Has steam just gone out of the sail of the EFCC as a result of the Dr. Maikanti Baru Imbroglio? The Maikanti Baru rebuttal about contractual-award procedures and the “reconciliation meetings” between Ibe Kachikwu and Maikanti Baru that we hear of everywhere is a sign that something actually went wrong; yet, in the face of all of these the EFCC has chosen a convenient diversion by threatening to close the bank accounts of deceased and illiterate Nigerians who could not be captured in the Bank Verification Number (BVN) scheme and re-route these account credits in favour of the Federal Government. What heartlessness!
What we did not get from the EFCC are raids on the NNPC Towers and the apartment complex of Maikanti Baru; twenty six billion dollars is a huge sum of money, by African standards, to toy with and if the EFCC would just look the other way in this case then all other “corruption” cases pending should be allowed to fizzle out. After all, 2019 is just around the corner and someone should once again remind President Buhari that politics is a “dirty game;” any sitting president who desires a second term must “touch some kobos” and “spend like PDP” and “let EFCC just lie low.” This is how African politics works; like a rusty machine, it just manages to grind away somehow.
Sunday Adole Jonah,
Department of Physics,
Federal University of Technology, Minna
