Pastor Tunde Bakare, has on Tuesday, August 9, stated that the stench of corruption has remained ‘fantastically’ horrible, despite the anti-corruption campaign of President Muhammadu Buhari.
He noted that even after 17 years of civil governance, the stench of corruption has continued to pollute the national atmosphere.
The presiding Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, stated this, during the launch of the Onyekachi Ubani Foundation.
Recall, that Pastor Bakare, was a running mate to Buhari, during the 2011 General elections.
This came barely 24-hours when the factional Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Kano State, Hussaini Mairiga, took Buhari to the cleaners, by describing him as a total failure.
Examining the President’s performance so far, Mairiga, had expressed worry that after one year of the Buhari administration in power, there was nothing to show, while poverty in the country had reached an unprecedented high level.
Also, Pastor Bakare, posited in his remarks at the event, that, “At the twilight of the military era in Nigeria’s political trajectory, the name ‘Nigeria’ became synonymous with a certain word, a word that elicits the image of a cesspool running over corruption”.
He spoke on the theme, “The System that Allows Massive Corruption in Nigeria Must be a Bad System”.
According to Bakare, “At that time, precisely in 1999, Transparency International, rated Nigeria the second most corrupt country in the world, in terms of perception, second only to her eastern neighbour, Cameroon.
“For instance, given the unbridled looting of the treasury at the time, reportedly to the tune of over $1 billion, as was subsequently uncovered following the exit of the military, it was obvious that the abnormal had become the norm, the illegal had become legal, the outrageous had become banal, and the aberrant had become the gold standard.
“Despite the emergence of a new government on the heels of a strong anti-corruption campaign, despite the credence lent to this anti-corruption promise by the antecedents of President Muhammadu Buhari, and despite global acknowledgment that Nigeria has taken shovel loads off the peak of this mountain of filth, the stench of corruption remains “fantastically” horrible…”
Earlier, Ubani, had appealed to wealthy Nigerians to support the less privileged in the society, adding that, the society will continue to breed miscreants, if the wealthy do not render necessary assistance to the poor and less privileged in the society.
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