Yinka Oyewumi, Ikeja, Lagos State, +23480330113: Recently a US firm
(Parker Drilling Service) was fined $11.76m for bribing Nigeria
officials. Siemens and Hallibuton were fined lots of money in the US and
Europe with officials jailed for bribes paid in Nigeria. I am at a loss
why nobody in Nigeria has been implicated for receiving the bribe money
or is the money paid to ghost Nigerian officials? I am not sure the
government of President Goodluck Jonathan is serious about its touted
anti-corruption crusade. If we are, we should fish out the elements
tarnishing our image. Anything other than that, the President and the
Finance Minister will continue to stammer on the international news
agencies like CNN anytime corruption question is raised like Mrs. Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala did on Amanpour Life last week. Let the President prove he
is not corrupt, let him fish out the receivers of these bribe monies
and make them face justice as done in other serious countries.
The
country cannot continue to celebrate corruption and expect to be amongst
the most developed economies in the world.
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