Team Jonathan The Buhari You Didnt Know - For Those Under 30 Years Of Age. Buharis administration 1984 - 1985 1. Made 53,000 government workers redundant between those years, reducing educational subsidies. We remembered we use to have what we called bursary back in time. Once you get to higher institution, you get paid your bursary allowance, Buhari put an end to the Bursary Allowance. How many of you supporting him today knows about the bursary allowance. None, you were too young. 2. Reduced the number of local government from 1000 to 301. How many of you under 30 years of age know this? 3. Rice, sugar, salf and toiletries became essential commodities, sold at controlled prices. Before Buhari came to power - a packet of St. Louis sugar used to sell 5kobo while a tin of Peak milk used to sell 15kobo - when he was thrown out in 1985, ask your elders how much inflation jerked up these prices. 4. Buhari expelled 700,000 foreigners- illegal immigrants- , claiming they were a burden on the Nigerian economy. 5. Many notable second republic governors and national assembly members were tried and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, leaving out Shagari and Ekwueme, the head and the vice. Such was the Buhari notion of equitable apportionment of guilt and/or responsibility. 6. Attempted to crate Umaru Dikko back to Nigeria, the British Government un covered the plot and led to a strain between the UK and Nigeria. 7. Death sentence to drug pushers - killed two in the process. Judicial murder, the execution of a citizen under a retroactive decree. Does Decree 20 ring a bell? If not, then, perhaps the names of three youths - Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) do. To put it quite plainly, one of those three, Ogedengbe - was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. This was an unconscionable crime, carried out in defiance of the pleas and protests of nearly every sector of the Nigerian and international community religious, civil rights, political, trade unions etc. Buhari and his sidekick and his partner-in-crime, Tunde Idiagbon persisted in this inhuman act for one reason and one reason only: to place Nigerians on notice that they were now under an iron, inflexible rule, under governance by fear. 8. The NSO was used to hunt military divisionists, in military tribunals, no jury with constitutional provisions. 9. Long prison terms for tampering with postal stamps, examination mal practices - currency trafficking, illegal produce export etc. On currency trafficking, Fela Anikulapo languished in goal for years, sentenced under that very draconian decree. His crime was being in possession of foreign exchange that he had legitimately received for the immediate upkeep of his band as they set off for an international engagement. A vicious sentence was slapped down on Fela by a judge who later became so remorse stricken at least after Buharis overthrow that he went to the King of Afro-beat and apologized. 10. Buhari outlawed strikes and lock outs - no unionism of any kind 11. Decree on national security which enables the security personnels to slam anyone in jail for 3 months, renewable without trial Speaking the truth was not what Buhari, as a self-imposed leader, was especially enamoured of. Ask of Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor both of whom, faithful to their journalistic calling, published nothing but the truth, yet ended up sentenced under Buharis decree. Mind you, no one can say that Buhari was not true to his word. I shall tamper with the freedom of the press swore the dictator immediately on grabbing office, and this was exactly what he did. 12. Decree that allows for closing of media houses and cowing of the press if you write anything considered to be negative to government or any of governments personnel or personality. What precisely was Ebenezer Babatopes crime that he should have spent the entire tenure of General Buhari in detention? Nothing beyond the fact that he once warned in the media that Buhari was an ambitious soldier who would bear watching through the lenses of a coup- detat. Babatopes father died while he was in Buharis custody, the dictator remained deaf to every plea that he be at least released to attend his fathers funeral, even under guard. 13. WAI brigade- empowered the police to use this to intimidate the populace. 14. Confiscated travelling passports of Nnamdi Azikiwe and Papa Awolowo, denying them their trips abroad 15. The regimes attack on religious leaders, such as Oba Okunade Sijuwade, the Oni (king) of Ife, and Alhaji Ado Bayero, the Emir of Kano. The regime placed both leaders under house arrest for six months for an unauthorized trip to Israel. This royal duo went to Israel on their private steam and private business. Simply because the Buhari regime was pursuing some antagonistic foreign policy towards Israel, a policy of which these traditional rulers were not a part, they were subjected on their return to a treatment that could only be described as a head masterly chastisement of errant pupils. Since when, may one ask, did a free citizen of the Nigerian nation require the permission of a head of state to visit a foreign nation that was willing to offer that tourist a visa.? 16. Buhari need one remind anyone - was one of the generals who treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with unconcealed disdain. Like Babangida and Abdusalami, he refused to put in appearance even though complaints that were tabled against him involved a career of gross abuses of power and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry. 17. Recall, if you please, the judicial processes undergone by the septuagenarian Chief Adekunle Ajasin. He was arraigned and tried before Buharis punitive tribunal but acquitted. Dissatisfied, Buhari ordered his re-trial. Again, the Tribunal could not find this man guilty of a single crime, so once again he was returned for trial, only to be acquitted of all charges of corruption or abuse of office. Was Chief Ajasin thereby released? No! He was ordered detained indefinitely. Like and Share if you #
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