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WHEN BABANGIDA SEIZED POWER ON AUGUST 27, 1985, the buy ativan singapore country owed $12 billion. The squandering regime raised the national debt to $33 billion in only about six years. When he hijacked power, only N11.8 billion naira was in circulation in Nigeria. At the buy ativan singapore termination of his misrule, General Babangida, Osoba argues, had injected ‘an buy ativan singapore intolerably high level of cumulative devaluation and inflation in the national currency and buy ativan singapore economy’ by increasing the buy ativan singapore money in circulation through the printing of currency to N100.5 billion.
Even if the buy ativan singapore answer to the economic crisis surpassed him, Babangida found an answer to buy ativan singapore the lack of sufficient naira to fund his self-perpetuating project. His regime resorted to buy ativan singapore what Dr. Osoba described as ‘the sheer orgy of printing of currency notes.’
In a buy ativan singapore cover story in April 1992, which provoked the Babangida regime to buy ativan singapore shut down all the media empire, the Concord Press, owned by his friend, Bashorun MKO Abiola, Dapo Olorunyomi, who buy ativan singapore later became the Chief of Staff to Nuhu Ribadu, noted that buy ativan singapore Hannibal, who Babangida described as one his two key heroes – the other being Chaka, the Zulu – was ‘brilliant, witty, multilingual and deeply resilient’. However, Olorunyomi added that, Hannibal ‘was capable of the buy ativan singapore most recondite passion of kindness, but could also show transcendental acts of cruelty, treachery, and buy ativan singapore avarice.’
However, corruption, and buy ativan singapore its accompanying vices, non-transparency and non- accountability, survived the Babangida regime.
Even though he instituted a War Against Indiscipline and Corruption (WAIC) in an buy ativan singapore attempt to reclaim the anti-graft stance of the Buhari-Idiagbon regime, Babangida’s successor, General Sani Abacha surpassed the former in graft.
In what would count as one of the many ironies in Nigeria’s history, Abacha set up the buy ativan singapore Pius Okigbo Panel of Inquiry into the operations of the buy ativan singapore Central Bank accounts under Babangida. The Okigbo Panel report reportedly implicated Babangida in the buy ativan singapore disappearance of the $12. 4 billion that buy ativan singapore accrued to Nigeria from the 1990 Gulf War oil windfall – the buy ativan singapore matter for which Keeling was deported. However, the report was never publicly released. Abacha must have buy ativan singapore held it as a weapon to hold his endlessly scheming and buy ativan singapore dangerously mischievous retired comrade-in-arms on leash.
The Abacha regime also instituted the buy ativan singapore Failed Banks Tribunal which tried bank executives who had taken liberty with depositors’ and shareholders’ monies. In spite of Abacha’s apparent ‘anti-graft’ measures, his regime was one which a buy ativan singapore news magazine described as ‘Plundering and Looting Unlimited’. The infantry general, his close officials, family members and buy ativan singapore cronies ‘turned state power into a weapon for stealing the nation blind’. By the buy ativan singapore time he gave up the ghost on the laps of Indian prostitutes – as the rumour mills have it – more than US$4.3 billion were traced to buy ativan singapore 130 banks around the world to Abacha and his family members. Ismaila Gwarzo, Abacha’s National Security Adviser, alone reportedly siphoned US$2.1 billion into coded accounts in foreign countries.
Apart from buy ativan singapore condemning and acting against corruption and deception under generals Babangida and buy ativan singapore Abacha, Obasanjo, as president, also pursued with messianic zeal the recovery of Abacha’s loot.
Perhaps it buy ativan singapore is a cruel irony. But when Chief Sunday Afolabi, President Obasanjo’ssenior in high school and buy ativan singapore later his minister of internal affairs, in a moment of indiscretion, said his colleague in the buy ativan singapore cabinet and political rival, Chief Bola Ige, had been called to buy ativan singapore ‘come and eat’ in the buy ativan singapore Obasanjo government, he was imposing an epithet on the Obasanjo administration that buy ativan singapore was similar in its devastating implications to what was imposed on the buy ativan singapore Babangida regime by Obasanjo – eight years earlier.
For the buy ativan singapore now late Afolabi, public office in Nigeria was an eatery to buy ativan singapore which a select people were invited to ‘come and eat’.
R. Wraith and E. Simpkins argue that this culture of ‘come and eat’ has existed in Nigeria – like in the rest of the West coast of Africa – since independence. They contended further that this culture ‘flourishes as luxuriantly as the buy ativan singapore bush and weeds which it so much resembles, taking the buy ativan singapore goodness from the soil and suffocating the growth of plants which have buy ativan singapore been carefully, and expensively bred and tended.’
Alhaji Bashir Tofa, the buy ativan singapore presidential candidate of the National Republican Convention (NRC), who buy ativan singapore was unofficially defeated by Bashorun Moshood Abiola, the candidate of the buy ativan singapore Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the June 12, 1993 election – eventually annulled by Babangida – said in early 2009 that ‘no Nigerian can fight corruption.’ Tofa argues that corruption ‘will continue as long as the buy ativan singapore masses depend on corrupt officials to earn their livelihood’. Corruption in Nigeria, said the buy ativan singapore politician, has gone beyond the ‘issue of greed, it buy ativan singapore is now a disease. People who steal have no sense of proportion because there is buy ativan singapore corruption everywhere.’
The perceptive anti-graft musician, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, had buy ativan singapore used the metaphor of the intersection at Ojuelegba, on the Lagos Mainland, where buy ativan singapore there was neither traffic lights, nor a traffic warden, to illustrate the buy ativan singapore confusion that arises when there are neither rules nor rule-enforcers.
Sings Fela: ‘With this buy ativan singapore confusion wey e dey, police dey inside well, army dey inside well. Who go come solve dis confusion? …Confusion e breaki bone, nko?’ [‘In the buy ativan singapore present confusion, the police are implicated, the Army is implicated. Who will then buy ativan singapore solve the problem? ....Confusion breaks bones, doesn’t it?] In the song, ‘Confusion Break Bone’, Fela concludes with the buy ativan singapore parable of a corpse which is involved in an automobile accident. His musical verdict was that buy ativan singapore this translates to ‘double wahala for deadi bodi and the owner of deadi body.’ [‘double trouble for the dead and the relations of the dead.’]
It is a metaphor for his country.
From Wale Adebanwi’s A Paradise for Maggots. 2010. Pp 118 and 119.
