LEADERS WHO LOOT US BLIND ARE ENCOURAGED & DEFENDED

The astronomical increase in food and cement prices are cases in point. When the Government banned imports, gave fertilizer, loans and grants to encourage local production, local farmers and dealers raised prices above imported goods. Their greed and excessive profits did not benefit the locals. So it is not only the leaders or politicians that steal legally and illegally by padding salaries and allowances, big and street traders hoard goods making them too expensive for the common man.

It is a political malpractice to blame the populace for voting against their own self interests. There is the fear they would double down. But the truth must come out somehow, the populace deserves the leaders they nourish. Leaders do not come from Mars. Leaders are responsive to the community culture, upbringing, our educational systems, the individual family members and cronies who get or eagerly expect returns from grossly obscene gains.

Look at the three leading Presidential candidates produced by the so-called Giant of Africa! Their politics have been updated to whose brand of cocaine peddlers is worse. African leaders like some world leaders ride and depend on loud gullible populous to govern. They gain assurance from the approval of shortsighted immediate pleasure seekers that vote against their long-term self-interest. Instead of draining the Augean Stable, they hold their noses and swim along. Ignoring reasonably clean candidates because they had no looting experience.

It is difficult to fish out a live fish in a swamp when most people just want a piece of the National Cake they think must not disappear before they get their chance as cronies of corruption, spending ostentatiously on conspicuous foreign goods like Nigerians. Recently one of the senators Abdul Ningi from Bauchi Central Senatorial District blew the cover over the padded Budget. He was suspended by his colleagues in the Senate for three months!

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Greed is Good and Healthy for business

- Ivan Boesky

Who else would Ibori and the Forty Thieves support?

It is my sincere hope that the judgement delivered today will be reviewed at the earliest time possible because it clearly stands the concept of federalism on its head.

James Onanefe Ibori