Nigeria: Our Society Rewards Corrupt People, Jonathan Laments

18 September 2013

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, expressed his frustration in the fight against corruption in the country, over what he described as a retrogressive system through which the society rewards corrupt people, rather than punish them.

Addressing the Nigerian Economic Society's 54th Annual Conference, in Abuja, President Jonathan lamented that corruption has permeated both public and private sectors and has continued to hamper the nation's desired accelerated development because members of the society were used to celebrating corrupt people.

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