Ndume warned of corruption, and said that people in Nigeria were praised for stealing

Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, representing Borno South, has raised serious concerns about rampant corruption in Nigeria.

Speaking to journalists in Kano on Sunday, he highlighted the worrying normalization of corrupt practices among politicians.

Ndume stated, “Our main challenge in this country is corruption. Until now, we do not have laws that are able to address the problem of corruption in this country proactively and reactively. If you look at someone in our system, especially in politics or government, and he is not corrupt, then he is lucky because he fears God. Otherwise, only in Nigeria you steal money and walk around freely and you are celebrated.”

He describes a disturbing dynamic in a society where individuals who have recently acquired wealth are often respected, even if the source is questionable.

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“If you come to an area like this, people will start lobbying you and kowtow before you even when they know the money was stolen. Only in this country a person has no money yesterday or last week, but the next week he buys 10 cars; bought a jet and his brothers would fly with him, his mother would fly with him, his uncle would fly with him, and they would say that God had blessed our son.”

Ndume lamented the lack of progress in establishing legislation to tackle unexplained wealth, and noted that previous attempts to introduce such legislation had been unsuccessful. He described attempts to persuade the former head of state to sign an executive bill on the issue, which was ultimately rejected. “Until now in Nigeria there is no law regarding the Unexplained Wealth Act and there is no Executive Order regulating it,” he said.

The senator also addressed the pressing issue of hunger in the country, and advocated increased cultivation of food crops to mitigate this crisis. “There is hunger on earth and up to now we have not cultivated even five percent of our land. Nigeria is blessed with vast fertile land,” he stressed.

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