"I see Buhari as a man of impeccable integrity who abhors corruption..."
Egbon Bolaji Aluko, did you actually write that?😂😂😂 LOL!!! You made me spill the water I was drinking on my computer! You go pay o! You, sir, got jokes! Thanks for the laughter, though. I needed it.
But help me resolve this, if you can:
1. Buhari was the sole signatory to the account to which everyday Nigerians made donations to his presidential campaign from 2014 to 2015. To this day, he hasn't given an account of how the money was spent, particularly in light of the fact that his campaign was bankrolled by Tinubu, Amaechi, Saraki, Atiku, and others. Is that your idea of "a man of impeccable integrity who abhors corruption"?
2. Abdulrasheed Maina, a pension fund scammer and fugitive from the law, was surreptitiously reinstated, promoted and brought back to Nigeria DSS protection with Buhari's active consent and connivance. When the lid of the scam was blown open by Premium Times, Buhari pretended that he was just then getting to know about it, but a leaked memo of the Head of Service of the Federation conclusively showed that Buhari was in the know of everything. No one has been punished for this. Is that your idea of "a man of impeccable integrity who abhors corruption"?
3. When Babachir David Lawal, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, fleeced internationally displaced victims of Boko Haram violence of millions of naira, Buhari wrote to the Senate in his personal capacity to defend and exonerate Lawal, using disgraceful chicanery and dubious logic. Lawal was ultimately fired by Osinbajo when Buhari was away in London. To this day, Lawal has not been prosecuted. What is worse, he is a denizen of the Presidential Villa and is, in fact, Buhari's reelection campaign coordinator in Adamawa State! Is that your idea of "a man of impeccable integrity who abhors corruption"?
3. When dodgy civil servants in the executive branch "padded" the national budget, Buhari said he would punish them. It turned out that he only transferred them to other ministries. Months later, when no one was looking, the dodgy civil servants were returned to their former posts. Is that your idea of "a man of impeccable integrity who abhors corruption"?
4. Kemi Adeosun forged an NYSC discharge certificate. Buhari hasn't said a word about it and the woman still retains her job. Is that your idea of "a man of impeccable integrity who abhors corruption"?
5. Okoi Obono-Obla fudged his WASC result and uses his position to defraud people he is supposed to be recovering looted funds from. He was fired by the attorney-general, but was later reinstated by Buhari. Is that your idea of "a man of impeccable integrity who abhors corruption"?
6. The Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme was fired for corruption while Buhari was away in London. Upon his return to Nigeria, Buhari ordered the reinstatement of the man. Is that your idea of "a man of impeccable integrity who abhors corruption"?
7. A certain Louis Edozien who was fired in 2014 as Executive Director at the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) for failure to produce authentic credentials, including an NYSC certificate, during an audit, was reinstated and promoted to the position of Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Works, Power and Housing in November 2016. NDPHC's General Manager in charge of audit and compliance by the name of Mrs. Maryam Mohammed who audited Edozien's credentials and recommended his firing was unjustly fired in apparent retaliatory vendetta. Is that your idea of "a man of impeccable integrity who abhors corruption"?
8. Buhari consistently allocates more money to the clinic in the Presidential Villa than he does to all teaching hospitals in Nigeria combined, yet he goes to London for his medical needs even when he promised he would stop medical tourism by government officials. Worse still, the Presidential Clinic is so bereft of even basic medicines that Buhari's own wife and daughter complained publicly that in spite of the billions allocated to the clinic there isn't even a painkiller there. To this day, no one has been held to account. Is that your idea of "a man of impeccable integrity who abhors corruption"?
If I continue, I won't end this, but if Buhari is your idea of "a man of impeccable integrity who abhors corruption," you clearly must not know what integrity really is, and your notion of yourself as someone who abhors corruption is suspect--to be put it nicely. Just be frank and confess that you're a pro-regime apologist because your friends--and perhaps yourself--have a material stake in this government. I'd respect that. I know that most Nigerians condemn corruption not necessarily because they are against the act but because they are not the beneficiaries of the act.
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On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 3:12 PM Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:
Farooq Kperogi:In my almost 25 years now as a public intellectual in these Nigerian forums, starting from the Abacha/PDM years , no one has EVER accused the positions that I take as "knee jerk", because I have ALWAYS defended my positions with facts and figures and reasoning. You may not agree with my position, but you know where I stand - and I don't sit on the fence.Now my motive may be questioned, but that is the prerogative of the reader. I always make clear why I take my positions.Let me make my pro-Buhari sentiments clear to you once more:. I have been writing about corruption in Nigeria for the past 20 years as being the greatest single reason for Nigeria's arrested development. You can pull up all my writings on anti-corription. They did not start with Buhari.I went to Nigeria in 2011 to 2016 as a University Execo (and Government appointee) and witnessed it first hand, and its detrimental effect even in the hometown of the then President GEJ. I see Buhari as a man of impeccable integrity who abhors corruption as I do, and has been willing to do some things about it as President, despite the challenges around him and his own other challenges. I am in particular gladdened by the implementation of the TSA, which has stemmed the Grand Corruption in the Civil Service, whereby CEOs of 900 federsl MDAs are no longer able to open on average 20 bank accounts in our 22 private DMBs with upwatds of N5.5 trillion floating around. 80 percent of Nigeria bleeding is through the Civil Service and collusion with banks.So, yes, that is what I am suspect of - supposrting a fellow who is tackling one major problem that. I have identified. I hope he succreds to institutionally tackle it, so that whoever is his successor can tackle some other matters more focusedly.And there you have itBolaji Aluko--
On Friday, September 7, 2018, Farooq A. Kperogi <farooqkperogi@gmail.com> wrote:--This is equally true: To be a knee-jerk pro-regime apologist in Buhari's Nigeria with all of the Buhari regme's recklessness and incompetence is to be suspect of something.FarooqFarooq Kperogi, PhD
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Sent from my 4G LTE Android device. Please forgive typos.On Fri, Sep 7, 2018, 11:22 AM Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:Victor:To be an Independent in the Age of Trump - or to be indifferent to Trump - is to be a suspect of something.And there you have it.Bolaji Aluko--
On Friday, September 7, 2018, Victor Okafor <vokafor@emich.edu> wrote:Friends:
Is it possible that the real author of the Op-Ed does not work within President Trump's administration and that the essay, ahead of the upcoming US midterm elections, is a made-up story--a political fiction designed to both cause a disequilibrium within that administration and deepen mass disaffection with this presidency? In this age of higher frequencies of fake news within both the social and traditional media, anything is possible. Fake news, more commonly known as gossip, has always been part of the human experience across human cultures, but emergent social media, which have diminished the role of gate-keepers in traditional news media, have exacerbated that phenomenon.
If this Op-Ed turns out to be fake, would that be a first time that a newspaper, anywhere, has published a material that's entirely made-up? Of course, no. I am not a fan of anonymously authored materials. In general, anonymously authored materials are suspect and they must be regarded with a grain of salt.
Human gullibility, which predisposes us to believe the worst about fellow human beings that we dislike, may also be at play here.
In the context of US politics, I am a quintessential Independent, and so, sometimes, I am able to look at political currents from a non-partisan perspective.
--On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 4:32 AM, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:What if there is no "writer"(that is someone from Trump's cabinet)? Is that perspective impossible?
CAO.
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