Reno Omokri
Nigerians
have been called upon to blame President Muhammadu Buhari over the poor
corruption rating given the country by Transparency International.
President Muhammadu Buhari and not Nigerians is to blame for the country's poor corruption rating, according to Reno Omokri.
Omokr, who's a former presidential aide to ex-President Goodluck
Jonathan, on Tuesday pointed out 20 reasons why President Muhammadu
Buhari is responsible for Nigeria’s corruption rating.
Transparency International’s had in its recent index placed Nigeria at 149 points, 23 countries behind from its 2014 rating.
Responding, President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu had blamed Nigerians for the latest poor rating.
Reacting, Omokri faulted Shehu’s remark, stressing that Buhari’s administration was responsible for the bad corruption rating.
In a post on his Facebook page, Omokri said: “On Monday,
February 1, 2021, Nigerians woke up to a rather shocking accusation.
According to Transparency International New Corruption Perception Index,
released on Friday, January 29, 2021, Nigeria is more corrupt today
than under the previous administration, having moved 13 places backwards
in the CPI, from 136 in 2014 to 149 in 2021 (our worst performance
ever.)
“However, rather than own up to their failures, the ever
blaming Buhari administration accused Nigerians, saying the
long-suffering citizens of Nigeria, and not the government, were
responsible for this abysmal corruption perception rating.
“On Channel Television’s Sunrise Daily, the Any Government in
Power Garba Shehu (he was also a spokesman to the Obasanjo PDP
Government) said:
“I will tell you that this one by TI is not a judgment on
Buhari or his administration or its war against corruption, I will tell
you that this one is a judgment on Nigerians because if you look at the
indices they used at arriving at these conclusions, they used eight
indices, six of which showed Nigeria as being more or less Nigeria in
the same position.”
“Garba Shehu is a man without credibility. He is described by
Aisha Buhari, the President’s wife, as a dishonest human being, and he
has serially proven that that assessment is accurate by his many untrue
statements, including, but not limited to, the lie that bandits abducted
only 10 Kankara boys on December 11, 2020 (we now know that over 300
boys were abducted), or the lie that Buhari has secured Nigeria
(according to the Global Terrorism Index, Nigeria is now more terrorised
than at any time under former President Jonathan), or his lie that
“Nigeria just achieved the record of the second-largest producer of rice
in the world” (Nigeria is not even among the top 10 rice producers).
“Garba Shehu is a paid sycophant, who lies without fear of God.
And to prove to Nigerians that the Buhari administration is
irresponsible and that this President is incapable of leading Nigeria to
anything other than total destruction, I will now list 20 reasons why
Transparency International declared Nigeria, under Buhari, as one of the
most corrupt nations on Earth.”
He listed the 20 reasons below:
* According to a former Buhari insider, Buhari’s nephew, Sabiu
‘Tunde’ Yusuf, who used to sell recharge cards in Daura, is now a
trillionaire in Naira, without any known source of income.
* The Buhari administration, not Nigerians, budgeted $500
million to digitalise the Nigerian Television Authority, a network that
is not even worth $50 million.
* It is the Buhari government, not the citizens of Nigeria,
that budgeted ₦37 billion to renovate a National Assembly complex built
for ₦6 billion only.
” Nigerians are not responsible for concealing the true owners
of the Ikoyi Apartment billions, reported to be a potbellied former
Governor of Rivers state.
”Why are the heads of the Executive, Legislature, Judiciary,
Ministry of Defence, Army, Police, NSA, DSS, NIA, DMI, DIA, NPS, NCS,
NIS, and EFCC all Northern Muslim men? This is against the Federal
Character Act. Of course, Transparency International is aware that
nepotism is also corruption.
”It is not Nigerians who went to Kano to lift the hand of Umar
Ganduje, a man caught on camera collecting bribes in dollars and
stuffing it into his babanriga.
”What happened to Aisha Buhari’s ADC and the billions he
allegedly stole? He has not been tried since 2018. The case has been
buried. Is it because he knows too much about Buhari and his family? Are
Nigerians to blame for that?
”It is not Nigerians who refused to try Bola Tinubu, despite
clear evidence of bullion vans carrying money into his home on Election
Day 2019, in contravention of the Money Laundering Act, 2011, and
instead made him a major powerbroker in the Presidency.
” It is not Nigerians who granted regular access to the
Presidency to Babachir Lawal, a man whose hands were caught red-handed
in the cookie jar, accused of stealing hundreds of millions via the
grass cutter scandal.
” It is not Nigerians that protected Nasir Danu, Buhari’s
right-hand man, who was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport with huge
undeclared sums of money and a fake passport, and was eventually
deported to Nigeria, and then seen at Aso Rock smiling with General
Buhari in a photo.
* It is not Nigerians who allowed General Buhari’s children to
use the Nigerian Presidential Jet to attend private functions or allowed
APC Governors to use the jet to attend APC campaign events.
* It is the Buhari administration, not Nigerians who claimed to
have spent millions of dollars feeding school children during the
#COVID19 lockdown.
* Who is to blame for the refusal to charge anyone for NNPC’s
$25 billion contracts awarded without due process, after the scam was
exposed in a leaked memo from Buhari’s own minister?
* Was General Buhari’s daughter made a manager at an NNPC subsidiary? Why? Are Nigerians to blame for that?
* How come Nigeria’s foreign debt increased from $7 billion in
2015 to $32 billion in 2020, with little to show for it? Buhari has
borrowed more than Abacha, Abdulsalami, Obasanjo, Yar’adua and Jonathan,
combined. Where has the money gone? Much of it into private pockets.
* Charly Boy, a prominent musician and singer, admitted that
Festus Keyamo bribed him with a 9 figure sum. Where did Keyamo get such
monies? The case was swept under the carpet, and Keyamo was rewarded by
being made a minister.
”A former managing director of Niger Delta Development
Commission, Joy Nunieh, revealed that a minister in Buhari’s government,
Godswill Akpabio, was involved in multi billion Naira fraud and
corruption and tendered documentary evidence. To this day, nothing has
been done to Mr. Akpabio. He continues to serve in Buhari’s cabinet.
* Aisha Buhari blew the lid off the fact that despite almost
₦10 billion budgeted for the State House Clinic under Buhari, the
facility could not even boast of paracetamol or a working x-ray machine.
Are Nigerians to blame for this blatant corruption?
”Despite the alleged NHIS ₦10 billion scandal which the
government’s own auditors exposed, those indicted have not been charged
or prosecuted.
How could the former Chief of Army Staff, General Buratai have
been able to afford properties in Dubai on his official and legitimate
salary?
Now, I ask Nigerians, if you were Transparency International,
would you rate Nigeria as a nation that is serious in fighting
corruption, when the government of Nigeria is yet to explain why they
have allowed the 20 infractions listed above to go unpunished, and even
sometimes to reward those behind these acts of corruption?
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