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Corruption Thrives in a Country where Impunity Reigns

Young or old, female or male, corruption thrives in a country where impunity reigns. She was supposed to be the future of a party that has led, and continue to lead the culture of corruption in country where its citizens have no reason to be poor because of enormous natural resources....

Ms. Betta Edu, the conflicted and embattled Nigerian Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation is just 37 years old. Her resume is quite impressive. She rose from being a commissioner of health in Cross-river state, to APC youngest National Women's leader, to becoming a substantive Federal Minister in President Tinubu's cabinet. She was supposed to lead the effort at alleviating the problem of poverty that has become endemic among the middle and lower classes in Nigeria. If you live in Nigeria, you will understand that times are hard...

What did she do in less than one year as a Federal Minister, she has allegedly used her office to siphon public fund, money meant to help Kabiru eleran, Megida carrot seller, and Maazi Eze the mechanic. She allegedly paid a company she floated for consultancy a sum of $640,000 (N585,0000) for no just cause.

She is a medical doctor, she is young, foreign trained, from a minority tribe, female and from a humble beginning...so, it really does not matter who you are, if you operate in a system where lack of reckoning and impunity reign, misbehavior thrives. If corrupt Nigerians continue to escape the long arm of justice, public officers and politicians will continue to steal public fund. People will not be afraid to steal public fund if they know they can get away with it...

She is suspended now... I will not be surprised if this is swept under and she is restored into office instead of facing the music and probably a jail term. The least that would probably happen is that she will be let go quietly without prosecution. Prosecute thieves of public fund as a deterrent and see a functioning government; don't, it will be more of the same.

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