A RACE IN THE DARK

A RACE IN THE DARK

By Sam Olorunfemi Jnr

What a news of joy and hope when I heard that the FG is about to reopen the murder case of Late Chief Bola Ige SAN and former Attorney General of Federal who was murdered on December 23, 2001 in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. I started singing and dancing that the big masquerade behind this historical event will finally unmasked for the whole Nigerians to see and for those that were born after 2001 will be able to know much after the event and immediately,  social media platforms has already pumping up and down with various posts, tweets and update given kudos to Mr President, even the family of Late Chief Bola Ige and the people of Osun State especially the ( APC ) members started praising God that at last Justice is on the way after 15yrs. Something surprisingly came after that really shocked me when the Senior Special Assistant on Media and publicity to Mr President came out immediately to say the Presidency ( Mr President ) did not know about such move of action and that the directive is never from the Mr President and said further that such action came from the table of the Ag. Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris, immediately I heard this, I stooped singing and sit down to have a rethink about the action and my spirit told me that, Mr President will not have hand in this move. What should we now call this from the Ag.IGP , one man fight, set to run in the dark, planing to break long term awaited record or ready to prove that no sinners must go unpunished ? all these are the questions that came to my mind after reading the Mr Garba Shehu while telling us the stand of the Presidency on this matter. Time now to focus on Mr IGP over this matter and ask him some questions over this move by him, can he fight this battle alone without the full support from the Presidency ? what if along the line, he discovered that those masquerades behind this battle are same set of people that dine and wine on same table with his boss that appointed him into the office ? would he be able to continue with the fight and fight till the end? because I realised that we have some battle that can never be won expect the Presidency show full support towards such fight and now that same Presidency has come out to say we're not going to involve in this fight, what does that mean to us and IGP that battle has been moved to his table as the challenger of the battle. When we're talking about murder case, especially someone like Late Bola Ige, I so much believe that is never a case that can see the light of the day without the full support of the Presidnecy because I heard Mr President during his inauguration at Eagle Square were he boldly said he has three ( 3 ) agenda in office, to fight corruption,  security and good economy and since then till day, he never change his agenda or add to it. While reacting to this reopening of murder case on M & C 106.5 FM , I said if the IGP truly want to fight this battle, case of Late Chief Bola Ige will not be the only case, so many other murdered cases must as well be open because Bola Ige was not only the one that was murdered. In conclusion, I must commend the brave step of the IGP in reopening the murdered case, but I will like to advise him that to run the race is never the problem but where and how he want to run the race that matter to me. He should not also occupied his hands with too much battle now, so that he can end up as a successful IGP , let him face Solomon Arase case first, indisciplined among his officers, and others in the force before going for the race.
Good Bless Nigeria Police
Good Bless Nigeria