Nigeria and it’s fledgling institutions would not stop amazing both its citizens and outsiders alike.
Beside being a country that places least premium on the safety of its citizens,it also has the distinction of having separate laws for different categories of people depending on your level of social connections and standing.
In Nigeria, for those who can defy the state even with the connivance of its institutions, you get protection from those who are employed to bring you to justice.
Needless to repeat that the level of respect and protection you have both from the state and its laws is dependent on how rich,powerful and well connected you are.
In Nigeria there is an unwritten law that big looters and criminals receives better treatment and protection in and out of state detention than civil criminals who steals to make ends meet.
This brings to question the riddles and ‘jokes’ surrounding the escape from National Security Advisers,NSA,protective custody,Nadeem Anjarwalla, the head of the alleged criminal gang of Binance -our modern day ‘Ponzi’ scheme associates and money launderers, from custody.a
Ndeem Jawarhaal,Binance executive
While only the National Security Adviser can explain why Nadeem Anjarwalla and his co -accused were kept in its custody instead of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commissions,EFCC, the manner of the detainee now furgitive offenders dissapearance beats ones imagination.
As a top Police brass who had the privilleged of being the first to head the EFCC,he must have his reasons unknown to the rest of us why those alleged criminal gang who had allegedly fleeced the nation of $26billion deserves to be treated like kings and allowed to live without suffering any denial.
In any decent society, failure to pay Tax which the Binance executives are being charged for ,amounts to criminal offence against the State and will be treated as such.
Now ,the NSA office has the following questions to answer the country as to how and why the military in whose custody the ‘crook’ are kept managed to beat the security net of its men.
From all indications and narratives,there would appear to be more to the Binance escape than meets the eye.
Now the question.
Since they were being held for alleged financial crime,why were they detained by ONSA instead of EFCC-a body set up to investigated and try such matters in Court.
Recall that ,Nuhu Ribadu,the NSA Adviser to the President attained his fame through his performance as its first Chairman.?
Why were they lodged in the comfort of a guest house with telephones and other apperturances of a class A guest?
Is it to Protect their loot or classified information at their disposals?
Mallam Nuhu Ribadu
Why were Our Border security agencies not notified of the existence of such high profile cruminals or even informatuon shared after their arrest to facilitate their profiling to prevent possible escape from the Country?
If a Kenyan passport was procured for one of them,what is the connection between the Kenyan authorities and their crime or status?
Is Nigeria so porous that a private jet could land in this country without the appropriate security agencies and Aviation authorities being in the know before the fugitive was ferried out of the country?
From the above questions begging for an answer,it means that probably the escapee was let out so as to prevent him from divulging information that could reveal some of his principal depositors who are probably senior personalties in this government or in Public Service who have bought billions of dollars of crypto currency with the company.?
The escape is also a pointer to the fact that the organisation- Binance, has gained critical intelligence of what those in Government want and make contacts with key influencers; bribe them and obtain soft landing?
Is it possible that those likely to be indicted are powerful figures in high quarters in this government whose exposure may be an embarrassment to the Federal government, hence the escape which was obviously an insiders job was made possible?.
With the probability that this grand escape was an Internal arrangement, it means in effect that there are symphatisers of the previous government in this regime under whose nose Binance operated without being apprehended for tax evasion.
It also means that,since the escapee was enabled through excuse of being allowed to perform his moslem prayers outside his protective custody,he might have been allowed to escape by influential people of same religious faith and ethnic origin who rate loyalty to their religion and possibly ethnic background more than their country.
The grand escape has also revealed that the civil service and security agencies are too deeply corrupt to be loyal to any government especially since they could be implicated in the scandal?.
Does it mean that the Central Bank of Nigeria;the Finance Ministry; and the President are alone in the fight against Binance?
What are the reasons for NSA convincing the President that his office alone can successfully prosecute the Binance executives and not the EFCC that was specifically set up for such financial crime against the State?
The Public deserves to know in order to be taken serious in the war against Corruption.
The NSA must also explain why no border alert was issued as soon as they were detained considering the nature of their offence.
The implication of this grand escape executed with clinical precision is that the security arrangement of the country has been compromised through and through.
May God save us from ourselves.
