5 Cases We May Never See In Court Under Buhari By Umar Sa’ad Hassan

It is no longer news that President Buhari’s integrity has
proven a hoax.It was never about wanting to change Nigeria for the
better,it was about wanting power and its attendant benefits like
those before him.

Below are 5 cases we may never see in court.

DIEZANI ALLISON MADUEKE HAS NOT BEEN EXTRADITED DESPITE WHAT
MAGU HAS BEEN SAYING SINCE 2017

Former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Allison Madueke is widely
reputed to be the most corrupt minister ever in the history of this
country.What this woman and her cronies are accused of stealing
from the national coffers is enough to fund two annual budgets;
perhaps that is why they are still free.

It is being whispered in some quarters that Diezani is the worst
victim of an extortion racket at the highest levels of Aso Rock
that exploits corrupt politicians scared of prosecution.They make
cash readily available to whomever they are asked to to avoid being
punished and the Buhari administration’s blatant reluctance to
bring her back home is a pointer to the existence of such a dubious
scheme.

First,the UK promised it was going to prosecute her then they
kept mute and ever since,there has been one story every year from
the EFCC.In 2017, Magu said there were ongoing plans to extradite
her.He repeated the same statement a year and 2 months later in
2018 and in 2019, we saw a change in strategy; one that involved
raiding one of her houses and parading $40M worth of jewelleries.I
remember saying then that judging from how a whole UK was made to
back off her trail, they may have gotten the woman to buy and have
jewelleries planted for them to recover for the optics.

Whether or not, the story of her being a Dominican diplomat is
genuine,it cannot shield her from crimes perpetrated as a minister
in Nigeria.Its 2020 and Diezani is still yet to extradited to face
charges and the EFCC still hasn’t gone beyond telling us ‘there are
ongoing plans’.Maybe Buhari can tell us why.

THE OBASANJO $16BN POWER PROBE HAS SUDDENLY GONE COLD

A former director at the Ministry of Petroleum has been made the
official scapegoat for the controversial P&ID gas contract that
led to a $9bn compensation awarded against this country.People
expected the EFCC to tow that path since it arrested some
never-before-heard names with regard to how $16bn was spent on
power under former President, Olusegun Obasanjo.

There has been no news ever since.Not on what the arrested
persons said or on more people being picked up.Not the Ministers
and not the big fish himself, OBJ.

President Buhari said he would limit his fight against
corruption to only the Jonathan administration but in one desperate
and hypocritical moment,he told youths he was addressing that ‘a
former president’ claimed he spent $16bn on power.That is the
humongous sum nigerians have been told countlessly was spent on
power under President Obasanjo and when a massive outcry geeted
Buhari’s comments, he was forced to order a probe of how that sum
was spent.While it is hard to say with certainty why Buhari’s EFCC
is reluctant to pursue the probe, the most likely reason would be
that he is worried about the optics.Right now, he can’t win any war
no matter how righteous considering the level of discontent with
his administration and secondly, any effort to prosecute Obasanjo
will all but turn the entire South West against him.Afenifere has
already accused him of sidelining Vice-President Osinbajo only
because he was bitter at the sacking of former DSS boss, Lawal
Daura while he was on medical leave in London.If nigerians aren’t
bothered by the fact that the Buhari administration is claiming to
have spent N1.5 trn on power without a commensurate improvement in
electricity supply, then they will start to ask questions
then.Black and dark are not any different from each other.Is Buhari
scared of probing Obasanjo?.Only he can answer that.

WADUME THE KIDNAPPER HAS STILL NOT BEEN CHARGED

You ordinarily would expect the authorities to arraign this
notorious kidnapper and make so much noise about it for no better
reason than 3 policemen were gruesomely murdered by soldiers just
to help him escape but no one could safely bet on that after
learning he said he got N13M to work for Buhari in the 2019
Presidential election.The police have held him way beyond the
constitutionally stipulated time and without any update to the
public.Wadume’s statement to the police not only shed more light on
the nefarious antics of the APC,it also gave an insight to just how
much our leaders contribute to insecurity in Nigeria.Unknown gunmen
were involved in a shootout with soldiers at the entrance of
President Jonathan’s country home not too long ago and just a week
ago,another set attacked a community in Kogi and killed 19
people.Politicians arm thugs to help them win elections at all
costs and after that is done, these youths they have ’empowered’
deploy those arms to various criminal activities.No one who has
been arrested is facing charges almost 6 months later-not Wadume
and not the soldiers that killed policemen to effect his
release.Maybe Buhari can tell us why.

AMIDST CLAIMS HE WAS KEEPING AISHA BUHARI’S MONEY, HER FORMER
ADC ARRESTED FOR FRAUD HAS NOT BEEN CHARGED TO COURT

The case of CSP Sani Baba-Inna, Aisha Buhari’s aide-de-camp
accused of defrauding undisclosed persons of N2.5bn in her name is
a particularly interesting one.A lot of people said soon after the
news spread that the money was hers and that further lent credence
to the rumours about Aso Rock’s extortion scheme.The only way to
disprove that was for Baba-Inna to be charged in court and a year
and four months later, that has still not happened.Are they scared
of what he might say?.

Popular activist, Prince Deji Adeyanju narrated an encounter he
had with members of Baba-Inna’s family where he was told they knew
Baba-Inna had been acting as a front for her and even bought a
house in Abuja for one of her daughters.Nobody wants us to hear
what Baba-Inna has to say.Certainly not the Buharis.

THE JONATHANS ARE UNTOUCHABLE

Former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki said every
payment he made from the $2.1bn arms fund was authorized by
President Goodluck Jonathan.Chief Doyin Okupe, a media aide of the
former president was accused of receiving N400M and he stated in
quite unequivocal terms that the payment was authorized by
President Jonathan.The EFCC didn’t as much as extend an invitation
to the former president talk more investigate and possibly
prosecute him.Patience Jonathan came out to claim monies found in
the name of her aides as hers and the EFCC in what appears a move
to punish her audacity, has seized those monies along with some of
her properties.How is it possible to seize properties on the basis
of having being acquired by ill-gotten wealth and then refuse to
charge the person to court?.Only Buhari and his EFCC can answer
that.

The temerity behind Patience Jonathan claiming those monies
instead of gladly allowing the scapegoats take the fall suggests
above anything else that the former first lady felt whatever
agreement they had with Buhari extended to their friends too.The
woman oozed a strange sense of invincibility.She took the EFCC to
court instead of the other way round.For a man that clearly said
when he assumed office in 2015, that he was going to punish all
corrupt persons, even Buhari won’t blame anyone who thinks he has a
dubious agreement with the Jonathans.One that involves him getting
a slice of the pie maybe.

Umar Sa’ad Hassan is based in Kano

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