Reasons Why Buhari Should Arrest Deziani And
Okonjo-Iweala On May 29
<b>Editor’s note:</b> Majority of the people in Nigeria
eagerly await to see justice served with the victory of
President-elect Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. Some even
feel that after May 29, majority of the looters will flee
the country.
In this piece titled “How Buhari Can Arrest Deziani
And Okonjo-Iweala On May 29″, Illesanmi Omabomi
advocates that President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari, should start the charge against corruption
immediately after concluding his swearing-in
ceremony.
Story highlights:
– Arresting and charging Allison Deziani Madueke
and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will send a clear and
unambiguous message about the ferocity of the
incoming President’s war against corruption.
– Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, should start the charge
against corruption immediately after his swearing in
ceremony at Eagle Square.
– Their arrest will yield valuable information into the
more complicated investigations and encourage
others to step forward and make voluntary
disclosures, thereby reducing the time and resources
needed for the fight against corruption.
(SaharaReporters) – I can afford to take the risk of
concluding that the majority of Nigerians would like
to see brought to justice, and swiftly so, the people
who brought Nigeria to her knees through the looting
of our commonwealth.
Many Nigerians are afraid that some, if not most of
these looters, may flee the country after May 29,
2015, before investigations are commenced/
concluded. The purpose of this article is to advocate
that the President elect, Mohamadu Buhari, should
start the blitzkrieg against corruption immediately
after concluding his swearing-in ceremony at Eagle
Square on May 29, 2015.
Based on readily available public information, there
is no better way and place to start that fight than the
arrest Allison Deziani Madueke and Ngozi Okonjo-
Iweala before the end of day on May 29, 2015. Both
women are currently serving as minister for
Petroleum and Finance respectively. They both
represent some of the biggest fishes, yes fishes, in
the pond.
These two individuals are not the most corrupt
members of the now infamous Goodluck Jonathan
led presidency—and it will take a very long time
before the full extent of the damage done to our
economy can be fully established, if at all possible!
However, in the case of Deziani and Okonjo-Iweala,
the information gleaned from the several House of
Representatives investigations into the 10 Billion
Naira NNPC plane maintenance contracts, and oil
subsidy payments that were not budgeted for provide
the incoming President with enough information to
order their immediate arrests and have them
charged with the appropriate offences the same day.
The new president should demonstrate his
commitment to the rule of law and the time limit
requirement for charging arrested persons with
offences known to law and having such persons
presented before a court of law by ensuring that both
women appear in the court on Monday June 1, 2015
to enter pleas and apply for bail. (May 29, 2015 being
a Friday). Like many other Nigerians, I believe that
both women are surely guilty of more heinous
offenses than the ones mentioned above. However,
arresting and charging them will send a clear and
unambiguous message about the ferocity of the
incoming President’s war against corruption, yield
valuable information into the more complicated
investigations and encourage others to step forward
and make voluntary disclosures, thereby reducing
the time and resources needed for the fight against
corruption.
The President-Elect can then offer leniency on the
basis of voluntary disclosures, have a hiatus of a few
days and wait to see if there will be takers of the
offer. The majority of Nigerian politicians are
cowards and trust me, seeing the powerful Deziani
and Okonjo-Iweala charged before the court, they
will be lining up to confess. This approach will be
cheaper, point you to previously unknown and maybe
otherwise never possible to find stolen resources. I
believe it will also yield more of the stolen resources.
This topic will be fleshed out in full in another article.
For me, calling for the arrest and trial of Okonjo-
Iweala is personal anguish for me but the nation’s
interest must be the over-riding consideration. It is
anguish for me because at the tail end of Obasanjo’s
presidency she was one of those I sincerely
considered worthy of becoming the President or Vice
President at the very minimum. How she allowed
herself to be sucked into the bowels of Goodluck
Jonathan’s rampaging corruption whale is an
examination that would have commenced inside her
head by now.
Let PDP supporters call me what they want and I am
not a member of APC. The party I support is the one I
believe has the interest of Nigeria at heart. I believe
Mohamadu Buhari of APC does at this point in time.
Nigerians, including me are eager to see these
corrupt and arrogant politicians from all parties who
bestrode our political landscape in the recent past
like Colossus, feeding fat on our collective
inheritance brought to justice and swiftly so. The
stoppage or reduction of corruption and the recovery
of our stolen resources is critical the efforts to build
a sustainable society in which we all have a
reasonable chance of achieving our legitimate
aspirations.
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