Blinded judgement

My characterization of the senate leader may be wrong in the sense that I have never met him nor heard him directly; but I consider myself a fairly good reader and listener that- has an above average objective comprehension of narratives. And from what has been streaming in terms of news from home in the last week about the embattled leader and his euphoric victory over corruption and perjury charges, I shudder at the complexion of the future of the country as a nation.


Dr. Bukola Saraki may as well arguably be the last titan of the Saraki family dynasty that has overwhelmingly held Kwara indigenes, and lately Nigerians captives for sometime now without demanding for a ransom. They did not have to. The family is famously rich. Richer than the banking institution that later went under from the burden of being tagged and managed by this family of no clear cut enterprise or endeavour.


As his name implies, ‘Bukola’ literally decided to add to the dwindling wealth of the family by dipping his hand in the cookie jar and his subsequent inability to reconcile the discrepancies arising from declared and uncleared assets despite his imported doctorate degree, landed him in the tribunal..


For two years, the nation held her breath as the good battles with the evil in the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Abuja. Credible sources from the bureau say that nothing was going to come out of the case, but I vehemently argued. The case against the senate leader appeared watertight and the stance of the President on corruption coupled with having a legal luminary Christian brother as a vice president further tightens the noose. The prosecution seemed to be on a roll as the battle was already lost for the senate leader in the court of public opinion. So I presumed.


In the end, the prosecutors could not establish a prima facie that would warrant Bukky to at least offer an explanation to us over these glaring malfeasance that the judge could not see because of the blindfold of paying overwhelming attention to technicality over substantive justice. An euphemism for “paddy paddy judgement”.


The judge therefore decided to brutally slap the defendant’s wrist by handing over a discharge and acquittal ruling. Meaning that the senate leader should not have been brought to court in the first place, not to talk of wasting taxpayers money on a case that should have been settled on the streets in the first place.


Just like Bola, I mean Tinubu, Bukola too never had his day in court. And so, the advice to the youth who want to pursue a career in organized crime is to try the public sector. As for the docile Nigerians who have decided to shrug and would rather hand the case over to God, they should read God’s ruling in the celebrated case of the “Prodigal son vs his brother” in the book of New Testament.


I rest my case!