Yet Another Stashing-Away-Of-Loot Jamboree?

by Eze Eluchie

What really is Goodluck Jonathan travelling to Geneva, Switzerland , for?

Officially, we are informed he is going for an 'investment drive', that of course is official hogwash. 'Investment drive indeed!

During the Olusegun Obasanjo presidency, Nigerians became aware of how the Presidential Jet and presidential delegation was used as a means of money laundering and illicit purposes. In one instance, Olusegun Obasanjo's man-friday, Andy Uba, who now parades as a Senator of Federal Republic with the added prefix of one of Nigeria's medal of dishonor - the MFR - Miscreant of the Federal Republic, was arrested upon arrival in the US for using the Nigerian presidential plane to launder funds into the United States. (http://saharareporters.com/news-page/what-did-obj-and-uba-bring-usa-presidential-plane-time )

What Manner Of Man is this Jonathan?

by Eze Eluchie

Conscious of the fact that some of my online-friends are impressionable youths, I oftentimes endure excruciating mental struggles, racking through my knowledge of the English language, to avoid using appropriate expletives to describe the goons holding sway over Nigeria. One of such struggles is now, as I write about Jonathan's 'surprise' visit to the Police College in Lagos earlier today.

Some had unknowingly applauded good old Jonathan's visit as sign of positives changes to come. No way. Those who were not aware of the true reasons for Jonathan's visit to the Police College following an expository documentary aired on a local television channel (Channels TV) which broadcast the despicable and filthy environment Nigerian Police cadets are forced to endure despite huge sums budgeted for their welfare, can discover the real reasons by the two questions Mr. Jonathan asked the Commanding Officer of the College:

1. "How was Channels TV able to penetrate and record the mess without detection?"

2. "When was the recording done"

To which the hapless senior insecurity officer had no answer.

And the unfortunate and naughty conclusion Jonathan drew from the entire episode: “This is a calculated attempt to damage the image of the government, as the college is not the only training institution in the country.”

Corruption as a Vile Crime

by Eze Eluchie

More people die across the globe as a result of large-scale corruption than any other vice known to man.

The following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population constitute 'crimes against humanity' under international law:

(a) Murder;

(b) Extermination;

(c) Enslavement;

(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;

(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;

(f) Torture;

(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;

(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious;

(i) Enforced disappearance of persons;

(j) The crime of apartheid;

(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.

Looking at item (k) above, do you think large-scale corruption qualifies as a crime against humanity?

If yes, why are some people we know not before an International Criminal Tribunal?

Does Islam Mean Peace?

by Eze Eluchie

Media publications (such as that in Daily Trust Newspaper) of the conversion from Christianity to Islam of MaziSylvester O. Dimunah, a Village Chief from Imo State, Nigeria, has received so much commendation from the online Muslim umar with shouts of 'Allahu Akbar' (God is the greatest). The media has published that the predominantly new convert to Islam has publicly confessed that his predominantly Christian family and community are in no way opposing his 'conversion'.

I wish Mazi Sylvester O. Dinumah all happiness in his new found faith.

My question to my Muslim friends however are these:
1. If indeed Islam is a religion of peace, as is often proclaimed, why does the Quran impose a punishment of death for similar conversions from Islam to other religions?
2. If indeed Islam professes peace and justice, and has no grouse against the practice of other religions, why is the practice of other religions criminalized in Islamic states (such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, and so on)
3. Is it fair and just that Muslims are allowed to freely practice their religion in peace without hindrance in jurisdictions where they are in obvious numerical minority and make it impossible for others to even congregate to worship their own Gods?

Corruption is a Crime Against Humanity

by Eze Eluchie

It took the testimony of two Bosnian Muslim women (Jadranka Cigelj and Nusreta Sivac – who themselves had been victims of mass rape attacks) for rape to be recognized formally as a weapon of war and a ‘crime against humanity’ and prosecuted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

Large-scale corruption leads to death of millions, exposes innumerable people to rape, extermination, disease and death. What really is the world waiting to recognize large-scale corruption as a ‘crime against humanity’ before the International Criminal Court (ICC)?

In Nigeria and most other African countries, deranged kleptocrats who seize instruments of State authority by all manner of criminal conspiracies continue to plunder their countries wealth, pauperizing millions, raping hundreds of thousands more, turning the dreams of millions into nightmares, and yet the world sits idly bye?

Corruption is indeed a crime against humanity.

Confession of the Goons

by Eze Eluchie

Yet another goon confesses.

It is really pathetic how these characters have for too damned long messed up, and continue to defile, a contraption that could so easily have been a global success story.

Adamu Ciroma's life trajectory, which by the way is so common amongst those who have held sway over our contraption, is a shameful litany of opportunism, nepotism, and celebration of incompetence and ineptitude. A clear recipe for disaster - that probably explains why Nigeria is the disaster it is.

Reading through his interview with The Sun Newspaper, one would be tempted to refer to him as having gone senile - that's really far from the truth, Ciroma is at his cerebral best in this interview.

Most Wicked Legacy

by Eze Eluchie

My long held assertion that Olusegun Obasanjo had handpicked the duo of persons he had considered a corpse (Umaru Yar'Adua) and  person of suspect political acumen (Goodluck Jonathan) as President and Vice President, respectively, of the Nigerian contraption, to succeed him (Obasanjo's reign of evil), with the sole purpose of making Nigerians relish his hideous tenure with nostalgia, continues to be corroborated by henchmen of the Obasanjo-era. First it was Peter Odili and now Nasir el-Rufai.

Whatever ill-motive Nasir el-Rufai would have had to spill the bean, is certainly now immaterial. Nigerians must however not forget what role this imp, who has been rightly described by the Nigerian Senate as unworthy of holding any public office ever again, played in the criminal 'privatization' of so many national assets whilst he was Director of the Privatization Council and the thousands of Nigerians he likewise criminally rendered homeless as FCT Minister

One character who is yet to make his confession known to Nigerians, and hopefully he will soon be shamed into speaking out as a result of his direct complicity in the rot and exposure as a spurious character, is the erstwhile l'enfant terrible Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission - Nuhu Ribadu.

Where Corpses Rule

by Eze Eluchie

One more reason why we are where we are and the rest of the world are where they are:

It is apparently only in Nigeria that a corpse can hold political office.

First, it was with the corpse of late President Umaru Yar'Adua ruling over our contraption for well over 30 days before his wife, begrudgingly, informed Nigerians that her husband had passed on - after ofcourse, helping herself and her cronies to as much as she felt would be enough to sustain her for eternity.

The residents of Enugu State did not know the whereabouts of the State Governor for upwards of 100 days, whilst the man went for medical treatment for an as yet undisclosed ailment. And in Taraba State where a  brain-dead survivor of a plane crash still collects salary as Governor and has continued to be propped up by his wife and a few political strategists for the sole purpose of retaining some access to public treasury.

Kleptocracy Finally Confirmed

by Eze Eluchie

Any doubts that Goodluck Jonathan might have had that his government is comprised of criminals might be considered erased when the godfather of criminality and corruption in Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo, publicly stated that corruption (which Obasanjo himself institutionalized and glorified) is assuming unmanageable proportions under the Jonathan administration.

They can loot what they want for now - the day of reckoning is fast approaching.

http://www.leadership.ng/nga/articles/44499/2013/01/09/corruption_under_jonathan_too_much_obasanjo.html


Picture: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo

In Nigeria, Where Looting is a Policy of Government

by Eze Eluchie

When will these characters ruling over our contraption begin to feel some shame?

Nigeria, with daily crude oil production of over 2.5 million barrels/day (at current rate of U.S.$95/barrel) grosses approximately US$237.5 Million/day. 1.662 Billion/week, or US$ 86.450 Billion/annum.

And we are being told that we will borrow US$1.5 Billion for 'subsidy or whatsoever?

Whatever stories they have to tell, it just does not add up!

Pertinent questions include: Who grants these illegitimate loans when they have not been authorized by the Nigerian National Legislative Houses? Do the lenders realize that these ‘loans’ (if the funds contained therein are ever handed over) are illegal and illegitimate?

Government owned oil refineries have been sabotaged beyond redemption! Refineries built by natives are destroyed with impunity by insecurity forces! Past rulers of the contraption own Refineries abroad which in turn sell refined crude products to Nigerians!

When the purported Billion dollar loan is added to the recent disappearance of over US$13 Million (in Nigerian currency) from the national mint (where the national currency is printed) and the sundry other mega-million $ fraud cases which has become the norm with the Goodluck Jonathan-Namadi Sambo administration, it becomes apparent that these characters will not relent until the contraption is sucked dry.

The following persons automatically qualify for Nigeria’s highest medal of national dishonor, the GCFR: Grand Criminal of the Federal Republic-

1. Goodluck Jonathan – the president. Oops, he already has one. Well, we’ll award him a second.

2. Namadi Sambo, deputy to Jonathan

3. The Mercurial Finance Minister

4. The Central Banker of the Millennium, Sanusi.

5. The Minister for Petroleum, Deziani Allison Madueke, and

6. The several other officials who partake in these wholescale scam will be considered for any of the lesser medals of dishonor.

In addition, it will surely be worthwhile to dust the books of the International Criminal Court to explore the possibility of charging some of these people with Crimes Against Humanity!

http://www.punchng.com/news/nnpc-borrows-1-5bn-to-pay-debt-report/

Forced Closure of Corrupt Swiss Bank

by Eze Eluchie

Whilst one congratulates the Government and peoples of the United States of America on this epoch making victory against corruption, the need to globalize the impact of the forced closure of Swiss bank, Wegelin, cannot be over stated.

The continued existence of criminally minded banking institutions in the mold of the Swiss bank, Wegelin, anywhere in the world, whether in Dubai, the Cayman Islands, or other offshore havens, represents a potent threat to US and the international community’s interests, and concerted efforts ought to be made to root out such.

Loans of death.

by Eze Eluchie

If you owned a bank, would you loan money to an entity that you know does not really need the money and is neck deep in fraud?

No!

Unless, there are 'strings attached' and you are really not loaning out any funds but merely signing documents to ensure that whilst the entities descendants are perpetually indebted, the entire team 'packaging' the 'loan' scam, privately rake in millions in 'consultancy fees' and other bogus payments.

In the interim, resulting from the 'disappearance' of the loaned funds from the World bank, our maternal mortality ratio remains one of the worst globally, we continue to bury millions of our under-5 children who die of preventable causes, our power sector remains epileptic, our youths remain uneducated, unemployable and hopeless.

The continued penchant of the World Bank to dish out loans to the Nigerian contraption knowing full well that Nigeria does not need to borrow such monies and that the kleptocrats holding sway over Nigeria will merely steal the monies and dump same back into offshore bank vaults is most wicked!

Knowing how pure our maximum rulers are; and

Knowing how mercurial our Finance Minister is; and

Realizing that our Central Bank Governor is the Central Banker of the Millennium:

I will bet that, resulting from the fictitious and fraudulent loans advanced Nigeria by the Breton Woods institutions, some smart alecs ruling over us and some World Bank staffers involved with the Nigeria Country Portfolio are all U.S.$ multi-millionaires!

I verily believe that the World Bank is seriously being short-changed and should rise up to the occasion and cleanse its activities in Nigeria.

Corruption kills.

Large-scale Corruption is a crime against humanity

Corruption compares with mass murders, rape and other crimes against humanity

http://allafrica.com/stories/201211010450.html

Picture: World Bank Headquarter building, Washington DC

Nigeria: Going Down the Corruption Drain

by Eze Eluchie

Ghana is now globally acknowledges as an example of a success story in the African continent. Ghana has transformed from (and continues to transform) into a respectable and responsible member of the international community, making giant strides in virtually all spheres of human and societal advancement.

We must however not forget that it took a drastic sanitation and cleansing of the corrupt rulership in the Ghanaian polity during the President Rawlings-era to build the necessary foundations that founds Ghana’s present prosperity.

The Nigerian superstructure, its core institutions (the Executives at various strata’s, its Judiciary and the legislature) are enmeshed in corruption that has transformed Nigeria into a danger and an embarrassment to its citizenry, the African continent and a potent source of threat to global security.

Perhaps the time has come when we begin to sensitize the international community and the world-at-large about the need and possibility for a drastic (Rawlings-type) solution to the corruption pandemic afflicting the Nigerian contraption!

Picture: Former Ghanaian President, Jerry Rawlings

Corrupt Swiss bank, Wegelin, closes shop

by Eze Eluchie

Whilst one congratulates the Government and peoples of the United States of America on this epoch making victory against corruption, the need to globalize the impact of the forced closure of Swiss bank, Wegelin, can not be over stated.

The continued existence of criminally minded banking institutions in the mold of the Swiss bank, Wegelin,  anywhere in the world, whether in Dubai, the Cayman Islands, or other offshore havens, represents a potent threat to US and the international communities interests, and concerted efforts ought to be made to root out such 

There is incontrovertible proof linking loot stashed away from African countries in Banks similar to Wegelin, with global terrorism, human trafficking and other base international criminal acts. Corruption by kleptocrats manning African countries have likewise led to genocidal wars, mass dislocation of populations, proliferation of adverse health conditions and ultimately deaths of millions on the continent.

It is truly hoped that efforts by the international community to root out these international criminal vices must be holistic - which means, rogue banking institutions where funds looted from African countries are presently deposited should begin to be ready to 'vomit' such funds and wind up, just like Wegelin.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20907359

Ill-informed rulers

By Eze Eluchie

Apparently some of these guys who hold high elected offices in our Nigerian contraption understand neither the Constitution which ought to be the fundamentals of the Nigerian 'State' nor what it means to be Nigerian.

Here a supposedly 'elected Governor', Isa Yuguda of Bauchi, in full display of his ignorance announces that Nigerians who reside in his State will become 'full citizens' after 7 years residency in Bauchi! Gosh!

I guess in the first 6 years of a Nigerians residence in Bauchi State, such non-'citizens' will be treated and regarded as an alien from Jupiter. Stupid!

This is really one of the reasons why we must restructure and renegotiate the continued existence of the Nigerian contraption.

http://www.naijapundit.com/news/stay-in-bauchi-for-seven-years-and-you-become-full-citizen-yuguda-to-non-indigenes-of-bauchi

Picture: Bauchi State's Governor Isa Yuguda (Nigeria)

Religious zealotry gone amock

by Eze Eluchie

The Qoran identifies Ignorance as a 'haram', a forbidden vice.

It’s thus unfortunate when mobs in their thousands, blinded by hate, motivated by ignorance and mentored by sly characters with ulterior quasi-political intents unleash havoc on an otherwise peaceful environment.

Pray, what has the unfortunate Cat which the mob has nailed to the 'cross' done (see photo)? Did the rioting fools think that Christians will feel incensed by seeing a Cat 'nailed to the cross'?

And what is this about burning an Israeli flag in the course of the riots? Did the organizers of the mob action not inform their crazed audience that the population of Israel is 95% Judaism and that there are actually more Israeli Muslims than Israeli-Christians? Are the rioters unaware that the 3rd holiest shrine of Islam and the 2nd oldest Mosque (after the Kabaa in Mecca), the Al-Aqsa Mosque is located in Israel?

The Almajiri (Islamic traditional educational) system practiced in northern Nigeria must be rejigged to align with reality

http://www.compassnewspaper.org/index.php/component/content/article/35-headlines/7868-anti-islam-film-stirs-protest-in-zaria

Biafra - the forgotten genocide

For over 40 years, Nigeria has tried to bury its head in the sand as if nothing genocidal happened during the war. The facts remains that a most wicked and atrocious violence was unleashed against a people, with all manners of weapons (inclusive of starvation, mass murders and mass rapes and kidnappings). The records are there for all to see. In any sane society interested in ‘nation building’, the evils of the past are openly discussed with a view to understanding mistakes made, seeking atonement and restitution of past wrongs so that similar mistakes are not repeated. In the USA, the reason, course and outcomes of the American Civil War is a constant part of primary and secondary school curriculum. Germany, Japan, South Africa and other countries interested in moving forward, similarly, teach their youths, their future about their past. The lessons of the Nigerian Civil War are ominously omitted from Nigerian school curriculum – pretending that over 3 million Igbo’s killed during the genocidal war between 1967 and 1970 did not happen.

And now the sage, Chinua Achebe, in his book, ‘There was a country’, writes what he knows about what he experienced to educate and inform others, and some have the temerity to cast aspersions? Gosh!

What I would have expected from those who had any issues with Chinua Achebe’s expressions to do was to reply to the facts raised, and not to resort to name-calling – which is really most unfortunate.

The fact that starvation was used as a potent weapon during the Nigerian Civil War by the Nigerian Government against the Biafran side is a fact enshrined in history! The picture below and thousands which are available at various repositories are not ‘artist impressions’. Who knew what about the genocide can thereafter be a subject of historical and factual analysis.

Picture: Starving Biafran children at a Refugee Camp (1969)

Hamas - fighting a proxy war?

by Eze Eluchie

I had earlier posted that perhaps Hamas was fighting a ‘proxy war’ against Israel in the just concluded conflagrations. That supposition was elevated to reality with the macabre celebrations witnessed across Gaza soon after a cease-fire was declared.

The Hamas celebrants declared that they had succeeded in proving to other Arab States that Israel’s air defense system could be penetrated! Was that what this was all about? At such a huge cost in human lives and infrastructure? The celebrations were akin to terrorists groups celebrating a suicide bombers ‘successful mission’!

Folorunso Alakija - Really the Richest Woman in Africa?

The story of the purported 'richest woman in Africa' stands out as one more reason why corruption must be tackled and rooted out.

Corruption corrupts morals, destroys people’s sense of self worth, obviates societal values, rubbishes the intellect and glorifies criminality.

After listening to this woman's Cinderella/fairy tale story of transition from Stenographer/Secretary to Fashion Designer to Billionaire, one is at a loss as to how to convince our young ladies to work or study hard at whatever they do in order to be successful and to refrain from sleeping around!

Forbes and the Economist and other media that choose to publish list of the 'richest' should endeavor to segregate between wealth attained from spurious, opaque and unclear sources and or crimes and wealth attained otherwise. Otherwise, necessary apologies should be made to the likes of Pablo Escobar (Colombian drug-lord) or Heriberto Lazcano (Mexican drug-lord) who made enough money to top the Forbes list, but were never so recognized!


Ms. Alakija on video: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449896/Folorunsho-Alakija-tops-chart-Nigerian-billionaire-unseats-Oprah-richest-black-woman-world-7-3b-oil-fortune.html

Picture: Ms. Folorunso Alakija

Nigeria drowns in corruption

by Eze Eluchie

When Ibrahim Lamurde, the head of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) leaves his house every morning, where does he really tell his family he is going to? To play golf? To tackle corruption?

Considering the avalanche of multi-million dollar looting, brigandage and pilfering of State resources which have become the order of the day, and the fact that right from the onset, Lamurde had been unfit and improper for the job, I really believe the man simply goes into his air-conditioned office, orders a bottle of beer and chills out. Except ofcourse when he is running after small time pranksters who are sending ‘sweet deal’ offers to con gullible and greedy loonies.

In the interim, our kleptocrats, tired of waiting for the niceties of budgetary appropriations, contract bidding and padding, supply of counterfeits or outright non performance of contracts after contract sums have been collected, now go straight to the National Mint and take as much as they can carry.

Yet, we have people collecting salaries at the EFCC and various insecurity agencies in Nigeria!

Time is fast running out for a convenient Restructuring and Renegotiation of the contraption!

http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/41943/2012/12/07/mint_scandal_n21_billion_worth_n1000_notes_missing.html

Picture: Ibrahim Lamurde- Chairman, EFCC

Corruption in the health sector

by Eze Eluchie

Here we go again...

Whilst no efforts whatsoever have been made by the Nigerian Federal Government to recover sums fraudulently misappropriated by former Head of State General Yakubu Gowon's Yakubu Gowon Center for National Unity and International Cooperation, moneys meant for HIV?AIDS intervention programs, inclusive of the procurement of ante-retrovirals, the Director General of the National HIV/AIDS Control agency is gleefully soliciting for more funds from the same Global Funds.(http://www.nairaland.com/700875/global-fund-may-suspend-nigeria ; http://www.greenconduct.com/news/2012/04/19/hivaids-a-rogues-gallery/ )

Not done with the harm they are inflicting to hapless Nigerians with regards to corruption surrounding Polio eradication and the Roll back Malaria programs and other public health causes supported by international donor funds, our local health authorities seem to have their sights focused again on HIV/AIDS.

Any doubt as to whether corruption is indeed a crime against humanity will surely be erased by the direct deadly consequences acts of large-scale corruption is having on the lives of millions of Nigerians.

Attorney Generals Medicine After death

by Eze Eluchie

If Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Mohammed Adoke, SAN, has nothing better to do with his time, he should simply shut up and stop feigning interest in the plight of Nigerians indigenous to the Bakassi peninsula!

Under Adoke's watch as AGF, Nigeria in a most brazen and irresponsible manner, allowed the unconscionable, unconstitutional and illegitimate ceding of a component part of the Nigerian contraption to Cameroon. And now this same character has the temerity to urge Cameroon to treat a people the Nigerian government allowed to be 'cast away' with some dignity. I am sure the Cameroonian delegation will merely look at the Nigerian AGF with pity and disdain, knowing full well that his comments were merely for the consumption of the media present.

How really would Adoke, Goodluck Jonathan and Olusegun Obasanjo, key actors in the humiliation over Bakassi have felt if their respective hamlets had been ceded to Cameroon, Sao Tome & Principe and Benin Republic respectfully!

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/stop-maltreating-bakassi-indigenes-nigeria-tells-cameroun/

Picture: Nigeria Attorney General, Mohammed Adoke

Reasserting the Integrity of Immunization Campaigns

by Eze Eluchie

When the United States announced that it had faked a 'Polio Immunization exercise' to confirm the location of Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, prior to killing the al-Qeaida leader, any discerning observer knew genuine Polio-Immunization workers were being put at risk and that it was only a matter of time before the carnage which took place early this week in Pershawar will erupt.

The integrity of Immunization Campaigns, particularly in volatile regions, including Northern Nigeria, has really taken a bashing. The question now, for the sake of global health, how will these very vital healthcare procedure reassert itself?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20779388

Picture: An immunization session

Jonathan confused as more Christians are murdered in Nigeria

by Eze Eluchie

What a pity.

Where was the loudmouthed Inspector General of the Nigerian Police Force when this attack took place on Christmas day right in the vicinity of Potiskum, a major city in Yobe State.

Two days ago when MD Abubakar assured all Nigerians of 'water-tight security', I had posted on FB that his assurance was not worth listening to and that armed guards be at the gates of all Churches.

Now who will console the families of the dead? Will Ruben Abati issue his usual colorless condolences on behalf of Jonathan whilst we wait for the next victims to be bombed into oblivion?

Restructure and Renegotiate the contraption whilst there is yet time!

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/12/2012122514557537669.html

Picture: Church destroyed by Boko Haram bomb in Nigeria

New year Message to Nigerians (and others under kleptocracies)

by Eze Eluchie

As we approach the end of yet another calendar year, (in Nigeria) we are at that period when the religious organizations encourage their adherents to purchase all manners of stickers, which have been 'sanctified' and 'prayed over'. It is common to see cars and doors adorned with multicolored stickers announcing any or all of the following: '2013 - My year to achieve all achievables', 'My year to dominate all demons', ''I Claim It, 2013 is mine', '2013 - My year to .....'

The damning reality, proved by decades of misrule by our kleptocrats is: unless you join the thievery gang, 2013 will be far worse than 2012, just as 2012 was far worse than 2011, and 2011 was even far worse than 2010 and so on...

The economies of countries do not improve by miracles or mere wish or merely by pasting stickers on vehicles or door posts. It takes careful planning to achieve even the least progress. From all the plans and actions of the kleptocrats manning our political offices for now, 2013 will be a disaster of unmitigatable proportions.

Corruption Kills: World Bank Loan Portfolio to Nigeria now U.S.$4.8 Billion

by Eze Eluchie

If you owned a bank, will you loan money to an entity that you know does not really need the money and is neck deep in fraud? No!

Unless, there are 'strings attached' and you are really not loaning out any funds but merely signing documents to ensure that whilst the entity’s descendants are perpetually indebted, the entire team 'packaging' the 'loan' scam, privately rake in millions in 'consultancy fees' and other bogus payments.

In the interim, resulting from the 'disappearance' of the loaned funds from the World Bank, our maternal mortality rate remains one of the worst globally; we continue to bury millions of our under-5 children who die of preventable causes; our power sector remains epileptic; our youths remain uneducated, unemployable and hopeless.

The continued penchant of the World Bank to dish out loans to the Nigerian contraption knowing full well that Nigeria does not need to borrow such monies and that the kleptocrats holding sway over Nigeria will merely steal the monies and dump same back into offshore bank vaults is most wicked!

Knowing how pure our maximum ruler, Jonathan and his governors are; and knowing how mercurial our Finance Minister is; and realizing that our Central Bank Governor is the Central Banker of the Millennium: I will bet that some smart alecs ruling over us and some World Bank staffers involved with the Nigeria Country Portfolio are all US $ multi-millionaires!

I verily believe that the World Bank is seriously being short-changed and should rise up to the occasion and cleanse its activities in Nigeria.

Corruption kills!
Large-scale Corruption is a crime against humanity; corruption compares with mass murders, rape and other crimes against humanity!




Pix: The World Bank Headquarters building and logo

Corruption is stiffling

by Eze Eluchie

"Consider two children—one born in sub-Saharan Africa and the other in the United States. The African child is twenty-five times more likely to die in the first five years of life; if she lives to child-bearing age, she is two hundred times more likely to die in labor; and overall, she will die thirty years earlier than the American child".
- Lawrence O. Gostin

Mismanagement and corrupt leadership is costing us far much more than our worst nightmares could have envisioned.

The world is fast leaving the African continent behind. Lets make haste and join the rest of civilization in its march forward!

In addition to destroying the present, corruption is also serving to ensure that our collective future will be bleak.



Picture: Professor Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown University.

New Year felicitations

In the New Year, I wish all life.
Not merely life as in inhaling and exhaling, that will be too petty, as even all animals and plants perform this extraordinary task. Rather life as in:
care for our neighbors,
an abhorrence for injustice,
a distaste for greed and avarice,
a continuing quest for truth and knowledge,
a willingness to sacrifice for general well-being
For without the foregoing, one might as well not be alive.
I wish all life.