By Barcanista| 22 June 2015| 5:00am
It is shocking that agents of the administration have started with their propaganda to deceive Nigerians. Only yesterday, Alhaji Lai Muhammed came out to
praise the government and even stated that it has done a lot more than his predecessor. I believe that
we should all look into the administration to determine the sector that Buhari performed. Please
forgive me for the "lengthy write-up".
Corruption
It is on record that since President Buhari took over power from Dr Goodluck Jonathan, he is yet to
initiate any high profile corruption case nor vigorously pursued those he inherited. Buhari inherited the case against ex-Gov Timpre Sylva,
disgraced Adamawa state ex-Gov Muritala Nyako, his son Abdulaziz Nyako. He also inherited the case
against ex-Minister Femi Fani Kayode, ex-Gov Ali Modu Sheriff and immediate past Governor of Jigawa state Sule Lamido(and his sons).
The case of Sylva is well publicised. Murtala Nyako was impeached for corruption and fled the country in
2014. He was declared wanted by EFCC in Feb 4, 2015 along with his son Abdulaziz Nyako. The
ex-Gov "magesticaly" returned to Nigeria 24hrs after Buhari took over. He reported himself to EFCC, drank coffee with the commission's staffs and came out smiling. He has been granted "administrative bail" by the same commission that declared him wanted 5months ago. His son Abdulaziz was also declared wanted in Feb for N15 billion fraud and was arrested in his hiding in Gombe state two weeks later. Funny enough the APC gifted him Adamawa South Senatorial ticket which they won. Nothing is
heard of his case since Buhari took over. Modu Sheriff was first invited in April 23 by EFCC. He declined the invitation. The EFCC under Jonathan on May 24 announced that they will declare him wanted. Jonathan left power and Sheriff appeared from nowhere to visit EFCC. He himself went there
to drink coffee and walked out. Nothing is heard of his case again. Buhari also inherited the case
against FFK which EFCC under Jonathan had been pursuing with vigour. However, Buhari's EFCC failed to show up in court on the day of judgement. In fact, it was FFK's lawyer that was "begging" the judge to pass judgement on Thursday June 18. For the case of Sule Lamido, the EFCC had arrested his two sons for laundering N10 billion in Nov 2013 which was linked to their father. Buhari inherited the case but the ex-Gov "surrendered" himself to EFCC under Buhari, drank his own coffee and walked out
gallantly.
Not a single high profile corruption case that Buhari inherited is being pursued vigorously. The EFCC swooped on Ikedi Ohakim the ex-Imo state Governor few days ago and released him almost immediately. No case was heard about the former governor afterward. In addition to the above, President Buhari is yet to
initiate arrest and prosecution of any low profile case. The interrogation of NNPC officials was as a result of the May 18 directive that the ex-Petroleum Minister Diezani Madueke sent to EFCC after getting approval of then President Goodluck Jonathan. The 14 foreigners that are being tried for oil theft were arrested on March 8 under Jonathan by the Navy.
They were later handed over to EFCC. The case of CBN fraudsters that are being tried for N8 billion
fraud was actually started in September 2014. The EFCC started their investigation in November 2014 and their arraignment followed after rigorous investigation. All these are under Jonathan. How
many corruption cases has Buhari started? How can Buhari spokesperson claim Buhari has
achieved more?
Security
Between Feb 13 and May 29, Nigeria recorded huge success against BH terrorists. Since Buhari took over, BH have struck more than 12 times, killing over 600 Nigerians as a result. The case of the Chibok girls is not even being talked of. So in what way has Buhari achieved more than Jonathan in Security?
Economy
Since May 29, Nigeria's economy has been on the decline. According to The Punch, As of Thursday
June 18, three weeks after the inauguration of the President on May 29, the value of equities listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange had declined by N238bn or 2.04 per cent, while the NSE All-Share Index fell by 2.47 per cent or 849.87 basis points.
(Punch 19, June 2015). There is no policy framework on the economy as at today. Nigeria is floating on Auto-piloting system. So what has
Buhari achieved?
Infrastructure, Education and Political Stability.
Since taking over government, Buhari is yet to mix
"cement and sand together" not to talk of kick starting infrastructural project. Nothing has even been heard of electricity so far. Similarly, new policy direction has been heard on Education. The government and the party almost held the country
and the National Assembly to ransom all because their preferred candidates lost principal office
positions. This almost created a political chaos. What has Buhari really achieved in these sectors?
Propaganda
The government and their agents seem to be determined to "rule" the country according to the tenet of propaganda. Earlier this month, APC senior chief Nasir Elrufai told the world that officers of past
administration have started returning stolen money. Because it is was a lie, he couldn't name any
official. He didn't even mention the amount returned, the time the money was returned, and the receiving party.
The government is also trying to deceive Nigerians that they are winning the war on terrorism because foreign governments pledged support. However,
they failed to tell Nigerians that the rhetoric support of foreign government is not new. In fact on May 14, 2014, world powers pledged to Nigeria under Dr
Jonathan that they will support the anti-terrorism war http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-nigeria-schoolgirls/nigeria-will-conquer-boko-haram-goodluck-jonathan-says-n100116. It is also hypocritical and "propagandious" for President Buhari to count his "tour" as achievement just to deceive Nigerians. The NNPC recently announced that the refineries
"WILL" start working by next month (in their bid to give Nigerians the false hope that the government is
working). However, they failed to tell Nigerians that President Buhari did not have a SINGLE input in the
refineries turn around maintenance. In fact, he had no clue about what the contract papers look like.
Anyway, the refinery is not working yet, we shall discuss more when it start to work. In the first week of the administration, to appear transparent, the government tried to play on our intelligence by trying to use the secret Asset Declaration with CCB to equate the Public Asset Declaration. In fact, the spokesman of Buhari even boasted that by "declaring with the CCB, the
President and his Vice had fulfilled their pledge". Nigerians resisted and insisted on seeing Buhari and Osinbajo Assets. They(APC) came up with another story that they are waiting for the 30days verification of CCB. Though we know their lies, we
are counting on days and we shall remind them at the appropriate time.
I want to use this medium to appeal to the APC administration to forget the propaganda idea because we will not allow them such luxury.
Nigerians should be rest assured that we will not stop to put the government to their toes despite the
intimidation and verbal assault from some of their
supporters.
