Sunday, June 26, 2011

CSI Nigeria! (CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION NIGERIA)

Forensic science,is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to a legal system!
                                                   - Wikipedia


I am addicted to CSI New York,and  CSI Miami! I love how they begin from the unknown, and use the known, and available, to solve a crime that was committed without witnesses!


Most times, they are able to do this when the crime scene has not been compromised, and the evidence contaminated!


This is possible only when the police are able to isolate, and insulate, a crime scene!


This preserves the integrity of the crime scene, and makes it possible to piece together available evidence to solve the crime!


Juxtapose this with what happens in a typical crime scene in Nigeria! 


On July 27, 2006, Engineer Funso Williams, a notable politician in the firmament of Lagos politics was tied up, and stabbed several times, until he died! 


It was a brutal act, and the state government, seeking to show that it had no hand in the death, invited forensic investigators from abroad!


The experts came with their sophisticated equipment, and went to work, they were stunned by what they found! In the room where the man had been stabbed, they found over one thousand fingerprints! How do you process one thousand fingerprints? In frustration, the experts left, and the crime has not been solved till now!


The problem was that when the fellow was stabbed, all manner of sympathisers thronged his house, from old women who sell in the market, to shoe shine boys, all were allowed to go in and see where the dastardly deed was done! In the process, they ruined the crime scene! Members of the public, and even the police, do not know how to treat a crime scene!


After the police headquarters bombing, many "dignitaries" including our president, went to see the crime scene for themselves! Before then, the police had contaminated the crime scene themselves! They moved the gnarled, and mangled, remains of cars, and other debris indiscriminately, in the cause of clearing the place!


When the dignitaries came, they only compounded an already dire situation!


Sometimes, when I see a centrifuge machine used in CSI Miami, to extract the DNA from evidence gathered, or a laser beam to plot the trajectory of a bullet in order to determine the position of the shooter, or to find a bullet slug: I always tell my friends that the Nigerian police do so too! They just look at me with such incredulity, that I end up laughing to betray my intended pun!


We need to educate the public, and the police, on the need to reign in our emotions, and stay away from crime scenes, until they have been reopened to the public by the police!


Until we do this, crimes will remain unsolved, because the perpetrators understand that the public would be on hand to erase their trace once the crime is discovered!




I love Nigeria! I swear!


MAY GOD BLESS NIGERIA!

Friday, June 24, 2011

Nine-Letter Problem With Nine Lives!

Nigeria now has a nine-letter problem, with nine lives! It is called B O K O  H A R A M! 


As a sign of the gravity of the problem, armed soldiers have been drafted to various check points in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory!


Not even after the bombing of the Atlas Cove Jetty in Lagos, an event which one could say was the apogee of militancy from the Niger Delta Region, armed troops were not deployed to the country's capital!


It is a pointer to the degree of confidence, that the Federal Government has in the ability of the police to sort out the issue!


I shudder to think of what would happen in the dead of night, when soldiers not trained in civil crime prevention, decide to flex their muscles against civilians! 




There will be blood! And there will be broken bones!


Boko Haram, is the product of our love for turning a blind eye to criminality, in the name of political patronage! 


They were actively courted, and financially supported, by the Borno state government because of their esoteric beliefs!


They hold that all things Western are anathema, yet they use AK47s, and explosives made in the West, to wage war on Nigeria! Bows and arrows would have been more congruent with their belief system!


It was when they had a falling out, that violence erupted! 


There were incidents of extra judicial killings of the leaders of the group by policemen! 


It is the sense of betrayal, and injustice, that has led to this second wave of violence!


Boko Haram sees it's campaign as an honourable one! 


A blood feud to avenge unjust killings! It is a thing of honour for them to wage war against those who killed their leaders!


To make peace with these enemies, would be to loose face, and be dishonoured!


People have been flying the kite of an amnesty modelled along the lines of the Niger Delta one for the group. 


I see this as foolhardy, ludicrous, and absurd!


These fellows are not fighting because they are economically disadvantaged! They are fighting perceived injustice! 


They have declared that their wrath would be assuaged when the following individuals have been killed by them, Ali Modu Sherrif, the former governor of Borno state, Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi state, and Danjuma Goje, th former governor of Gombe state! 




In addition to this, the inspector general of police has been included! He is on the list ostensibly because his policemen were filmed killing the handcuffed leaders of Boko Haram, in cold blood!


Our nine-letter problem with nine lives, was previously viewed as a kitten, now, it seems to have grown into an adult tiger!


Utman Dan Fodio is recorded to have said that "conscience is an open wound, only truth can heal it!


The wound of Boko Haram, can only be healed by an objective, dispassionate, review of the particulars of the matter, the legitimacy of their grievances!


Are we bold enough to confront the truth? 


Do we want to know the truth?


Or is this " an inconvenient truth"?  


Until we are, the sore would continue to fester, and could lead to our own home-grown insurgency!

Thursday, June 23, 2011

LIVING IN THE MIDST OF PRODUCTS THAT KILL!

My friend had an accident, while driving home from church on a Sunday afternoon! 


His family was with him in the car:the vehicle rammed into a building, his wife fractured her leg, and his son, his arm!


The son's fracture was a compound one, he had to endure twenty two hours of surgery!


He had suddenly lost all control of the car! When the police came, they found that his two front tires had burst while he was driving!


On closer inspection, the police found that all five tires had expired! But there was an added twist to the tale:it was a brand new car!


My friend,who happens to be a pastor, was fortunate, no one died, only limbs were broken!


What mere mortals like us would like to know, is how was a supposedly brand new vehicle successfully imported into Nigeria, with expired tires?


As a result of our aversion for keeping statistics, and meticulously investigating accidents,one would never know the calamitous carnage that expired tires, and other products that ought to be regulated are wreaking on the population!


I believe the police were just exceptional in my friend's case  because the insurance company insisted: they could not understand how a car that was just a week old, could crash mysteriously like that!


The routine response to accidents in Nigeria, is just to tow the vehicle away, and chalk up another statistic!


Over the years, a plethora of agencies have emerged charged with various functions, all geared towards safeguarding the lives of innocent citizens! 


However, the more the agencies have become, the more the incidents of preventable public health scares!


All they seem to be concerned with, is posturing on television, showing their efforts, and achievement, in a crazy bid to outdo other agencies!


Perhaps that is where the problem lies! We do not seem to be seeing a lot of interagency cooperation at play! They all seem to be lone rangers!


The counterfeiters, and importers of deadly products, are taking advantage of the cracks, to infiltrate our nation!


We cannot also rule out the activities of unfaithful operatives of these agencies who, for some more money, collude with the enemies of Nigeria!


The federal government should begin to consider the new Chinese model for dealing with cases of contaminate, or counterfeit products.


In China, long jail terms are given for injuries caused, and where lives are lost, those responsible, are also executed!


It is drastic, but the only language the devil understands, is violence: and these fellows are devils!


At the moment, the only sure regulation, is self-regulation! Open your eyes, and if you are in doubt, leave it alone!Do not eat it, do not drink it, do not rub it!


In addition to this, is whistle blowing: if you see,do tell! Do not say it is not your business, you may be unwittingly throwing a stone in the market place!


MAY GOD BLESS NIGERIA,OUR NIGERIA,FOREVER!

Sunday, June 19, 2011

NIGERIA,GOODLUCK JONATHAN, AND CORRUPTION!

In one of my submissions on the subject of corruption, I wrote that it is like the words of a popular hymn,


It breathes in the air,
it shines in the light,
it streams from the hills,
 it descends to the plain,
and sweetly distills in the dew,
 and the rain
This indicates the pervasive, and cloying nature of corruption in our system. I will not bore you with the fruits of corruption, they are ever before us. What I would like to talk about, is our expectation, that president Goodluck Jonathan, would depart from the script written by his predecessors, and somehow write his own, and actually fight corruption!

While this would truly be a breath of fresh air, the reality is that, he cannot fight corruption! Fighting corruption would be like a man moving the ground upon which he is standing!

Goodluck Jonathan, is following the ancient landmarks set by the leaders before him! They are in his past as milestones, and his future, as beacons, and guidelines!

Goodluck cannot fight corruption, it is impossible! Corruption is the "maker" of his presidency! 

The substructure, foundation, underpinning, girding, and reenforcement of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, government, is corruption! 

Corruption is like the lamp that the president must dance to, he is mesmerized by it, he finds succor in it, he even finds fulfillment in it, he is pacified, as a baby, by it! So why should he fight it? How can he fight it?

Corruption derives from the rule of strong men, in an environment of weak institutions! That is why organizations like the mafia, only thrive in environments where there are weak law enforcement institutions!

The first blow in the war against corruption, is an open society! What we currently run, is a closed, cabal-dominated one! Decisions that affect all of us, are made at night, by a few powerful men, disregarding the outcome it might have on the rest of the populace! 

When we have an open society, strong institutions would emerge! We are rejoicing at the conduct of the last general elections in Nigeria, but they were successful, despite the weak election umpire! What we saw, was the influence of a strong man, Professor Jega, at work! In this case for something positive! 

Such progress cannot endure, and cannot be replicated, as long as we have weak institutions! It is the emergence of strong institutions, that would cause ordinary men, to do courageous things for good! 
And that is the final reason why President Goodluck cannot fight corruption: he is a weak man, surrounded by weak institutions that should do good, and strong men intent on doing bad!

In four years time, God giving us life, I will look at this article again, I will see whether I was wrong in my assertions, or that like a crab in a basket full of crabs, Goodluck Jonathan, has not been able to escape the pull of the corrupt multitude!

MAY GOD BLESS NIGERIA,OUR NIGERIA,FOREVER1

Thursday, June 16, 2011

BOKO HARAM:CROSSING THE LINE!

For many who understand Nigeria, the suicide bomb attack on the Nigeria Police Headquarters in Abuja, is a new benchmark in the Boko Haram imbroglio!


One that portends evil days ahead!


Before now, the group had restricted it's attacks to it's core catchment areas of Bauchi, Borno, and Gombe state.


It had also staged what could best be described as skirmishes! 




With the suicide bomber, it has now claimed it's place in the pantheon of other notorious organizations like Abu Sayyaf, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and a host of others who use humans, as weapons!


The sad truth about Boko Haram, is that it had previously enjoyed the support of elements in government who supported it financially! It was when it tried to swallow the hand, and the body, that was feeding it, that it fell out with the government! 


The group is one of many littering Northern Nigeria. 


Many are at varying stages in their development to Boko Haram status!


They are usually given protection from the police, and sometimes, have whole villages as enclaves where they incubate their deviant notions! 




It would be difficult for the police to tell me, that they were not aware of the group five years ago! 


They were, but they looked the other way, because of orders from above!


A few years ago, Sheik El Zakzaky, an Islamiic fundamentalist, had a camp in Kaduna state.


At a press conference, he once held up a security report purportedly written by the state's police commissioner to the Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro!


In the report, it was alleged that the Islamic group, was a growing threat to lives, and property, in the state!


It alleged that the group had a whole village in Zaria, that was a training camp for militants. No outsiders were allowed to go in, because the group owned the village. Those who assayed to, were killed! How this group got this report, was a mystery, the police, I believe out of embarrassment, disowned the report. 


That is the kind of complicity that has given birth to Boko Haram! 




A few months after, Sheik Elzakkaky, unleashed hell on the helpless citizens living in Kaduna!


 It is time all Moslems, who love peace, and love this nation too, draw a line on what is legitimate Islam, and criminality!


We know Nigeria is elastic, and has survived all that we have managed to afflict her with, but we should bear in mind, that everything under the sun, has a breaking point!


Nigeria has too many problems already, we cannot afford to add suicide attacks by religious extremists to the list! 




But then again, it is wishful thinking on my part, because it is already is!


MAY GOD BLESS, AND DEFEND NIGERIA, OUR NIGERIA, FOREVER!

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

BANKOLE'S TROUBLES, AND THE ELEPHANTS IN THE HOUSE!

It is very difficult to overlook an elephant. I have seen a few at Yankari Game reserve, and I have even tracked some on foot! It is difficult to miss them because they are big, and have a temper to go with their size!


In the debris-strewn wake of Dimeji Bankole's nationally aired farcical comedy, there sits an elephant,actually two, if I may say; quietly munching away in the corner! 


Is it possible that we have been so taken by Bankole's supposed troubles, that we have missed the elephants sitting on the Speaker's seat at the national assembly?


Bankole alleged, that is the legal term I believe, that it was the principal officers, excepting himself and his deputy, who were the beneficiaries of the now troublesome largess.


In case we have forgotten. two of the said principal officers, Waziri-Tambuwal, and Emeka Ihedioha, are now the new speaker, and deputy speaker of the house respectively!


This is truly a conundrum  of cataclysmic proportions! No one at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is saying anything about these gavel wielding elephants!


Is it that theirs is the next instalment of the comedy? Is Waziri-Tambuwa studying the Bankole play book, to garner strategies for the conflict sure to come?


What is the position of the law regarding the allegations made by Bankole, against the new honourable speaker, and his deputy?


Could it be that the two gentlemen, fearing the worst, jeopardised their party's zoning formula, just to save their skins?


Things are never as the seem to suggest in this country! We all called them democrats, when they kicked the People's Democratic Party in the teeth: could theirs have been an act of immense self-serving desperation? The case of the thief joining the police to evade arrest!


Whatever the truth is, the next four years promise to be a jolly good ride! 


I suspect the PDP would engineer some clever impeachment moves against these men, right now, the elephants are upsetting the apple cart, and that cannot just be allowed! 


While the air may not be fresh yet, the waters truly have been fouled!


Aluta continua!


MAY GOD BLESS NIGERIA,OUR NIGERIA,FOREVER!



"He insisted that before the increment in quarterly allocation, which necessitated the taking of the loan, he received N100m per quarter while Nafada collected N80m.
Bankole added that after the increment, the two presiding officers continued to receive the old rate.
However, he revealed that from N46m, Akogun’s allowance was jacked up to N60m, a difference of N14m.
Agaie now took home N57m, up from N43m, a difference of N14m.
Similarly, he said that Ihedioha’s was raised to N55m from N41m, with a difference of N14m, while Waziri-Tambuwal got N54.5m as against the old rate of N40.5m.
Gbajabiamila, who was receiving N36m per quarter, had his own jacked up to N50m.
The former speaker stated that other members, who hitherto received N28m each per quarter, raised theirs to N42m each. 
By this new sharing formula, the six former principal officers were said to be sharing N456.5m every three months since March 30, 2010.
The document explains further, “Before the increment, quarterly allowance to the Office of the Speaker was N100m while his deputy received N80m"
               
                                       -Source The Punch Newspaper Tuesday 7th June 2011

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Boko Haram, Kidnappers, and Niger Delta Militants: The Error!

If you have ever watched an American film, and the plot included a kidnap, and hostage scene: one thing you would probably hear from the government side, is that the United States Government, does not negotiate with terrorists!


And it is actually a mirror, of what obtains in real life. The US, does not negotiate with terrorists! Ever! 


They must have arrived at this decision, after a careful examination, of the anatomy of criminality! If crime is rewarded, it can only lead to more crime! The moment there is no return on investment for the criminal, it discourages him, and potential copycats!


I am constrained to touch on this, in the light of the manner the militancy problem in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria, was "resolved"


What the government did, was to negotiate with the militants, and give them money to stop kidnapping people, and hurting our economic interests!


The government found it easy to do, because it had a long established, and robust history, of negotiating with kidnappers!




In the past, operatives of the state security agencies, were actually involved in the negotiation with, and handing over of ransom payments, to kidnappers! In other parts of the civilized world, this is a crime!


We need to ask ourselves as a nation, was the modus operandi of the "amnesty" the best option for the government?


For short-sighted people, it was the best option! But for those who believe in building an enduring, virile, strong, and equitable nation, other options should have been explored!


Why were the militants in the creeks in the first place! What was the reason for their insurrection? Some claimed resource control, others marginalization, another group the underdevelopment of the region!


None of the militants claimed that they were in the struggle because they wanted to go to school in America, and could not raise the funds needed for their education, or that they wanted to be trained in one vocation or the other! 


But that is exactly what some of them are getting today, at tax payers' expense! 


And, sadly, the fundamental issue, and grouse, they premised their struggle on, are still there, waiting to inspire the next lot of militants! 


Until the underlying,fundamental, problem is addressed, we are like the Yorubas would say, ignoring the leprosy, and treating the scabies! 


I am not saying that it is wrong for the government to send Nigerians abroad! What is wrong, is the message we have sent to the millions of youths all over Nigeria, who are law-abiding, and have never carried a gun in their lives, and all they want, is to go to school in Nigeria,or have a decent job: and because of government ineptitude, they cannot!


Are we telling them that, the only way to get government's attention, is to wage war against the State?


In rewarding the militants, and not addressing the legitimate issues they raised, government has set a bad precedent! 


The militants, were only the symptoms, not the problem!


I have started hearing talk of amnesty for Boko Haram militants in the Northern part of the country! If you do not know, the Boko Haram are an Islamic religious group with very extreme views! They were hitherto patronised by the government of Borno state, and funded, when it was convenient! 


It was when the government found that it's pet python (Boko Haram) was now too big to live in the living room, that it tried to eliminate it, but by then, the group had acquired enough arms, and resources to wage war on the three North Eastern states of Bauchi, Gombe, and Borno! 


What would the modalities for such an amnesty be? 


I ask because the group has as a cardinal tenet, the repudiation of all things modern, and the holding of such as evil!


In a government organized "amnesty", would the Boko Haram members be sent to America on government scholarship? Or would they be sent on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia? 


Since they forbid all things modern, would they be making their Saudi trip by camel, or donkey! We need to know, so that the contract can be awarded for the purchase of hundreds of Boeing 747 Camels to take them across the desert!


Since government has now adopted the amnesty method, as a means of assuaging perceived, real, and imagined, injustices: what are we going to do about the kidnappers in the South East of Nigeria who are currently terrorising the populace?


And while we are on the matter, the people who occupy the states that our hydro electric dams are located in, are becoming more vociferous on the need to create a commission modelled along the lines of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to ameliorate the destruction visited on their land by the numerous dams!


So you see, negotiating with terrorists ( a terrorist is any person who uses force to coerce another to do his bidding. My own definition, if it is wrong pardon me) is a slippery slope, and we are already sliding down the slope of no return!


MAY GOD BLESS NIGERIA,OUR NIGERIA,FOREVER!

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Dimeji Bankole Collects One Hundred Million Every Ninety Days

There is a long established tradition among armed robbers in Nigeria, I do not know about other climes: it is that when one of them is captured, he usually starts "singing", exposing the other members of the gang!


The current travails of Sabur Oladimeji Bankole, the immediate past speaker of Nigeria's house of representatives, looks like some high-class, genteel singing!


His first public utterance, albeit by his media aide, in the midst of allegations of malfeasance, and all manner of corruption,
: the charge that he borrowed, and misappropriated ten billion naira, which incidentally, is the least in gravity, in the pantheon of allegations, is quite instructive! 


He is alleged to have broken down in tears, and regretted ever accepting to be speaker!


Is that not a case of medicine after death, or closing the barn door, after the horse has bolted?


He, like what we used to see petty robbers exhibiting on Crime Fighters, a popular police programme on local television, started naming all those who shared in the loot! 


In a curious similarity to the same, he declined sharing in the loot. The only thing he did not say, was that it was the devil that made him do it!


Bankole, to prove that he did not share in the loot, said that his quarterly allocation, was one hundred million naira! This he affirmed, rather ruefully, did not go up with those of the other presiding officers!


I am still reeling from the shock of the revelation! The fellow has admitted publicly, that he is paid one million,one hundred and eleven thousand, one naira per day!  


Why would people not kill to hang on to political office,or to get there! This is better than minting money, or wasting your time at some useless honest business!


And it is not as if they work three hundred and sixty days a year! They give themselves generous amounts of holidays, and they also collect constituency project allowances, and all manner of sundry allowances!


We do not need to look far, to see where the real enemy of Nigeria is! They occupy the blue, and red, chambers of the national assembly!


Never in the history of the world, has so much been paid for so little done, to such an undeserving lot!


The speaker can defend his collecting one hundred million naira every ninety days, when the minimum wage of seventeen thousand naira, is still in contention as to whether states can pay,or not!


Our speaker collects one hundred million in ninety days, when we have universities that are nothing more than glorified secondary schools!


We have potholed roads, and hospitals that are inadequately staffed, and equipped!


Thank you Dimeji Bankole for opening our eyes! The Yoruba people have a proverb, that the insect that is consuming the vegetable, is lives on it! 


Our rulers have revealed, that we need to "fight" a second war of independence, independence from wastrels masquerading as servants of the people!


We need to work towards making political office, a true public service venture! We must rise, and demand that they serve voluntarily! 




If we do this, all these leeches, would look elsewhere! 


Arise Nigeria, it is time to throw off the shackles, our oppressors, are with us, and they have covered our rising with their prodigious greed!


Arise Nigeria! Arise!


MAY GOD BLESS NIGERIA, OUR NIGERIA, FOREVER! 



"He insisted that before the increment in quarterly allocation, which necessitated the taking of the loan, he received N100m per quarter while Nafada collected N80m.
Bankole added that after the increment, the two presiding officers continued to receive the old rate.
However, he revealed that from N46m, Akogun’s allowance was jacked up to N60m, a difference of N14m.
Agaie now took home N57m, up from N43m, a difference of N14m.
Similarly, he said that Ihedioha’s was raised to N55m from N41m, with a difference of N14m, while Waziri-Tambuwal got N54.5m as against the old rate of N40.5m.
Gbajabiamila, who was receiving N36m per quarter, had his own jacked up to N50m.
The former speaker stated that other members, who hitherto received N28m each per quarter, raised theirs to N42m each. 
By this new sharing formula, the six former principal officers were said to be sharing N456.5m every three months since March 30, 2010.
The document explains further, “Before the increment, quarterly allowance to the Office of the Speaker was N100m while his deputy received N80m"
               
                                       -Source The Punch Newspaper Tuesday 7th June 2011




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Monday, June 6, 2011

Sabur Oladimeji Bankole:Politician,Legislooter. Act One Scene 1!

The media circus generated by the impending arrest of Sabur Dimeji Bankole, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, shows that Nigerians are yet to learn from history! Even when that history is repetitive, and in living memory! 




Our people are acting as if the fellow has already been convicted, and jailed!


I have graduated from the class of the absurd, and the ludicrous, that believes that corrupt politicians to go to jail! I am now wiser! I do not expect anything to happen to Bankole, neither does he himself, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC!


The man, and the EFCC, are actors, collaborators, and conspirators in a well scripted travesty put on for the benefit of gullible Nigerians!


In the last twelve years, we have had three presidents, and over sixty different governors in our thirty six states,  and not one of them has been jailed for corruption! 


It is either they are all saints, or there is a deliberate policy to shield the members of this exclusive club! 


We have had some who were caught with "red hot" damning evidence, and all they got was a slap on the wrist with a rubber ruler!


When the EFFC says it is pursuing a man, it is all a charade, the closest thing to it in reality is shadow boxing, or modern day wrestling, where everything is scripted! 




The wrestlers have a script they are acting out, and they know who is to win, when, and how!


I yawned when I saw the newsflash on television that Bankole had been arrested after a four hour stand-off!


Wow! 


Those EFCC operatives are really tenacious! Why should it take law enforcement officers four hours, to arrest an ordinary citizen who does not have any immunity, especially when he has been accused of a crime? 




Acting! Wayo! (Deceit) Mago mago! (Sleight of hand)


The four hour drama is just the opening scene to a wonderfully written comedy piece! 


Message body

The media circus generated by the impending arrest of Sabur Dimeji Bankole, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, shows that Nigerians are yet to learn from history! Even when that history is repetitive, and in living memory! 




Our people are acting as if the fellow has already been convicted, and jailed!


I have graduated from the class of the absurd, and the ludicrous, that corrupt politicians to go to jail! I am now wiser! I do not expect anything to happen to Bankole, neither does he himself, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC!


The man, and the EFCC, are actors, collaborators, and conspirators in a well scripted travesty put on for the benefit of gullible Nigerians!


In the last twelve years, we have had three presidents, and over sixty different governors in our thirty six states,  and not one of them has been jailed for corruption! 


It is either they are all saints, or there is a deliberate policy to shield the members of this exclusive club! 


We have had some who were caught with "red hot" damning evidence, and all they got was a slap on the wrist with a rubber ruler!


When the EFFC says it is pursuing a man, it is all a charade, the closest thing to it in reality is shadow boxing, or modern day wrestling, where everything is scripted! 




The wrestlers have a script they are acting out, and they know who is to win, when, and how!


I yawned when I saw the newsflash on television that Bankole had been arrested after a four hour stand-off!


Wow! 


Those EFCC operatives are really tenacious! Why should it take law enforcement officers four hours, to arrest an ordinary citizen who does not have any immunity, especially when he has been accused of a crime? 




Acting! Wayo! (Deceit) Mago mago! (Sleight of hand)


The four hour drama is just the opening scene to a wonderfully written comedy piece! 




Dimeji Bankole will go to court, yes that will happen! And his well-paid Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, will argue the legality,or otherwise, of many interlocutary injunctions, or exparte orders! That is all part of the legitimization of his cleverly contrived exculpation!


While this is going on, the young man,Bankole, will suddenly develop one mysterious ailment, something that cannot be treated in a government hospital! 


So the news networks will show him in a wheelchair on his way to a "secure" private hospital! 


While he is enjoying his "incarceration" in a five star hotel ( sorry hospital) a place where all his women acquaintances can still visit to massage him, and keep his mojo up. Another event will occupy the media space, and Bankole's trial, becomes abstracted, and slips into oblivion!


The timeline of what I have enumerated above cannot be more than six months! 


After this, Bankole would be quietly granted "compassionate bail" while his trial proceeds at the usual glacial pace! Before you know it, the young man would instruct his well-paid SANs to file for the release of his travel papers! 


He would tell the honourable judge, who also happens to be a member of his golf club, that he needs to go abroad for treatment! 


In due course, the EFCC would realize the error of it's ways, and  would file for a  settlement out of court!


Bankole enters a plea bargain, and pays ten percent withholding tax on what he has stolen to the government! The EFCC then proceeds to tell him to go and sin some more! 




A few days later, at a worldwide press conference, Farida Waziri, the chief executive of the organization, would tell us how the commission has recovered fifty billion naira from Bankole!
We would all clap for the wonderful performance, and forget!


Curtains!


EPILOGUE


Dimeji Bankole Launches his foundation to serve humanity, and proceeds to declare his intention to run for governor in his state in the year 2015! 


And he would win, all things being equal, because he has a huge war chest!


Before then however, a grand reception would be held for him in Abeokuta, and Church and Mosque thanksgiving services as well! The president would attend, and all the like-minded people in thePeople's Democratic Party, PDP! 


In October,Dimeji Bankole, would be given a higher national award for his service to Nigeria!


Question. When was the last time a politician was jailed for fraud, and official corruption? Answer. Under the government of GeneralMuhammadu Buhari, more than twenty five years ago!


President Goodluck Jonathan, has promised to fight corruption, we are now witnessing his first title fight! 


The way this case is determined, will tell a lot, about his sincerity! 


Nigeria politicians loot at will, because they know there will be no adverse consequence! Just a pantomime, and shadow boxing, disguised as a trial!


It is this consequence of no consequence, that will embolden others to loot the more! A time will come, when one individual, will steal ten trillion naira, and all he would get, would be a circus, and a media charade, masquerading as a trial!




MAY GOD BLESS NIGERIA,OUR NIGERIA,FOREVER!