Good news, court jails Bode George, five others
What good news!!! Finally the courts have come up with something good. A Lagos High Court, presided over by Justice Joseph Oyewole has found Chief Olabode George, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, guilty of fraud during his tenure as chairman of the board of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). George and five of his cohorts were found guilty on 40-count charge and sentenced to two and a half years each in prison without an option of fine.
This is the must cheering news in this era of institutionalised corruption that has besieged this nation
those of us that thought that the military was corrupt have been shamed by the brazen thievery that has characterised the last ten years of democracy in Nigeria. Governors have made no distinction between their private accounts and the accounts of the state governments. They stole and stole till they left office. The Governors that replace them have not been any better.
The theft that is going is simply impossible to manage.
The people of the country have been left impoverished and traumatised. The poverty level is so high that almost every sector of the polity is oozing out some terrible stench. Governors and government officials have simply acted as 410 scammers.
But what did we really expect? If these people could steal the right of the people to vote what other property of the people would they not steal?
The courts have done well therefore by jailing Ali Baba and company (Olabode George etal) for their actions while they were to serve the people. Of course there are more Ali Babas roaming about in the country. I am yet to recover from the shock that the security agencies left a two time convicted common thief rule this country for eight years as Governor. I don’t believe that there is nothing that can be done. In filling his INEC forms to contest elections, the former Governor was asked to state whether he had ever been convicted. It is obvious that he perjured himself by saying no. Now that evidence has emerged that he was once convicted and he lied about it, he can be taken in for perjury, and I believe, forgery. That the Attorney General,and Minister of Justice, and the police force as well as the INEC have kept quite over this International scandal means that they were accomplices either before or after the act or are hiding more people who should be in jail rather than in the corridors of power. Why would the international community take Nigeria seriously when such revelations are made and the appropriate government agencies fail to take action?
And how about the judges that have prevented some of these Governors from investigation? Should they not resign honourably? Are they happy that this nation is being destroyed by their actions?
