‘Will former President Goodluck Jonathan, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and others also be arrested?’
Well, that is the question some Nigerians have been asking. Not just because his National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, rtd; AIT and Raypower founder, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi; erstwhile Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa and others are currently in detention, with some already undergoing trial, over their alleged involvement in the mind-boggling $2.2 billion arms procurement mess, but also because more and more dirty details are daily emerging. Likewise more and more names.
The latest is the allegation that Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala approved N61.4 billion of the Abacha loot so far recovered without recourse to the National Assembly. And only based on Jonathan’s directive.
Interestingly, not long after the news broke, Buhari, who treated the House of Representatives members to a thank you dinner at the old banquet hall of the Presidential Villa, in Abuja, dropped this hint which is actually what is causing panic all over the place and also necessitated the question of whether or not Jonathan and his Finance Minister, Okonjo-Iweala, will also be taken in for questioning and arraignment: ‘…We (said Buhari to the legislators) discovered that the billions of Naira and hundreds of Dollars that were supposed to be expended by the previous government to acquire good equipment and ammunition for the military, there was an abuse of trust at various levels that cost Nigeria a lot of lives and goodwill…’
The President is said to be unhappy over this. Thus fears now abound that he may also move against them. Again, having vowed after the submission of the arms procurement report that all those involved will face the music.