{"id":788,"date":"2024-09-21T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T09:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/?p=788"},"modified":"2024-09-21T10:59:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T09:59:24","slug":"obasanjo-says-some-past-government-officials-be-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"Obasanjo says Some Past Government Officials Should Be in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has asserted that some current government officials should be in prison for their past misconduct and criminal behavior. Obasanjo made this statement on Thursday during a virtual address at the Denis Joseph Slattery memorial lecture in Lagos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He emphasized that individuals with \u201cquestionable\u201d integrity cannot make decisions that will benefit Nigerians. In his speech, titled \u201cThe Imperative for Moral Rectitude in Governance,\u201d Obasanjo stressed that accountability is the most critical requirement for anyone involved in governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He stated, \u201cIf you closely examine those in government today, both at the executive and legislative levels, some should be permanently behind bars for their past misdemeanors and criminal actions. You cannot expect thieves to make just decisions in favor of the rightful owner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has asserted that some current government officials should be in prison for their past misconduct and criminal behavior. Obasanjo made this statement on Thursday during a virtual address at the Denis Joseph Slattery memorial lecture in Lagos. He emphasized that individuals with &ldquo;questionable&rdquo; integrity cannot make decisions that will benefit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/images-2024-09-21T105228.954.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdonhear.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}