My name is Prince Bashir Adefaka, a Nigerian believer in Nigeria.
Nigerians sent me to Your Excellency.
They say the nation have got enough information from the attitude of Bukola Saraki and Dino Melaye for our Police and DSS to swing into action investigating the two men of Kwara and old Kwara over:
1. Saraki was alleged to have committed car import scam whereby he underdeclared the value of his imported bulletproof car of about N298 million to enable him evade duty of N74 million that should have been paid into the Nigerian coffers. Saraki and his Melaye tried to exonerate the Senate President saying it was issue between an agent of the Senate and Customs and so that Saraki should not be dragged into the fraud. We later got to know that it was reason Saraki is trying to rubbish Col. Hameed Ali for his refusal to let the business as usual continue.
Now, two things, if it is an issue between an agent and Customs, what was the reason for the Senate’s boldly written letter asking the Customs to release the car as, according to the letter, the car belongs to Senate President? Does it not mean that Senate as a whole tried to stop the Customs from doing its job by aiding the “fraudulent” agent to defraud the nation for free? Did Senate leadership that wrote that letter know that the papers presented by the agent to Customs on the Range River bulletproof car were fake or not? If no, why did Saraki, a medical doctor, involve himself in helping an agent he knows not his character? If yes that he and his Senate administration knew that the papers were fake, why did he and they involve themselves in shielding fraudulent people?
Mr. President, Nigerians who queued in sun, rain and slept at polling boots to vote you into office on March 28, 2015 say they want to see and you order the Police or DSS to swing into action and investigate Saraki NOOOOW!
Not only that, they say after the investigation the report should be made public and that if he is found to be the owner of the car and that all the issue of fakeness and underdeclaration of value are true, they are calling for the arrest of Saraki forthwith and that nothing will happen.
2. Dino Melaye: This Senator is the most vocal to the extent that he made the constitutional Senate of the Federal Republic to be ridiculed. How? He was said to have uttered, when the Senators rejected EFCC Magu, that “now that Magu will cease to be acting EFCC Chairman, let us take over the EFCC.” Whether the educated people backing these people know that Melaye said so is left to question.
But Dino Melaye has been reported to have no first degree. Having no first degree is not barrier. What complicates his issue is that he lied, claiming that he has what he doesn’t have. He has slammed a N50 billion suit on Sahara Reporters saying he will tender his certificate in court. Nigerians in support of the anti corruption are saying that it is not only that Melaye’s certificate if tendered in court be accepted in evidence but that transcripts leading to the certificate be demanded for by the court.
On the part of the govt, Nigerians say not only when people blow whistle on stolen money should police and/or DSS act. They say the security should act on the whistle blowing done about Melaye’s claim of ABU certificate, his claim of Harvard University studentship and others, investigate, make the report public and arrest him if guilty. It is a slap on our national image that any of our leaders lies.
Finally, Mr. President, Nigerians want you to know that Saraki, Dino Melaye and Atiku’s meeting with IBB has implication and that you must not let down on your guards.
They say “It will be a shame if a bloody civilian like Saraki will destroy the government of a military man like Buhari.” And we say over our dead bodies!
Thanks as I remain Buharist for as long as struggle for better and corruption-free Nigeria continues.
*This is open letter was picked from the Facebook wall of Prince Bashir Adefaka
