By Ayo Lijadu
Is there a law forbidding the President and the National Assembly from investigating a sitting Vice President, and other close people in and around the immediate past and present State and Federal governments, (including their collaborating non-state actors), long suspected to be Sponsors of terrorism and terrorists in their own country?
People long fingered to have been allegedly involved, (and probably still involved) in the sponsorship of terrorists like former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff, former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, former governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, and the Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi.
Can the President develop the political will and political balls to set up an Independent Panel of Enquiry to investigate all the rumours and allegations concerning the alleged involvement of these politicians and their alleged collaborators?
After all, we’ve been hearing about a long-existing list of Terror Sponsors in this country. What has the President been doing with that list? We deserve to know. As people who elected him into office, and whom he swore on oath to protect, we demand to know how far he has acted, and intends to act, in unravelling and unmasking the wicked and evil souls behind the unrelenting mayhem, killings, kidnappings, sacking of communities, and occupation of ancestral lands, being visited on this hapless nation.
We are no more interested in palliative statements of assurance and reassurance, or of impotent orders and directives that have yielded nothing concrete, or effectual, since you took over the mantle of power over two years ago. What we want to see is concrete action: arrests, prosecutions, indictments, convictions, and sentencing of various complicit persons to terms including death verdicts, life sentences, and other long jail incarcerations.
Failure to do any, or a combination, or ALL of the above, will only pose a bigger and more ominous question that has been hanging in the air, which I suspect might have filtered to your ears by now: how complicit is the President in all of these?
My advice, Mr. President, ACT NOW!!!
Not later in the day.
NOW!!!
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