Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has claimed that some of the people currently in government should be in jail for their past misdemeanours and criminal misconduct.
Obasanjo stated this on Thursday while speaking virtually at the memorial lecture of Denis Joseph Slattery in Lagos.
According to him, government officials with “questionable” integrity cannot make good decisions that will benefit Nigerians.
In his speech titled “The Imperative for Moral Rectitude in Governance,” Obasanjo pointed out that the most important demand of anybody involved in governance at any level is “accountability.”
He said: “If you look clinically at the people in government today at both executive and legislative levels, some of them should be permanently behind bars for their past misdemeanour and criminal misconduct. You cannot expect thieves to give good judgement in favour of the owner of the property.”
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Olumide Akpata has denied reports that he…
The Committee on Consequential Adjustments in Salaries for civil servants has agreed that the new…
Bayern Munich's Vincent Kompany and his Leverkusen counterpart, Xabi Alonso, have joined the chorus demanding…
Airport Council International has recognized the outstanding commitment of Port Harcourt and the Nnamdi Azikiwe…
The Sunday's match between champions Manchester City and Arsenal is already being billed as a…
The Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) publication on Monetary, Credit, Foreign Trade, and Exchange Policy…