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Sheikh Gumi Advises Buhari To Tackle Corruption Lightly by deco22(m): 1:42pm On Jun 11, 2016 |
Federal Government
planning to use seized
properties as officesIn an interview with Daily
Trust, the Islamic cleric based
in Kaduna said because oil
was the life blood of Nigeria,
the country had been bribing
some people in the region to
allow blood to flow. He said
part of the pacification was
to make Jonathan the vice
president and he later
emerged as president.
He said: “I saw this re-
emergence of Niger Delta
militancy coming. This is
political. I once said it about
a year ago that this problem
would come up. Because of
the fact that the lifeline of
Nigeria’s economy depends
on oil, the previous
governments were made to
be bribing these people for
them to allow the oil
production to flow. It went
to the level as if Nigeria was
sharing the oil with them.
Obasanjo started that and
Yar’adua officialised it.“The coming of Jonathan
into the centre of power was
part of that bribe; otherwise
it wouldn’t have been
possible for him to become
vice president and
subsequently president of
Nigeria. These are parts of
the price which we have to
pay to get the oil. If you
know that you don’t have
enough power to check
these people, don’t incite
them, because they can
cripple your government.
“What the previous
governments did was to
pacify these people, not
because that was the right
thing to do. But if Nigeria is
sure that it can crush these
people, then the steps the
government have taken were
right. However, we know
that Nigeria is fragile and
taking these stern measures
may destabilise the
government.”
Gumi said corruption should
not be tackled fiercely and
hinted that President
Muhammadu Buhari was
tackling corruption too hard
which is making the menace
fight back.
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