Alhaji Balarabe Musa, a former Governor of old Kaduna State and National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), stated in an interview with The Sun, that if at all President Buhari is a man of integrity and also serious about ridden the country of corruption, then he must not limit his anti corruption war to Jonathan's administration alone but instead, begin from 1966 where corruption actually began. He said failure to do that would mean the President is afraid of something.
Responding on Buhari's ani-graft wa, he said:
First of all, it is expected of President Muhammadu Buhari to fight corruption, because he promised to fight corruption and eradicate corruption in Nigeria. He knows very well that concentrating the probe on former President Jonathan’s administration alone will not lead to effective fight against corruption and the elimination of corruption. If he continues with this limited objective, he will end up being grouped with the corrupt leaders.
I don’t see any honest reason for excluding any administration from 1966 to date except if the sitting President is afraid of something. - BALARABE
The right thing to do is to probe the administrations from 1966 when this level of corruption and criminal wasteful of resources started. It started with the 1966 coup when the military took over power. It is the military that brought about this level of corruption.
For President Buhari to say that he will only probe the immediate past civilian administration is disappointing; it is definitely not consistent with the level of integrity associated with him.
In fact, this attitude should serve as a warning to Nigerians of a possible return of the 1980s episode of double standards, sacred cows, vindictiveness and even fascism, where civilian governors were clamped into jail for alleged corruption.
We know that all the Presidents in Nigeria, from the beginning of the Second Republic up till date, have been alleged to have been involved in corruption, and in some places and at some time. It is quite obvious because they are found to be some of the richest Africans.
So, I don’t see any honest reason for excluding any administration from 1966 to date. No credible explanation from excluding them, except if the sitting President is afraid of something.
