Before i go into the crux of today's matter, let me first ask: if a pair of jeans is "jean" according to yaba boys, what do we call fergie of the black eyed peas? a black eyed pea?
After much hulla-baloo(how do u spell that?), VP jonathan goodluck decides to tell us he has just about twice what the EFCC seized from his wife shortly after he became governor of bayelsa state. (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/11/africa/AF_GEN_Nigeria_Corruption.php) tell me, who is fooling who? These nigerian leaders must think we are all stupid and seriously lacking an ability to think. When we were all expecting Jonathan to declare at least 10b. This guy has seriously disappointed awon boiz. Maybe we should start clamouring for his wife to declare too and after that his children, friends, infact the whole village. Nonsense. Imagine him saying he has only 1 car even my father has 2.
Before I round up here, I wish to beg anyone who has been on the receiving end of corruption and i mean the real end when there was no one to pass it on to to visit Chxta's blog http://chxta.blogspot.com and knock some sense into his head. Some folks refuse to see the problem around us; how can we solve it when we refuse to see it, it think that is called denial.
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thanks for stopping by, hope to tryout your suggestion in the future, hope you have big houose to contain me and my clan. These politicians are just fooling themselves dancing round trivial matters.
Thats a good one big head. Who is fooling whom indeed.
Did you hear that low IQ is now though to be the variable responsible for third world (or black Africa's) continued underdevelopment.Read that in one blog.
I took your advice and visited Chxta's blog. To be honest he makes more sense than you on this issue. It is not so much about corruption as about what we are doing about it.
There's little certain folks can do from a distance apart from not doing the very things we criticize and blogging about the bad things others are doing which is just what I am doing. The summary of my case on Chxta's blog is acknowledging the existence of a problem rather than dismissing it as one of those things that happen to developing countries. Nigeria's case isn't "one of those things"; if we continue like this, we won't become like India.
If that is the case then it means both of you are saying the same thing but coming from different angles. Kind of like the Democrats and Republicans nowadays. He didn't deny that there is corruption in Nigeria, and to be fair to him he did point out that Nigeria needs to be criticized. It is how it is done that he has a problem with. And to be honest again, most of our people don't seem to have hope.
@soulhunter: you have a point there. Its just that I think that sometimes priviledged folks don't really know the extent of how bad things are. Me and you, infact everyone who is computer literate enough to blog cannot tell the story as well as the majority of nigerians (because infact, we are minority) and this leads to idealism on our part. But its all good cos we are all on the same team: team make-nigeria-better and everyone is entitled to their varying opinions on how to accomplish this.
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