Lumpen politicians can neither fight corruption nor rebuild Nigeria, By Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu Yusuf
The way forward in effectively tackling the high-level corruption and criminality, as Ibrahim rightly pointed out, is for Left forces: “to work hard to challenge and remove them from power” through an independent political organisation, with a people-centred national agenda on democracy, development, and social justice.
At least, under military dispensations, journalists in the print media like African Concord, The News, Tell, Tempo, as well as the National Concord, The Nigerian Tribune, The Guardian, amongst others, openly exposed high-level corruption and criminalities.
So terrible has high-level corruption become since 1999 that the former United Kingdom Prime Minister, David Cameron, once described Nigeria as “fantastically corrupt.
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