Friday, January 4, 2013

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

No comments:

Post a Comment