6. General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida – LOOTER
(Apart from Obasanjo, Babangida is the greatest evil ever to befall any country in the world)-All that Babangida, (nicknamed IBB), has to show for his over eight years in power in Nigeria, is private colossal wealth, and the edification of corruption in our body politics.
General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida was once a military president of Nigeria from 27 August 1985. It was him that overthrew Major General Muhammadu Buhari from office in a bloodless coup. He also annulled the popular June 12 election that saw the late M.K.O Abiola win. During his regime, human rights was severely abused.
The book, The Sink, by Jeffrey Robinson, an American writer, says it all about Babangida. “Of the $120 billion siphoned out of the Nigerian treasury into offshore accounts by dishonest politicians, $20 billion is allegedly traceable to IBB directly as president from 1985 to 1993.” The World Bank and other international sources of information put his total loot from the Nigerian treasury at over $35 billion.
He iwas threatening to use a fraction of his loot to return to power and a figure of N400 billion was mentioned by his cronies as his campaign chest. We ought to be worrying now about how to survive this viper’s poisoned food. We are desperately hungry but if we eat, we die immediately. If we don’t, we die slowly from hunger anyway, terrorized by the viper’s fang. We are trapped. We can’t get up to look elsewhere for food or do anything else.
