Did anyone reading this report not just laugh himself/herself silly? What a bogus charge! The alleged diversion of $2.9b incapacitated the country's ability to deal with the "insurgency"! How much was the entire defense budget of Nigeria in the past six years?
Does Buhari not know that huge sums of money are misappropriated in the public sector annually? Is he unaware of the fact, that most of the money he used to finance his last presidential campaign came from misappropriated funds, from states such as Rivers State?
That state's corrupt political ally of Buhari as governor, Amaechi, stole public funds that were meant to pay the salaries of state employees and handed the money over to the Buhari campaign. Amaechi is now a Federal Minister, under Buhari. It is his reward for the grand larceny.
Meanwhile, Buhari, upon coming into office, pretended that he was outraged, by the fact that state employees were owed several months in salaries. He proceeded to play the grand and deceptive Father Christmas to the states, by getting Federal funds to pay off the outstanding salaries. He claimed that the money actually came, from funds that were meant to be distributed to the states. However, that said nothing about the fact that he was instrumental to what amounted to double billing: a fraud.
Does Buhari not know that his comrades in the Nigerian military, when it was running an illegal military junta, routinely looted public treasuries? Some of them are now millionaires and political gods in Abuja. Does he know about the millions of dollars that went missing, when he was running the petroleum ministry?
No: corruption did nothing to incapacitate the war against the criminally insane Boko Haram. Corruption has been factored into public budgets, since General Buhari and his military comrades, institutionalized what I have called the Ethic of the Loot in Nigeria in the 1970's. I refer to the ethic, by which political leaders (legal and illegal), fully supported by the citizens of Nigeria have viewed the national wealth, as a pile of loot to be plundered.
Democratic accountability should have led to a systematic repudiation of the ethic, but it has not. Why? It has not, because the people and their elected officials really do not want to end it. The money that funds the ethic as far as public administration and finance go, comes from the oil-producing areas of the country, which are populated by minorities.
The Nigerian population, overall, and their elected officials are convinced, that they can always oppress the minorities, with all sorts of strategies, designed to perpetuate the economic injustice perpetrated on the minority populations, in the name of national unity.
Meanwhile, even President Jonathan from the oil-producing area was not bold enough, to challenge the status quo, partly because he was sold both on the primacy of national unity, and on the idea that in order to win a reelection, he had to be obsequious to the North, which produced the political characters (including General Buhari) that established the Ethic of the Loot.
Of course, he was wrong. He needed to make demands on the Nigerian state. He needed to ensure that those demands were met, with real programs and policies, which addressed the economic injustice, considering the fact that Nigeria is sustained by the oil wealth from the Niger Delta. The oil-producing states, should have given the Federal Government a set of take-it-or-leave it demands, during the Jonathan presidency.
For instance, there is no good reason, why at the end of the Jonathan presidency, most of the so-called oil blocs, should still be owned by northern Nigerians, some of whom used looted public funds to acquire the oil blocs. Note that the looted funds are themselves stolen from revenues accruing from oil sales.
Overall, therefore, the charges against Dasuki are themselves fraudulent, and bogus. Buhari's Aso Rock does not abhor corruption. It merely uses a farcical war against corruption to victimize political enemies.
