By Charles Ogbu
The 8th wonder of the world is how
Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, managed to convince sane adults and some
foreign countries that his government is waging war against graft. Fact is,
there is no war against corruption. The so called anti-graft war is one hell of
a lie, a fraud, a sham, a farce. It is a carefully planned and well executed
show meant to deceive the hoi polloi of the society and take their minds off
very crucial issues while the rogues in power keep preying on them in their characteristic
manner.
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First, president Buhari who is
supposedly spearheading this anti-graft war is a man I believe to be
integrity-challenged. With due respect to his office, I think the president is
a dishonest man who is incapable of honouring his own promise: Before the
election, Buhari promised to fight corruption by first declaring his assets
publicly, to enable Nigerians determine whether or not he had corruptly
enriched himself when he would publicly declare his assets again upon leaving
office. On September 3, the president's media aide, Garba Shehu, read out a
list of some of the president's belonging where he mentioned incoherent stuff
like: "yet to be located plot of land in Port Harcourt
Mr. Shehu would later promise that
the president would disclose his full assets when the CCB was done with the
verification. The CCB has since finished with the verification and almost one
year after, the president has refused to honor his own word.
How can I trust a man who is incapable
of honoring his own word? How can Nigerians trust such a man to fight
corruption without corruptly enriching himself in the process? And if he is
corruptly enriching himself, family and cronies in the process, can he be said
to be fighting corruption? How can you claim you are fighting corruption when
you have not even proven the very garment you wore was not made from the
forbidden tree of corruption?
