BUHARI: This isn’t the CHANGE we voted for.
Double standard is a harsher and stricter attitude one has against
an individual or organization as against what he has for himself. Double
standards normally occur when there is a difference in political affiliations
of a lack of total forgiveness. Today I’m writing about the Federal Government,
high profile political and public figures and our adherence to equity, fairness
and justice.
Yakubu Dogara is the present
speaker 8th National assembly, allegations has been made and
submitted to the relevant anti graft agencies about his handling of running
costs of the national assembly or let me be specific; the fraud in the name of
running costs as alleged by a suspended member of the national assembly (who’s
on the run for fear of his life) running into hundreds of millions of our tax
payers money. If these allegations are true and the relevant authorities tasked
with handling fraudulent issues as such, are looking the other way for fear of
stepping on the feet of the power and mighty, then I’ll be ashamed as a citizen
of this country who stood under the sun and followed long queues just to bring
the desired change needed to steer this country to the right path. As I am
writing this piece, no single invitation has been sent to the Speaker formally
requesting him to clarify on the alleged issues.
A verbal allegation was
labeled against a two term former governor of Kano state and the immediate past
minister of Education Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, that the sum of N950 million
arms money was shared in his house, when has it become a crime to share money
in someone’s house? All of sudden the anti graft agencies woke up from their
sleep and swooped on the former governor, interrogated and detained him for 72
hours. While the person who implicated him verbally was granted bail based on self-recognition
as a former minister of foreign affairs, Mallam Shekarau was denied bail. What
kind of recognition does a two term former governor of a state like Kano and the immediate past minister of Education of the Federal republic needs that a
former minister of foreign affairs of the same country doesn’t? Or is it that Mallam
is the bigger fish, as such they are after the subject and not the crime? Such
double standard brings disrepute to this administration and to our democracy in
general.
As it stands today a lot of
the National assembly members are facing corruption charges either in their
states or at the federal level. Let me narrow it down to my state; Kano state,
a lot of bodies have written petitions to the relevant authorities about the
immediate past governor of the state and the senator representing Kano central
about the mismanagement of our state funds and the debt in which
he plunged our state running into hundreds of billions with nothing to show for
it, save for one completed flyover bridge and an uncompleted one. But what
happened to the petitions? Today the senator is yet to be served with a formal
invitation by the authorities, maybe the venom of the tsetse fly is still in
their system. One thing I don’t understand is, was he left out because he
belongs to the same political party with the president and even more in the
president’s good books?
This administration sang a
mantra of change during their campaign and if I am not mistaken, Change means
doing things differently, but are things now being done differently from the past?
Before the online stray dogs
and the political E-rats descend on me in defense of their pay masters, let me
set the record straight; I am and still am an ardent supporter of President
Muhammadu Buhari, but my love and support for him doesn’t mean to be silent
when the President’s un-looking game is becoming evident on things that on a normal day are supposed to
be addressed. I am a voluntary surrogate of his campaign team, I waited for
hours on the long queue under the sun to cast my vote for him and convinced
those I can to do the same, but honestly this isn’t the change i voted for.
Mustapha Garko writes from Kano
@mr_garko
