NIGERIA; KILLING CORRUPTION!

A former head of states was credited to have said money was not the problem with Nigeria rather how to spend it. This statement has made many conclude that Nigeria was abundantly blessed. If this was a general belief  how come millions of Nigerians live in abject poverty?

Corruption has been touted as the reason for Nigeria to still be called a third world country afterall Malaysia and Nigeria were both in the same categories some four decades ago. Malaysia has leaped from being a third world country to a developed one. But Nigeria seems to have retrogressed. Corruption is one of the reasons given for Nigeria’s rot. It cuts across all facets of the country’s public and private sector. Virtually all the institutions have been compromised and many civil servants are said to be corrupt and also aid political office holders in the heist of public treasury.

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President Buhari famously said ‘if Nigeria does not kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria’. Corruption affects Nigeria in all ways it has affected the Health, Transport, Aviation, Immigration, Security sectors. Nigeria in most cases oozes rot aided by corruption. There is a general consensus that everyone is corrupt even if it can’t be proven. This perception is one of the challenges the president has got to deal with. It is not enough for the EFCC and ICPC to be fighting corruption they must be seen to be fighting corruption. The general populace believes that for the perception to change, big wigs in the country who are perceived to have enriched themselves fraudulently by looting public treasury must be convicted. The conviction of three former governors namely Jolly Nyame, (Taraba), Joshua Dariye (Plateau), and the latest of the lot – Orji Uzor Kalu (Abia) will go a long way in changing the perception about fighting corruption in the country. 
There has been accusation by members of the opposition that the fight is one-sided and that their anti-corruption bodies had been used to witch-hunt their members, with these latest developments, this argument no longer hold water as these three former governors were serving senators of the All Progressive Congress (APC). With this latest judgement even Yahoo boy won’t feel unjustly prosecuted. Naira Marley once tweeted that it seems he was the problem of the country insinuating that he was being unjustly prosecuted by the EFCC. So far, 2019 is the year that the EFCC has secured the most convictions signalling appreciable progress full-stop funds are being recovered common perception of corruption is been altered. For sanity to be fully restored in our public psyche the tempo needs to be sustained. Fraudulent rich individuals should be named and shamed while hard work and integrity be embraced. 
Nigeria will succeed!