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. 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
issue 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."
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. 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
issue 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."
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