which Obasanjo sent to the national legislature after he took office proposed the creation of new anti-graft body, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).

Corruption watchdog undermined by low funding

When the bill became law a year later, after overcoming resistance by legislators who sought to weaken its provisions, Justice Mustapha Akanbi - a retired president of the Federal Appeal Court - was named to head the new commission.

But four years later, it has yet to secure any significant conviction.

On the contrary, all the signs are that corruption is spreading and that Obasanjo is losing the war he declared on bribes and kickbacks.

Nigeria's rating by the Berlin-based corruption watchdog, Transparency International, has not improved at all. It remains at the bottom of the table, with only Bangladesh rated as a worse place in which to do business.


More from: http://www.irinnews.org/report/50876/nigeria-why-obasanjo-s-war-on-corruption-is-faltering

gsainttrinity:
Honestly I share in your views that we are country of millions of mumu.
And I personally find that the most and biggest drew back to development and change in this country is the people themselves who wants the change, quite ironic. The youth especially are a bunch of follow-follow, with selfish motivations.

The most we can do is hope for the best.

NIGERIA: Why Obasanjo's war on corruption is faltering

lagos, 30 July 2004 (IRIN) - When President Olusegun Obasanjo took office in 1999, ending more than 15 years of corrupt and often brutal military rule, he declared it was the end of "business as usual" with graft.

Corruption, he said, was a cancer that had debilitated the Nigerian state and frustrated development efforts, despite the country's huge oil riches. It was,therefore, an enemy to be fought until it retreated.

The first bill which Obasanjo sent to the national legislature after he took office proposed the creation of new anti-graft body, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).

Corruption watchdog undermined by low funding

When the bill became law a year later, after overcoming resistance by legislators who sought to weaken its provisions, Justice Mustapha Akanbi - a retired president of the Federal Appeal Court - was named to head the new commission.

But four years later, it has yet to secure any significant conviction.

On the contrary, all the signs are that corruption is spreading and that Obasanjo is losing the war he declared on bribes and kickbacks.

Nigeria's rating by the Berlin-based corruption watchdog, Transparency International, has not improved at all. It remains at the bottom of the table, with only Bangladesh rated as a worse place in which to do business.


More from: http://www.irinnews.org/report/50876/nigeria-why-obasanjo-s-war-on-corruption-is-faltering

ECOTERRORS:
The man that saved Nigeria from collapsing while Otedola and Wale Tinubu were taking selfies with Buhari

gsainttrinity:
I quite agree with you that the most systematic and scientific leader Nigeria has ever had remains Jonathan but his short coming was his lack of focus and seriousness and outright under rating of the seriousness of the corruption menace which is what Buhari is hopefully bringing to the table.

Nigeria Records Improvement, Ranked 39th on Corruption Index
04 Dec 2014


More from: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nigeria-records-improvement-ranked-39th-on-corruption-index/195767/

ThisMeansWAR:
yeah.. Hopefully Buhari would look in that... Something that failure of ex presidents since 1999 refused to look into but exploited

jamex93:
serious that money is too much


who even start pay those criminals such amount for doing nothing

gsainttrinity:
1: identify and define corruption:

Corruption is a dishonest act that aims to favor one party against the other or to get or derive a personal advantage from the system using a position of authority.

Therefore, a set of bills must be made laws stating in clear and definite languages behaviors, characters, acts and actions or in-actions that constitute corrupt practices.

[size=14pt] one may forgive Jonathan for saying "stealing is not corruption" because in Nigeria the term corruption is ambiguous.[/size]

Stealing of government, group, organization, community or society funds, siphoning or diverting of government, corporate entities, communities, social groups etc funds. Taking and receiving bribes as individuals or group on behalf of the entities or for selfish reasons, receiving gifts, planning to do these and many more

Cronyism or favoring family and friends or associates should also be classified as corruption.

Unfair practices; where for example contracts, quotas, admissions etc are awarded with unfair or manipulative means where some individuals are accorded special privilege or advantages.

Inflation or false reports on public projects whether for seeking contracts or giving contracts etc or things in that nature.

Carrying out public services with disregard for the lawful procedure with intentions to benefit a certain group or individuals.

Partiality in carrying out public duties etc.

Finally among other practices I could not remember to mention or have omitted, the intentions or thoughts to carry out such plans or acts within the borders of Nigeria or outside it in-as-much it concerns the Nigerian society directly or indirectly, it must be classified as corruption and must be dealt decisively against it.

bashydemy:
Abeg are you from Jupiter? the link you provided say he declare to CCB in 2012 so what nonsense do you mean by public declaration?

Oduduwaboy:
It will be fun ? ...am so sure it wont be clueless sha ! ...and that is enough for me.

bashydemy:
Which nonsense did you post up there? we are talking about when he became president and you are posting when he was VP and yaradua force him to do that. please you need brain.

Jonathan has declared assets – CCB chairman
September 26, 2012


President Goodluck Jonathan has declared his assets and has no case to answer, Dr Sam Saba, the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), has said.

“As far as we are concerned, Mr President has declared his assets, though not publicly. There is no law that says that you should declare your assets publicly; it simply states that you should declare your assets.

“What is important is that he has declared his assets and when we go through his form and we discover any area that is questionable, then we will take him to court,” he said.

Saba spoke through Alhaji Ibrahim Manzo, the Federal Commissioner representing North West in the Bureau, who represented him at a Compliance Training Workshop for Public officers on Wednesday in Abuja.

He said the Bureau was doing its bit, but that the public was not doing its own part by refusing to blow the whistle on defaulters.
Saba, who noted that the fight against corruption is the collective responsibility of all patriotic Nigerians, said Nigerians should wake up to the task.

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/09/jonathan-has-declared-assets-bureau-chairman/#sthash.khD2HoVY.dpuf