U.S Criminologist, Ukaegbu Speaks on Biafra, Kanu; Commends Buhari on Corruption
Steve Forbes and Madukwe Ukaegbu at African Forbes Magazine Award night.
Excerpts:
President Buhari’s has clocked one year in office, what’s your assessment of his administration?
My
assessment of Buhari’s administration is, I would say so far, so good
and the reason I am using that word is that when certain things happen
in a nation which most of us witnessed, I need to be very careful so
that I can present the facts accurately. In a nation where each time we
hear $2.1billion missing, and other mind boggling amounts missing here
and there, it’s very, very difficult for anybody to do something
meaningful. If there is nothing Buhari’s administration has done in one
year, it is to expose what has been happening that many Nigerians did
not know; that few individuals have been carting away the resources of
this nation, that is what this administration has been able to expose
and we must vehemently give it that credit. This administration has
been able to let Nigerians know that those they entrusted with their
money, those they entrusted with the inheritance of Nigeria, were
carting them away; making our money become their private and family
money. So, if nothing, we need to give kudos to the Buhari
administration for being able to expose that. You and I did not know
that there were problems with all these monies; we were being told that
we’re the biggest and largest economy, but we were suffering. Nigerians
were asking daily, ‘we are the largest economy, why are we suffering?
And we were told it would improve, but we’ve now known why we are
suffering.
We
were informed that the total amount that was squandered in the arms
deal alone was about $15bn. I have done my own calculations of how much
each Nigerian would get if that amount was shared to 170m people; that
is our population. Somebody like me would have received nothing less
than $1m; do you know what I can do with that amount of money? But
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