Friday, October 25, 2013
Who said our leaders are corrupt?
EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde and ICPC Chairman, Mr. Ekpo Nta
Ladoke
Akintola was a one-time premier of the then Western Region of Nigeria.
Smooth-talking, loquacious master of jabberwocky, Akintola was often
accused by his many opponents of crass corruption. His sarcastic
response sickened many both in his party and outside. The line is
memorable. “I didn’t eat the money, I spent it, whose grandfather can
swallow a penny?” he had said. The premier, in a manner of a stand-up
comedian, trivialised the behemoth called corruption, and today, the
monstrous Godzilla is still very much around sinking Nigeria deep into
thraldom and towering tribulations. Friends, this is the fungus among
us.
To date, our leaders determinedly
continue to trivialise the madness of financial misappropriation and the
long-term harm and hurt it unleashes on the destiny of Nigeria. This
wildfire menace and monstrous cascade continue unhindered. The loose
behaviours of some dare-devils in power now have become dangerous dance
steps on a free way to a volcanic conflagration threatening to gulp up
the beautiful but beleaguered country and spit it out down the abyss of
history .
I have decided in my small corner to
stop calling those leaders who steal from the nation’s treasury
“corrupt”. Because when you do, it seems the culprits perceive it is as a
deserved adornment of a chieftaincy title. So, they glee, and glow, and
gyrate over the nomenclature. And unfortunately, the attendant
historical punitive consequences meted out to “corrupt” Nigerian
government officials are nothing but a replica of the sham and shame
that take place in a shanty courthouse. All of them always get away.
It was both amusing and amazing when we
learnt that the government is now on a massive manhunt for the person
responsible for revealing the frenzy, frightful, shopping spree of
exotic armoured cars for the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, that
cost taxpayers $1.6m. A man who should be celebrated and honoured
publicly is now the criminal. That is the state of things now in our
land where the celebrity becomes the culprit.
Also recently, the “New Peoples
Democratic Party” threw a challenge in the face of the PDP-run
government that it made $1.05bn in July 2013, and wanted to know what
happened to the dough. The platoons in the “New PDP” should know what
they are talking about. The “New PDP” and the ancient PDP used to be
conjoined twins until they were separated by the surgical scissors of
ambition, power, money and control. Together, they used to fight common
enemies, together they took orders under the same commander; they both
know what ammunition are used for what squabble, they both know where
the ammunition are kept, they know how the ammunition were procured, and
they still have the template and blueprint of operations in their
possession. When they allege that money is missing, the “New PDP” must
know what they are talking about.
Home and abroad, money is missing in
stacks and stashes. Home and abroad, our vaults are vanishing in
batches. Government recently admitted that between August and September
2013, Nigeria’s external reserves dropped by $1.33bn — from $47bn to
$45.67bn. Money is missing, projects are neither completed nor executed,
external reserves are on a free-fall, and we are not fighting any wars!
In my own thought, to call our leaders
“corrupt” is a musical alto and tenor in their ears. To call them
“corrupt” is an attempt to embellish the act, dress the behaviour in
angelic robe and toga, and sandblast the feisty festivals of banditry
and criminality that are going on in government. To call them “corrupt”
is to make the vice appear meek and mild, because it no longer carries
any correctional weight. Who said our leaders are corrupt? What is
going on is no longer corruption; government at all levels has become
grim gulags and concentration camps of heinous crime against humanity,
and a bromide and banal affront to divinity.
It has shown through recent developments
that these people don’t care if you call them “corrupt”. What follows
an uncovered case of corruption is usually a coronation of the
perpetrator. They are applauded and hailed as if they just scored a
winning goal in a World Cup final match. They either become chiefs in
their village, an Igwe in their clan, pastors in their churches, Imams
in their mosques, and Jeep-driving, jet-flying celebrity among us.
A “corrupt” official is either sent to
jail for a few hours or sent home to enjoy the loot and they live to
loot again. When corruption destroys an airline for example, the
government withdraws the licence after a gory accident and then
re-issues the licence with an upgrade when dust and noise seem to have
settled down on the outrage. To label anyone corrupt in Nigeria today
spurs an award-winning, honour-bestowing wining and dining event.
There is an uncanny incarceration of the
guy who stole N100, while the “oga at the top”, the untouchable ogre
who scooped in billons is slumbering easy in his state-of-the-art
mansion. Back in the day when you heard screams of “thieves” on any
Nigerian street, justice immediately rolled down like waters. Many of
our leaders are THIEVES! Who said they are corrupt? A former governor
who stole $55m while in office is corrupt? Another ex-governor who
siphoned an estimated US$250m of state funds is corrupt? Secretary
of the Police Pension Fund who stole over N5bn and you label him,
“corrupt”? Nigerian civil servants who President Goodluck Jonathan said
not too long ago “own more houses than Dangote” are not corrupt. The
malodorous mire and madness is not corruption. These people are THIEVES,
and they are ruining us all!
They are profusely profligate
perfectionists of pilferage who persistently pound their chests in a
disgraceful dare of the people. “What are they going to do”? They seem
to tell us. They are elite members of certified criminal country-clubs
of the Mephistopheles. They control the levers of who-and-who get
immunity from the impunity. While the people are crying, they are
laughing, while the people are agonising, they are aggrandising. While
the people are in pain, they are painting the whole world red with
parties and festivities from Paris to Puerto Rico, Bahrain to the
Bahamas, Denver to Dubai. When their children are getting married, money
is wasted like water, and many lives to whom the frittered money belong
in Nigeria are dying daily from hunger and hopelessness on the streets
of the “Giant of Africa”. The fungus among us has become a calcified
bone in the spine of the Nigerian nation, and it seems as if these
people are not going anywhere, and with stern obduracy, they are not
changing habits.
Into corruption, they are giving birth
to triplets; in thievery, they are raising them. And the offspring don’t
know any better but what Daddy and Mummy have taught them, so
corruption becomes a baton that is passed from one generation to the
other. They live in mansions and palaces built with sand of thieving and
gravel of deceiving. But houses built on sand cannot stand. One day,
and not too long, they will groan over their grabs and choke on their
grubs. Could they deceive God as they deceive a mere mortal? The answer
is No! Those who plow evil and those who sow trouble do reap it. Be not
deceived, God is not mocked; whatsoever a man sows, that he shall reap,
the Holy Book says.
I don’t know when, and I don’t know how,
but all I know is that this craze will soon stop in Nigeria! The
minority cannot muzzle the majority for too long, and thank God we are
more than them. We will wriggle, thread and tread through the knotty,
corrosive and catatonic crinkum-crankum that has been our story for a
long time in Nigeria, and launch into an autarky where all of our
thirst will be quenched, our hunger satisfied, and the dreaded,
slow-killer corruption confined into the leper’s colony far away from
us. And then, civility will reign. From the presidential palace to the
governor’s quarters civility will reign. From the senators’ mansion to
the ministers’ drive, civility will reign. From the church to the
mosque, from my house to yours, and then in all of our hearts, civility
will reign. Did I have some kind of Island of Patmos experience? No, I
can just feel it inside of me, and I am not alone.
Friday, October 18, 2013
BillionaireEx-gov Orji Uzor Kalu’s homes, privates jets and cars(PHOTOS)
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
30 Year Old Man Cuts Off His Penis And Gives It To A Dog!
[WARNING!!! GRAPHIC PHOTOS]
According to sources, Ejike, from Nkwelle Uke community in Idemili South Local Government Area of the state, was a luxurious bus conductor based in Onitsha until he returned to the village recently.
He allegedly visited the village shrine and invoked the spirit of the diety before taking away kolanuts offered to the gods and from that moment, began to manifest strange signs.
It was gathered that last weekend, Ejike took a knife, cut off his penis and scrotum, and a strange dog suddenly appeared and ran away with the severed genitals. Family members were said to have rushed him to the hospital immediately.
When Daily Sun visited the hospital yesterday, Ejike’s private parts were completely bandaged while a catheter was fixed from the region where he passes urine.
Though he refused to talk to the reporter, he was furious when her sister arrived with his aged father. He blurted out, saying he took the action in protest so that the family would know that he was not joking when he said he would cut his penis. Scores of visitors in the hospital also said he had threatened to cut off his manhood in the past because his penis had disappointed him several times.
But the elder sister who was attending to him in the hospital told Daily Sun that he acted under the influence of evil forces. She said that no man in his right senses would slice his manhood, adding that the family wass shattered by his action.
The Chief Medical Director, Crown Hospital Nkpor, Dr. Eddy Emegoaku confirmed that Ejike’s case was critical but declined further comments on his medical condition.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Ethiopian fans attack Eagles, injure Igiebor
Nosa Igiebor
| credits: Complete Sports
| credits: Complete Sports
Nigeria
midfielder Nosa Igiebor was injured when angry Ethiopian fans attacked
the Super Eagles after the first leg World Cup playoff against the
Walya Antelopes in Addis Ababa on Sunday.
The Eagles defeated the Walya Antelopes
2-1 at the Addis Ababa Stadium to take a three-point advantage to the
return match in Calabar on November 16.
In a statement on Monday, spokesman
for the Eagles Ben Alaiya said the fans attacked the bus conveying
the Eagles to their hotel after the game with stones and shattered its
rear windscreen.
“(Real Betis player) Nosa Igiebor was
the unlucky one as the stones slashed his right palm leading to profuse
bleeding that was immediately attended to by team doctor, Ibrahim
Gyaran.”
Alaiya said the Nigeria Football
Federation reported the incident to the FIFA Security team at the
match venue for the encounter.
“We hope FIFA will take an action,” Umeh told BBC Sport.
“It’s a shame that such an embarrassing behaviour could happen after a football match.”
The NFF also accused the Ethiopians of maltreating the Nigerian supporters at the stadium on match day.
“Matters came to a head on match day,
when bottles were hauled at Nigerian players and supporters when the
Ethiopians thought that they had scored an opener in the first half,”
Alaiya said.
However, the NFF insisted that the Ethiopians would not be maltreated when they visit Calabar for the return leg in November.
Unconfirmed reports said some Nigerians
resident in the North-East African country were also attacked and their
business centres destroyed by the protesters.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian delegation to
the Addis Ababa arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport,
Abuja at about 4.30am on Monday.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the Nigeria Football Federation President, Alhaji Aminu Maigari, led the team back home.
NAN reports that while most of
the foreign-based players connected flights immediately back to their
bases in Europe, the domestic league players returned to the country.
Some National Assembly members,
including the Senate Committee Chairman on Sports, Adamu Gumba, and his
House of Representatives counterpart, Godfrey Gaiya, were in the
entourage that arrived with the team.
Others were officials of the National
Sports Commission, the Nigeria Football Supporters’ Club, as well as the
management and secretariat staff of the NFF.
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2015: APC refutes zoning VP slot to South-West
The
All Progressives Congress on Monday dismissed claims that it had zoned
its vice-presidential slot to the South-West ahead of the 2015
Presidential elections.
It described as “reckless, baseless and
completely unfounded” a report published by a newspaper (not The PUNCH)
that it had ceded the slot to the South-West instead of the South-East.
This was contained in a statement issued by its interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
The APC said the report was orchestrated
by those who were threatened by the high profile and prospects of the
party’s candidate in the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra
State, Dr. Chris Ngige.
It read in part, “Having realised that
their attempt to milk the so-called deportation issue had fallen flat on
its face, these desperate politicians have now resorted to outright
lies and wild imagination.
“They figure that if they played the
South-West against the South-East, by saying the APC has zoned the VP
slot to the former over the latter, some people may just fall for it.
This is cheap politics.”
The party assured Nigerians that the
party had, at no time, discussed the issue of its presidential and
vice-presidential slots, hence it could not have zoned any of the posts.
“Our party is an inclusive national
party which will definitely accommodate the interest of all Nigerians in
all its actions. We are therefore urging all the good people of Nigeria
to ignore this fabricated story. There is no iota of truth in it,” the
party said.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Re- Orji stops Okorocha’s birthday reception in Abia
Its absolutely act of irresponsible, politics taking to extreme by
Governor T.A Orji, who betrayed the good people of Abia State when he
decamped from the PPA. He became the despotic do-or-die Governor to the
PDP.
One is not surprise that Governor T.A.Oji, having
committed abomination against Ndi-Igbo, by the sack of all Ndi-Igbo, of
non Abia origin from the services of the State's establishments.
Gov.Orji is being hunt by his past acts against Ndi-Igbo, his vision
less,corrupt ridden & inefficient governorship, the sordid state of
affair of the State, especially Aba, Enyimba City formerly referred to
as the Taiwan of Nigeria.
Its
quite unfortunate,that Gov.Orji have taken his politics to this abysmal
& ridiculous level against a fellow Igbo man and sister States. Its
quite regrettable that while patriotic Nigerians were working to
entrench peaceful co-existent amongst the diverse ethnic Nationalities
in Nigeria, Gov. T.A. Orji is fanning the ember of disunity within
Ndi-Igbo, on the platter of political slavery and jingoism. Let all well
meaning leaders of Igbo Nation now, call Gov.Ahamefula Orji to order
before he destroys the unity of Ndigbo now that President Goodluck
Jonathan has presented Nigerian ethnic Nationalities the ample
opportunity to discuss the future of the Nation's cooperate existence.
We may not like Okorocha joining APC but all well-meaning Nigerians
must condemn Orji’s show of shame the same way we condemned Fashola's
deportation of the Igbos from Lagos to Anambra State. In a democracy,
one has the right to freedom of association and movement. Governor T.A.
Oji is one of those Igbos that have made people like me see Biafra as a
joke. Igbo unity with men like Orji will remain a mirage.
Only
in Nigeria can people’s rights be so abused with impunity! Only in
Nigeria are people’s constitutionally guaranteed freedoms be so
vehemently violated! Nigerians are guaranteed fundamental human rights
& freedom to assemble & associate regardless of color, creed,
ethnicity, religious, or political affiliations. Followers of Okorocha
should not be denied these rights & freedoms. APC is a registered
national party and its and should be open to anyone who chooses to
belong & associate with its ideology. Abia State is not a one-party
state and T.A. Orji should not use fiat & the instrument of state
power to frustrate activities of other duly registered political
entities in the state. Please, don’t make Abia State another Rivers
State of the Southsouth.
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