adanny01:


Yes.
Money or government property "stolen" by government official is called corruption.
Money "stolen" by a politician is called graft
Money "stolen" by bank official is called fraud.
The car "stolen" from your garage is called stealing.

egbesegbe:


Let assume a supervisor of my filling station connived with a tanker driver of a private firm to sign an invoice on diesel whereas kerosene was delivered, do we now feel it is not a corruption because we are not in public business? Let's put sentiment aside, Prof got it w

xpac01:
This man sounds sensible, but hope he won't dissapoint when they get there.

adanny01:


They committed fraud on you. Not corruption nor stealing. That scenario is called FRAUD!

You need to drop sentiment and use the correct grammar. Am sure you did Lexis and structure in WAEC. That part of English language relates to these kind of terms.

SEYIKP:
paito waaa. hope you are still on track? hope you haven't entangled yourself with civilians matters?
hope you haven't been calling white, red?

adanny01:


We will be going round and round if you continue like this.

Money is not property. Property has a value in money so money can not have a value other that what it is. Every other thing you own has a value in money thats why its called property but the money you have is its own value so not a property. This is plain economics not English.

adanny01:


They committed fraud on you. Not corruption nor stealing. That scenario is called FRAUD!

You need to drop sentiment and use the correct grammar. Am sure you did Lexis and structure in WAEC. That part of English language relates to these kind of terms.

thegoodjoehunt3:


I hope you know that stolen is the past perfect tense of steal. Graft, fraud are all what stealing aka corruption.

thegoodjoehunt3:

Defining corruption with one word is fraudulent or dishonest.

If the scenario is fraud, it is corrupt.

kodded:

and may GOD plan your life the way buhari want to plan this nation
say amen or else...................................

adanny01:


Considering that fraud and corruption are synonymous, you can use corruption to describe the scenario and wont be totally wrong. However, the precise term as per grammar and law, its called fraud.

Janetozi:
and may God bless u with Abok! Shine my shoe children like Buhari.

May ur children never be able to prove the Education qualifications like Buhari.

Say "amen"

One thing i will not wish ur children is that they have "internal sickness' like Buhari, i am not that wicked.

thegoodjoehunt3:



Corruption is dishonest actions that destroys people's trust in the person or group

http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/corruption

My question to you. Is stealing of public money by a corrupt official not a dishonest action that destroys the people's trust?

Note Virtual currency is treated as priperty by the American IRS.

If you have money in your PayPal account, it is treated as property.

egbesegbe:


If you commit fraud either in public or private domain, you are corrupt. So following prof's definition, he is wrong. It is not only people in power that you can address their acts as corrupt. Private firms participants can be addressed as corrupt if they commit fraud, thievery or manipulation

egbesegbe:


Fraud is perpetuated by a corrupt individual. A corrupt mind yields to pressure of committing fraud, thievery and manipulation. Apparently, those guys from the scenario are corrupt.

adanny01:


Thats why fraud and corruption are synonymous while both are not synonymous with stealing. I also initially thought the way you were thinking until i checked the definition of corruption in the dictionary myself. Check the definition yourself and save yourself from GEJ.

If Prof's definition is wrong, Google is wrong because he got his definition exactly from Google without changing a word. This is where you, GEJ and others shoot yourselves on the foot.

dguyindcorner:


He never made reference to one CJN when he said that stealing is not corruption. GEJ practises a galloping corruption.

EFCC IS DEAD!!!
ICPC IS BURIED!!!

GEJ AND HIS SUPPORTERS ARE CORRUPT ENTITIES.

chysam:


o others.

I think you are equally clueless.How will just calling somebody a thief serve as deterrent to others?. Supposing you thief now,then people just call you a thief and yet you walk around with impunity,how will that serve as deterrent to others?. Is a PHD holder a match for a professor?
So

adanny01:



Stealing and corruption may have a common synonym but may not be synonyms themselves.

The terms money and currency are not synonymous and cannot be used interchangeably. Currency cannot even be a property in the first place. Who's property is the Nigerian Naira or the American Dollar? I am not an economist but in my knowledge, virtual money and virtual currency are one and the same thing. A search on Google gave me a Wikipedia definition of virtual currency as digital money. This brings us back to the same thing , Money. In this case digital money may have a value different from that of liquid money and may not be used to settle liabilities. So technical by my understanding of that economics, digital money or virtual currency as you may call it can be said to be a property.

In summary, virtual currency is a property and therfore not money.

Hope you got my point.

egbesegbe:

I now see how the prof will rule a country of over 160 millions through goggle. I am not a partisan politician, but I strongly believe more in practical things than theoretical phenomenon. If a whole prof is consulting Google to tweet, I doubt his capabilities of handling practical issues in Nigeria. We Nigerians should cultivate the habit of critical analysis than following Google like zombie because it was originated from the whites. What gives you that assurance that the person that describes corruption there know it all? If a professor in Nigeria cannot discern a wrong definition from the net and comes out publicly to criticise a simple logic, then we have a great problem in our educational sector.

egbesegbe:

I now see how the prof will rule a country of over 160 millions through goggle. I am not a partisan politician, but I strongly believe more in practical things than theoretical phenomenon. If a whole prof is consulting Google to tweet, I doubt his capabilities of handling practical issues in Nigeria. We Nigerians should cultivate the habit of critical analysis than following Google like zombie because it was originated from the whites. What gives you that assurance that the person that describes corruption there know it all? If a professor in Nigeria cannot discern a wrong definition from the net and comes out publicly to criticise a simple logic, then we have a great problem in our educational sector.

xpac01:
This man sounds sensible, but hope he won't dissapoint when they get there.

Adminisher:
This man GEJ is not straight, all answers were skewed, evasive and downright low brained. Yet some people are going to entrust their destinies to him for another four years. Smh

thegoodjoehunt3:
If someone steals your virtual/digital money, he has stolen your property.

If someone comes to your house and takes money you left in the drawer without legal right or permission, he has stolen.

Cut the long story short. Stealing is a corrupt act, no matter the form whether graft or fraud. The officials are corrupt.

GEJ is wrong when he said stealing is not corruption.

codedguy1:
Corruption can be something that has gone off the the right way of doing things. That means corruption is a broader description of an anomaly.

Cheating, stealing, bribery and even waywardness can be described as being corrupt.

The president was only trying to let us understand that the way we pronounce corruption belittles the attribute of crime to the individual without specifying exactly what the person did.

The confusing in Nigeria is that ones you say someone is corrupt 90% of the time it means stealing, so the president is simply s*ying let's call it exactly what it is stealing.

If I say you have a corrupt mind, does that mean you have stolen something even if you used sexual inuendos to describe something that had not connection with sex.
But if I say you are a thief, it is very explicit and everyone would understand you have taken something that does not belong to you without the owner/s permission.

Calculia:
Those in power alone? Prof u don fall my hand...


Besides, what we have in Nigeria is beyond that gentle man definition.


As GEJ put it, in Nigeria we have thieves not corruption.

thegoodjoehunt3:
GEJ said Stealing is not corruption. He did not give a platform. No matter how we twist it, the truth is that stealing is corrupt and officials who steal/embezzle government funds are corrupt.

codedguy1:


You already have a closed mind regardless of any explanation. Did u watch the chat yesterday, the guy just explained that he quoted the former icj and that the man is still alive but all you have heard is that GEJ said stealing is not corruption.

I guess, "GEJ said stealing is not corruption" is your story and you are sticking to it!

Goodluck!

adanny01:


Kai kai kai!

This is the lowest of the low comment about this matter. Can you hear yourself.

If GEJ had consulted google, it would not have done him that damage that he is trying tooth and nail to defend. You should be ashamed that you criticize someone who rightly referred to the right source but you go ahead to question the credibility of google just to discredit him.

The definition by google is wrong? Are you high? You entertain this thought just because you want to defend GEJ by all means. Am amazed.

Where did we get English from?

codedguy1:
Corruption can be something that has gone off the the right way of doing things. That means corruption is a broader description of an anomaly.

Cheating, stealing, bribery and even waywardness can be described as being corrupt.

The president was only trying to let us understand that the way we pronounce corruption belittles the attribute of crime to the individual without specifying exactly what the person did.

The confusion in Nigeria is that once you say someone is corrupt 90% of the time it means stealing, so the president is simply saying let's call it exactly what it is stealing.

If I say you have a corrupt mind, does that mean you have stolen something even if you used sexual inuendos to describe something that had no connection with sex.
But if I say you are a thief, it is very explicit and everyone would understand you have taken something that does not belong to you without the owner/s permission.