Kalu: Mr.
President, You’re CorruptIt’s a smear campaign, says
Presidency From Kola Ologbondiyan in Abuja, 09.04.2005 (ThisDay)
Abia State Governor Orji Uzor Kalu has accused President
Olusegun Obasanjo of corrupt practices and described the anti-corruption war of
the present administration as mere window dressing aimed at witch-hunting the
opposition. Kalu in a six-page letter to Obasanjo dated August 22 cited
instances of the President's corrupt practices as including the handling of
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) crude oil sales, the construction
of hostels for The Bells Secondary School and ownership of a Platinum Credit
Card through which the President allegedly charges his foreign acount and make
purchases abroad.
But the presidency yesterday described the allegations as "a
vicious, well orchestrated and well organised smear campaign" to impugn
Obasa-njo's integrity. It noted that the President is clean and that he will be
vindicated by the outcome of the transparent investigation to be conducted by
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Obasanjo has referred the
letter listing Kalu’s allegations to the EFCC chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, “to
clinically investigate and make your findings public if you so choose.”
The full details of Kalu’s letter, which was entitled “Working
for Posterity to Judge Us” and made available to THISDAY yesterday, read: “I
write you this letter with a deep sense of patriotism, and without any malice.
As a practising Christian I detest sycophancy in whatever guise, and this is why
I have always offered to tell you the truth, no matter how bitter it may
be. “I may not be in your good books, even though I made huge personal
sacrifice and contributed tens of millions of naira to your 1999 presidential
campaign. “But my joy is that, at least, you can acknowledge that I am one of
those you can count on to speak the truth to you at all times and without any
let or hindrance.
“It is now about four years since your administration
emba-rked upon its anti-corruption crusade. Nevertheless, I regret to observe
that the campaign has not yielded the desired result because it lacked focus and
strong foundation ab initio. “The unrelenting resentment of the campaign by many
Nigerians, including the media, is attributable to the fact that they see it as
a deliberate plot to witch-hunt and muzzle perceived political enemies.
“The high-handed, draconian, and commando-like operations
of the EFCC and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) so far have
negated all that our democracy stands for. They do not hide their bias neither
do they function within the ambits of the laws setting them up. Again, the
establishment of the two institutions is a mere duplication since there are
existing provisions in our legislation to handle their functions.
“In any case, the most preposterous and incredulous aspect of
your anti-corruption campaign is that while the media is awash with stories on
the activities of EFCC and ICPC corruption is taking root daily in many federal
establishments, Aso Rock inclusive. I have said it several times that corruption
is rife among senior officials of government, especially those at the federal
level. It is said that a few members of the leadership of the Senate could stoop
so low as to drop your name with active connivance of some of your aides to
collect large sums in oil and defence contract commissions. The ignominous
activities of this cabal, including the foreign accounts of some of your aides,
serving and former ministers, are also well known to the international
community. I would be surprised if you feign ignorance of this unfortunate
situation.
“Unbelievably, you have done nothing visible to extinguish
this dangerous and sycophantic phenomenon. It seems you have deliberately turned
eyes against the atrocities perpetrated by your officials because there is
incontrovertible evidence at my disposal that you are afraid to prosecute them
for fear of turning the table against yourself. I do not see why you should
preach openly against corruption but deep inside you, you have a different
attitude towards it. “What about the Abuja National Stadium? Why was the
original design for the stadium which had a five star hotel and which contract
was won by a Chinese firm discarded and re-awarded to another foreign
construction company based in Nigeria without the five star hotel at five times
the price quoted by the Chinese firm? There is unquestionable evidence at my
disposal why the contract was awarded to the Nigerian-based foreign construction
company instead of the Chinese firm.
“What much do you know about the operations of the Bureau
for Public Enterprises (BPE)? Who collected the commissions for the sale of
Ajaokuta Steel Company and Delta Steel Rolling Mill, Aladja? Could both
transactions have been said to be transparent? “Why have you found it difficult
Your Excellency to probe the activities of the Federal Ministry of Works in
spite of my allegation that the ministry stinks? It is an open knowledge that
the operations of the ministry between 1999 and 2003 were a monumental
fraud.
“In a media appearance at the VOA last month I challenged
you to openly declare your assets. Up till now you are yet to do so. By
declaring your assets openly you will have succeeded in dispelling any doubts on
the minds of Nigerians and the international community about the sincerity of
your anti-corruption campaign. “Mr. President, you will agree with me that there
are still many other questions that I would have loved to put across to you. But
I have just asked these few to agitate your mind and dismiss your
anti-corruption campaign as mere window-dressing. “A few other examples will
baffle you. Let me ask you: Who owns Bell University and Bell Secondary School?
I was shocked when you openly denied ownership of the two institutions and
rather ascribed their ownership to Dr. Onaolapo Soleye, a one time Minister of
Finance. I wish to put it to you, Mr. President, that I have overwhelming
evidence to link you with both institutions.
“Who paid for the construction of hostels and gigantic
sports complex at the Bell Secondary School? I put it to you Sir that both
projects were financed with tax payers money through the construction giant,
Strabag, five years ago. What role did a former Minister of Sports play in the
whole deal? What of the transformation of Ota, which is going on at frenetic
speed? Who picks the bill? We knew all these things but deliberately chose to
keep mute for the sake of peace.
“The third question for you Sir centres on your tenure as
Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources since 1999. Why has there not been a
properly-audited account for the Ministry of Petroleum Resources since then
despite the outcries by the people for this to be done? There is indisputable
evidence that all the major deals in the nation’s oil sector are being handled
by you through some agents. What about the leakages and the fraud at the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), with particular reference to
crude oil sales and the accrued commissions? What have you done to check the
malfeasance? “You have at several occasions accused top government
functionaries, especially the governors, of owing foreign accounts. Can you in
all sincerity, Sir, swear that you own no foreign account(s)? There is evidence
that you own foreign accounts, including a platinum credit card recently opened
for you through which you charge your foreign account and make purchases
abroad.
“I fear for the ways things are going in this country under
your leadership. I fear for the masses of our country which live under
dehumanizing conditions. The economy has virtually collapsed, and there is no
more middle class. Everything is in shambles yet we make millions of dollars
daily from oil. An average Nigeria(n) lives on 60 cents (i.e N78) a day. Is this
not a shame and a big scar on our collective psyche? “There is no way we can go
on this way. If we continue this way then we are surreptitiously inviting
anarchy and cataclysm. The patience of Nigerians is running out fast, and it
behoves you to take the bull by the horns and salvage the situation before it
consumes all of us.
“As I said at the beginning this is a message that should
challenge your statesmanship and patriotic zeal. You have an opportunity to
write your name in gold if you can begin today to make amends. “You should
redirect your energies to only gainful and edifying activities befitting of your
exalted office instead of haunting innocent citizens just for refusing to dance
to your dictates. “I am a straight forward, transparent and focussed person. I
call a spade a spade not minding whose ox is gored. I have demonstrated this
through my altruistic service to the people of my state.
“I refer you to Galatians 6: 7-8, and wish to state in my
conclusion that anybody who wants to come to equity must come to equity with
clean hands, and those who live in glass house should not throw stones. “You may
not bother to like me, just give ear to my admonitions, and let us leave
posterity to judge us. “Please accept, Your Excell-ency, the assurances of my
highest consideration,”
In refering the letter to EFCC Chairman September 2 the
president stated: “These are wide and wild allegations which I authorise you to
clinically investigate and make your findings public if you so
choose.” Reacting to the allegations, the President's Special Assistant on
Public Affairs, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, in a telephone chat said the allegations
were baseless.
Details of his reaction are as follows: "We completely
reject and refute the suggestion that Mr. President has committed any crime or
done anything wrong. It is precisely because he is a God-fearing, innocent and
honest man that he has absolutely no hesitation in referring the matter to the
EFCC for a thorough investigation and he directed that the findings of that
investigation should be made public. "We have nothing to fear and nothing to
hide. Mr. President is as clean as a whistle and these are nothing but baseless,
spurious and vicious allegations which are designed to impugn his integrety. It
will not work and we are not in the least bit concerned.
“I have the details of every single allegation that has
been made and I can assure you they are all baseless. We will do nothing to
interfere in the EFCC investigation of this matter. We will co-operate and at
the end of the day, I can assure you that Mr. President will be vindicated. "I
don't agree with you that the allegation can lead to appearance of guilt and
neither should that be the case. An allegation is nothing but an allegation
without evidence. It is meaningless and irrelevant. People make hundreds of
allegations per day. The issue is: where is your evidence and how can you
substantiate it?
"I do not see the allegation as anything other than what it
is - a vicious, well-orchestrated and well-organised smear campaign against a
man that has given virtually his whole life to the service of this nation in an
honest, decent and transparent way. I can assure you that after the
investigation has been concluded, those that made these vicious allegations will
bow their heads in shame."
Guardian Newspaper Friday, March 21, 2008
The trial of Olusegun
Obasanjo
By Reuben Abati
THE on-going House of Representatives probe
of expenditures in the power sector during the Obasanjo years has so far
resulted in mind-boggling revelations about the abuse of due process, award of
contracts to non-existing companies; the use of illegal Special Purpose
Vehicles, misappropriation of public funds, and a gross failure of leadership.
Reading the reports of the testimonies before the House of Reps Committee on
Power, or watching the proceedings on television, many Nigerians cringe in utter
frustration.
The power sector probe is the latest in a series of efforts apparently aimed
at a systematic dismantling of the Obasanjo era, and the explosion of the myths
upon which that government hoisted its claim to importance. The Obasanjo
government advertised itself as a government that was committed to due process,
transparency and integrity. President Obasanjo, with the EFCC as vehicle, was a
corruption cop in power.
Gradually, however, Nigerians are being shown with facts, figures and words,
that at work for eight years, under the former President is a tyranny of
hypocrisy. The power sector, where $16 billion was allegedly spent and no result
was recorded, with the nation in perpetual darkness is only a tip of a shaky
iceberg. If the probe were to be extended to other sectors of the economy, it is
easy to imagine that more myths would collapse. Former stakeholders in that
government are being summoned by the House of Representatives to give evidence.
I used the word "systematic" earlier. I do so advisedly. It is as if there is an
organised attack on the Obasanjo government by the same government that he
helped to bring to power.
This began very early in the life of the Yar'Adua administration with the
reversal of some of the policies of the Obasanjo government. President Yar'Adua
had campaigned on a platform of continuity. He is not continuing with anything.
He has not started anything of his own, but he is subjecting the past to a
searing dissection. Obasanjo - his persona, his legacy, his leadership - that is
what is on trial. Students of leadership and management should find in the
Obasanjo story, an interesting case study on power and leadership.
Why is the Yar'Adua government taking the Obasanjo government apart and
exposing it to ridicule? I can hazard two guesses. One, Yar'Adua who began his
career as President as Obasanjo's anointed candidate needs to prove that he is
his own man, not Obasanjo's puppet. What better way to assert himself than to
distance himself from the past? Two, it is possible that President Yar'Adua has
been confronted with so much that is rotten in the Obasanjo government that he
feels a sense of duty, if not patriotism, to remove the mask and put an end to
Obasanjo's grandstanding.
Hence, many of the things done under President Obasanjo are being upturned:
the sale of government houses, the monetisation of benefits for public servants;
the revocation of plots of land in Abuja, the sale of refineries... And every
step that has been taken in these regards by the Yar'Adua government has been
met with broad-based public approval. In addition, the de-mystification of
Obasanjo on all fronts, has emboldened those who feel aggrieved towards him to
take potshots at him.
How does Obasanjo feel? What is going on in his mind? He has been quoted as
boasting that he "dey kampe". But is he? Does he not feel hurt? Does he not feel
betrayed by a man he had made President because he considers him family and
believes he would help to preserve his legacy? Does he not feel helpless, seeing
how he has lost his troop of old loyalists? Every leader looks forward to being
honoured and accepted after leaving office. Obasanjo, all of a sudden, is a
lonely man. His persona is under assault. His legacy is unravelling. His enemies
are rolling on the floor holding their ribs as they try to stifle an unending
flow of laughter from their throats. I have met only very few people who express
any form of pity.
Besides the probe of his government and the exposure of its limitations,
there is trouble on the home front too. Obasanjo's beloved daughter who is now a
Senator has been associated with a number of controversial deals. Her father of
course, is the main target. His son, the most visible of his sons while he was
in office, has also accused Obasanjo of incest - of having an affair with his
wife, and giving her contracts as compensation. There is problem in the
community too. When President Obasanjo was quoted as having said he was trapped
in the traffic between Sango-Ota where he lives and Lagos, a concerned public
felt he should blame himself. In the course of a trip to Ekiti state, he was
booed by his audience.
Across Yorubaland, his ethnic constituency, there are very few places where
Obasanjo can give a speech in public and expect an ovation. He is most likely to
be heckled. Within his political party, the People's Democratic Party (PDP), the
situation is the same, here the storm is heavy. In the run-up to the PDP
National Convention held in Abuja on March 8, it will be recalled that General
Obasanjo in his position as Chairman of the party's Board of Trustees had openly
campaigned for some candidates and particularly for Dr. Sam Egwu, former
Governor of Ebonyi state, whom he wanted as Chairman of the Party. This incensed
many members of the party.
Obasanjo's main supporter was Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu who boasted that Obasanjo
would have his way. On March 8, both men were made to eat their words. A section
of the party is even agitating for a review of the party's Constitution and
Obasanjo's removal as Chairman of the BOT. In the past, no one would dare oppose
Obasanjo. He held both the party and the country under his grip. His word was
law. But now, on a daily basis, Obasanjo is being reminded that he no longer
wields power. He had used power so viciously that Nigerians whenever they are
privileged to do so, feel obliged to remind him of the change in his status.
March 5 was his 71st birthday; there were very few congratulatory adverts in the
papers.
When he turned 70 in 2007, the Baba-kee-pe adverts in the papers were so
many. At a recent event in remembrance of his late friend and colleague, General
Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, Chief Tony Anenih who was asked to give the opening prayer,
had turned the prayer into a verbal assault on Obasanjo who was present at the
occasion. Anenih had prayed that God should grant President Yar'Adua the courage
to investigate the rot left behind by the previous administration. Anenih's
prayer may reflect public sentiments, but he, Anenih is part of the rot that he
was praying about. He used to be Obasanjo's friend.
For the better part of the Obasanjo era, Anenih was known as "Mr. Fix-It." He
helped to fix most of the rot. If Anenih's prayer must be answered, the probe
that he called for must include putting him in the box and asking him to account
for the over N350 billion that was allegedly spent on Nigerian roads under his
watch as Minister of Works and Housing. He'd need to explain what happened to
all that money with Nigerian roads still in a state of disrepair. Anenih's
attack on Obasanjo clearly shows the depth of Obasanjo's loss of goodwill.
Everyone is taking potshots at him - the most vicious in recent times coming
from Col. Abubakar Umar and General T.Y. Danjuma. And the most damaging coming
from security men at Aso Villa who at a post-PDP Convention Dinner on March 9,
forced him to queue up for dinner according to the order of protocol. Twice, he
was reportedly returned to his seat and asked to wait! He tries to bluff his way
through either by ignoring the attacks or by fighting back. But Obasanjo is in a
position of weakness. His humiliation, I repeat, is self-inflicted. In his days
as President, the Nigerian mass media had tried so hard to tell Obasanjo the
truth. But he and his aides were intolerant of criticism.
President Obasanjo not only called journalists names in official speeches, he
even once declared that he does not read Nigerian newspapers! Obasanjo as
President had a problem of style. He was a dictator in a democratic system of
government. He ended up burning his bridges. But his greatest shortcoming: he
was surrounded by a group of sycophants who told him what he wanted to hear, so
they could pursue their own selfish agenda. They called him Baba. They told him
he was the father of modern Nigeria. They advised him to seek a Third Term in
office. They told him he was the best political leader since Winston Churchill.
Anytime journalists criticised his government or any of his policies, they told
him they had information that the journalists were looking for money or
positions. And he believed them. These were the Obasanjo boys and girls, the
inner caucus, the special team. They were voluble, abusive, unduly aggressive
and terribly rude. They behaved as if they knew it all.
They are the architects of the rot that is now being associated with the
Obasanjo era. And not surprisingly, they are not speaking up to defend the man.
They are conveniently silent. They cannot be bothered. But this is easy to
explain: Obasanjo is no longer in a position to help them; and they do not want
to offend the new man in power. If Yar'Adua offers them a job tomorrow, they
will jump at it with the enthusiasm of a goat.
But the bigger problem for Obasanjo is his loss of face in the international
arena. When he left office in 1979, he immediately became the beautiful bride of
the international community. Everyone wanted to meet the man who ended years of
military rule in Nigeria. He was rewarded for his faith in democracy. Nigerians
also loved him: they called him "Uncle Sege. They laughed at his jokes. The
media promoted him as an African statesman. Today, the same international
community is ignoring him. Nobody has invited him to mediate in Darfur, or Kenya
or Zimbabwe. With his government's mismanagement of the 2007 elections, nobody
is inviting Obasanjo to give a lecture on democracy, good governance and
national development. With the rot in the power sector (Where was the EFCC, by
the way?. Where was the National Assembly then?) and the scandal of his alleged
involvement with his daughter-in-law, nobody is asking OBJ to pontificate on
transparency and integrity as he would have wished. If anyone is still laughing
at his jokes, these would be his workers at the Ota farm. To have been given so
much and yet to have lost so much: this is the tragedy of Obasanjo's adventures
in power.
However, the Yar'Adua government may be busy helping to expose the
misadventures of the Obasanjo years, but that is not enough. This government
must go beyond histrionics and staging a little grandstanding of its own. It
should set up a judicial panel of inquiry. Besides, when will the Yar'Adua
government begin to initiate its own programmes and show the capacity to deliver
on its promises? It is now accepted knowledge that so much was wrong with
Obasanjo's style and with his government and the hypocrisy of his loud-mouthed
assistants. But Yar'Adua, please do something.
VANGUARD
Take note, before the looting
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Sunday, August 13, 2006 Frankly Speaking Dele Sobowale
Prevention is better than cure—Old Proverb
THE League Of States first published on this page needs to be
regularly updated in order to bring sanity to government operations in this
country and reduce the pervasive corruption as a result of which Nigeria has
remained under-developed even after seven years of so-called reforms. Last week
the Federal ministry of Finance published the allocations to states and Local
Governments from the Federation Accounts for June 2006. This brings the total
amount that has passed through the hands of our elected officials at all levels
since 1999 to over N11 trillion with the Federal government having to account
for about N5.6 trillion. Above is the June 2006 League Of States.
Several observations can be made right away from this table.
First Rivers State collected more allocation than the last six states put
together and almost as much as the last seven. The state alone accounts for 12
per cent or one-eighth of all allocations excluding internally generated
revenue.
The top four states – Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta and Akwa Ibom
collected a whopping 36 per cent of all federal allocations and once again poor
Nassarawa State came last. Since the governors of the two states, Rivers and
Nassararwa, are in the presidential race, would it not be pertinent to ask if
the people of Rivers State have enjoyed seven times the dividends of democracy
as those of Nassarawa? Besides, have the people of all the 36 states benefited
fully from the allocations they received? That of course is a question which
every elected office holder seeking a new mandate must be made to answer as a
minimum. Granted Ekiti is one of the poorest states. But, how prudently have the
meagre resources been managed? Politicians “promises are like pie crusts; made
to be broken” (V. I. Lenin 1870-1924 ). But, verifiable performance on the job
is quite another matter. Do the structures on the ground in each state reflect
the level of allocations? That remains the crucial question. Many governors have
been trying to bamboozle the public by preparing glossy printed reports and
radio and television documentaries. Invariably, none has provided the answer to
the crucial question: do these projects fully and honestly account for all the
money the state spent?
Next week I will present the Local Government League Table. This
is designed to achieve two goals. The first is to ask each governor how much of
these amounts actually reached the local governments. The second is to ask the
local government chairpersons to account for how they disposed of the funds
allocated to them. Already concerned citizens in every state have enough
material to start asking their governors to account for the billions received in
June 2006. We have to start somewhere holding our elected officials to account.
We might as well start from here.
Finally, it needs to be pointed out that when we elected people
who have never managed one billion in their lives and gave them absolute power
over the management of trillions of naira we were asking for the tragedy that
has been the result. Only institutions and well disciplined organizations can
handle that sort of money without corruption setting in. That means that the
next group of legislators we elect must be people who have demonstrated the
capacity to understand the role of institutions in nation building and who will
not allow the Executive branch to pocket them either by intimidation or
bribery.
Then we need to rebuild the civil service to empower it to play
the role for which it was created; that is, to act as a check against the
excesses of the Executive embarking on corrupt practices. Right now the civil
service itself has been corrupted almost beyond redemption.
June 2006 League of States
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4
Rivers N23.24 b Kad N4.28 b Ben N3.81
b Tar N3.40 b Bayelsa N18.16 b Edo N4.20
b Sok N3.72 b Osu N3.32 b Delta N15.83
b Oyo N4.19 b Ana N3.60 b Enu N3.30
b A/Ibom N14.44 b Bor N4.11 b Keb N3.56 b
Gom N3.15 b Ondo N6.96 b Bau N4.10 b Zam N3.55
b Kwa N3.12 b Kano N5.56 b C/R N3.98
b Ada N3.53 b Eki N3.08 b Lagos N5.49
b Nig N3.96 b Kog N3.50 b Pla N3.05
b Imo N4.36 b Ab N3.95 b Ogu N3.45
b Ebo N3.01 b Kats N4.29 b Jig N3.91
b Yob N3.39 b Nas N3.00 b
The real tragedy of Sosoliso air crash
Sir, are the media aware of goings on between Sosoliso and the
bereaved families? Heard they are paying them N5 million instead of $100,000.
Please investigate—Concerned Citizen
THE Sosoliso crash which claimed several lives especially of
kids will remain for a long time one of the greatest tragedies this country has
experienced. As a father and grandfather myself, my heart bleeds for the parents
of the kids as well as for those who lost their bread winners. Since they have
left us and will not pass this way again, we can only pray to the Almighty who
understands everything to give them perpetual rest and to comfort the
bereaved.
In a way, I am also one of the bereaved because the pilot of the
fatal crash was a friend and I have been privileged to fly with him on many
occasions. He was a true professional and one of the best this country or any
other country has produced. He once told me of his ambition to start his own
airline when his days at Sosoliso are over. The dream died with him,
unfortunately.
I have provided that background in my response to this text
message, among several I have received on the issue of compensation to the
bereaved families. My first inclination was to run away from it because I knew
it would be too painful for me. But, the bereaved families quite clearly
demanded an answer and some of them have selected me as their messenger to get
the facts for them. Knowing that these matters can be quite emotive, I have gone
ahead despite the risks involved. And below are my findings and suggestions to
all the parties involved.
First, it must be agreed that Sosoliso, like any other airline,
would not deliberately crash its own plane because it suffers the consequences
in three major ways. The first and most important is the loss of experienced
staff, especially the fly crew, which are most difficult to replace. Second, is
the loss of goodwill and consequently which temporarily is experienced by the
airline and third is the loss of an aircraft which is not easily replaceable and
the loss of revenue that follows.
But, once an accident occurs as they must in any human
endeavour, the compensation to the victims or the bereaved and the airline
itself becomes the primary responsibility of the insurance and the re-insurance
companies with which the airline is insured. In the case of Sosoliso, the
domestic insurance company is NICON which is also the largest in Nigeria, as
everybody knows. The re-insurance is with Lloyd’s, perhaps the world’s largest
insurance company. The situation as I understand it is that the $100,000 comes
in two components; the payment by NICON and the lion’s share by Lloyd’s.
Sosoliso has had no problem getting NICON to settle; the problem is with Llyod’s
which so far has not settled. The matter has now become the subject of
litigation. Until Lloyd’s settles Sosoliso cannot afford to settle the huge bill
without going out of business. What Sosoliso has offered, therefore, is an
interim settlement which nobody is compelled to accept, pending the outcome of
the case abroad.
I also understand that some bereaved families had filed a class
action suit in Nigeria against Sosoliso. This is a legitimate exercise of the
rights of the claimants but as a founding member of the Alternative Dispute
Resolution concept in Nigeria and a strong believer in mediation as a superior
method of resolving disputes, I believe litigation is premature in this
instance. It might also be time-consuming and counter-productive.
From the facts available to me, the amounts being claimed, if
awarded by the courts, namely, High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court
(because it might go so far ) would actually force Sosoliso into bankruptcy and
it would not be able to pay. In addition, several of our fellow country people,
innocent bystanders in this disaster, will be thrown out of work. This is my
honest view and it holds not only for the particular case involving Sosoliso, it
will hold for any other airline finding itself in this sort of
predicament.
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