IS NIGERIA S NATION OF DEAF, DUMB, BLIND AND STUPID PEOPLE? (2)
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Salimonu Kadiri
Oct 10, 2022, 10:48:50 AM10/10/22
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Immediately after resigning as Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, filed through her lawyer a suit at the Federal High Court Abuja, in which she requested the court to decide if she ought to have served in
the NYSC but evaded it. The defendant in the suit was Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN). And Kemi Adeosun returned to her country of birth, United Kingdom.
With the departure of Kemi Adeosun, the government of President Buhari kept sealed lips over ghost police officers, but a Nigerian NGO named,
Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), filed a suit in an Abuja Federal High Court against the
Inspector General of Police (IGP), Muhammed Adamu, after he had refused to respond to
CSJ request to release names of the 80,115 ghost police officers disclosed by the former Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun.
On October 22, 2019, exactly after one year, seven months and one day, Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court Abuja, in a judgment,
ordered the IGP, Mohammed Adamu, to release details of 80,115 ghost police officers to Centre for Social Justice. Furthermore, Justice Binta Nyako ordered IGP Mohammed Adamu to release to CSJ names and contact addresses of the ghost officers and their ranks,
their bank account numbers, bank verification numbers, monthly salaries and emoluments as well as the total money paid to each one of them.
As of date, Justice Nyako's judgment of October 22, 2019, is neither enforced by the Police against itself nor by the Attorney General and Federal Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, whose duty in President Muhammadu Buhari's
government is to see to it that court orders are enforced. How much was paid to the 80,115 ghost police officers and for how long is yet to be known from a government which claimed that its primary duty is to eradicate corruption from public life in Nigeria.
Almost two years and ten months after Kemi Adeosun had left Nigeria to resettle in UK, Justice Taiwo Taiwo of Federal High Court Abuja, on July 7, 2021, pronounced judgment on the suit file by her asking the court to decide if she
had committed any infraction by not enrolling in the NYSC before being employed/appointed into office in Nigeria. Justice Taiwo established that although Kemi Adeosun graduated in UK at age of 22, she was then by birth a British citizen and was not qualified
to participate in NYSC. By the time she acquired Nigerian citizenship and decided to return to Nigeria to serve her fatherland, she was over 30 years and was naturally exempted from serving in the NYSC. In a country of deaf, dumb, blind and stupid people like
Nigeria, non-participation in National Youth Service Corps is considered much more criminal than fraudulent employment of eighty-thousand, one-hundred and fifteen ghost police officers on whose behalf billions of naira had been collected as salaries and alowances
by unknown men of the Nigerian Police Service Commission. After the departure of Kemi Adeosun, has employment of ghost police officers stopped?
On November 9, 2015, President Mohammadu Buhari appointed Ibrahim Magu as Acting Chairman of EFCC to replace Ibrahim Lamorde. It should be recalled
that both Lamorde and Magu served in the EFCC under the Chairmanship of Nuhu Ribadu all of
whom were hunted out of office in 2008 by a powerful force led by the ex-governor of Delta State, James Onanefe Ibori, who objected to the prosecution of ex-governors for stealing
their states dry while in office. Ibrahim Magu took his job very serious and believed in President Buhari's public and official declaration to kill corruption before it kills Nigeria. What he did not reckon with were those who had total control of Buhari's
ears and brain, those the wife of the President had, on October 14, 2016, referred to as people who were called upon to manage ministries, departments and agencies without having the visions of APC and what APC promised the electorates before being voted into
power. These elements were, Attorney General and Federal Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, Minister of Interior - Abdulrahman Dambazu, Chief of Staff to the President - Abba Kyari, and Director of DSS Lawal Daura.
President Buhari was in UK on a ten-day medical leave when the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on June 17, 2016, submitted the name of Assistant Commissioner
of Police (ACP), Ibrahim Mustapha Magu, to the Senate for confirmation as substantive Chairman of EFCC. Although Osinbajo's letter requesting the senate to confirm Magu was stamped received on 22 June 2016, it was not read by the President of Senate, Bukola
Saraki, until July 14, 2016 and left without further action. Later on, the Senate announced the rejection of Magu as substantive Chairman of the EFCC on the ground of a DSS report that claimed that Magu had failed integrity test and will constitute a liability
to the anti-corruption drive of Buhari's administration. The decision of the Senate not to screen Magu before refusing to confirm him was followed by public outcries. There were massive demands by the public that he should be given opportunity to defend himself
against the allegations contained in the DSS report. The Senate subsequently bowed to public opinion and decided to screen Magu on December 15, 2016 and after screening on the same day, the Senate announced the rejection of Magu to be the substantive chairman
of EFCC, based on DSS report. Thereafter, it surfaced in the media that the DSS had written two different reports signed by an official named Folashade Bello Ojo on behalf of
Director General of DSS, Lawal Daura, but not dispatched until October 3, 2016. One of the reports dated
25 August 2016, was addressed to the Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on National Assembly Matters, Ita Enang.
The other report, dated 21 September 2016, was addressed to the
Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr. Mohammed Sani-Omolori. In the report sent to Ita Enang, DSS stated that although some adverse things were found in relation to Magu, he should be given "benefit of doubt and be considered in view of
his achievements since assumption of office in acting capacity." Almost a month later, the same DSS in its report signed by the same person but addressed to the Clerk of the National Assembly stated that,
Magu is integrity-challenged and will constitute a liability to the anti-corruption stand of Buhari's administration. Both letters were forwarded to the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, for action. Why Magu was integrity-challenged and
why he would constitute a liability to the anti-corruption stand of Buhari's administration as stated by the DSS were not made known to the public.
Two days after the Nigerian Senate had refused to confirm Magu as the substantive Chairman of the EFCC, online Premium Times Nigeria declared the DSS
reasons for rejecting Magu as lies. It was never established in 2008 that Magu refused to hand over official documents in his possession to Farida Waziri's led EFCC after being ousted in 2008. In fact, the Inspector General of Police Mike Okiro queried the
then Chief Superintendent of Police, Ibrahim Magu, over his alleged refusal to handover all official documents in his possession to the new EFCC leaders in 2008, and he answered on August 25, 2008. Satisfied with Magu's reply to the query, the IGP exonerated
and reabsorbed him into the Force and posted him to the Police Special Fraud Unit where he was promoted, shortly afterwards, to the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police. Contrary to DSS claim that the accommodation of Magu in Abuja was being financed
by a retired Air Commodore Umar Mohammed, Magu lived in official residence provided by Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), etc. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/218293-fact-check-senate-confirmation-how-sss-lied-against-efcc-boss-magu.html
Major Nigerian Newspapers both online and offline reported the falsehood in the DSS report on Magu and it was likely that the echo pierced through the stones of Aso Rock to reach Buhari.
Therefore, Buhari asked his Attorney-General and Federal Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo to investigate the allegations of the DSS against Magu. Both Malami and Osinbajo's investigations absolved Magu of any culpability,
morally or legally and recommended him for renomination by the President on January 23, 2017.
S. Kadiri (To be continued)
Oluwatoyin Adepoju
Oct 11, 2022, 4:46:02 PM10/11/22
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