Obasanjo plan am very well. Him take old politicians who rule Nigeria
before, the same old politicians who spoil Nigeria before. Obasanjo
carry all of dem. All of dem dey there now. E no finish, e no finish, e
no finish. The young Africans dey get two ears for head, dem get two
eyes too. Dem dey see the thing wey dey happen; dem dey hear am too…
Egba mi oh! – Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
President Jonathan has
nominated and sent the name of General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau to the
senate for Nigeria’s Minister of Defence position. Our sorry recycle
government officially frees from jail and rewards corruption and terror,
rather than arrests and imprisons. Will the senate confirm the 70 year
old, three time failed NSA, coup plotter and foreign spy Mohammed Gusau,
linked to terror, to return to Nigeria’s top security offices?
Let’s review Gusau’s credentials; maybe he qualifies for this top security office.
Aliyu
Mohammed Gusau helped Nigeria stage the military coup that ousted one
of our better regimes, the Buhari-Idiagbon government in 1985.
Yes,
Gusau was dictator Babangida’s right hand man in that critical coup
that confirmed Nigeria on a path of economic woe, corruption, bad
governance and doom.
Suspected for being a traitor by
Buhari-Idiagbon, he was placed on surveillance by the NSO, and thus he
prompted Babangida to speed up the coup before he was sacked or killed.
Aliyu Mohammed Gusau occupied several power roles in Babangida regime.
He
was Director of the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Acting
Director-General of the NSO, then Coordinator on National Security.
Aliyu became National Security Advisor in January 1993, and was promoted
to Army chief.
We Nigerians understand that dictator Babangida
did not destroy our country by himself, he did it with his henchmen;
these include Aliyu Gusau and even the current NSA, who is Aliyu’s
in-law, Colonel Sambo Dasuki, who in like fashion, Jonathan brought back
into power.
Abacha, not trusting this man, retired him. Aliyu went private, running his ‘security company.’
General
Obasanjo brought him back from the ‘tombs’ in 1999 to be his NSA.
According to WikiLeaks, which is flooded with startling and depressing
tales of Aliyu Gusau, Obasanjo brought him back not only because of his
experience, but to “keep the dangerous man close.”
When we think
of the terror that evolved and reached full capacity during Obasanjo’s
tenure, the single person to blame—apart from the President—who was in
charge of our national security was of course our NSA, Aliyu Mohammed
Gusau.
MEND acquired arms under his wonderful watch and reigned
limitless terror in the Niger Delta while Aliyu Mohammed Gusau was NSA.
That is ‘commendable.’
Likewise, Boko Haram, north eastern
maniacal terrorists created camps, gathered arms and unleashed terror
while Gusau was our ‘great’ head of national security.
Then called Taliban, when President Obasanjo asked about these boys in the north,
PMNews on September 14, 2011 reported that Aliyu Mohammed “told Obasanjo that no such group existed in the country.”
With
Yar’Adua taking over, Gusau was dumped and replaced with Major Gen.
Sarki Mukhtar. A great army general known for his antagonism of late
Sani Abacha. The difference was clear. Under Major Gen. Sarki Mukhtar,
Boko Haram was swiftly and surely decimated with no mercy and empathy.
Over 700 terrorists were slaughtered and even the leader, Mohammed Yusuf
was ‘accidentally,’ terminated while ‘he tried to escape.’
But
not only was the right approach used to deal with Boko Haram, but the
other terror threat of the Niger Delta was also addressed appropriately
in consideration of the peculiarities it held. An amnesty was
appropriate and Major Gen. Sarki Mukhtar and Yar’Adua established this
to curb terror in the creeks.
Nigeria for once saw what a
sensible and patriotic, none terror facilitating administration was
like. There was a chance for safe growth with security.
With the
unfortunate demise of President Yar’Adua, which some say may have been
speeded up with poisoning, Aliyu Mohammed Gusau was again returned as
the NSA by Obasanjo’s brain-child, President Jonathan. It appeared there
was no one who could secure the nation as NSA better than the one
person who never secured it while he was NSA before.
Aliyu
Mohammed Gusau, Babangida’s right-hand man, under whose watch, all types
of ammunition were imported into the country and made available to
terrorists; who has also been fingered in the recent cache of arms
discovered in Kano in the hands of so-called Hezbollah agents, as
reported by the NigerianPilot. Think- importation of arms in containers,
allowed by the top level national security office.
With Gusau
back, once again, Boko Haram terror continued seemingly unabated.
Bombings occurred and not a single culprit and sponsor was arrested.
Boko Haram seemed simply impossible to contain.
Now, there is
another story in Aliyu Mohammed Gusau’s resume. He wants to be president
of Nigeria by all and any means necessary. He apparently was at that
table where Babangida, Obasanjo and Abacha sat and placed bets that they
each must rule and ruin Nigeria.
Googling keywords, ‘Gusau’ and
‘WikiLeaks reports,’ the internet is awash with sickening tales of how
Aliyu Mohammed Gusau kept running to US ambassadors in Nigeria to
discuss his odds at becoming the next President and report on all
Nigeria’s top security issues. Gusau, Nigeria’s top security man was an
open cannon, revealing all top level intelligence to the US according to
tons of WikiLeaks cables exposed by Julian Assange.
So, back to
his resume, Aliyu Mohammed Gusau stepped down as NSA in September 2010,
when he told President Goodluck Jonathan that he planned to contest for
Jonathan’s post and as such could no longer serve. This was when late
General Owoye Azazi was hired for the job after a brief month when
Colonel Kayode Are held the office.
General Owoye Andrew Azazi
was NSA from October 2010 to June 2012, when he, increasingly frustrated
with the President, apparently for not being allowed to operate as he
would wish and bring the known masterminds of terror to book, was
terminated.
General Owoye Andrew Azazi is remembered for at a
time, upon there being a need to declare a state of emergency in Kaduna,
referring to the President as incapable, with the words, “where is the
president to declare it.” Later he dared to declare that Boko Haram was a
result of “inner workings of PDP.” In a televised speech, General Owoye
Andrew Azazi said, as recorded on
Channels TV, that,
“PDP
got it wrong from the beginning, from the on-set by saying A can
rule, A cannot rule, B can rule, B cannot rule, according to PDP’s
convention, rules and regulation and not according to the constitution
{applause} and that created the climate for what has manifest itself,
this way. I believe that there is some element of politicization. Is it
possible that somebody was thinking that only A could win, and if he
did not win, there will be problems in this society?”
Azazi was
fired in June and died at the end of that year in a suspicious
helicopter crash which bore the hallmarks of Babangida era
assassinations.
Back to General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau. Unable to
put a lid on Boko Haram terror, President Jonathan kept begging the
spymaster to re-occupy the seat as NSA. Apparently Nigeria had no
younger, more skilled, more patriotic candidate for that office who did
not have a record of being the one on the seat when terror penetrated
and plagued the nation.
Nigeria’s president did not need the man
who craves his Presidential seat, but whose duty it was to defend and
prevent the nation from being engulfed in terror, of which he totally
failed.
When Gusau refused to return to the office, President
Jonathan hired his in-law, Colonel Sambo Dasuki. Gusau is married to
Dasuki’s sister. These two are brothers and are both the pivots of that
Babangida administration we thought we had gotten rid of.
Dasuki according to
theNation, supported an amnesty for Boko Haram terrorists and brutal murderers, a position virtually all of Nigeria vehemently rejected.
Due
to the lack of any responsible, apt, skilled and patriotic Nigerian to
employ for the office of Minister of Defence, our dear president
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, according to recent reports, has agreed to an
unknown request Gusau made, and prepared to bring him back into the
nation’s top defence spot.
One wonders if there is a problem with
our heads as Nigerians… and who cursed us and how bad the curse was,
that we must be hated this much by our government.
Disrespected,
insulted and sacrificed at the altar under reigns of never ending
government corruption, greed and deadly terror. Yeparika oh!
