Sorry
Mr Babalola but you make the same mistake (as made many others before you) with this newest attempt at describing "corruption" like it was some unique defect in the DNA of Nigeria.
Mr Babalola, there is no country in the world that is free of corruption.
None. Corruption in fact, is not only the oxygen that is inhaled by the current global system, it is also the carbon dioxide that is exhaled.
Seeking therefore the eradication of corruption through polemics alone is similar to seeking to clean a white piece of cloth with soap and dirty brown water.
If we are going to see an end to the effects of what we call corruption, we need to find a new way of doing things. We need to re-build from the foundation up with a new type of material.
Until minds start taxing themselves in order to produce the components that can be used for this re-structuring, all talk against the current dispensation will amount to no more than seeking to empty an ocean of slime with a plastic spoon.
Olmert told to go after court testimony
Thusday, May 29 2008
Israel's defence minister, Ehud Barak, delivered a powerful challenge to his former ally Ehud Olmert yesterday calling on the Israeli prime minister to resign or step aside after a series of embarrassing revelations emerging from a high-profile corruption investigation.
Barak called a news conference in which he said: "I do not think the prime minister can run, in parallel, the government and deal with his own personal affairs. Therefore, out of a sense of what is good for the country and in accordance with the proper norms, I think the prime minister must disconnect himself from the daily running of the government."
Barak's challenge was prompted by the testimony given in a Jerusalem court on Tuesday by an American businessman and fundraiser. Morris Talansky claimed to have passed $150,000 (£76,000) to Olmert over a 15-year period, most of it in cash-stuffed envelopes. Some of the money was used for political campaigning, and some, Talansky believed, went on expensive hotels and a lavish lifestyle.
Olmert, 62, has denied any corruption and insisted he will only resign if he is charged with a crime in this the fifth and most serious inquiry into his conduct. He has already shrugged off other challenges.
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