The article by one Nasir Aminu entitled, “A Formidable Eagle or a Paper Tiger,” exposes the risks of a single narrative. Nevertheless it’s apparent, from the beginning, that it was deliberate. I’ve seen many such tainted items; smarter ones even attempt to disguise their motives from the start. However not this one.
Within the article, the man, supposedly a instructor in Economics and Finance with an curiosity in ethics, had one agenda: to feed the damaging narrative that the management of sure establishments within the nation is the prerogative of 1 part. Nonsense!
Invoking the nostalgia of the Nuhu Ribadu days and the present trial of former governor Yahaya Bello have been among the many handy distractions.
However he didn’t want to cover in plain sight. His scandalous try to stretch a weak narrative betrayed his sinister motive.
It’s not the Chairman of the Financial and Monetary Fee (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, who has invited the drama in former Governor Yahaya Bello’s case. I assumed Aminu ought to know that. The governor, in a determined try to keep away from accountability in any respect prices by manipulating public notion, is accountable. I’m sorry for the Kogi folks.
The incident of September 18, which Aminu pretends to be the premise of his article – and never his jaundiced view – was one of many sequence of well-scripted shenanigans executed by Bello, with out disgrace and probably with the collusion of fifth columnists, to undermine the previous governor’s trial.
He has been charged, since April, with 19 counts of economic misconduct, together with conspiring to divert public funds for private acquire. If he had any respect for the folks of Kogi who elected him, he would have lengthy submitted himself to courtroom to reply these grave fees.
The EFCC, I consider, is set to observe by means of with Bello’s trial. It doesn’t should be Aminu’s or anybody else’s tiger to do its job. The fee has recovered over N150 billion and secured over 2000 convictions within the final 12 months. It can not progress if it cherry-picks from Aminu, whose ethnic agenda and intention to instigate resentment within the fee are obvious however whose vested pursuits we don’t but know.
It’s surprising {that a} instructor who ought to have referred to as out Bello’s disgraceful conduct on the premises of the EFCC is utilizing the disgusting drama to advance his ethnic agenda on the fee and stir hassle inside.
Umar, northern area coordinator of the World Peace Motion Worldwide (UK), writes from Kaduna State
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