As the chief justice can see, the military has been in charge for almost two-thirds of the 46 years Nigeria has been independent. Today, millions of Nigerians are suffering the effects of the corruption, ineptitude, wantonness and stagnation associated with years of military rule. So what are the maladies in our national development that the military came to solve? Is it the educational system that was destroyed by IBB? Or the economy and political system that were bastardized by Babangida and Abacha? Every aspect of the nation’s life has felt the canker called military rule

What did the chief justice get for his trouble or was it merely payback for IBB’s largesse during the June 12, 1993 crisis when he (IBB) gave Mercedes Benz cars to the Justices of the Supreme Court? Thirteen years later, this is what IBB had to say about his action: “I[b] was not perturbed, when sometimes in 1993 I had cause to show grave and genuine concern for the safety and well-being of our Supreme Court Justices by providing them a substitute for their 505 Peugeot brand official vehicles to that of Mercedes Benz brand. [/b]

This simple but necessary and highly deserving and caring well-placed gesture was aimed at taking steps, within human limitation to preserve the lives of our justices.” IBB’s gesture served its purpose. It not only preserved the lives of our justices but their “integrity” as well

http://buccaneersconfraternity.org/articles/BC%20ARTICLES%20In%20Praise%20of%20Dictatorship.htm


Happy New year in advance BigB1 YOu must love this IBB man, Lol

Babangida never made any pretence about his thievery. He presided over the massive liberalization of corruption in Nigeria. His was a government of deceit and volte-face. At first, he was able to hide his depravity, under the cloaks of populist policies, and a toothy smile. He was a master of deception and dissimulation. He established so many agencies, which sounded populist, but were in fact, huge drainpipes and constructs of corruption. He had a singing canary in Jerry Gana, whom he appointed at the head of his laundry agency- MAMSER- that was a programme that was supposed to mobilize the masses for social and economic reliance. Gana was a perfect mouthpiece of a perverted master. He mass-mobilized Nigerians into poverty and silence, while his master was busy pillaging and eviscerating our commonweal. Nigerians know only one thing about the $12.2 billion dollars, oil windfall, we earned during the first Gulf war. Nigerians know, despite the lame and sterile attempts of lying cheerleaders like Omo Omoruyi, that IBB stole and squandered this money. The Pius Okigbo commission instituted by Abacha returned this verdict and indictment, which IBB has neither denied nor refuted. Nigerians equally know that he fritted away over N40 billion naira, in a transition to civil rule program, of doubtful provenance; which he designed and teleguided to fail. Nigerians equally know that the Better Life Program ran by his wife, was akin to Imelda Marcos' cosmetic shop, designed to ventilate the flamboyant tastes of the matriarch of a crooked dynasty. Babangida's boys; which is a conglomeration of all beneficiaries of his corrupt patronage, refer to him as the Prince of Minna, due to the imposing fortress of over 50 rooms he built in Minna to house his depravity, and brokenness. But Nigerians on the streets know that this guy is the King of corruption.

IBB bribed critics with offices, and money. His government was that of "criticize-me-I-corrupt-you" variety. He ran a government of settlement; creating a congress of official and elitist rogues, who are today the vanguards of his attempt to edit the history of his crimes against Nigerians, in order to smuggle this commander-and-Thief, once more, into reckoning and political relevance come 2007



http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2005/mar/311.html

This are are powerful words about the toothless general of our time

Another very important front for this war on corruption, which would send a tsunamic signal to all and sundry, that thieves can run, but cannot hide, is the issue of past Heads of States. Ibrahim Babangida and the Abacha Matriarchal dynasty should be brought before the law. The Zambians are presently arraigning former President Frederick Chiluba for corruption. Corruption is a criminal offence, and is not statute barred. Equity and jurisprudence can never confer or extend immunity to a thief, a criminal, a felon or a public enemy. Equity never allows anybody to be a beneficiary of his crime. IBB and the Abachas have been the beneficiaries of their crimes for so long. We should make atonement to our posterity, by sacrificing them to the law. They bled Nigeria dry. They should be forced to haemorrhage and regurgitate those stolen monies back to our national coffers. If convicted, they should go "enjoy" the rest of their lives in jail for their destruction of the future of Nigerians.


What these guys did was not as simplistic as stealing huge chunks of cash. Any bunch of petty crooks staking out a major bank can do just that, like the heist on a Northern Ireland Bank recently brings home to us. They stole resources that could have been dedicated to providing, and servicing a functional social system like education, health, transportation and communication, and other things. Today, the educational system is such a bankrupt arrangement, that many Nigerians cannot go to school due to lack of funds. Our universities are perpetually starved of funds that could spell functionality and good education for Nigerian youths. Our hospitals are simply places where Nigerians go to die. Power generation is epileptic and simply non-existent in so many places. Industries and small businesses that are dependent on power supply simple shrivel and die, as operation costs gallops away. Unemployment is then compounded, when these business throw up their former employees into the unemployment pool.