Must Read-- 7 Undeniable Ways President Jonathan Fought Corruption

 

                     President Goodluck Jonathan has a special approach to fighting corruption. Some find it ineffective. But due to it Nigeria has ‘defeated’ 8 countries to become the 136th most transparent country in the world. His policy was focused on strengthening institutions and blocking loopholes in the system.
                     Here are 7 things Goodluck Jonathan did to reduce corruption:

1. Corruption in the agricultural sector ended within 90 days
This issue was solved with a help of information technologies and a simple cell phone. The Federal Government provided an e-wallet installed phones to farmers. Now instead of getting supplies from the suppliers, the authorities pay the money directly on the farmers’ phones. The farmers buy the fertilizers themselves. Due to it N50 billion were blocked from fertilizer money thieves. Nigeria has saved more than N700 billion on food import due to success in the agricultural sector.
2. Peaceful and credible elections
President Jonathan has mentioned for several times that “electoral corruption is the mother of all corruptions”.
In 2010 governorship elections were acclaimed by both local and international observers to be free, fair and credible in 5 states: Edo state, Ondo state, Anambra state, Ekiti state, Osun state. It is important to mention that only one of these states has been ‘secured’ by the president’s party. The major opposition force (the APC) won in 2 states. The APGA and the LP won the other 2.
3. 60,000 “ghost” workers exposed
A new system for paying salaries, the IPPIS system, was implemented. Since 2012 it helped to discover more than 60,000 of ‘ghost’ workers. Every year these fake workers were stealing N160 billion.
4. Reforms in the import sectors
Reforms in the import sector allowed to block loopholes. Government removed taxes on economic boosting goods – goods that make the economy grow.
5. Stealing money from governmental contracts became harder
In 2007 the public procurement act was implemented. Between 2009-2013 it prevented N558 billion from getting to contract thieves. 180 contract-stealing companies were discovered and punished.
6. The most controversial bill in Nigeria’s history
The “Petroleum Industrial Bill (PIB)” was created in 2008. It is a bill that could block all the corruption loopholes in the petroleum sector of economy. At that time it was rejected. On 18th July 2012, President Jonathan resent the bill. Unfortunately, it has not passed the legislation processes since then.
7. EFCC developed
Between 2012 and 2014 427 cases were prosecuted by the EFCC. Fraud rates has fallen from N495 billion to N300 billion. Most of the cases were: Internet frauds, fee frauds and commercial cases.
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