The Buhari You Dont know - By Aisien Doubra Frank . Please note that this is not to drag support for Goodluck Jonathan , but to let Nigerians know to truth. I will presennt the Facts , you be the Judge!!! Facts to be noted. *. Buharis crimes against the Nigerian nation included curtailing freedom of expression. Even the vibrant Nigerian media was not spared this rights abridgment as public discussions of a return to democratic rule were forbidden. To him, such issues are non-issues and he expects Nigerians to sweep them under the carpet and move on as if we all suffer from collective amnesia. *. The draconian laws of Buhari regime, exemplified by Decree 20 under which the judicial murder of Nigerian citizens, Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) was permitted. Ogedengbe, particularly, was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital punishment at the time it was committed. This was an unconscionable crime, carried out in defiance of the pleas and protestations of nearly every sector of the Nigerian and international community. Buhari, years later, was summoned before the Oputa Panel to answer to a litany of gross abuses of power and blatant assaults on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry; but he refused to appear. Till now, he has neither shown remorse for his indiscretions nor apologized for that criminal misdeed for which he ought to have been tried upon leaving office. *. Selective treatment he meted out to politicians of Southern extraction upon taking power. Stories were told about how Alhaji Shehu Shagari whom he overthrew as Head of State was kept in cozy house arrest in Ikoyi and prominent Northerners like Umaru Dikko and National Secretary of his party, the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), Uba Ahmed, were allowed to escape to freedom overseas. Paradoxically, prominent Southerners like Shagaris powerless Vice President Alex Ekwueme, was locked up in Kirikiri prisons. A preponderance of the 500 odd politicians, officials and businessmen whom his regime tried and rolled out jail sentences that were twice their life and times, were mostly Southerners or scapegoats that played peripheral roles in the government he accused of waste and corruption. The big boys walked away into exile or were handed light sentences. It was the same selective treatment on the basis of ethnicity when he headed the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), with a certain area of Nigeria favored in choice allocations of projects. *. Since his foray into politics, he has built the essence of his aspiration for the presidency of this country solely on the high ground of moral rectitude; but he had long failed that test by the hypocritical manner he handled the 53 suitcases, believed to have been stuffed with currency, at a time he had closed Nigerias air, sea and land borders for a change of the national currency. Under Buharis watch, not only were those 53 prominent camels allowed to pass through that needle’s eye that was the air-tight national borders, he personally dispatched his Aide-De-Camp, Major Mustapha Jokolo, to oversee the easy passage of those suitcases to their owner in the north. It was the height of irresponsibility and impunity. Till now his promise to banish corruption and institute discipline in national affairs if elected president is seen simply as empty campaign rhetoric. *. Buhari in 2001 said: “Sharia should be introduced in full across Nigeria…I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria…God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country… It is a legal responsibility which God has given us, within the context of one Nigeria, to continue to uphold the practice of Sharia wholeheartedly and to educate non-Muslims that they have nothing to fear…What remains for Muslims in Nigeria is for them to redouble their efforts, educate Muslims on the need to promote the full implementation of Sharia law.” – Former Military Head of State, Gen. (Rtd) Muhammadu Buhari, speaking in Kaduna at a seminar organized by the Supreme Council of Sharia in Nigeria, August 2001 Curiously, Buhari, because of presidential polls coming in 2015, now says he is not an Islamic fundamentalist that his opponents were out to malign him, indirectly is lying and deploying what come commentators called, “Holy Deception”, to retrieve power from infidels like incompetent and clueless President Goodluck Jonathan. *. He also moved to silence critics of his administration, passing decrees curbing press freedoms and allowing for opponents to be detained up to three months without formal charges. He also banned strikes and lockouts by workers and founded Nigerias first secret police force, the National Security Organization. His government sentenced popular musician and political critic Fela Kuti to ten years in prison on charges that Amnesty International denounced as fabricated and politically motivated; Kuti was later pardoned and released by Buharis successo. (TO BE CONTINUED)
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 13:25:17 +0000
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