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Whitewashing is a waste; history has already judged Babangida.
By Owei Lakemfa
IBRAHIM Badamosi Babangida, retired general and former military Head of State will turn 80 tomorrow, Tuesday, August 17. I congratulate him primarily because I also pray to grow old. But I do not pray that in my old age my children will organise gatherings where people will try to whitewash my deeds.

One of such occasions was the August 12, 2021 pre-birthday event. The summary of the endless speeches which were relayed live on television is that Babangida is a reliable, kind-hearted statesman who never neglects or betrays his friends. But that is not what the records show.

Yes, Babangida comes across as a comely, friendly, charming person, but so does the beautiful, cunning, crafty fox. Those gathering for the whitewash of Babangida know that Nigerians gave him the sobriquet Maradona. This was because like the famous Argentine footballer, Diego Maradona, who was a great dribbler and seller of dummies on the field, Babangida was dribbling Nigerians, selling them dummies, was quite crafty, deceitful and unreliable.

A great difference was that while the real Maradona never shifted the goal post during play, Babangida was always shifting the goal post whenever he thought a goal was to be scored against him. For instance, he promised to hand-over power to an elected civilian administration in 1990. When the date drew near, he shifted it to 1992, then January 1993, later to August 1993, and ended up not handing over power before he was disgraced out of office.

While claiming to be a champion of mass participation in decision-making, he declared a public debate on whether or not, the International Monetary Fund, IMF, loan and its conditionalities should be accepted. Nigerians in overwhelming numbers rejected both. On December 13, 1985, Babangida addressed the nation acknowledging the undeniable choice of Nigerians and even declared that “ …the path of honour and the essence of democratic patriotism lies in discontinuing the negotiations with the IMF for a support loan”.

Nigerians were ecstatic, but the cunning Babangida did the exact opposite by going to bed with the IMF and imposing its criminal conditionalities christened the Structural Adjustment Programme, SAP. When Nigerians protested against this imposition, patriots like the labour legends, Michael Imoudu and Wahab Goodluck and lawyer, Gani Fawehinmi were detained, many tertiary institutions shutdown and protesters were shot in the streets.

As to the claim that Babangida was loyal to friends, at least two of his close friends who believed that, were sent to early graves. One of them was Mamman Vatsa, his childhood friend, high school classmate at Government College, Bida, and a fellow general. In fact, Babangida signed Vatsa’s marriage register as his best man. Vatsa was accused of harbouring the thought of overthrowing Babangida, was tried in a military tribunal, tied to the stake on March 5, 1986 and executed.

Another Babangida close friend, Chief Moshood Abiola, won the June 12,1993 presidential election, fair and square. But Babangida annulled it and later claimed he did it to prevent a coup. Is that not treasonable felony? What a friend he had in Babangida! Abiola while fighting for his mandate was detained under the Abacha regime and eventually died.

At the Babangida whitewash last week, a former Director of Military Intelligence, DMI Haliru Akilu, a retired general, mentioned Babangida’s relocation of the capital from Lagos to Abuja as a monumental achievement adding: “This was a great decision that only leaders of IBB’s capacity can make.” I am not sure about this. Abuja was being built by previous governments and partially under Babangida. Not a few attribute Babangida’s December 12, 1991 relocation to Abuja as a fall out of the Orkar coup which exposed the vulnerability of the Dodan Barracks State House.

In fact, the haste and disorderly way the capital was relocated was like a man fleeing a city. For instance, many of those who had to relocate, had no offices. As for accommodation, it was in so short supply that many lived in their offices for years, while many desperate female public servants, some of them married, shared rooms with males lucky enough to secure accommodation. This is the origin of the popular ‘Abuja Marriage’ syndrome.

Businessman, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, talked glowingly about Babangida as a dependable friend. Babangida, he claimed, made him leader of the Raw Materials Development Council, and stayed by his side for a whole day when he buried his father. But he only narrated one side of the story. The other is that the same Babangida sent armed security agents to traumatise journalists and staff of Iwuanyanwu’s Champion Newspapers and shutdown the publication without any warning or court order. It was simply the application of brutal force against a non-military institution.

The Babangida regime had no regard for fundamental human rights. People were detained without trial. At any given time, under that dictatorship, the cells and dungeons were packed full of patriots. When the pro-democracy protests broke out with demands for the de-annulment of the June 12 election, the regime sent out well kitted soldiers led personally by then Chief of Army Staff, General Sani Abacha to repress them. On July 6, 1993, a total of 118 protesters were shot dead on the streets of Lagos. Almost all were shot in the back which meant they were running away and not confronting their murderers. These are crimes against humanity for which the regime should be held accountable.

When the pro-state candidate, Takai Shamang, could not win the 1988 Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC elections, the Babangida regime banned the Congress under a nebulous ‘Economic Recovery’ decree. When senior staff of Nigeria Electricity Power Authority, NEPA, went on strike against the poor state of power infrastructure, the regime seized eleven of them and hauled them before a military tribunal demanding the death sentence. Eventually, the men were sentenced to life imprisonment for going on strike which is a right!

In 1986 after the police murdered four students of the Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, for protesting, the regime shutdown virtually all tertiary institutions in the country for protesting the murders. It also proscribed the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS. The Babangida regime was a lawless one which not only ousted the jurisdiction of the courts in many decrees, but also did not obey court orders and rulings.

Those gathering around the country in a vain attempt to whitewash Babangida are just deceiving him and deceiving themselves; history has already judged him. The wise in Africa say even if a man is being deceived, he owes himself the duty not to deceive himself. If Babangida does not apologise for his atrocities against the Nigerian people, he should go to a quiet spot in his hilltop mansion to pray that God forgives him his sins.

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Igbodicool:


Until we achieve independent Igbo Republic, we've lost hope in this fraud called Nigeria.

I wasn't there when they fought the war but I grew up to witness Nigeria State brutality to my people.

Was driving in lonely paths in our troubled city to evade military road blockades only for my daughter to be crying and shouting that the road is lonely all because of Nigeria hatred to Igbo nation.
Tomorrow you will be preaching one and love Nigeria to her.

It will only get worst.
Igbos detest anything Nigeria!

Mike213:
I have a complaint to make concerning one of your officers by name OLAGOKE WASIU OLAIDE.

I had a bike accident last week Thursday when I was returning from the ministry of foreign affairs in Abuja. A Lexus 470 hit me and the bike and it was not even on a one way. It happened at Pako Bus stop Isolo. The hausa bikemen rallied around the drunk driver and told him to take us to the hospital. This happened at exactly 10:46 18th Feb 2021 Thursday. The driver then drove us to Okota police station. On getting there, the said officer OLAGOKE OLAIDE WASIU collected the sum of 3K from the hit and run driver and allowed him to go that very night. He then seized my international passport having searched my bag and sent me out of the station. I came the following day with my sister to retrieve my passport and he told me I will pay for the wind shield of the mans glass that was broken by the hausa boys. I asked him who will pay for my hospital bills which he said wasn’t his business. To cut the story short, I sent 15K to the hit and run driver who was present on the meeting held on the 19th feb last week Friday and the officer gave me my passport and still extorted 2K from my sister

Presently I am on the verge of having my right leg amputated. The hospital results and X Rays examination is here. I am supposed to have my leg cut this evening but I want to reach out to the Police Force Complaint Unit first.

I called the officer today and he insulted my mother and told me to go to the commissioner of police and nothing will happen

This is his number +234 803 525 9579. This officer collected bribe of not up to 5k from a hit and run driver even when he saw my damaged and swollen leg and sent me away from the station at Mid night. my leg will be amputated today.

Is no one saying anything about this?

Zzor:
Making a first move on Nigerian men is almost madness

U ever made the first move and if u did, wasn't it madness?

chiommy123:
I can't try such. I no need anybody insult in future

U would get insulted which ever way, depends on the guy in question

donmixc:
shut up foolish old man, you are a boko haram sponsor even till now, you think you can fool us Your plans to destabilize the north will fail. One day you and your chariots will be exposed. Evil old fool

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Where do I read all you have written before on this?

luminouz:


You are fuqin wrong.

I saw my maternal grandpa with my own eyes while in secondary school. He had just died.


My dad almost drowned when his bike tumbled into a collapsed bridge under heavy rainfall. I was in the kitchen when my mom asked me to throw away some waste water into the bathroom. His ghostly figure rose up in the bathroom and I saw his soaked figure. I shouted his name and the ghostly figure disappeared. Hours later while I was asleep,, he came home and told my mum that it was my shout that woke him up as he was being swept off by the raging flood he fell into.


These are cases I have reported before on NL. I don't have any reason to lie about them. There are several others I can't even say online because people get scared. If you are not sensitive to such issues, you may never encounter such a case. Doesn't mean such stuffs don't exist.

Thrash

Perostick:

This is bad, so why would anyone on this forum deny the menace and carnage most of them cause all over Nigeria including the north?

Shocking

Nawa ooo

post=98389875:

This is one of the evil, wicked and criminal lifestyle Jonathan and his evil party bestowed on our darling nation for 16 years.

We all still remembered the mayhem the Niger Delta kidnappers caused in this nation in all the years Jonathan was in power.
Ikorodureporta still remembers how these guys chased him away from his abode in Isawo Ikorodu, burning down and killing all the policemen and women at Owutu Police Station (the thread is still here)
And all the killings and kidnapping incidents in Arepo and different areas in Lagos and Nigeria at large. And what did Jona did. He gave them amnesty and sent many of them abroad....even giving them monthly allowance up to half a million naira per person just that they could stop kidnapping and pipeline explosions!!

The foundations of this country has been destroyed by some bastard politicians most def.
May all those kinda politicians all end terribly in this nation.
They will never end well in life.

To all hypocrites hiding from the truth,
We will always hit your empty heads with the truth daily.
Truth is not bitter, just that some people are bitter to the truth.

We Rise!

Oga u no dey tire for all this endless ranting in the face of overwhelming counterproof.

No be today e start nah

Na so

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©Seniorwriter

Sorry this is coming a little late, I undersnd what you just said but the problem is I would rather do it all on my own. How do you suggest we go about it, maybe some lessons?

Obamaofusa:
Is there any other thing involved in this or why are we so fixated with Tinubu who is a thief just like his fellow polithiefians when we know the real cause of this problem? Buhari is the c-in-c and the only person who has the power to order the army to do what they did and not one bloody civilian.Anybody who did this will pay manifold.
Do you want to wreck Lagos or what?

I am sorry but it is beginning to have political and tribal undertones.As much as I don't want to believe that our brothers from the East and some gullible Yorubas are instigating the burning down of what makes Lagos grow economically,I will advise that they stop forthwith.A word is enough for the wise.You will blame yourself for not yielding to this warning..
Abo oro....

We are coming for all of them, just relax and see how NIGERIA will rise from the ashes and if it can't, we all form our different republics and believe me we will all flourish...

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Seniorwriter:
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Trust me there are sooooo many productive trades he could have used the money for and keep cashing out @leaat 50% of the capital monthly......

He could have put some(50%) into his trade and the other into consumables!


In the tech generation one needs to be woke and leverage on every skill and known investment you can do right!

We are still in the process to
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With a capital of 4mil, how can one make profits in forex trading?

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How?

python2gbera:

In your shallow and myopic estimation, the killings started with Buhari's ascension in 2015 while none of such was widely reported and documented during the administrations of your christian brothers?. I am amused by the brand of weed you smoke.

-python2

All the violence was centred in the north but with buhari as president they now kill people down here in the south with the military and police watching and doing nothing because of so called federal power

I don't support killing of anybody but if you kill my brother, I kill your whole family since buhari is blind to all the violence then we must act by ourselves and kill all Muslims for you people never want peace but war so war you shall get

[quote author=Saviour22 post=67101342] [color=blue] kikikik Wat's wit u igbos and calls for help? the other day I was having a fight wit immhotep and he' was busy calling u for help, sadly u didn't show up weak people who need help from everyone.


That we ignore u doesn't mean we don't know what to do or say to you

[quote author=manchester1 post=55565187]
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Wasn't the answer u were expecting was it?