Boko Haram: Why US refused to sell arms to Jonathan – Activist
Mr. Smart Ajaja, a Nigerian rights activist, based in the United
States of America, yesterday, said the refusal of former President
Goodluck Jonathan to probe alleged multi-million dollars allegedly found
in one the nation’s service chiefs, during his tenure was the reason
America refused to sell arms to his administration.
Ajaja, who gave insight into how some persons he described as very
vulnerable Nigerians abroad serve as fronts to looters of the country’s
treasury,said the US govt, which uncovered the money, gave Jonathan term
upon which he could get its support.
He said Jonathan refusal to probe a service chief, who he did not
name, resulted to the refusal of American government to sell arms to his
government.
Ajaja said although some volunteers among the diasporans were
willing to assist President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government to
further identify some of the looted funds, the government should do a
lot more to block movement of physical cash out of the country.
The activist noted that the corrupt persons could not have
transferred most of the looted monies abroad without help of some
diasporans but observed that the Bank Verification Number (BVN) policy
introduced by the Cenral Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to a great extent,
assited in identifying the looted funds.
He urged the federal government to create access to opportunities for
the citizens to whip up patriotism and reduce the current incident of
terrorism in the country.
He said, “If the government can’t monitor the movement of physical
cash out of Nigeria, there is nothing we can do from there because what
they do is they have agents they use to transfer these monies out, to
put them in banks.
“They have special banks where they put the money but one good thing
about the USA which is lacking here is that every human being is a
security agent because they put the country first before any thing
“Here, we are very unwilling to give information. One, because of
sentiment tied to friendship, bond of brotherhood and association as
well as ethnic sentiment but until we abandon that and accept competence
as the only tribe in Nigeria, we will not move forward
“I’m in total disagreement that the current war against corruption is
one-sided. The political parties are no nations. Nigerians committed
fraud against Nigeria and they are being prosecuted as Nigerians so the
issue of lopsidedness does not arise. These are alleged criminals and
they must be prosecuted to full extent allowed by the law
“I have heard some people talk about abuse of human rights. By
spiritual, moral and constitutional standards, stealing is a crime and
stealing at that level, when you abuse your position, your office, when
you rob the nation, you are imprisoning the immediate generation and
generations unborn, especially when it is of such high extent.”
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