MALABU: I’m Kind of Confused

I have tried to follow this matter but it seems that the more I read materials on it, the more confused I get. The piece done by the legendary Rueben Abati this week on matters relating to this episode went further to confuse me. What is the issue with this particular Oil Block that seems to have defied all logic? I hear the matter has passed through three Attorneys General and also three successive governments and at some point, Obasanjo had revoked the licence but a court reawarded it. But still the issue is still ongoing. I have heard so much about this particular matter, I have heard there is ethnic colouration, I have heard that Abacha is fighting from his grave, I have heard money laundering, I have heard Shell is prosecuting their staff because of the matter. They even said that the UK government cleared some payments through their office for something. This just gets me more and more confused. Then finally the courts just cleared Adoke. What was his own in the matter in the first place? Please can someone just sit me down and kindly explain to me word for word and in simple layman’s English this matter? I need to understand. the TV programme but they said it was on Channels TV. Our former military president was said to have explained why he would not write his biography because according to him, nobody would be interested in reading it. I beg to disagree o. We are plenty waiting for the book. Sir, we need explanations on so many things. So many issues that have divided our society, and continue to dog us to date are ascribed to your regime. Let me even tell you now that I dedicated my long essay at the University of Ibadan simply because when you came on a state visit, you smiled at me. Yes o, you may not remember but that smile electrified me and I became your foot soldier, well, until June 12, 1993. So my lord, you have to write the book, you really need to write the book so that we can perfectly understand your mindset. If it is to sit down and write it that is the problem, you can dictate it to that your spokesman, the one that issued that statement the other day which put him in trouble. I think he has enough time in his hands. Let’s do this, we are waiting sir.