Nigeria: Corruption surprised me, says Obasanjo

President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the level of corruption with which he has had to grapple since taking office “took him by surprise”. On corruption, the president said: “I did not know how deep the corruption (and) the general decay in the Nigerian economy, the Nigerian social and political life … was. It took me some time to be able to come to grips with the depth of the decay.”