Most Nigerians are pathologically corrupt – Buhari’s aide, Obono-Obla

 The Chairman, Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, Okoi Obono-Obla, has claimed that Nigerians have refused to support the anti-graft crusade of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

Obono-Obla was reacting to the Nigerian Corruption Survey 2017 published by the National Bureau for Statistics, which states that Nigerians paid bribes to the tune of N400bn between 2015 and 2016.

Speaking on a programme monitored on Channels Television, Obono-Obla said, “It is chilling, daunting, outrageous and shocking but I am not surprised because corruption has become pandemic and endemic. Most Nigerians are pathologically corrupt.

“This government wants to fight corruption but what is the challenge? Nigerians do not want to support the fight against corruption; the judiciary and the legislature do not want to support the fight against corruption. It is as if only the President and the Vice-President are in support of the war against corruption.”

Obono-Obla said Nigeria had laws that could be used in jailing corrupt people but past governments were not brave enough to take the bull by the horn.

He said the Recovery of Public Property Special Provisions Act Cap R4 Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria had existed since 1983 but had never been used by any government to tackle corruption.