: A date at the White House and Nigeria’s history of slaughter

Femi Fani-Kayode: A date at
the White House and
Nigeria’s history of slaughter
OPINION
Published on April 27, 2018
By Daily Post Staff
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Last friday the United States Government
released a damning human rights report on
Nigeria, saying “grave violations of human
rights” continued to increase in 2017 while
officials who perpetrated them were never
prosecuted by the Federal Government of
President Muhammadu Buhari.
It also said, inter alia, that Nigeria is suffering
from “ethnic, religious and regional violence”.
This is the bitter truth and the report is a
welcome development.
Ethnic cleansing, genocide, mass murder, state-
sponsored terror, unprecedented corruption,
monumental incompetence, the persecution of
opposition figures and their families, the
violation of court orders, the intimidation of the
National Assembly, the Judiciary and the
Fourth Estate of the realm which is the media,
the targetting and cold-blooded murder of
Christians, Igbo (IPOB) youths and Shiite
Muslims, the gradual and incremental
Islamisation of the nation, the humiliation of
the Church and Christian clerics, the covert
support for and encouragement of murderous
Islamist and jihadist terror groups like the
Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram and so on
and so forth are now the cornerstone and
hallmark of President Buhari’s govermmemt.
Worse of all he did not have the National
Assembly’s approval to withdraw $496 million
from the Federal Governments Excess Crude
Account which he used to pay for the 12 Super
Tucano jets that he purchased from the United
States and that are to be supplied to the
Nigerian Airforce by 2020.
This makes it an illegal expense which, under
our laws, is an impeachable offence. It also
makes the whole transaction unlawful.
Even more troubling is the fact that, as long as
Buhari is in power, those jets are as likely to
be used against innocent and defenceless
Nigerian civilians, including women and
children, as they are against terrorists.
I sincerely hope that these issues will form part
of the deliberations and discussions that will
take place in the meeting betwen President
Donald Trump and President Buhari in
Washington on 30th April.
They should also discuss the shameful way in
which the President Barack Obama’s
administration interfered in Nigeria’s 2015
presidential election and assisted Buhari to
come to power and the $500 million that the
Buhari administration contributed, through
various fronts and companies like the Chagoury
brothers, to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential
campaign.
And now to the meat of this essay.
In terms of high level military, intelligence and
security operations and what are known in
western intelligence agencies as “black ops”
few events in our history come close to the
one that took place in Dapchi a few months
ago.
I am not referring to major or cataclysmic
events which also had the imprint and involved
the input of numerous foreign and domestic
intelligence and security agencies like the
murder of General Aguiyi-Ironsi in 1966 and the
coming to power of Lt. Col. (as he then was)
Jack Yakubu Gowon or the murder of General
Murtala Mohammed in 1976 and the coming to
power of General Olusegun Obasanjo or again
the murder of General Sani Abacha and Chief
MKO Abiola in 1998 which led to the release
from prison and the second coming to power
of President Olusegun Obasanjo. Those are the
obvious ones.
I am referring to the more subtle ones which
had less obvious but equally identifiable
motives. I will not go into detail and I will not
expose the motives. I will just mention the
events and the facts surrounding them.
First was the cold-blooded murder of Gloria
Okon, an international drug courier, that was
working for powerful government officials and
men and women in high places and that was
about to spill the beans when General
Muhammadu Buhari was in power in 1985.
Second was the elimination of Dele Giwa, a
prominent and highly respected journalist, by
agents of President Ibrahim Babangida’s
government in 1986.
Third was the C130 military plane crash in
Ejigbo, Lagos in 1992 in which 158 junior and
middle rank army officers were tragically killed.
The plane was brought down and those gallant
officers were left to die slow and painful
deaths in the swamp because the rescue
operation was purposely delayed. It was more
of an execution than a plane crash.
Fourth was the slaughter of Kudirat Abiola,
Chief MKO Abiola’s wife, Chief Alfred Rewane,
Rear Admiral Omotenhiwa and hundreds of
other pro-June 12th and NADECO leaders and
operatives by General Sani Abacha’s military
junta between 1995 and 1998.
Fifth was the mysterious “plane crash” in Kano
in 1996 in which Ibrahim Abacha, the first son
of General Sani Abacha, together with his close
friends Bello Dangote, Omieba Princewill and a
number of others lost their lives. The fact is
that most of those that died were killed after
the plane had crashed at the crash site by
unknown elements and there appears to have
been a struggle on the private jet before it
came down.
Needless to say the whole thing was covered
up by military intelligence and the truth was
buried. Not even General Abacha, who was
Head of State at the time, knew what actually
happened and who was involved until much
later.
Sixth was the murder of numerous high profile
leaders and political figures during the tenure
of President Olusegun Obasanjo between 2000
and 2007 including Chief Bola Ige, Chief
Marshall Harry, Chief Dikibo and many others.
Seventh was the bombing of Odi town in Rivers
state by the military during the course of
President Olusegun Obasanjo’s government in
1999 in which hundreds of civilians were
murdred.
Eighth was the masscre of dozens of people in
Zaki Biam in Benue state by the military during
the course of President Olusegun Obasanjo’s
government in 2001.
Ninth was the blowing up of the Bellview
Airlines plane over Lisa, Lagos state in 2005 in
which over 100 people perished and which was
passed off as a fatal accident and plane crash.
I have said it before and I will say it again: I
became Minister of Aviation one year after that
crash and I had access to all the relevant
security reports and American NTSB
documents. According to that NTSB report the
plane did not crash but was brought down by
what was described as “a low-level incendiary
device” which had been planted on the plane
before it took off by unknown elements.
Tenth was the murder of Mohammed Yusuf,
the founder and erstwhile leader of Boko
Haram, whilst in the custody of the Nigerian
Police in 2009 during the tenure of President
Shehu Musa Yar’adua.
Eleventh was the blowing up of a building in
Prophet TB Joshua’s SCOAN Church in Lagos
by remote control detonation from a drone as a
consequnce of which over 200 people,
including many foreigners, were killed in 2013.
Even though the whole event was recorded on
CCTV, including the drone and the detonation,
this was largely ignored by the authorities and
no meaningful criminal investigation into what
was clearly an act of terror took place.
The whole thing was passed off by the
Government of the day as an accident due to a
faulty foundation even though the intelligence
agencies knew better.
Despite the Lagos State Attorney General’s
simplistic and foolhardy assertion that the
State Government would “pursue the case
against TB Joshua and his Church to a logical
end”, the truth is that what the government is
dealing with is a premeditated and well-
orchestrated act of terror carried out by highly
proficient, skilled and experienced operatives
and not one of involuntary manslaughter which
came about as a consequence of negligence
on the part of the Church authorities or a faulty
foundation.
The Lagos State Attorney General, as naive as
ever, has no idea that he is being used, that he
is on a wild goose chase, that he is helping to
shield and protect the real perpertrators of the
crime and that he seeks to destroy the legacy
and name of an innocent man and Church.
The truth is that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode
has much work to do if he really wants to know
what happened because the “faulty foundation”
theory is a brilliant ruse.
I challenge him to ask for all the relevant
security reports on this matter. They tell a very
different story indeed.
Twelfth was the abduction of the Chibok girls
in 2014 which was planned, funded, executed
and orchestrated by rogue elements in our
intelligence agencies in collusion with some
disgruntled northern politicians and key
members of the then opposition including three
sitting governors.
Thirteenth is the secret and cold-blooded mass
murder and illegal incarceration of thousands
of IPOB youths and members by security
forces over the last three years.
Fourteenth is the state-sponsored mass murder
of Shiite Muslims at any given opportunity and
the ruthless persecution of their members,
including women and children over the last
three years.
Fifteenth is the overt support that the Federal
Government has consistently provided for the
Fulani herdsmen who have slaughtered
thousands of innocent and defenceless
Nigerians, including women and children, over
the last three years.
Sixteenth is the covert support that Buhari
himself and key players in his political party
and administration have given Boko Haram over
the last 6 years by funding their operations,
openly identifying with some of their core
values and ideals and seeking to protect them
from the proscription.
They have also protested publicly when the
military hits them hard, insisted that the Army
uses kid gloves when fighting them, released
their top commanders, refused to target and
kill their key leaders and paid them vast sums
of protection money and ransoms which the
terrorists have then used to purchase more
arms.
In terms of special ops and secrecy Dapchi
falls into this category of events. And the fact
that Leah Sharibu, the only Christian amongst
the over 100 “abducted” girls, was the only one
that was not released speaks volumes. The
message is simple and clear.
These complex covert operations are
commonly referred to in intelligence circles as
“black ops”, “extreme measures” and “wet
work” and they are always done in the utmost
secrecy and with the full knowledge and
sometimes assitance and logistical support of
either one or two other friendly and trusted
foreign intelligence agencies.
The motives for the sixth, seventh, eighth and
ninth will be made manifest next year during
the presidential election in the event of anyone
daring to give Buhari stiff resistance or a hard
fight.
This time around it will not only be the dog and
the baboon that they intend to soak in blood if
a strong challenge is presented to Buhari but
the whole of Nigeria and the west African sub-
region.
That is why $2 billion has been released from
the Excess Crude Account in the last four
months to supposedly “fight terrorism”.
That money will not be used to fight terrorism
but to arm the terrorists in preparation for the
conflict that lies ahead.
Now that President Buhari has formally
declared his intention to run in the 2019
election and seeks a fresh mandate I fear that
what is coming our way is not just an election
but a series of cataclysmic events that will
change our lives and our country forever.
Nigeria, with its incredibly incompetent and
carefully hand-picked and selected leaders, has
been targetted by the powers that be and the
chaos and anarchy that we are witnessing in
our country today is contrived.
Sadly the Nigerian people have been
hoodwinked and appear to be incapable of
putting the jigsaw together, asking the relevant
questions and demanding the appropiate
answers.
They cannot see and neither can they fathom
or comprehend the evil machinations of the
hidden hand or the dark and sinister world of
covert operations and black ops.
They are more than content and happy to
watch Big Brother Nigeria and to see, read and
believe the rubbish that the government feeds
them through the local media.
Saddled with a largely uninquiring press, the
truth is that we are more often than not misled
and misinformed with a labyrinth and forest of
official lies, government cover-ups and
disinformation.
I have often wondered why such a well-
educated and dynamic people are so trusting
when it comes to their Governments and I have
often asked why some of us are so naive.
If we wish to know the truth and get to the
bottom of such matters we need to sit up and
do far better. I trust God that perhaps one day
we will do so: that is if the com
ing chaos does
not consume us all first.