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RICHARD Dick Cheney the immediate past Vice President of the United States (US) is an international crook who should be in jail in his country, Iraq, Netherlands, Afghanistan, Britain, Azerbaijan or in Nigeria where last week, a sixteen-count charge was filed against him. But unfortunately, the scales of justice are not balanced, so he will escape justice with his loot.
The case against Cheney in Nigeria is generally a concluded one as American and French courts have already found his agents guilty, and Swiss banks and the British authorities have provided needed information on the transactions and the conduit pipe for the bribes. Basically, Haliburton under the leadership of Cheney used $180 million to pay bribes through its subsidiary, Kellog Brown and Root(KBR) in order to secure a $10 billion contract for the construction of the Liquified Natural Gas(LNG) export plant on Bonny Island. KBR chief executive, Albert Stanley who was directly appointed by Cheney, pleaded guilty in an American court on September 3,2008 to the bribery charges.
Cheney was American Secretary of Defence for four years from 1989 during which he gave KBR (yes, the same company he later used for the Nigerian bribes) a multi -million dollar contract to suggest ways the American military can be privatised and made profitable. The contract was so well executed that during the Gulf War in 1991, ten percent of the American military personnel deployed, were “private contractors” the new elegant tag for mercenaries.Haliburton became the largest US defence contractor, getting huge contracts during the Balkan wars of the 1990s and the Kosovo war in 1999. In that year, Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld became prominent members of the New American Century group which put pressure on then President Bill Clinton to overthrow the Sadam Hussein regime in Iraq.
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