After listening to the comical jokes of the petroleum minister about probing corruption in the petroleum sector, you’d feel sorry for Nigerians, as its very clear and evident that the gross corruption and incompetence that has set Nigeria back for years will continue and outlive this regime.The pointers towards this claim are so accurate and the government of today has only giving such conclusions more precision.

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[li]Nobody prompted the Petroleum minister to state she asked for permission from the president to commence investigation into corrupt practices in the sector. That was a direct indictment on the government. It confirms the theory that government shields corruption and is selective in her fight against it. [/li]

[li]That  the same minister that supervised subsidy payment in 2010 and paid N561 Billion for the year, supervised the payment of over N1.3 trillion as at September 2011, and never felt to seek ‘permission’ for probe immediately?
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[li]When she made the infamous statement ‘our hands are tied’ she wasn’t referring to the supposed oil cartel, but the executive power brokers that choose who to accuse, who to investigate and who to indict. [/li]

[li]The Minister also said she was setting up a committee under her office to investigate misappropriations and irregularities in subsidy payments. Who exonerated her from the shady deals? How can anybody be convinced she’s not a beneficiary of these criminal acts? In-fact, it will be insane given the state of the nation to be confident she is innocent and has no idea how the nation was robbed.
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Shortly after listening to the petroleum minister, the  Inspector General of Police came on air.  I was hoping, finally, that the police boss too has sought the permission of the president to embargo N20 road tax collection by his men. To be honest with the IGP, he never claimed to be helpless, but unlike Mrs Madueke, he just has not gotten directive of the executive power brokers, the commanders of the commander-in-chief to put an end to road side bribery.

A nation that will develop cannot be led by unprincipled leaders,  The totality of the federal executive council members could not have being in support of the recent fuel subsidy removal, yet no one was courageous or even bold enough to express their reservation albeit disagreement about it.

It is a that guess until the presidency maps sectors like water resources, tourism, environment, lands and housing, and so many other key ministries into its propaganda transformation agenda, ministers of such ministries are on strict orders not to innovate, not to implement, not to probe, not to engage and not to function. They must wait for the permission of the president to perform their duties.

Its now a slug that fuel subsidy accounts for a lot of corruption in the petroleum sector. I humbly disagree, its the government and its agencies that account for ‘all’ the corruption in the petroleum sector.

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