Re: Shape of things to come?

Your article on the back page of your Monday’s edition refers. You know the meaning of what the Hausa people say “…an baiwa kura ajiyar nama”  (giving a hyena the custody of your meat). The first irony of Ahmed Idris, the suspended AGF is that he was the supposed choice of President Buhari for the […]

Your article on the back page of your Monday’s edition refers.

You know the meaning of what the Hausa people say “…an baiwa kura ajiyar nama”  (giving a hyena the custody of your meat).

The first irony of Ahmed Idris, the suspended AGF is that he was the supposed choice of President Buhari for the job because he worked with him as an accountant at the defunct PTF.  He used to be a modest civil servant who lived at Kano State Government Lowcost Housing Estate after the late Sani Daura’s “Gidan Buhari” Head office complex along Zoo Road Kano, not far from the Trade Fair Complex.

The other irony is that even humble characters can be tempted to turn pompous and corrupt if made to handle too powerful and  tempting  jobs. Why did Magu, formerly of EFCC, or Rashid Maina of Pension Task force eventually crashed. The list is endless.

Most of the former state governors who ended up with multi-billion dollar EFCC cases were indebted even to their household food suppliers or car spare part suppliers or even mechanics when they first  became governors. Same for ministers, parastatal heads etc.

Greed and aimless accumulation has tragically become part and parcel of most privileged Nigerians as if it was a nationwide hereditary disease.

But with massive moral reorientation and sustained lessons in  patriotism and the spirit of sharing and caring, we may gradually move away from this cancerous monster of corruption which has  retarded real growth and development and even endangers national security.

The sad reality is that there is plenty to do in uprooting this well-entrenched cancer which pervades the society. So help us God.

 

Garba Isa resides in Abuja