Bukola Saraki's "Political Persecution" Theory
It appears embattled Senate President Bukola Saraki has finally found the “holy grail’ of conspiracy theory. Mr. Saraki and his handlers have finally arrived at blaming politics for his current corruption trial. A few of our friends on the Non-Governmental individuals (NGI) front have lined up behind this argument. With Saraki's largesse, they’ve even made powerpoint slides, banners, poster and handbills to make the conspiracy case stronger.

I saw first hand how deeply Saraki had penetrated the Social Media axis when I attended the "Social Media Week" in Lagos last February. Everyone was fawning over Saraki to the extent that one of the organizers blatantly told me I was not invited to speak during a Friday plenary because Saraki had already been booked to speak. An issue for another day!

What I intend to state here is not the perception consciously being created of political persecution but how far political considerations have prevented the law from catching up with Mr. Saraki and his cronies. For those who may not know, Saraki’s has never held a real job in his life apart from the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Nigeria. Soon after that he got into Society General Bank of Nigeria, his father’s bank. In 1990, Saraki pulled his first heist. He stole N500k from depositors and the police caught him and the sister, Gbemisola red-handed, he was charged. However, due to political considerations Nigeria’s then kleptomaniac military ruler, General Ibrahim Babadamosi Babangida "politically" killed the case.

Bukola Saraki and his kid brother(s) and sister Gbemi moved on to completely obliterate the bank, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA did an investigation that showed it was the biggest bank robbery in Nigeria’s history, yet for political reasons Bukola Saraki was let off the hook and given political appointment by then President Olusegun Obasanjo.

In 2003, their father Olusola Saraki took whatever was left of the bank and invested it in buying political office for Bukola and his sister Gbemi; Bukola became the governor of Kwara state, and Gbemi was crowned a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the EFCC looked into it and even drafted charges but for political reasons, Bukola Saraki was never charged with grand theft that could have sent him to jail instead of the government house.
After becoming governor, Bukola also killed Trade Bank, looted Kwara state dry, again, the EFCC researched into his crimes and found him guilty of grand theft, and again, for political considerations, then President (now late) Umaru Musa Yar'adua stopped the EFCC and even got Saraki and James Ibori to appoint EFCC's next chairperson, Mrs. Farida Waziri.

They both recruited and staffed the EFCC with police officers to fill "vacancies" that never existed at the EFCC, of course with the help of then Police IG, Mike Okiro. The thieves took over the EFCC for political reasons.

When Saraki's tenure ended as the Governor f Kwara and he become Senator, several petitions detailing how he looted Kwara was sent to law enforcement agencies, a particularly poignant petition was sent by the Kwara state branch of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), then President Goodluck Jonathan tried bringing Saraki to trial using the Police Special Fraud Unit, their findings about Saraki were staggering, but political judges were deployed, one Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed at the Federal High Court gave a judgment asking all anti-corruption agencies to lay off Saraki. For political reasons, the judgment was never appealed.

Saraki has robbed, killed, raped, destroyed and decimated lives, land, and livelihoods using political platforms and political advantage his entire life.

Now that he is close to answering for his crimes, he is blaming politics, the same politics that made him one the luckiest property owners in the UK, Lagos and Abuja, the politics that helped finance his criminal lifestyle, the politics that bequeathed the state of Kwara to him and his family. The politics that made it possible for him to get huge loans from banks without collateral security.

What politics?
* Culled from Omoyele Sowore article, former Unilag Student Union President

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