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Clinton Slams Nigeria’s “Unbelievable Corruption”
Wed Jan, 27 2010


Hilary Clinton, United States’ Secretary of State came hard on Nigeria’s leaders once again yesterday when she slammed the level of corruption in Nigeria as “unbelievable.”

Clinton made the statement while speaking at a "town hall meeting" with US. State Department employees to mark her first year in office, the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, spoke about the attempt by a Nigerian to blow up a US airliner on Christmas day. Ms. Clinton criticised the conditions in Nigeria and blamed them for alienating the youth and leading some to Islamic radicalism.

She said, "The failure of the Nigerian leadership over many years to respond to the legitimate needs of their own young people, to have a government that promoted a meritocracy, that really understood that democracy can't just be given lip service, it has to be delivering services to the people, has meant there is a lot of alienation in that country and others."

"Nigeria faces a threat from increasing radicalization by providing an opening for extremism that offers an alternative world view The information we have on the Christmas Day bomber so far seems to suggest that he was disturbed by his father’s wealth and the kind of living conditions that he viewed as being not Islamic enough,”

“But in this case, and in so many others, such young people are targets for recruiters to extremism.

She also said Nigeria faces a threat from increasing radicalization because quality-of-life factors in the country like literacy and health care are deteriorating, and from resentment over widespread corruption.

She said, “There has to be a recognition that in the last 10 years, a lot of the indicators about quality of life in Nigeria have gone the wrong direction. Quality-of-life factors in the country like literacy and health care are deteriorating"

"The corruption is unbelievable. And when I did a town hall in Abuja, people were just literally standing and shouting about what it was like to live in a country where you know the elite was so dominant, where corruption was so rampant, where criminality was so pervasive, and that is an opening for extremism that offers an alternative world view,"

"The young people in the world today, they see other options. They are all interconnected through the Internet and the information we have on the Christmas Day bomber so far seems to suggest that he was disturbed by his father's wealth and kind of living conditions that he viewed as being not Islamic."