SINCE almost 10 months ago today, that Buhari became our President with his Party’s powerful mantra of ‘Change’ we can point to some few areas of the change, the first being his avowed fight against corruption, which is very good and encouraging.

So far, not one single APC member has been arraigned or is known to be under the ‘EFCC radar’, but that is no cause for alarm yet. Buhari has started a good cause, and have set the nation on the course to fight corruption, such that if he forgets or overlooks the probe and investigation of his party members, someone will do it, in the future, and that is one good hope in this fight against corruption; It can never be business as usual for our leaders and those who aspire to lead us, as every of them have become potential prisoners, from the Local Government, States, to Federal level.

The fight against corruption has seen Buhari make over 18 foreign trips in the last ten months, which to my mind is a good way to enjoy what he missed during his first tenure as Head of State over 30 years ago, and these presidential diplomatic shuttles make some of us feel good, except when he visits the Arab Muslim world and starts to drag us into the the Shiite- Sunni fights for whatever reasons because Nigeria, dejure, is not a Muslim Nation, and we do not want wars within Nigeria.

One of the major huge successes of these presidential shuttles is the report in The Nation of March 22nd that 7 former governors, six ministers, a Presidential Aide implicated in the $2.1 Billion arms deal, ex-military chiefs currently under probe, agents, fronts of some public officers, five chieftains of the PDP may loose property and cash worth hundreds of millions of US dollars in Dubai,

UAE, thanks to the agreements between Nigeria and UAE championed by Buhari early this year. The paper also reports that a team of Anti-Graft agencies officials, Ministry of Justice, etc have left for Dubai, to bring back the stolen monies, and some to take glory.

In Igbo land, we say that he who must share meat among blind people, must continue to talk, because when he keeps quiet, the blind people will presume that he is chopping the meat. Those who have flown to Dubai must produce full, accurate and complete report on the cash and property contents of the booties, so that the presumption of complicity is not invoked against them.

Some of the former governors involved, according to reports, include one from the South South, two from the North Central, two from the North East, one from North West, and One from the South West, and that a former governor made a botched attempt to transfer $517 Million to Dominican Republic, because the UAE law is more anti-looting of public funds. We shall soon know who they are, for what is hidden is so that it may come to light in due season.

Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed six agreements to enhance bilateral relations between them, in January 2016.One of them, the Judicial Agreements on Extradition, Transfer of Sentenced Persons, Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal Matters, and Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal and Commercial Matters, including the recovery and repatriation of stolen wealth, is helping these recoveries.

We hope that this type of agreements will be signed by other nations like Turkey, where some governors from the South East, visited in the company of over 100 persons, as soon as they received the workers salaries bail out funds, last year.

The EFCC radar should be beamed on Turkey, and other nations too. We hope that with these results from UAE, America will do something about stolen funds in their system, the Houses owned by former Governors and Political Office Holders in choice areas like Potomac in New York, and other states in America; What about the hotels, malls, and huge deposits in South African Banks, Morroco, and wherever? Nigerian citizens should as a call to civic duty volunteer information about stealing by leaders.

The maxim should be “If you must lead, don’t steal” Buhari has started a very good cause, and the good hope is that Nigerians will follow this course to the full, and way beyond this administration.

However, one major concern now is our national inability to manage and control the destruction by cows and herdsmen. Since 2009, these herdsmen have destroyed lives, and property worth billions of Naira within the Northern and southern zones of Nigeria. How can we allow cows to break up Nigeria?

The recent mass murders of Agatu people by the Fulani Herdsmen, in which over 3000 persons were killed, and 7000 persons pushed into IDP centres remain a deep sore on the face of this government. Police claims it was over bloated, and while our Senate tried unsucessfully, to blame Boko Haram, in an exclusive interview with PREMIUM TIMES, Saleh Bayeri, the Interim National Secretary of Gan Allah Fulani Association, an umbrella body of Fulani associations in Nigeria, rose in defence of his kinsmen, saying the February bloody conflict in Benue was a reprisal attack by his people against the Agatus for killing one Shehu Abdullahi, and carting away over 200 cows of his, and for the killing, in 2013, of a prominent Fulani leader, Ardo Madaki, who was beheaded by the Agatus right in the presence of their District head, an action that reverberated across all Fulani people in the whole of West Africa and the clamour for revenge began to grow strong. He blamed government inaction, and says they do not trust the Senate.

If we are to follow the argument of the Fulani Herdsmen, other tribes of Nigeria should be planning a great reprisal against all Herdsmen for the destruction of plants and agricultural produce they have inflicted on people across the zones. Whether Herdsmen accept it or not, these killings are genocidal, and criminal and we wonder when the perpetrators will be brought to book, as two evils can never make a right.Haba!

Mr  Clement Udegbe, a lawyer, can be reached at  ceeaai@yahoo.com.