I wonder how
those who genuinely believed that Buhari was going to fight corruption now
feel? Disappointed? Head in the sand? Cognitive dissonance?
...As corrupt
as the Jonathan administration was, it was once railroaded by the force of
public opinion to “accept the resignation” of former Aviation Minister Mrs.
Stella Odua over her controversial purchase of MW armored cars worth $1.6
million. Even Obasanjo, not exactly an apotheosis of integrity, fired a number
of his ministers accused of corruption.
But a man who rode to power on the strength of his credentials as a dogged anti-corruption fighter is looking the other way when his close aides are accused of corruption. The president, it’s now obvious, is only interested in fighting corruption if his political opponents are the accused. So we have graduated from "stealing is not corruption" under Jonathan to corruption is not corruption when the people accused of it are the president's "anointed."
Firm,
undeniable evidentiary proofs of Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai's alleged corruption have been published.
So have Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazzau's, and
now Babachir David Lawal's. Rotimi Amaechi has been accused of bribing judges,
and Abba Kyari has been accused of accepting a N500 million naira bribe from
MTN, among others.
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