on Ribadu

On Ribadu

He is young, handsome and fearless. He represented change and hope (our own Obama). I was very proud of the young man, he represented the future. However Ribadu did himself in. He became a Hollywood police man, EFCC arrested, brought you to the court in chains, made the headlines, you got bail and after that nothing……. You were free to wander about and travel for “health check up”. I want anyone out there to tell me a case EFCC tried and got a conviction in court, any one case. The only case I remember was the Brazilian “419” case, which after about 5 years a plea bargain was reached. (Note the EFCC could not get enough to prosecute these guys in court, so they were locked up all these years)
Look at all the governors that stole money, Ribadu went himself to the National assembly and stated in his own words “ only three governors are clean” he continues “in Zamfara state the case is pathetic, the Governor was involved in direct stealing from the state coffers”. But after this what happened? Governors are brought to court, headlines made, any conviction? No. what of Tafa Balogun brought to court in chains, any conviction? No. what of Atiku? EFCC made him a hero, his aides were arrested, homes seized, any convection? No, what of Alams? Any convection? No. what of the Siemens bribery case? any Convictions? No What of N50m bribe for budget allocations in the ministry of Education? Any convictions? No
I could go on and on, but the point is this Ribadu started well but became a tool of the government to fight political enemies, OBJ said publically in a rally that “Mimiko (Labour Party candidate for Ondo Governorship) has refused to step down, so I will ask EFCC to investigate him” openly ooh… so once Ribadu became OBJ hatchet man, his destiny then became tied to OBJ.

On the promotion
If the C in C and President promotes you, it is legal, period. Can’t you as the CEO of your company promote the gate man if he brings you a deal that make your company millions? Will the HR manager come and tell you that No ooh, the gateman has to work for 10 years, the President appoints ministers to serve at his pleasure, or are ministers elected? (they should not be called ministers because they are not elected). So Ribadu’s promotion was right and legal, even if it caused resentment. If we start to use laws for anything then how do we reward exceptional performance? If the lady sleeps with the MD and gets double promotion, then sorry the CEO has the power. A new MD can then demote her for “non performance” that is also legal and at his pleasure. The problem with this particular demotion is that honestly it is targeted at Ribadu, the 138 are just “covering fire”, this is what makes it morally wrong, but legally correct. It is not Ribadu place to accept or reject a promotion or demotion, he can only resign.

On Yar-Adua
He has to be careful. He preaches rule of law but it seeming that is a cover. The Modus Operandi of this administration is to discredit you, the jury is still out on what they do after that. To date all associates, ALL, have been questioned, mentioned in probes or probed. Okonjo Iweala, Fani Kayode, Bolarishade, Soludo, El Rufai, etc etc, it seems that OBJ is being targeted but "they" are afraid to actually confront him, so they go after his boys and girls. Is this wrong? No, but if they committed an offense than probe them and convict them, that’s the point.. Convict them. Oga “Go-Slow” is again playing the Hollywood police role, bring them to court, get the headline let them go for “medical check up abroad”, Turaki, Nnamani, Igbenedion, Kalu (ie Orji Uzor) are all arrested with fanfare but any convictions ? NO, we hear the head of a major govt parietal NNPC saying he paid $12 million to militants (who then use it to buy arms to kill soldiers), was this budgeted? who approved it? Any investigation? ?
We hear $16billion spent on power, any arrests? No, we hear N5 billion airport tower project scam. we see arrests but any convections? NO, we see state elections being reversed, then we see the same governors winning…hmmmm I don’t know but I hear the court ruling on how the Kebbi governor won has not being released.
The boys and girls under Yar-Adua should remember what goes around comes around, Abacha’s Son was arrested, Obasanjo’s Daughter was arrested, ……….him that is wise, let him hear, selah.

In closing, we are not fools, if they want to arrest Obasanjo, do so, make a case and arrest him according to the “rule of law”, if someone commits an offense, try him and convict him, let’s stop these entire headlines grabbing news. The President has to really wake up, the honeymoon is over, power has dropped below 900mw, stock market is down, militants have taken over the Niger Delta (this administration cant even organize a conference, a simple conference,) you cannot hold out any minister as exceptional in this administration, Nigeria is rated as having the 3rd worst health delivery system (we beat Somalia) where are we going? People are hungry in the land and the national assembly is debating length on skirts and indecent dressing.

God Dey, I am still vexing sha.