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The Oil Cabal Is Back: Fakes Story About Dumebi Kachikwu by mamabomboy: 11:21am On Jun 12, 2016 |
The beneficiaries of the
corruption in the oil industry
are definitely still smarting
from the industry wide
changes implemented by the
Minister of State for
Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu
especially at the Nigerian
National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC). It was to
be expected that they will
not go down without a fight
and that the seeming calm
after the changes were
announced was just the oil
bandits in retreat to
reassess their strategies for
challenging a government
that has exhibited zero
tolerance for corruption.
Even after spending weeks
to perfect their response to
the clamping down on
corruption in the industry
they were only able to
rehash their old strategies –
launch personal attacks on
the minister and his family.
This took the wind out of the
re-launched of a campaign of
calumny they had launched
against him in the past since
it came out as the same tired
stories they had always
peddled.
A tweet by one of their online
partner was all the other
paid platforms latched unto
to push out a news alert that
Dumebi Kachikwu, the
minister’s younger brother
has been declared wanted by
the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC).
They also hyped the aspect
about his bank account(s)
being frozen without being
able to specify what phantom
crime they are accusing him
of this time around.
A call to Dumebi Kachikwu
however exposed the story
as a figment of the writers’
overstimulated imaginations
as he not only denied being
on the run from the anti-
graft agency but that he was
still able to transact with his
account(s) as at the time he
was asked to verify the
story.
That a false story was
pushed out as breaking
news should worry all of us.
Not just because no one
wants to or deserves to be
so slandered but because of
the inherent risks that such
irresponsible behaviour
poses tour collective
freedom. All over the
governments are scaling
back on liberties often citing
terrorism and online trolling.
We have been fortunate that
the ill-conceived bill to
regulate social media and
online platforms died a
natural death but this kind of
online hooliganism risks
creating the basis on which
society would demand a
restriction of the freedom
available online.
Much as one would want to
call the online trolls to order
however, they are merely
the symptoms of a more
insidious disease. They are
the smoking guns while the
hands that pulled the trigger
actually belonged to the
bandits that had held
Nigerians hostage until the
recent changes made to the
way the oil industry is
managed. The kite flown
about Dumebi Kachikwu’s
arrest was apparently better
managed than another story
that surfaced at exactly the
same time. The Dumebi story
basically tried to hide under
the EFCC without canvassing
the position of its sponsors.
The true identities of those
paying for this campaign
however surfaced in the
second story that flushed
morality down the sinkhole
with unprintable accusations
targeted at undermining the
marriage of the Minister of
State for Petroleum. It did
everything to cast
aspersions on his person as
a gentleman as only could be
delivered by the worst form
of yellow journalism.
In the story, one of those
redeployed by Kachikwu was
desperately packaged to
appear like the victim. Had
those who rehashed this
overused rendition of an
event that never happened
bothered to cross check
their facts, they would have
seen that redeployment of
their principal was an act of
unmerited mercy as
thousands of Nigerian
youths has taken to the
streets at the height of the
fuel crisis to demand the
sack of this particular official
for an history of record
setting corruption. That a
person who should have
been fired, arrested, tried
and jailed for serial theft is
now piloting a campaign of
calumny against the minister
that showed magnanimity is
the real definition of
travesty.
My one cent for the team
working on this new round of
“bring the Kachikwus down”
attack is that they should get
back with the owners of the
brief and demand more
money because the task they
have signed up for is not an
easy one. They are being
asked to hallucinate about
events that never happened
and this is a sure way of
toying with eventual mental
incapacitation because the
prolonged hallucination trips
could become addictive.
To the sponsors of the
stories, one can only offer
sympathies. It sucks to be
cut off from the slush fund
that used flow freely before
Kachikwu became minister
and brought so many
dizzying changes that have
dried up the tap of
corruption money. But they
will do well to keep their
powder dry, save as much of
their stolen wealth as
possible instead of paying
for expensive but pointless
propaganda – there would
be expensive lawyers to
pay, bail to post and refund
to make to when the EFCC
finally gets to the right
chapter that concerns th
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Re: The Oil Cabal Is Back: Fakes Story About Dumebi Kachikwu by a2personal2013: 11:42am On Jun 12, 2016 |
Na who we go believe now. We are watching |
Re: The Oil Cabal Is Back: Fakes Story About Dumebi Kachikwu by jpphilips(m): 8:08pm On Jun 12, 2016 |
If Dumebi Kachikwu committed a crime, what has it got to do with the Minister? 1 Like |
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