Nigeria: Obasanjo - Greed, Corruption Are Motives for Discontinuity of Govt Policies

22 May 2014

Kigali — President Olusegun Obasanjo has said successive governments in Nigeria do not continue or implement good policies and programmes of their predecessors because of the intent to perpetrate corruption and greed.

Obasanjo, who pointed this out yesterday at a high-level dialogue on the 2014 Africa Progress Panel Report at the ongoing AfDB annual meetings in Kigali, Rwanda, also said poverty was the choice of African leaders because he believed no country should be poor given the opportunities God had created for every nation and its people.

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