By Paul Onomuakpokpo
It is increasingly
becoming obvious that the President Muhammadu Buhari government is chafing
under the affliction of a one-week-one-scandal syndrome. Unless they are
irrevocably befuddled by their partisanship, Buhari’s loyalists who have been
consumed with the notion of his unrivalled integrity would not fail to observe
the dark atmosphere of corruption in which the administration is immersed. But
of course, while most of these loyalists are apologising for allowing
themselves to be used to pave the way for the Buhari presidency, there are some
who would counter that those who accuse the government of corruption are the
shellacked members of the opposition. After all, the Kachikwu-Baru affair which
is the latest scandal in the Buhari government has not been declared by a
competent court as an unimpeachable case of corruption.
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| *Aisha Buhari |
But the evidence of financial sleaze such
unalloyed believers in the integrity of the Buhari government may not be able
to dispute is no longer from the members of the opposition and other citizens
whose moral sensibilities are daily affronted by corruption cases. Now, the
evidence is from an unlikely quarter. It is from Aisha Buhari, the wife of the
president. Just a week after the nation was scandalised by the $25 billion
heist in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) which has no rival
in the alleged financial misdeeds committed by the Goodluck Jonathan
government, Mrs. Buhari alerted us to the possible mismanagement of over N4
billion at the Aso Rock Clinic in less than two years. She was shocked that
despite this allocation, the clinic did not have a single syringe. Mrs.
Buhari’s alarm came shortly after her daughter Zahra was outraged at the lack
of syringe and common drugs like paracetamol at the clinic.
