RE-THE CRIMES OF BUHARI BY PROF.SOYINKA!. Professor Wole Soyinka, a man known for his many controversial statements, stands and writings was on his usual antics and baseless comments on the 20 months of Gen Muhammadu Buhari regime. The article which was published in the todays addition of OsunDefender was undauntedly aimed at rubbishing the rising popularity and acceptability of the Buhari candidacy in the South in general, and in the South west in particular. Rather than critically examining the holistic policies of the regime, the Professor of controversy only choose to mostly limit his condemnation and total dismissal of the Buhari regime to its human right records which any corrective regime of the like of Buharis is most likely not to live above board. It is no surprising to note that the article of Soyinka, detailed all the human rights violations by the Buhari military regime, which further suggest a dismissal of Buharis patriotism, nationalistic disposition, incorruptible outlook, his self disciplined disposition, and principles. For instance the Prof. dissipated most of his energy narrating how three young personalities on their prime ages of 30, Lawal Ojuolape, 29, Bernard Ogedengbe, and 26, Bartholomew Owoh were tried, found guilty of the various charges and summarily executed for offences which the Professor merely dismissed as nothing but amounting to judicial murder hence the crimes committed by these three young guys was based on the obnoxious degree 20 which the regime promulgated for the simple reason to truncate the citizens rights. The amazing allegation of Soyinka, was his refusal to say in clear terms for what reasons were those three young men were accused, charged, and convicted. To further portray the Buhari regime as ethnically embedded, the Prof. further went ahead to demonstrate how Tai Solarin, Shagaris Vice President Alex Ekwueme and Papa Ajasin were incarcerated on no reasons other than selective justice. For instance the Professor drew example that the Buhari regime rather than arresting or detaining the ousted President (Shehu Shagari) being the number one figure of the administration, Alex Ekwueme (a ceremonial vice president) was arrested and detained. However, what this Professor of controversy refused to say also was, when Shagari was investigated including searching of his house, and bank account, nothing to incriminate him was found. Similarly, when the official residence of Ekwueme was searched, hundred of thousands of American dollars was found, also found was British pounds. After all, with both Professor Wole Soyinka and his other comrade in baseless criticism, and dogmatic controversy, late Tai Solarin serving in the most obnoxious regime of General Ibrahim Babangida, which is often referred to as the most or the architect of Nigerias modern corruption, the most morally bankrupt, one of the most human rights abused regimes, the most unpatriotic and vision less regimes, as pioneer Chairmen of Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and the Peoples Bank of Nigeria (FBN) respectively, the Professor lacks both legal and moral conscience to condemned the Buhari regime, which by no means, and by any measurable standard is million times better than the regime which he religiously but shamefully, and shamelessly served. We dare say, the timing of the Soyinka article, rather than seeking to write-up the urgent desirability of the Buhari presidency comes 2015, it fortunately achieved the opposite most especially among his ethnic constituency. We that were vibrantly present during the 20 months regime of Gen. Buhari, we have no difficulty in understanding why the General and his fellow Compatriots had to do what they did. Again the Professor, though not a professor of political science, ought to have clearly understood the difference between a corrective military regime, and a caretaker regime. He also was suppose to know that in the 54 years of Nigerian corporate existence as a nation state, the country witnessed only two corrective regimes, the 1975 Murtala regime, and the 1983 Buhari regime. While all other military regimes, most especially the regime he served with all his strength (the Babangida regime) are all mere caretaker and power hungry military regimes.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:33:17 +0000
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