Nigeria's former minister responsible for the administration of the
Abuja Federal Capital Territory under the Sani Abacha military junta,
Jeremiah Timbut Useni, who was a Lt. General in the Nigerian Army, in
this interview with Vanguard, gives his views on sundry national and
state issues.
Do you think President Buhari is upholding the rule of law
in the way he is handling national issues including the trial of Nnamdi
Kanu?
He is following the rule of law and I don’t know where he has gone
wrong, unless you will tell me where he is going wrong. We just fought a
war on Biafra and we now have peace, so for some people to come again
and start reviving Biafra they are not asking for peace and you want a
responsible government to just keep quiet?
Biafra issue had been locked up, it should remain locked up. May be
that time the person in question was very young , he didn’t know how
people suffered; we fought for three years so you can imagine the number
of people dead and you want to revive that?
Recently, former President Obasanjo indicted the National
Assembly, accusing it of corruption, as a senator what is your take on
that?
He has been replied and I agree with the response. He brought
corruption to the National Assembly with the way he was giving out money
to senators especially when he wanted to go for third term. He spent a
lot of money he can’t account for.
What Buhari is doing now, is like what Awolowo said when he was
Minister of Finance under General Gowon and the government then put up a
probe and wanted to go backward to past government. But Awolowo said
no; new logs go on top of old ones, to get to the old ones; you must
remove the new ones first.
That is what Buhari is doing now, trying to clear the new logs so
that he can get access to the old ones; when he clears the new ones and
gets access to the old ones, the case of Obasanjo will come up. So he
has no excuse at all to say such a thing because if there is any
corruption at all in the National Assembly, he was the cause.
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