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Re: What Nigerians Pay the FG by
Nasir El-Rufai; My Right of Reply
By Adejo A Adeolu
4-07-2011
The article with the above title in the Thisday Newspaper
of 1st July 2011 would
have been taken seriously by patriotic Nigerians if it had not
come from Nasir El-Rufai
who was part of the mess of the Obasanjo/Yar’adua
administration before he
fell out with late Yar’adua early in the Yar’adua
administration. With the
above article El-Rufai is simply moaning and bitching
having lost out in the
power game for now. I am really surprised that the
internet warriors of
Nigeria are falling over themselves calling El-Rufai a
hero.
To set the records straight, let us re-cap some of Nasir El-Rufai’s
corrupt practices when he was in Obasanjo’s government.
*Nasir El-Rufai as the minister
of FCT was paying his NYSC girl friend one million naira
allowance as against the
eleven thousand naira allowance other NYSC members was being
paid.
*El-Rufai allocated FCT houses and
choice plots of land to his children and friends using
fictitious names.
*El-Rufai was part of the economic
team who could account for the $16 billion sank into comatose
NEPA turned PHCN.
*El-Rufai confirmed that he was still part of the team that
hoisted sick Yar’adua on Nigerians. As if that is
not enough, he was still
part of the cabal that held Nigeria and Nigerians
hostage last year when
Yar’adua was sick. Segun Adeniyi has confirmed that in
his series ‘The Cabal’.
It was when President Goodluck Jonathan did not consider him
worthy of any appointment in his administration that El-Rufai
decided to switch side typical of
Nigerian politician.
El-Rufai confirmed that immediately he came from exile, he paid
nocturnal visits to vice
president Namadi Sambo to curry favors which was not forth
coming.
While the figures he quoted in his article made sense, let his
charity begin at home by
returning all the money he looted from the FCT from 2003 to
2007. Let him equally
explained to us ordinary Nigerians how he maintained himself in
exile for three years.
In whose house was he staying? Who was paying his bills
and his school fees
while studying in Harvard University?
We are tired of reading hateful articles by frustrated
politicians simply because they have lost out in the power
game.
Can El-Rufai tell Nigerians how many jobs he created as FCT
minister? The one million
naira allowance he was paying his NYSC girl friend, wouldn’t it
have paid the salary of
at least five graduates per month? Did El-Rufai condemn the
bogus salary and
allowances he and he his colleagues were collecting when he was
a minister?
Is it not mischief for El-Rufai to compare the Nigerian budget
of 2007 and that of 2011
which is a clear four years period!
I only agree with El-Rufai in one sense, the criminal salary and
allowances being stolen from the national treasury by the
gang of looters called the
National Assembly members must be slashed by 75% and paid to
teachers, police, doctors
and other health workers.
Mallam Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai, please return your own loot to the
national treasury as a restitution then we Nigerians will
know you a true Muslim and is ready
to be a social critic in Nigeria.
Adejo A Adeolu writes from Bariga Lagos
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