Nuhu Ribadu, the former boss of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said in 2006, while Bola Tinubu was governor of Lagos State, that Tinubu’s “criminal case is of international dimension”. Ribadu eventually ended up working for gangster Tinubu as National Security Adviser. His boss’s crimes are now getting the international recognition that they deserve.
Yesterday, Indian news website Firstpost, ran a story with managing editor Palki Sharma on her Vantage programme telling the world about the nepotism and criminality Tinubu was visiting on Nigeria. The broadcast covered the recent appointment of Tinubu’s son-in-law Oyetunde Ojo as managing director of the Federal Housing Authority and the almost immediate approval of 126bn naira for “housing”.
Sharma went on to say that “the Nigerian president has been racking up controversies ever since he took office”. Such controversies included handing over a disputed oil field to oil giant ENI. However, ENI had sold their Nigerian assets to Oando – CEO Wale Tinubu, the president’s nephew.
The programme also highlighted how Tinubu is funding an opulent lifestyle with public funds in the midst of grinding poverty and cost of living crisis in Nigeria, with special reference to the purchase of a presidential yacht.
The only certainty about Tinubu’s presidential yacht is Nigerian public funds will sail away
Sharma ended by suggesting there’s more corruption to come from the Tinubu crime family and hoped Nigeria progresses despite their president’s excesses. Current signs are that the country is going backwards with a one-man crime wave at the helm.
