NIGERIA: A SHRINE OF CORRUPTION

Sir,

NIGERIA: A SHRINE OF CORRUPTION

The former bank chief executives were found to have corruptly enriched themselves to the detriment of the shareholders, each of them in multi-billion naira, yet they were the ones that pretended holier than thou, taking front seats at the churches and mosques and the houses of God condoning such filthy lucre?

Former Presidents, Governors and other government officials who were seen clearly to have looted the treasuries are still walking the streets; they use the youths to demonstrate in their favours. With the connivance of the anti-graft agencies; some entered unfulfilled plea-bargains; some use the corrupt judiciary to secure perpetual injunctions?

Sitting governors would claim credit for what projects they did not execute; some would enrich their siblings, one of such siblings presented to the amazement of a foreign embassy,personal bank account where more than N1billion was noticed as lodgement; some would convert their state funds into foreign currencies, one of such like the US$3million which has now been swept under the carpet with the connivance of a banking institution, the police and anti-graft agencies; one was reported, few months into office, to have acquired properties in Abuja worth billions of naira and the anti-graft agency chief that confessed such discovery, looked the other way?

Party chairman would take advantage of when he was a minister and defrauded the federal government of tax-payers’ fund and a presidency that has vowed to check corruption would sit in a meeting where vote of confidence is passed on such a politician?

The National Assembly would be there making laws that suggest that no matter your crime, you can still stand to be voted or appointed to represent a constituent?

One can go on endlessly in reeling out condoned atrocities against the masses. Who can tell me where we are heading to? Encomiums would pour on the dead as if he was Santa alive but the same harboured looters as friends to the office. Who will save the situation?

Fidel Nyong/298 Apapa-Oshodi Expressway/Isolo-Lagos. fidel.nyong@yahoo.com