Robbers in Government House!

by Eze Eluchie

Armed Robbers have truly taken over governance in Nigeria!

Persons outside of Nigeria who read the news item that N2Billion (U.S.$12.5million) will be spent to build a house for Nigeria's Vice President in addition to other princely sums to be spent to build houses for the Senate President, his deputy, the Speaker and his deputy and sundry other officials, will think that these are the first set of such officials Nigeria will be having or that previous holders of these offices lived in hotels or under trees?

Far from it! Under our former notorious president, Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian rulers adopted a novel criminal concept of selling off official houses to their occupiers for peanuts and having to build new ones for incoming office holders every time new ones are selected (not elected)!

It appears these characters are very conscious that the contraption is collapsing and are doing there very best to loot all they can while they are still pretending to rule.

By the way, one really wonders what inputs our mercurial Finance Minister (Ngozi Okonjo Iweala) and the Central Bank Governor (Sanusi Lamido Sanusi) who recently suggested that half of the entire government employees in Nigeria should be sacked to 'conserve money', made or are making into the 2013 Nigerian budget which promises to be the greatest national heist ever perpetuated against any people anywhere in the world!

Let’s Restructure and Renegotiate this good old contraption of ours!


Picture: Nigeria's Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo