President
Goodluck Jonathan claimed today that Nigeria’s biggest challenge to
good governance is not corruption, but the attitude of Nigerians.
Jonathan
submitted this theory today in Yenagoa during a flowery tribute that he
paid his former national security adviser, General Andrew Owoye Azazi,
at Azazi’s burial.
President Jonathan stressed the need for attitudinal change among Nigerians for things to work and the country make progress.
His
remark was provoked by the comment made by the Rt. Rev. Hyacinth
Egbebo, the Catholic Bishop of Bomadi, who attributed the cause of
accidents on Nigerian roads to bad roads created by corruption in
government.
The president rejected the submission and instead retorted, “If Nigerians would change their attitude, you will realise that most of these issues being attributed to corruption are not caused by corruption.
“Recently, I met with officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps who told me that they had discovered that majority of the road accidents are recorded on good roads.
The president rejected the submission and instead retorted, “If Nigerians would change their attitude, you will realise that most of these issues being attributed to corruption are not caused by corruption.
“Recently, I met with officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps who told me that they had discovered that majority of the road accidents are recorded on good roads.
“So you can see it is not a matter of corruption, it is an issue of the people’s attitude.’’
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