Urgency for Jonathan Sack
There is little left denying that Reckless and
Incompetent are two words that absotively and
posolutely define the Goodluck Jonathan regime. It is
quizzingly disturbing however that a few remaining
diversionists insist on the Straw man fallacy
argument, raising the issues against the person of
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (SLS) in the June, 2013 FRC
report in attempt to stall the national urgency of a
motion to impeach Nigeria's president.
The topic on the minds of Nigeria's millions of
destitute and poor and on the minds of global
observers concerned about Nigeria is how a nation of
168 million intelligent and hardworking hopefuls
cannot know where $20 billion or more is. There is no
question about this. This is not disputed. Nigeria's
government does not know where $20 billion is. The
Finance minister has admitted in unambiguous
terms that she expressly does not know where $10.8
billion is and again where the entire $20 billion is.
This fact, first realized at the end of the reconciliation
meeting was again submitted by the Minister of
Finance and the Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in a
BBC press release on February 25th, 2015. Quoting
the BBC in the article "Nigeria's finance minister puts
pressure on Goodluck Jonathan:"
"My position on this has been clear from the start.
The Ministry of Finance's reconciliation showed a
shortfall of $10.8bn in NNPC remittances to the
Federation account. After this, the conflicting claims
continued with new figures such as $20bn being
mentioned.
"So since 13th February I have called for an
independent forensic audit…"
In any decent and democratic nation, such a
submission by the Minister of economy and request
for forensic auditors would be followed responsibly
by a letter of retirement. If not, a competent and
well-intended President of any progressive nation in
the world would have been compelled to do the
honors of immediately dismissing the Minister for
dangerous admission of incompetence. We do need a
forensic audit, and only so, because our Finance
department is woebegone. If you cannot do your job,
to the tune of $11-20 billion, your way is the door.
This is what should be and what would be in any
civilized nation. You will even get death in no-
nonsense China. The retaining of the Finance
Minister after this admission is reason #2 why the
President of Nigeria should urgently be impeached.
This cannot be overemphasized. Reason #1 for the
President's sack of course is the initial issue of
missing billions (USD). These matters are serious.
Our nation is not a joke. Mismanagement and
embezzlement are directly responsible for the terror
that wipes away our citizens north and south. At this
critical stage in Nigeria's history, after 50 shabby
years, what we need is vision, intelligence, strength,
discipline and diligence. A public commentator noted
that 'Jonathanians drop the bar of competence and
responsibility so low that famous robber, Lawrence
Anini could scale it eyes closed.' When do we start
recovering from the plundering of most of our 50
years? After another 50 of gravid plundering?
It is noted that the same people who supported the
retaining of ex-Aviation minister, Stella Oduah,
caught red-handed stealing millions, are the same
people who seek every diversion to the urgency of
the national embarrassment of missing billions,
'gone to fund terror.' Clarifying the reason missing
billions funds terror: to protect loot, whoever need be
appeased or bribed is bribed easily with stolen
national commonwealth and this makes looted
money the chief source of income for wicked
characters like terror sponsors.
Another public commentator wrote an article stating
that we can walk and chew gum at the same time, in
reference to the case against Sanusi. I take this to
mean, we can walk in pursuance of the nation's
missing billions and also chew the gum of Sanusi's
'crimes,' at the same d.a.m.n time.
It was with disappointment that I read an article
published February 25th, 2014 in PremiumTimes
from respected author, Femi Aribisala in which he
occupied the column lambasting sacked CBN
governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (SLS).
He is welcome to the club, rather late, in 2014. Many
of us have written critically of SLS since years
passed. SLS is a system man, of course he is. He has
been part and parcel of the administration. There is
no doubt about this and no one has claimed
otherwise. Unlike the #OduahGate case, you do not
see any one of us writing and publishing in the
defense of SLS, explaining why he must be forgiven.
No. All we progressive Nigerians have done is said—
as it is for Sanusi so it shall be for Mr. President. We
have also poked all obvious holes in the report levied
against his person so far and the timing of the
release and suspension of Nigeria's Whistleblower
and chief 'witness' in the case of the missing billions
(USD). They should submit better. In any case, SLS is
an adult, he can and will defend himself. His case has
nothing other than as a tool of malicious diversion, to
do with the pressing case of missing billions.
By suspending SLS at the height of the scandal,
whatever investigation is done is now meaningless to
Nigerians. We Nigerians shall not take the results of
so-called audit or investigation. It will be purely
'Government magic.' Suspending SLS in the middle
of the reconciliation is an admission of guilt and
conspiracy to cover-up. "Money no lost, dem go shout
again," in the words of late Fela.
Unlike what was written in this article and what has
been proposed by the few Jonathanians/GEJites. SLS
did not mis-present facts. He did not change figures.
He did not 'scream to the world that $49bn was
missing.' SLS diligently submitted the total queried
to the President in private. The President ignored this
for months. It was later that somehow this leaked to
the public. God bless the leaker. Had GEJ attended to
the private memo when first sent, reconciliation may
have been concluded in private, but our arrogantly
reckless leadership could not be bothered, and this is
why the public knew and this is why SLS apologized.
Not for being wrong, but for us knowing and being
unduly aggravated about a yet on-going
investigation. After a hasty reconciliation, both
parties agreed $10.8 billion was missing. After
crosschecking, SLS had to blurt out that
reconciliation was 'full of garbage,' $20bn was yet
clearly unaccounted. To show how the reconciliation
is packed with lies, just take a look at Vanguard of
24th February and 25th February, "We never
received $6bn from NNPC, NPDC insists" goes one
caption. This is the type of material SLS was given at
reconciliation. Material that crumbles on cross-
examination.
I am tempted to say that those who attempt to
obfuscate, and raise and compare the case from a
report done since June 2013, of incidents protected
by the GEJ government since 2010 are either
benefactors of the missing $20 billion, or transiently
under the impulse of puerile hormones.
If this report was actually presented since June last
year, what took the President so long to fire SLS? This
ridiculous and dangerous delay is reason #3 for
impeachment. If truly he diverted Nigeria's income to
the tune of billions of naira… and Goodluck Jonathan
knew and kept him for several more months as head
of the apex bank?
Secondly, if indeed as the FRC report suggests—not
minding all the holes that have been poked in it—
that Sanusi Lamido Sanusi had been diverting funds
since 2010! Was there no oversight? Why did Nigeria
not know since 2010 that SLS was diverting such
funds? Is this the nation and government we want?
Where thieves can divert billions of naira in frivolous
expenses and there is no control and oversight of it?
This is reason #4 for the urgent impeachment of
President Goodluck Jonathan. Nigeria is not his
personal botanical or zoological garden. We are not
id!ots. We know exactly why SLS was fired now. We
know the games and we assure the President and his
remaining 43,998 supporters that this is the last
time they will play these shameless games.
#WeNoBeMugun!
It is important to remind us that SLS was not elected
into office by us, he was nominated and appointed by
the Goodluck Jonathan government, albeit during
late Yar'Adua's half of it. The 'failures and corruption'
of SLS are the failures and corruption of GEJ. If Sanusi
should go to Kirikiri, Jonathan must and shall lead the
way and warm the cell for him. This is not in defense
of SLS. Call SLS a thief, that's your prerogative. It
takes a thief to catch the biggest thieves, Kerosene
subsidy wicked thieves who steal N100 from every
mother in Nigeria per litter… stealing billions (USD),
we thank him. In fact we can give him a Presidential
pardon under the new administration after these
economic terrorists who stole more than half of our
annual budget are sent to the gallows. As mentioned
earlier. He is an adult and can and shall defend
himself.
This matter adds to the reasons why the world is fed
up with this President. For his retaining and
presenting a retirement vs a sack of Stella Oduah,
the other thief, he should also be impeached. This is
reason #5. The President of Nigeria as protected by a
handful of fanatic supporters and careless authors is
insulting the hard work, prayers and commitment of
many Nigerians who have contributed to the
protection of the constitution and preservation of a
sense of decency in the government. The media
exposed Stela's theft, not the EFCC; where is the
reward and salary for the media for doing this? The
defenders of Jonathan would accept/defend N5 billion
to the media for the monumental task of exposing
Oduah, a job the EFCC is paid billions to not do.
That's the way they think and the ridiculous stuff
they defend, once there is a big office or huge title to
the thief/usurper. After such expose, at least we
should have been dignified with her sack and
imprisonment and not insulted by her having a
dignified retirement. But no, after all the nation's
time it wasted, all he did was give her a dignified
self-retirement and left Coscharis free.
Sycophancy and lickspilttling is killing many of us.
We will readily pursue and burn a person who stole a
biro to death, but when it is a cabal, we say, 'he is
doing well, he built a leaking airport, or tarred a road
already again pothole riddled.' The mad of us are
more eager to run after Sanusi for a few suspected
millions (USD) than pursue the higher-up greater
thieves, drunken men and women of the GEJ
administration that have admitted/confessed they
have 'misplaced' our billions and indignantly that
they steal some billions (USD) in the Kero-subsidy
fraud.
These are the issues that should be on the table in
Nigeria. The way the country is being ruled like a
kindergarten with hopeless incompetent and
inebriated administration of the executive arm.
The more 'crimes' that are revealed about Sanusi
serve only to compound the crimes of the Goodluck
Jonathan administration for which impeachment is
way past due. That a motion to impeach has not yet
been pushed reveals the worthlessness of the
nation's lawmakers, of all parties. A motion should
have been submitted, regardless of the possibility of
it passing. Why should Nigeria claim it has a
democracy and only practice the money embezzling
aspects of democracy and not also practice the
checks and harsh balances it proffers? Obama as
super as he is has had such motions raised against
him.
The people of Nigeria are ready to move forward. We
will move forward with or without those bribed,
confused or so pummeled by chronic malgovernance,
they can no longer appreciate or aspire for better.
Some of us stood up when the deaths, bombings and
kidnappings became the order of the day. We will
fight for our money. We will fight for the sack of the
corrupt leadership of this nation. We will fight for
terror sponsors to be jailed. We will never stop. We
want fresh air and we will get it, with or without you.
There is really nothing to discuss here, it is
unbelievable we even still talk about and define theft
and the expected repercussion of grand
mismanagement. This matter has been over
thrashed. #WhereIsOurMoney?
Sent From David Aniemeka
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