When the entrapment called Nigeria is being described as oil-rich nation while scandals of widespread bribery and corruption rages on with the nasty treatment of the weakest and most vulnerable in its society continues apace, it really bothers me.
It's all over Nigeria-related media on the acclaimed visit of Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh's visit to Naija on bilateral issues while seventy percent of Nigerians resident in India are said to be jobless. Big deal! Does the visiting prime minister know that most Nigerians in his country are without jobs? And the ebullient bicyclist Ojo Maduekwe had thought he was carrying out a good show on behalf of a retarded and most corrupt regime on Planet Earth making a fool out of himself and not realizing he is still an efulefu, worthless and confused as his other comrades who would go any length to feed from the crumbs of their sultanate masters.
I would not belittle the vulnerable and gullible Nigerian media, never minding the fact that they have taken journalism to a level that is now shameful. None has written critically about the mess created by the so-called Minister of Justice and Attorney General Michael Aondonkaa (I hope I spelled his name right, and I don't really care) whose Justice Department all of a sudden has turned everything upside down and the press is not saying much about it. The Tiv man is telling Nigerians that it's a jungle out there, and that they should get it.
Who cares what the crap Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is coming up with regarding the bogus April elections we've put behind us to move on. Why now? Jide Ajani, Political Editor of the Vanguard Newspapers writes that OBJ's term extension almost destroyed President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's chances of the presidency. According to the report by INEC slated for release on Tuesday, October 16, 2007, it is said the report "provides a blow-by-blow account, giving an insight into how the elections were actually conducted."
The question here now is: Would the report indicate that no election was held at all in the politically troubled state of Anambra? Would the report indicate that, the case of Kogi State Guber election was misplaced and that INEC and Obasanjo's Gestapo-like regime had no jurisdiction to interfere with matters related to the rule of law as empowered by the courts? Would the report indicate that what had happened in Igbo-related states during the course of the rigged election was the doings of Naira passing through the hands of a selected sell-outs including Maurice Iwu as mediator? Without a doubt, the report is more likely to be a shadow stuff and will fizzle out within a few days of its release with the much celebrated sponsored press doing nothing about it. If the press continues to keep its tight-lip mode, be rest assured that the country is doomed, if not now, sooner or later.
Enter Speaker of the House of Representatives Mrs. Patricia Etteh whose motive was delibrately to steal money with impunity on the grounds nothing absolutely would happen. Of course, nothing will happen knowing Naija and cover-ups. Afterall, Orji Kalu is free bragging to deal with the polluted system. James Ibori who sponsored Yar'Adua's ticket to Aso Rock and emptied his state's treasury is untouchable having a field day because Yar'Adua and his entire cabinet knows exactly what's going on. Many others are like that who are scot-free including a sad reality case of former Enugu State Governor, Dr. Chimaraoke Nnamani who had taken the people of Enugu for a long ride.While we are at it, the local government bureau chiefs are doing their own thing, too. They are stealing without conscience and the roads and other infrastructures are totally gone and the local press wherever they are can't do "jack" about it.
Nothing lasts forever, and apparently, these folks don't know that. Time will tell!
