Speaking during a special New Year service at the Dunamis
International Gospel Centre, in Abuja yesterday January 1st, President Jonathan
said his administration is coming up with plans and programmes to fight
corruption in Nigeria. Read what he said below...
"There are two main problems confronting us as a
nation: The issue of insecurity in the North where we have the Boko Haram
terrorists and in the South where we have commercial kidnapping. The next thing
that people worry about after security is the issues of corruption.We are
coming out with programmes and plans to clean up. These are things that you
don’t just use a magical wand to wave 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. You
would have noticed that from Christmas to New Year, at least, it has been calm.
It did not happen by accident.
“It happened because you have been praying for this country
and the government has also been doing something. We do not need to announce
what we are doing. With your prayers, we will surely get there. We will
continue to come up with programmes that will help the ordinary people.
“The same way we won the war against Ebola, we shall win the
terror war. 2015 is a turning point because of the elections. Some people will
not mind if half of the country get burnt because of their ambition.
“I always say that we must have a country first, we must
have a people first before talking about ambition. We must pray that God should
give us the wisdom to do things with some decorum and we should not compromise
the lives of the people for ambition.
“I always say that my ambition and the ambition of any
politician for that matter, is not worth the blood of the smallest Nigerian.”
“For you to achieve anything, you must have a clear vision.
Even if you look at what we have been doing as a nation, you will really see
that before this time when the country used to have this 25 years plan, the
budget was based on 25 years clear plan for the country. So you know where you
are going for 25 years.
“Then it was broken down into five years plan and annual
budget and we knew where we were going. But after some time, things collapsed
and we run government on emergency basis and you see government start wobbling.
“We are going back to those good days when we had vision. We
have plan for agriculture, we have plan for industry, we have plan for
automobile and many other areas. If you have a vision, any proposal that comes
in, no matter how good they are, must fall into your vision for it to go
through. With your prayers, surely as a nation, we will get to where our vision
will take us to.
“Having passed through school and being in government for
quite some time, I have realised that for you to achieve anything, you must
have a clear vision. If you have a clear vision, even if you don’t get the
exact target, you will get something close to the target."
Via: Punch
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