Pastor Omokri, who was reacting to a write-up by Dele Momodu, also said that there was no incredible corruption during the Jonathan government.

Omokri wrote thus:


“Dear Egbon Dele Momodu,

In your Pendulum column of Saturday, July 17, 2021, you wrote as follows:

“Many people felt that they were tired of the reckless profligacy and incredible corruption that pervaded the land under the Jonathan administration.”



The above statement is a historical revision and is not supported by facts.

There was no “reckless profligacy and incredible corruption” under former President Jonathan.

The only international institution accepted by the world as an objective arbiter on measuring corruption is Transparency International.


You may recall that under then-President Jonathan, Nigeria made her best ever improvement on the annual Transparency International Corruption Perception Index till date, in 2014, moving from 144 the previous year, to 136, an 8 point improvement.

No other administration before then achieved that feat, and no other government afterwards has repeated it.

You may also recall that on February 1, 2021, Transparency International’s most recent Corruption Perception Index revealed that Nigeria is more corrupt today than it was under the previous administration, having moved 13 places backwards in the CPI, from 136 in 2014 to 149 in 2021 (our worst performance ever).


You will therefore agree with me that your assessment of the situation under former President Jonathan is faulty, especially when you take into effect that that administration eliminated the corruption in the fertiliser procurement regime, introduced the cashless policy and the Bank Verification Number to reduce opportunities for corruption, and eased out two ministers over conflict of interest, as well as probing the petroleum sector in a bid to rid it off the fraudulent subsidy regime.

Transparency International is a non-governmental organisation based in Germany and has no affiliation with either the government of former President Jonathan, nor his political party. It is therefore prudent to accept their findings as an unbiased and non partisan body.

I do hope you would publish this to give your readers a more accurate picture of the period of our national life in question.


Thank you and may God bless you.

Reno

In addition to that rejoinder, I decided to write a more in-depth piece to generally address this myth of Dr. Jonathan’s corruption. A myth, for those who do not know, is a narrative that is not founded on facts or grounded in reality.

The idea that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan ran a corrupt administration is a myth. Nigeria was already a country battling endemic corruption before Dr. Jonathan took office on May 6, 2010 as President. That is a notorious fact.

Now, it is in the political interest of political opponents of Dr. Jonathan to sustain this myth, but let us instead focus on what cannot lie-the facts.

Year after year, Transparency International has maintained that Nigeria’s corruption is concentrated in two critical sectors, namely the petroleum sector and the civil service procurement regime.

And those two areas were the focus of the Jonathan administration’s efforts to rid the system of opportunistic corruption.

What is opportunistic corruption?

Let us take the oil sector. When you have a subsidy regime that is overseen by civil servants and supervised by politicians, you have a system that provides a lot of opportunities for corruption. Civil servants can cook and were in fact cooking the books, and politicians were approving their figures because they were getting a cut.

The Nigerian system of fighting corruption has been to go after those civil servants and politicians not sympathetic to his government and party with a sledge hammer. We have seen from Nigeria’s abysmal Corruption Perception Index report that that method is not working.

The Jonathan approach was more cerebral. He first set up the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force, headed by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, to expose corruption practices in the industry. Nobody appoints Nuhu Ribadu to probe a sector of his intention is to promote corruption. Nuhu Ribadu has an unshakable reputation as a straight arrow.

And after that Taskforce submitted their report on November 2, 2012, the President himself set up machinery in place to end the subsidy regime and completely privatise this sector rates as one of Nigeria’s most corrupt.

That singular act would have eliminated opportunities for corruption amongst civil servants, politicians and contractors.

But Nigerians misunderstood and felt that Jonathan wanted to benefit those who sponsored his election. If indeed that was the case, why would he want to end subsidy? The natural thing to do, if he wanted to reward people, would have been to sustain the policy.

It did not occur to Nigerians that if Dr. Jonathan wanted to pay back those who sponsored his election then the last thing he would want to do was end the subsidy regime.

As a result of the report of the Nuhu Ribadu led Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force, the President ordered the prosecution of Mahmud Tukur, the son of the then Chairman of the ruling party. Can that happen today? President Jonathan insisted that the High and mighty must be made an example of, and Abdullahi Alao, the son of another political elite (Arisekola Alao) was arrested and tried.

And lastly on this score, in 2012, then President Jonathan inaugurated a presidential committee, led by Access Bank Chief Executive Officer, Aigboje Aig Imoukhuede, to carry out a forensic audit to verify all subsidy claims before they could be paid. Anyone who knows Aigboje Aig Imoukhuede knows he is incorruptible. That is not the type of person to let things slide.

Another attempt at fighting opportunistic corruption (this time successfully) was with the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), which the Jonathan administration introduced in 2011, which required fingerprinting all civil servants as a prerequisite for salary payments.

This was to eliminate the corruption of ghost workers. Through IPPIS, Nigeria flushed out 50,000 ghost during the Jonathan administration’s pendency.

$800 million that would have been paid to them in annual salaries and entitlement was saved.

As a matter of fact, almost all the intellectual and scientific methods that Nigeria currently uses to fight corruption were initiated and implemented by the Jonathan government, including IPPIS, BVN, the cashless policy and the Treasury Single Account.

The TSA was a brainchild of President Goodluck Jonathan and Dr. Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; when they wanted to bring all the resources of the federal government of Nigeria under one account, and they wanted that account to be a single account so they could promote transparency.

However, because they knew that if we have this treasury single account, and we recall all the funds that the federal government has in banks and in different institutions, it is going to collapse the economy.

So they decided it was going to be done in phases. Maybe, five percent at given times of about six months.

The point I am trying to drive home here is that the Jonathan administration made immense progress in Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perception Index because that government was focused on preventing corruption by eliminating opportunities to be corrupt.

Some people mention Dasuki. This is now six years, and Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retired) is yet to be tried. He is ready. Like me, he is a meticulous record keeper. He had maintained that the charges are bogus and no $2.1 billion is missing.

We also had our faults. We were also not as forceful as we ought to have been in micromanaging some ministers that we now know were profligate. Nobody is perfect.

However, no administration has made the type of progress that we made in reducing Nigeria’s Corruption Perception Index ranking. And until anybody is able to beat us, with all due respect, they should give honour to whom it is due!”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/there-was-no-reckless-profligacy-incredible-corruption-under-jonathan-reno-omokri/amp/

Why did Jonathan stop the allocation revenue to Lagos for 9 months and made the entire region hungry?

It was that wickedness that made the yoruba people angry and therefore support an evil leader to come and punish the country. Anywhere the south west supports always wins.

Jonathan main sin was refusal to obey the yorubas.

That’s untrue but that’s not the point.

The point is that I just bought one egg, for N100. Raw egg o!

I’ve never seen the price of anything go DOWN in Nigeria so I’m wondering, will it be possible to organise ourselves to consciously build a government that will work primarily for us Nigerians who are not occupying positions of government?

I don’t like nor support Buhari or Johnathan but saying there was no corruption under Johnathan is a lie. It was a free fall season for all the agencies. But one thing is certain: I’ll most definitely take his administration over the one of this present mannequin. Before democracy, there’s always been corruption in our obodo Nigeria & it’s not changing anytime soon but the level of nepotism, corruption and insecurity is at its highest yet. It’s never been this bad.

Juliusmalema:
[s]Says who

Jonathan remains the worst president in Nigeria history.

The corruption under him wwa unimaginable.

Very weak and a thief at sametine.

He looted NIGERIA on industrial scale.

Infact has the worst kind of advisors attributable to a mini idia Amin like Reno Omokri

Devilish, cunning and always wants to be seen as right even after stealing Nigeria dry

buhari is constructing second Niger bridge, reno will rush and shout jonathan started it


buhari completes railway.....he will shout jonathan started it

buhari is building new complex in bayelsa....reno will shout jonathan started it....


Now Reno ( former GeJ assistant) started a history and since they are good in starting everything......let him come and complete this one at least for once he is running.....Lol

At least let's see what Reno omokri Goodluck Jonathan started and also completed it at sametime.


Well it is safe to say Uncompleted former president Jonathan.[/s]

Shut up ! Your goon Buhari, to you is the best president ,

cos he is doing your ethnic bidding of fulanirization/Islamization..

This debate go sweet well well

Juliusmalema:
Says who

Jonathan remains the worst president in Nigeria history.

The corruption under him wwa unimaginable.

Very weak and a thief at sametine.

He looted NIGERIA on industrial scale.

Infact has the worst kind of advisors attributable to a mini idia Amin like Reno Omokri

Devilish, cunning and always wants to be seen as right even after stealing Nigeria dry

buhari is constructing second Niger bridge, reno will rush and shout jonathan started it


buhari completes railway.....he will shout jonathan started it

buhari is building new complex in bayelsa....reno will shout jonathan started it....


Now Reno ( former GeJ assistant) started a history and since they are good in starting everything......let him come and complete this one at least for once he is running.....Lol

At least let's see what Reno omokri Goodluck Jonathan started and also completed it at sametime.


Well it is safe to say Uncompleted former president Jonathan.

So says one of the biggest thief during GEJ administration

Kaduna1stson:
Why did Jonathan stop the allocation revenue to Lagos for 9 months and made the entire region hungry?

It was that wickedness that made the yoruba people angry and therefore support an evil leader to come and punish the country. Anywhere the south west supports always wins.

Jonathan main sin was refusal to obey the yorubas.

Says an osu pig.
Are you on your way to Abuja for your protest tomorrow

Juliusmalema:
Says who

Jonathan remains the worst president in Nigeria history.

The corruption under him wwa unimaginable.

Very weak and a thief at sametine.

He looted NIGERIA on industrial scale.

Infact has the worst kind of advisors attributable to a mini idia Amin like Reno Omokri

Devilish, cunning and always wants to be seen as right even after stealing Nigeria dry

buhari is constructing second Niger bridge, reno will rush and shout jonathan started it


buhari completes railway.....he will shout jonathan started it

buhari is building new complex in bayelsa....reno will shout jonathan started it....


Now Reno ( former GeJ assistant) started a history and since they are good in starting everything......let him come and complete this one at least for once he is running.....Lol

At least let's see what Reno omokri Goodluck Jonathan started and also completed it at sametime.


Well it is safe to say Uncompleted former president Jonathan.

Be like say you dey zombilized and Sapele water don dey too much.

Rhino O mockery is insane ..

So says a political jobber

Juliusmalema:
Says who

Jonathan remains the worst president in Nigeria history.

The corruption under him wwa unimaginable.

Very weak and a thief at sametine.

He looted NIGERIA on industrial scale.

Infact has the worst kind of advisors attributable to a mini idia Amin like Reno Omokri

Devilish, cunning and always wants to be seen as right even after stealing Nigeria dry

buhari is constructing second Niger bridge, reno will rush and shout jonathan started it


buhari completes railway.....he will shout jonathan started it

buhari is building new complex in bayelsa....reno will shout jonathan started it....


Now Reno ( former GeJ assistant) started a history and since they are good in starting everything......let him come and complete this one at least for once he is running.....Lol

At least let's see what Reno omokri Goodluck Jonathan started and also completed it at sametime.


Well it is safe to say Uncompleted former president Jonathan.

Read that post again from Reno and reread your own comment and see the difference intellectually..
Debates are not won by shouting, but by presenting facts.
Go learn more

Nigeria Lost $32bn To Corruption Under Former President Jonathan – DFID
About $32bn was lost to corruption during the six-year administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development said on Monday. The agency said the huge amount represented 16 percent of the previous government’s resources that could have been channeled to development. The agency’s Head of Office, DFID Nigeria, Debbie Palmer, said this at the expression of undergraduate debates challenge to celebrate this year’s international anti-corruption day.

Iyiataata92:

Read that post again from Reno and reread your own comment and see the difference intellectually..
Debates are not won by shouting, but by presenting facts.
Go learn more

Jonathan is a thief...a criminal.

Nothing to re read.

Juliusmalema:


Jonathan is a thief...a criminal.

Nothing to re read.

Why not tell your Master to probe him, charge him and jail him?

Iyiataata92:

Why not tell your Master to probe him, charge him and jail him?

Probe? Ana ekwugheri...

When he is busy sneaking In and out of aso rock even at odd hours.

Say something else pls.

Juliusmalema:


Probe? Ana ekwugheri...

When he is busy sneaking In and out of aso rock even at odd hours.

Say something else pls.

Meaning that your Master is covering a corrupt man, right?

How Jonathan, Okonjo-Iweala illegally diverted N61.4 billion Abacha loot to NSA, Sambo Dasuki


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/194870-how-jonathan-okonjo-iweala-illegally-diverted-n61-4-billion-abacha-loot-to-nsa-sambo-dasuki.html

[quote author=wwwihy post=104086400][/quote]so you have all these evidences yet you couldn't extradite the woman and jail her

Nigerian govt borrowing billions to pay salaries – Okonjo-Iweala

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/182543-nigerian-govt-borrowing-billions-to-pay-salaries-okonjo-iweala.html

See the dates of the papers you're posting. What's holding the trial since then?

Iyiataata92:
See the dates of the papers you're posting. What's holding the trial since then?

Sekere for una, your head dey there.
Lalasticlala.

Igbos would be so confused on what to support here