Don't we know the group that operates in terms of that contradiction?
Are you on the same page with them?
thanks
--A while ago, the Nigerian Punch interviewed Dr. Toyin Falola Jr. about her father, Professor Toyin Falola. One of the interviewer's question to her was : What does he say about Nigeria's future and leadership? Dr. Toyin Falola Jr. responded, "He *(Professor Toyin Falola) wants the younger generation to take over *(governance of Nigeria). He wants corrupt leaders to be sentenced to life in prison. He believes that Nigeria will become a stronger country once there is accountability, electricity, good roads and honest entrepreneurs." *(my own addition).
In her reply above, I am attracted mostly by the statement : He (Professor Toyin Falola) wants corrupt leaders to be sentenced to life in prison. Following how the Nigerian Judiciary has been adjudicating in Nigeria since 2007, my questions are : Who is (are) going to sentence corrupt (thieving) leaders in Nigeria to life in prison when Senior Advocates of Nigeria are well-known murderers of Justice and Judges choose to serve as undertakers by turning judiciary into a cemetery where justice is buried? Is Nigerian judiciary not the backbones of the Western Educated official robbers of Nigeria's collective patrimony?
To begin with, it has been said that out of 59,000 prison inmates in Nigeria, 32,000 are awaiting trials and they are kept in prison custody because they could not meet their bail conditions. Most of these awaiting trial prisoners have been kept in prison for over ten years for alleged offences which on conviction would attract less than a year in prison or a fine of N1,000. However, the 32,000 awaiting trials in Nigeria, mostly uneducated, are forgotten in the Nigerian prisons, while the Western Educated Nigerian-pen-robbers of billions of dollars appropriated for socio-economic welfare of the people are granted bails to preen, like peacocks in mating season, on the national stage. Money for healthcare facilities, universal primary education for all Nigerian children of school age, road networks, national carrier aircrafts, potable water facilities, electrification amenities, iron, steel and aluminium productions, crude oil refineries defence and security of Nigeria have been stolen by western educated Nigerian officials with heavy academic titles employed and overpaid to execute those socio-economic welfare projects. The pack of vultures that bled Nigeria dry and stole what could have turned Nigeria into Dubai, Singapore, London or Paris have openly been identified, arraigned, and granted bail. Like the sharks that learned to swim in the trail of slave ships to feed on black slaves flung into the sea by the slave guards from the second half of the 15th century, Nigerian judicial officers, especially the judges have learnt to ally themselves with the robbers of the national wealth in order to get their own share of the stolen wealth.
Depending on the gravity of the crime, an accused is granted or denied bail at the discretion of the presiding judge. This discretion is always misused (abused) by the Western educated Nigerian judges handling cases of Western educated Nigerian plunderers of funds ear-marked for defence and security as well as socio-economic and industrial development of Nigeria. When high ranking Arm Forces Chiefs diverted huge sums of money meant for arm procurements into their private bank accounts, insurgents had field days to ransack towns and villages, killing and kidnapping people. Maternal deaths and deaths from preventable diseases are direct consequences of stolen funds, appropriated for healthcare deliveries, by the Western educated Minister of Health and public servants under him. Road networks degenerate into grave yards where people and vehicles are buried daily because money appropriated for road maintenance and constructions have been stolen. Considering the enormity of the stolen funds and the gravity of its consequences on the Nigerian masses, the accused robbers of public funds should be kept in protective custody until their cases are finally decided by the courts. Instead, Nigerian Judges help to perpetuate and exacerbate thievery not only by granting bails to robbers of multi-million dollars of Nigeria's development funds but see to it that the trials of those who brought economic ruin to the country and impoverishment to the people of Nigeria are never concluded.
After 2007 federal elections, 33 out of 36 state governors whose eight years tenure expired or not re-elected were arraigned by the EFCC in courts for corrupt enrichment and stealing of public funds. Till date, only the cases of the former Governor of Edo State, Lucky Igbinedion, and his brother, Michael Igbinedion, who served as the chief of staff to the Governor were partially concluded. Lucky Igbinedion was fined N3.5 million by Justice Abdullahi Kafarati, in a plead bargain, for looting Edo State the sum of 5 billion naira, implying that the Governor was allowed to keep N4.65 billion of the amount he stole from the Edo people. Justice Abdullahi Kafarati, was among the Justices accused by the DSS of perpetrating cash and carry justice in Nigeria. As for Michael Igbinedion, Justice M. Liman of the Federal High Court, Benin, on Wednesday 30 April 2015, fined him the sum of N3 million for stealing N25 billion from Edo State treasury between 1999 and 2007, which the EFCC promptly appealed against but which is yet to be listed for hearing as of date. Justice Liman was later transferred to the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, where Governor Nysom Wike of Rivers State prevented DSS from arresting him in October 2016. Among the 2007 cases of stealing of public funds still pending in the court in 2018 is that of former Governor of Plateau State (1999-2007), Joshua Chibi Dariye. What is remarkable about Joshua Chibi Dariye is that he was arrested by the Metropolitan Police on 2 Sept. 2004 in his Marriot Hotel room in London. He was found to be in possession of various amount of money in different currencies totalling over £90, 000. Investigations showed that he operated eight different UK bank accounts of which seven were in sterling containing over £2 million and one in dollars containing $80,000.00. Dariye was charged to court for money laundry and granted bail with his Nigerian passport deposited with the London police. Dariye jumped bail and returned to Nigeria where he was impeached but the Supreme Court of Nigeria declared his impeachment unconstitutional. After his tenure as a Governor and his immunity had expired in May 2007, EFCC arraigned him for theft before an Abuja High Court in July 2007. With the aid of Satan Advocates of Nigeria and complacent Judges the case of Dariye's theft against the people of Plateau, as of all theft cases from 2007, remains undecided. What more, he has been a Senator since 2011 making laws for Nigerians to obey.
While theft cases filed by the EFCC/ICPP against Nigerian officials in 2007 are still pending in courts in 2018, more theft cases have been filed between 2011 and 2017. Thanks to the Nigerian judiciary, theft has become an incurable epidemic among Western educated Nigerian officials who openly scorn the prosecuting agencies by saying: You can arrest and arraign us in any court, but you can never get us convicted. The general attitude of Western educated Nigerian officials is, the bigger the amount of money stolen is, the bigger the amount of bribe to be paid to judicial officers would be and the risk of going to jail for theft is nil because Nigerian judicial officers, especially Judges are kleptomaniacs. Until a drastic measure is taken to eradicate kleptomaniac judicial officers from the Nigerian judiciary burglaries of Nigeria's treasury, who are often wrongly classified as corrupt leaders, shall never be tried in courts and much less going to jail. Unfortunately, the rogue leaders stand as the role models for the Nigerian youths on whom hope is placed to take over leadership of Nigeria and change things. Having grown up under thieving leaders, Nigerian youths are beset with lottery mentality. They believe that what one needs to succeed in life is luck, pure luck, and sheer luck, to get mouth watering wins without any visible labour. They believe that one can get something out of nothing, that one can reap where one did not sow and it does not matter if what one does is wrong as long as one gets money from it. As I see it, there is need to restructure the brains of Nigerian elders and youths.
S. Kadiri
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