BLESSING BULUS MUST BE BROUGHT TO BOOK
The Daily Trust Newspapers of Wednesday, the 20th of April, 2016 reported that the wife of the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Blessing Bulus, slapped a deputy superintendent of the service, one Hassan Mustapha Saleh, 5 times and tore his shirt on Thursday, the 7th of April, 2016. Blessing who is undergoing training as one of the new recruits of the service slapped the said officer who is an instructor in the school for directing her to go back to her class when he saw her hanging around the school when her mates were in class receiving lectures/instructions. The paper reported that that was not the first time Bulus had trouble in the school as even 2 weeks before this incident she had trouble with the chief inspector and dean of the discipline of the school, Dalhatu Gwarzo, and he was summoned to Abuja to clear his name.

It was further reported that a 7-man committee was set up to investigate the matter and the committee queried the said officer and found that: 1) The officer retaliated when she pointed fingers at him (apparently by pointing fingers at her) and therefore he assaulted her first; 2) That the officer was not wearing his uniform at the time of the incident and 3) That the officer should have reported her to the school authority when she refused to obey his instruction. However, the committee did not tell the paper Bulus’ fault apparently because, being the wife of the Oga at the top, she enjoys official immunity.

It is most unfortunate that such kind of incidents still happen in the Nigeria of the 21st Century. This is wanton abuse of office and impunity of the highest order. The questions begging for answers are: 1) Was the committee in question set up to investigate the incident that led to the assault or was it set up fish for irrelevant pieces of information to clear Blessing? 2) Is it the rule of the immigration training school that any staff going round the school without uniform can be slapped by students? 3) Will Blessing remain in the school after slapping a teacher 5 times for doing his job?

Sources from the service reveal that the eldest son of the CG is also receiving training in the same school together with his step mother, Blessing Bulus. It was also confirmed by sources that this batch of trainees are supposed to be relatives of the applicants who lost their lives in the aborted employment exercise during the reign of President Goodluck Jonathan. If so, how did the CG’s wife and son get their way into the batch? Did the CG also lose his relatives or is this another form of abuse of office and disregard to due process? How can a single nuclear family get two vacancies at a time when we have thousands of unemployed youth from thousands of families? Is this another instance of the allegorical story of the Animal Farm? For how long will Nigeria continue on this path of impunity?

We condemn, in the strongest possible terms, Blessing’s conduct of assaulting her teacher simply because she is the CG’s wife. We hereby demand that she be investigated and disciplined accordingly through a transparent process. We call on the concern authorities to investigate Blessing’s husband, Martins Kure Abeshi, for smuggling his wife and son into the trainees of the school and for permitting/encouraging his wife’s contemptuous conduct and take appropriate action(s). He should also be investigated for interfering with official functions for personal reasons.

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Audu Bulama Bukarti
24/04/16

Sounds so incredulous. 5 slaps?

Stupid country. ... mtcheeeew....