Reno Omokri, former aide to
ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has identified the late former military Head of
State, Sani Abacha, as the biggest thief in world history, stating that
21-years after, more loots linked to the former dictator were still being uncovered.
Omokri was responding to the
claim by Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, that Northerners are rarely
arrested for advance fee fraud, popularly known in local parlance as Yahoo
Yahoo.
Speaking at the Northern Youth
summit organised by Northern Hibiscus Initiative in Kaduna on Saturday,
El-Rufai said although the North was the most backward and uneducated region in
Nigeria, it was a thing of pride that Northerners were rarely arrested for
Yahoo Yahoo and other financial crimes.
El-Rufai had said: “Nigeria
consists of two countries; there is a backward, less educated and unhealthy
northern Nigeria, and a developing, largely educated and healthy southern
Nigeria. We have to speak the truth to ourselves and ask why is it that
northern Nigeria has development indicators similar to Afghanistan, a country
still at war?
“We have the largest number of
poor people in the world, most of them in northern Nigeria. Nigeria also has
the largest number of out of school children, virtually all of them in Northern
Nigeria.
“We are being considered as the
parasite of the federal economy, even though, that is not entirely true.
Because northern Nigeria still feeds the nation. The richest businessman in
Nigeria is still Aliko Dangote, not someone from Southern Nigeria, thank God
for that.
“So, we still have a lot to be
proud of. We should be proud of our culture and tradition, as well as unity.
You hardly can find someone from northern Nigeria convicted of 419 or being a
Yahoo boy. That is something we should be proud of.
Responding in a post on Twitter,
Omokri said: “Dear Elrufai,
“Before you label Southerners
fraudsters, note that the biggest thief in world history is Sani Abacha. 21
years after, his loot is still being recovered, though @MBuhari said ‘Abacha never
stole’.
“There are good and bad Nigerians
in North and South!”
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