Oh, I like President Muhammadu Buhari’s leadership
style, leading by example, walking the talk,” said Paul, a
commuter in the Apapa-bound bus.
“Yes oo bros, shame to all the naysayers, the bad belle
people. At least the man and his vice have publicly
declared their assets. I wish others will follow suit,” said
Jimoh.
Replied Paul: “Senator Shehu Sani has also declared
his assets.”
“Story, story, story. Once upon a time! Why do we
behave like a bunch of illiterates without thinking
faculty? You will not cease to amuse me. Declare assets
ni, declare assets ko! Abegi, make we talk beta thing,”
said Tony.
“Which past leader has done that? For God’s sake, give
credit where it is due and criticise where necessary.
The man has done well,” said Jimoh.
“Ok oo, I am not going to argue with you but it is
laughable that a man that told us a few months ago that
he was so poor that he had to borrow money from the
bank to purchase his party’s nomination form, suddenly
has about N30 m in his account. How much is his
monthly salary and allowances to get him N30m within
three months?” asked Tony.
Said Pat: “Hmm, abeg help me ask them. The truth is
that they did not do proper declaration – a number of
cars and seven houses say nothing. A proper declaration
will give details of the houses, locations and worth, the
same goes for the cars and the farm. Shehu said he has
many cars too.”
“The senator should be investigated. He was a rights
activist so how come he has so much money?” asked
Peju.
Replied Pat: “Have you forgotten he was the one
facilitating the meeting between Boko Haram and the
Federal Government?”
“Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project
(SERAP) has asked PMB to probe World Bank’s role
in the repatriated Abacha loot and also Halliburton
compensation,” informed Nike.
“Probe? Impossi-cant! It is impossible and he cannot do
it,” said Tony.
“He should go ahead and probe. We need to know what
happened to the loot. So what is impossible in that?”
asked Paul.
“It is impossible because there is nothing like Abacha
loot. You cannot probe what does not exist except of
course you are a magician. As for Halliburton, it is a
no-go area and he knows it. The people involved are
powerful and have a dossier on him so if he exposes them,
they will expose him too,” said Tony.
“Are you kidding? The whole world knows about Abacha
loot,” said Jimoh.
Said Tony: “Really? Shebi Buhari told us Abacha did
not steal anything, that he was the most righteous
Nigerian leader, just as they said there was nothing like
fuel subsidy and now they are talking about removing fuel
subsidy?”
“What did you expect? After all, he was part and parcel
of that government so as a saint, there is no way that
government could have looted public treasury. From
what I read, the loot included: $1,000,000,000– Swiss
government; $800,000,000 – General Abubakar-led
domestic recovery; $233,795,000 – Principality of
Liechtenstein; $198,484,000 – Ajaokuta Steel Plant debt
buy-back case; $160,000,000– Jersey’s global asset
recovery for Nigeria; and $36,016,200 –Jersey’s
recovered funds from Mr. Bhojwani,” said Pat.
“When did he say that? Why do you like peddling
rumours? You just keep putting words in the man’s mouth.
That was how they said he promised to make N1 equal to
one dollar, pay unemployed graduates monthly stipends,
feed school children one balanced meal a day, bring down
oil prices, end insurgency within a month and go to the
war front if need be. When did he make those promises?
Please, don’t let your unwarranted hatred for our
president becloud your reasoning,” said Jimoh.
“E be like say you can do Lai Mohammed’s job better.
So people just made all those up eh? A few days after
Lai told the whole world that they never made such
promises, the Vice-President came out to reaffirm that
they will keep their promise of feeding school children.
So who is deceiving who?” asked Tony.
“You complain about everything. Please wish our
president and nation well and it will be well with you,”
counselled Paul.
“I hear you. Remember the Ibori loot that was
repatriated? In order to protect his godfather, the then
Delta State Governor told us that Delta State did not
lose any money so people were asking how the Federal
Government will give money to someone who says he has
lost no money,” said Nike.
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