Nigeria: Who Will Bell the Cat?

11 November 2018
opinion

A time there was in South Africa when the president announced to the world that those who have evidence of corruption against him or any member of his family must show him. The implication of the statement is that with the evidence made available to him he would do something. Today, as we speak, so much evidence of evil doing by the president, some members of his family and a clique of the African National Congress, the country heaves under a huge pile of published evidence.

The former public protector provided evidence of wrong doing in terms of Nkandla, a matter of a few millions of rand really, but still money wrongly used for the president's private residence. The Constitutional Court ruled that the president must pay back the money. Further, the Constitutional Court ruled that parliament failed to do its constitutional duty overseeing the behaviour of the president. The speaker of parliament was also rebuked. Grudgingly the president and all those affected in the Nkandla corruption report quietly said they thought they were right but now they know they were wrong.

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