{"id":219579,"date":"2024-09-21T20:25:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T20:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/21\/thieves-cant-offer-good-governance-obasanjo\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T20:25:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T20:25:50","slug":"thieves-cant-offer-good-governance-obasanjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/21\/thieves-cant-offer-good-governance-obasanjo\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves Can\u2019t Offer Good Governance \u2013 Obasanjo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_885716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-885716\" style=\"width: 864px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-885716\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot_20230711-090733_Opera-Mini-1.jpg\" alt=\"Olusegun Obasanjo\" width=\"864\" height=\"516\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-885716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olusegun Obasanjo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Friday posited that good governance can\u2019t be provided by politicians who are corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke virtually at the memorial lecture of Denis Joseph Slattery on \u201cthe imperative for moral rectitude in governance,\u201d held at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>While he referred to corrupt political leaders and politicians as \u201cthieves,\u201d he noted that such people cannot provide just governance.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to him, they should be jailed for their misconduct, adding that the most important demand of anybody involved in governance at any level is \u201caccountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The elderstatesman who maintained that government officials with \u201cquestionable\u201d integrity cannot make fair decisions for the greater good, said: \u201cIf you look clinically at the people in government today at both executive and legislative levels, some of them should be permanently behind bars for their past misdemeanour and criminal misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO: Hardship: I Didn\u2019t Come To Exploit Nigerians, But To Work \u2013 Tinubu<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot expect thieves to give good judgement in favour of the owner of the property,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Recalling a personal experience, he said: \u201cThe first thing that shocked me when I went into politics was the level of corruption of election officials which was taken as normal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second was the level of general and criminal misbehaviour which was taken with levity and impunity. We were at a meeting and a man lied and I confronted him, and the next thing he said is \u2018It is all politics, Sir.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery bad thing they do is passed on as politics which means politics has no room for morality, principles, rectitude, ethics, good character and attributes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that Nigeria needs \u201ctransformational leaders rather than transactional leaders, truth instead of lies, honesty instead of dishonesty, integrity instead of disintegrity, hope instead of despair, production instead of deduction, inclusion instead of exclusion and marginalisation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The memorial lecture, organised by the Old Boys\u2019 Association of St. Finbarr\u2019s College, was in remembrance of the late Irish-born missionary who sojourned to Ilawe-Ekiti, Nigeria in 1941.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"941128\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-552417612\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/FirstBank-Giant-Strides300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olusegun Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Friday posited that good governance can\u2019t be provided by politicians who are corrupt. He spoke virtually at the memorial lecture of Denis Joseph Slattery on \u201cthe imperative for moral rectitude in governance,\u201d held at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos. 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