Opinion: This CHANGE We Got Is Long On Sleaze, By Osmund Agbo
Even though this current news cycle is already saturated with the whirlwind of corruption allegations against Buhari administration officials, it has continued to deliver on its promise to be stranger than fiction. Every passing day, Nigerians wake up to yet another shameless specter that smacks of a crime plot hatched in the make-believe world of Hollywood.
It’s important to note that there has been some other publications challenging the veracity of this report. Some even went as far as calling it fake news. Be that as it may, we are living in a country where even a retraction doesn’t necessarily mean a news item is fake. It could sometimes mean that a deal has been brokered between parties or that cash had exchanged hands. The fact still remains that going by the antecedents, the named parties were not incapable of pulling off such a stunt.
In its March 2019 publication, Bloomberg news reported that as part of Covid-19 economic stimulus package, Central Bank of Nigeria would bolster its support to manufacturing and other key sectors of the economy by 1 trillion naira . As of today, no one could give any good account of where we are in that process.
Just as we were reeling from the effect of Magu’s saga, there is a new allegation that Nigeria’s Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Mallami , had ordered security agencies to cover up an ongoing multi-billion naira fraud in Nigeria’s Incentive-based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending.
But let’s face it, it’s not entirely the fault of this current generation of Nigerian youths. Many of them who today are in the age range of early 20’s to late 30’s grew up in a pretty adversarial socio-political and economic environment. The Nigerian state reneged on that part of social contract that guarantees that young people within that demographics have abundance of positive role models as well as the opportunity to follow their passions and pursue their dreams on a level playing field.
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