Femi Aborisade's Blog

The continued violent attacks on  Charley Boy , # ResumeOrResign # and the # OurMumuDonDo # movements have shown clearly that under the APC-controlled Federal Government, Nigeria’s so called democracy, which is intolerant of dissent, has collapsed.

SUMMARIZED COMPUTATION OF MONETARY VALUE IN THE CHARGES IN THE CBN CASES PENDING BEFORE THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT, IBADAN, INVOLVING ALLEGATIONS OF CURRENCY MUTILATION SCAM IN THE COURSE OF BRIQUETTING EXERCISES IN SUIT Nos FHC/IB/31C – 37C/2015 .

INTRODUCTION Permit me to thank the leadership of the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, for inviting me to share ideas on the all important theme of today’s discourse – perpetual hearings and delayed justice on corruption cases in Nigeria: Causes, effects and ways forward. The topic, it must be admitted, is very wide in scope. A meaningful discussion can be undertaken only if the individual discussant restricts his/her inputs to a small aspect of the topic. For this reason, I have chosen to examine the topic, using the suits involving some bank workers (in CBN and six other banks) as a case study. The suits involving these bank workers are usually reported in the media under various captions such as “CBN Currency mutilation scam/fraud”.  

"‎It is really the crude manner by which the security agency(ies), as the case may be, went about the invasion that is wrong. From constitutional provisions, nothing stops anti graft agencies from bringing to book, by following due process, any person, public officer or not, in the alleged commission of a crime, where the relevant control bodies, such as the NJC fails, neglects or refuses to exercise disciplinary control. But the failure of NJC to act does not justify SSS/DSS from usurping the roles of regular Police and/or the anti graft agencies created MORE OR less out of the NPF. The reported roles of the DSS/SSS MERELY CONFIRM that the invasion is more a political act of impunity rather than a demonstration of commitment to the fight against corruption. A regime that elects to be deaf and dumb to allegations of corruption by relations-dominated cabinet should not be applauded when it humiliates a co-equal arm of govt. The repression of Supreme Court justices by the EXECUTIVE ...

At the 2016 Annual General Conference of the NBA, the  newly elected  NBA President  Abubakar  Mahmood, in his personal capacity, ad vocated that the EFCC should be stripped of its prosecutorial powers . The EFCC leadership has angrily reacted to that proposal and resorted to a  generalized attack  against lawyers, calling them  “rogues and vultures”. Leaving aside the undesirable  intolerance and  personal attacks  against the NBA president and lawyers by  the EFCC  leadership , the real issue thrown up by the NBA President is: what should be the desired architecture  of the  relationship between

The APC-led Federal Government has demonstrated beyond doubt that it lacks the perspectives, programme, policies and capacity to take Nigeria out of crushing poverty to a life of comfort. The pronouncements and actions of Government have conclusively confirmed that under the APC-led Federal Government, pit of poverty into which the PDP threw Nigeria would be deepened rather than being attenuated. The central programme of genuine change required in Nigeria today is a programme directed at bringing about income redistribution, by which looted resources would be seized from the Nigerian rotten wealthy class and placed at improving the living standards of ordinary people. A programme of income redistribution in the context of Nigeria today would involve: