Blowing a little breeze about Auwal Musa’s press release.
Cornelius Hamelberg
Stockholm
Sweden
Peoples’ Planet
3/10/2025
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Since innocent words do not always convey some of the treachery that’s embedded in some of them, in all of this, The Devil’s Dictionary should come in handy. For example take the Devil Dictionary's definition of Corrupt ( as Tom Ikimi told Tim Sebastian on BBC Hardtalk, ”It’s an English word”) :
“CORRUPT, adj. In politics, holding an office of trust or profit.”
May the Good Lord rescue us from cynicism, malfeasance and depravity
The impies (the imperialists) would like us to believe that in essence, this is the real self-governing Nigeria: Corruption: loot,looters,looting,lootocracy
A step in the right direction :
So, whatever happened to The Declaration of Assets, as a sine qua non stipulation before assuming any important public office in Nigeria, or must it always be a case of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted ?
Those not shuffering from collective amnesia know.
Those not shuffering from selective amnesia know
The signatories to The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
know.
No Big Grammar needed here
It’s a tearful complaint.
Bitter old
Post-colonial &
Post-independence
Negroes
Bitter Negroes young & old
Bitter indigenes young & old
Are crying
& Mr In-Between
listen carefully
just as Mzwakhe Mbuli
& Comrade Jacob Zuma
& Comrade Julius Malema
& President Cyril Ramaphosa
& President Ibrahim Traore
have surely listened carefully
to Hugh Masekela complaining
bitterly
here:
“The rich seduce the poor and the old are seduced by the young”
“You got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules”
Since the 1960s, in every general or presidential election ever conducted in Africa South of the Sahara, the wannabes vying for “power” ( it’s never for office) promise that they will wipe out corruption, but more often than never, when they win, some of them do exactly the opposite of wiping out corruption, and up to this day, in the general triumphalist, post-election fever, it's usually the understanding among the victors, “the sick and thick as thieves" sometimes even among the current incumbents, that pragmatically speaking, their predilection for conspicuous consumption, their from rags-to-riches self-aggrandisement, self-enrichment, in its own self-interest to the exclusion of everyone else’s, the survival-of-the-fittest mentality, the big jackass commander-in-thief having lost his moral compass, tells his fawning cabinet, “We’re in this crime together - and it’s known as “ honour among thieves", in Westminster it’s known as “collective responsibility” but elsewhere “collective responsibility” implies freedom of responsibility and freedom from accountability to the people, that’s how immorality justifies itself, screeching, cackling, chirping, whining & vaingloriously boasting to itself, to its clientele, its cronies and its extended networks of those parasites and sycophants that are dependent on its patronage and its largesse , on the big and little sadaqah breadcrumb from their high table, as they continue happily singing, “It’s our time ( to steal) , it’s our turn to graze, and we will graze where we are tethered, wallahi - not to be confused or conflated with “ wahala, because halleluiah & Al-hamdulillah it's our God-given turn to chop !”
I’m certain that Professor Ibrahim Abdullah disagrees with that perception, certainly objects to it and has his reservations about the feces that’s the centrepiece in the ethics of such a pernicious, selfish, grabbers’, winner takes all philosophy .
If it were to be put to the vote, Musa Ibrahim Auwal Rafsanjani would most certainly harvest the mandate of the people and not be accused of merely being the head of an NGO in cahoots with other NGOs possibly on the payroll of some no good foreign power/s
If only the one that I respectfully address as “Anti-Corruption Czar Musa Ibrahim Auwal Rafsanjani“ had any real power to put all the corrupt ones on trial and thereafter, great and small ( like the breadcrumbs that fall from their tables) those found guilty would face the full wrath of firing squads for summary execution , like The Bloody Assizes that we read about as a cleansing episode in English history
It’s also a long a variegated history of Anti-Corruption Commissions of Inquiry in various African Countries, trying to uphold the rule of law and to live up to the reality known as “the separation of powers”
In Sierra Leone for example, before Independence in 1961, and in the immediate aftermath of that event there was still a well-functioning, qualified ( distinguished , learned) judiciary, with honest judges that comprised the judiciary, and as far back as 1967, there was The Beoku-Betts Commission of Inquiry , with many important lessons to be learned from it…
I understand that the rationale is that justice must be done and be seen to be done and that in the absence of such justice being done, there is no deterrent for any of our hungry, wayward politicians and others who have merited the people's trust or ad hoc have been appointed ( political appointees) as custodians of the national treasury, to continue to loot the people’s patrimony with impunity
With a reasonable starting capital , and with a good business sense, surely Governor Wike is more than capable of being successful in his business undertakings?
“The statement strongly noted that no public official, regardless of rank or influence, should be considered above the law. “Selective enforcement corrodes public trust and undermines the legitimacy of Nigeria’s anti-corruption framework,” the coalition said.”
To zero in only on the allegations that are being made against Nyesom Wike and to neglect taking similar action against stalwarts such as the Great Obasanjo, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi for example, and a host of other outstanding suspect prominent figures could be said to smell of rank hypocrisy aiming at selective justice
Ideally, how would the signatories to this appeal for the “ immediate and impartial investigation” like the Commission of Enquiry to proceed? Who would constitute membership of this impartial investigative body?