ARISE O NIGERIANS (IV)

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Salimonu Kadiri

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​While thanking APC members, on 14 December 2014, for choosing him as the presidential flag bearer of the party in the 2015 election, Muhammadu Buhari in the following selected items said : (8)  I see it as a tribute and a mark of confidence to carry the torch as we all join hands to rescue our dear country, Nigeria​, from those who have led us into the current state of insecurity, poverty, sectarian divide and hopelessness among our people. (22c) We will strive to attack poverty through broadly-shared economic growth and attacking corruption through impartial application of the law. (22d) We will tolerate no religious, regional, ethnic or gender bias in our government. (27) On corruption, the government will enhance EFCC's powers to investigate independently. Moreover, we intend to plug the holes in NNPC accounting. There will no longer be two sets of books, one for the public consumption and another for insiders who profit from this slick fraud. In an APC government, the public will know how much NNPC makes and where all the money goes. (28) No longer shall il-legal flows of massive sums leave these shores to finance other economies. While our people languish in poverty, we effectively give financial aid to nations that is not justified. I am sick of this. It must stop. The money saved will finance jobs, health care and the provision of social safety net for the needy, weak and vulnerable of our land. Not only did Buhari win the 2015 Presidential election on the platform of his party, APC, but his party also won majority in the National Assembly. That is what Yoruba people call, OYINDÀMÓLÁ, meaning honey-poured-into-dignity. Collaboration between Executive and the Legislature controlled by APC would make it easy to enact laws to implement APC election manifestoes, was the natural belief of all Nigerians.

In his inaugural address on Friday, 29 May 2015, Buhari announced that the Army Command Centre "will be relocated to Maiduguri (the Capital of Borno State, in the Northeast) and remain until Boko Haram(?) is completely subdued." Against what some self-confessed flamboyant and voluble intellectuals are currently claiming that Buhari was a Boko Haram(?) sympathiser, let's recall what he said on Boko Haram(?) in his inaugural address. He said, "Boko Haram(?) is a typical example of small fire causing large fires. An eccentric and an unorthodox preacher with a tiny following was given posthumous face and following by his extra judicial murder at the hands of police. Since then through official bungling, negligence, complacency or collusion, Boko Haram(?) became a terrifying force taking tens of thousands lives and capturing several towns and villages covering swathes of Nigerian sovereign territory. Boko Haram(?) is a mindless, godless group who are as far away from Islam as one can think of." Furthermore, he said, "Boko Haram(?) is not the only security issue bedevilling our country. The spate of kidnappings, armed robberies, herdsmen/farmers clashes, cattle rustlings, all help to add to the general air of insecurity in our land. We are going to erect and maintain an efficient, disciplined people friendly and well compensated security forces within and over all security architecture." Realizing that the Executive could not alone handle the problems confronting the nation, Buhari said, "For their part the legislative arm must keep to their brief of making laws, carrying out of oversight functions and doing so expeditiously. The judicial system needs reform to cleanse itself from its immediate past. The country now expects the judiciary to act with dispatch on all cases especially on corruption, serious financial crimes or abuse of office. It is only when the three arms act constitutionally that government will be enabled to serve the country optimally and avoid the confusion all too often bedevilling governance today." The problems confronting Nigeria were clearly identified by Buhari and one had hoped that the elected majority of the Legislature on the platform of APC on one hand and the Judiciary on the other hand would work amicably with the Executive to tackle and solve the identified problems. That hope vanished so soon.

Immediately after the inauguration of Buhari as the President, his party, the APC, ceased to be a political party as declared by Dr Bukola Saraki. According to Saraki, no political Party can dictate to members of the National Assembly, elected on the platform of their respective political party who among them should be elected principal officers of the Senate and House of Reps. Yet the Constitution says no one can contest for an elected office in Nigeria without belonging to a political party and which must sponsor one's contest. Those who proclaimed party superiority and discipline were ignored. Before anyone could realise what was going on, Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu had forged Senate Standing Orders 2011, on which the election of principal officers was based. Against the decision of the APC that had majority in the Senate, Bukola Saraki became President of the Senate and the opposition PDP member, Ike Ekweremadu, became Deputy President. Consequently, the Principal officers of the National Assembly in 2015 evolved in a manner similar to 419 criminal offence. President Buhari, perhaps out of not wanting to be regarded as a dictator or not realising that he needed the support of APC majority in the Legislature to fight corruption, was a passive onlooker to the election of Principal Officers of the National Assembly. He even declared the election of the principal officers as constitutional. When he realized the importance of the legislature to his fight against corruption, he ordered the Police to investigate a case of forgery about the Senate Standing Orders 2011, which outcome led to the filing of criminal charges against Saraki and others by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, although reluctantly. I say reluctantly because the case was ceremonially filed but not actively prosecuted till the end of the 8th Assembly. The second arm of governance, the Legislature, was firmly in the hands of corrupt elements and Buhari's only remaining hope in his fight against corruption was the Judiciary.

As I stated in part III, Buhari's outburst against the alignment of the judiciary with corrupt elements occurred in January 2016, in far away, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. As the situation remained unchanged, Buhari seized the opportunity at an International workshop organised by the National Judicial Institute (NJI), on Monday, 18 July 2016, in Abuja to speak on the role of Judiciary in the fight against corruption. Parts of his speach read, "Critically important also, is the sacred duty of the judiciary to ensure that criminal justice administration is not delayed. I am worried that the expectation of the public is yet to be met by the judiciary with regard to the removal of delay and the toleration of delay tactics by lawyers. When cases are not concluded the negative impression is given that crime pays.
"So far, the corruption cases filed by the government are not progressing as speedily as they should in spite of the Administration of the Criminal Justice Act 2015 essentially because the courts allow some lawyers to frustrate the reforms introduced by law. /..../ Thus, we cannot expect to make any gains in the war against corruption in our society when the judiciary is seen as being distant from the crusade. /...../ The Judiciary must fight delay of cases in court as well as it fights corruption in its own ranks, perceived or otherwise." With his speech to the Judiciary, Buhari appeared to have only poured water on the back of ducks because treasury looters and the Judiciary are inseparable partners in Nigeria. Already, in February 2016, Buhari had submitted a Bill to the National Assembly to set up a special Court to try cases of corruption, kidnapping, armed robbery and drug crimes which Nigerian lawmakers ignored and refused to discuss. Two important events took place in October 2016. The BBC Hausa Channel had an interview with the wife of President Buhari, Aisha, in which she alleged that the government led by her husband had been hijacked by those who did not know what the APC promised the electorates that voted the APC party and her husband into power. She emphasized, "The President (her husband) does not know 45 out of 50 of the people he appointed. I don't know them either, despite being his wife of 27 years. Some people are sitting down in their homes and folding their arms only to be invited to head a government agency or take up a ministerial job." When she was asked about what could be done to bring governance into the right path, she replied that over fifteen million Nigerians that voted for her husband to become President should pour out to demonstrate against usurpers of the mandate given to the APC to rule Nigeria. Aisha Buhari is a grassroot democrat and had APC national leader at the time, Professor John Odigie-Oyegun, been worthy of his position he should have acted on Aisha's proposal to mobilize APC supporters throughout the country to protest against the conservation of PDP policy in an APC government. President Buhari was on a state visit in Germany when the contents of his wife's interview in the BBC became public issue and there, he was asked to comment on it. In the presence of the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the German Minister of Defence, Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen, Buhari said, "My wife belong to the kitchen, living room and the other room." That was an expensive locker room joke that took honour out of Buhari and, even brought negative reactions from many of us, his admirers. The second event in October 2016 was the raids by the DSS and EFCC in the homes of certain High and Supreme Court Justices. Raw cash both in foreign and domestic currencies found in the homes of the Justices were so enormous that Professor Niyi Osundare wrote a satire titled, Oh My Lord : Tell Me Where to Keep Your Bribe. Some of the Justices were prosecuted but as it is often the case when thieves are empowered to try thieves, they always end up doing esprit de corps. Despite enormous incontrovertible evidence that Judges had auctioned out justices in exchange for pecuniary rewards, Courts trying the Judges ruled that the Judges could not be prosecuted because they were not first reported to the National Judicial Council for disciplinary actions. Thus, Judges dismissed cases of corruption against their fellow Judges. I have wondered a lot on why Nigerian masses, whose prosperity in life depends on Buhari's fight against corruption, have remained passive onlookers to the small clique of religious and ethnic renegades, who in alliance with the Judiciary, are looting our collective patrimony with impunity. Arise O Nigerians and protest against criminal impoverishers in our midst as Aisha Buhari suggested in October 2016. Armed robbers, kidnappers, bandits, farmers/herders' clashes, cattle rustlers, unemployment, extreme poverty and insurgency are all direct products of the Nigerian treasury looters sustained by the Nigerian Judiciary and its taproot, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Most of Buhari's appointees working with him are not interested in fighting corruption scourge in the country and as such they constitute vital components in the forces of insecurity to all Nigerians. That Buhari is yet to see this truth is still a mystery to me and in part V, I will try to address issues which I think ought to have attracted his attention to and action against the pro-corruption elements in and around his government.
S. Kadiri    

Femi Segun

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' That was an expensive locker room joke that took honour out of Buhari and, even brought negative reactions from many of us, his admirers' Alagba Salimonu Kadiri. I like this admission of admiration of PMB despite the glaring failures of governance in all the critical areas of what he promised us in 2015, to wit: fight against security, poverty and corruption. Igi gangan na ma gun mi loju, okere la'tinwo. You have tried to exonerate PMB of responsibility and culpability. If he appointed corrupt people into his cabinet, who should we blame for that? Did he not say he appointed those he can trust-the beneficiaries of the 95% votes. Bigotry apart, are we saying that there are no competent and honest Nigerians that can perform more creditably than the current crop of ministers and officials , some of whom are under investigation by the same EFCC that he promised to deploy against corrupt elements  in 2015? Akpabio, Barutai, Ganduje and so on and so on. The list is endless.  PMB's handlers swindled all of us in 2015 because we got tired of President Ebele Jonathan. 2015 has become a metaphor for the biggest scam of our contemporary times as far as marketing a dictator as a democrat  is concerned.  I doubt if he read those speeches that you cited above before reading them to the public. For instance, do recall that  as the national leader of the Congress for Progress Change (CPC) he had earlier said during the Jonathan administration that a fight against Boko Haram is a fight against the North. This can be found in the June 3rd edition of ThisDay newspapers. His actions as the President have only solidified this sentiment. Or else how do you explain a situation where confirmed Boko Haram  terrorists are released back to society in the name of repentance, when the widows and maybe widowers of soldiers who are killed fighting against these terrorists watch in disbelief. Worst still, the local people who became Internally Displaced Persons remain in critical conditions. What do you make of the careless and insensitive statement from the Government that the killings in Southern Kaduna are products of revenge killings ?  How about the killings by the Fulani Herdsmen and the kid gloves that the PMB government has given them till date? Oro po ninu iwe kobo. We look forward to the part four of your treaties. 
Femi

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OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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Alagba Femi Segun.

You both are saying the same thing in different ways and I agree with you both:  Igi kan kii d'ágbó şe ( a tree does not make a forest.)

Half of those in the North who wanted Buhari in power just wanted to see a northern face.  In almost twenty years of the New Democracy a northerner ruled for only two years. Out of this first half a large number are only concerned with fall outs from power patronage The other half actually believed Buhari could make a differebce based on the no- nonsense persona he cultivated as a military dictator.  I warned this other half and whoever cared to listen  the civilian dispensation would not allow this side of him to be called into service so such people will be disappointed ( I remember Prof Aluko punning my statement that even his party members will defy his authority just ' for the heck it.' and there would be nothing he could do about it in a democratic dispensation.)

Buhari himself stated at the start of his rule he was no magician.  The problem he faces is not unique to him it was what was faced by Obasanjo in his two leadership incarnations ( military/civilian) and that did not stop others rooting for his third term.  He himself exclaimed how corrupt those surrounding him were.  Why was he unable to tame them?

In a democracy, a polity is as corrupt as the practitioners are.  No matter measures put in place they find ways to circumvent it.  You talk of how Boko Haram fighters are being let off the hook and pardoned to the consternation of widows of slain Nigerian soldiers and I say how many MEND soldiers did Jonathan prosecute?  I have in a separate post said two wrongs do not make a right and Buhari's handlers must recognise that Buhari cannot replicate Jonathan's follies and hope history will be kind to him.

I did not know how Alagba Salimonu will conclude his serials but judging by the title the conclusion cannot be far from my own view of the way out of this logjam:

When the pro democracy activists and Civil Society battled the Nigerian military mercenary class to a standstill and mandated Prof Soyinka to accept the surrender from General Abubakar little did they realise the war to secure democracy on a firm footing was far from over and the dividends of democracy will not come easy.  Civil Society now needs to organise once more again and head for the barricades to insist that the dividends of democracy must be delivered according to their own vision.  The most important place where this can be effected is the National Assembly and the must resolve in sit ins on weekly basis chanting songs of change until the ' Jericho' walls of corruption and insecurity caves in due to laws enacted for this express purpose , weekly sit- ins which should last till the end of this administration or till enabling laws are passed to the effect:

1.  Expedited corruption cases must be taken away from normal courts into the precincts of serious fraud tribunals to try cases involving corrupt enrichment of  of sum equivalent to $10,000 or more.

2.  A change in the Nigerian Constitution to provide for capital punishment for cases of serious fraud after ratification of sentence by the Supreme Court.

3.  A case of capital punishment for people convicted by an expedited military tribunal  for levying war against the Federal Republic of Nigeria its armed forces or any constituent part of the federation or its people, after confirmation by the Supreme Court.

4.  Honors and privileges committee of the Nigeria Bar Association must recognise that the morally questionable acts of some of their members are making Nigeria ungovernable for the greatest members of the citizenry and should therefore review its honours procedure to the effect that members aiding delay of cases in serious criminal cases and deliberately aiding felons frustrate and/ or evade. justice be barred from the conferment of SAN status or stripped of the status if found to be engaged in such activities after investiture. Every profession must consider themselves stakeholders in a sanitised Nigerian polity.

I know the members of the National Assembly will be hesitant to pass the first clause because many of its members will be guilty as charged; that is why Civil Society must consider this assignment its greatest legacy to generations unborn and to posterity and resolve that they cannot afford to fail.  If Civil Society can battle corrupt armed soldiers to a standstill they cannot fail to enable a change in progressuve legislating.

I call on veteran Civil Society leaders like Olisa Agbakoba ( SAN) and Femi Falana (SAN)  to recognise that the war for the reclamation of the soul of Nigeria is far from won.


OAA



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' That was an expensive locker room joke that took honour out of Buhari and, even brought negative reactions from many of us, his admirers' Alagba Salimonu Kadiri. I like this admission of admiration of PMB despite the glaring failures of governance in all the critical areas of what he promised us in 2015, to wit: fight against security, poverty and corruption. Igi gangan na ma gun mi loju, okere la'tinwo. You have tried to exonerate PMB of responsibility and culpability. If he appointed corrupt people into his cabinet, who should we blame for that? Did he not say he appointed those he can trust-the beneficiaries of the 95% votes. Bigotry apart, are we saying that there are no competent and honest Nigerians that can perform more creditably than the current crop of ministers and officials , some of whom are under investigation by the same EFCC that he promised to deploy against corrupt elements  in 2015? Akpabio, Barutai, Ganduje and so on and so on. The list is endless.  PMB's handlers swindled all of us in 2015 because we got tired of President Ebele Jonathan. 2015 has become a metaphor for the biggest scam of our contemporary times as far as marketing a dictator as a democrat  is concerned.  I doubt if he read those speeches that you cited above before reading them to the public. For instance, do recall that  as the national leader of the Congress for Progress Change (CPC) he had earlier said during the Jonathan administration that a fight against Boko Haram is a fight against the North. This can be found in the June 3rd edition of ThisDay newspapers. His actions as the President have only solidified this sentiment. Or else how do you explain a situation where confirmed Boko Haram  terrorists are released back to society in the name of repentance, when the widows and maybe widowers of soldiers who are killed fighting against these terrorists watch in disbelief. Worst still, the local people who became Internally Displaced Persons remain in critical conditions. What do you make of the careless and insensitive statement from the Government that the killings in Southern Kaduna are products of revenge killings ?  How about the killings by the Fulani Herdsmen and the kid gloves that the PMB government has given them till date? Oro po ninu iwe kobo. We look forward to the part four of your treaties. 
Femi

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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

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It's possible to lead civil society protests even from outside Nogeria.

Nnamdi Kanu did it 

It was so bad that MEND did not suffer the full weight of the law even though they were not killers and Boko Haram that makes killing their daily bread, including massacres  of school children, are being told they can be President of Nigeria if they reform- a factual declaration from Nigerian army leadership, to the best of my knowledge.

No matter how bad a leader is, he will have his supporters.

Toyin

Salimonu Kadiri

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​It appears you supported Buhari in 2015, because as you wrote, "he promised us in 2015 to wit: fight against (in)security, poverty and corruption." Were those promises not admirable to earn your support for him?
​Buhari is now a democratic President and it will be wrong of anybody to demand that he should dictate security, decree against poverty and corruption when the Constitution compels him to respect the other arms of government which are the Legislature and the Judiciary. Those who are taking more than their own legitimate part of our national patrimony are giving births to extreme poverty, armed robberies, and insurgency, culminating in insecurity in our country. Appropriation of what belongs to all Nigerians by few elements, which we call corruption in Nigeria, can only be dealt with if the incarceration of kleptocrats are speeded up by the Courts. When Babachir Lawal, the former SGF was found by Buhari to have abused the trust placed on him for internal refugee by awarding to his own Company a contract to cut grass around refugee camps for N270 million, he was promptly removed as SGF and charged to court for fraud. Over a year now, the case is still gathering dust in the Court. In part III, I mentioned ex-Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, whose case of looting Abia State of N7.2 billion started in July 2007 which ended in his imprisonment in December 2019, a good 12 years!!  Yet the Supreme Court decided in May 2020, that his conviction was null and void because a wrong Judge pronounced the right judgement!! Therefore, a new trial was ordered followed by his release from prison. As I am writing now, he is yet to be re-charged for his looting business, in his eight years tenure (1999-2007) as PDP Governor of Abia State. He crossed from his own party, PPA, to APC in 2016. At moment he is a Senator and it is people like him who flood the Senate that will never consider Buhari's Bill for special Court to try Kleptocrats speedily. If we, Nigerians, want security, eradication of poverty and corruption, we should direct our protests against the Judiciary, the backbone of corruption in Nigeria and not Buhari.
S. Kadiri 


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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

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Of course.

Please remove Buhari and vote for me as President since Buhari bears no responsibility for the running of government even though he was elected on the basis of grand promises to bear ultimate responsibility.

Even better, eliminate the office of the Presidency since it's so irrelevant to the state of the nation.

Or reorganize the country into self governing units or give everyone a chance to form their own country.

Buhari boasted much about Boko Haram elimination and GEJ was removed to pave way for a general who would "lead from the front".

GEJs govt was accused of corruption and he was removed to make way for a person described as incorruptible.

Yet, the frugal man entered office by erecting a helipad in his village.

Made himself minister of NNPC, the nation's chief money earner.

He has made self identification with Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen terrorists his trademark, urging the victims of the Fulani herdsmen terrorists to accommodate those killing them, filled his appointment with ethnic religious appointees, empowering Boko Haram members, becoming the country's principal medical tourist, spending a good degree of his first time in English hospitals while those at home are decrepit....

And we are being told that...

IT IS NOT HIS FAULT

......

God, have mercy on our country.

Toyin


Salimonu Kadiri

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Your anger is misdirected, Ogboni Adepoju. You want Buhari to arrest all Judges, lock them up in their respective court to speed up the trial of treasury looters that have been piling up since 2007!! Should he do that you and your ilk would be the first to shout dictatorship. What do you say about the case of Orji Uzor Kalu, 13 years ongoing Maradona legal dribbling of treasury looting trial? Buhari is responsible for multiple of cases like that? Common, shine your eyes and see where the problems of Nigeria really lie.
S. Kadiri  



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Of course.

Please remove Buhari and vote for me as President since Buhari bears no responsibility for the running of government even though he was elected on the basis of grand promises to bear ultimate responsibility.

Even better, eliminate the office of the Presidency since it's so irrelevant to the state of the nation.

Or reorganize the country into self governing units or give everyone a chance to form their own country.

Buhari boasted much about Boko Haram elimination and GEJ was removed to pave way for a general who would "lead from the front".

GEJs govt was accused of corruption and he was removed to make way for a person described as incorruptible.

Yet, the frugal man entered office by erecting a helipad in his village.

Made himself minister of NNPC, the nation's chief money earner.

He has made self identification with Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen terrorists his trademark, urging the victims of the Fulani herdsmen terrorists to accommodate those killing them, filled his appointment with ethnic religious appointees, empowering Boko Haram members, becoming the country's principal medical tourist, spending a good degree of his first time in English hospitals while those at home are decrepit....

And we are being told that...

IT IS NOT HIS FAULT

......

God, have mercy on our country.

Toyin


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