Why are governments reluctant to leave office in Africa and why GEJ act of accepting defeat following an election will be an aberration.
Fear of retribution and the need to survive is the driving force. Politicians in Africa are a dog eat dog bunch and have no sense of history or misinterpret history. The manner of the attempted arrest of Dusuki the immediate past NSA and just now the CSO to GEJ is troubling and the consequences far reaching. If you leave office, it must not be in your own volition. If APC intends to pursue its political opponents this way, they must guarantee their own future electoral victories. As Azikiwa once famously said, "no condition is permanent" and no one but Buhari must be aware of this life lesson.
The only way to embed the fight against corruption is to encourage independent institutional action. The fight must be on standing order and not at the behest of current political leaders. If the fight is institutional and the fighters are civil servants and process led then it will be accepted to all and sundry. If you arrest former PDP governors for misuse of security votes APC former governors must also account for their security votes. Amechi bought a private jet while governor and Buhari used the jet during the election campaign. He, Amechi must account for his stewardship.
The North produced most of the political leadership during the first Republic and were logically the most victims of the coup in 1966 yet the charge against the coup plotters were that Ibos from the East were not represented in the blood letting, easily forgetting they were not at the helm of national leadership.
The point being our fight against corruption is politicalised and therefore doomed to failure. The fight is discriminatory and illogical. OBJ used the EFCC mainly against his political opponents. The fight has been on ad hoc basis not structural. There is no need for EFCC use the police CID, create special units to fight against politically exposed persons as they do in South Africa with their scorpion unit but within the police structure. No special court but have procedural rules for special cases. This way we all shout thief, thief and not just at persons who steal goats and chickens but also billions of Naira.
I highly recommend this suggestion otherwise we will continue to chase our shadows.
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