Nigeria drowns in corruption

by Eze Eluchie

When Ibrahim Lamurde, the head of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) leaves his house every morning, where does he really tell his family he is going to? To play golf? To tackle corruption?

Considering the avalanche of multi-million dollar looting, brigandage and pilfering of State resources which have become the order of the day, and the fact that right from the onset, Lamurde had been unfit and improper for the job, I really believe the man simply goes into his air-conditioned office, orders a bottle of beer and chills out. Except ofcourse when he is running after small time pranksters who are sending ‘sweet deal’ offers to con gullible and greedy loonies.

In the interim, our kleptocrats, tired of waiting for the niceties of budgetary appropriations, contract bidding and padding, supply of counterfeits or outright non performance of contracts after contract sums have been collected, now go straight to the National Mint and take as much as they can carry.

Yet, we have people collecting salaries at the EFCC and various insecurity agencies in Nigeria!

Time is fast running out for a convenient Restructuring and Renegotiation of the contraption!

http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/41943/2012/12/07/mint_scandal_n21_billion_worth_n1000_notes_missing.html

Picture: Ibrahim Lamurde- Chairman, EFCC

Corruption in the health sector

by Eze Eluchie

Here we go again...

Whilst no efforts whatsoever have been made by the Nigerian Federal Government to recover sums fraudulently misappropriated by former Head of State General Yakubu Gowon's Yakubu Gowon Center for National Unity and International Cooperation, moneys meant for HIV?AIDS intervention programs, inclusive of the procurement of ante-retrovirals, the Director General of the National HIV/AIDS Control agency is gleefully soliciting for more funds from the same Global Funds.(http://www.nairaland.com/700875/global-fund-may-suspend-nigeria ; http://www.greenconduct.com/news/2012/04/19/hivaids-a-rogues-gallery/ )

Not done with the harm they are inflicting to hapless Nigerians with regards to corruption surrounding Polio eradication and the Roll back Malaria programs and other public health causes supported by international donor funds, our local health authorities seem to have their sights focused again on HIV/AIDS.

Any doubt as to whether corruption is indeed a crime against humanity will surely be erased by the direct deadly consequences acts of large-scale corruption is having on the lives of millions of Nigerians.

Attorney Generals Medicine After death

by Eze Eluchie

If Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Mohammed Adoke, SAN, has nothing better to do with his time, he should simply shut up and stop feigning interest in the plight of Nigerians indigenous to the Bakassi peninsula!

Under Adoke's watch as AGF, Nigeria in a most brazen and irresponsible manner, allowed the unconscionable, unconstitutional and illegitimate ceding of a component part of the Nigerian contraption to Cameroon. And now this same character has the temerity to urge Cameroon to treat a people the Nigerian government allowed to be 'cast away' with some dignity. I am sure the Cameroonian delegation will merely look at the Nigerian AGF with pity and disdain, knowing full well that his comments were merely for the consumption of the media present.

How really would Adoke, Goodluck Jonathan and Olusegun Obasanjo, key actors in the humiliation over Bakassi have felt if their respective hamlets had been ceded to Cameroon, Sao Tome & Principe and Benin Republic respectfully!

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/stop-maltreating-bakassi-indigenes-nigeria-tells-cameroun/

Picture: Nigeria Attorney General, Mohammed Adoke