Written by Chidi Odinkalu
The long-awaited struggle of President Muhammadu Buhari against corruption has degenerated into a demolition derby. As with many previous efforts to fight corruption in Nigeria, the various positions of power and influence in the presidential cohort seem determined to use the fight against corruption as a hedge to settle intra-palace accounts.
The Commission's Committee on Economic and Financial Crimes, headed by a president, is challenging the Speaker of the Senate before the Code of Conduct Court. As the ongoing process, the Senate, whose president is accused of corruption by the EFCC, refused to confirm the interim president of the EFCC quoting a report by the DSS, accusing the candidate of abuse of power and human rights.
These allegations of human rights violations against the president of the EFCC are made without any trace of irony for DSS has acquired a sad reputation of adhering to court orders only likes or for those who have approved.
Meanwhile, the judiciary, whose many senior officers have become an object of ridicule at the request of the EFCC and DSS, has to get somehow to arbitrate with a face directly winners and losers in this mess wretched.
For some, this bulletin is proof that there are no sacred cows in this "fight" against corruption. In fact, it is easy to confuse damage progress when goals are not clear and a strategy is non-existent. Of course, there is a fight, but it is increasingly difficult to support the idea that it is the struggle of President Buhari or, indeed, a struggle for the interest of Nigerians.
Of course, it is not the first time that an administration will be complemented by those who allegedly implement their proclaimed commitment to fight corruption. In 1970, General Yakubu Gowon declared that "Nigeria's eradication of corruption" within six years.It was an impossible mission proclaimed with starry certainty from a drunken 35-year-old with a power that did not Four years later, Godwin Daboh, at the instigation of the Governor of Benue-Plateau, Joseph Gomwalk, issued an affidavit in which several charges of corruption were entered against Minister of Communications Gowon Joseph Tarka Gowon disturbed the indecision of the allegations.When Tarka was finally forced to resign, Gowon's commitment to fighting corruption seemed extremely hypocritical. </ P> <p> Less than a year later, Murtala Mohammed stepped in for the Gowon regime out of His misery.
President Buhari is no stranger to the proclamation of the fight against corruption. His previous incarnation as head of state of Nigeria in 1984-85 is known for his war against indiscipline. So, as today, the effort is essentially defined by its concern about the arrest, detention or imprisonment of most senior officials accused or suspected of being involved in corrupt enrichment. In pursuit of this objective, it was considered that the procedure was an awkward obstacle, which largely was not taken into account. Then, however, he had the cover of the military regime. As a civilian president, he is naked before the politicians and the process and the view is not pretty.
With a state of mind that seems to confuse drama with production, much of the anti-corruption campaign management has missed a clear diagnosis, coherent principles or a comprehensive strategy. Each step is judged on a whim. When the DSS was after some senior magistrates in early October 2016, many were in ecstasy. Now that the Senate allegedly based on a report published by the same DSS to reject the confirmation of the candidate of the administration to lead the EFCC, the same voices that saw virtue in the DSS vice now see the decision of the Senate.
Efforts to develop a strategy to fight corruption within the administration have been hampered by rivalry between agencies and not aided - to be charitable - could be described as the reluctance of the Attorney General of the Federation to cooperate fully With the process. Much of the damage caused to the credibility of anti-corruption fight Buhari administration has been almost entirely self-inflicted.
The response of stock management is "corruption fighting." Unfortunately, this is a confession of mental laziness and strategic emptiness Corruption is a crime The belief that the end of all ambition occurs not only in Prisoners, but also for those who are involved in politics or public life and, as a matter of law, they have the right to defend themselves, and in the interest they will fight to maintain political relevance. Allegations of corruption must be fought surely anticipate.It is not too much to ask to be presented with a plan and work hard to cultivate allies too.The administration seems to sound as if waiting for those accused of corruption on foot of Prison with gentleness and always show his gratitude to be called corrupt.
This is the reason why the highly publicized fight against corruption President Buhari is officially in disarray. The real problem is that, obviously unable to fight the disease, the administration chose to fight its symptoms with bad prescriptions. Nigerian your corruption is a crime against common heritage in search of a people or common values to support nationality. Ayo Sogunro is closer to a credible diagnosis when he recently stated: "Without social equality there can be no social justice without social justice and corruption and patronage continue to prosper." Lack of a common sense of ownership of the Nigerian nation, most of whom have the opportunity to establish what our common heritage should be. What we call corruption is actually dismemberment of Competitive assets of the country.
The answer to this may involve prosecutions and convictions. But first you have to start with another type of leadership that gives each part of Nigeria and each Nigerien a shared ownership of the country and the security of belonging meaning. Second, preference should be given to prevention, institutional development and processes whose effectiveness does not depend on the notions of proximity to the president, their pillows or confidants. Third, it must be supported by sound economic management, with a clear plan to invest in social assets, including education, human well-being and basic health care. President Buhari proved to be indifferent to undertake the first; Indifferent to the creation of the second; And quite confused by the challenge of the third. Therefore, the fate of their preferential preoccupation with arrest and detention was always predictable. The only surprise is that it took so long to manifest this.
- Chidi Odinkalu
Member of the National Executive Committee
Nigerian Bar Association, writing as an individual
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