Justice redefined

by Eze Eluchie

Is there any reason on earth, why this character, Abubakar Talba, who parades as a judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, should not be charged as an accomplice to the death of the several pensioners, some of who died whilst queuing up, waiting for their due pensions from the Police Pension authorities?

(Justice?) Abubakar Talba has just delivered what will perhaps qualify as one of the most dense, unjust, infantile and nonsensical High Court judgement any judicial system in the world may ever have the misfortune of staining its record books.

A thief and director of the Police Pension Office, Mr. John Yusuf, who admitted guilt to stealing N32.8billion (or $203 Million) was sentenced by Abubakar Talba, to a mere 2 years in prison or an option of N750,000 ($4,500) and the forfeiture of some properties.

Sociopaths as rulers

by Eze Eluchie

Criminal psychologists inform us that part of the joy a thief derives from stealing is the aura of ‘invincibility’, the ability to steal without being detected or identified. If one is stealing and the people you are stealing from are aware of your thievery, the 'kicks' will simply not be there any longer.

Now that we have ascertained beyond all reasonable doubt that the goons who rule over us are daily bleeding our contraption dry with their insatiable appetite for loot, what ‘joy’ can these characters possibly derive from their continued criminality?

What goes through the warped minds of these rulers as their siren blaring convoys guarded by ill-trained armed bozos, speed through our streets, zipping past citizens who already know that a highly placed felon is passing through?

Political contamination

by Eze Eluchie

In my book, 'Reign of Evil’, I did quote Nigeria's ex-Military Dictator, General Muhammadu Buhari’s dictum on Nigeria being our only country and our having to remain in it and ‘salvage it together’.

Though inability to effectively cleanse the polity when he had the opportunity and the lopsided nature of activities of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) under his watch during the dictatorship of General Sani Abacha remain dark, unfortunate and touchy spots, it is however quite worrisome  that the Nigeria political terrain will force such a man to hobnob with vile characters in his quest to attain political office to sanitize our polity. 

Each time characters like the roguish Nasir el-Rufai and sly Bola Ahmed Tinubu come within 100 meters of General Buhari, talk less of posing for pictures with the General, they further pollute the ambiance around Buhari and stain his character.

With regards to the purported efforts at a coalition with Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Buhari will do himself and his person a world of good to learn from the experience of an opportunist, Nuhu Ribadu, who was comically paraded around Nigeria as a Presidential candidate during the 2011 general elections by the ACN only to be traded off in one of the most despicable acts of political treachery and foolery ever witnessed.

I believe the General remains a good product being wrongly packaged. With the continued romance with impure characters, the product risks contamination.  

Picture: Rtd. Gen. Muhammed Buhari and Bola Tinubu