Pastor Tunde Bakare, confirms the level of corruption
swimming within the corridors of those saddled with public trust in Nigeria,
which has made corruption official in government on a daily basis.
The General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly made this
know while launching the Onyekachi Ubani Foundation in Lagos at the weekend
decried that: “At the twilight of the military era in Nigeria’s political
trajectory, the name “Nigeria” became synonymous with a certain word, a word
that elicits the image of a cesspool running over corruption.
“At that time, precisely in 1999, Transparency International
rated Nigeria the second most corrupt country in the world in terms of
perception, second only to her eastern neighbour, Cameroon.
“For instance, given the unbridled looting of the treasury
at the time, reportedly to the tune of over 1billion dollars as was
subsequently uncovered following the exit of the military, it was obvious that
the abnormal had become the norm, the illegal had become legal, the outrageous
had become banal and the aberrant had become the gold standard.
“Despite the emergence of a new government on the heels of a
strong anti-corruption campaign, despite the credence lent to this
anti-corruption promise by the antecedents of President Muhammadu Buhari, and
despite global acknowledgment that Nigeria has taken shovel loads off the peak
of this mountain of filth,” he added.
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