Tuesday, September 22, 2015

BATTLE LINE DRAWN

As I watched an incumbent Senate President sitting in the dock to answer questions bothering on his dealings with the state, then I remembered PMB' 'I am for everybody, and I am for nobody'; it then dawned on me that we are now at the threshold of new frontiers, an uncharted terrain with possibilities of having a preponderance of cataracts, storms of diverse types, strength and degrees, a terrain that might be ladened by landmines and pitfalls of all sorts, a terrain with the possibilities of opening up can of worms and bomb-shell; but can be weathered through by a captain who has a good knowledge of the operational functioning and has master the use of his compass in locating his bearing. In watching the proceedings of the code of conduct tribunal yesterday, I could not help but imagined and likened it to the war the mafiaso in the United States of America; where the Federal Bureau of investigation (FBI) went for the kingpin through the seen arrow heads that ran the crack chain of supply, those fronted in the bootlegging businesses, those that ran the casinos, those that manned the exchequer, through the command chain to the Godfather himself. I feasted on all of it and started understanding how capital intensive it is for the Federal Government, and to consider that in this hunt, the corrupt been hunted has a lot of resources at his disposal and splashes it the best legal firms to retain their services and delay the process as long as possible to tire-out the government. I imagined the resources the US government must have expended to get down the likes of Carine Tramunti, Joseph "Crazy Joe" Gallo, Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone, Nocolo Terranova; I realized it would have cost them fortunes, but it was a good and worthy cause which they did starting from somewhere in the lower cadre up to the big guns. The code of conduct tribunal proceedings made rejigg my whole thought process concerning the war on corruption, I then realized that it is going to be systematically planned, tactically executed and legally tried and dispensed with. That the government will need to follow every thread of information, every lead, that investigation must be thorough without leaks along the chain of command(moles) and make a watertight case so as not to be lampooned. All of these will take large manpower, lots of man-hour quantum of resources to execute. The senate president came to the tribunal with over fifty senators led by the deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, watching on I could not but brood on their action and the scene they created which had a tone of victimization of Bukola Saraki which is very wrong notion and far from the truth; as a matter of fact their actions made me realize that the likes of Bukola Saraki are facades put before us by the real bosses who are faceless and use his likes as smokescreen and decoys to themselves. I am without doubts that whosoever they are, they will be ruffled by the events of yesterday and will most likely start restrategizin a counter, good enough the government is in the know of their antics so will be prepared for them. To their disadvantage unfortunately they wont see or know from where the strike on them will come from; I mean Bukola Saraki would never have imagined himself docked for an offence of 2005, this is why I am without doubts that the war on corruption will succeed and will be sustained by subsequent administrations. Therefore let the faceless bosses take heed not to say like Tommy Devito-Goodfellas "All right so he got shot in the foot, why is it a big fucken' deal?" This will be foolhardy for "If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, It is that you can kill anyone". Michael Corleone- The Godfather III. Nwali Theophilus Chinedu

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