He said that since the President is working to retrieve looted funds, he advised the president that it would be easier if looters were allowed to return their loot without castigating them publicly.
Okogie, said:
“I agree with the National Peace Committee that the President should tread softly and should set criteria that he is going to use. Corruption is endemic in Nigeria. That is why they are asking for caution: ‘Look at it properly,’” he said.
The cleric urged President Buhari to invite those suspected to have looted government treasury “to speak to their conscience.”
He said that it would be difficult for the government to retrieve the loot as the suspects would use their financial resources to create legal hurdles for their prosecutors.
Okogie said:
“People like that, when they go to court, they don’t look right and left before they do things. If I have a man like that and I know he has the money, I will weigh the options; ‘will it profit the nation if I take this man to court. If I take him to court, he is going to get a lawyer. The lawyer will be employed with part of the money I am looking for.
“The lawyer will now start to ask for adjournments and all what not. I may not get this money until after four years. And the judge too, in the mean time, is getting (part of the loot); you will not know. He won’t just adjourn anyhow.
“The lawyer will invite his brother (the judge) to come and get part of the cake until half of it will be gone. We have to look at the issue from that angle. And you may end up getting nothing.”
When asked if such would be possible in a sanitised judiciary, he asked, “Is it sanitised?”
He said these are the areas the President ought to have started his anti-graft war by “sanitising and purifying” the judiciary first. “At least, you will know that three-quarters of the place is tight, and then you can start (the probe),” he added.
He further said that parents were no more disciplined as like in the old days.
He said:
“These days, they don’t care anymore. That is not right; that is not how they were brought up.”
“Look at the probe that is going on now, for example; how can one person manage to get (steal) one-point-something billion; not even million but billion, and very soon you will hear of trillions? Where did he get it from? That is how it is going on, and he is from a family.
“And if his conscience worried him, he will run to his pastor to say ‘I want to pay tithe-; this is my tithe.’ The pastor collects the tithe. Seeing that it is huge money, the pastor will ask him, ‘what can I do for you?’ ”
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This so called men of God are the biggest problem in this country, do they even think before they speak? Stupid people
What utter rubbish! Lost all respect for this man!
Ok nah
There's no need to invite anyone for talk. When they were looting they never knew that someday the table will turn. They should be asked to return it or else face the music. Do we need to pamper thieves?
Whatz wrong with my bishops these days?
All of a sudden,they sound not brilliant anymore...smh.
Either they got bribed or they think govt ish is church ish- we have a constitution & it tells us what to do with criminals.
What kind of logic is this they are coming up with?
"Speak to their conscience"? When this nation is under attack? Do they know its both a crime & a sin to steal tax payers' money or treasury,in some nations itz capital punishment!
These priests are messing up seriously...
Dialogue with Chronic killers n thieves? All of a sudden?
Shame!
All theses clergies should learn to stay clear of politics αи∂ concentrate on converting αи∂ getting souls for God
That shld be their work
#iT wIlL ONlY GET BEtteR
#it MuSt EnD in PrAiSE
Dey won't return all jare
Cardinal comot here...nobody ever said the law is always swift...'the long arm'...we are talking about hardened criminals- we are not begging and God will punish them severely for the blood on their hands! Oh Africa!!! See our religious leaders changing opinions on corruption everyday! Either they are being used or they dont understand these nija criminals @ all.
Now i see why paedophile n rapist priests hardly get probed even with so much evidence from victims! Ok.
Yea
Yea
I dont agree with our cardinal. The full arm of the law must take its course. Our nations wealth in the hands of the politicians has been used for their aggrandizement.#you steal, you go to jail. Tho there must be transparency in judgement and not because of party affiliation that selective judgement A.K.A witch hunting will happen
Well said,
Nope if dey can't deal with them publicly, they'll do more
Youve said well sir
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I agree with you sir! Because at the end they still win the case
That is how most pastors get by...collecting 'tithes' from corrupt politicians. Is it me they are deceiving? As for this corruption war, I'l prefer to see how it plays out.
Buhariwill surely make money for the Sans. Lawyers are the problem in the world.
If i hear, maybe we should dialogue with Boko haram and armed robbers too while we are it!
Hey man of God,if i may ask who are this looters please?since the idiot think that he knows them he should speak it out if not his hausa fulani terrorist.
Buhari is a player,playing with nigeria inteligency looting his own money.since that no one we ask him any thing.
#sad indeed
Hey man of God,if i may ask who are this looters please?since the idiot think that he knows them he should speak it out if not his hausa fulani terrorist.
Buhari is a player,playing with nigeria inteligency looting his own money.since that no one we ask him any thing.
#sad indeed
Hey man of God,if i may ask who are this looters please?since the idiot think that he knows them he should speak it out if not his hausa fulani terrorist.
Buhari is a player,playing with nigeria inteligency looting his own money.since that no one we ask him any thing.
#sad indeed
I don't believe dis coming from Okogie. Has our country gone so bad??? Chai! Linda take note!
I don't believe dis coming from Okogie. Has our country gone so bad??? Chai! Linda take note!
I don't believe dis coming from Okogie. Has our country gone so bad??? Chai! Linda take note!
I don't believe dis coming from Okogie. Has our country gone so bad??? Chai! Linda take note!
And these are the people we call 'men of God' in this country...dialogue for looters?? what rubbish!..i mean dont they kill corrupt people in China and some countries? does he know the number of people that have died due to lack of infrastructure like good roads, hospitals..? and now we should engage in dialogue with them? people who have milked Nigeria dry...people who have looted billions of dollars! no wonder the church is what it is today - lots of them but zero positive impact . Really sad!
Jesus this the super best solution that I have ever heard. Not like the stupid king of sokoto and all the robbers shouting sai buhari and they do worst with their leadership pen in their position. Engr Emy
Jesus this the super best solution that I have ever heard. Not like the stupid king of sokoto and all the robbers shouting sai buhari and they do worst with their leadership pen in their position. Am proud to be an igbo Catholic. Engr Emy
Makes good sense.
Wow! He spoke well and I think PMB should tak dis advise frm him.
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Your job is to be a man of God. Leave politics alone
You don't dialogue with criminals same way u can't negotiate with terrorists....Oga nawa o!
Well Said my Amiable Cardinal! me i no want war oooo! Lol
You are mad
He doesn't need your sickening respect
Hallo Mr cardinal okogie,,,please if you dont know what to say on this looting issue,please kindly move your ass and shut the fucking mouth up..birds of the same feathers flys together..looters should be exposed and punished if possible, be jailed so that evil will stop..enough is enough with negociation..i taught you are a cardinal, you should stand on the truth to stop evil in the country..i believed you are getting share of the looted money from the looters.,thats why you are pleading to buhari for negociation on there behalf..Mr okogi,may be you are moving around with a tinted car ,thats why you ignore to know that poor masses who their money was looted are suffering..i have walked round europe and asian and have seen how nigerian citizens are suffering,insulted,deying in refuge camp..millions are dead in sahara desert and athlantic ocean all in search of greener pasture..recently,i dont think you knew how many nigerian that was drown in athlantic ocean last week,last month,last2,3 months..MR cardinal,please with all due respect,go back to your parish and do what you know best..and leave BUHARI to bring them to jsutice..MOB living out side the country are very very angry..if Nigeria is balanced,i mean making the money made from our natural and so called crude oil to reach every citizen ,,No body will be talking of travelling out side for greener pasture..do you know how it hurt for someone to deprive you of what is fully your right..i heard and read since 32 years of my life that nigeria has ooil and many natural resource and my white colleges here makes joke of it everytime,we are going in for business..and yet i have not seen or spent or recieve 500 naira out from the resource money..NIGERIA is my counrty but most time am ashame to tell people in europe and asia its my counry...MR CARDINAL OKOGIE;;;; back off very fast..I AM VERY ANGRY:::BIG JOE... :::::: glucklichmann2000@yahoo.de
Hallo Mr cardinal okogie,,,please if you dont know what to say on this looting issue,please kindly move your ass and shut the fucking mouth up..birds of the same feathers flys together..looters should be exposed and punished if possible, be jailed so that evil will stop..enough is enough with negociation..i taught you are a cardinal, you should stand on the truth to stop evil in the country..i believed you are getting share of the looted money from the looters.,thats why you are pleading to buhari for negociation on there behalf..Mr okogi,may be you are moving around with a tinted car ,thats why you ignore to know that poor masses who their money was looted are suffering..i have walked round europe and asian and have seen how nigerian citizens are suffering,insulted,deying in refuge camp..millions are dead in sahara desert and athlantic ocean all in search of greener pasture..recently,i dont think you knew how many nigerian that was drown in athlantic ocean last week,last month,last2,3 months..MR cardinal,please with all due respect,go back to your parish and do what you know best..and leave BUHARI to bring them to jsutice..MOB living out side the country are very very angry..if Nigeria is balanced,i mean making the money made from our natural and so called crude oil to reach every citizen ,,No body will be talking of travelling out side for greener pasture..do you know how it hurt for someone to deprive you of what is fully your right..i heard and read since 32 years of my life that nigeria has ooil and many natural resource and my white colleges here makes joke of it everytime,we are going in for business..and yet i have not seen or spent or recieve 500 naira out from the resource money..NIGERIA is my counrty but most time am ashame to tell people in europe and asia its my counry...MR CARDINAL OKOGIE;;;; back off very fast..I AM VERY ANGRY:::BIG JOE... :::::: glucklichmann2000@yahoo.de
I agree with u bro/sis
My problem is that if you know the corrupt people why don't you prosecute them in court instead of all this drama and sermon from men of God
My problem is that if you know the corrupt people why don't you prosecute them in court instead of all this drama and sermon from men of God
Hmmm!!!... dee
Hmmm?! Do u negotiate with looters? With all due respect sir, am not with you on this. It's an unfair act. Then they should release all prisoners and keep allowing lawlessness.
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I am with him on this one.
His eminence is right! The most important thing is to recover some of the loot for the interest of the country with no time wasting. Going to the court will take a lot of time cos the accused would want to do everything possible not to be painted a thief or rather to appear as a reduced thief;meaning not have stolen much as earlier speculated or even innocent if proper evidence not available. To really fight an anti-graft law,the court needs to be sanitised so that there will be reduced loopholes or nor when dispensing true justice. Cases are abound where corruption cases in court drag for years and end in futility.
Its high time Kukah and Okogie realised this has gone far and they want Nigerians to take it personal with them. Even catholics will never flow on this same page with them. I don't understand their business protecting theives and murderers (actions had lead to deaths) with so much persistence. A precedent must be set and they flush out of they way as FUCK. Damn!
Hallo Mr cardinal okogie,,,please if you dont know what to say on this looting issue,please kindly move your ass and shut the fucking mouth up..birds of the same feathers flys together..looters should be exposed and punished if possible, be jailed so that evil will stop..enough is enough with negociation..i taught you are a cardinal, you should stand on the truth to stop evil in the country..i believed you are getting share of the looted money from the looters.,thats why you are pleading to buhari for negociation on there behalf..Mr okogi,may be you are moving around with a tinted car ,thats why you ignore to know that poor masses who their money was looted are suffering..i have walked round europe and asian and have seen how nigerian citizens are suffering,insulted,deying in refuge camp..millions are dead in sahara desert and athlantic ocean all in search of greener pasture..recently,i dont think you knew how many nigerian that was drown in athlantic ocean last week,last month,last2,3 months..MR cardinal,please with all due respect,go back to your parish and do what you know best..and leave BUHARI to bring them to jsutice..MOB living out side the country are very very angry..if Nigeria is balanced,i mean making the money made from our natural and so called crude oil to reach every citizen ,,No body will be talking of travelling out side for greener pasture..do you know how it hurt for someone to deprive you of what is fully your right..i heard and read since 32 years of my life that nigeria has ooil and many natural resource and my white colleges here makes joke of it everytime,we are going in for business..and yet i have not seen or spent or recieve 500 naira out from the resource money..NIGERIA is my counrty but most time am ashame to tell people in europe and asia its my counry...MR CARDINAL OKOGIE;;;; back off very fast..I AM VERY ANGRY:::BIG JOE... :::::: glucklichmann2000@yahoo.de
Hallo Mr cardinal okogie,,,please if you dont know what to say on this looting issue,please kindly move your ass and shut the fucking mouth up..birds of the same feathers flys together..looters should be exposed and punished if possible, be jailed so that evil will stop..enough is enough with negociation..i taught you are a cardinal, you should stand on the truth to stop evil in the country..i believed you are getting share of the looted money from the looters.,thats why you are pleading to buhari for negociation on there behalf..Mr okogi,may be you are moving around with a tinted car ,thats why you ignore to know that poor masses who their money was looted are suffering..i have walked round europe and asian and have seen how nigerian citizens are suffering,insulted,deying in refuge camp..millions are dead in sahara desert and athlantic ocean all in search of greener pasture..recently,i dont think you knew how many nigerian that was drown in athlantic ocean last week,last month,last2,3 months..MR cardinal,please with all due respect,go back to your parish and do what you know best..and leave BUHARI to bring them to jsutice..MOB living out side the country are very very angry..if Nigeria is balanced,i mean making the money made from our natural and so called crude oil to reach every citizen ,,No body will be talking of travelling out side for greener pasture..do you know how it hurt for someone to deprive you of what is fully your right..i heard and read since 32 years of my life that nigeria has ooil and many natural resource and my white colleges here makes joke of it everytime,we are going in for business..and yet i have not seen or spent or recieve 500 naira out from the resource money..NIGERIA is my counrty but most time am ashame to tell people in europe and asia its my counry...MR CARDINAL OKOGIE;;;; back off very fast..I AM VERY ANGRY:::BIG JOE... :::::: glucklichmann2000@yahoo.de
Hallo Mr cardinal okogie,,,please if you dont know what to say on this looting issue,please kindly move your ass and shut the fucking mouth up..birds of the same feathers flys together..looters should be exposed and punished if possible, be jailed so that evil will stop..enough is enough with negociation..i taught you are a cardinal, you should stand on the truth to stop evil in the country..i believed you are getting share of the looted money from the looters.,thats why you are pleading to buhari for negociation on there behalf..Mr okogi,may be you are moving around with a tinted car ,thats why you ignore to know that poor masses who their money was looted are suffering..i have walked round europe and asian and have seen how nigerian citizens are suffering,insulted,deying in refuge camp..millions are dead in sahara desert and athlantic ocean all in search of greener pasture..recently,i dont think you knew how many nigerian that was drown in athlantic ocean last week,last month,last2,3 months..MR cardinal,please with all due respect,go back to your parish and do what you know best..and leave BUHARI to bring them to jsutice..MOB living out side the country are very very angry..if Nigeria is balanced,i mean making the money made from our natural and so called crude oil to reach every citizen ,,No body will be talking of travelling out side for greener pasture..do you know how it hurt for someone to deprive you of what is fully your right..i heard and read since 32 years of my life that nigeria has ooil and many natural resource and my white colleges here makes joke of it everytime,we are going in for business..and yet i have not seen or spent or recieve 500 naira out from the resource money..NIGERIA is my counrty but most time am ashame to tell people in europe and asia its my counry...MR CARDINAL OKOGIE;;;; back off very fast..I AM VERY ANGRY:::BIG JOE... :::::: glucklichmann2000@yahoo.de
Invite thieves for talks? Really??? Wow sir all due respect that won't work at all. If they are given this option it means they can chose to return just mere fractions of the billions they have stolen while nigerians suffer in silence. This arrangement will be unacceptable sir and frankly..makes no sense. These thieves who milked this country dry at the expense of the general populace should 1st have all their post appointment acquisitions confiscated, bank accounts frozen in such a way that they will need 100yrs to thaw...and then they should be tried and jailed. They must do jail time. This is the only way...this is the only acceptable and sensible option. Not for us to encourage talks with non entities who disregard public trust with impunity.
I am trying not to point fingers to the direction of Cardinal Okogie as he seems to know so much about how the looters, their lawyers and the judges hinder justice to be served. This information he's letting out are serious
The window for the looters had been open all this while for them to return stolen funds but they have not! Hope you are not suggesting PMB for our President to beg the thieves? . Pls be quiet if you can not support anti corruption.
Exactly
Talk ke? Did they have a talk with anybody when they were looting our funds? Ageg!What they did in the dark MUST be seen in the open.
EXACTLY well said
EXACTLY well said
Rosie Said.......Why are you all attacking the Cardinal to the point of rudeness, You all need to STOP.He is making a very valid point, he talked about wholesome family up bringing and none of you is saying anything about it. How many people did Obasanjo send to jail but go and check how much he recovered from looters especially from the Abacha's. If you send them to jail,they will go and do their time and come out and enjoy their loot,ask Jim Nwobodo and co........... When Buhari said that he will negotiate with terrorist boko haram,what did Y'all say?
Rosie Said.......Why are you all attacking the Cardinal to the point of rudeness, You all need to STOP.He is making a very valid point, he talked about wholesome family up bringing and none of you is saying anything about it. How many people did Obasanjo send to jail but go and check how much he recovered from looters especially from the Abacha's. If you send them to jail,they will go and do their time and come out and enjoy their loot,ask Jim Nwobodo and co........... When Buhari said that he will negotiate with terrorist boko haram,what did Y'all say?
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