Pantami, Magu, Diezani, Badeh: All Sense Of Right Is Lost Under Buhari

By Umar Sa’ad Hassan

At the very least,the Jonathan administration pretended to
care.Where it didn’t want to replace an official under fire,it
staged a probe that either withered away or ended in the
exoneration of the accused.No matter their short-comings, they at
least respected nigerians enough to want to be seen doing
right.

In search of what they truly deserved,nigerians ditched that
administration for one that is a hundred times worse.One that
doesn’t even bother to put up a show and pretend to be
righteous.With this administration,transparency and accountability
have been thrown to the dogs.I will highlight 4 cases.

WAS PANTAMI VETTED BY THE DSS?

As soon as Mallam Isa Pantami,the Minister of Communications
threatened media outlets that published that he was placed on a US
Watchlist for supporting terrorism,they set to work and provided
ample proof that Pantami was a firm believer in what the Taliban
and Al Qaeda stood for.The one question on everyone’s lips was ‘Why
didn’t the DSS conduct a thorough back ground check on him?’.The
Presidency in what has now become a trend has not bothered to
explain to Nigerians how such a person ended up being a Minister of
the Federal Republic.Nothing makes this a more unpleasant look than
that just like Buhari before he became President,Pantami was
comparing boko haram; a killer sect that slaughters just about
everyone including faithfuls of the religion it claims to be
fighting for, with Niger Delta militants.Buhari has released over
2000 boko haram prisoners with none being prosecuted in our
courts.If it has come to public knowledge that his communications
minister had a well proven track record of extremism to which his
only defence is ‘i was a teenager and unenlightened’, moreso when
it is blatantly clear that when infact he did utter those and
several other disgusting words,he was almost 30 years old,then no
one can be faulted for concluding Buhari likes him because he is an
amplification of everything he stands for.Buhari has refused to
sack him and has provided no explanation to this country as to how
such a man scaled through DSS screening.

DIEZANI IS STILL LIVING FREE IN THE UK

I have been very vocal about the likelihood of Diezani Allison
Madueke having struck a deal with Buhari to stay free right from
the onset.When the lady started demanding to return home from the
UK to face trial and this government not only disagreed but said
she was trying to evade an impending trial in the UK,you knew
something was happening.
Why would this government publicly indict itself of incompetence or
corruption by saying it didn’t trust its system to oversee a
transparent criminal prosecution just to justify not extraditing
her?.If you want to know how high the Diezani conspiracy goes,the
UK government fixed a date to take her to court and forgot.It
hasn’t remembered till date.Whoever ‘intervened’ had to have been
from the highest levels of power.
Magu said there were ongoing plans to extradite her in
2017,repeated the same thing a year later in 2018 and then embarked
on a raid of her house in 2019 and recovered jewelleries i warned
in an article shortly after could have been planted by the lady
herself in conjuction with the authorities to provide them
something to show nigerians.The government hasn’t bothered citing a
diplomatic passport she got from an Island some where because it
really doesn’t exempt her from standing trial here.What deal was
struck with the woman?.Why is this administration shielding
her?.

WHO IS SCARED OF PROSECUTING MAGU?

The case of Former EFCC Chairman,Ibrahim Magu is similar to that
of Isa Pantami to the extent that both should never have been
handed public offices to hold based on their antecedents but quite
unlike Pantami,the DSS indictment of Magu was something Buhari was
very much aware of but still chose to make him the face of the
fight against corruption in Nigeria.Magu had been indicted by the
Police Service Commission in 2010 for tampering with EFCC files and
had been moving around with highly suspicious characters that
rented him a N20M per annum residence in Abuja.
This much was disclosed by a DSS then headed by Buhari’s
kinsman,Lawal Daura but perhaps because he was best suited for what
Buhari had in mind,he insisted on having him despite the refusal of
the Bukola Saraki-led Senate to confirm him.Magu was accused of
corruption in EFCC and made to face a panel headed by Justice Ayo
Salami (Rtd) which indicted him last year and recommended that he
be prosecuted.This was a particularly interesting case because
Attorney General Abubakar Malami had been fingered as the man
behind his travails and damning evidence of Malami’s dubious
dealings surfaced in the press afterwards.Magu had proven he could
fight back.Would he go for Buhari himself if he allows him to be
prosecuted?.Buhari clearly doesn’t want to take that chance.No
prosecution till date.

OVER 2 YEARS LATER,BADEH’S CONFESSED KILLERS ARE STILL
NOT STANDING TRIAL

Alex Badeh was President Jonathan’s Chief of Defense staff.He
was murdered in cold blood in highly suspicious circumstances.The
police postponed the parade of 5 persons that had been apprehended
for the crime but on the same day,a video confession of one of them
surfaced.A while later another suspect confessed in full public
glare before press men with leader of the Inspector General of
Police Intelligence Response Team,Abba Kyari and his colleagues
standing behind him.It is 2 years and 4 months now since Badeh was
killed and suspects arrested in connection to his murder; suspects
that actually confessed to killing him.Not a few have pointed
accusing fingers at this government and each passing hour lends
credence to what they say.Why doesn’t this administration want to
prosecute Alex Badeh’s self-confessed killers?.Did it have Badeh
killed?.

This government doesn’t care what nigerians think or say.It
doesn’t believe it owes them anything.

Umar Sa’ad Hassan is based in Kano

Twitter-@Alaye_100,
Email-uhassan077@gmail.com^[1]

By Umar Sa’ad Hassan

At the very least,the Jonathan administration pretended to
care.Where it didn’t want to replace an official under fire,it
staged a probe that either withered away or ended in the
exoneration of the accused.No matter their short-comings, they at
least respected nigerians enough to want to be seen doing
right.

In search of what they truly deserved,nigerians ditched that
administration for one that is a hundred times worse.One that
doesn’t even bother to put up a show and pretend to be
righteous.With this administration,transparency and accountability
have been thrown to the dogs.I will highlight 4 cases.

WAS PANTAMI VETTED BY THE DSS?

As soon as Mallam Isa Pantami,the Minister of Communications
threatened media outlets that published that he was placed on a US
Watchlist for supporting terrorism,they set to work and provided
ample proof that Pantami was a firm believer in what the Taliban
and Al Qaeda stood for.The one question on everyone’s lips was ‘Why
didn’t the DSS conduct a thorough back ground check on him?’.The
Presidency in what has now become a trend has not bothered to
explain to Nigerians how such a person ended up being a Minister of
the Federal Republic.Nothing makes this a more unpleasant look than
that just like Buhari before he became President,Pantami was
comparing boko haram; a killer sect that slaughters just about
everyone including faithfuls of the religion it claims to be
fighting for, with Niger Delta militants.Buhari has released over
2000 boko haram prisoners with none being prosecuted in our
courts.If it has come to public knowledge that his communications
minister had a well proven track record of extremism to which his
only defence is ‘i was a teenager and unenlightened’, moreso when
it is blatantly clear that when infact he did utter those and
several other disgusting words,he was almost 30 years old,then no
one can be faulted for concluding Buhari likes him because he is an
amplification of everything he stands for.Buhari has refused to
sack him and has provided no explanation to this country as to how
such a man scaled through DSS screening.

DIEZANI IS STILL LIVING FREE IN THE UK

I have been very vocal about the likelihood of Diezani Allison
Madueke having struck a deal with Buhari to stay free right from
the onset.When the lady started demanding to return home from the
UK to face trial and this government not only disagreed but said
she was trying to evade an impending trial in the UK,you knew
something was happening.
Why would this government publicly indict itself of incompetence or
corruption by saying it didn’t trust its system to oversee a
transparent criminal prosecution just to justify not extraditing
her?.If you want to know how high the Diezani conspiracy goes,the
UK government fixed a date to take her to court and forgot.It
hasn’t remembered till date.Whoever ‘intervened’ had to have been
from the highest levels of power.
Magu said there were ongoing plans to extradite her in
2017,repeated the same thing a year later in 2018 and then embarked
on a raid of her house in 2019 and recovered jewelleries i warned
in an article shortly after could have been planted by the lady
herself in conjuction with the authorities to provide them
something to show nigerians.The government hasn’t bothered citing a
diplomatic passport she got from an Island some where because it
really doesn’t exempt her from standing trial here.What deal was
struck with the woman?.Why is this administration shielding
her?.

WHO IS SCARED OF PROSECUTING MAGU?

The case of Former EFCC Chairman,Ibrahim Magu is similar to that
of Isa Pantami to the extent that both should never have been
handed public offices to hold based on their antecedents but quite
unlike Pantami,the DSS indictment of Magu was something Buhari was
very much aware of but still chose to make him the face of the
fight against corruption in Nigeria.Magu had been indicted by the
Police Service Commission in 2010 for tampering with EFCC files and
had been moving around with highly suspicious characters that
rented him a N20M per annum residence in Abuja.
This much was disclosed by a DSS then headed by Buhari’s
kinsman,Lawal Daura but perhaps because he was best suited for what
Buhari had in mind,he insisted on having him despite the refusal of
the Bukola Saraki-led Senate to confirm him.Magu was accused of
corruption in EFCC and made to face a panel headed by Justice Ayo
Salami (Rtd) which indicted him last year and recommended that he
be prosecuted.This was a particularly interesting case because
Attorney General Abubakar Malami had been fingered as the man
behind his travails and damning evidence of Malami’s dubious
dealings surfaced in the press afterwards.Magu had proven he could
fight back.Would he go for Buhari himself if he allows him to be
prosecuted?.Buhari clearly doesn’t want to take that chance.No
prosecution till date.

OVER 2 YEARS LATER,BADEH’S CONFESSED KILLERS ARE STILL
NOT STANDING TRIAL

Alex Badeh was President Jonathan’s Chief of Defense staff.He
was murdered in cold blood in highly suspicious circumstances.The
police postponed the parade of 5 persons that had been apprehended
for the crime but on the same day,a video confession of one of them
surfaced.A while later another suspect confessed in full public
glare before press men with leader of the Inspector General of
Police Intelligence Response Team,Abba Kyari and his colleagues
standing behind him.It is 2 years and 4 months now since Badeh was
killed and suspects arrested in connection to his murder; suspects
that actually confessed to killing him.Not a few have pointed
accusing fingers at this government and each passing hour lends
credence to what they say.Why doesn’t this administration want to
prosecute Alex Badeh’s self-confessed killers?.Did it have Badeh
killed?.

This government doesn’t care what nigerians think or say.It
doesn’t believe it owes them anything.

Umar Sa’ad Hassan is based in Kano

Twitter-@Alaye_100,
Email-uhassan077@gmail.com^[1]