Proffdada:
for those who are slow in understanding the prof and jinxed by gej goodluck charm,u don't need to spend so much time in calling a spade a spade except u r speaking with tongue in cheek
he's ever clueless and overtly corrupt
they don't even know the danger we're as at now economically
we're going to be bartering oil for donkey years to cover our debt
we import most things and the exchange is already an index of the doomed state we're.
be wise and snap out of being a Jonathan disciple
we're not really voting for GMB ,we're actually voting OUT jonadunce

as much as i won't vote gej he is right tell me the difference btw ICPC and EFCC? den I'll know what to say if you r d one who is clueless

donnypool:


in the Aluu situation, did u see what they stole before your people murdered them?

u can say dat again..d system apc plan to use! Nigerians are clueless i swear!

myhoodlink:
These were the words of President GEJ which many have misrepresented


Asked about his 'Stealing is not corruption' comment, president Jonathan said he never said stealing is not corruption -
"The word corruption we have abused it and it's not making so much sense. I did not say stealing is not corruption. I made that statement in reference to ex-CJN, Justice Musdapher. A thief should be called a thief. Ole should be called ole! If you say somebody is corrupt people don't know what you mean". He added "A thief is a thief. Don't use the word corruption to cover stealing. Call the person a thief"

Hatred is worse than any sin one can think of. Some hate the President just because of what others have said about him. God knows the hearts of all humans.

God bless President Goodluck Jonathan

And with all what you wrote up there what has GEJ did to those found guilty of stealing so far? has he done anything? let call spade a spade GEJ is a thief, corrupt or which ever way he can put it.

egift:
"Two unmarried men sleeping together, that is corruption" - GEJ.

So according to President Jonathan, politicians in his government stealing Trillions of Naira is GAY

I laugh when I hear the bolded

thewarrior72:
The fact is that most APC supporter are daft, ignorant, unlearned & poor in understanding, the usage & application of english words hence their perpetual misunderstanding of GEJ usage of " corruption is not stealing". But if not mischief & hatred on GEJ, the man was explicit tonight in explaining himself & what he ment when he used the word "corruption is not stealing" in his previous speech. He gave examples of what can be termed corruption & what can be outrightly called stealing.

Well, I blamed him in the first place, when u lead a vast ignorant & illiterate group of people.u should learn to condescend to they level when communicating with them & use everyday words that their are used to.

This Osinbade of a man remind me of fashola. His SANship & professorship is questionable

[size=18pt]So in short Stealing is not corruption? You deserve the president you get. What a shame? And International society will hear this and will make mockery of the black country of Monkey as usual.

So because of PDP/Jonathan, we need to re-categorize corruption?

Nigeria is not using British English?[/size]

Some people are cursed.

ibnmaja:
or you prefer he goes to aso rock lobbying for position to prepare for his vice presidency. fool

You don't need to insult me to drive your message, what i wrote up there is the fact, a vice president to be spending all his time by tweetin, taking selfie, visitin one MOG to the other while still claimin to be one, that isn't the characteristics of a good leader, but i don't expect you brainwash Apc tout to agree with me

Prof Osinbajo is even more clueless than I thought.
He is trying to define corruption with respect to the Alleged stealing is not corruption.
1.No detionary defines stealing as corruption. In fact there thousands of things makes one corrupt not just stealing.
The president said how do you explain to villagers that somebody is corrupt and you expect them to understand you. Its better you call a thief a thief than tag him corrupt.
Because of politics, Osinbajo has lost touch of reality.

Calculia:
Those in power alone? Prof u don fall my hand...


Besides, what we have in Nigeria is beyond that gentle man definition.


As GEJ put it, in Nigeria we have thieves not corruption.

u are not getting it,government stealing is called corruption eg maina and stella odua,if u and i steal outside is called thief or ole.if unmarry men or women sleep together is called immoral act.d clueless madman were dancing round d question.abeg make he park go one side on may 29th.

Mr president is correct. Going by osibanjo's definition of corruption it is clear he lack the understanding of what corruption means. He said it's dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power typically involving bribery. From Osibanjo's definition, Corruption can be seen as when u bribe sb to allow u carry out a fraudulent activity or overlook ur dishonesty but from what is happening in Nigeria nobody is bribing anybody instead those in charge go ahead to steal money without minding what u will say or do. They don't care at all Which can be called stealing.

elari:

And yet some people call Buhari an illiterate. I wonder what Gej should be called. . .

featherbrain

maestroferddi:
Is Prof Osinbajo slow in simple comprehension or what?

Jonathan was explicit in explaining himself.

He stated that he had a parley with a former CJN on the incidence of corruption/crime.

He posited that Justice Mustapha disclosed that over 70% of the cases under the judge's purview were actually outright theft being branded as corruption. He was making a case that what people normally give the appellation of corruption are nothing short of thievery.

Instead of branding a public official guilty of misappropriation as corrupt, he was suggesting that a more apt or grievous term should be applied. Let the guilty official be addressed as the thief that s/he is so as to serve as a deterrent to others.

So what is difficult for this APC man to understand?

And please can you help your paymaster divine corruption for us abeg....What is corruption that was the question? maybe sleeping and waking up now is corruption hahaha

olayemi243:
hmmmm! y can't ppl be optimistic. even if d so called PDP gov. have failed as u said. We can still pin point some salient achievements in this regime...I don't see anything bad abt d chat anyway....

U cudnt see because cluelessness dwells in ur blood.

Pple keep saying we r all corrupt, does it mean because of that everybody can now steal at free will, we hate starting any tin. This fight of corruption will start from somewhere. We don't need buhari to fight it 100%, we just need only 50% for a start.

this man Osinbanjo,stop covering up with pastoral title,from your actions,I doubt if you are a born again christian.you seems to be wearing political garment than the pursuit of heaven .remember Isaiah who never knew that he was wearing a filthy garment, until God made him to see it.

Inducement to do wrong & stealing are two different things. Bribery & corruption are different from out right stealing.

icebeatz:


Yes. Corruption is carried out by those in power alone.
The better word to use is "position of trust".

It doesnt have to be a big political office.
It could be the nepa official taking bribe to make an illegal connection; at that point, the nepa official is in a position of powet which he is abusing.

that analogy u just gave now of a PHCN staff is bribery and not corruption. Corruptn is a very broad word. You cannot jail somebody because he's corrupt but you can jail someone because he/she took bribe. This is why you hear people saying "bribrey and corruption", and there implies that the two words are not dsame. If a person is convicted what he/she is convicted on should have a 'define name' and not corruption. This word called corruption is d reason while our politicians and heads of different parastater go scot free. Misappropriation of funds should be called stealing and not corruption which has no base

"There Is No Corruption But Mere Stealing In Nigeria" - jonathan

myhoodlink:
These were the words of President GEJ which many have misrepresented


Asked about his 'Stealing is not corruption' comment, president Jonathan said he never said stealing is not corruption -
"The word corruption we have abused it and it's not making so much sense. I did not say stealing is not corruption. I made that statement in reference to ex-CJN, Justice Musdapher. A thief should be called a thief. Ole should be called ole! If you say somebody is corrupt people don't know what you mean". He added "A thief is a thief. Don't use the word corruption to cover stealing. Call the person a thief"

Hatred is worse than any sin one can think of. Some hate the President just because of what others have said about him. God knows the hearts of all humans.

God bless President Goodluck Jonathan

The same way some hate GMB because of what others have said about him. God bless GMB/Osinbajo, we are tired of this maladministration.

GMB is corrupt, he forged certificates, that is corruption and Tinubu is a thief, he stole Lagos state money. Chikina

spott:
Corruption is defined as "dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery". The definition is simple and we all know what it is, yet Mr. President has spent the last several minutes of his media chat explaining to Nigerians what it is, suggesting we are all somehow confused about this.

The GEJ presidency has failed Nigerians. The facts are undeniable. ‪#‎ChangeWillCome‬

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=666594216784281&id=633018823475154

What's wrong with this puppy-head fake pastor? Imagine a Tinubu-dummy who laughingly posted the pictures of Bonkke Crusade as Kano APC rally coming here to teach us nonsense. Where did APC uproot him from? Gosh!

Dahveydson:


He never said stealing is not corruption? Do you have amnesia? He said it in his last media chat, if you have forgotten, many of us haven't.

Dont waste your time on fools... no matter what you say, they have chosen to believe what they want irrespective of facts staring at them

English words have no specific meaning until you put them in a sentence.

The president was not trying to define the term corruption. He was only trying to say that instead of using the word corruption to lessen the weight of stealing public funds, we should call them thieves. That makes the corrupt ones realise that they are in the same category with thieves.

I don't think that was hard to understand based on the context. Politics aside, why skew everything this man says.

Even if you won't vote for him don't try to rubbish his person.

The interviewers did not ask him to define the term corruption. They asked him to clarify what he had said before.

So by what he said, Tinubu is a thief, Alison Madueke, etc, are all thieves, don't lessen it by saying corrupt ke

It would have been better if you guys are asking how many public thieves has been prosecuted. Not this stupidd terminology application of words.

The devil u know is better than the angel u dnt know.

femi4:
I laugh when I hear the bolded

I see you.

Osinbanjo pls go and read your bible,you are smilling dwelling with darkness,my daughter asked me a question,she said daddy what does light has to do with darkness,NOTE-you can never join hand with darkness to bring light,osinbanjo has gone against Gods word by dwelling with people that bow down to other gods.

JustCalMeDBoss:
Anoda definiton by those in power alone. We are hearing diff versions. To all those thinkin APC would be diff they would be most disappointed.

lol... Those in power alone... what a lawyer? what a pastor?

Calculia:
Those in power alone? Prof u don fall my hand...


Besides, what we have in Nigeria is beyond that gentle man definition.


As GEJ put it, in Nigeria we have thieves not corruption.

the prof is not as clueless as u
Merriam-webster's dictionary

Calculia:
Those in power alone? Prof u don fall my hand...


Besides, what we have in Nigeria is beyond that gentle man definition.


As GEJ put it, in Nigeria we have thieves not corruption.

You're the true son of your parents. I am beginning to believe that Buhari is even more "literate" than this Tinubu-invented robot that calls himself Osibanjo. If his Oxford dictionary tells him corruption is only prevalent amongst those in power, he must also show us his certificates.

Calculia:
Those in power alone? Prof u don fall my hand...


Besides, what we have in Nigeria is beyond that gentle man definition.


As GEJ put it, in Nigeria we have thieves not corruption.

that's how they continue to misinform us about GEJ's achievement just because they have easy access to media. Imagine attorney general saying this just to get a cheap political gain. Bros thank you for layman's clearification.

this man Osinbanjo,stop parading about with pastoral title causing confusion every where ,just to achieve your selfish political ambitions.God knows His servants.By their fruits ,we know them.you are clothed with political garment than the garment of christianity.you are now doing anything possible to achieve your selfish political ambitions .
Remember Isaiah who was clothed with filthy garments without knowing it,not until God open his eyes to see then.

Dos 2 guys above I swear dey are Dick heads only looking for were to fit in

Go and blame your brother Obasanjo and Majority leader in both hus who made that constitution to cover their mess startin from president down to counsellors......................Constitution is the Godfather of Corruption and not GEJ