‘What does Jerry still want?’
IF Dr Jerry Gana or his friends are reading this piece, they should rest easy. It is not about him.
These appointments encompassed the era of military president Ibrahim Babangida, the interim administration of the deluded Ernest Shonekan, the brutal regime of Sani Abacha and Olusegun Obasanjo’s two terms. But Gana never lost his equanimity, his even temperament. More importantly, he was never tainted by scandal.
Virtually everything had to be upgraded. Appliances had to be the latest. Furnishings, crockery, flatware and stemware had to be the finest. Taking a cue from mai gida, the mai guard said the black-and-white television in his post was outmoded. Pronto, the mai gida ordered that it be replaced with the latest, in living colour. And so on and so forth.
To be specific, his acquisitions confiscated by the Federal Government, apart from the N4 billion reportedly recovered from one of his homes, N2 billion of it in foreign currency, included a terminal in Jos, from where he operated a transport service with a fleet of 20 buses; controlling shares in a bank, two shopping malls in Abuja, 40 lock-up stalls in Garki and Wuse districts of Abuja, more than 70 undeveloped plots in Abuja, more than 30 houses in Langtang and Abuja, and 43 personal cars.
Before then, he had been unmasked as the official who procured the women and manned the gates while his friend and principal Sani Abacha indulged himself in orgies of debauchery that eventually claimed his life.
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