Nigeria: Contract Scandal - is Obasanjo Above the Law?
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The latest revelation of how was N1.9 trillion difficult to be performed in the context of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the government is in fact a nasty shock. First, its disposal to corrupt practices and frequency of anti-corruption authorities during his tenure privately. NURUDEEN ALAO QASIM is of the opinion that President Yar’Adua had a choice between protecting the public interest or risk the future of his government .. Real, democratic practice is based on the well-being, happiness and security of citizens in a certain community. When General Obasanjo was elected president in 1999, there were expectations that the new democratic order employers would be in a better life for Nigerians. The former president has been very favourable conditions for them, including a $ 18 billion debt remission, the phenomenal increase in turnover and enormous both inside and outside goodwill. Unfortunately, however, the former president of bousillé that unique opportunity to improve our lives and the future more secure. Our initial enthusiasm, who welcomed his election, has turned to despair, frustration, anger and disappointment. During the year 2001, Africa, the former CNN correspondent Jeff Koinange from Nigeria were deported after the release of a new report in which some Nigerians frankly, they preferred military so-called Rule of democratic management of former President Obasanjo, who asked her Conditions deteriorating steadily. The poor, the CNN journalist has been widely condemned as an enemy of “democracy” and attempts, the causes of discontent among citizens, even if it does not agree with the view of the Nigerian citizens, he expressed divergent views. It did not last long, many Nigerians, and admit that the Patriotic vertigo, which was crucified Koinange excessive and wrong. Eight years after the iron fist management of former President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, Niger, worse still, as regards the standard of living. Hit Our foreign exchange reserves of over 50 billion dollars, under Obasanjo, and with a debt forgiveness of $ 18 billion from the United States, former President Obasanjo had no reason not lead to high revenue available to his government. With more than 18 billion United States dollars debt relief, Nigeria has not had more than 50 percent of their annual budget for debt servicing, diverted enormous resources for the social services sector. But despite this generosity Clubs of Paris and London, the $ 18 billion debt relief has not significantly improved social services sector. Worse, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are nowhere in Nigeria and advisers of the Presidency for this project, Amina Ibrahim publicly acknowledged, the country at the slow progress in this regard. Indeed, former President Obasanjo had no excuse for failure. His fight against corruption was a crusade, public funds to ensure they were not distracted by crooks, to the detriment of national development and welfare. Many Nigerians had thought that he was innocent Obasanjo frankly on the fight against corruption crusade. But now, Nigerians know better, we are wiser than ever. Under Obasanjo, corruption has several culprits of the same offence. In other words, while some corrupt officials have been arrested and brought to justice for the prosecution, in the good books of the former president were rewarded with legal protection by the choice in the positions they can get immunity. They can not fight corruption, in which some white-collar criminals to wear a crown, and other cross for the same offence! With current shocking revelations of the House of Representatives regarding the $ 16 billion purportedly spent in the energy sector, former President Obasanjo lost all credibility, about his commitment to the fight against corruption. His two former ministers Power and Steel, Segun Agagu and Liyel Imoke, at the present time by the governors Cross River and Ondo or United, said Nigerians can be found, if it appear before the commission, who say that the power sector followed the scandal contracts One trial. Your unscrupulous lies were dismantled by the former Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (now Managing Director of the World Bank), and former director of the Budget and monitoring prices Intelligence Unit, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, also vice-president of the World Bank for Africa. In her testimony, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala acknowledged that the projects are not a trial, because the certification of former President Obasanjo grants them a waiver of the demand for electricity and steel, former Prime Minister, Mr. Liyel Imoke. To add more shocks, the former office manager of the Due Process, “said Ezekwesili not a project, but urgently, it is necessary to assess the franchise’s core certification process. She says that while they are still able, they would have called for the lifting of Imoke. If there is no intent to deceive Nigeria, why should the former president and his accomplices relinquish power to matters of contracts? Sixteen billion is not a joke, and what is the Gospel’s Obasanjo on transparency? The power sector is a scandal tip of the iceberg, since any investigation of the NNPC to bring more land can be against the former Head of State, the NNPC ran as a personal property, the allocation of oil blocks according to their whims and caprices. He has resisted all attempts in the past by the National Assembly for the implementation of control functions in the activities of the NNPC. At the end of the gene Sani Abacha, the rehabilitation projects for railways, we see the results, but former President Obasanjo arrested, damaging projects for private reasons, to go back on Abacha, even in the death! Strangely, at the end of his tenure, he led projects for Deutsche Bahn to rehabilitation checks prices 7.8 billion United States dollars, but the project is still on the earth increases. |