11/09/2022
I love this (below). May God bless the author. And may God open all our eyes to read and see the sense in it, especially those of us in APC and PDP.
*A CITY OF THE MAD.*
*A CITY OF THE MAD.*
Contentment is the grace to stand up from the dinning table and look away from the food tray when your belly is full. But the Nigerian public official, although filled and belching with excess, would still hide stolen meat within the corners of his mouth at a dinner, stuff fried rice into his socks, and try to shuffle moinmoin into his shoes. Madness you say. But who else would steal 80 billion Naira except a mad fellow.
I am no longer numbed at the numbers stolen in Nigeria, but I am terribly saddened by the titles of the armed robbers. Kemebradikumo Pondei, that dramatic NDDC acting managing director that fainted in court was a professor of medicine. A man trained to build, repair and even possibly manufacture life. Yet, he too got to table, and scooped jollof rice into his boxers.
Do you know who Diezani Alison-Madueke was? No you don't. When ladies her age were wishing and praying to be admitted to Shell Petroleum as typists or tea girls, she was already on the board of the company as an executive director. God gave her the bigger privilege of marrying Allison Madueke, a naval officer and former military governor of two states. She was a trained architect who transformed to become Nigeria's first female petroleum minister. Yet, despite these privileges, Diezani stole our barbequed fish and roasted yams, and hid them in her bra. Like a mad woman.
You recollect that Jamb/NECO ex registrar, Dibu Ojerinde, that professor, the one that stole almost a billion. Just go through his CV, he had been eating from one educational agency to another non stop since the military era. But at almost 70, a grandpa, he comes from detention facility and goes to court to defend himself for stealing monies he would never need. At 70, a man is nearer my God to thee..., but in Nigeria, a
