THE happenings within the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, with corruption stigma dangling over the heads of top and influential members of the administration is greatly portraying that the president is not serious about tackling corruption in the country.

There is a lot of confusion in the hierarchy of the administration, that borders on corruption and corrupt tendencies of the officials of the administration and yet, the president has not taken any serious measure against the officials alleged to have engaged in very corrupt tendencies.

There is the issue of the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal, who was accused of awarding contracts worth millions of naira for cutting of grass in IDP camps, a major issue that prompted the president to constitute a probe panel headed by VicePresident Yemi Osinbajo, which made recommendations, but up to this time, President Muhammadu Buhari has refused to take any action.

Also, there is the issue of the Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation awarding contracts worth more than US$25 billion. When the matter was revealed in the media through a protest letter written to the president by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, the whole nation was shocked and there was a searing disproval of Baru’s action. This thing happened under watchful eyes of President Muhammadu Buhari, whose antecedents as an incorruptible person earned him the position in 2015 through the ballot box.

He enjoyed an overwhelming support of the people more especially the common men and women of this country. In fact, these class of people are the ones that cast their votes and protected their votes in the election of 2015.

Also, there is another corruption issue between the Inspector-General of Police and Senator Hamisu Misau, where the Inspector-General of Police was accused by the Senator of cornering billions of naira.

These are all happening under the full glare of President Muhammadu Buhari, who a lot of people hinged their belief that he would fight corruption going by his antecedents as an anti-corruption exponent. There is the latest revelation made by the wife of the president, Mrs Aisha Buhari, who said the billions budgeted for the Aso Rock Clinic were not used to equip the facility, leaving it in a deplorable state absolutely not in conformity with a facility such as that set aside for the presidential villa. Till date, nothing has been heard that anybody has been reprimanded for the issue. These are great moral burdens on the president and the people, who placed their hopes on him to right the wrongs of the past, especially considering the way that corruption became so endemic in the country.

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The recent happenings in the administration are sending signals that it is not yet hurray for the good of this country in terms of sweeping out corruption in the country.

Also, the credibility of the administration is really at stake taking into cognizance the fact that members of the kitchen cabinet are encouraging and abetting the perpetration of corruption since the inception of the administration. That was why the wanted man, who chaired the Presidential Task Force on Pension was able to return to his job was even reinstated into the federal civil service and was promoted until the media burst the bubble by raising alarm on how he was brought back.

Clearly and without mincing words, President Muhammadu Buhari needs to sit up and do the needful by sacking all those that have a hand in all the cases aforementioned. It is imperative for President Muhammadu Buhari, to wake up, get out of the medication induced slumber, swing into action and restore credibility to his administration. The people, who surround him are destroying the credibility of his administration due to their actions.

These people are the ones, giving the administration a bad name in all ramifications. These people are the jackals that his wife, Aisha Buhari, talked about, and boasted that they would be driven once her husband, the Lion King, returned from his long medical leave in London.

More than three months after returning, the Lion King, President Muhammadu Buhari need to rejuvenate the administration. He must roar now.

►Usman Santuraki, wrote from No.2, Santuraki Close, Jambutu, Jimeta-Yola, Adamawa State.