Obi condemns unending corruption in Nigeria

Obi

By TANKO ALI

The Labour Party’s standard bearer in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has, for the umpteenth time, decried the relentless scene of corruption that Nigeria has become.

Reacting to the huge N7 trillion budget fraud uncovered by the BudgIT in the 2025 federal budget, Obi said

Nigeria remains a relentless scene of corruption.

Writing in his X handle on Wednesday, Obi said,, “I have consistently maintained that for this country to make progress, Nigeria must cease to function as a crime scene and be repositioned for genuine development.

“This entrenched corruption – persistent and deeply rooted – must be nipped in the bud if there is to be any meaningful turnaround.

“How else can we explain the distressing revelations by BudgIT, which uncovered a staggering ₦7 trillion in questionable projects inserted into the 2025 national budget? I am convinced that this figure represents only a fraction of the actual amount misappropriated. These findings are deeply troubling and confirm my long-held position that we have turned our country into a crime scene. We must urgently and aggressively combat corruption, misappropriation, and fiscal recklessness to manage our resources effectively and efficiently, and invest in critical areas of development: health, education, and lifting our people out of poverty.

“The ₦7 trillion uncovered as fraudulently inserted into the 2025 budget is even greater than the combined allocations to the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, and the Ministry of Agriculture – ministries that are fundamental to national development.