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Buhari/EFCC skewed corruption war: A time to stop the dance of deceit, by Ojigbo Onoriode

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The much talked about Buhari anti Corruption war seemed on the downward slope if the series of uninvestigated cases against the members of the APC in the Country is anything to write on.

Corruption fight under this administration seemed centered on  nothing other than media trial and nothing else as the real knotty gritty of investigations is left t the dogs after the huge and appetizing media trial of the so called corrupt who are basically of the opposition party ,the PDP or other perceived opponents or critics of the Buhari administration.

While the EFFC takes delight in shouting itself to high heavens on suspected looting by members of the opposition and very fast to pick on the gauntlet in form of media trail court summons and rushing to court to get a temporary detention it has so far failed to as much as move any of the many cases it gleefully won during its media trail with fanfare and undisputed tales on how, when and where the loot are located.

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The EFCC which is always good at rushing to press with stories of loot when it involves others had at the same time developed absolute cold feet when gigantic loots involving members of the Buhari administration are mentioned and even when the EFCC speaks it is with that feeble tone of a silent bulldog that the case is under investigation from which nothing is heard till nobody speaks about such cases,

In some other situation, cases of glaring loots are withdrawn and cases allowed to die naturally when it involves vested interest of the President and the APC. Several examples a this point would suffice to prove that the Buhari anti corruption war is not only skewed to exempt all thieves and rogues in the APC but seriously focused on just the hounding opponents as after the early rigmarole in the media such cases die naturally in the court of law basically as a result of no investigations on the part of the EFCC or the cases just hurriedly staged to embarrass and destroy the image of the persons involved.

Take the case of the former Secretary t the Government of Nigerian Babachir Lawal who was investigated by the Nigerian Senate and the Presidential Panel set up by this same government and totally found guilty. Today that same case is still not yet been charged to court but under another investigation that would not see the light of the day with the culprit now  manning the key position of Buhari man Friday in Adamawa.

What about the withdrawal of the 2billion loot case of the Present National Judicial Council secretary from the court over his involvement in the grand looting when he was Secretary of the Supreme Court? That case was on trial but secretly withdrawn and the great thief elevated and promoted to a more sensitive Position as the new secretary of the National Judicial Council NJC with a added portfolio as a secretary of a corruption Supervising Agency of this same Buhari administration. What a grand game with the EFCC mute and silent over it.

What about the case of the Chief of staff to the President   Mohammadu Buhari collecting bribes from MTN to whittle down fine given to MTN buy the NCC which was a straight forward and simple case, till date that same case is still under EFCC investigations.

Take the case of   APC Chairman Adams Oshiomole and his multi billion Naira loots in Edo state that case remains in the archive of the EFCC. What about the several petitions against the APC led government Minister for Transport Rotimi Amaechi, that of information Lai Mohammed demanding sponsorship money from Parastatals under his Ministry , the Minister for Finance forged Certificates, the Multi Billion Naira oil deals in the NNPC, the multi Billion Naira lootings in the North East  fund and several lootings of the funds belonging to the IDPs, not to talk of the Army Chief Buratie Mansion in Dubai, Minister for interior mansion in the USA and 144 hospital loot in Kaduna, El-Rufai Multi Billion Naira payments to herdsmen, the Tucano multi-billion Dollar scam, School feeding program deceit and loots, NHIF loots, Ikoyi Osborne money dump, Kano Airport cash recovered, the Maina return scam and hundreds of corruption related issues to which the so called EFCC has not got one person to court so far it all concerns the government in power.

When question on any of these cases all you hear is it is still under investigation with three years into an administration that claimed and pontificates on fighting corruption, one wonders when the investigations on these and several other thousands of corruption cases involving Buhari”s men would be taken to court for due trial, when the same EFCC would stage even a media show of all these grand stealing and bare faced looting in the Country involving the Buhari”s men.

It is shocking that every day the same EFCC boast of taming corruption yet one has not yet been able o see any grand trial or conviction of any notable corruption cases initiated and completed with conviction since the advent of this Buhari”s administration in spite of the unstoppable songs of the fight against corruption been one of the administration outstanding achievements by the APC led Federal government that is today itself a cesspool of monumental corruption and loot.

Ojigbo writes from Abuja

 

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