Unearthing the deals...
Between the lines
(Only for those who can see)
For two weeks, Major General Tunde Idiagbon, the all-powerful, never smiling strongman, was stranded in Saudi Arabia. Within a split second, a man who was said to be so powerful in Nigeria was reduced to a helpless crying man. The coward did not even have the courage to hold back his tears! Yet he single-handedly could sign a piece of paper that could send any Nigerian to indefinite detention without trial.
When Tunde Idiagbon was riding high, enjoying the trappings of illegitimate power, he was said to be so tough that no one should expect to see a smile on his face. To smile was to smiled. He was the man who, if it were possible, would follow his were possible, would follow his opponent to the next world to ensure an extension of the punishment imposed on the enemy from his Doddan Barracks. Idiagbon, the General, boasted that no man born of woman could oust him from power. He was said to have many juju men and women sheltered behind his compound chanting and performing all kinds of witchcraft. Yet he was a moslem. It was this coupled with half the number of tanks in the Nigerian Army that provided him escort that made him feel and believe he was invincible!
This was the man who bragged he would teach Nigerians sense and make them submit totally to dictatorship. All Nigerians were supposed to be corrupt except his friends and associates and he was sent to put them aright. Only he and General Buhari of Daura knew the meaning of discipline, integrity, patriotism etc, etc.
The question is - was he any of the above at the time he was shouting to the world? We shall ask just a few simple questions between the lines and hope Lt. Col. Akilu, the DMI, would get cracking so that he may help the world put the record straight by documenting the wheeling and dealing of this pretender who terrorised Nigerians for twenty months.
Q1. Who is the beneficial owner of the warehouses in Ilorin rented to the NNSC (Nigerian National Supply Company)? The warehouses are adjacent to the Air Force base.
Q2. Is it true or false that Tunde Idiagbon appointed 19 people to the chairmanship of Federal Corporations and or companies all drawn from his relations and friends within Ilorin only in the name of the whole state of Kwara?
Q3. Who pushed the idea of establishing an Air Force Base in Ilorin? Who owns the complex of buildings rented out to the Nigeria Air Force to form its Administrative Base in Ilorin?
Q4. Is it true or false that Tunde Idiagbon unilaterally extended by an additional year the tenure of office of the Chairman of one of the big banks in which the Federal Government has shares?
Q5. Is it true or false that apart from his personal residence in the exclusive Adeleye Street in Ilorin, Tunde Idiagbon owns upwards of 19 houses in Ilorin alone?
Q6. Is it true or false that a woman relation of Tunde Idiagbon receives regular deliveries of lorries loaded with rice and other essential commodities from which she makes no less than N60,000 per delivery? - Cool money, no labour at all.
Q7. Is it true or false that Tunde Idiagbon once asked his girlfriend to let him have the name of any person in Nigeria that she would like to have behind bars and he would have that person detained indefinitely?
Q8. Is it true or false that Buhari, Idiagbon and Rafindadi conspired to initiate the idea of probing the Ministry of Defence with the sole aim of dis- crediting certain selected senior Military Officers?
Q9. Is it true or false that one business tycoon who was beginning to outgrow his boots was threatened that if he did not fall back into line, the Ministry in which he has substantial dealings would be probed?
Q10. Is there something smelling badly or not in connection with crude oil business in which the highest level in Nigeria at the time of Buhari and the highest level in Liberia were involved? It is being suggested that if the details of the Liberian oil connection are unearthed another 2.8 billion naira scandal may surface. These are only a few questions and answers to them may be very interesting. They will also help President Babangida understand more clearly the operations of Idiagbon and Rafindadi. Better know your enemies or else you will never know your friends. Twenty months of deceit, fraud and tyranny by the trio should not be allowed to go unexposed.
A lesson even if too late - Tunde Idiagbon should learn that behind tanks are men, and men can reason. So there is no security in having a million tanks and sirens, the hour can neither be hastened nor slowed down. So cry, cry General.
