At
56, we pretend we have national heroes, but from the onset, it was a race for
cash. Even those who 'fought' for our independence knew that the race was on.
They got a headstart. And some of them are now on our Naira notes. Thank
goodness, my God, that the N50 note stands as the only honourable note we have
in circulation.
Do
not let anyone bamboozle you: the Change begins with them. Trouble started with
them and not us. For 56 years, we have sat and watched 'them' as their tribe
has grown in number and diversity. It was always them, at the top. The man at
the bottom -or even in the middle- has learned to survive by doing his own
little nefarious bit. But trust me, he will never catch up. The theft from the
top is way too much.
Today,
Buhari is insistent on working alone at the limit of his very limited and
outdated ability, yet he is spending enormous and fantabulous sums on running politics.
His Finance Ministry is either comatose or he does not listen to them. So why
is that Kemi lady still strutting around Abuja answering to a Ministerial job
that she either cannot, will not or will not be allowed to perform? Young lady,
I can help draft a letter for you: like how Panadol is the answer to pain.
What
is this about selling national assets? And what have Atedo Peterside, Aliko
Dangote got to say that will be of any use to us? Do we not know their
antecedents? They can talk, they are among those who prepared to buy these
assets years ago while the rest of us were toiling honourably. They were
fronting for powers that be, selling forex while the ignorant and gullible and
sychophantic among us called them whizkids. Whiz maybe, kids not.
There
is untold tradition of grand theft in the banking and financial marketplace.
What do we expect of the Central bank governor and his bankers? He was one
previously. See how they cream off rogue earnings from diabolically managed
exchange rate. So there is no President in this country capable of applying
simple economic principles that my son can, to deal with this 'arrangee'
madness?
'Same
few that destroyed Nigeria are now best placed financially to buy up her
national assets. What manner of Independence.'
Change
starts from the Presidency, from the bloated dishonourable Federal legislature,
from errant State governors. From the intellectually bankrupt State Houses of
Assembly to clueless Chairmen and Councillors. From APC to PDP. Unless these
people and their private sector 'Illicit Billionaire' friends change, nothing
is going to change here. We will continue to drift. And drift. And probably sink.
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