Public Official Missing-in-Action

by Eze Eluchie

Has anyone seen the man whose image appears in the photograph below?

His name is Mohammed Bello Adoke and he is supposed to be the current Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

In the course of the past few weeks, several acts which would have benefited from the intervention and counsel of the office the man in the picture holds have occurred, and continue to take place, without the slightest murmur from either the man or the office he holds. Some of these include:
1. The deportation of Nigerians within Nigeria by some component State Governments in the Nigerian federation;

2. State Governors inciting Military Officers against the President Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria’s Armed Forces - particularly the Niger State Governors address to the incoming Brigade Commander in Minna this week;

3. Refusal of most of the component State Governments in the Nigerian federation to conduct Local Government Elections as directed by the Nigerian Constitution;

4. Institutionalized and rampant acts of discrimination on basis of ethnicity and religion by some component States of the Nigerian federation against fellow Nigerians perceived as being ‘non-indigenes’ in clear violation of trite constitutional provisions;

5. Infringement by some component States of the Nigerian Federation on matters solely within the purview of the federal government;

6. Brazen criminal duplication of structures of lawfully recognized political parties in Nigeria – at going rates, there may be a duplication of political offices such that we may have two or more persons contending to be Legislators representing same constituency, or Governors of same State or even Presidents of Nigeria; and so many more events and occurrences capable of truncating national cohesion and stability.


The man whose photograph appears below was last seen entangled in issues pertaining to the murky deals surrounding the multi-billion dollar Malabu Oil and Gas Limited in respect of Oil Block OPL 245, and has since then apparently foregone what ought to be the main thrust of his office.

Resulting from the very loud silence emanating from the office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in the course of the aforelisted issues, the Nigerian state appears rudderless and is subjected to the wimps and caprices of all and sundry.

Anyone who sees the said Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke, supposedly the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice of the federal Republic of Nigeria, should please implore him either sit up and assume the responsibilities expected of his office or give way for others willing to be responsible.

Or better still, inform the President of the Federal Republic.

Picture: Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke