We Are Coming Up With Programs To Rid Nigeria Of Corruption – Jonathan

 

President Goodluck Jonathan has said his administration is coming up with programmes and plans to tackle corruption and rid Nigeria of the cankerworm.

 

In a New Year service on Thursday held at the Dunamis International Church, Abuja, the president conceded that corruption and insecurity are the two major problems militating against Nigerians at the moment.

 

Jonathan added that though we have corruption in the society, there is no magic wand to fight corruption, otherwise, it would have disappeared in Nigeria even before he became president.

 

Read His Statement In Part…………………

 

"Fighting corruption is not about arresting corrupt persons or showing them on television, rather, it is about strengthening institutions and having concrete plans to ensure that the culprits are punished.

 

"Until there is such a structure on ground, corruption will always be celebrated, instead of being tackle.

 

“There are two problems Nigerians comment about daily–the issue of insecurity in the north where we’ve the excesses of Boko Haram terror and in the south where we’ve these commercial kidnappings of people and other violent crimes. 

 

“After insecurity, the next (problem) Nigerians worry about is the issue of corruption. We’re setting up different things to make sure that we curb these excesses, we’re monitoring the airports now, which was never done before. 

 

"We’re coming out with programmes and plans to clean up. These are things that you don’t just use magic wand to waive off. Otherwise even before I became the president, there wouldn’t have been corruption in Nigeria. 

 

“It is not just about shouting corruption. It is not about looking at one person, arrest the person and show him on television.

 

“It is about strengthening institutions and coming up with credible plans to make sure that anybody who gets involved with corruption, the system must have a way of detecting him and punishing him.

 

“Until you put such a system on ground, you cannot talk about eradicating corruption, you will just be celebrating corruption.”