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15 Jan
WHEN BABANGIDA SEIZED POWER ON AUGUST 27, 1985, the Buy Valium Leeds 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 Valium Leeds termination of his misrule, General Babangida, Osoba argues, had injected ‘an Buy Valium Leeds intolerably high level of cumulative devaluation and inflation in the national currency and Buy Valium Leeds economy’ by increasing the Buy Valium Leeds money in circulation through the printing of currency to N100.5 billion.
Even if the Buy Valium Leeds answer to the economic crisis surpassed him, Babangida found an answer to Buy Valium Leeds the lack of sufficient naira to fund his self-perpetuating project. His regime resorted to Buy Valium Leeds what Dr. Osoba described as ‘the sheer orgy of printing of currency notes.’
In a Buy Valium Leeds cover story in April 1992, which provoked the Babangida regime to Buy Valium Leeds shut down all the media empire, the Concord Press, owned by his friend, Bashorun MKO Abiola, Dapo Olorunyomi, who Buy Valium Leeds later became the Chief of Staff to Nuhu Ribadu, noted that Buy Valium Leeds 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 Valium Leeds most recondite passion of kindness, but could also show transcendental acts of cruelty, treachery, and Buy Valium Leeds avarice.’
However, corruption, and Buy Valium Leeds 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 Valium Leeds 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 Valium Leeds Pius Okigbo Panel of Inquiry into the operations of the Buy Valium Leeds Central Bank accounts under Babangida. The Okigbo Panel report reportedly implicated Babangida in the Buy Valium Leeds disappearance of the $12. 4 billion that Buy Valium Leeds accrued to Nigeria from the 1990 Gulf War oil windfall – the Buy Valium Leeds matter for which Keeling was deported. However, the report was never publicly released. Abacha must have Buy Valium Leeds held it as a weapon to hold his endlessly scheming and Buy Valium Leeds dangerously mischievous retired comrade-in-arms on leash.
The Abacha regime also instituted the Buy Valium Leeds 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 Valium Leeds news magazine described as ‘Plundering and Looting Unlimited’. The infantry general, his close officials, family members and Buy Valium Leeds cronies ‘turned state power into a weapon for stealing the nation blind’. By the Buy Valium Leeds 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 Valium Leeds 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 Valium Leeds condemning and acting against corruption and deception under generals Babangida and Buy Valium Leeds Abacha, Obasanjo, as president, also pursued with messianic zeal the recovery of Abacha’s loot.
Perhaps it Buy Valium Leeds is a cruel irony. But when Chief Sunday Afolabi, President Obasanjo’ssenior in high school and Buy Valium Leeds later his minister of internal affairs, in a moment of indiscretion, said his colleague in the Buy Valium Leeds cabinet and political rival, Chief Bola Ige, had been called to Buy Valium Leeds ‘come and eat’ in the Buy Valium Leeds Obasanjo government, he was imposing an epithet on the Obasanjo administration that Buy Valium Leeds was similar in its devastating implications to what was imposed on the Buy Valium Leeds Babangida regime by Obasanjo – eight years earlier.
For the Buy Valium Leeds now late Afolabi, public office in Nigeria was an eatery to Buy Valium Leeds 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 Valium Leeds bush and weeds which it so much resembles, taking the Buy Valium Leeds goodness from the soil and suffocating the growth of plants which have Buy Valium Leeds been carefully, and expensively bred and tended.’
Alhaji Bashir Tofa, the Buy Valium Leeds presidential candidate of the National Republican Convention (NRC), who Buy Valium Leeds was unofficially defeated by Bashorun Moshood Abiola, the candidate of the Buy Valium Leeds 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 Valium Leeds masses depend on corrupt officials to earn their livelihood’. Corruption in Nigeria, said the Buy Valium Leeds politician, has gone beyond the ‘issue of greed, it Buy Valium Leeds is now a disease. People who steal have no sense of proportion because there is Buy Valium Leeds corruption everywhere.’
The perceptive anti-graft musician, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, had Buy Valium Leeds used the metaphor of the intersection at Ojuelegba, on the Lagos Mainland, where Buy Valium Leeds there was neither traffic lights, nor a traffic warden, to illustrate the Buy Valium Leeds confusion that arises when there are neither rules nor rule-enforcers.
Sings Fela: ‘With this Buy Valium Leeds 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 Valium Leeds present confusion, the police are implicated, the Army is implicated. Who will then Buy Valium Leeds solve the problem? ....Confusion breaks bones, doesn’t it?] In the song, ‘Confusion Break Bone’, Fela concludes with the Buy Valium Leeds parable of a corpse which is involved in an automobile accident. His musical verdict was that Buy Valium Leeds 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.












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