With the glitter of fool’s gold, Nigeria’s recently elected President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in the United States in July uttering time-worn democracy vows to President Barack Obama and his administration. Among other things, he pledged at the United States Institute for Peace to combat graft with procedures that would be “fair, just, and scrupulously follow due process and the rule of law, as enshrined in our constitution.”

Skepticism is in order—a conclusion reinforced by the ongoing persecution of of former National Security Advisor Sambo Dasuki for alleged money laundering and illegal possession of firearms.

Mr. Buhari initially tasted power as a military dictator following a coup de tat in 1983. His dictatorship was earmarked by chilling human rights abuses. Take the word of Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka.

Among other things, Mr. Soyinka highlights Mr. Buhari’s draconian edicts, exemplified by Decree 20 under which the judicial murders of Nigerian citizens Lawal Ojuolape, Bernard Ogedengbe, and Bartholomew Owoh were authorized. Mr. Obedengbe was executed for a crime that did not carry the death penalty at the time it was committed in violation of the universal revulsion of ex post facto laws.


Soyinka adds that these crimes were executed in defiance of pleas from virtually every sector of Nigeria and the international community—a grisly precedent for subsequent dictator Sani Abasha’s hanging of Ogoni activist Ken Sara-Wiwi in contempt of international opinion.

Mr. Buhari turned the nation into a slave plantation, and forbade the slaves from any discussion of their enslavement—especially a return to democracy. He  favored the north over the south, dividing rather than unifying Nigeria after the convulsions of the 1967-70 Biafran War. He lent support to the introduction of Sharia law in the North—a major source of strife and disharmony.

Mr. Buhari’s brutal military dictatorship was overthrown in 1985. Mr. Dasuki played a key role. Dictators do not forget. Fast forward to today.

After celebrating fairness, due process, and the rule of law last July to win the good will of the United States, Mr. Buhari returned to Nigeria to mock all three in a vendetta against the Dasuki, the immediate past National Security Adviser.

He placed Mr. Dasuki under house arrest. He confiscated his passport. He charged him with firearms and money laundering violations. He sought a secret trial to prevent independent scrutiny.

He opposed Mr. Dasuki’s pretrial application to the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja for permission to receive urgent medical treatment for cancer in London, but it was nonetheless granted.

Justice Adeniyi Ademola explained that an accused is presumed innocent before trial, and that a citizen’s health is paramount before the law. Mr. Buhari was ordered to release Mr. Dasuki’s international passport.

Mr. Buhari defied the order. He put Mr. Dasuki’s house under siege, a microcosm of the Bosnian Serb siege of Sarajevo. Mr. Dasuki returned to court. Justice Ademola reaffirmed his order, asserting “My own orders will not be flouted.”

Mr. Buhari has not yet budged. As a military dictator in 1985, he similarly seized the international passport of Chief Obafemi Awolowo to thwart his travel for medical treatment, which caused his death in 1987. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Much is riding on Mr. Dasuki’s case. If Mr. Buhari flouts Justice Ademola’s order with impunity, judicial independence will be fatally compromised and Nigeria’s embryonic democratic dispensation will be stillborn. The judiciary is the only branch capable of checking limitless executive power—the bane of Africa.

Members of Nigeria’s National Assembly and Senate have been reduced to playing the roles of extras in cinematic extravaganzas.

Further, President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration accepted a peaceful transfer of power to President Buhari, a laudable landmark in African politics. If Mr. Buhari is permitted with impunity to destroy his political opponents like Mr. Dasuki with tyrannical methods, peaceful transfers of power everywhere on the Continent will become problematic. The incumbents’ risk of political and personal impalement at the hands of their would-be successors will be too high.

The United States should be insisting on independent human rights observers to monitor Mr. Dasuki’s prosecution and trial, and demanding that Mr. Buhari honor his vow to follow due process and the rule of law. The stakes are too high to remain silent.


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Dasuki will not escape justice. He and every other person in the last administration that fuelled the insurgency just to create enough room to steal billions of naira will pay dearly for their crimes. Take care of Dasuki and Insurgency will soon be a thing of the past.
PMB got only one chance, either he follow the rules of law and FAIL big time or he rule with common sense/by dictatorship and bring us positive change we voted for. Though am not a lawyer but I see Nigeria constitution as a very weak law that allow anyone with money to escape justice. How could someone facing such charges running to court for approval to travel outta the country ? Why don't him " Dasuki " treat himself here in Nigeria. what happened to the National Hospital Abuja or other private health centers in Nigeria. Buhari you are free to do anything to Dasuki just put a full stop to the blood bath in the North.

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When you hear a zombie/Slave talking, you will know. One of them is asking Buhary to use "common sense dictatorship to rule him" just imagine! How did we get to this stage? Mr Lalasticlala you may wish to help us eradicate this slavery.

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Mr. Buhari turned the nation into a slave plantation, and forbade the slaves from any discussion of their enslavement—especially a return to democracy.


I want the Slaves to quote me!

The honeymoon is over.

Buhari dupe them of what? Have their own president fulfil every promise he made to them?
If U.S. claimed they have been duped by buhari what will we Nigerians say buhari do to us and them who also promise to help fight boko n did not nko

This Washingtontimes no deh tire nowadays

Abi na naija case dem seat down on top nowadays....

Almost every day........


#somethingsmellsfishy

Meanwhile, Obama is playing the ostrich on ISIS.

The Muslim shill has since stopped getting any Intel briefs on ISIS and all designated Islamic Terrorist groups.

I am predicting that this failure will be impeached and jailed before his tenure runs out in 2016.

Obama Is Flat Out Refusing to Hear Intel on Islamic Terror Groups
Nov. 19, 2015
Host of Full Measure and investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson dropped a bombshell of information today during an interview with Steve Malzberg. 

According to sources close to the White House who Attkisson has spoken to, President Obama is now flat out refusing to accept or hear about intelligence surrounding radical Islamic terror groups.

"I have talked to people who have worked in the Obama administration who firmly believe he has made up his mind, I would say closed his mind, they say, to the intelligence they try to bring him about various groups he does not consider terrorists even if they're on the U.S. list of designated terrorists," Attkisson said. "I don't know the reasoning for it I’ve only been told by those who have allegedly attempted to present him or been in the circle that has attempted to present him with certain intelligence that they said he doesn’t want it, he said he doesn't want it or he won't read it in some instances." 

Democracy vs dictatorship

Nigerians cry out against corruption, but they love it, they live it. They feed from its proceeds yet they claim to hate it. What paradox! Whoever will fight corruption from its roots in Nigeria, must in so many ways flout the judiciary. Whoever will honestly uproot corruption will be hated by most Nigerians as being callous. Nigerians are still in denial! We are not yet ready to deal with our biggest problem. Once in a while, we make reference to China and how tackling corruption has helped their economy and standard of living but whenever we come even a millimeter close to adopting measures used by China, everyone cries foul! We so blinded by ethnoreligious hatred and Political bias, we fail to see issues as they are. Even if this "zoo" falls and everyone is back to his tent, the tents will collapse with corruption as the major culprit!
1. Is Dasuki the only man who has been charged for corruption? What about Mrs Allison Madueke, Ibrahim Lamorde, Moses Jitoboh ADC to Jonathan, Gordon Obua former CSO e.t.c
2. Is it not clear that anyone charged with corruption and attempting to leave the country is looking for an escape route?
3. Is Dasuki not a Muslim and a Northerner?
4. Isnt it obvious to all Nigerians that all is not well with the Nigerian military especially in the department of ammunitions and someone needs to be held responsible?
5.Can anyone deny the fact that the EFCC has some how woken from its slumber and has made a wide array of arrests of CORRUPT people irrespective of tribe?
6. Why is there always a Nigerian to stand in defence of a corrupt person. Cant we all unanimously condemn a proven case of corruption and not lean towards ethnoreligious sentiments?
7. We can all somehow agree that lots of money was stolen by key actors in the last administration, but we never all accept the investigation of any of these key figures?
8. ARE WE READY TO HALT CORRUPTION AND MOVE ON?
I understand the agitations for division of the country. The actual motive for these agitations is not certain. One thing is certain; it will not end our problems. Case in point; the south east. The various states and dialects hold resentments against themselves and often become sharply divided over political positions and land disputes. Creat the republic of Biafra and see these disputes quadruple!

Buhari will go the way of Morsi and sooner or later APC will be outlawed like the Muslim Brotherhood

PPAngel:


Like Buhari APC like Morsi Brotherhood

It is no secret that Obama backed and ensured a Buhari win to the point of lending the APC his personal election campaign manager that got him elected into the white house with the same "change" mantra but what most of you may be saliently unaware of is how bad Obama's choices for democratic rule in other countries are.

Obama backed the Muslim Brotherhood and now desposed and jailed Morsi in Egypt.
That administration has been tagged the worst govt in Egypt.

I foresee in the nearest and immediate future, the same scenario that befell the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi replaying itself with the APC and Buhari.

RevDesmondJuju:
The honeymoon is over.

No Light,No Fuel, No Jobs, Stock Market Is Crashing, FG Bond De-listed. And now, 105 Of Our Gallant Soldiers Missing #BringBackOurSoldiers.

Like really, what is that single project/idea/policy that can be traced to this man?

The scales is clearing

What utter rubbish? Dasuki is being investigated for earth-shattering allegations of fraud leading to the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, displacement of millions and sponsoring terrorism, yet these 'Washington' hacks are screaming human rights?

The fact remains that the probe panel's interim report has indicted Dasuki and he has deliberately refused to appear before it, prompting the order for his arrest. The fact that Jonathan has even denied Dasuki's defense that the President approved all the extra-budgetary spending, strips any iota of doubt about his possible complicity.

What else do we expect from the people who groomed ISIS in the first place? Dasuki has promised to throw everyone under the bus and suddenly Washington is shivering.

RevDesmondJuju:
The honeymoon is over.

There is no honeymoon for a leader with blueprints. Honeymoon ko honeywell ni

frodobee:
With the glitter of fool’s gold, Nigeria’s recently elected President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in the United States in July uttering time-worn democracy vows to President Barack Obama and his administration. Among other things, he pledged at the United States Institute for Peace to combat graft with procedures that would be “fair, just, and scrupulously follow due process and the rule of law, as enshrined in our constitution.”

Skepticism is in order—a conclusion reinforced by the ongoing persecution of of former National Security Advisor Sambo Dasuki for alleged money laundering and illegal possession of firearms.

Mr. Buhari initially tasted power as a military dictator following a coup de tat in 1983. His dictatorship was earmarked by chilling human rights abuses. Take the word of Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka.

Among other things, Mr. Soyinka highlights Mr. Buhari’s draconian edicts, exemplified by Decree 20 under which the judicial murders of Nigerian citizens Lawal Ojuolape, Bernard Ogedengbe, and Bartholomew Owoh were authorized. Mr. Obedengbe was executed for a crime that did not carry the death penalty at the time it was committed in violation of the universal revulsion of ex post facto laws.


Soyinka adds that these crimes were executed in defiance of pleas from virtually every sector of Nigeria and the international community—a grisly precedent for subsequent dictator Sani Abasha’s hanging of Ogoni activist Ken Sara-Wiwi in contempt of international opinion.

Mr. Buhari turned the nation into a slave plantation, and forbade the slaves from any discussion of their enslavement—especially a return to democracy. He  favored the north over the south, dividing rather than unifying Nigeria after the convulsions of the 1967-70 Biafran War. He lent support to the introduction of Sharia law in the North—a major source of strife and disharmony.

Mr. Buhari’s brutal military dictatorship was overthrown in 1985. Mr. Dasuki played a key role. Dictators do not forget. Fast forward to today.

After celebrating fairness, due process, and the rule of law last July to win the good will of the United States, Mr. Buhari returned to Nigeria to mock all three in a vendetta against the Dasuki, the immediate past National Security Adviser.

He placed Mr. Dasuki under house arrest. He confiscated his passport. He charged him with firearms and money laundering violations. He sought a secret trial to prevent independent scrutiny.

He opposed Mr. Dasuki’s pretrial application to the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja for permission to receive urgent medical treatment for cancer in London, but it was nonetheless granted.

Justice Adeniyi Ademola explained that an accused is presumed innocent before trial, and that a citizen’s health is paramount before the law. Mr. Buhari was ordered to release Mr. Dasuki’s international passport.

Mr. Buhari defied the order. He put Mr. Dasuki’s house under siege, a microcosm of the Bosnian Serb siege of Sarajevo. Mr. Dasuki returned to court. Justice Ademola reaffirmed his order, asserting “My own orders will not be flouted.”

Mr. Buhari has not yet budged. As a military dictator in 1985, he similarly seized the international passport of Chief Obafemi Awolowo to thwart his travel for medical treatment, which caused his death in 1987. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Much is riding on Mr. Dasuki’s case. If Mr. Buhari flouts Justice Ademola’s order with impunity, judicial independence will be fatally compromised and Nigeria’s embryonic democratic dispensation will be stillborn. The judiciary is the only branch capable of checking limitless executive power—the bane of Africa.

Members of Nigeria’s National Assembly and Senate have been reduced to playing the roles of extras in cinematic extravaganzas.

Further, President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration accepted a peaceful transfer of power to President Buhari, a laudable landmark in African politics. If Mr. Buhari is permitted with impunity to destroy his political opponents like Mr. Dasuki with tyrannical methods, peaceful transfers of power everywhere on the Continent will become problematic. The incumbents’ risk of political and personal impalement at the hands of their would-be successors will be too high.

The United States should be insisting on independent human rights observers to monitor Mr. Dasuki’s prosecution and trial, and demanding that Mr. Buhari honor his vow to follow due process and the rule of law. The stakes are too high to remain silent.


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A lot of things went wrong under this guy so he should be properly investigated considering the security breach we experienced during the last administration

permsec:
There is no honeymoon for a leader with blueprints. Honeymoon ko honeywell ni

Blueprint to run this country aground, you mean.

Fanatic zombie

RevDesmondJuju:

Blueprint to run this country aground, you mean.
Fanatic zombie

You really misunderstood the message. i'm on ur side

permsec:
You really misunderstood the message. i'm on ur side

All rite. I thought you were a zombie

seawoman:
Buhari dupe them of what? Have their own president fulfil every promise he made to them?
If U.S. claimed they have been duped by buhari what will we Nigerians say buhari do to us and them who also promise to help fight boko n did not nko

He duped them by claiming to be a democrat when dictatorship blood runs in him