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Monday 28 November 2016

Buhari jailed me 18 months for being wealthy —Anenih

A former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, says the military administration of President Muhammadu Buhari kept him in jail for 18 months between March 1984 and August 1985 because he was a rich man.

Anenih said this in his biography titled, ‘My Life and Nigerian Politics’ which was launched in Abuja on Saturday.

He said when Buhari came into power through a military coup in December 1983, he went about arresting politicians arbitrarily..Anenih said,
 “The military regime of General Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon threw me into detention for 18 months on the basis of an anonymous petition that as a prominent and wealthy politician and leader of the NPN in Bendel State, the military administrator would not find his footing unless I was removed from the scene.
“I was sent to Kirikiri Prisons where I spent three months before I was transferred to Ikoyi Prisons.”
The retired police officer maintained that he did nothing wrong to warrant such treatment.

He said, 
“I must emphasise it again and again that I did nothing wrong to anyone, the government or the state to merit a detention. My crime was that I was a wealthy, influential and highly respected politician.”
Anenih, who later served as the minister of works and housing under former President Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999 to 2002, said while in detention, he met other prominent politicians like former Governor Lateef Jakande of Lagos State, former Governor Olabisi Onabanjo of Ogun State; ex-Governor Bola Ige of old Oyo State; former Vice-President Alex Ekwueme, ex-Governor Ambrose Alli of old Bendel State, Chief Solomon Lar and many others.

The ex-minister said their cells were bugged by security agents who monitored their conversation.

The PDP chieftain said the worst part of the detention was that some governors who had sentenced some criminals to death were locked up in the same cells.

Anenih said, 
“We were transferred to Ikoyi Prisons because of the riot that took place while we were there. The condemned prisoners whose death warrants had earlier been signed by Alhaji Lateef Jakande when he was governor of Lagos State, broke loose on sighting him as one of the detainees.
“They broke out of their cells and headed towards the building where Jakande and the rest of us detainees were kept. As the prisoners were attempting to force the iron door open, mobile police were called in to quell the riot.”

The ex-minister, who gave an insight into the living condition of the politicians in detention, described the experience as hellish.

He added, “Where we were staying, the bucket latrines or toilets had opening to the rooms. These buckets were emptied maybe once a week from behind, and if for any reason the buckets were not emptied once a week as the rule, you lived with the stench.
“At night, cockroaches, rats and lizards passed through these holes housing the bucket latrines into our cells after crawling on the buckets to disturb us. So, you could really not sleep for one hour without getting cockroaches perch on you.”
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5 comments:

  1. Tony Anenih should please spare us this rubbish biography. He was retire police commissioner who suddenly became 'wealthy' during the second republic, under the NPN government, led by inept Shehu Sharagi. Those were the days when Umaru Dikko was the 'Chairman of the looting committee'. After the mass looting, they had to declare 'Austerity Measure'. That was when the Military stepped in, led by two disciplined men, Buhari and Idiagbon.
    This man Tony Anenih was 'The Minister of Works and Housing during Obasanjo government goes by such dubious names as Mr. Fix-It, The Enforcer, The Leader, Hatchet man, The Undertaker, Hit man, Minister of Works on Obasanjo's re-election, Minister of Works and Corruption and several others normally associated with gangsterdom. Recently, he acquired a brand new one. The Insider Weekly, in its July 29th 2002 issue depicted Chief Tony Anenih as a "double agent".'
    As minister of works and housing, he could not acoount for N300 billion allocated to his ministry. This man, just like man of his kind, laid the foundation for the pain the country is going through today. It is easy to destroy tha to build.
    They cant get away with their evil ways. The Almighty God chastisement of the wicked will be very severe.

    Buhari is on a second rescure mission!

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    1. I salute you bro... I like staying with people like you. πŸ‘ πŸ‘ πŸ‘

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    2. This Omas you sure say u no be Buhari?You get too much infoo

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    3. Just like men...
      ....than to build

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