The governor of Kaduna state, Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai appropriately described the revelations going on in respect of how public officers, entrusted with our commonwealth, shared such wealth amongst themselves and their cronies as ‘stranger than fiction.’
Of course, the manner in which the big masquerades had cleverly hidden themselves from the point of view of all their atrocities against not only the poor masses of Nigeria but against humanity, as accusing fingers were being pointed at the other petty thieves (those who stole miserable millions), brought out the ingenuity of the first class. It shows the bigger masquerades as people who obviously grew up inside the thieving system and in high places. And that stealing has been the way through which they have been thriving and flourishing.
As things stand now, the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki, in particular, has stood out like a sore thumb, as the focal point on whom all the corrupt allegations, running into billions, revolve. He has been fingered as either receiving huge amounts of money; in Dollars, Naira and so on, or giving out to those in whom he was well pleased.
In other words, the accusation against Dasuki have painted a vivid picture of a man that really played God: omnipotence, omnipresence, super distributor, clearing, forwarding and ‘backwarding’ agent, and in deed, all such attributes of God, (God forbid)! He has been painted as the de-facto President of the country, as the real Commander-In-Chief of all the uniformed people in Nigeria, as Accountant General of the Federation, as finance minister, as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, as National chairman of the then vibrant Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as the party’s media chief, as the party’s National Treasurer, as the Director General of the PDP’s Presidential Campaign Council, as the media chief of the Council. He virtually performed the roles of all those people combined.
Dasuki has also been painted as the giver of happiness to whom he would and sadness or pain to whom he would. He was painted as alpha and omega. This one man!
Every other person that has so far been pinned down for investigation or being investigate over the disappearance of huge national financial resources: from the owner of AIT, Raymond Dokpesi to the former Sokoto state governor, Attahiru Bafarawa, to the former minister, Yuguda, to the publisher of ThisDay newspaper, Nduka Obaigbena, to the medium size or down-stream thieves (receivers), such as ThisDay, Vanguard, The Sun, The Nation, New Telegraph, Daily Trust, People’s Daily, Leadership, Daily Independent, Tribune, Guardian and Business Day, pointed toward his direction.
Even the former minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala could not hold back information about how Dasuki arm-twisted her, former President Goodluck Jonathan, former justice minister, Bello Adoke combined, to allegedly collect the sum of $322 Million recovered General Sani Abacha’s loot. A case of looter looting the loot!
It is a shame for a man, a prince, who can lay claim to be the potential Sultan of Sokoto and leader of the entire Muslims in Nigeria to have so engaged with things of this world, so much that his actions and inaction can be traced to thousands of lives that have been lost to Boko Haram insurgents. This is in addition to thousands others that have sustained various degrees of injuries, and of course, many soldiers who were killed because of lack of adequate weapons to fight the insurgency war.
Remember that the large chunk of the money Dasuki shared to those he intended to use for his future ambition, was meant to procure arms and ammunition for the soldiers in the battle ground in the North East, to prosecute the war. The soldiers, who were denied the pleasure of modern armoury, resorted to using archaic, old fashioned and in deed, toy-like arms, against the sophisticated ones used by members of Boko Haram who started as rag-tag street beggars.
To say that Dasuki has committed mass murder, of the nation’s soldiers, innocent civilians that have been bombed out of life and other atrocities, is to say the bare truth.
There is no kinder word other than to adjudge Dasuki, from the mere confessions of Dokpesi, Nduka and the former director in his office, who confessed that he gave him Dollars loaded in 11 suit cases, as being guilty.
In a saner society, Sambo Dasuki would be shot at the stake in full glare of traumatised Nigerians, or confined to the zoo for generations yet unborn to come and see the man who knowingly and sadly rose against the development of Nigeria for a dangerously selfish purpose. It is as serious as that. [myad]
