PART TWO (continued from 21/10/17).
BUHARISM AND THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW
CONFLICT OF INTEREST, THE ABUSE OF OFFICE AND THE CANNIBALIZATION OF THE FUTURE
"The police should relate with the public, but not as in partnering to establish a broadcaster, buy the police operational vehicles, build barracks, doing actual business together as pooling resources together to do business, doing such other dirty deals, save training and development, payment of their salaries by private citzens who of course, without mincing words are thieves, amongst them those still stealing the nation blind, and the ex-robbers, ex-drug pushers, ex-kidnappers who have now veered into seeming legitimate businesses."
The reason why rents keep sky-rocketing in that country; the reason why the cost of transportation - commuting both intra and inter-state is so prohibitive is because police are the landlords and transporters, both junior and senior ranks in addition to being the ignominious owners of hotels, motels, travellers lodges and restaurants which offer hideouts for hardened criminals in Nigeria - this cuts across the police, the military and para-military - the customs are there to seize all goods, both legally imported and contraband, using deceptive strategies to sell them, just as that opportunistic latter day Apostle of restructuring, Atiku Abubakar used to do in his days as a customs and excise officer - Atiku would announce the sale of seized cars that there would be sold in say, Kano on a given day, but would later come up with public announcement, the sales had been postponed, whilst asking members of the public to be on the look out for a new date, Atiku would move with his gang to another city, where all his gang members would buy virtually all the cars on his behalf!
Now that Atiku is warming up for 2019, can someone whisper into his ears that JOHN ODEY ADUMA will like to record for posterity what the Waziri Adamawa did with the privatization of the national utilities...or should I say: what did Turaki and Olusegun Obasanjo did with the privatization of our national commons, regarding who bought what, when, where, why and how much?
And to prove to Nigerians, the world and posterity that the PRIVATIZATION EXERCISE was transparent all through and through, from the beginning to the end, and to stop the doubting THOMASES from peeping over Atiku's bedroom windows, so he can have a good sleep and store up a great deal of energy for the 2019 race, which the Turaki has kicked off in style through his gambit restructuring theology, it may not be a bad idea for Atiku to cause the list of all the public utilities sold to be published publicly - put in the public domain by way of having a website devoted to it, taking cognizance of the 5Ws+H above.
But why should Mallam Daura beam his searchlight on a fellow General and former boss, and a former para-military topnotch and a kinsman of his? Aren't the thieves and the rogues and the crooks and the corrupt the OPPOSITE PEOPLE!
Many police in Nigeria are going about with torn uniforms, wear sandals, sleepers, canvass, not exactly trainers, the made in Nigerian type when going to make arrest; many police in Nigeria usually run out of their ramshackled/make-shift pako houses (houses made of woods, smelling like corpses) because they cannot leave any moey for the daily upkeep of their suffering families, hence they go out hunting for bribes whilst on duty, and in a sort of transferred aggression explode on innocent citizens, who most of the time got killed over the slightest social argument - such as: "
"Na me you dey talk to like that? I dey talk and you dey answer me back.
"Na so you dey talk to ya papa at home?
Abi you dey mad or you no know the person you dey talk to like that?"
Before you know it, a slap across the faces of their victims, all because the police in Nigeria do carry the sorry state of their welfare and the general helplessness of their families, which is the direct result of their diminished responsibility back home, coupled with their generally limited education.
Every police man you see on Nigeria street see themselves as fanancial nkwekwe (South Africa for a man that had not undergone the rite of passage, who is in fact, not a man, but a mere eunuch) as it applies to virtually all the Nigerian police of lower ranks - financial eunuchs.
Sending hungry, angry and very frustrated police to face the public on daily basis is like letting loose all the predators in the wild - lions, tigers, hyenas, cheetahs, bears, etc to roam freely on the streets of the republic.
Some police in Nigeria as well as other security-orientated personnel steal to feed their families, some can't send their children to school, others who had their children in school have withdrawn them because they can't afford the school feeds.
These are some of the reasons for the very unsual anger generally displayed in public spaces by the nation's uniformed men and women, where in most cases such explosive outrage end up in violent clashes between them and their so-called bloody civilian compatriots, consequent upon unnecessary deaths of the civilians, and sometimes on both sides of the divide.
The killing spree that goes on in that country as perpetrated by the uniformed men against their civilian compatriots, and sometimes between one uniformed person and another are to pschoanalytically be explained as acting outside of their external locus of control, arising from the pent up emotions and the pervasive hardships affecting every Nigerian today, save the crooks in high places including those in THE NATIONAL HOUSE OF SHARING MONEY.
What it means is that all Nigerians are hungry, including the uniformed men and women, but they tend to resort to power show, displaying a very usual and extreme form of aggression because they reason very wrongly that the uniforms they wear confer on them a special and a higher status/advantage within the Nigerian society than their bloody civilian fellow citizens.
This is what is called tranferred aggression borne out of a delusion of grandeur.
And faced with the same zero welfare problem, those at the top indulge in supplying official weapons to armed robbers, enlist themselves in the chains of kidnappers alongside all the Evans that country currently boast of together with some palace idiots, who form part of the kidnapping chain, including their encouragement of and involvement in other heinous crimes that aboud in that country.
These should be the concern of the IGP and his bosses at the Presidency and not having a broadcaster.
In most cases as it concerns the police, the top ranks supply VIPs, the palace crooks, multinational companies, indigenous companies, MDs/CEOs of companies and Nigerian diaspora visiting homes with their personnel for mouth-watery sums of money tranferred into their private bank accounts through third parties.
The military on their part used to do that at a point and I had to take it up with the late General Muhammadu Balarabe Haladu, who first was the Commandant of the Northern Defence Academy, erroneously called the Nigerian Defence Academy (the NDA), and later Minister of Industry, and a member of the General Sani Abacha Provisional Ruling Council, and this was discussed at the highest level of the military, whereupon the rubbish was stopped. Then soldiers in khaki used to be the faces at social occasions/gatherings - parties, weddings, launches, etc, acting as security guards, controlling traffic at such social occasions.
In the past many well meaning Governments, especially those of Mobolaji Johnson and Lateef Jakande Kayode had tried to control rent, but it would not work because most of the landlords then were police officers - and until this day, many a police officer and some of their equally thieving other-ranks are in fact, the landlords. And pegging down fares in cities and even in villages throughout Nigeria have not been successful at any epoch because the vehicles are either owned by police, military/para and some politicians, just as the majority of the buildings in Nigeria's towns and cities are owned by these crooks.
The police should relate with the public, but not as in partnering to establish a broadcaster, buy the police operational vehicles, build barracks, doing actual business together as pooling resources together to do business, doing such other dirty deals, save training and development, payment of their salaries by private citzens who of course, without mincing words are thieves, amongst them those still stealing the nation blind, and the ex-robbers, ex-drug pushers, ex-kidnappers who have now veered into seeming legitimate businesses.
If the IGP can do hourly checks on his commissioners and his Inspectors, he will discover that out of ten, he will get 0/10, NOT ON SEAT ANSWERS because his senior 'worms' and rogues who pass for commissioners of Police and Inspectors are in board room meetings as MDs/CEOs of their private companies, some in offices chasing LPOs, rasing invoices for the inferior goods they had supplied, which in most cases were forcefully seized during operations they generally referred to as "raiding" from traders at Alaba, Onitsha, Kano markets and elswhere, borders inclusive, from the hapless traders. The same applies to all the military arms and the para-military, everywhere and at borders/ all around Nigeria!
***To be continued.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Odey Aduma was formely Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria; Southern Coordinator of President Muhammadu Buhari's pastoralists NGO - THE PASTORAL RESOLVE; Chairman, Editorial Board of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc; member, National Committee for the Nigerian Youth Festival, 1993; member, core Committee of the National Tecnology Summit and was the Summit's chairman for two of its sub-committees - Publicity and Exhibition, 1998; member of the Administrative Panel of Inquiry set up by President Olusegun Obasanjo to investigate the illegal trade in and smuggling of endagered species of wild fauna and flora into and out of Nigeria, 2003.
He was the Chairman, Planning Committee of the General Murtala Muhammed Memorial Lecture for two consecutive years, 2001 and 2002 before it attained a Foundation status in 2002, having first been upgraded to that status in 2001. General Murtala Muhammed was one of Nigeria's former Heads of State and was killed in the abortive coup led by the then Colonel Buka Suka Dimka on February 13, 1976.
That same capacity saw Mr Aduma delivering huge succcesses during the Daily Times of Nigeria's 75th Anniversary (in which he raked in N6, 000, 000 into the coffers of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc) and also, playing a similar role in a similar capacity during Dr Isma'il Babatunde Jose's 75th Birth Day. Dr Jose, doyen of Nigerian journalism was Mr Aduma's personal mentor. That relationship was so close and solid such that whilst Aduma was leaving the shores of Nigeria for Britain in 2003, Dr Jose gave him N10, 000.00.
In 1992, Mr Aduma's contributions to journalism was recognised with the awards of the Nigeria Media Merit Award as the Investigative Reporter of the Year and the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence as the Reporter of the Year, and also, the British Chevening Scholarship, which saw him studying International Journalism at City University of London in 2003-2004, with specialism in Environment.
Aduma is the author of the inspirational best-seller, THE DIAMONDS ARE HERE and the founder of Vigilance, the World's Leading Security Magazine and Scorpion News Corp, in addition to founding the Nationalists Unity Movement of Nigeria (NUMON).
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