How transparent is the incumbent regime?
DAVID-WEST: There is no transparency; it’s opaque. Obasanjo’s regime is not transparent. How can it be transparent? But the Minister of Finance is publishing monthly allocations to states and local governments DAVID-WEST: That doesn’t impress me. For banks to get fresh mint from the Central Bank, they have to payto bribe. I have evidence from two banks. Central Bank is also dripping in corruption. There is no transparency. I was indicted in the case — the Federal Republic of Nigeria Vs Tam David-West — on charges that I signed off $57 million to an American company in New Jersey; a company I had no interests in whatsoever and I was jailed. So issues such as this impact me, perhaps, more than it does other Nigerians. I have been jailed for life, and then the Judge admitted he was wrong. The only thing that was held against me in terms of corruption was the charge that I drank tea and accepted a wristwatch, which was not true. But for that, I was sentenced to life, which was later redu
