By Reno Omokri
On September 21, 2021, Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, said the Buhari junta ‘is not interested in naming and shaming Boko Haram’s sponsors”. A month later, on October 21, 2021, Abubakar Malami, Buhari’s Attorney General of the Federation, said the Buhari regime had identified Sunday Igboho’s ‘sponsors’. We are watching!
It is apparent to any unbiased observer that Buhari lacks the impartiality to be Nigeria’s leader. He is obviously a tribal irredentist. And his irredentism is seen in the way he treats terrorists and bandits who are almost 100% from his ethnic Fulani nationality, which is in stark contrast to how he treats people of other ethnicities.
We do not even need to look too far to see Buhari’s parochialism. The Nigerian Federal Government has three arms, the Executive, Legislature and the Judiciary. And Buhari had abused his Presidential powers to ensure that all three of these arms are headed by Northern Muslim Males.
It has NEVER happened like that in
Nigeria until Buhari was foisted on the nation by Bola Tinubu and Rotimi
Amaechi. Anyway, back to Igboho.
For the avoidance of doubt, Sunday
Igboho is independently wealthy. He does not need a sponsor. If anything, he
will be the one to sponsor others.
I draw the attention of my readers
to the fact that sometime in February, 2021, members of the public within and
without Nigeria, who valued what Igboho was doing to protect Nigerians from
killer herdsmen of Fulani extraction, decided to raise funds for Mr. Sunday
Adeyemo (Igboho’s real name).
He stood to gain millions from
those coordinated fundraisers, some of which were on the gofundme platform.
However, when Igboho got wind of
it, he vehemently rejected the offers and did an interview saying “I don’t need
such.” And this is the person that Abubakar Malami wants us to believe is being
funded or has links with one of the persons believed to be funding Boko Haram?
Please! We
are not that stupid
The announcement by Malami is just
an attempt to give a dog a bad name in order to pressure the Beninese government
to hand over Igboho to Nigeria, which is exactly the same stunt they pulled in
Kenya (lying to the Kenyans that Kanu was a notorious terrorist).
On Monday September 11, 2021, the
United Arab Emirates identified six Nigerians as sponsors of the dreaded Boko
Haram radical Islamic terrorist group. More than a month later, Nigeria has not
followed up on this.
Not only have we not followed up,
we have not named even one sponsor of these terrorists. I mean does it make
sense? I raised this during the #HarassBuhariOutofNewYork protests. It appears
strange that a government will be this lackadaisical about going after those
who sponsor terror.
Is it that they know more than
they are telling us? Their attempts to use Igboho and Kanu to distract us will
not work. Something is off here.
In this same country, Sheikh
Abubakar Gumi has been bromancing with terrorists (stop calling bandits
terrorists) and campaigning for them. Yet he enjoys freedom. It is Igboho who
defended us from terrorists that is in jail. A sad reminder that in Nigeria,
terrorism pays!
How can those who bombed a train
and caused the shutdown of the $2.8 billion Abuja-Kaduna railway be ordinary
bandits, while it is Kanu and Igboho who are facing terrorism charges? Buhari
covers up Boko Haram’s sponsors and sets up innocents as Igboho and Kanu’s
sponsors.
Abdurrahaman Ado Musa, Salihu
Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammed Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan and
Surajo Abubakar Muhammad were named by the United Arab Emirates as sponsors of
terrorism in Nigeria. Buhari is silent on them. Instead he is setting up Igboho
on fake terrorism charges.
How can you leave known terror
financiers and begin to chase after nonexistent connections between Igboho and
Boko Haram? Why is Buhari so blatant in his ethnocentrism? Because Nigerians
are far too docile.
And in proof of this, I urge
Nigerians to wait, watch and see whether anything would happen to those who
bombed the Abuja-Kaduna railway. The necessary noises would be made. There will
be activity and processes, without any real progress. And after a month or so,
the matter would be swept under the carpet, like Babachir Lawal’s trial that
was and is not, and never would be as long as Buhari and the APC are in power.
The same way the $25 billion
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation contract without due process was swept
under the carpet. The same way the scandal of Aisha Buhari’s ADC, who allegedly
looted billions was made to fade away. The same way we do not yet know who owns
the Ikoyi Apartment billions after six years.
Look, it is high time Nigerians
woke up and smell the coffee. To borrow from Sherlock Holmes, when you
eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, is the truth.
You just have to find a way of proving it.
The truth is that Muhammadu Buhari
has not and is not likely to expose Boko Haram’s sponsors because he has
something to hide. There is something in that truth that both Buhari and his
government are uncomfortable with. And it remains the duty of all Nigerians to
keep this matter on the front burner, because we do not want to unknowingly
vote in terror financiers into office in 2023 as we may have done in 2015.
*Omokri is a former aide to President Jonathan
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ReplyDeleteGeneral Muhammadu Buhari cannot possibly freely name the sponsors of terrorism in Nigeria. What do you expect from a person who swore to make the nation ungovernable if he lost the presidential election to an incumbent President. That is a daring statement of one who has far worse killer squad than the late General Sani Abacha had.
ReplyDeleteHe most likely have spent most of his days in Daura arranging the influx of his normadic kinsmen, who had settled in neighboring countries centuries ago, into Nigeria with the intention of destroying the country. Are they not the ones caught in the act of terrorism 90 percent of the times? Have they stopped crossing our most porous borders in Northern Nigeria in drones? No!
Granting them unquestionable access into the army, whether through the NDA or as "repentant" terrorists is just one of many ways he could encourage their loyalty to the course. Putting them in offices they do not qualify for, when there are better candidates, is just a simple thing. Is it not unthinkable that the Nigerian Customs now bribe terrorists with bags of rice and other items not mentioned? It is all part of the program!
Panthami has been linked to a terrorist group but is charged with the responsibility of handling the highest level of security data in the country. It is obvious why the spate of terrorist attacks have surged sporadically. Buhari borrows so his team could loot and plunge even the unborn generations of Nigeria into penury. He seems to be saying to Nigerians particularly the "lazy Nigerian youths' "what can you do?" There cannot be a proper coordinated response to that question until we realize that "our mumu don do".