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" If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account. "

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" I want to say that this business of corruption and the fight against corruption is a very serious matter, and sometimes I'm amazed that very little is being said outside of those who are saying so in government. It's an existential matter. I don't know whether it is possible to overemphasize the point, but I think it's a very crucial matter. "

Yemi Osinbajo

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" No matter how much you pray or fast, our country cannot grow without some of us deciding to do the hard work that makes nations work. "

" The fundamental for the sustainable growth of Nigeria is not in the hydro-carbon industry but in agriculture. "

" The quality and quantum of potential investors in Africa is huge. "

" An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society. "

" Many would say the reason why they steal is because they want to have an arsenal for future political exploits. It is a lie. It is greed. In any case, even if you want to do that, you have no right to do it. "

" It will be wrong of us to approach our grievances by threatening to disobey the laws or by threatening the integrity of our nation. "

Yemi Osinbajo

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" The most important thing for Africa is that whoever wants to invest in our countries should start in manufacturing. "

" Corruption and illicit financial flows are different. But they really must be twinned. This is because, for practical purposes, it is an eminently more sensible approach to treat most of the sources of illicit financial flows as corrupt activity, within a broader use of the term. "

" If people are stealing the resources of this nation, if people are taking bribes - if judges or persons in authority, whether they are judges or whoever they may be in government, ministers, whoever, if they are taking bribes - it attacks the fundament of our existence as a society. "

" It doesn't matter where one starts from; it doesn't matter at all where you start from. It is how committed you are, how determined you are, and how hardworking you are that will ultimately make the difference. "

" Here in Nigeria, what makes the news is conflict between the executive and the legislature. "

" As you fight corruption, it fights back. "

" The reason we have Christian president and Muslim vice president or Muslim president and Christian vice president is to have balance. "

" I understand the law of sowing and reaping. It is a spiritual law that has tremendous physical implications. Every time that we delay or frustrate what we can do today, leaving it till tomorrow, we hold back the future. We, too, must reap what we have sown by experiencing delays. "

" We all know that Nigerian jollof rice is the best anywhere. We beat the Ghanaians and Senegalese hands down. "

" Corruption has been tolerated for too long now, and with Buhari, we will, for the first time ever, have a president who will fight corruption. He will act so that people will be deterred from corruption. "

" Tracing, freezing, and return of stolen assets has proved in many cases to be exceptionally difficult for most African countries. "

" If the church says we will not accept you here or that we will expose you if you are stealing the resources of the country or stealing the resources of a private company or other establishment, where you work, then we would not have the type of problem that we have in this country. If only the church does so - just the church. "

" It is the resolve of the government that none will be allowed to get away with making speeches that can cause sedition or that can cause violence, especially because when we make these kinds of pronouncement and do things that can cause violence or destruction of lives and property, we are no longer in control. "

" Any nation that does not emphasize integrity will always fail. "

" Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry. "

" Great economies and great nations, prosperity, and abundance of nations and communities are created by men and not spirits. "

" If this government is doing the right thing by fighting corruption, the Church should support it. "

" Our vision is for a country that grows what it eats and produces what it consumes. It is for a country that no longer has to import petroleum products and develop a lucrative petrochemical industry. "

" If you are not around when Africa truly gets going, it would be much like the sceptics who stood on the sidelines in the 1990s convinced that China was going nowhere. How wrong they were. "

" As we move to diversify our economy, we are particularly aware that we need oil to get out of oil. "

" Our diversity as a people united is also our potential to transform our large deposits of mineral resources and use same for national development. "

" Railway network will support efforts to diversify the economy and enhance our export potentials. "

" You don't have to cheat or steal to be successful in life, but you must be ready to convert your challenges to opportunity. "