Tompolo Must Submit To The Law

‘‘Well-meaning Nigerians must imbibe true national conscience (not personal conscience) that will ultimately salvage the country from the present rot, decay and insanity…It is true sense of national conscience that will yank Nigerians free from the merciless trap we find ourselves’’ – Quoted in Nowinta’s book, 2009: WHERE WE ARE (page 165 )

Pebbles with Igbotako Nowinta

Who says President Muhammadu Buhari is not on the right track as he has bared his fangs to fight corruption to a logical conclusion?

Even in the midst of some galloping methods and approaches, the Buhari administration is living up to his campaigns promises of fighting corruption in Nigeria.

Some analysts have reasoned that he should have extended his dragnet to probe the administration of personalities like Ibrahim Babangida Sani Abacha, Abdulsalami Abubarkar, Olusegun Obasanjo and Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

My argument in this regard is that given the level of the ocean of rot and decay which corruption has swept Nigeria into regrettably, the setting up of the National Truth Commission on Corruption (NTCC) will make all looters to return their loot.

And that process will not disrupt, derail and stagger the administration from taking Nigeria to the much awaited next level.

It is indeed sickening to see how prominent personalities in Nigeria are fooling themselves before the whole world on how a chunk of the looted funds by late General Sani Abacha was wasted on frivolities and personal details.

Why on earth would characters like Tony Anenih, Fani Kayode, Olisa Metuh and the others not be made to account for their negative roles in the squandering of our collective commonwealth in the name of the arms deal scandal, in which Sambo Dasuki positioned himself as the ATM of the Jonathan campaigns funding?

Even if some of us are calling for a National Truth Commission on Corruption, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) must be allowed to shake those that have helped to ruin and plunder our nation to confess and cough out the money they ate?

That is the only way that a new lease of life can be allowed to prevail in the polity. Who says any individual is bigger than the Federal Republic of Nigeria, no matter the size of his or her bulging cheeks and pockets?

Who says some miscreants that dug up staggering fortunes for themselves in the name of militancy in the Niger Delta are bigger than the laws of the land?

Is it possible for a character like Ekpemupolo also known as Government Tompolo who amassed mountains of dollars under the senile tactics of ex-president Goodluck Jonathan to run from justice under the present dispensation?

I don’t think it is possible? If the likes of Olisa Metuh, Raymond Dokpesi, and a league of ex-governors and other political and military hawks could bow and made themselves available for questioning, who does Government Tompolo thinks he is?

Government Tompolo should realize quickly that oil is no longer a trump card to be played as a weapon to weaken his desperate bid to escape justice; he should face reality and adjust himself to the fact that every day is for the thief, but one day for the owner of the house.

Government Tompolo must not waste further time to produce himself as it has been directed by a competent court in our land.

The fact of the matter is that militancy or whatever his cohorts are doing in the creeks recently is no longer fashionable.

This is a time for accountability, justice and progress! Certainly not for unbridled banditry, rascality and insanity!

This is one of the reasons why the conveners of Development Alliance of the Niger Delta (DAND) are calling for a holistic appraisal for the speedy and focused development of the proverbial goose (region) that lays the golden eggs.

Nowinta wrote: Where We Are – A Call for Democratic Revolution in Nigeria