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Agbegbaorogboye:
Show me one Nigerian leader, just one who has ever been charged for corruption

What the hell? Is that the evidence that we are asking for? How does that prove anything?

Anyway, your question is, "Show me one Nigerian leader, just one who has ever been charged for corruption" (please don't shift the goal post later).

I'll give you two, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Sani Abacha.

seunmsg:
Gowon was in Kampala attending OAU meeting when the coup took place. He was never allowed back into Nigeria after the coup.

Nobody is arguing that he did not steal money. All our leaders did. However, the allegation that he moved half of CBN money to the UK is a big lie. He moved to the UK a poor man. The evidence available doesn’t show someone that lived like he had half of CBN money at his disposal. That a young UK parliamentarian said something doesn’t make it accurate. The least we can do is to fact check and try to place the pieces together. In this case, it doesn’t add up at all.

Hopefully, NAPTU2 would come out and educate some of you guys. He’s an authority when it comes to the history of military rule in Nigeria.

Even the parliamentarian did not provide evidence, instead he said, "It is said". People who say that are merely repeating rumours. He should tell us who said and what the evidence is.


There was definitely corruption during the Gowon Administration, but like the Shagari Administration, the allegations were not against Gowon but against people that served under him.


There were two main reasons that Yar'Adua, Garba and Abdullahi removed Gowon and they are

1) Because he refused to hand over to civilians in 1976 as he had promised.

2) Because he refused to punish people in his administration that were corrupt.


That's why Murtala sacked and jailed a lot of people (especially civil servants) that were corrupt.

They set up panels to investigate everybody. Only two governors were cleared of corruption. All the others were indicted.

People like Adeyemi Bero were sacked and tried. Eko Court was recovered from him.

Even the chief justice, Professor Elias, was removed from office, yet there was not a single charge against Gowon.

Military governments like to accuse their predecessors of every bad thing under the sun, in order to justify their coup and win favour from the masses. Why did the anti-corruption government of Murtala not charge Gowon with a single allegation of corruption?

Why did the Obasanjo regime, which declared Gowon wanted, not charge him with looting half the CBN?

Where is the evidence (not beer parlour rumour, but evidence)?

seunmsg:
A UK parliamentarian today accused Gowon of moving half of CBN money to the UK. The video is trending on Twitter. So, how come he was so poor as a university student despite moving so much money to the UK?

Kai! I have just watched the video that you are referring to. That guy's statement is so ridiculous and I don't think any serious person would take it seriously.

He said, "We all remember when General Gowon took half the Central Bank, so it is said, and moved to London".

I would really like him to say that outside the chamber so that Gowon can sue him.

Did Gowon know that he was moving to London?

Gowon went to the OAU summit in Kampala when Joe Garba, Shehu Musa Yar'Adua and Abdullahi Mohammed overthrew him. He didn't take anything with him! It was Nigerians in the UK that launched a contribution to take care of him! My uncle was one of the people that contributed. How would he have known that he was not going to return to Nigeria??

How does this rumour (so it was said) that this ignorant man is peddling prove anything?

Again, why didn't the Murtala Regime (the anti-corruption regime that sacked and jailed many government officials for corruption) accuse him of looting half the Central Bank? Why didn't the Obasanjo Regime (that declared him wanted) accuse him of looting half the Central Bank?

You need to properly analyse anything that these people say. A lot of them like to set themselves up as experts on Nigeria, but most of them don't know what they are talking about. I have heard British people who said that Abacha was the head of state when the June 12 election was annulled, I have also heard British people that said that Babangida handed over to Abacha. Do not just accept or reject whatever they say just because they are British. Question and interrogate their statements!

seunmsg:
A UK parliamentarian today accused Gowon of moving half of CBN money to the UK. The video is trending on Twitter. So, how come he was so poor as a university student despite moving so much money to the UK?

Do you have actual proof that he moved the money in order to conclude that the parliamentarian was right, or are you just accepting the parliamentarian's word without any proof?

Desire Oparanozie suffered a hamstring injury at the weekend. She was running toward goal with a defender chasing her when she suddenly pulled up and clutched her thigh.

This reminds me of Sam Sodje. He punched a guy's balls twice during a match because a betting syndicate had paid him to get a red card during the game.

naptu2:
Two low blows and a red card.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITUBr15AxS0



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