Dogara’s sermon on billions in farms

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. YakubuDogara, has made  a strange claim that Looted funds are now being buried in Farms across the country.

In a startling disclosure over the weekend, Mr. Dogara raised an alarm that looters’ funds were no longer being kept in Banks but are being ware-housed in tomato or rice farms within the Abuja capital territory. He bemoaned the situation that after one year of anti- corruption fight no one had been convicted.

A strong voice behind President Buhari’s anti- graft war has this to say ‘ If I am just arrested, charged to court and maybe some money recovered from me at the end of the day, nothing happens and a lot of people will not be deterred from engaging in corrupt practices in the future.’
Speaker Dogara feels that conviction may not necessarily mean going to prison  but the stigma of conviction in a court of law will deter prospective politicians with itchy palms.

According to Speaker Dogara, since PDP had been in government for some 15 odd years, most of the funds meant for Arms purchase were being channeled  to the PDP, but he, however, said he could not vouch for the APC politicians who were in opposition and whether they also benefitted from looted funds he could not say.

Speaker Dogara’s seeming naivety is rather stunning,  as if, the former PDP  and Action Congress Governors who now were seen as funders of the new APC tgovernment did not part with funds from their various states.
AshiwajuTinubu and BabatundeFashola did not lay their hands on the Lagos state treasury funds. Or Governor of Rivers state MrRotimiAmaechi did not donate to President Buhari’s campaign in 2015?

When Speaker Dogara speaks like a nephrite in politics on how money moves from hand to another, especially, during the Presidential primaries of the APC in Lagos TeslimBalogun stadium inSurulere , with bullion Vans strategically placed in the stadium, and like ATM machines Tinubu and co- travellers ensured that money flowed throughout the primaries .
And from IMO  and Kano, whose governor were keen contestants in the APC primaries doled out huge sums of money for that exercise.

Speaker Dogara may n ot have been inducted into the money spinning routine in both Houses of the National Asembly when former Presidents were accused of spreading banana peels  for sharing among principal officers to allow  an over-bearing former civilian military president to want to extend a two term presidency to a third term. Speaker Dogara must try to grow up, open his eyes and see things as they were before his term.

Commenting on the powers of the National Assembly to summon Ministers to the Chambers, Dogara agreed, it was the right oif the Chambers to invite erring Ministers to come to the Chambers to explain issues affecting the Chambers and dialogue with law makers.

He said that the National Assembly may approach the Supreme Court to make a categorical ruling on such invitations.
From the laymen perspective the trial of the two principal Senate leaders being dragged to court for what has come to be called Forgery of senate rules in electing its principal officers is more of an abuse o court processes by the Executive arm of government.