By Ahmed Ilallah
The current battle between the EFCC and the former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello on the allegations of N80B fraud is giving distrust to the youth generation leadership in Nigeria.
Though, it has become an inurement of most Nigerian political leaders to play hide and seek, when they are facing litigations, especially on corruption issues.
The current attitude of Yahaya Bello to answer the court order is a disgrace to the leadership mentality of the youth generation of the day.
Mr. Yahaya who became a governor in his early thirties, should be bold and lead by example to face the allegations and prove his innocence.
In my opinion, the factors of corruption, poor governance and immoral politics hindered the liberation of good democracy in Africa.
When the Black South Africans got freedom and Nelson Mandela became the first black president, he served for only one term and allowed the younger generation to lead on. The story later was sad.
Thabo Mbeki and Zuma who led after Mandela are all accused of corruption, Jacob Zuma is currently jailed.
Even in Nigeria, President Buhari who was elected at the elderly age of seventies, Nigerians faithfully believed in his trustful and intolerance of corruption.
But the people he isolated and trusted to work with them, disgrace his system with corruption. In his eight years of leadership, many of them are alleged with high-level corruption cases.
Putting Yahaya Bello on the watchlist by the Nigerian Immigration Service and declaring him wanted by EFCC and other security agencies, as a result of defaulting the court order is Ignominy.
However, Yahaya Bello claims that the EFCC disobeyed the orders of the Kogi State High Court by seeking to arrest and arraign him before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
However, Legal experts like Falana opined that the EFCC had diligently complied with the order of the Kogi State High Court by filing charges of money laundering of over N80 against Bello.
Falana added that the order made by the Federal High Court for the arrest of Bello for his arraignment is equally in line with the order of the Kogi State High Court.
Whatever the case, Yahaya Bello should be a good citizen by facing the law and proof of his innocence, otherwise, he is telling the world of either being guilty or has limited words to prove his innocence.
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