Cleric Says Buhari’s Anti-Corruption Fight, Rule Of Law Good For Nigeria’s Image
President Muhammadu Buhari
THE President of the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria, Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Najiriya (EYN), Rev. Samuel Dante Dali, says the all-out fight against corruption and entrenchment of rule of law embarked upon by President Buhari is a welcome development to redeem Nigeria’s battered image in the international community.
Dali spoke yesterday, while fielding questions from journalists in Jos about his assessment of Nigeria’s image abroad on his return from trip to Europe and America, lamented that the country’s has negative image in the international community.
He said Nigeria is still seen overseas as a nation of terribly religiously fanatical and politically corrupt citizens owing to constant political and religious conflicts and intolerance in the country.
Nigerians, he added, are seen as drug peddlers, Internet fraudsters; its citizens highly insecure far more than citizens of other nations in the world, stressing that because of those vices, Nigerian citizens are often subjected to unwholesome embarrassment at international borders and airports.
On the issue of gay marriage, Dali disclosed President Muhamadu Buhari’s response on the issue in America did not surprise the western world, as according to him, they know that Nigeria is a cultured and religiously uncompromising nation,
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The Real name of this War on Terror, Violence, Unrest, Poverty,
Injustice, Human and Civil Rights Abuses, Crime, Desperation,
Hopelessness and Apathy is called ‘CORRUPTION’.
Plain and simple.
World Leaders need to Boldly, Out Loud and Together Declare that we
are at ‘War with CORRUPTION’. We need to pull out it’s roots on every
and all levels.
~ Corruption: The Unrecognized Threat to International Security
– Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Global Think Tank) https://carnegieendowment.org/2014/06/06/corruption-unrecognized-thr…
~ How Corruption Kills the Promise of Social Enterprise https://www.triplepundit.com/2015/03/corruption-kills-promise-social…
~ One (Difficult) Step to Curbing Extremism – (Fighting Corruption) – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace https://carnegieendowment.org/2015/02/03/one-difficult-step-to-curbi…
~ Global corruption a bigger scourge than terrorism – World – CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/global-corruption-a-bigger-scourge-tha…
~ U.S. Global Anti-corruption Agenda | The White House https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/24/fact-sheet-us…
~ We need an international court to stamp out corruption – The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mark-l-wolf-we-need-an-inte…
Wherever you are in the World, in your own jurisdictions and capacity, you can do Something, Anything, just One Thing.
And Make a Difference.
To Turn the page of History,
It starts with us.
We will review and take appropriate action.