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modath:
Corruption fights back is a crazy imagination of black people, corruption fights back cos the system is weak and can be manipulated!

Diezani popularized that crazy statement!!!!

Corruption should try to fight back in china..

chuna1985:
China is 10 times more corrupt than nigeria.

modath:
Corruption fights back is a crazy imagination of black people, corruption fights back cos the system is weak and can be manipulated!

Diezani popularized that crazy statement!!!!

Corruption should try to fight back in china..

HungerBAD:
IF only we knew that the entire world was watching us, we would have realised that it is too early to begin to derail the anti-graft war, which we all agreed upon a few months back.

This is the very nature of most wars – they start small like the proverbial madman’s fire, where he claims to have only struck a match here; but he knows nothing about the conflagration over there.

Except we act fast, the theatricals we see today are capable of many perhaps unintended consequences – our war against corruption is at risk; and our once-revered institution of the National Assembly may also be consumed.

At the higher echelon of our society, we see a grand design to start a scattered fight that will be raging in multiple fronts at the same time. The fight will be so scattered that it will become uncontrollable. The emerging scenario portends a frightening glimpse:

There is an alleged case of forgery of the Senate Rules against a section of the Senate leadership; The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is questioning Mrs. Toyin Saraki, wife of the Senate President, over some stupendous wealth accumulation when her husband was the Governor of Kwara State; Senator Godswill Akpabio is currently being investigated by the EFCC over allegation of corruption while he was the Governor of Akwa-Ibom State.

Like the case of engineering the engineer instead of his engine, a petition against the EFCC boss, Ibrahim Lamorde, over corruption charges suddenly lands in the Senate. A fast probe is ordered into the petition; in a manner suggestive of people running away from an approaching tsunami; the Senate Committee starts hearing the petition and in the meantime, the Committee walks due process on its head.

This has irked some of the Senators and there is a big division in the ranks of the Senators. Suddenly, there is now an unholy alliance between Senator Akpabio with his group of PDP Senate Caucus on the one hand, and the Senate APC Unity Forum, on the other. The alliance is against the Senate Committee probe on Lamorde. And so suddenly, too, we see another very unholy alliance between Lamorde and Akpabio. Both men are now on the same page and a possible plan here could be some horse-trading on the Nation’s fortunes.

Apart from the fact that the petition against Lamorde failed the test of due process, it was like spitting into the mouth of a man who was already intent on vomiting. Apparently, Akpabio saw a window of opportunity in the ensuing confusion and built a connection supportive of the old aphorism that an enemy’s enemy is a friend – all in a conspiracy against Nigeria! The foregoing narrative is what we call rumble in the jungle.

These are politicians who are yet to know that it is not always smart to be smart. Nigeria must act quickly to stop the looming embezzlement of public trust. None of our fights against corruption shall be lost to intrigues!
For a start, Lamorde must step aside immediately to allow for proper investigation of the petition against him.

Again, Lamorde has ostensibly outstayed his welcome in the EFCC, having held sway since 23 November 2011. The point has been reached where he might even be unable to answer the supplementary questions. For instance, was this the same man under whom the EFCC went to sleep during the Jonathan era only to engage the speed gear as soon as Buhari came in? History shows no mercy for duplicity. His continued stay in the EFCC would clearly be a hindrance.

We must quickly shop for a no-nonsense replacement for him. This replacement shall be someone who understands the nature of the war before us and work as such – We must kill corruption before it kills us!
The Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, should have known that a conflict of interest situation was waiting by the corner to ambush him – sitting in judgment over the case of the man in whose hands was the case of corruption against his wife?
We question the rationale behind the Senate constituting itself into a court of first instance in the fight against corruption.

Evidently, the accusations against Lamorde are weighty enough to warrant thorough investigations. This is a case in which the Chief Executive Officer, Panic Alert Security System, PASS, Dr. George Uboh, is alleging that Lamorde failed to remit over N2.051 trillion recovered by the anti-graft agency between 2004 and 2013 to the federation account. Uboh also speaks of the diversion of another sum of more than N1 trillion by the EFCC.

Uboh’s petition should be sent to where it rightly belongs – the EFCC, an EFCC without Lamorde. The undue haste with which the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions went into the matter bespeaks the Committee as acting out a script that had been written elsewhere. Still more ludicrous, and indeed nauseating, is the fact that a particular Senator who appeared more like a back-man, and stayed glued, to Mrs. Saraki during her visit to the EFCC is now in the frontline of Lamorde’s prosecution (or persecution?) in the “Senate court”.

Where is justice coming from?In the particular case of the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Akpabio, the EFCC is investigating him on series of petitions by the Abuja-based Law Firm of Leo Ekpenyong and Associates, alleging that while he was the Governor of Akwa-Ibom State, he abused his office by stealing public funds from which he built sprawling estates in many parts of the country.

In this apparent rumble in the jungle, nothing shall be left to chance. Every case must be religiously prosecuted!
Lest we forget, Uboh’s conclusion is instructive: “If I am right, arrest Lamorde; and if I am wrong arrest me”.

We are reminded that it is not a crime to render service to one’s fatherland. Those false alarmists out there whose stock-in-trade is to deliberately smear others who serve their people must also be adequately punished.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/rumble-in-the-jungle-as-corruption-fights-back/

seunmsg:
"If we as citizens can support him by rising above the usual ethnic and religious attachments we have for leaders from our areas who mostly don't even care about us, am very sure the country will start getting things right". This is from the post you quoted and it should answer your question.

modath:
Corruption fights back is a crazy imagination of black people, corruption fights back cos the system is weak and can be manipulated!

Diezani popularized that crazy statement!!!!

Corruption should try to fight back in china..

seunmsg:
In the case of Nigeria, it will take a strong willed president to build that strong institutions Obama talked about. We have too many fault lines as a country so any president that make attempt to do things right will easily get drowned by those who benefit from the current system by quickly activating the fault lines.

That's why it is pertinent for most patriotic Nigerians to support the PMB's administration. He has shown so far that he has the strong will to fight corruption and take on those bigots who are benefiting from the current system. With the presidents strong will and support of Nigerians, we can start building the strong institutions that are necessary to make our country work.

IbokUtoroh:
the more u defend fashola, tinubu, buhari, oshiomole, el rufai, kwankwaso, amaechi, rochas, aregberascal etc, we go also de defend our own period.

Amaechi na saint, akpabio na pope.
If u dont like it, commit suicide.
We r wailing for a just course, for a better nigeria.
Una dey masturbate n lie for una stomach.
When will buhari declare his assets?

oismail:
Fighting corruption is one of the hardest things to do especially when you are new into the system.
People are just 'antagonising' PMB administration for nothing without taking certain things into consideration
1. He's new into the system and due to the reluctant of the last administration to deliver handover note to the administration is also key to the slow start
2. And to fight corruption you need strong fact and evidence so as not to waste public fund on unrealistic cases. I think that's one of the major reasons why we ain't hearing much this time
3. Our major source of income generation has dropped over 400% so he has to make use of the little we are generating. It's hard time for the FG at this time, so let's be patient.
4. Before now, the federal character has being followed but it has failed us tremendously because the person who is appointing don't even know his appointees too well. If you become Ng president today and you want to honestly appoint some key appointments and you want honest people and (for instance) you being residing in SW since birth, you are most likely going to appoint more people in the SW cux u don't people in other zones except they are recommending them to you.

Thank God they are expecting much from the President now. We were not expecting anything from the Ex President, that's POSITIVE

HungerBAD:
IF only we knew that the entire world was watching us, we would have realised that it is too early to begin to derail the anti-graft war, which we all agreed upon a few months back.

This is the very nature of most wars – they start small like the proverbial madman’s fire, where he claims to have only struck a match here; but he knows nothing about the conflagration over there.

Except we act fast, the theatricals we see today are capable of many perhaps unintended consequences – our war against corruption is at risk; and our once-revered institution of the National Assembly may also be consumed.

At the higher echelon of our society, we see a grand design to start a scattered fight that will be raging in multiple fronts at the same time. The fight will be so scattered that it will become uncontrollable. The emerging scenario portends a frightening glimpse:

There is an alleged case of forgery of the Senate Rules against a section of the Senate leadership; The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is questioning Mrs. Toyin Saraki, wife of the Senate President, over some stupendous wealth accumulation when her husband was the Governor of Kwara State; Senator Godswill Akpabio is currently being investigated by the EFCC over allegation of corruption while he was the Governor of Akwa-Ibom State.

Like the case of engineering the engineer instead of his engine, a petition against the EFCC boss, Ibrahim Lamorde, over corruption charges suddenly lands in the Senate. A fast probe is ordered into the petition; in a manner suggestive of people running away from an approaching tsunami; the Senate Committee starts hearing the petition and in the meantime, the Committee walks due process on its head.

This has irked some of the Senators and there is a big division in the ranks of the Senators. Suddenly, there is now an unholy alliance between Senator Akpabio with his group of PDP Senate Caucus on the one hand, and the Senate APC Unity Forum, on the other. The alliance is against the Senate Committee probe on Lamorde. And so suddenly, too, we see another very unholy alliance between Lamorde and Akpabio. Both men are now on the same page and a possible plan here could be some horse-trading on the Nation’s fortunes.

Apart from the fact that the petition against Lamorde failed the test of due process, it was like spitting into the mouth of a man who was already intent on vomiting. Apparently, Akpabio saw a window of opportunity in the ensuing confusion and built a connection supportive of the old aphorism that an enemy’s enemy is a friend – all in a conspiracy against Nigeria! The foregoing narrative is what we call rumble in the jungle.

These are politicians who are yet to know that it is not always smart to be smart. Nigeria must act quickly to stop the looming embezzlement of public trust. None of our fights against corruption shall be lost to intrigues!
For a start, Lamorde must step aside immediately to allow for proper investigation of the petition against him.

Again, Lamorde has ostensibly outstayed his welcome in the EFCC, having held sway since 23 November 2011. The point has been reached where he might even be unable to answer the supplementary questions. For instance, was this the same man under whom the EFCC went to sleep during the Jonathan era only to engage the speed gear as soon as Buhari came in? History shows no mercy for duplicity. His continued stay in the EFCC would clearly be a hindrance.

We must quickly shop for a no-nonsense replacement for him. This replacement shall be someone who understands the nature of the war before us and work as such – We must kill corruption before it kills us!
The Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, should have known that a conflict of interest situation was waiting by the corner to ambush him – sitting in judgment over the case of the man in whose hands was the case of corruption against his wife?
We question the rationale behind the Senate constituting itself into a court of first instance in the fight against corruption.

Evidently, the accusations against Lamorde are weighty enough to warrant thorough investigations. This is a case in which the Chief Executive Officer, Panic Alert Security System, PASS, Dr. George Uboh, is alleging that Lamorde failed to remit over N2.051 trillion recovered by the anti-graft agency between 2004 and 2013 to the federation account. Uboh also speaks of the diversion of another sum of more than N1 trillion by the EFCC.

Uboh’s petition should be sent to where it rightly belongs – the EFCC, an EFCC without Lamorde. The undue haste with which the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions went into the matter bespeaks the Committee as acting out a script that had been written elsewhere. Still more ludicrous, and indeed nauseating, is the fact that a particular Senator who appeared more like a back-man, and stayed glued, to Mrs. Saraki during her visit to the EFCC is now in the frontline of Lamorde’s prosecution (or persecution?) in the “Senate court”.

Where is justice coming from?In the particular case of the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Akpabio, the EFCC is investigating him on series of petitions by the Abuja-based Law Firm of Leo Ekpenyong and Associates, alleging that while he was the Governor of Akwa-Ibom State, he abused his office by stealing public funds from which he built sprawling estates in many parts of the country.

In this apparent rumble in the jungle, nothing shall be left to chance. Every case must be religiously prosecuted!
Lest we forget, Uboh’s conclusion is instructive: “If I am right, arrest Lamorde; and if I am wrong arrest me”.

We are reminded that it is not a crime to render service to one’s fatherland. Those false alarmists out there whose stock-in-trade is to deliberately smear others who serve their people must also be adequately punished.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/rumble-in-the-jungle-as-corruption-fights-back/

modath:
Corruption fights back is a crazy imagination of black people, corruption fights back cos the system is weak and can be manipulated!

Diezani popularized that crazy statement!!!!

Corruption should try to fight back in china..

IbokUtoroh:
it requires policies..... As simple as abc.
Why do bankers dont steal?
Even when they r exposed to so much monies. Why not replicate that same reforms in corporate banking world to public n civil service?
You see its very simple, unless u dont want to do it.

modath:
Corruption fights back is a crazy imagination of black people, corruption fights back cos the system is weak and can be manipulated!

Diezani popularized that crazy statement!!!!

Corruption should try to fight back in china..

TheFreeOne:
Fighting corruption requires strong institutions not strong leadership. Buhari hasn't done anything than taking glory for Gej works except you considers "BODY LANGUAGE" an achievement.

Its ironic for Buhari to expect nigerians support in rejecting ethnic/religious bias when he's a master of the game.

oismail:
Fighting corruption is one of the hardest things to do especially when you are new into the system.
People are just 'antagonising' PMB administration for nothing without taking certain things into consideration
1. He's new into the system and due to the reluctant of the last administration to deliver handover note to the administration is also key to the slow start
2. And to fight corruption you need strong fact and evidence so as not to waste public fund on unrealistic cases. I think that's one of the major reasons why we ain't hearing much this time
3. Our major source of income generation has dropped over 400% so he has to make use of the little we are generating. It's hard time for the FG at this time, so let's be patient.
4. Before now, the federal character has being followed but it has failed us tremendously because the person who is appointing don't even know his appointees too well. If you become Ng president today and you want to honestly appoint some key appointments and you want honest people and (for instance) you being residing in SW since birth, you are most likely going to appoint more people in the SW cux u don't people in other zones except they are recommending them to you.

Thank God they are expecting much from the President now. We were not expecting anything from the Ex President, that's POSITIVE

oismail:
Fighting corruption is one of the hardest things to do especially when you are new into the system.
People are just 'antagonising' PMB administration for nothing without taking certain things into consideration
1. He's new into the system and due to the reluctant of the last administration to deliver handover note to the administration is also key to the slow start
2. And to fight corruption you need strong fact and evidence so as not to waste public fund on unrealistic cases. I think that's one of the major reasons why we ain't hearing much this time
3. Our major source of income generation has dropped over 400% so he has to make use of the little we are generating. It's hard time for the FG at this time, so let's be patient.
4. Before now, the federal character has being followed but it has failed us tremendously because the person who is appointing don't even know his appointees too well. If you become Ng president today and you want to honestly appoint some key appointments and you want honest people and (for instance) you being residing in SW since birth, you are most likely going to appoint more people in the SW cux u don't people in other zones except they are recommending them to you.

Thank God they are expecting much from the President now. We were not expecting anything from the Ex President, that's POSITIVE

oismail:
Fighting corruption is one of the hardest things to do especially when you are new into the system.
People are just 'antagonising' PMB administration for nothing without taking certain things into consideration
1. He's new into the system and due to the reluctant of the last administration to deliver handover note to the administration is also key to the slow start

oismail:
Fighting corruption is one of the hardest things to do especially when you are new into the system.
People are just 'antagonising' PMB administration for nothing without taking certain things into consideration
2. And to fight corruption you need strong fact and evidence so as not to waste public fund on unrealistic cases. I think that's one of the major reasons why we ain't hearing much this time

oismail:
Fighting corruption is one of the hardest things to do especially when you are new into the system.
People are just 'antagonising' PMB administration for nothing without taking certain things into consideration
4. Before now, the federal character has being followed but it has failed us tremendously because the person who is appointing don't even know his appointees too well. If you become Ng president today and you want to honestly appoint some key appointments and you want honest people and (for instance) you being residing in SW since birth, you are most likely going to appoint more people in the SW cux u don't people in other zones except they are recommending them to you.

chuna1985:
China is 10 times more corrupt than nigeria.

shaqhead:
Nope..i beg to disagree with you..actually strong institutions are a product of strong leadership then over TIME such institutions take on a life of their own. Have we had such strong leadership?

We dont have strong institutions because we most times have had square pegs in round holes, weak leaders who fan to death positions they are saddles with. An example wl suffice; When I say NAFDAC, one name pops to ur head-late DORA AKUNYILI. Why? She was a strong leader who did a good job when she headed that body and she brought to our collective consciousness the work that that body does or rather shd b doin. Her stellar performance has now become a template benchmark for her successors which we now and will always refer to. Imagine a "Dora" in 50% of governmental positions and u wl appreciate d place of strong leadership which unwittingly birthes strong institutions ! Why was a Fowler brought to head an FIRS?

What if the EFCC under Ribadu hadnt bn derailed by executive puppet strings? I guess we would have had a better foothold in the fight against corruption. PMB wl have to do somtn about that Lamorde!

The US president or leaders of other advanced democracies can conveniently talk about strong institutions, foundations for such institutions which u and I kno they ddnt build. Their strong institutions were a product of d sweat and blood of their foundin fathers wc has bn consolidated upon over time by succesive leadership.

For u to jst assume that strong institutions are self creationist jst becos there are policies in place doesnt add up!

IbokUtoroh:
what should i term u?
U mean a president in nigeria dont knw people from other regions, n u think u making sense?
What s d concept of building alliances, why seek those regions vote when u knw you dont knw any credible people from that region?
Before election apc when d head is okay d rest of the body will be okay no matter how bad d body is, why change concept now? We still hv police men extorting money from motorist everywhr, most times i querry d drivers for giving them n they will laugh at me. The head is now okay but nothing has change with d body, u guys thought once buhari enters everything will fall back in place, but reverse is d case.
33 out of 36 ministerial nominees fails screening, but buhari na strongman na, the present kingkong of africa, he will tame any corrupt politician,,,, y him no employ them n tame them?