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\u00a0By EMMANUEL EDUKUGHO<\/p>\n

The president and the National Assembly should declare an emergency in the fight against corruption.<\/p>\n

Dr. David Oyedepo, Chancellor, Covenant University, Ota, made this call in his address on the occasion of the sixth convocation ceremony of the university on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn institutional stand of this nature will help to keep them accountable and will help their individual and corporate resolve to combat the scourge\u00a0 of corruption since corruption monitors made\u00a0 it very clear that government institutions and the political organisations are the fountain and bedrock of corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the address titled: \u201cCombating the Dinosaur Syndrome: The Scourge of Corruption, the Greatest Threat to the Survival of the\u00a0 Nation,\u201d he said the Nigeria nation and the black race at large like the dinosaur\u00a0 seem to be speedily running down the cliff of extinction through a self-destruct syndrome fueled by the cultism of corruption.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe deep intensive and unabated corruption rot in Nigeria is eating us deep to extinction the way\u00a0 of the dinosaurs, but God forbid\u201d, Oyedepo said.<\/p>\n

The chancellor referred to a public lecture delivered by Prof. Don Ike at Covenant University in 2009, where Ike estimated that by 1999, past Nigerian leaders had stolen or misused $407 billion or 225 billion pounds. This amounted to a sum equal to all Western aid to the continent\u00a0 of Africa.
In 1999, the World Bank compiled a list of Nigeria\u2019s fund by depositors in four Western countries and submitted to the then president of Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom that list, we were told that five of the depositors alone were responsible for much of the stolen funds in the World Bank list of 21 heavy looters.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 total amount deposited in Western banks by the heaviest 21 looters is the equivalent of 150 billion dollars\u201d, Oyedepo pointed out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that one of the reasons why corruption had thrived is because we neglected our true potentials and endowments to go after the raw money from raw crude. We neglected our greatest resource in agriculture and turned a great nation into a beggar nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

He submitted that today, WHO rates life expectancy in Africa at 47 (and in Nigeria 44) against the case of Malaysia\u2019s 74 which got independence at the same time as Nigeria. \u201cThis is one example of the devastating effects of corruption for a nation by her leaders who squandered the resources that should have provided food and health for her people.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Oyedepo, the crave for free money has eroded our national values and this has become to us like a cancerous infection on the entire society.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor instance, how can a nation among the poorest in the world run the most expensive democracy?<\/p>\n

A member of the National Assembly earning more than the president of USA! A Nigerian senator earns at least eight times as much as an American senator and more than three times the American president. What a wasteful generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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