Confessions of a rogue public servant

by Eze Eluchie

Will someone tell this character that what he is referring to as ‘huge mistakes in his Presidency’ regarding Obasanjo’s misrule of Nigeria are actually criminal acts punishable under Nigerian laws and the legal codes of most countries.

These acts:

1. Stealing government funds to fund the ‘purchase’ of government assets for personal use

2. The Tenure elongation fiasco

3. The Obasanjo Library scam, and

4. The mass killings against the peoples of Odi (Bayelsa State) and Zaki Biam (Benue State)

were crimes Nigerians and the international community had long known Obasanjo and his cohorts committed during the ‘Reign of Evil’. The only laughable part of Nasir el-Rufai’s write up is where he says himself and some lackeys of Obasanjo had ‘resisted’/’opposed’ the criminal activities of Nigeria’s former maximum ruler.

It is at times like this that one really appreciates the criminal acumen inherent in a man who ensures that he is succeeded in office by a character who lacks focus or courage.

Two thoughts that readily come to mind:

1. Why is former boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, so bereft of courage that he cannot muster the guts to confess as el-Rufai is thankfully doing? and

2. If she were not the Minister for Finance in the present government, will Okonjo-Iweala not be making the accusations that Oby Ezekwesili is making against the Yar’Adua/Jonathan regime?

Only a restructured and renegotiated polity will cause a cease of these high level criminality. 

http://www.punchng.com/news/obasanjo-made-four-huge-mistakes-in-office-el-rufai/

Picture: Nasir el-Rufai