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“Selecting” a new band of robbers is probably more appropriate, given the cinema we have witnessed since the beginning of the electoral season with an INEC supposedly an independent umpire, not hiding its direct appendage and bias to Aso rock. These peculiar circumstances, since christened “Nigerian factor” makes easy the predictability of a massively rigged election results to usher in a new anointed group of national cake looters.
To make matters worse, the aftermath of the “selections” is going to herald a new era of Godfatherism in a scale hitherto unimaginable. Practically every state now has a Godfather as against a select few in the outgoing dispensation. The incumbent outgoing governors personally made it a duty to select their replacements themselves, with practically all of them sidelining their deputies. The implication is that all or most of the new governors will be beholden to their Godfather outgoing governors.
This same trend touches almost every facet of electoral offices from wards, councillors, local government chairmen, state and federal assemblies etc. In this regard, there might be nothing to celebrate in the new dispensation which is most likely going to bring to bear a group who will unleash their mastery of the art of looting which they have perfected after long years of tutelage under their outgoing masters.
The outgoing governors, local government chairmen et al have had their slice of billions of naira of the national cake. Some of them in 8 years did absolutely nothing outside a looting spree, and a collection of girlfriends both at home and abroad. The Nigerian penchant for mindless looting is definitely a phenomenon that will qualify to invite psychiatric doctors and psychologists to examine the heads of these misrulers, in a bid to determine what makes them so greedy, heartless and unconscionable.
Could it be in the DNA of a Nigerian to loot everything in sight? Why do we stand out in every thing evil and destructive? Why don’t we have any iota of concern or compassion for our subjects? What makes our hearts so hardened that in the midst of so much deprivation, suffering and poverty of the forsaken masses we don’t blink an eyelid? This and many more would form the challenging puzzles that a specialist Doctor will need to deconstruct in the head of a Nigerian.
Our tragedy as a stillborn nation and people lies in the fact, that we have so far remained powerless in the face of vulture like leaders who have fed fat on our carcasses, and are preparing for another round of gory feasting. From Sokoto to Bayelsa, Ekiti to Enugu , I see the same impunity, the same underdevelopment, the same withholding of teachers salaries, the same bad roads, the same ill-equipped hospitals, and the same penchant to loot every dime in sight.
This time around the "selected" robbers will no doubt be smarter. Having benefited from first hand experience, there will be no more the “Alameyeisigha mistake”. Smarter schemes for diverting the loot, smarter ways of hiding the loot, and smarter middle men and middle women will by now be in the pipeline. Many of the would be beneficiaries of the coming heist are already fasting, imploring “holy ghost fire” to consume any unforeseen obstacle that will stop them from getting their own share of the national cake. Some have promised their Aladura and Celestial church pastors jeeps and mansions.
Some others have slept in shrines and graveyards under the instructions of their “Babalawo” as they desperately seek an unfettered access to truckloads of crispy raw cash. Except the divine will of God, through unforeseen circumstances dictates otherwise, Nigerians from the East, West and North will be in for a long, rough ride as we navigate once again, through the corruption ridden murky waters of the coming 5th republic.
Comrade Lawrence Chinedu Nwobu
Email: lawrencenwobu@yahoo.com
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Posted by Robot| 13.04.2007 22:46