Kerry on Nigerian Corruption

[Toyin Falola]

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[dijiaina]

This makes the heart bleeds...that a whopping $9billion is in the hands of just 50 crooks. What is more painful is that many of the treasury looters are still kept as honorables in "hallowed" chambers and still run government business in Abuja. And what's more, the loot are largely kept in the vaults of the countries that  superintend over the rating of the ethically flawed nations of the world! 

I am a political scientist, trained by western construct on the advantages of bicameral legislature, but I am unable to find a place in my mind to justify why a people so financially challenged will keep the number of Legislators in the nation's capital city at such a humongous cost. Nigerians must put sentiments aside and tackle those who stole our wealth and still move about freely, manipulating the conscience of people who are at the receiving end. 

As Kerry puts it: "Corruption is an opportunity destroyer". They may permanently destroy the opportunity for Nigeria to be truly great.

Ayandiji AINA, PhD.

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[Segun Ogungbemi]

Thanks for this. It is a heartbreaking enigma. 

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[Michael Afolayan]

Wow, let's hear the government apologists and cultural elites dare to defend this; and, PLEASE, we don't want to hear trash words like "godfatherism," "patermalism," "big-brotherism," "neocolonialism," or phrases like "awon naa nko?" (they too are corrupt), "Falana gbo tie" (mind your own business), and all the unsavory intellectual jingos we have always used in our shameless efforts to protect corruption and corrupt operatives in our nation's public squares. The gentleman Kerry spoke the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. It's simple Sociology 101 that would take an Oyinbo thousands of miles across the great ocean and from the other side of the great divide to come and teach my people . . . So sad!

MOA

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[Cornelius Hamelberg]

From way back :

"Letter to the Human Race" Marsilio Ficino Year-1474