HEAR WHAT JONATHAN HAD TO SAY ON CORRUPTION! President Goodluck Jonathan began his re-election campaign in Lagos on Thursday, saying he would not fight corruption by arresting and putting people in crates. Jonathan, in his 33-minute speech that centered more on responses to criticisms of his administration by some prominent Nigerians and the opposition, faulted a recent statement credited to the APC presidential candidate, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, that he would send corrupt Nigerians to jail. Although he did not mention names, he was indirectly making reference to Buhari’s role in the 1984 botched attempt to smuggle a former Transport minister, the late Umaru Dikko, to Nigeria. He said, “They said they will start fighting corruption after they have crossed the bridge. And only two days ago, somebody stood in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and said he would catch people that steal and throw them in Kirikiri(Prisons). “I agree that we must stop corruption but I will not do so by catching people and putting them in crates and jailing or killing them. We can’t stop corruption that way.” The President told the PDP chiefs, members and supporters at the carnival-like event that held at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos that “the same mouth says something from the right and the left, making contradictory statements.”
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 18:03:22 +0000
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