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Professor Itse Sagay in a press interview narrated how Nigeria's leadership has degenerated since independence.
“It was all about service. All about integrity. All about honour. But after the military came in, everything changed…We blame the military, and they deserve to be blamed. It was after the military came in that the whole orientation changed. The orientation of self-enrichment, orientation of diverting resources for very, very dirty and illegal purposes…the military introduced it. But the civilians have magnified and increased it by geometric proportion.”
“What we’re seeing now is that progressively, with time, the quality of the human beings ruling Nigeria has fallen. The First Republic (leaders) were the best. And they were as good as any other persons in the whole world. Second Republic is not comparable at all to the First Republic, but they were not bad to the extreme. They still had some restraint. They still had some fear. Fear of God. Fear of consequences. Then, there was the second coming of the military. In the brief Third Republic, nothing much happened. Abacha sacked them before they were able to do much harm. But this Fourth Republic has really brought into power gangsters. Since 1999, this country has been taken over by conscienceless gangsters.”
Sagay is the chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption which President Muhammadu Buhari named this month.
Daily Trust
“It was all about service. All about integrity. All about honour. But after the military came in, everything changed…We blame the military, and they deserve to be blamed. It was after the military came in that the whole orientation changed. The orientation of self-enrichment, orientation of diverting resources for very, very dirty and illegal purposes…the military introduced it. But the civilians have magnified and increased it by geometric proportion.”
“What we’re seeing now is that progressively, with time, the quality of the human beings ruling Nigeria has fallen. The First Republic (leaders) were the best. And they were as good as any other persons in the whole world. Second Republic is not comparable at all to the First Republic, but they were not bad to the extreme. They still had some restraint. They still had some fear. Fear of God. Fear of consequences. Then, there was the second coming of the military. In the brief Third Republic, nothing much happened. Abacha sacked them before they were able to do much harm. But this Fourth Republic has really brought into power gangsters. Since 1999, this country has been taken over by conscienceless gangsters.”
Sagay is the chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption which President Muhammadu Buhari named this month.
Daily Trust
