{"id":55782,"date":"2017-01-28T18:29:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T17:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=55782"},"modified":"2017-01-28T18:29:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T17:29:25","slug":"junaid-mohammed-says-buhari-not-convinced-nigerians-wasce-shields-friends-corruption-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/junaid-mohammed-says-buhari-not-convinced-nigerians-wasce-shields-friends-corruption-prosecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Junaid Mohammed Says Buhari Has Not Convinced Nigerians He Has WASCE, Shields His Friends From Corruption Prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q: You once came out to accuse President Muhammadu Buhari of perpetuating<\/strong>
\nthe worst form of nepotism in Nigeria; do you still hold this view?<\/strong>
\nA: Absolutely! I have seen no evidence so far to make me change my mind.
\nIn the previous interview I granted you, I did ask Nigerians or anybody
\nelse to look at the evidence I produced and that evidence is very much
\nalive and well and can be verified by anybody who cares to verify it. As
\nfar as I am concerned, I stand by everything about the allegations I
\nlevelled against President Buhari, Mamman Daura and other relations of his
\nfor being nepotistic and if you want, I can repeat what I said offhand
\nbecause I am certain about my facts. To the best of my knowledge, there
\nhas been no response either from the people mentioned or from the
\nso-called Presidency and their spokespersons. As far as I am concerned,
\neverything I said still stands and if anybody is willing to challenge me,
\nI am prepared. If anybody wants to challenge the identities of the people
\nmentioned or their actual, exact connection with Buhari, I am prepared to
\ngo public. I am prepared to confront such people whoever they are or
\nwhatever they say.<\/p>\n

Q: A few days ago, you told the President\u2019s minders to come out with the<\/strong>
\ntruth about the health of their principal; do you know something that<\/strong>
\nNigerians don\u2019t know about him?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: Not much except that I rely on my training as a medical doctor. I also
\nhave a few insiders within the system and I am also aware of the level of
\nsome people who are supposed to be his personal physicians. The main
\nreason why I thought it is important for Nigerians to know the state of
\nthe health of their President is that one, the health of the person
\noccupying the office of the President or the head of government is not a
\npersonal affair. It is also not the affair of his family or for that
\nmatter, his friends or cronies. It is the responsibility of all Nigerians
\nto know what happens to the leader they elected. That information was not
\nforthcoming and the previous information dished out was not only
\nmisleading but highly speculative and I think the nation was shortchanged.
\nNobody has the right to shortchange 180 million people. Besides, the idea
\nthat information should be hidden from the Nigerian public about the
\nhealth status of Mr. President is misguided and in very bad taste.
\nAttempts to also manipulate medical information by people who know next to
\nnothing about medicine is, in my view, irresponsible. In mature
\ndemocracies, when a nation is confronted with a similar situation, what
\nthey do is they bring in the doctors of whoever is the personality
\ninvolved and ask him to explain in some reasonable detail the state of the
\nPresident\u2019s health when he is sick, when he became sick and when the
\nillness is likely to remain, what is the prognosis, is he likely to come
\nout of the illness, is he fit to carry out the onerous task of office as
\nhead of government? It\u2019s his doctors that can answer such questions. It is
\nhis doctors who should ab initio issue a statement to tell the nation this
\nis the state of the health of their President. But you know, small boys
\nand hustlers hanging around the president just dabble into matters which
\nare delicate. Any idiot can grab a sheet of paper, sit behind the
\ntypewriter or a little laptop and issue a statement on behalf of his boss.
\nWhen talking about the state of health of the President, it has to be
\nconvincing, it has to be the truth, it cannot be manipulated if you are
\nnot a medical doctor. Any attempt to do that ends up in disaster and
\nfrustration especially on the part of family members, members of the
\nNational Assembly and the political party he belongs to.\u00a0 There are other
\nprofessionals who will be looking at us to say oh, what kind of system are
\nthey running? That is why we cannot be economical with the truth by
\ntelling the people what is wrong with our President. Whether or not anyone
\nlikes the President or not, he is the one President we have, whether he
\nlikes other people, or whether he does not want other people and will want
\nto continue with his opportune way of doing things, he must realise that
\nhe is the President of all Nigerians. The issue is, he is the President
\nfor all Nigerians and as President, there is an amount of privacy he or
\nhis family can enjoy because, whatever he says or does will attract public
\nattention.<\/p>\n

Q: You claimed to have been a friend to President Buhari since he was a<\/strong>
\nrising officer in the army, do you have to come to the open to criticise<\/strong>
\nhim instead of doing that privately?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: There is a little story about this. I had occasion to speak about this
\nissue about two or three times. Yes, the man has been my friend and I
\nremember in 1998, I saw Buhari, he was then Chairman of the Petroleum
\nTrust Fund and he asked me to see him in Abuja from Kano which is about
\n450-500 kilometres. Upon my arrival, I was lodged at the then NICON NOGA
\nHotel, the next morning, I joined him in the office at Asokoro over tea.
\nAfter we had discussed other matters, I gave him the information I had
\nabout some dirty business going on in the Finance Department of the PTF. I
\nmentioned names, I gave him details. And I told him, \u2018Don\u2019t trust me
\nbecause I understand there are some people you normally trust, out of
\nthese beneficiaries, get some of them to investigate.\u2019 Then we parted
\ncompany and I returned to Kano. Three and a half months later, Buhari
\nhimself called me over the telephone and said, \u2018Mallam doctor, can we
\nsee?\u2019 I said yes. The next day, I went to Abuja and found that a hotel
\naccommodation had been booked for me by one Sali Hidjo who ran the African
\nProjects Consortium, the main consultants to the PTF. The next day, I went
\nto his (Buhari\u2019s ) office, the first question he asked me was,\u00a0 \u2018Mallam
\ndoctor, what is your source of information?\u2019 I told him I was not going to
\nlet him know my source of information because if I don\u2019t keep my sources
\nprivate, then I am finished as a public person. He kept quiet for a while;
\nthen he smiled and told me that everything I told him turned out to be
\ncorrect. In fact, he said there were certain facts that I didn\u2019t get but
\nwhich he found out. He said he commissioned some people with accounting
\nbackgrounds and some officers of the SSS and gave them the freedom to
\nrecruit others to do a forensic audit of the records and the team
\nsubmitted a report to him. They found that everything I said was the truth
\nand he thanked me. Then I asked him, \u2018Sir, General, what do you intend to
\ndo with these people since the head of the Mafia-he used the word, not me-
\nwas a man who was a director of finance in the PTF was the elder brother
\nof a friend of his,\u00a0 a former military governor. Buhari said he and the
\nformer governor, now late, were friends. He said he (Buhari) he and the
\nformer governor had come a long way, that they joined the armed forces
\naround the same time, though in the Air Force. He said they started
\nsoldering around the same time, they had been moving around together
\naround the same stations, that they were made (military) governors and
\nsworn in the same day when\u00a0 Murtala (Muhammed) appointed them governors.
\nHe was appointed the governor of the North East and his friend was
\nappointed governor of North Central State and they remained close until
\nthe man\u2019s sudden death. It was his brother who was the mastermind of this
\nfraud perpetrated under Buhari. And I said, \u201cGeneral, what are you going
\nto do with these people?\u2019 He said he summoned the culprit and scolded him
\nbla, bla, blah. He said he also summoned the entire staff of the finance
\ndepartment and addressed them. I asked him, \u201cIs that all?\u2019 I think he
\nrealised that I was not satisfied; he said there was nothing he could do.
\nI said it is not your personal money; it is the money belonging to the
\nNigerian patrimony, money belonging to all of us. If they have been found
\nto have abused public trust, they should be taken to court and dealt with
\nappropriately. If for whatever reason technical or otherwise, they are
\nfound not guilty, they should be allowed to go free but in this situation,
\nyou cannot pretend as if nothing has happened. The way and manner you have
\nhandled this matter, I assure you no matter the explanation you will want
\nto give about your personal relationships will not suffice.\u2019 I was not
\nsatisfied; Buhari was not satisfied with my position. I stood up, we shook
\nhands, he walked me to the lift, I entered the lift, then my car and left
\nfor Kano.\u00a0 So, when he started messing up this time around, a reporter
\nwhom I have known for over 40 years who is also from that state and has
\nlived in Kaduna with Buhari asked me on live television why I decided to
\ngo public with Buhari- he volunteered the information to me that Buhari
\nwas aware I was going to grant the interview and in fact, would be
\nwatching the television station at that time. Then I said, this was what
\nhappened and I decided I was not going to go to him. I said the experience
\nI had with him was unpleasant and I found the standards I expected of him
\nwere not the standards he maintained\u00a0 when he became President. The people
\nwho asked me the question are very much around; one is Mr. Toyin Alabi,
\nthe General Manager of Liberty Radio and Television. The man who did the
\nHausa version was a man from a famous family in Zaria, Mamman Baba-Ahmed.
\nYou can verify from them. I believe that one, if you are in a position of
\npublic trust, it is a challenge; I don\u2019t relate to people who don\u2019t take
\nthe truth I tell them and I am not prepared to be associated with a leader
\nwho believes that his personal interest can override that of the public. I
\nbelieve Nigeria is greater than all of us, including the President and if
\nany of my friends believes their personal interests and that of their
\ndubious cronies are greater than the collective interest of Nigeria, we
\nwill part ways.<\/p>\n

Q: The Presidency accused you of forming the habit of criticising, even<\/strong>
\ninsulting every Nigerian leader and that you do that just to grab the<\/strong>
\nheadline, why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: First, I am not in the habit of insulting every Nigerian leader. Those
\nwho level such allegations should check their facts. The fact that I have
\nbeen consistent, I even understand that they even dragged in the name of
\nAbacha that I didn\u2019t criticise him because of some plot to eliminate me. I
\nam not surprised. I have had reason to criticise people in government.
\nAnyone in government is fair game, they have to be criticised; we are in a
\ndemocracy. Unfortunately for the hustlers around Buhari now, they find it
\ndifficult to differentiate between the fascist dictatorship which he ran
\nfrom 1983- 1985 and now. There is a world of difference between that
\ngovernment he ran and the government he is running now.\u00a0 When you ask the
\npeople many of whom are alive, with whom he ran the Supreme Military
\nCouncil, there was this complaint that he was always trying to intimidate
\npeople. He was said not to sufficiently listen to the ideas of military
\nofficers some of whom were better soldiers and had come out of the civil
\nwar with better track records. To accuse me of criticising those in
\ngovernment is an honour because if I don\u2019t know what I am talking about, I
\nwould have been silenced a long time ago. I have never heard of a
\ndemocracy where people decide to put a limit to when and how leaders
\nshould be criticised. If people don\u2019t want to be criticised, they should
\nstay away from public office. As for me, I will continue to criticise for
\nas long as I see things going wrong and as long as I am alive and in good
\nhealth.<\/p>\n

Q: When you said the president should be honest enough to admit he has not<\/strong>
\nachieved much since he assumed office, do you think that is a fair<\/strong>
\nassessment of the Buhari government?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: It is a fair assessment which I stand by even today. See, you have to
\nlook at the areas which he promised to look at. He promised that he was
\ngoing to see the back of Boko Haram. I admit that he has done something in
\nterms of what has been happening in the North East. I said and I repeat,
\nBoko Haram is still alive and well. Even if they are not holding territory
\nfor a prolonged period in Nigeria, there is no denying the fact that they
\nare still holding areas in the northern part of Nigeria, Ditto in Niger
\nRepublic and part of Northern Cameroon. Whoever says they have been
\ndefeated is telling lies and taking diabolical liberties with a lack of
\nthe thorough knowledge that one is supposed to have before commenting on
\nsuch matters.
\nBuhari inherited a very bad situation in terms of the level of corruption.
\nIt has to be admitted that in appointing (Ibrahim) Magu at the initial
\nstages, he had given indication that he was going to do something about
\nit. When you are dealing with a situation like the anti-corruption war,
\nyou measure success by the number of high profile convictions you have
\nrecorded. I want to be told how many of the big guns have been
\nsuccessfully prosecuted. The few people prosecuted were the small judges
\nand some small fries here and there, a police man who ran foul of the law
\nbut the big guns are still sitting pretty. That is because Buhari still
\nlacks an understanding of what it is to fight corruption. It is a systemic
\nillness and you have to fight it in all its ramifications and you don\u2019t
\nfight corruption by just prosecuting the policeman who takes N20 on the
\nroad when you overlook his boss who stole billions. The idea that the
\npeople around him should dictate who should be vigorously prosecuted and
\nthose who should not be prosecuted is utterly disgraceful. The
\nanti-corruption war ought to be re-lunched to have any serious meaning.
\nSome can say oh, Buhari met the situation that was so bad. I think former
\nPresident (Olusegun) Obasanjo answered them adequately when he said he
\nshould stop talking about what he inherited whether it was a bad system or
\na good system because it was because the former guy was not doing well
\nthat was why people voted him out. So there is no need for him to continue
\nto harp on the past. Obasanjo who was his boss in the Army, told him this,
\nnot only in private but publicly. He should sit down, get the correct
\npeople and the correct policies to get the country out of this mess.
\nWhy did you say that of all the people that have ruled Nigeria, the late
\nGeneral Sani Abacha was the healthiest, how do you mean because Abacha was
\nsaid to have suffered liver cirrhosis?
\nI don\u2019t know where such people got their diagnosis.\u00a0 If he had liver
\ncirrhosis with the large resources at his command at the time, how come
\nnobody ever heard that he had such an ailment? And when he died, was there
\nany postmortem?\u00a0 Who established liver cirrhosis as the cause of death?
\nWhat they said about Abacha\u2019s health was not true. I knew him; I knew his
\nfather and mother, brothers. I went to school in Fagge, as you know.
\nBut former President Olusegun Obasanjo is someone that has not been
\nassociated with any illness, at least publicly. Are you saying Abacha was
\nhealthier?
\nFrankly speaking, I don\u2019t think I remember comparing Generals Abacha and
\nObasanjo\u2019s health at any time. I do not know Abacha as a sports man but I
\nknow Obasanjo as one man who takes his exercises seriously before he
\nbecame head of state and during his time as President and even after
\nleaving office. Even today, he still enjoys playing squash. I believe
\nObasanjo has been served and is still being served by his exercise which
\nis almost like a religion to him. This tells on his state of health
\ncompared to others like him.<\/p>\n

Q: Buhari has come out to say that both Ibrahim Magu and Babachir Lawal<\/strong>
\nhave been cleared of allegations against them; do you think Buhari is<\/strong>
\nprotecting his appointees?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: Precisely, that is what he is doing and he is doing it in a very
\nshameless manner too. The two cases (Magu and Lawal) are not the same.
\nMagu got his appointment after a proper background check had been done as
\nfar as I can recall. Magu is still a serving police officer. The police
\nkeep a very meticulous record of their officers and you don\u2019t go up to the
\nrank of an Assistant or Deputy Commissioner of Police with a bad record.
\nAs far as I am concerned, Magu was appointed because among those checked,
\nhe was considered as one who has what is required to carry out the
\nanti-corruption war the way the President wants it fought.\u00a0 Now, those who
\nhave something to hide and members of the cabal around the President have,
\nin cahoots with senators who feel threatened, are trying to deny him an
\nopportunity to do his job. I have said in the past and I repeat it today
\nthat the ambition of members of the cabal is to hijack the anti-corruption
\nwar so that they can use it to make money and exercise power. Magu has
\ngone through a lot. If there is any evidence that he is teaming up with
\nindividuals to shortchange Nigerians at his duty post, he should not only
\nbe relieved of the job but also be prosecuted.\u00a0 The DSS report cannot be a
\nbasis of an indictment against Magu because the DSS is acting in cahoots
\nwith the cabal; they take directives from the cabal and we have to be
\ncareful. In the case of Lawal, he should have been asked to step aside but
\nthat was not done. And then to cover the tracks, the cabal and some
\nelements within the Presidency tried to bring in the case of Magu to
\ndistract the public.<\/p>\n

Q: Nigerians have criticised Buhari for always going abroad for medical<\/strong>
\ntreatment despite billions budgeted for Aso Rock clinic, what is your<\/strong>
\nopinion about this?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: There is no basis to criticise the President on this one. He had been
\ngoing to the UK for his medicals even as a private citizen. He cannot now
\nbe compelled to stop because he has become President. What Nigerians
\nshould find out is whether they have been getting value for the money
\nspent on the Villa clinic which was set up to cater for the needs of
\nmembers of staff of the Presidency, not just the First and Second
\nfamilies.<\/p>\n

Q: Buhari government is still insisting on getting the $29bn foreign loan,<\/strong>
\ndo you think the money would be judiciously spent if the national assembly<\/strong>
\ngives the go ahead?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: No. I do not support the National Assembly granting this request
\nbecause I can say with a high degree of certainty that the money will be
\nmismanaged. There is nothing wrong with loans if such loans are to be used
\nto improve the lot of the people but from our experience as a nation, the
\nreverse has been the case. If you will recall, several governors were
\njailed by this same Buhari when the military toppled the administration.
\nThey were jailed for mismanaging federal government guaranteed loans
\nduring their time. It took the tenacity and courage by the Obasanjo
\nadministration which took over in 1999, to fight until Nigeria was given a
\nrelief by its foreign creditors.<\/p>\n

Q: Without media attention, the presidency said you would not have a life,<\/strong>
\nis that the truth?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: You have known me for about two decades now. I am sure if your readers
\nor readers of other news outlets who seek out my views on national issues
\nconsider such views useless, no one will call me up to hear me out. As we
\nspeak, I have seven interview requests waiting.
\nSince you left the parliament years ago, why have you kept away from
\nelective politics instead of criticising those who have attempted to
\nparticipate?
\nUnlike most of the people who think this way, I have a profession. I am a
\nmedical doctor by training and practice. The decision not to take part in
\nactive politics was a deliberate one, like they have rightly admitted. I
\ntook part in elections, won and represented my people in the National
\nAssembly. If in the future, I see the need to do it again, I will. But let
\nit be known that I cannot be cowed by blackmail or intimidation.
\nWhat is your response to allegations that you took to criticising Buhari
\nbecause you were not given an appointment?
\nI have learnt to live with the malicious rumour anytime I say something
\nsubstantive about somebody in government. When they have no response, they
\ncome up with such mundane arguments. I am not in politics and I know the
\nlimitations it places on you. I was never a member of the NPN, I did not
\nexpect Shagari to give me any appointment and none was offered. I was a
\nmember of the House of Representatives from 1979 to 1983 and in 1983, I
\nwon again to represent my people. Even if I was offered, it would have
\nbeen very stupid of me to leave my representation of the people of Kano to
\ntake up such an appointment.
\nBesides, I am eminently qualified to aspire for any office in the land by
\neducational achievement and experience in public life and certainly more
\nqualified than Buhari who could not pass school certificate. And up till
\ntoday, he has not been able to convince Nigerians that he was able to pass
\nschool certificate. He has chosen to take the country on a judicial merry
\ngo round putting the case on and off until his term expires but the
\nschools he attended are there and if they could not attest that he passed
\nhis school certificate, I don\u2019t know how he can confirm that in a court of
\nlaw. Frankly speaking, any leader who could be so mediocre as to fail his
\nschool certificate ought not to have been trusted by the people of Nigeria
\nwith such an awesome responsibility as that of the office of the
\nPresident. I will not accept any offer of appointment from this government
\nand thankfully, none has been offered.<\/p>\n

Q: What is your view about calls for President Muhammadu Buhari to seek
\nre-election come 2019?<\/p>\n

A: If performance is to be the judge, not some tribal, ethnic or religious
\nsentiment, if Buhari stands for elections, he will lose. And if he
\nattempts to use the power of incumbency and rigs the elections to come
\nback, there will be violence. My reasons are simple; he has not performed.<\/p>\n

Courtesy: Punch Newspapers<\/p>\n

Wike Accuses Customs of Lying, Says Amaechi Bought Impounded Helicopters<\/p>\n

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has revealed that he officially
\nwrote to President Muhammadu Buhari asking that the two armoured
\nhelicopters bought by the immediate past administration in the state .be
\nhanded over to the Nigerian Air Force.<\/p>\n

He explained that he wrote the letter following the high custom duty
\ncharged for the helicopters and the refusal of the present administration
\nto grant the Rivers State Government the waiver to clear the two armoured
\nhelicopters.<\/p>\n

A statement issued by Simeon Nwakaudu, Special Assistant to the Rivers
\nState Governor on Electronic Media informed that the governor spoke during
\nan interview with editors of Sun Newspapers Titles on Saturday in Port
\nHarcourt.<\/p>\n

The governor said that it was unfortunate that Security Agencies would
\nresort to political propaganda and outright lies, when the facts of the
\ntwo armoured helicopters are public knowledge.<\/p>\n

He said: “These helicopters were imported by the immediate past
\nadministration. When I assumed office, we wrote to the Federal government
\nthat it was strictly \u00a0for security use. What am\u00a0I going to\u00a0use armoured
\nhelicopters \u00a0for?<\/p>\n

“In any case, where will the Rivers State Government get money at this
\ntime to import armoured helicopters. The previous \u00a0administration
\nimported it because \u00a0they had the money.<\/p>\n

“I went to to the Federal Government to give me a waiver for us to clear
\nthe helicopters, but the Federal Government refused.<\/p>\n

“I wrote a letter to the President and\u00a0 to assure him that the helicopters
\nare meant for security \u00a0purposes, it should be handed over to the Nigerian
\nAir Force “.<\/p>\n

The governor added: “I am surprised \u00a0that they have started propaganda
\nand political falsehood \u00a0on the said armoured \u00a0helicopters. \u00a0What kind of
\ncountry are they turning Nigeria into ?<\/p>\n

“We stated that we cannot pay the custom duties because the helicopters
\nare not for commercial \u00a0use. They are to be used to monitor the creeks
\nand track criminals.<\/p>\n

“I wrote to the President to give the helicopters \u00a0to the Airforce. \u00a0It is
\nshocking that the custom would \u00a0turn around to claim that they impounded
\nthe helicopters. The Chief of Staff to the President \u00a0admitted that I have
\ndone well when I wrote the letter to the President “.<\/p>\n

It will be recalled that the immediate \u00a0past Governor of Rivers State,
\nRotimi Amaechi in December 2012 announced the payment of two helicopters
\nfor security surveillance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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