Rawlings formula might do the magic
Still these are people who destroyed the Nigeria hospital systems but have private jet air ambulance to take them to America, England, Saudi Arabia and India to treat toothache and razor blade cuts. These are the same people who destroyed the Nigerian road network system and now have acquired helicopters to ferry them from their […]
Still these are people who destroyed the Nigeria hospital systems but have private jet air ambulance to take them to America, England, Saudi Arabia and India to treat toothache and razor blade cuts.
These are the same people who destroyed the Nigerian road network system and now have acquired helicopters to ferry them from their homes to the airports. These are the same people who destroyed the Nigerian educational system and now send their children and grandchildren overseas to attend primary and secondary schools and universities. They have virtually taken over the corporate structure of Nigeria in such a way that they have planned to be in charge for 1000 years. Otherwise look at the tricks and the barb wire they have put in the so-called 1999 constitution. Most of the spirits and the letters of the constitution are vague and meaningless.
To add insult to injury, they have rigged and/or planted their surrogates in the National Assembly to fight, tooth and nail, every effort to alter the status quo. For example, just last August, Mrs Hillary Clinton has told Nigerians that between 1979 and 2009, those who presided over the affairs of state in Nigeria stole $300 billion from state coffers! Some of us are still asking the simple question: was that $300 billion stolen by ghosts or spirits?
Yet, everyday you hear jingles on radio and television, saying ‘the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is watching you.’ The whole truth is that people like Bode George are just victims of power play within the thieving elite that just became a casualty of their internal wrangling. Five months after this challenging statement was made, government has not come out to deny it or challenge or even to issue any statement to make its stand clear. If my rudimentary Law is still intact, then silence is equivalent to acquiescence in Law.
If that challenge were to be made in China or even Ghana, by now somebody would have gone to the gallows. But the apology the government can issue to Nigerians is to insist on the mother of all deregulations which is the final curtain call of all deregulations. They insist a cabal is holding the Nigeria oil industry at the jugular but what I cannot always understand is that is this cabal a ghost or spirit? Can’t they be named and shamed? Look at the unnecessary agony and hardship Nigerians go through daily simple because of incompetent governance.
The hallmark of incompetent governance now is the show of shame being displayed by the Senate and House of Representatives simply over ego issues. They actually placed their ego above state matters. The recent happenings in the National Assembly has confirmed the notion some of us having been having that these guys were put there by their godfathers to steal and to loot, no more no less. You can imagine a situation whereby a national budget is held up, simply because of Dimeji Bankole and David Mark’s ego. Well, there is a ray of hope at the tunnel; more and more people are now calling for the Rawlings formula. Even those in high places and corridors of power. It seems it is coming earlier than some of us have expected. A good starting point, I guess, is the $300 billion stolen from the national treasury between 1979 and 2009. The last and present generation of Nigerians have been wasted; let us give the next generation a ray of hope. “Rawlings formula might do the magic”
Ndiameeh Babrik, [email protected]