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Former Nigerian military president Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), who ruled the country from 1985 to 1993, has shared his thoughts on how to cleanse the country of corruption.<\/p>\n
In a recent interview with Trust Tv, the octogenarian stated that while he has retired from politics, he remains interested in current events.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cYes I have retired from politics; not involved in politics but still interested in what is happening in politics because this is my country, I don\u2019t have any other country, I have to take interest in what is going on.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, he still gave some candid advice on how the government can win the war against corruption.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAlso Read:\u00a0Corruption: Nigerians Must Live Within Their Means -Buhari<\/strong><\/p>\n IBB said, \u201cI sold an idea but because it came from me, nobody likes it, nobody will like to hear it: Identify areas of corruption and attack them from the source. I read in one of the newspapers where a judge was complaining that they are not well remunerated by the public and that is a sure source of corruption.<\/p>\n \u201cWherever you have a system where you have a lot of control there will be corruption. So, what we try to do, we got government not to be involved in things like production; anything to do with I have to come to you and you will always think you are doing me a favour, so maybe I should reciprocate it, that is the sort of thing.<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cAnd that is why we introduced freeing the economy; you don\u2019t need a license to be graded Grade A your groundnut or cocoa or cotton or whatever it is; you don\u2019t need to go to the central bank or to go to banks to get foreign exchange.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are bureau de change, they set it up in market areas, where you can easily go and get it; so the sources of corruption has to be identified and attacked.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IBB Former Nigerian military president Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), who ruled the country from 1985 to 1993, has shared his thoughts on how to cleanse the country of corruption. In a recent interview with Trust Tv, the octogenarian stated that while he has retired from politics, he remains interested in current events. He said, \u201cYes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}