Month: February 2014

Nigeria: No More Outrage Concerning Murders and Terrorism

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By Adeola Aderounmu

In recent weeks, Boko Haram are no longer making BIG headlines. The World just got used to the fact that the terrorists will kill, bomb and destroy lives and property when they like and as they like.

There are no more outrages about the terrorism situation in Northern Nigeria. In Maiduguri, people’s Life are expected to be cut short at any time, t, or moment, m.

Even in other places, there are intertribal clashes from day to day that leaves tens or hundreds of people slained. These ugly things are part of “normal” Life in Nigeria so even when they make the news, life just goes on as if nothing has actually happened.

The Nigerian government place no value on human Life. That is why the foolish government officials starting from the presidency usually fly abroad to receive treatment for their headaches and stomach flu. These obvious anomalies need no reflogging, only that it’s Always good to remind ourselves of the sort of useless people who rule NIGERIA and that there is a real need to purge them out. How we do that remains a dilemma when “everybody” wants to steal and not while allowing the system to rot completely.

The other way the Editor of Saturday Newswatch was shot and he died later at the hospital after a successful operation to remove the bullets inside his body. I mean the guy was taken to several hospitals even as his life hung in a fragile balance. Nigerian hospitals are “burial grounds” on their own. If the doctors refer to gun shots as serious injuries and are therefore not able to treat or operate the patient-what then is the need for their services.

I know that Nigerian doctors excel abroad but at home the incapacitation is huge and disgraceful. I mean when operations are done with Candle lights and lantern-this I know more than 10 years ago-how do we expect essential services to be delivered with safety.

The tragedies plaguing that country called Nigeria know no bound. The politicians are crazy robbers, the people are silly followers and the whole thing creates a scenario that presents the largest aggregation of black people are incapable of running their own affairs.

The next time bomb explodes in Northern Nigeria will be a few hours from now and there will be no outrage. A cleric was killed in the NORTH the other day and many people don’t even know about it. The people of Plateau are almost at war and killing one another at the slightest opportunity, millions of Nigerians know nothing about this.

In Nigeria, anything can happen including the worst without anybody blinking.

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Nigerians: In Criminals They Trust

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By Adeola Aderounmu

Nigeria will always be in our minds and in our hearts no matter how far away we live.

However, some Nigerians in diaspora are insensitive, they have shut their ears to the news from and about Nigeria. They have decided to live their lives abroad without ever having to think about Nigeria. But I also know that some of these people travel to Nigeria, do what they have to do and “escape” back abroad to resume their “Nigeria-free mode”.

The people of Nigeria are living in absolute bondage. They are ruled by criminals and in these criminals they trust.

In Nigeria like I have always stated, right from the president to the least placed official at the local councils, criminality abounds. The 2014 budgets that Jonathan signed and which Okonjo presented is the latest revelation of how criminals rule in Nigeria.

If Okonjo Iweala and Jonathan are not criminals, they will take the time to present a budget that is devoid of stealing and looting but we know since 1960 that crooks and criminals have been in charged of Nigeria. It is one of the several reasons why the cost of living has risen while the quality of it is lower than what animals get abroad. Nigeria is a constant dilemma.

In many blog entries I have been bold to label Ngozi Iweala as a criminal and it took the 2014 budgets for some Nigerian intellectuals to come to that realisation. She and Obasanjo knew how they connived and stole Nigeria’s money especially the returned loot coming back from Switzerland. To this day, no one knows how the monies developed fast feet under the watchful eyes of Iweala and Obasanjo.

We must write and repeat these things. Nigerians have short memories or people are just deranged.

In places where normal people live, Iweala would have resigned. Jonathan will be under investigation and out of office and the several fools and thieves that have ruled Nigeria from 1960 to date would either be serving jail terms or would have disappeared into exile from civil revolt and citizenry pressure.

Nigerians don’t revolt. When they do, they are quiet as soon as ghana must go bags exchange hands and places. Criminals abound in Nigeria and how we got to this stage of absolute madness is incomprehensible.

Nigerians know that their politicians are thieves. They know that the law will not catch up with them because the judiciary is part of the systemic corruption that has held sway. Yet Nigerians will let criminals rule them because everyone like I always say is waiting for their friends or family members to have the same looting opportunity.

The mental orientation in Nigeria calls for another division in human behaviour studies.

The wave of cross-carpeting among the political group nowadays is enough reason to throw away the government in Nigeria and the idiots changing from one party to another. Nigerians politicians are shameless “prostitutes”. They are the same, almost. That is why you can move to APC from PDP and to PDP from APC.

If they are different, ideologies will set them apart. Principles will matter.

But since the aim of politics in Nigeria is mostly to steal, loot and cart away billions of dollars, it does not matter which political party you are in. The most important thing is to be able to use force, violence and the useless INEC machinery to you advantage. In that case, a lot of the looted monies are re-engineered into the campaign for supremacy at INEC offices.

In Nigeria, he who wins or owns INEC wins the vote. Attahiru Jega can lick the dust for all I care. This is the truth. Criminals rule in Nigeria and the system cannot save Nigeria.

Even I know that it is not the ultimate end or the final solution at no other time in my life do I want self-determination for my YORUBA PEOPLE than this moment. I think in our Oduduwa kingdom, we will be able to deal with criminals better than on the National scale where everybody is a sacred cow.

Nigeria is not working. It will never work when everything is based on where you come from rather than what you can do to move the system forward positively.

Today Nigeria remains in a big mess. I state without fear that the president of Nigeria and all the governors have criminal records in terms of what they have stolen from the system. I HASTEN to add that under normal circumstances the likes of Jonathan, Iweala, and all the other criminals in the system of government in Nigeria today should be serving jail terms for their criminal records before and during this regime.

If Nigeria were China, all these criminals would be no more and the lessons will be clear.

But Nigeria face a 2015 election years with more than 50 years wasted already. Life is hopeless, more than ever before. Health care is zero as every notable politician continue to go abroad for treatment. Public schools are rubbish, simply put. Priviate schools are expensive and for the priviledged. Electricity is grounded and Nigeria remains one of the darkest spot on earth when viewed from the sky at night.

Nigerians are easily deceived, millions are disconnected from governance. They don’t know what is going on! Those who know do nothing to  halt the decay and absurdities. Nigeria is like a jungle of sort.

It is so bad that people can’t even reason right in this generation. The shift is one of the saddest in human history-that a country that ought to be a paradise became our hell on earth.

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