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WE SHOULD NOT STOP CORRUPTION!

RE: HONOURABLE FAROUK LAWAN COLLECTED BRIBE

Farouk v Otedola

I don’t understand all this hullaballoo about corruption in the Nigerian society.  Why is it such a big deal when one is caught? After all, we know it is an existing and integral norm in the society Nigerians find themselves in. 

Yes, someone will read this and say “what the heck is this guy writing!”  That reaction is first class hypocrisy on display!  There is no fabric of our society today that does not condone corruption, even if it is in a small bit.  I DARE YOU TO DARE ME WITH OTHERWISE!

When the government does it, it is called “POLICY” or like Fela did call it, “GOVERNMENT MAGIC.”  When private organizations do it, it is called “BUSINESS.”  And when individuals engage in it, it is called “LIFE.”

So when you don’t have the heart or will or the money to engage yourself in the trending act of corruption in Nigeria, you wear the tag of the “BIG FOOL!”  And the question goes, “is it not what everyone is doing?”

Parents want their children to make it big.  How?  Most of them don’t care!

Teachers tell you that your child(ren) should study hard and parents should assist their wards in their studies and the parents ask, “Can I get the likely questions that you want to set for test?”  “Which area should they concentrate on for the coming exams?”

Higher institutions want to admit students into school and they introduce “Post UTME” for those that have passed the “Joint Admission and Matriculation Boards” (JAMB) examination.  Then of what use is "cut-off mark?"  And when the National Assembly decided to probe, they do some government magic, let post UTME remain thereby giving a school like UNILAG, oh sorry, MAULAG the audacity to make optional fee charges compulsory.    Put them all together, and one lecturer or professor will trot will pride and say, “If you think education is expensive, try illiteracy.”  ANOTHER VALID POINT FOR CORRUPTION!

People go out in search of jobs, with as good a result as second class upper from a “recognized” university, like they like to put it, and just because they don’t have someone close enough to someone within that organization or they don’t know someone that knows someone…, do I need to finish this statement?

The police drives a bus into our streets to conduct a raid, catches someone and ask “why you dey run?” 

They take that person to the station without any charge or rather false charges and if the person is fortunate enough to have a phone, they use it to call family members to come and “bail” their ward.  As instructed by which court?

A court Judge seats over a case of a woman that was arrested by the local council for not paying the radio and television license fee.  And when the accaused says she did not pay because she does not own a television or a radio, the Judge says something like, you are expected to have one so you are expected to pay for the license.  CORRUPTION FROM THE SEAT OF THE INTERPRETERS OF OUR LAWS!  So, is there need to talk about Ibori? How dare the British convict him after our Judiciary set him free?

A government kicks against the minimum wage of N18,500 while as much as N3 million is budgeted as daily feeding allowance for the executive or is it the presidency, which one is it?  WHO CARES!  What happens now when they add the cost of cassava bread to the budget?

A Finance Minister with all the razzmatazz of expert in world economy comes to stage with the aim to bamboozle us with figures that she cannot verify in order to justify the need for increase in the pump price of fuel.  Only for a bunch of politicians to probe the management of what is referred to as “Subsidy Fund” and discover that there is fraud in the system; WHAT A REVELATION!  Tell me who did not know.  Even the said minister had to dare Nigerians to name names.  Names have been named.  AND EVERYONE IS SHOUTING FAROUK TOOK BRIBE! HOW ABOUT OTEDOLA CLAIMING HE SET UP FAROUK? TELL THAT TO THE POPE!

I DEY BEG UNA O!  Spare us the hogwash!  Start the prosecutions!  Let heads roll even if it belongs to someone in Ota!

Until that happens, WE SHOULD NOT, NOT, AND I REPEAT, NOT STOP CORRUPTION!