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Okey Iheduru
Cornelius Hamelberg
“Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” ( Reinhold Niebuhr
The Devil’s Dictionary definition of Justice is better than the current Nigerian praxis of which the most depressing bad news so far was chest-beating Salihu Moh. Lukman of the Progressive Governors Forum, Abuja, proudly informing us in his APC's Litmus Tests - Appreciation
that
“ There was, of course, the case of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Nkanu Onnoghen, who did not declare the $3 million lodged in five accounts that belonged to him, which led to his suspension from office and subsequent conviction on April 18, 2019, by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, stripping him of all offices he earlier occupied, forfeiture of the money in the five accounts he failed to declare and banning him from holding public office for 10 years.”
Glory Halleluia!
How wonderful!
So you fixed Mr Chief Justice of Nigeria, “banning him from holding public office for 10 years.”
Alhamdulillahi rabbil alamin !
Cheers!
What does Salihu Mohammed Lukman of the Progressive Governors forum have to say about
The Supreme Court That Killed Accountability
What does lame-duck Buhari ( according to Jibrin Ibrahim) what does lame-duck Buhari have to say about the matter? And if he is indeed a lame duck, since when has he been that?
For some of us, it’s utter amazement about the incorrigible debasement of Nigeria’s malfunctioning judiciary.
The initial reaction reading through this brilliantly written exposé - strictly speaking not even an “exposé” since none of this truly sordid 6 insidious obscenity is secret, so, the initial dumbfounded and tongue-tied reaction is the inarticulate all-purpose exclamation was whew, followed by Jeez!
More importantly, what are we going to do about it, when the Nigerian Supreme Court kills accountability? Does it mean that accountability remains dead -. forever - never to be resurrected?
What do we have left with the collapse and utter abasement of the Judiciary? The separation of powers is rendered null and void. With such malfunction of the third arm of the executive which is supposed to be independent, who can vouchsafe the integrity of the military and the police? Abubakar Malami? Atiku Abubakar? Abubakar Bukola Saraki? Don Vito Corleone, in the underworld, popularly esteemed as “ The Godfather”?
No military expert am and I‘d hate to create any panic, or even worse, be rejected by insouciance ( no panic at all) but after zapping through “The 2020 U.S Elections: Zuckerberg, Rockefeller, Google and the Privatization of Election Integrity”, I can’t help thinking that even if in the yet to be digitalised Nigeria it’s not the social media etc that determines who wins and loses presidential elections, there’s yet another aspect of corruption known as election fraud that we know is and has been rampant in Africa, so Almighty God help us all if they ( the powers that be) are going to introduce some special voting machines as a sign of development or modernity when it comes to rigging an election…
Worst case scenario, we don’t want a repeat of Moshood Abiola and the June 1993 Presidential Elections
Yesterday the taxi I took was driven by a brother from Edo State; I told him that the rest of us smallies, from The Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Ghana, were looking up to Big Brother Nigeria, “ The Sleeping Giant of Africa”, that if Nigeria makes it then there can be some for us the smallies. What our Edo Brother said tallies with Judgment ( page 232ff here.
He told me that the time for prayer is over, that it’s time for separation.
Separation is the only word that’s anathema in Nigeria’s constitutional vocabulary.
Apparently, under the current dispensation, corruption, including the corruption of the judiciary and the corruption of Justice is now legal, and is no longer anathema, in practice,
Brer Buhari campaigned on a platform of change, thrilled Pan-Africanists that he was going to wipe out corruption. Now, we are to suppose that Atiku Abubakar is going to make a similar promise, that he’s going to kill king corruption and establish Justice. All I want to know is whether or not Pastor Olusegun Obasanjo has changed his mind about what he said the last time around when Atiku Abubakar sought his support: “God will never forgive me if I support Atiku Abubakar for the Presidency of Nigeria!”