If you have been wondering why the government
of Goodluck Jonathan has achieved precious little in
the monumental fight against corruption in Nigeria,
the answer is very simple. There is actually no
corruption in Nigeria. Nigerian politicians are
thieves, but they are not corrupt.
This is the erudite position of our dear president,
who happens to be the first president in the
history of Nigeria to have the distinction of a
Ph.D. President Jonathan says: ”What many
Nigerians refer to as corruption is actually
stealing. Stealing is not the same thing as
corruption.”
This is a profound statement that has since
become the subject of many doctoral dissertations
on Nigeria. It has also provided a very Nigerian
contribution to the English language.
Nigerian “doublethink”
Our president is not alone in this assessment.
The Chairman of the ICPC (Independent Corrupt
Practices Commission), Ekpo Nta, agrees with Mr.
President. He also insists it is wrong to confuse
stealing with corruption. The distinguished
chairman says: “Stealing is erroneously reported as
corruption. We must go back to what we were
taught at school to show that there are educated
people in Nigeria.” He then likened the Nigerian
penchant to regard theft as corruption to be as
erroneous as calling a roadside mechanic an
engineer.
This perspective has brought great relief to
Nigerians. We always thought there was too much
corruption in the country, so it is fantastic to
learn that there is no corruption at all. We are
just thieves. It is necessary to bring this new
insight to the attention of Transparency
International, which persists in listing Nigeria as
one of the most corrupt countries. We need to tell
the world that we have “re-based” the corruption
index in Nigeria and found it to be totally non-
existent.
The only problem here for Ekpo Nta is that we
might have to scrap his organisation. If there is
no corruption in Nigeria, there is no point having
an Independent Corrupt Practices Commission.
Since Mr. President educated us that corruption is
different from stealing, other eminent Nigerians
have also found it necessary to make similar
Orwellian clarifications towards the obfuscation of
the truth. Here are some examples of this
peculiarly Nigerian “doublethink.”
“PDP governors are thieves but APC governors are
corrupt.”
Murtala Nyako was not impeached as governor of
Adamawa State during the many years he was in
the PDP. He was only impeached after he
decamped to the APC. This shows a critical
difference between the PDP and the APC. While
PDP governors are thieves, they are not corrupt.
However, APC governors are not thieves, but they
are steeped in corruption. Stealing is accepted as
our national pastime in Nigeria, but corruption will
not be tolerated by the Jonathan Administration.
PDP governors pocket government money, but they
are not corrupt because they make sure it is
shared with their colleagues in the legislature.
However, when PDP governors decamp to the APC,
they become corrupt. They become selfish and do
not allow stolen money to go round. This breeds
corruption. This explains why the government
does not have any problem with them while they
are still in the PDP. In the PDP, it is understood
that politicians steal for the good of the public.
But in the APC, politicians steal for the good of
their families and their party. This is
unacceptable. Therefore, any PDP governor that
decamps to the APC must be impeached.
Rabiu Kwankwaso was a very good and upright
public-servant as PDP Governor of Kano. But after
he switched to the APC, he became negatively
transformed. Accordingly, President Jonathan was
quick to inform Nigerians that the governor
corruptly enriched himself with public funds.
This is what happens when politicians move from
the PDP to the APC. They become corrupt and
are then handed over to the EFCC. But if they are
smart and quickly return to the PDP, their EFCC
file is promptly closed.
“Stealing public funds is a sign of progressive
politics.”
APC is a progressive party. Therefore, when APC
governors steal public funds; this must be seen in
the context of progressive politics. APC governors
steal money for the sake of building physical
infrastructures; while PDP governors steal money
for the sake of “stomach infrastructures.” It is
well-understood in Nigeria that building physical
infrastructures is definitely more progressive than
PDP’s “amala politics.”
Many of the roads, schools and other dividends of
democracy evident in APC states were done with
stolen money. The progressive element in this
process is that money stolen from one state is
sometimes transferred to another state in the
interest of the redistribution of resources.
Moreover, a lot of the stolen money is used to
build party structures and to fight elections. This
is progressive because if it is not done, Nigeria
might end up as a one-party state, and no right-
thinking person who is concerned about the
enthronement of democracy in Nigeria would like
that to happen.
Bearing this in mind, it then becomes clear that,
although Murtala Nyako was impeached as
Governor of Adamawa State on the grounds that he
corruptly enriched himself with government funds,
this does not in any way diminish his APC
credentials. Nyako belongs to the new breed of
APC progressives who engage in the in the
redistribution of the resources in their states.
This offended the PDP who don’t have the interests
of the people at heart.
“Democracy does not entail voting in elections.”
Nigerians should be made to understand that the
fact that we have a democratic system does not
mean the people should be allowed to vote.
Because the generality of Nigerians are considered
by our intelligent politicians to be stupid and
foolish, they cannot be expected to vote for the
right candidates. That means we need to rely on
enlightened godfathers to “select democratically”
our public officials for us. We also need to ensure
that while people may be allowed to cast their
votes in elections, their votes must not be allowed
to count.
For there to be true and effective democracy,
elections must be judiciously rigged. Otherwise,
we might end up with the kind of thing that
happened recently in Ekiti where, with soldiers
and policemen protecting the right of the people to
vote, they voted out the erudite governor, Kayode
Fayemi, and voted in Ayo Fayose. This kind of
aberration needs to be discouraged in true
democracies.
A PDP Senator confessed that on Election Day, the
electoral officials in his constituency were
surprised to see his mother at the polls. “Mama,
what are you doing here?” they berated her.
“Don’t you know that you have already voted?”
Two local chiefs then complained to the Senator
afterwards that they were not allowed to vote for
him. When he made enquiries as to why this was
so, the electoral official involved was irritated.
“Honorable Senator,” he declared, “you won the
election by a landslide in this constituency, so
what are they complaining about?”
“That is not the issue,” protested the Senator, “they
want to be able to vote for me themselves.” But
the electoral officer refused to be persuaded.
“Then Senator, they must be traitors,” he declared.
“If they are still complaining, even though you
won the election, it means they were not planning
to vote for you. We cannot allow that to happen.”
“Belonging to the APC does not mean you are not a
member of the PDP.”
There are many PDP men in APC clothing and
many APC men in PDP agbada. One such example
is His Royal Highness, the Turaki of Adamawa.
The Turaki was in the PDP, and then he was not.
Then he was in the PDP again and now he is not.
The Turaki is something of an invisible man: now
you see him in the APC, then you see him in the
PDP.
Although he is currently masquerading as an APC
member, there is no doubt that HRH reserves the
right to resurrect any time in the future as a
member of the PDP again. In the same way that
some people have dual nationality, so also the
Turaki has more than dual party memberships.
His right to this is guaranteed under the Freedom
of Association clause in the Nigerian Constitution.
This insurance policy is necessary given his
nationalist presidential ambitions. If he is not
chosen as APC presidential candidate later this
year, and if APC loses the 2015 presidential
election, the Turaki can be expected to throw away
his APC membership card and become a staunch
PDP man once again. Nigerian political parties
don’t bear grudges. They accept prodigal sons
back home, even those as compulsively prodigal as
the Turaki.
Is Aminu Tambuwal, the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, a PDP man or an APC man?
Nobody seems to know. It is even possible that
the Speaker himself might not be able to answer
the question with any degree of certainty.
Currently, Tambuwal sits on the PDP side of the
aisle. He occupies a position reserved for the
majority PDP party. However, to all intents and
purposes, he is also an APC man.
“Having a doctorate does not mean you are
educated.”
There are now so many doctors in Nigeria. Many
of these are doctors of ignorance. Time was when
having a doctorate signified you have attained the
height of academic excellence. Not any more in
Nigeria. Doctorates are now bought and sold in
flea-markets. Just give a few million stolen naira
to any of the “jekuredi” universities and they will
readily award you a Doctor of Philosophy in a
field of your choosing.
If you don’t have stolen money to throw around;
don’t let that deter you. Just award the degree to
yourself. How do you think the late Sikiru Ayinde
Barrister obtained his doctorate?
Ekiti state is said to have the largest concentration
of doctorates in the country. But you can tell that
this does not mean they are educated because they
voted for Fayose instead of Fayemi. That should
tell you how uneducated they really are. (Kindly
post other examples of Nigerian “doublespeak” on
my blog).
source:-Vanguard

Stealing is stealing....
Corruption is corruption


So?

Makes a lot of sense but too long
Here is my stance
Stealing is stealing and if you do you are a thief
And a thief is a criminal and a criminal has commited a crime againt the law.
Corruption is not necessarily a crime you know.like giving a contract to a friend.lol
So how do you call that a crime
So next time when a phd holder says something
Pls listen and understand
Holla