Every politician or governor has to steal to survive because N750,000 as salary is not enough.

Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha has said that salaries of public office holders and governors is too small, hence they must steal to survive.

Governor Okorocha said this when he appeared as a guest on ChannelsTV.

The governor appeared to suggest it’s impossible for politicians not to steal from the public treasury, adding that keeping politically exposed persons from dipping their hands in the public till, will amount to an exercise in futility.

Okorocha also said everyone in Nigeria is corrupt to a certain degree.

He said: “There’s no man on earth in Nigeria, from A-Z who will say he lives with the money you pay him monthly. The salaries of governors are N750,000 a month.

“So, if you don’t have a second office or something else to do, you must steal. Any political office holder who doesn’t have a second office, must steal”, Okorocha said.

The governor added that what is more important is making sure governors and political office holders deliver on the job like he’s doing in Imo, Southeast Nigeria.