A BRIEF HISTORY OF CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA..... 1. 1960 - 1966: Sir Abubakar Tafawa - Balewas tenure - no public funds stolen 2. 1966: Major - General Aguiyi Ironsis. brief tenure - no public funds stolen 3. 1966 - 1975: General Yakubu Gowons tenure - very little corruption creeping in 4. 1975 - 1976: General Murtala Ramat Muhammeds tenure - zero tolerance for corruption and indiscipline 5. 1976 - 1979: General Olusegun Aremu Matthew Okikiola Obasanjos tenure - rulers started owning large properties running into millions of dollars 6. 1979 - 1983: President Shehu Shagaris tenure - characterized by weak leadership. Ministers and other top functionaries had a field day looting all the lootable public funds and properties even though the President himself was not stealing any dime! 7. 1984 - 1985: Major - General Muhammadu Buharis tenure - zero tolerance for corruption, indolence and indiscipline. Corrupt politicians were jailed a minimum of 100 years in prison each! 8. 1985 - 1993: General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangidas tenure - freed all the corrupt politicians jailed by General Buhari. These same freed politicians are majorly the same set of politicians ruining Nigeria now. During Babangidas tenure public funds were being carted away by public servants like confetti. In one fell swoop, about 12 billion dollars mysteriously vanished! 9. 1993 - 1998: General Sani Abachas tenure - five billion dollars and more stolen in his five years tenure 10. 1998 - 1999: General Abdulsalami Abubakars 11 months tenure -About 2 billion dollars were alleged to have been stolen. Anyway the man is among the wealthiest people in the country today! 11. 1999 - 2007: President Olusegun Matthew Aremu Okikiola Obasanjos second tenure - His bank account grew from twenty thousand naira after emerging from prison to being a multi-billionaire with choice properties in Nigeria and major cities of the world. Public infrastructure declined massively and gangsterism became the order of the day. Corruption prospered massively in his tenure! In one fell swoop, 16 billion dollars just vanished, allegedly for electric power projects but darkness was supplied and is still being supplied in large quantity! In another mysterious disappearance the sum of 300 billion naira (2 billion dollars) meant for road projects also vanished into thin air! 12. 2007 - 2010: Late President Yaraduas tenure - A quiet reserved and the messiah that did not live long to be! The noiseless tenure. Overturned corrupt sale of Nigerias refineries to Obasanjos friends Dangote and Otedola. Ordered EFCC to go after anyone which got Obasanjo scared and calling him a traitor. Went after overturning corrupt sales of Abuja Hilton to Transcorp. When he took ill more acutely all of a sudden after pursuing the corrupt cabal including Obasanjo he suspected poisoning from Obasanjos kitchen staff and fired them. 13. 2010 - Present: President Ebele Goodluck Jonathans tenure? What is your assessment ?
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 07:02:47 +0000
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