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Nigeria remains a relentless scene of corruption.

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 in order 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.

To be precise:
•The Ministry of Education was allocated ₦3.52 trillion,
•The Ministry of Health received ₦2.48 trillion,
•The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation was allocated ₦260 billion, and
•The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security received ₦636.08 billion.

Combined, these four ministries were allocated ₦6.896 trillion—an already inflated amount—yet still less than the ₦7 trillion dubiously inserted into the budget.

That ₦7 trillion figure is even more than the ₦6.1 trillion allocated to national security—at a time when Nigeria is among the most terrorised nations in the world.

This brazen impunity by our leaders is precisely why the country cannot invest adequately in education—hence the existence of nearly 20 million out-of-school children. It is the same corruption that has crippled primary healthcare, resulting in alarming levels of malnourished children. We face widespread hunger, yet our leaders neglect agricultural investment due to persistent mismanagement and lack of ability. The same disregard affects our capacity to fund national security effectively, or to Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), which are vital to national growth.

These glaring acts of corruption reinforce my position: Nigeria has been reduced to a crime scene.

We must confront this corruption, misappropriation, and fiscal recklessness with unwavering resolve. Our national resources must be transparently managed and strategically invested in key sectors—health, education, and poverty alleviation—to secure a better future for our people. We must turn this nation around.

A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO

Peter Obi

Thank you Sir

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God bless you Mr Peter Obi, as a Yoruba Muslim if I talk wetin dey mind now, my people will qurry me

agulion:
God bless you Mr Peter Obi, as a Yoruba Muslim if I talk wetin dey mind now, my people will qurry me

chinedu u ain't even using your coolsperm again.

Them don ban am?

Agulu fraudster trying very hard to get Media attention by fire by force after Rome disgraceful outing

Trying to bribe the Vatican security at the gate to allow you see the Pope, was that not corruption?

When is his fidelity bank going to pay back the $125billion debts?, is that not corruption?. The money of depositors he collected to fund political campaigns, is that not corruption?. Hypocrite.

Pandora millionaire complaining about corruption.

Putindbutt:
Trying to bribe the Vatican security at the gate to allow you see the Pope, was that not corruption?

When is his fidelity bank going to pay back the $125billion debts?, is that not corruption?. The money of depositors he collected to fund political campaigns, is that not corruption?. Hypocrite.

$125b? Wow. That’s almost the gdp of tinubu’s reformed economy


I never knew someone can steal as much as that in this Nigeria

shox:
$125b? Wow. That’s almost the gdp of tinubu’s reformed economy


I never knew someone can steal as much as that in this Nigeria

If you don't know debts accumulate interests over a period of time, then you need to pick up a GCE form and enroll in classes.

Putindbutt:
Trying to bribe the Vatican security at the gate to allow you see the Pope, was that not corruption?

When is his fidelity bank going to pay back the $125billion debts?, is that not corruption?. The money of depositors he collected to fund political campaigns, is that not corruption?. Hypocrite.

in as much as we want to denigrate po.

Let’s do this with sense.
125 billion dollars is too much for 1person to steal in this country

Obi in as much as I love what you stand for, I still believe tinubu is the man.

And tinubu can make Nigeria great again.

OBi you don’t need to worry yourself, these people can never change. Until Tribe and Religion is removed from Nigeria politics, we will never get a true leadership

How does one spend ₦7 trillion and still leave a nation hungrier, sicker, and more insecure than ever before? The answer lies in a unique Nigerian tragedy, we spend public wealth like a drunk pirate, bury the evidence in ghost projects, and call it governance.

Now we learn from BudgIT that ₦7 trillion was fraudulently inserted into the 2025 budget. But let’s be honest, this is just the visible tumor. The cancer runs deeper.

That amount is more than the combined budgets of Health, Education, Agriculture, and Poverty Alleviation. And what do we have to show for it?

Nothing.

Unless you count:
• Mansions in Dubai
• 50-unit estates in Asokoro
• Fleets of bulletproof G-Wagons parked behind government guest houses

Let’s call a spade a spade. These “projects” are just laundromats for looted funds.

Where Did the ₦7 Trillion Go?

It didn’t go into classrooms—20 million children remain out of school.
It didn’t go into hospitals—primary healthcare is in shambles.
It didn’t secure farms—Nigeria is importing what it could grow.
And it sure as hell didn’t go into roads—our roads are death traps.

Instead, you’ll find the ghosts of that ₦7 trillion in:
• ₦900 million boreholes drilled in sand
• ₦2 billion empowerment programs with no beneficiaries
• ₦500 million IT centers in buildings that don’t exist
• Security contracts issued to phantom militias controlled by politicians themselves

Insecurity in Nigeria is now a state-sponsored enterprise. A cash cow for the cabal. Not a crisis to solve, but a crisis to monetize.

The Emefiele Estate: A Museum of Corruption

When we finally wake up, we find the loot in cement and granite. Emefiele’s palatial estate—allegedly built from our bleeding treasury—should not be quietly confiscated. It should be:
• Renamed: The Corrupt Emefiele Museum
• Opened to students: As a field trip to witness what looting looks like
• Studied in Economics: “How Not To Run a Central Bank”

It should stand like Auschwitz for Corruption. Not as mockery, but as memorial.

This is Why Nigeria Feels Like a Crime Scene

Because it is one.

Budget padding has become a sport.
Ghost contractors outnumber real ones.
Security is not a goal, it’s a racket.

And at the end of it all, the common man still treks to work, still dies at the emergency gate, and still has no light, no food, no reprieve.

We Can’t Build A Nation On Lies and Loot

If we don’t urgently:
• Enforce full public budget transparency
• Jail those who padded budgets—not slap them on the wrist
• Create a Public Assets Registry with live updates
• Criminalize “off-budget spending” with life sentences
Then forget reform. Nigeria will remain a gold mine for the elite, and a graveyard for the masses.

Let’s stop calling this “mismanagement.”
This is economic treason.
And the ₦7 trillion vanishing act is the heist of the century.

Until heads roll, figuratively and legally, Nigeria remains a crime scene masquerading as a democracy.

What Tilumbu cannot destroy doesn't exist

Given that Labour Party are part of the legislature, is he suggesting that of his own party are corrupt? If so, what action is he taking to address corruption within his ranks?

He didn't mention Singapore or Indonesia this time around

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 in order 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.

Peter Obi

What gave him the conviction that the funds were fraudulently inserted and misappropriated? He said he was convinced.

It seems to me that this alarm is to rile up his unthinking mob to deploy hate to create an avenue for political interests.

A sensible person would ask if the senate approved a supplementary budget bill and what areas the insertions were tied to. It is not unusual to have an emergency spending bill, but I doubt if Peter Obi would know this since he has not exactly demonstrated understanding of budgetary processes.

Since he has rushed to talk about criminality, combating corruption, misappropriation and financial recklessness, let's talk about it.

Has he removed the criminality in LP?

Has he removed the criminality in the handling of your campaign finances where party agents were not paid?

Has he tackled the recklessness where his inexperienced campaign team of Nollywood actors and social media dancers spent more money on post-election litigation than on the election itself?

Has he investigated why he was so incompetent to set up a party collation center?

People who want to rescue Nigeria from malfeasance, corruption and financial recklessness, but have not rescued themselves from pedestrian thinking or rescued their party from entrenched criminality and politcal thuggery.

Nigerians, I tire for Una ooo.
The 7 Trillion Naira smuggle into the budget is not their problem but Peter Obi.
They left the message of corruption issues identified by Peter Obi in the budget to attack the person who call out corruption!
I WEEP FOR NIGERIANS!

Corrupt is endemic

How much is 7 trillion

It is 1000 billion in 7 places

That is
1,000, 000 million in 7 places

Let that sink in

That's the money that would be diverted into private pockets

Says a man who made his money under Abacha.

This man no really rate Nigerians, if not, he would be the last person to talk about corruption. He was the only presidential aspirant named in the Pandora papers and has more proven cases of corruption/abuse of office scandals against him. He should look into the mirror anytime he mentions the word corruption

keep giving this useless, corrupt and incompetent government sleepless night.

Tjra:
Says a man who made his money under Abacha.

Usual apc mo twist facts and blur the truth. Obi was already made and living in the UK b4 Abacha regime. He was ask to fix a lingering port problem by Abacha.

Only

All this kitikiti to be vice?? The same you that was spending government money to bribe chiefs with suv and quickly develope amnesia and start criticising someone else when he did the same?