Ribadu reflects on corruption in Nigeria

Good talk

Its amazing that in all this we (Nigeria) still stand as a nation. Mr Ribadu has been screaming this well before his "enemies" began to persecute him for doing his Job PROPERLY needless to say even the western world should share some of the blame as there are corrupt people out there too who help crooked Nigerians to succeed in their crimes. My prayers are with Mr Ribadu who to me is one of Nigeria's greatest heroes

Well Done! One man has done 50% of the job, why can we (140,000,000 people) do the remaining? We can and we will!

Ribadu should quit talking from exile, come home and prove to all of us who trusted in him that he is not part of the corrupt practice which eleviated him from a junior office to a senior officer even when he did not deserve it.

I would have loved Ribadu to have mentioned James Ibori as well as all those that has brought Nigeria to this level of decay and also tell the American congress face on that they should look at corruption in the same manner they see terrorists. While a terrorist's bomb can kill hundreds of thousands, a corrupt practice can kill millions; a governor that stashes away the fund meant to build a hospital, road or other social amenities is killing many people that die through unsafe delivery practices, road accidents and all that. Well done Ribadu, I support you 150%

Mr. Ribadu is right on the money! The problem is not the availablity of laws though in certain respects these could be strengthened. The problem lies in compliance enforcement which is lacking because of poor sanctions, selective application of the laws even where sanctions are adequate, mutual capture between government, business and certain groups in society. We need to mobilize the millions of Nigerians who are unhappy with the status quo and get them to bring their numbers to bear on the problem. One way would be to induce social sanctions against the perpetrators of corrupt acts but this is difficult in a country where different morals operate in communities compared to what obtains in the civic space. We have to bridge that gap and the secret is in transparencty of information (ensuring grassroots understand the issues) and follow up (ensuring if people raise their voices to condemn something, there is a way they can follow this up to its conclusion). Corruption in Nigeria is of course systemic and piecemeal efforts will not amount to much so I concede this is a very complex problem however, I still feel the solution lies in finding a way to improve the leverage ordinary people have over their leaders whether voted in by them or not!

Mallam Nuhu Ribadu couldn't have said it better. No doubt, Nigeria has the potential to be one of the greatest nations in the world: but demonic-influenced corruption has kept us in the abyss of moral decadence. Our rulers, tyrants and quislings, from obasanjo to babangida; the abachas and almost every single public office holder have an unwritten pact with EVIL to ensure the masses remain in perpetual poverty.

That was a good one. Someday, one day, we all need to speak out and squash the corruption spirit or it will eat us all up someday, oneday.

i am currently not surprise about how things are been managed in this our so called country. it's very bad that as big as we are in africa, we still see our self or people sees us as the must corrupted country in africa. the common thing the youth needs in this country, which is education we lake. so now tell me, how can we grow

Though Mr Ribadu identified the role of the western world in the massive corruption dragnet in Africa and Nigeria his home country he should also realise that for Nigerians to eradicate corrution everybody must decide not to have soiled hands .Our solution must come from within because the reality is that even the US that he is looking up to as the messiah nation has its own home grown corruption and you only need to live here to notice and get glimpses of this .Infact corruption has been clearly given a beautiful toga on K street Washigton DC with the acronym of lobbyists.Pls lets work on developing our own ways of dealing decisively with our own demons starting from the village to the local government and onward to the state level.From the state we can ensure that those to emerge into national public service are people with proven morality .

Mr Ribadu hit the nail on the head.It is sad however that his is a lone voice. He not only talks the talk but he walks the walk and I am mighty proud of him.

I often wonder if corruption would ever be reduced in Nigeria. There is no single day which corruption is not perpetrated in any institution or organisation in Nigeria. it has become a culture which has eaten into the people's system. The situation in Nigeria is also exacerbated by the greed of Western nations.

THE WESTERN COUNTRIES KNEW WHAT TO DO TO BETTER THE LIFE OF AFRICANS BUT DO NOT INTEND TO DO SO YET.WHAT EXPLANATION DO THIS WESTERN ECONOMIES GIVE ON THE HEAVY CASH AFRICAN PUBLIC HOLDERS DUMP IN FOREIGN ACCOUNTS? THEY ARE THE REAL PROBLEM OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA.

Ribadu is a disgrace to the nigerian nation. Bcos he failed to prosocute the nigerian governors who thief money in the country such peter odili and the likes.

This is good...!

That message is a real fact. A case of AnimalFarm of George Orwell.God help Nigeria to appeciate people like Ribadu.It shall soon be dawn if we could see reason.

Ribadu is a superior person but his god father (Olusegun Obasanjo) is a mischievous sprite. Let Ribadu apologies to Nigerian because we see him as an anti-graft czar why Ribadu doing his god father desire.

It is high time we ask Mr. Ribadu what really happened with his anti-corruption in Nigeria. It is said that 'he who fights and run away and be alive and come back to fight again. I have not been able to fathom how anti-corruption worked during Ribadu's time. This is because those that his Commisssion indicted and convicted through the courts were found roaming Nigerian streets shortly. The nation is yet to witness a conviction which stood the test of time.

I have always mentioned that the Westerners have contributed in ruining the Nigerian economy than the nigerians themselves. But it is the rat in the house who invited the rat in the bush for fish meal. Dr. Etuka Obinwa Lancaster, PA, USA

Hello Ribadu, Yes you really tried. But you were there when OBJ was collecting odious donations for his presidential library. the Transcorp share saga, Ibori fraud team, Odili, etc.. these you could have handled but you looked the other side, or were your hands tied..

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if only yardua had backed ribadu and tried his former govenor colleagues there would have been some diterance but now its free for all stealing yardua is confused and the whole country has gone to gaga except fash of lagos who is still trying to put some democratic divedends to the people Ribadu i pray for you that you will one day see your efforts come to fruitation Amen

Mallam Ribadu is "my MAN of the year" for several years in my own assessement of our people in government. Dora Akuyele was working towards it until his role in EKITI governorship rerun. She messed up terrible. Contrary to my expectations, i thought she will be able to use her new appointment to prove that she's "all rounder" but it's becoming clearer that her best job is in NAFDAC. TO me that's not bad if she can stick to it. Despite his several shortcomings, It's very difficult to find people like Malam Ribadu in Nigeria now. Like somebody earlier stasted, he has done the job 50% let the rest of us do the rest or cooperate with him to continue. One day we will be proud of our country. For now, it's so bad that the few highly currupt people has set up trap for each of the potential anti curruption agaents in government and they will stop at nothing to stain their good image in attempt to cover up by clossing them up in the face of the wacthing inocent nigerian public. Senetor Elumelu is another kind of Mallam Ribadu now. The have set up a trap for him but I hope to see him getting out of it to come and truely champion the course of survering inocent nigerian. GOD HELP NIGERIA.

The challenge of staving off corrupt practices in our system lies not with the Ribadus that have tried but so much with those who think they do not have the courage and guts people like Ribadu have to cause a change!

Oga Ribadu,u don try!God will guide and protect you.

Well this might be the beginning of things to come. I am sure there re those that will say Ribadu has a lot to answer for, I would say like all humans he is not perfect, he might have made mistakes but on the whole there is no doubt that he did more good than bad that is why he was hounded out of office. In Nigeria one can always tell those that did a good job they are never popular with those in power when they are gone. I say we should all rally round Ribadu there is a lot of truth in what he has said, he has not held back and he has said what many Nigerians feel and want to say but are to sacred to. We do not live in a democracy here, we only pay lip service to it like we do to anti corruption and the rule of law. Ribadu has put himself on the line, now all he might need to do is to ask for forgiveness from those he may have wronged unjustly whilst in office. To be a good leader one must also be humble I believe. Perhaps we have found one good leader lets hope more will follow his example.

This should be a pointer for the Change required in Nigeria. A conscientious effort by all is needed to see the change happen. Long Live the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Nigeria is a victim of dubious and corrupt leaders that is hardly embarrassed by the nation's mind-bugging corruption records. Nigerians no doubt is in need of change- a clean break from it's unrighteous past. However, the solution could be found in a man with impeccable service credentials(such as Malam Nuhu Ribadu), who possess an unbridled passion for righting the country's wrongs, whose integrity is beyond reproach , and backed by millions of angry, unemployed, underdeveloped and shortchanged Nigerians will surely flush out these closely-knit gangs of kleptocrats holding down the progress of our country.Thank you Ribadu for giving us a new sense of freshness and hope!

I wish Ribadu had told us what he did as a graft fighter in his days. all we saw was selective harasment of those who were not in good standing with his former boss. Ribadu, open up, clear your name.

its sad that this country does not celebrate its true heroes,intead corrution and greediness are glorified.with people like mallam nuhu,we have hope in this country.

Unitl we stop worshipping those corrupt leaders and start treating them like thieves individually since the govt gives them security we are going no where, Unitl we uderstand that the wealth they are stealling belongs to US and start treating them as such they will continue to build mansions and make party worth of USD10m buying estate around the globe. well let us all sit infront of our laptops and let those corrupt evil men continue to waste our money

I SEE A GENERATION THAT TRANSFORMS A NATION EMERGING