{"id":37723,"date":"2015-04-11T03:54:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T02:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=37723"},"modified":"2015-04-11T03:54:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T02:54:59","slug":"obasanjos-belated-distaste-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/obasanjos-belated-distaste-for-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Obasanjo\u2019s Belated Distaste For Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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A few hours after the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, told Nigerians that General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has won the March 28, 2015 Presidential Elections, a former head of state, General Olusegun Obasanjo, released his congratulatory letter to Buhari. In it, he told Buhari, among other things, to rid<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u201cour land of corruption\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\"Obasanjo\u2019s
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\u201cWith so much harm already done to many national institutions including the military, which proudly nurtured you and me, you will have a lot to do on institution reform, education, healthcare, economy, security, infrastructure, power, youth employment, agribusiness, oil and gas, external affairs, cohesiveness of our nation and ridding our land of corruption,\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span>Obasanjo wrote in the six-paragraph letter.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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It was the season of victory celebrations and hastening to identify with victors, so, such outpour of sentiments were not unexpected, even from very suspicious and grossly unqualified quarters. We live in a country of pathetic denialists, where the citizens are in such a hurry to forget and the media finds the ennobling task of asking deep questions and reminding us of even our most recent past a very tiresome and undesirable task.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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And so, in such a country, persons like Obasanjo who deployed enormous zeal and determination to wreak unqualified damage to their country can afford to rewrite recent history and brazenly crown and advertise themselves as heroes and\u00a0 patriots. And our largely pathetic media would eagerly join, if not lead, the celebration of this unsightly dance in the slimy pond of egregious hypocrisy and mediocrity. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Former American president, George W. Bush left office largely uncelebrated. Several Americans think that he led them into a needless and very costly war in\u00a0Iraq. He left office with the economy in tatters and his country\u2019s esteem abroad grossly diminished. And since then, he had tried as much as possible to be humbly quiet. After some years, he published his memoir which he entitled,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Decision Points<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span>, not to judge and cast aspersions on others better than himself (like they do in Nigeria), or to sermonize on good governance and improvement of America\u2019s global reputation \u2013 the two areas in which Americans consider him a colossal failure.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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He simply tried to humbly explain some of the key decisions he took as American president and the motives that inspired them. Although his Secretary of State, Ms. Condoleezza Rice, continues to believe that their decision to go to\u00a0Iraq was such a noble one, Mr. Bush has openly admitted (and regretted) that\u00a0Iraq remains a dark sport in his administration\u2019s record.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Now virtually every American can explain how the Bush family acquired the wealth they have long been associated with in\u00a0Texas. Yet, Mr. Bush (jnr) would continue to have his head bowed in America for a very long time to come, because each time he dared to open his mouth so recklessly, the American media would remind him of his inglorious tenure as president and drum it home to him that he had a very good opportunity to make America better and greater than he found it, but he wantonly squandered it.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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But in\u00a0Nigeria we have an Obasanjo who, no matter from what angle you consider him, ably qualifies as a failed leader. Under his tenure, elections degenerated from massive rigging to no elections at all \u2013 they simply announced \u201cwinners\u201d after each charade.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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During what can best be described as Obasanjo\u2019s \u201cyears of the locusts\u201d as\u00a0Nigeria\u2019s president (1999 \u2013 2007), virtually every prized institution in\u00a0Nigeria collapsed. Corruption became so institutionalized and commonplace (some called it \u201cfree and fair\u201d or \u201copen and transparent\u201d) that it was even rumoured that government departments bribed each other to secure cooperation from one another in normal procedures and operations that required collaborative efforts.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
We heard of ministerial nominees claiming they were advised to grease the palms of powerful senators to smoothen their way through the confirmation process.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Insecurity became such an issue that even a state governor was abducted from his office and taken to an unknown location by characters that openly hobnobbed with and were empowered by the presidency. So enraged was\u00a0Nigeria\u2019s literary legend, Chinua Achebe, at this gross devaluation of the country that\u00a0he wrote Obasanjo to say<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0Nigeria under his watch was \u201ctoo dangerous for silence.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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When Obasanjo came out of prison in 1998, it was public knowledge (which also worked in his favour at that time) that he was in serious lack, practically a poor man. Whatever he had accumulated before going to prison had, reportedly, gone down the drain.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Now how can anyone explain the sudden transformation of this same man into an incredibly wealthy billionaire between 1999 and today, after serving as\u00a0Nigeria\u2019s president?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After Obasanjo left office, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) swung into action arresting some governors and staging some uninspiring drama with their arraignment which was beamed into our homes via television screens. But while this lasted, the joke out there was that while\u00a0the commission was at one side of town \u201cfighting corruption,\u201d Obasanjo was at the other end neatly arranging his billions, expanding his business empire, and consolidating his wealthy dynasty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Obasanjo single-handedly ran the Petroleum Ministry for eight years, yet, till date, no one can claim to have seen a copy of any comprehensive audit report of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) \u2013 that enclave of corruption \u2013 by an independent firm since 1999. The whole thing was run like a family business.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Again, a former Auditor-General of the Federation, Mr. Azie, was hurriedly sacked for daring to produce a damning report detailing the mind-blowing corruption and financial rascality that thrived in the Obasanjo regime.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What of the famous Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) scandal which threw up shocking revelations about how mindless profligacy and abuse of office were given a most vulgar and repelling definition \u2013 how huge sums of money was frivolously withdrawn to either buy exquisite cars for \u201cwomen friends\u201d or finance countless affairs that were totally outside the PTDF mandate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How much did the Tenure Elongation madness (otherwise known as the Third Term Project) which was attempted during the autumnal stage of the Obasanjo regime consume? How much was expended to perennially destabilize and effect the\u00a0various changes in the leadership of the National Assembly in order to install\u00a0stooges that helped turn the national assembly into an appendage of the Presidency? Does anyone still\u00a0remember\u00a0the N10 billion belonging to the long-suffering people of\u00a0JigawaState reportedly “donated”\u00a0by their former Governor, Mr. Saminu Turaki, to Obasanjo\u2019s Self Perpetuation Project?<\/span>
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\nOkay, Obasanjo has called on Gen Buhari to rid our country of corruption. That was a wonderful move. Even before now, he has severally condemned corruption in public institutions and among public officers. But given the overwhelming stench still oozing from these hideous corruption cases that flourished under his watch, what kind of corruption can anyone claim to fight in\u00a0Nigeria without having these ones on top of his list?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Or is Obasanjo and his privileged mob enjoying perpetual immunity from investigation and prosecution? How can those who sit on mysterious wealth in a country inhabited by rational human beings be allowed to gradually turn themselves into moral megaphones who occasionally sermonize on corruption and the moral disabilities of others? Is that how to become the conscience of one\u2019s country as our media, opinion moulders and even some civil society organisations would have us to believe? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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In late 2007,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Daily Independent<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span>reported that an NGO, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL), had sent a petition to the EFCC voicing the general feeling among Nigerians that there was no way Obasanjo\u2019s massive investments could have been financed by his legitimate income.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cWe are aware that the annual salary of\u00a0Nigeria\u2019s President is not up to N38 million. But even if<\/i><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span>[Obasanjo]<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>earned N60 million per annum for seventy years, he would not have up to N5 billion. But<\/span><\/i><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>[he]<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>is currently worth about N70 billion by our conservative estimate,<\/span><\/i><\/span>\u201d the group asserted.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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It also called for a probe of the<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u201cseveral billions of Naira pumped into the power sector\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and the<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u201callegations that Obasanjo overshot the budget of ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) as stated in the report on Budget Performance issued by the House of Representatives in 2005.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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And while all these were yet to be scratched, the Siemens bribery scandal exploded on our faces and to the best of my knowledge, none of the Obasanjo ministers implicated in the sleaze has expressed any surprise that his name made the list.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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As long as Obasanjo is made to look like a pacesetter in any anti-corruption effort, so long will such an eandeavour be discredited before those who still retain some bit of decency and scruples in a country like\u00a0Nigeria where bad models are continually celebrated and decorated with the robe of saints.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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*Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye is a columnist with\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/strong>Daily Independent<\/span><\/a>. His c<\/span><\/em>olumn appears<\/span><\/i><\/strong>\u00a0every Tuesday on the back page. (<\/b>scruples2@hotmail.com<\/span><\/strong><\/a>;\u00a0www.ugowrite.blogspot.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/b><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
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