No Sentiments, Deal with the Corrupt Men, Women – Obasanjo

As Nigeria marked her 55th Independence Anniversary yesterday, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that corruption must be kicked out of the country by all legitimate means.

The ex-President who spoke with journalists at his hilltop residence in Abeokuta said Nigerians irrespective of race, gender, age or religion must join in the fight against corruption.

“Fifty-five years in the life of a nation is comparatively young, growing and when you look at the life and history of those that you may call settled societies or reasonably mature countries, we are not doing too badly.

“They have had missteps just like we are having missteps; they have made mistakes and most of them have learnt from their mistakes”, he said.

Obasanjo re-echoed President Muhammadu Buhari’s speech that Nigeria has all the potentialities of a great nation.

“The president in his statement said Nigeria has the potentialities of a great nation. It is just a question of actualising our potentialities and that will require all hands on deck; men, women, Muslims, Christians, young and old, irrespective of our location, our tribe, our social standing, Nigeria needs all hands on deck,” he stated.

He warned that Nigeria should not be a resting place for corruption: “These are some of the things, and then of course, corruption must not have resting place within our society; we must kick corruption out because it destroys almost everything and I am not talking about corruption of money; corruption of attitude, nepotism, favouritism, they are corruption in different forms and all aspects of corruption must be kicked out of our society.”