Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has said Nigeria is in great danger
because of corruption which has stifled good governance as resources
that should be used for public good end up in private pockets.
Mallam Nasir El-Rufai
This was disclosed by the former Federal Capital Territory, FCT, minister yesterday in Lagos, while delivering a lecture on ‘Corruption and the Challenge of Good Governance’ at the national discourse, organised by The Companion.
According to him, one way of measuring the impact of corruption on national development and how it challenges good governance is by looking at the opportunity costs of stolen funds.
He said, "Once government is seen as ‘corruptly’ managing public resources, the entire essence of good governance is lost and the society is in grave danger."
He criticised Jonathan's statement that there is only stealing in Nigeria and not corruption.
He said, "A minister has spent billions on the charter of private jets and the president defends and justifies such waste on national television. President Goodluck Jonathan, who should be leading the fight against corruption, goes on air to pontificate that “what many call corruption in Nigeria is not corruption, but mere stealing."
According to El-Rufai, if the sums lost to ‘mere stealing’, had been committed to something useful in the last four years alone, Nigeria would actually generate nearly as much as South Africa’s forty thousand megawatts of electricity, not the miserable 3,000 currently being generated.
El-Rufai enjoined those in authority to stop politicising and ethnicising everything as a convenient excuse for crass incompetence, unprecedented corruption and totally bad governance, National Mirror reports.
He therefore called on Nigerians to ensure that the best of hands are ruling them, in order not to be destroyed by both political and economic corruption.
Mallam Nasir El-Rufai
This was disclosed by the former Federal Capital Territory, FCT, minister yesterday in Lagos, while delivering a lecture on ‘Corruption and the Challenge of Good Governance’ at the national discourse, organised by The Companion.
According to him, one way of measuring the impact of corruption on national development and how it challenges good governance is by looking at the opportunity costs of stolen funds.
He said, "Once government is seen as ‘corruptly’ managing public resources, the entire essence of good governance is lost and the society is in grave danger."
He criticised Jonathan's statement that there is only stealing in Nigeria and not corruption.
He said, "A minister has spent billions on the charter of private jets and the president defends and justifies such waste on national television. President Goodluck Jonathan, who should be leading the fight against corruption, goes on air to pontificate that “what many call corruption in Nigeria is not corruption, but mere stealing."
According to El-Rufai, if the sums lost to ‘mere stealing’, had been committed to something useful in the last four years alone, Nigeria would actually generate nearly as much as South Africa’s forty thousand megawatts of electricity, not the miserable 3,000 currently being generated.
El-Rufai enjoined those in authority to stop politicising and ethnicising everything as a convenient excuse for crass incompetence, unprecedented corruption and totally bad governance, National Mirror reports.
He therefore called on Nigerians to ensure that the best of hands are ruling them, in order not to be destroyed by both political and economic corruption.
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