USA Africa Dialogue Series - Update #1: MONDAY QUARTER-BACKING: Dasukigate's Diagraph of Corruption {Re: Buhari’s anti-corruption war on course, says Soyinka}

UPDATE 1:  Figure 1 updated; Table 1 added

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MONDAY QUARTER-BACKING: Dasukigate's Diagraph of Corruption

by

Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD

alukome@gmail.com

January 11, 2016

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My People:

Let me start with a quote from Prof. Wole Soyinka:

QUOTE

"We haven't had a situation where it is being alleged and proved that the money supposed to be spent on defending ourselves, nation and neighbours has been shared among individuals........We have never had a case of critical emergency where children are being kidnapped under our noses, we are helpless and our soldiers have been sent to the front to defend our very existence and we are not backing them up. It has not happened before."

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And he might have added that we have not had a situation before where it is PROVEN beyond doubt - as revealed by the participants themselves - that government money has been used to DIRECTLY fund a ruling political party in elections, and that money was used to BUY OFF individuals and OTHER political parties.  By golly, it MUST have happened before in Nigeria's history - including in the First Republic -  but like in the brothel in Casablanca, for it to be so proven that prostitution was ACTUALLY going in therein was rather surprising to the French police captain.

With respect to this Dasuki-gate, it has become necessary to "follow the money" diagraphically and tabularly (see Diagraph below, Figure 1 and Table 1), and to continue to interrogate the rings around President Buhari (Figure 2)  and ask a few questions:

(1)  Did Dasuki get all his money from the CBN? Where else and who gave the instructions, who was/were his puppeteer(s)?

(2)  Those who got money DIRECTLY from him should have a case to answer as to "Why he?"  But there may have been "innocent" political operatives who got money from second and third-order persons, and did not know that it was ONSA money meant for arms....an explanation, I know, but not an excuse, particularly if the money given to them was not "delivered" to the right channels - all for a losing cause.

(3)  Apart from the money, time that should have been spent designing ways of combating Boko Haram was spent by Dasuki on the logistics of money distribution - who gets what when, where. why and how!  Soldiers in peril, Chibok damsels still in distress?  Not good at all.....

(4)  And how do we recover all of these monies?  They should be quarantined as they are quietly returned, and spent on a SPECIFIC THING this budget year, so that ALL Nigerians can point to it as say "That is recovered Dasukigate money.....that is  recovered Re-Looted Abacha Loot."

And there you have it.

May we have a better year in 2016 than in 2015.  [Amen.]

Bolaji Aluko

FIGURE 1:  Dasukigate Diagraph of Corruption

(As on January 11, 2016)

Not to be Submitted in a Court of Law -To be Amended as New Information Arises

Figure 2:  Rings of Change Around President Buhari

TABLE 1:  Of Persons and Monies

 

S/N	Name	Amount taken traceable to ONSA	Calculation
1	Former governor Peter Odili	N100m	100
2	Rashidi Ladoja	N100m	100
3	Attahiru Bafarawa	N100m	100
4	Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi	N100m	100
5	Jim Nwobodo	N500m.	500
6	Chief Tony Anenih	N260m	260
7	Ex-PDP National Chairman Ahmadu Ali	N100m	100
8	Chief Bode George	N100m/ $30,000	100
9	Yerima Abdullahi	N100m	100
10	Chief Olu Falae	N100m	100
11	Tanko Yakassai	N63m	63
12	Gen. Bello Sarkin Yaki	N200m	200
13	Raymond Dokpesi	???	0
14	Iyorchia Ayu's company	N345m	345
15	BAM Properties	N300m	300
16	Dalhatu Investment Limited	N1.5billion	1,500
17	Ex-PDP National Chairman Mohammed Bello Haliru , Abba Mohammed, Sagir Attahiru, serving and former members of the House of Representatives	over N600 million	600
18	Former Chairman of the House of Representatives on Security  and Intelligence, Bello Matawalle	N300m	300
19	ACACIA Holdings	N600m	600
20	Bashir Yuguda	N1,950,000	1.95
21	Many companies	????	0
	TOTAL SO FAR	Over N 5.4 billion	5,469.95

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THE NATION

Buhari's anti-corruption war on course, says Soyinka

Posted By: Musa Odoshimokheon: January 10, 201

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday said the anti-graft war of the current administration is on course and would not be swept under carpets.

Addressing reporters when the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, paid him a visit at the Freedom Park, Ikoyi, Lagos, Soyinka said he was confident that established cases of corruption would be brought to logical conclusion.

He said government's determination to give Nigerians a breathier atmosphere was fully manifested in its resolve to tackle correction headlong, noting that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration remains determined on this score.

He added that no corruption case would be foreclosed this time around.

On his optimism, Soyinka said: "The reason is that we have not had corruption being exposed on this scale before.

"We haven't had a situation where it is being alleged and proved that the money supposed to be spent on defending ourselves, nation and neighbours has been shared among individuals.

"We have never had a case of critical emergency where children are being kidnapped under our noses, we are helpless and our soldiers have been sent to the front to defend our very existence and we are not backing them up. It has not happened before."

Soyinka further said the fight against corruption is going to be a hard one, noting that it has already started.

He maintained that the administration has advanced the country beyond where it took over from the last administration.

"There is no doubt the country has made progress. We are not where we were before this new administration took over.

"Again, we just have to be very careful and I make this remark again and again. Corruption fights back and the hardest fighters are those already within the cesspit of corruption.

"So, the fight is on two levels; one, directly against corruption and the second is that you are going to prepare for a counter attack. That is where we are at the moment and there is no retreat."

The Nobel laureate explained that anybody who has anything against him is free to prove it, stressing that it was libellons and act of desperation by some mischief makers to link him with such act.

"I am a great respecter of the law; if you go properly I will answer you.

The minister said government was working round the clock to showcase Nigerian culture across the country, noting that his office has drawn up a compendium on Nigerian festivals.

He said the festival would be packed to drive government's youth employment and empowerment programme.

"There is going to be a festival of arts and crafts and by the time we finish it, we are going to have at least 365 festivals, which means we will be celebrating one festival per day. This will boost employment drive.

"We are going to work with all the states so that we can ensure its success. The most important aspect of it is actually the job creation.

"I am told of a particular masquerade in the Southeast, it takes over 100 people to dress it up and another 100 to undress it. So when that masquerade goes out, you are employing 200 able bodied men," he said.

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