We all love easy solutions! At least I do!
That is what is driving the various money making innovations in the marketplace today!
A faster way to do it, a cheaper way, all new innovations promise a better future!
What holds the promise for a better future for Nigeria?
The ready-made answer from politicians, is sacrifice!
They tell us we need to do more, for less!
The worker on the other hand, believes it is more for less: more money for less labour!
The inteligentsia, who are outsiders to power, would quip corruption: they believe the eradication of which would give Nigeria a better future!
A careful appraisal of our nation points to one single factor as being the way to our future prosperity: the rule of law!
We are a people ever looking for ways to get something out of nothing, while not discharging what is our legitimate responsibility!
We do this, while holding on to, and demanding vociferously, our entitlements!
It is a truism, that one cannot reap where one has not sowed!
To do so, would be stealing!
Sadly, we seem to have become a community of people who assiduously endeavor to get, without first fulfilling the precondition for getting: which is giving!
What I have been struggling to say, in many words, is that we have become a nation of law-breakers, or as they say on the streets: thieves!
Fidelity, is the lifeblood of any living, and thriving organism: be it biological, or social!
Once a part in a living organism does not discharge it's responsibility to the rest of the system, there is a disease for the rest of the system, and consequently death!
In like manner, if a striker, or a defender, in a football team, does not play his position faithfully, the rest of the team would suffer, and might even be defeated!
So you see, our major problem is a gross disobedience of the laws we have made to help our society run on an even keel!
We have jettisoned the rules of civil engagement, and now make our own rules as we go along!
When elected leaders, who swore an oath to the constitution, fail to govern with honesty, and integrity: they are robbing the people of the leadership they were voted to provide!
When ordinary citizens do not pay their taxes, or drive against oncoming traffic, or litter: it is all robbery!
The reason why advanced societies work so well, is that by and large, the fear of the consequences of breaking a law, makes people comply with those laws!
This, subsequently, promotes harmony, and growth in the system!
We are suffering from an epidemic of social, and criminal misbehavior! This is a direct traceable result of our not enforcing rules that are meant to regulate us all, and promote good governance!
We do not need another Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, or any other high-sounding smart alec agency to fight crimes!
The rules in our statutes, and the police are enough!
Why we are suffering, is as a result of the consequence of no consequence: when bad behavior, does not result in the swift sanction it merits!
Until we begin to do this, we would continue to be a nation of thieves, and lawless people!
And we all know that there is no honour among thieves!
When next you feel like cutting corners, ask yourself if you are a thief, or not: such self examination would eventually lead to a more honourable society: and that should be the goal of every Nigerian!
MAY GOD BLESS NIGERIA, OUR NIGERIA FOREVER!
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Sunday, July 24, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
Sabur Oladimeji Bankole:Politician,Legislooter. Act One Scene 1!
The media circus generated by the impending arrest of Sabur Dimeji Bankole, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, shows that Nigerians are yet to learn from history! Even when that history is repetitive, and in living memory!
Our people are acting as if the fellow has already been convicted, and jailed!
I have graduated from the class of the absurd, and the ludicrous, that believes that corrupt politicians to go to jail! I am now wiser! I do not expect anything to happen to Bankole, neither does he himself, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC!
The man, and the EFCC, are actors, collaborators, and conspirators in a well scripted travesty put on for the benefit of gullible Nigerians!
In the last twelve years, we have had three presidents, and over sixty different governors in our thirty six states, and not one of them has been jailed for corruption!
It is either they are all saints, or there is a deliberate policy to shield the members of this exclusive club!
We have had some who were caught with "red hot" damning evidence, and all they got was a slap on the wrist with a rubber ruler!
When the EFFC says it is pursuing a man, it is all a charade, the closest thing to it in reality is shadow boxing, or modern day wrestling, where everything is scripted!
The wrestlers have a script they are acting out, and they know who is to win, when, and how!
I yawned when I saw the newsflash on television that Bankole had been arrested after a four hour stand-off!
Wow!
Those EFCC operatives are really tenacious! Why should it take law enforcement officers four hours, to arrest an ordinary citizen who does not have any immunity, especially when he has been accused of a crime?
Acting! Wayo! (Deceit) Mago mago! (Sleight of hand)
The four hour drama is just the opening scene to a wonderfully written comedy piece!
Our people are acting as if the fellow has already been convicted, and jailed!
I have graduated from the class of the absurd, and the ludicrous, that believes that corrupt politicians to go to jail! I am now wiser! I do not expect anything to happen to Bankole, neither does he himself, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC!
The man, and the EFCC, are actors, collaborators, and conspirators in a well scripted travesty put on for the benefit of gullible Nigerians!
In the last twelve years, we have had three presidents, and over sixty different governors in our thirty six states, and not one of them has been jailed for corruption!
It is either they are all saints, or there is a deliberate policy to shield the members of this exclusive club!
We have had some who were caught with "red hot" damning evidence, and all they got was a slap on the wrist with a rubber ruler!
When the EFFC says it is pursuing a man, it is all a charade, the closest thing to it in reality is shadow boxing, or modern day wrestling, where everything is scripted!
The wrestlers have a script they are acting out, and they know who is to win, when, and how!
I yawned when I saw the newsflash on television that Bankole had been arrested after a four hour stand-off!
Wow!
Those EFCC operatives are really tenacious! Why should it take law enforcement officers four hours, to arrest an ordinary citizen who does not have any immunity, especially when he has been accused of a crime?
Acting! Wayo! (Deceit) Mago mago! (Sleight of hand)
The four hour drama is just the opening scene to a wonderfully written comedy piece!
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The media circus generated by the impending arrest of Sabur Dimeji Bankole, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, shows that Nigerians are yet to learn from history! Even when that history is repetitive, and in living memory!
Our people are acting as if the fellow has already been convicted, and jailed!
I have graduated from the class of the absurd, and the ludicrous, that corrupt politicians to go to jail! I am now wiser! I do not expect anything to happen to Bankole, neither does he himself, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC!
The man, and the EFCC, are actors, collaborators, and conspirators in a well scripted travesty put on for the benefit of gullible Nigerians!
In the last twelve years, we have had three presidents, and over sixty different governors in our thirty six states, and not one of them has been jailed for corruption!
It is either they are all saints, or there is a deliberate policy to shield the members of this exclusive club!
We have had some who were caught with "red hot" damning evidence, and all they got was a slap on the wrist with a rubber ruler!
When the EFFC says it is pursuing a man, it is all a charade, the closest thing to it in reality is shadow boxing, or modern day wrestling, where everything is scripted!
The wrestlers have a script they are acting out, and they know who is to win, when, and how!
I yawned when I saw the newsflash on television that Bankole had been arrested after a four hour stand-off!
Wow!
Those EFCC operatives are really tenacious! Why should it take law enforcement officers four hours, to arrest an ordinary citizen who does not have any immunity, especially when he has been accused of a crime?
Acting! Wayo! (Deceit) Mago mago! (Sleight of hand)
The four hour drama is just the opening scene to a wonderfully written comedy piece!
Dimeji Bankole will go to court, yes that will happen! And his well-paid Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, will argue the legality,or otherwise, of many interlocutary injunctions, or exparte orders! That is all part of the legitimization of his cleverly contrived exculpation!
While this is going on, the young man,Bankole, will suddenly develop one mysterious ailment, something that cannot be treated in a government hospital!
So the news networks will show him in a wheelchair on his way to a "secure" private hospital!
While he is enjoying his "incarceration" in a five star hotel ( sorry hospital) a place where all his women acquaintances can still visit to massage him, and keep his mojo up. Another event will occupy the media space, and Bankole's trial, becomes abstracted, and slips into oblivion!
The timeline of what I have enumerated above cannot be more than six months!
After this, Bankole would be quietly granted "compassionate bail" while his trial proceeds at the usual glacial pace! Before you know it, the young man would instruct his well-paid SANs to file for the release of his travel papers!
He would tell the honourable judge, who also happens to be a member of his golf club, that he needs to go abroad for treatment!
In due course, the EFCC would realize the error of it's ways, and would file for a settlement out of court!
Bankole enters a plea bargain, and pays ten percent withholding tax on what he has stolen to the government! The EFCC then proceeds to tell him to go and sin some more!
A few days later, at a worldwide press conference, Farida Waziri, the chief executive of the organization, would tell us how the commission has recovered fifty billion naira from Bankole!
We would all clap for the wonderful performance, and forget!
Curtains!
EPILOGUE
Dimeji Bankole Launches his foundation to serve humanity, and proceeds to declare his intention to run for governor in his state in the year 2015!
And he would win, all things being equal, because he has a huge war chest!
Before then however, a grand reception would be held for him in Abeokuta, and Church and Mosque thanksgiving services as well! The president would attend, and all the like-minded people in thePeople's Democratic Party, PDP!
In October,Dimeji Bankole, would be given a higher national award for his service to Nigeria!
Question. When was the last time a politician was jailed for fraud, and official corruption? Answer. Under the government of GeneralMuhammadu Buhari, more than twenty five years ago!
President Goodluck Jonathan, has promised to fight corruption, we are now witnessing his first title fight!
The way this case is determined, will tell a lot, about his sincerity!
Nigeria politicians loot at will, because they know there will be no adverse consequence! Just a pantomime, and shadow boxing, disguised as a trial!
It is this consequence of no consequence, that will embolden others to loot the more! A time will come, when one individual, will steal ten trillion naira, and all he would get, would be a circus, and a media charade, masquerading as a trial!
MAY GOD BLESS NIGERIA,OUR NIGERIA,FOREVER!
Our people are acting as if the fellow has already been convicted, and jailed!
I have graduated from the class of the absurd, and the ludicrous, that corrupt politicians to go to jail! I am now wiser! I do not expect anything to happen to Bankole, neither does he himself, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC!
The man, and the EFCC, are actors, collaborators, and conspirators in a well scripted travesty put on for the benefit of gullible Nigerians!
In the last twelve years, we have had three presidents, and over sixty different governors in our thirty six states, and not one of them has been jailed for corruption!
It is either they are all saints, or there is a deliberate policy to shield the members of this exclusive club!
We have had some who were caught with "red hot" damning evidence, and all they got was a slap on the wrist with a rubber ruler!
When the EFFC says it is pursuing a man, it is all a charade, the closest thing to it in reality is shadow boxing, or modern day wrestling, where everything is scripted!
The wrestlers have a script they are acting out, and they know who is to win, when, and how!
I yawned when I saw the newsflash on television that Bankole had been arrested after a four hour stand-off!
Wow!
Those EFCC operatives are really tenacious! Why should it take law enforcement officers four hours, to arrest an ordinary citizen who does not have any immunity, especially when he has been accused of a crime?
Acting! Wayo! (Deceit) Mago mago! (Sleight of hand)
The four hour drama is just the opening scene to a wonderfully written comedy piece!
Dimeji Bankole will go to court, yes that will happen! And his well-paid Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, will argue the legality,or otherwise, of many interlocutary injunctions, or exparte orders! That is all part of the legitimization of his cleverly contrived exculpation!
While this is going on, the young man,Bankole, will suddenly develop one mysterious ailment, something that cannot be treated in a government hospital!
So the news networks will show him in a wheelchair on his way to a "secure" private hospital!
While he is enjoying his "incarceration" in a five star hotel ( sorry hospital) a place where all his women acquaintances can still visit to massage him, and keep his mojo up. Another event will occupy the media space, and Bankole's trial, becomes abstracted, and slips into oblivion!
The timeline of what I have enumerated above cannot be more than six months!
After this, Bankole would be quietly granted "compassionate bail" while his trial proceeds at the usual glacial pace! Before you know it, the young man would instruct his well-paid SANs to file for the release of his travel papers!
He would tell the honourable judge, who also happens to be a member of his golf club, that he needs to go abroad for treatment!
In due course, the EFCC would realize the error of it's ways, and would file for a settlement out of court!
Bankole enters a plea bargain, and pays ten percent withholding tax on what he has stolen to the government! The EFCC then proceeds to tell him to go and sin some more!
A few days later, at a worldwide press conference, Farida Waziri, the chief executive of the organization, would tell us how the commission has recovered fifty billion naira from Bankole!
We would all clap for the wonderful performance, and forget!
Curtains!
EPILOGUE
Dimeji Bankole Launches his foundation to serve humanity, and proceeds to declare his intention to run for governor in his state in the year 2015!
And he would win, all things being equal, because he has a huge war chest!
Before then however, a grand reception would be held for him in Abeokuta, and Church and Mosque thanksgiving services as well! The president would attend, and all the like-minded people in thePeople's Democratic Party, PDP!
In October,Dimeji Bankole, would be given a higher national award for his service to Nigeria!
Question. When was the last time a politician was jailed for fraud, and official corruption? Answer. Under the government of GeneralMuhammadu Buhari, more than twenty five years ago!
President Goodluck Jonathan, has promised to fight corruption, we are now witnessing his first title fight!
The way this case is determined, will tell a lot, about his sincerity!
Nigeria politicians loot at will, because they know there will be no adverse consequence! Just a pantomime, and shadow boxing, disguised as a trial!
It is this consequence of no consequence, that will embolden others to loot the more! A time will come, when one individual, will steal ten trillion naira, and all he would get, would be a circus, and a media charade, masquerading as a trial!
MAY GOD BLESS NIGERIA,OUR NIGERIA,FOREVER!
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