Corruption gets increasing recognition as Crime Against Humanity

by Eze Eluchie

I salute the Editorial Board of Nigeria’s The Sun Newspapers for joining the push towards recognizing the looting public treasury as an international crime.

For the very first time, a major newspaper in our part of the world is keying into efforts to ensure that corruption is investigated, prosecuted and punished as a Crime Against Humanity.

The journey has begun. We should all get on board and ensure that the miscreants who pollute our environments with their pathetic greed and lack of leadership and corruption get the judgment they deserve.

Corruption is indeed a Crime Against Humanity as stipulated in Article 7.1(k) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

I hope the goons manning our contraption are taking note? These kleptocrats will realize that their days are numbered. There will be no hiding place for these rascals.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/opinion/treat-greed-in-africa-as-a-war-crime/

Picture: International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands.

When Players Pray

by Eze Eluchie

What in heaven’s name could these people be doing in a place supposedly meant for the worship of God? With of all people an Obasanjo ‘bowing’ his bald head and leading ‘prayers’? Obasanjo, Jonathan, Otedola?

Oops, guess the Aso Rock chapel in the Nigeria Presidential Villa is not really a place of worship, but a place of showmanship and deceit.

Guess what the prayer points will be:

1. deity, blind the people from discovering our deceit and thievery

2. deity, allow us to continue to use tools of ethnicity and religious bigotry to continue to hoodwink and fool the people whilst we rob them blind

3. deity, may the seeds of confusion we are trying to sow amongst the Nigerian population be sufficient to keep them from uniting to ask for our blood for having misruled them so harshly

4. deity, deliver all our facebook and social media critics unto our hands so we can teach them one lesson or the other

And the people shall say: Shame.

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