By Remi Oyeyemi
President Muhammadu Buhari
“…. whoever that is indicted of corruption between 1999 to the time of swearing-in, would be pardoned”
– President Muhammadu Buhari, on March 11, 2015 at a Campaign rally in Kaduna
“The right thing to do is to probe at least the administrations from 1966 when this level of corruption and criminal wastefulness of resources started…”
– Balarabe Musa, Former Governor of Kaduna State in The Sun of July 25, 2015.
It is becoming increasingly clear that President Muhammadu Buhari really has no interest in fighting corruption. It is embarrassing and disappointing that President Buhari conveys confusion and contused confidence about the war on corruption. The defeat of corruption is the greatest desire of Nigerians. It is why Nigerians felt that he should be given a chance after rejecting him at the polls three previous times. So far, President Buhari has not been able to come up with any clear cut policy, rules and guidelines as to how he plans to fight corruption.
In fact, evidentially, the most challenging obstacle to fighting corruption in this present dispensation is President Buhari himself. President Buhari has raised obstacles to the war on corruption so that it would be impossible to prosecute. This would help him and his friends could keep their loots. Any hope that corruption would be decimated if not brought to its knees by President Buhari is not just dissipating, it is fast disappearing. One more time, Nigerians have been taken for a ride.
In a document titled “I Pledge to Nigeria” released during the campaign, President Buhari made the following promise to Nigerians:
“I pledge to publicly declare my assets and liabilities, encourage all my appointees to publicly declare their assets and liabilities as a …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
