Following the electoral defeat of ex President Goodluck Jonathan at the
2015 general elections, his special adviser on Niger Delta affairs and
coordinator of the amnesty programme, Kingsley Kuku, fled to the US and
posted a picture of being on a sick bed with a fractured ankle in the
words of his legal team, when in actual fact, its was the knee that was
bandaged in the picture just because he was required to come and render
account of stewardship.
Ever since then, Kingsley Kuku has been left free by the EFCC which has
emboldened him to set his sight and even set up a campaign machinery for
the upcoming Ondo state gubernatorial elections from exile. What an
insult?
My worry and concern now is that, does feigning injury or illness like has
become the lot of every alledged corrupt element of the old order of
lawlessness and impunity, become a licence of immunity from rendering
account of stewardship?
Mr. Kingsley Kuku, for all we know, was a big player and mouth piece of
the Jonathan administration.
Also, one recollects with shame and pain, how this same Kingsley Kuku who
is on the run from the law now, was all over the place campaigning
vigorously and even threatening national peace before the 2015 elections,
by asserting that there would be war if Goodluck Jonathan is not allowed
to have a second term in office either by hook or crook.
EFCC, please what is happening to the account of stewardship of how
Kingsley Kuku ran the amnesty programme which was more of job for the
boys?
One is of the view that the EFCC would do better by concluding
investigations and obtaining a repatriation warrant against Mr. Kingsley
Kuku to come and render account of his stewardship of how he ran the
amnesty office like his brother ran the agency called NIMASA, as quickly
as possible.
Again, we ask, EFCC, what is happening to Kingsley Kuku’s case?
Nelson Ekujumi