Immediate past AGF and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami<SAN)
By Ibrahim Garba
Coming on the heels of the recent appointments made earlier this week by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, more heads of parastatals may be shown the exit door on Friday, if information at our disposal has anything to go by.
According to information at our disposal the immediate past Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami may be arrested on Friday while, the Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) Mele Kyari may be on his way out of the corporation..
President Tinubu’s resolve to build an eco system around technocrats and goal getters may have given those he inherited the goose bumps given that its another firing friday in which President hardly skipped when taking major strategic decisions.
MD NNPCL, Melee Kyari
For too long the best industry players are kept on the reserved bench, and digging up from the talent pool is the trade mark of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
He made it clear from his maiden speech that his administration will no longer be a safe haven for those who will turn back the hand of the clock when he admitted that “we are too great a nation and too grounded as a people to rob ourselves of our finest destiny”.
And going by the hand over notes from his predecessor, more heads may roll due to either inconclusive arrangements based on shoddy jobs, poor execution of projects or acts of over invoicing. The EFCC and ICPC have been on their trails daily compiling notes and tracking failed projects.
Because we have ” endured hardships that would have made other societies crumble”, Tinubu in his commando style ordered for a forensic audit of all public spending during the past administration by some few cabals that ran Nigeria like a personal estate milking the nation dry through sharp practices. The arrest of former CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele and the EFCC chair Abdulrasheed Bawa shows clearly he means business. No more sacred cow.
From social investment programs where warehouses were looted and re-looted to the justice system which was under scrutiny, to the agonizing moments people go through in clearing and forwarding at the port, he may begin to wield the big stick not sooner than later.
Tinubu says “for many years, Nigeria’s critics have trafficked the rumour that our nation will break apart, even perish”. But his new found form may have challenged the status quo when he broke the jinx by laying off the oil subsidy regime which has been the exclusive preserve of the collective few.
That hurts the economy, but the big players feeding fat from it at the expense of the masses begin to realign to weaken the system through continuous prize fixing. It was indeed an international conspiracy aimed towards grounding the economy to a halt and hand it to a collective few.
After few months the heads of the oil company still grapple with the new reality trying to navigate his way to find a solution from mars as if it is a rocket science. But time is running out because the C in C may not hold back the tears of Nigerians no more.
However the landscape will continue to evolve and experts claim rigidity can lead to obsolescence. Tinubu’s body language should have been communicated widely that ” we are here to further mend and heal this nation, not tear and injure it”.
There is no one size fits all because every government is different, each has unique challenges and advantages, budgets, talents and practice and strengths. Even if he inherited excess baggage, Tinubu will still dig deep to discover raw talents that will help him take the nation out of the brink.
And by the time the political storm is over, the tone of the sound may change from afrobeat, because the ” government will continue to take proactive steps such as championing a credit culture to discourage corruption while strengthening the effectiveness and efficiency of the various anti-corruption agencies”.
