LETTER TO MR PRES

uring your presidential campaign you said, 'You must help me to reform our rotten political system, by getting involved, taking responsibility, and working together as a team'. This letter is my attempt to help you in the task to reform the Nigerian political system and make Nigeria better. I wish to commend you for the effort to confront corruption by holding those who are involved accountable. To help in this regard, I would like to draw your attention to a list of Nigerian looters published by Times of London. In that list, you will find the names of many of the people who looted Nigeria so that you can bring them to justice. What your are attempting is something no Nigerian leader has attempted and for this, you have won by respect even though, I believe that people of your generation should no longer have leadership role in Nigeria because they have failed. You have taken corruption head on and corruption is fighting back by misusing the rule of law, social media and court judgement. Therefore you rightly deserve the support of every well meaning Nigerian. Under the circumstance, it would seem ill advised to show your contempt for the rule of law and judicial process and attempt to circumvent it because of your good intentions. A more appropriate response would be to attempt to redefine the rule of law to put common sense and justice at its centre and not the rights of criminals as is currently the case in Nigeria. In Europe, for instance, they have realised that the law is more on the side of perpetrators of crimes and are doing something to put victims of crimes at the centre of justice. Nigeria can start by ensuring that no one escapes prosecution for corruption or any crime by changing political party or on technicalities of law and, when the prosecutor makes a mistake, he should only be required to right the mistake and continue with the prosecution. This and other reforms of judicial process, like separating the post of attorney general and minister of justice will go a long way in helping the fight against corruption and, stopping corrupt politician from escaping justice on technicalities of the law as they seem to be doing at the moment. I would also like to draw your attention to another form of corruption, which is Executive lawlessness and Power of patronage. This involves the President and governors approving things boards should approve. Changing this will require reform of executive power, which you are in the best position to do at no cost. It would be a monumental mistake by your good self, if instead of investigating corruption in Nigeria you gives the impression that you are investigating only Jonathan's administration and pursuing sectarian objectives. Corruption in Nigeria should be addressed in its entirety. The investigation should go back to 1979 for it to be fair. We cannot have a Nigeria, where the Obasanjos, Tinubus Babangidas etc., keep their loot, while the Jonathan's and Maduekes are striped of their's. Selective justice is injustice. Another area I wish to draw your attention to is the management of the economy. Since your inauguration, the economy has taken a nose dive and the Naira has plummeted. With the continued fall in the price of oil, there is very little the country can do to increase it foreign exchange earning in the short term. I would like to suggest the following remedies It is my view that what Nigeria needs is an austerity budget, which cuts the cost of government, end wastes and makes savings in administrative cost. This should be followed by making the Banks able to loan to ordinary business men and women to grow their businesses and create jobs. This can be done by bringing interest rate to single digit figure. The current interest rate in Nigeria is too high and exploitative and no economy can achieve meaningful growth with such high interest rate. Once, the Banks starts helping to grow the economy and creat jobs and stop funding government corruption through

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