Our Paradoxical President By Adekoya Boladale
Our Paradoxical President By Adekoya BoladaleThe philosophy of genuineness isn't one born out of the need to make a feeling of flawlessness, however, that of virtue, honesty, and refinement. For a cause to be labeled genuine it must be insusceptible to particularity, false reverence, and restorative equity.
In old Rome, there was a well-known sharp practice among deceitful old-fashioned merchants and manufacturers where defects were concealed with wax to make a feeling of flawlessness. Throughout the years as this practice became more grounded, concerned experts contrived an approach to isolate their works from those of the con artists, henceforth they thought of a tag on their items called 'spine care' which signifies 'without wax'. These two words later shaped "genuineness" in our advanced English dialect.
The belief system of earnestness isn't one born out of the need to make a feeling of flawlessness, however, that of immaculateness, honesty, and qualification. For a cause to be labeled earnest it must be insusceptible to particularity, false reverence, and restorative equity.
A couple days prior, the Presidential Committee on Audit of Defense Equipment Procurement in the Nigerian Armed Forces presented its report specifying how supports discharged for the buy of military gear and contraptions from 2007 to 2015 were occupied into private records and shared among associates. While the report gave a pass up blow examination of how subsidies were moved starting with one record then onto the next, the board of trustees likewise recorded names of top military authorities who executed this demonstration of amazing injustice against the nation.
Those prosecuted in the report incorporate previous Chief of Defense, Staff Alex Badeh; previous Chief of Air Staff, Adesola Amosu; previous Chief of Army Staff, Azubuike Ihejirika; previous Chief of Army Staff, Kenneth Minimah; previous Chief of Army Staff, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau; previous Director of Procurement, Tukur Yusuf Buratai, amongst others.
In a somewhat astounding unforeseen development, President Buhari supposedly requested that the names of both Dambazau (who is presently the present Minister of Interior) and Burrata (current Chief of armed force Staff) be erased and the report doctored to have the appalling barbarities connected to them canceled.
A further examination by radical news media, Sahara Reporters, uncovered that the arraigned Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, was taking a billion naira month to month from compensations of the military workforce as the Chief of Army Staff. Moreover, Dambazau likewise assumed a key part in the plundering of seven hundred and forty-five million dollars ($745,000,000) reserves implied for Logistics Support for Security Operations in the Niger Delta from 2003 to 2015 gotten from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the National Petroleum Investment Services (NAPIMS). All these President Muhammadu Buhari chose not to see on.
As though that wasn't sufficient, the present Chief of Staff, Lt. General Buratai, who was likewise arraigned in the Arms Procurement report, has been in the news for the obtaining of a whopping $1.5 million manors in Dubai. While Buratai has wholeheartedly claimed up to the properties, his safeguard on how he got the cash through his snake ranch is diverting as well as an affront to the knowledge of Nigerians. In the event that a minor snake ranch is so lucrative to the degree of creating such delicious benefits, enough to purchase probably the most sumptuous properties over the globe, then financial specialists like Dangote and Adenuga are in the wrong line of business.
Early January this year, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) tested resigned Brigadier-General Jafaru Isa, who is a known partner of President Muhammadu Buhari and an individual from the President's Transition Committee. Dissimilar to the typical convention of charging blamed to court where they continue to look for safeguard, Jafaru Isa did not just appreciate the advantage of being addressed for only eight hours yet was permitted to grasp the solace of his home after a disputable part installment of 100 million nairas was supposedly paid by him on the spot. Till date, no body of evidence has been organized against Jafari in any court nor has the EFCC moved to seek after his case to intelligent conclusion.
The core of Nigeria's majority rule framework is under compelling danger. Not simply by the attacking activists in the rivulets of the Niger Delta, the homicidal ambush rifle-using migrant herders on an executing spree the nation over or the 'in fact vanquished' however yet besieging Boko Haram terrorists in the North East. A long way from these known and verging on used to repulsions, one that makes an impending danger to our league and equipped for setting the rulers against the ruled if not quickly tended to be the extraordinary level of specific arraignment by the Presidency. Erasing Dambazau and Buratai from the report doesn't just demonstrate an inconsistency of the so tremendously lectured honesty and the comprehensive war on defilement yet an assault on the immaculateness of straightforwardness which introduced organization into force.
Everybody appears to have overlooked how Rotimi Amaechi siphoned right around three trillion nairas as the Governor of Rivers State with recompenses conceded to capital undertakings to phantom organizations claimed by his sidekicks as uncovered by the investigative board set up by the Rivers State government. The same Amaechi, instead of being examined and indicated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), was remunerated with an ecclesiastical position and even guaranteed the arrangement of his cohorts as the Chairperson of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and Director General of the NIMASA.
Just before our eyes, the Central Bank of Nigeria drove by the disputable Godwin Emefiele furtively enrolled children and little girls of Buhari's partners into succulent positions in the peak bank. A move that does separate any feeling of straightforwardness as well as point unmistakably to the intrigue of the rulers against the ruled. Emefiele was not questioned nor cross-examined by the ICPC.
As though getting a leaf from the CBN, the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Babatunde Fowler received the same procedure of mystery enlistment which just supported children and girls of the favored class.
Shouldn't something be said about those blamed for being the cerebrum behind the cushioning of the national spending plan? After the official statements and media face-sparing act, nobody has been indicted for the torrential slide of misappropriation and plotting against the Nigerian state.
President Buhari ought to comprehend that anybody with force can arrange the capture of fees and restrictions yet just those with earnest hearts of equity can arraign companions, families, and partners who consistently make a joke and remain against the precepts of honesty he/she lectures. While it is politically right that the President rewards steadfastness, such rewards ought to never incorporate a Presidential invulnerability against demonstrations of degenerate practices against the nation. Everything President Buhari stood and pushed for before and amid the 2015 race, he has remained against. His strides invalidate the abundantly exposed zero resistance for defilement stance and on the off chance that he doesn't withdraw his strides, he may go on record as a standout amongst the most confusing presidents in world history.
The real feedback against Jonathan's organization is not about him being by and by connected to any degenerate practices but instead, that under his supervision, his trusted associates and helpers raised scum to uncommon statues in our nation while he aimlessly protected them without the plan of action to the realness of the proofs against them.
Defilement does not end with the taking of open assets. At the point when degenerate people are protected from arraignment and visually impaired eye turned on their deeds, such choices makes a nursery for more noteworthy monstrosities. A Yoruba adage says, 'It is not he who takes the Jar of Palm oil that has stolen yet one who supported such individual.'
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