The Tale Of The Sixteen Governors

By Tajudeen A. Tijjani

NEWSDAILYNIGERIA: Sixteen elected Governors of the Federal Republic of Nigeria have reportedly taken the Economic Financial Crime’s to court asking for its banishment. Their angers are that there are constitutional flaws in its establishment several years ago, that needs to be corrected.
Media reports alleged that the sixteen musketeers claimed they now noticed lacunas in the enabling law while establishing the agency and want the court to come in and effect changes or order the Commission to go.
Now that the new Emperors have discovered the lacuna, what are their fears?
They should tell the nation, their mission having waited for that long period to know of this, only when they became governorß. Are they now working to protect their loots after office, and looking for comfortable landing?
Some of this questions are important, because, they kept silent for so long, only for them to know wake up from slumber. They are now in fear of tomorrow, that has not come. They are working for an escape route after immunity.
The story of some of our elected leaders since the Third Republic have become a period of regrets for the country. The level of corruption amongst those entrusted with our lives are much of regrets. The numbers of names of our past leaders within the period before the ant graft agencies is alarming and there is no hope for a change, but this present administration, especially the law makers should come up with a stringent law against corruption and the corrupt in the society. Without any action on how to fight corruption in this country, the fate of generation yet unborn is unclear. Although, there are allegations that many of those lawmakers, both at the States and National Assembly are twins in the act of indiscipline.
Years ago, a retired AIG of Police, who later became an elected Senator, Dabo Aliyu shocked the nation, when he reportedly said that large numbers of those at the Red Chambers have cases before the police. The scenario have continued and nobody is ready to say anything to save the country.
Before he became the elected President of Nigeria, former President Muhammadu Buhari told this reporter in his house in Kaduna,” If Obasanjo administration has not achieve anything in governance, I gave them kudos for establishing the EFCC, and we are going to strengthen it, when we come to power”. Unfortunately, in the eight years of Buhari, the EFCC became only a barking dog. Recently, a newspaper quoted the EFCC chairman of alleging that under the immediate past government,the nation lost more than N2.9 trillion naira to contract fraud”.
The sixteen governors that went to court wanted the agency to be scrapped, probably, because they were out to add to their loots., or how do you want such an organisation out of the way, for no reason. If they are honest, they as Governors should present before the National Assembly, a private bill and asked the law makers to give more lawful power to the ant graft agencies, but they chooses to approach the court .