He has appointed more able and honest men to run public agencies such as the petroleum refineries, and launched a probe into past wrongdoings.Only the biggest offenders will be prosecuted, according to Christopher Kolade, who also used to work for Transparency International, and whom Mr Obasanjo put in charge of probing the contracts awarded under General Abubakar.
It added that it had the "greatest trust" in the two men and that it had been working for greater transparency in its finances.
"We have to get our act together and start working for more transparency in investigations and more adequate responses for the problem," Monsignor Scicluna said, adding that this should happen "on every level of the church".
All told, since 9/11, the United States has spent $8 trillion on the military and homeland security, according to the National Priorities Project, a research group that works for budget transparency.
The change was reported on Wednesday by the Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan watchdog group that works for more transparency in campaign spending.
Young people are demanding transparency and working for justice and healing for abuse victims, she said.
The media often demand transparency of those controlling and working for other powerful organisations, but have been shy about transparency for themselves.
Gamini later reveals that he is working for Pax per Fidem (Peace through Transparency), an undercover United Nations organization established to bring about world peace.
Transparify, the initiative I work for, rated the financial transparency of 35 leading U.S. think tanks earlier this year.
Last year, under the guiding hand of Mr Obuchi and to giggles elsewhere, the government introduced a new "cost-benefit reassessment system" to check public-works projects for "transparency and efficiency".
