PM Hong-won made the announcement at an emergency news conference that held in the country's capital, Seoul, early this morning, days after his government was fiercely criticized about how it responded to the disaster. The PM took responsibility for the slow response of the rescue operation..
"I offer my apology for having been unable to prevent this accident from happening and unable to properly respond to it afterwards. I believed I, as the prime minister, certainly had to take responsibility and resign." the PM said.The captain and all crew members of the ship rescued themselves leaving 300 school children, teachers and other passengers to their fate. They have all since been arrested and facing charges ranging from criminal negligence to abandoning passengers. The confirmed death toll as of today is 187, while the rest are still missing and presumed dead.
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Too bad #bright bravo#
What mindset! True leadership accepts responsibility. This NEVER happens in Nigeria. The more people die,the more resolve Jonathan is to run for another term in office
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The PM is an honourable man... I salute u sir!!! the tragedy is not ur fault but it's nice to see a leader step up... the captain n d crew members on the other hand are like our Nigerian leaders... no sense of responsibility... no honour... no respect for human life except their worthless own!
Hmm will.Nigerian leaders ever take responsibility for anything? Kai long.way to go.
eeeeehhhyyyyaaaaaL dis can never happen in naija!
Hmmmmm he resigned, in niger...it will never happen, very recent example is our interior minister n d mass immigration job interview(meemee).
Jona ought to have committed sucide then ...
OMG!! Dis world is coming 2 an end, may d souls of dose little children & deir teachers RIP. Buh linda u no dey go church ni?
What a pity.....may the soul of dead rest in peace
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May they soul RIP,,where leaders feels for they citizens
This is what will never happen in
Nigeria or Africa.Let our leaders take a cue from this .
"That is a man with conscience and honour. If he were a nigerian, he would remain seated and pledge lies and leave the matter to others."
No. That is politics for you. Seems the duma was tired of our man. What better way to get rid of him? Resign my foot. Though if Nigerians would at least play the game that way, it would be better.
Mwaha.
I go bend the day something like this happens in this godforsaken zoo, no one takes responsibility for nothing. Even when the ppl are calling for their resignation due to their incompetence ma ppl form deaf.
True leadership character... such will never happen in Nigeria.
True leadership character... such will never happen in Nigeria.
Eyaaaa! See pple dat has feelings and human sympathy over lives. Our politicians una de see am? 4 pple wey de rally just a day after we lost souls in nyanya bomb blast. Smh! May their souls rest in peace. Amen!
Is that really necessery, but on the other hand this really shows hw sincere and responsible their goverment is.... May the souls of the dead R.I.P.....
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Diff btw a white and a black man.couldn't live with the guilt however hope GOD gives d dead eternal rest amen
YES IM GOING TO DRAW MR PRESIDENTS ATTENTION TO THIS.....THIS IS A TRUE LEADER WITH A CONSCIENCE! EVEN IF OUR GREEDY LEADERS CANT TO THIS...IT'L B OVER THEIR DEAD BODY TO RESIGN..LOL, BT LET THEM TRY AND BE RESPONSIBLE PLEASE!.....JONA RESCUE OOUR 200GIRLS OR RESIGN!!!!!!!!!!
That's what leadership is about. Speaks volume and sends a strong message!!!
but resigning wont bring back the dead ones............. anyway, dats their own.
Can this happen in Nigeria? Land of black man with black heart. Zionzukki...!
U are a great leader..Goodluck "clueless" Jonathan shld do d same..He shld resign..Jona has failed Nigeria..Jona is a failure...................#King
I just wish the minister of electricity will take blame of all the women who died frm electricity in lagos and resign or the minister of transport will take blame of all the countless death resulting frm the bad roads and resign or the minister of security will take blame of all death resulting frm insecurities and resign or the minister of finance will take blame of all the missing money and resign but no, they seat tight on their seats while we are here suffering their mistake.... God i hate naija with passion....
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That's a leader with a conscience! GEJ does not have the heart to know he is a failure and an indirect murderer. Boko boys have killed countless people in his tenure and he has not acted, neither has he stepped down. He just sits there and watch it get worse... too sad!
Just imagine and still yet over one hundred and something girls are still missing in 9ja yet our president and ministers party all night long...
Dis r leaders dat blood flow through dia veins, our leaders here na water nd red wine in dia veins. D girls of chibok r still nt found, nd Jonathan z still d president abi? Wit all d killings in d country. Smh
In a developed world, the minister of interior, abba Moro would have resigned after the immigration tragedy. To think he is still in office is unbelievable. This our culture of impunity is something else
gej learn from this man. just 300 lives were lost and it made him resign buh thousands have been lost for ur sake. do u really love Nigerians?
For him to have traced the incompetency to himself. i say Kudos to him. How many innocent lives has been claimed in N_____ia? Who is ready to leave his seat for peace to reign?
In Naija in d same world dis people are in? Pm resigns, captain and crew members arrested and facing charges for an accident?! Meanwhile our people are partying after bombs kill like half of a community at d car park, having weddings for their daughters after over 100+ people's daughters have been kidnapped, plus principal and security men including security officers and their dpo are most likely @ home reading dis news on dis blog with us, happy with their children and families. Smh. Gej u need to get ur priorities straight, are the political rallies for ur next tenure more important than making your country stable and safe for us to live in NOW! Or is it by the time d whole of the North is wiped out u'll be satisfied? Naija where r peoples daughters...... Listen Nigerians this is how I feel, if we do not unite and stand with 1 voice things won't get better, let's stop being judgemental of each other, nobody holy pass. It's everywhere even on dis blog, Yoruba go cuss out Igbo, Igbo go swear for Hausa, Hausa go commonize d minorities, What is happening Naija, y is this a situation, who offended who or did ur forefathers tell u some secret about the other ethnicity that can't make us unite? People we need to know what we are doing b4 we let dis politicians run the country into the ground, let's be out brothers keeper no matter the tribe u are from let identify ourselves as Nigerians, no matter what d outside world say abt us we can only b identified as NIgerians so let's be NIgerians, let's get our backs, let's unite and be 1, let us speak with 1 voice then nobody can say they do not want to listen, Nobody. Cheers. BM. Bless
See government dat take responsibility. After thousands don die for book haram hands, oga jona is canvassing for second term
i hope Bro Jonna had a nice time dancing Skelewu at Ibadan and Kano after a major incident in Borno...he should not resign ooo but should be very ashamed of himself and his administration...Meanwhile Linda, abeg put spell checker on your tingy..all the vocabularies wey dey my head i no fit spell again before bonaris naggs abuse my family if i throw grammar..
Not like out Irresponsible GEJ dat parties while his country mourns. Not in naija
If I hear say dix kind tin happen for naija...#deadCountry
If I hear say dix kind tin happen for naija...#deadCountry
boko haram has killed over 500 pple nd abducted others but oga Jonathan hasn't resigned.no honour in Naija.
GEJ should atleast learn one thing from dis honorable man,if not all...atleast to accept responsibility to some certain national mishap,n not pointing accusing fingers from North to south!
To the bereaved families,take heart,
Hmmmmm.... can never happen in Nigeria
na wa oh . oyibo na oyibo whoo 4 africa fit do dis one . Resign ! if i hear
That is a PM who has d interest of his ppl @heart n he resigned bcos of mistakes n took responsibility of all d disaster. If u av d interest of ur citizen @ heart, drs nothing u can't do to protect it. Smbdy should GEJ to take a bold step n protect nigerians frm dis deadly inhuman nonentities.mr presi pls, protect us do d needful n save nigeria.....biko
Kai,can a Nigerian politician do this? 100% cant
Awwww, this president's noble act melted my heart.He is indeed worthy to be called a patriot.
I wish to live and see the day a Nigerian president will voluntarily resign as a result of incompetency.But I doubt if its happening in this lifetime.Our leaders,godfathers and mafia dons have sworn to hold Nigeria by the jugular,and not even the noble act of chung Hong-won can give them a reason for sober reflection.na wa o
That's how leaders are supposed to lead.... In naija ,one million go die n d president will b partying n grooving n travelling n rallying on the same day... Naija we hail thee
This is a honourable gentleman. No 9ja politician can ever do this; hopeless bastards! Dr chris.
I respect leaders like this, he didnt need to resign but he did to provide some closure for the citizenry... it is pathetic how our nigerian leaders think of blaming opposition n holding their positions jealously than realising they failed, they never take responsibility, instead they turn am to religious occurrence- what will be will be- God knows best- when the truth is they were negligent in performing their duties.
Eyaaaa..make e b 9ja Abba Moro-N wt his burnt face ll start rapping shits instead of him wt resign & 2 think dt dz old man is still parading d corridors of power wen he ought 2b facing charges ranging from criminal negligence resulting 2d untimely death of great Nigerians ...*LeOnOrA*
Obviously, this can never, i repeat never happen in Nigeria. Rather, they will sponsor some hungry Nigerians for their anti-resignation rally. Kudos to the former PM!
Oya kip pop in GEJ must resign too....LOL I trust my pple....#W.G#
Good luck Ebele Jonathan you dey hear?
Make i hear say GEJ resign because of those missing girls
Dear GEJ, members of the FEC
, please take a cue. Thanks.
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I wish same can happen in Nigeria; but then again, they are all crooks..
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This is what I call a high sense of responsibilty this can't happen in nija.if all the ferries like make them sink nobody will resign cos of that
It is only in Nigeria that leaders don't take responsibility for their failure in governance. Resigning because his govt didn't respond properly to the disaster, noble and courageous decision. God rest their souls.
Good Country with great Leaders. When will Nigeria adopt this style of Leadership? AFE.
the price of leadership and an act responsibility..... Nigeria Leaders should learn..
That's how u knw a leader...nigeria rulers will reather condemn...
For something he had no direct responsibility for, he stepped down. Whilst in Nigeria, the idiot who misinformed Nigerians about the well being of over a hundred girls is still sitting pretty in the office. And they say this a democratic society.
GEJ sycophants should tell us why he must come back in 2015 with this kind of news. Those are the people that value life
This is how a responsible leader act, but in nigeria naa chop till they quench like house flies on a dead body. JEG should resign honorably since he cannot solve book Haram killings or rescue the missing shool girls.
It is only in Nigeria that leaders fail to take responsibility for their failure in governance. Resigning for his govt failure to handle the disaster properly, noble and humble decision. God bless the dead.
Dat was a nice step to take as a responsible leader with conscience & human sympathy. I wish our leaders can emulate dis virtue in other world leaders rather they choose to hold on to power tenaciously no minding who it affects or not. Close to 200 female student in d den of terrorist, 75 died in less than a week & all we see is our leaders in various form of campaign, blame shifting & lambasting one another in social media. When we our leader grow up? When will they ever take responsibility for anything that affects the poor masses? When will they ever angry that they re not qualified to rule when they cant deliver their campaign promises & resign? Only God will judge them!
That's how true leaders act. They take responsibilities for their actions & that of their fellowers, but never will such be found in Nigeria
A man with self respect. Despite the fact that Jonathan has been unable to curb the menace of bokoharam I still haven't heard of his resignation
I trust GEJ,resign ke,instead of him to resign he would rather continue dancing Azonto,busy with pursuing unseen and uncertain days leave the present mishap.
oga Jona u dey see wetin ur mate dey do so. innocent blood wey dey your neck is up to 5,000 u still dey attend birthday parties and other irrelevant ceremony up and down. If u like your self look for the 200 chibok girl. i am tired of hearing your heart goes out to d victims please let ur stupid self get out of the presidential sit b4 we die finish.
...when you read stories like this, you tend to ask yourself when our own leaders will learn taking responsibilities for all the inactions in this nation! It is well!
Wow I wish I was from that Country South Korea. Our President GEJ is dancing in PDP rally after series of disasters. Na Wao
And God will punish Johna ooo...So it is sweeting him the way people are just dying...Chung kong wo can't even stand it he had to resign...once again God punish Jonathan
now this is the true definition of patriotism. Can this ever happen in Naija?
Since Jona wil neva resign why is it so impossible to wipe Boko Haram away. All these men parading themselves as men of God why cnt the see Boko Haram hide outs and help the military. Fake prophetz n lukewarm Jona
The path of honour indeed. Which way Africa? Which way Nigeria. May things like this begin to happen in Nigeria.
Nigerian politicians shud take a page off his notebook....rili feeling depressd over dis incident...I got to start luving southkoreans thru their movie..so sad
0ver 90 people where killed in a bomb blast with over 100 injured and the Nigerian President went Dancing in Kano for a PDP rally ( not a presidential function)and same afternoon went to a birthday bash at Ibadan ( not a presidential function). #Food for thought
E no go happen in 9ija...barely 24hrs after Nyanya bomb blast our oga @ the top attend rally and oba anniversary.
What kind of irresponsible, cowardly, nobleness people are these? What sort of f**kery is ds? They left kids to their fates and presented themselves first for treatment and rescue! They should all be severly punished! No shame at all
wow! wow! see leadership and value for life!!.. meanwhile johnathan went dancing. Are we of the same human race?? God, please touch the wicked hearts of nigerian rulers
This is responsibility at its peak.
I trust their Government to deal with the captain and crew members.
A good example for Nigerian Presidents,Ministers,Legislators to follow.In Nigeria,let the heaven fall,they will stay put. The Interior Minister,is still in government after the failed Immigration recruitment excecise with it's resultant deaths of our youths.All Nigerian leaders shud b ready for expiation as shown by this Korean PM.
The Borno state governor should have resigned a long long time ago.
Its called being honourable.sad tho.
Wat a pity, nija please learn from this...
We need to learn this in naija.
"Hey! Resign??! he is a coward, even if boko haram carry nigeria for head go anoda place my president go follow dem so long as he remain presido. Resign ke,he neva talk wetin he c (#innaijapolitician'svoice#)
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I trust Goodluck Jonathan,the moment he leaves the scene,he has forgotten what might have happened..No nigerian leader can resign volountarily because they dont have no respect for human life,no passion,no conscience.Imagine them embezzling Pensioners retirement funds,while those old people are suffering,when evil things happen to them,they always forget what they have done and the mass curses they recieve from fellow Nigerians
Dats d true meaning of leadership biko..in naija evn if 10thousand die d leaders will evn go 2nd tenure..slepn on d mattr wake me up wen naija is lyk ds..lol dats sleepn forevr..imagine jst 300 ppl he couldn't take t pls hw many have boko killd?
About 200 lives and the PM resigned....but here in my lovely country, 1000s of lives av been lost to BH and I still dunno why dat man is still in office. #1Naija
Dis is wat we call leader,not like our greedy leaders ,GEJ should learn 4rm him. To b a leader is not all about power,big position and money,leader should av human feeling and fear of GOD. Evil boko haram ar killing jst cos dey don't want to see GEJ on dat seat, instead of him to step down for d sake of d innocent souls and to bring peace back to dis country but his turning it to do or die affair. In my country ordinary counsellor can not step down even if is dying on a sick bed. Many has lost der soul jst cos his holding dat position.dey turn living soul life to politics belting game. Dey don't care about us, immediately after d bomb blasted our dear president went to dance skelewu in kano. I do asked mysef several time after GEJ term who is d rightful person dat worth sitting on dat seat but I see none human among our old goats. GOD ll surely judge all of u.I weep 4 my country
he has done his mission, kill innocent persons and acceptin responsibility for dre death. I tink he is an illuminati member. He has offered souls. Who will judge dose crew members? D same illuminati pple.
Thank u for ur contribution. What we don't know is that the political class have been using tribal and religious sentiment to divide us (ordinary) Nigerians in order to protect their own selfish interest for a long time that the country is so much divide along ethnic, tribal and religious line beyond reasonable level now and that suit them fine cus the moment we ordinary Nigerians understand that we have common enemy (political class) and come together to fight them they know that they are doomed
A leader...Een Echt Leider
Sighs... This can't happen in naija sha..You can now buy your condoms, oral contraceptives (postinor 2), sex enhancers (Vega), Sex lubricants from www.myspnigeria.com and it will be delivered to u in an unmarked box for free. Meaning, your privacy yL buying sex items is guaranteed.
Jonathan shd do the same pls
NOT ONLY DID HE TAKE RESPONSIBILITY DESPITE NOT BEING THE CAPTAIN NOR CREW MEMBER,BUT HE ALSO DIDN'T BLAME THE OPPOSITION.
NIGERIAN LEADERS AND US THE FOLLOWERS,PLEASE TAKE NOTE.
THE BULK STOPS ON YOUR TABLE SO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PROS AND CONS OF IT.
STOP BLAMING ONE ANOTHER AND ACT INSTEAD OF MAKING EXCUSES.RENO,ABATI,OKUPE,LAI MOHAMMED OF APC,TAKE NOTE.
GEJ, GEJ, GEJ...how many times did I call you. U see ur life for outside, u carry ur hippopotamus nose go dance skelewu for rally.see ur mates dey resign over 300 souls, a fraction of what ur pdp govt donates every year.#shoriayerelodebaun
That can never happen in Nigeria..This people have conscience .
Instead of good luck to resign his busy running after 2nd term. God punish am
Lol. Ya head is dia
Honourable men do honourable things. Nigerian leaders learn from your foreign counterpart. Take responsibility or leave the office.
Yesoooooooooo.
You've said it all. Our mumu leaders in Nigeria don't give a damn.
Abba Moron is still there as interior minister.
jonathan even if the full nigeria die him go still. conduct election for third term fuck them all
I hope our goverment will learn from this?
BEAUTIFUL9JADELTABABE... Resign ke for naija ko joor oohhhh school children dey missss up till now d governor there no resign not to talk of president hmmmm it s well sha may God help us all. Justsayingmaownohhh via ma LATEST TECHNO PHAMTOM A3+
May their soul rest in peace
Our leaders should just take a cue from dis and stop deceiving us whenever tragedy struck that they are on top of d situation
Hop d Minister of Interior is reading this so dat he can prepare his resignation letter and apology to d families of those who lost their loved ones to d Immigration recruitment exercise.Nigerian Ministers have no conscience.All they do is Rape d economy daily.#shame of a nation
Nig leaders r only der to take their share of d national cake; they can never be ds honourable
Sorry, there was a female crew member that died saving at least 50 people. That was shown on CNN yesterday. She dropped out of school when she lost one of her parents a few years ago and started work in order to help her family. According to CNN, there is actually no maritime law that says the crew members must remain in a sinking ship, though the Captain of Titanic did so and went down with the ship in 1912. Morally speaking, they were responsible for all the passengers on board.
Naija leaders are Ninjas...faces always covered....
Humble...
Hey can u see a patriotic leader whose got a heart not these bunch of criminals in the corridors of power foolish n selfish nigerian politicians you all will die one day n won't go to hell fire or heaven with ur ill gotten wealth *mtcheeewww*
Why can't our leaders learn??? 300 people dead he resigns-half of sm states gone nd he is campaigning!!!!!!!!!!!
It better and honorable to be a son of a poor famer than to be a son of a this disgusting and the most foolish the most corrupt president of Nigeria.
if this Jonah gives me money I will not take hisblood money
Loooool! Funniest comment yet
What are u people even saying. The south co pm is not just a coward but also a disgrace to his country men. The day he got elected into that office is the day he got married to that country and for better for worse till his constitutional tenure does him part. Shall a man chicken out of his marriage simply cos a challenge visited his household? Shall a traveller stop travelling simply cos he or she witnessed an accident scene. Did USA president resign when Osama attacked. Jonathan is not a coward and will never be.
Jonathan is there thinking of second term....
Buahahaaa I have laughed and piss on myself. OMG. Lwkmd!!!!!!
Loolzz i cant. This got me cracking up real good. Lin pls make this comment no. 1. Sigh!
In Nigeria, Children are missing, GEJ goes arnd dancing.
God bless Nigéria!
Pls don't compare, they hv a diff skin color. Maybe if we bleach we'll be smarter, more innovation, more considerate, less greedy & more responsible.
I understand he's taking responsabilité but i don't get y he's resigning
Let me see now which incident should our President have resigned for: the 200 young girls captured, the bomb explosion in Abuja, the Jos crisis....
smh at ur stupidity,ow else we go bleach?all our women plus 20 percent of men are bleaching yet d same rot is happening,it sims ur a marketer for dencia's cream?u knw go sell here o
Nigeria leaders can't do dis.stupid pple
Jonathan should then hang himself.
President Jonathan should learn from this. In Nigeria, Thousands have been killed out of Government's inability to provide security and yet the service chiefs and the president are still there telling us rubbish. God dey sha
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