A BAGGAGE OF GARBAGE

Quite a lot has happened since my last post. What I would have given to rephrase that sentence as 'quite a lot has changed since my last post'! I'll forever be at loggerheads with those that incessantly proclaim that Nigeria is cursed by the gods. It's just that we are cursed by our blessings. Paradox? Not quite. Let's bring it down to a personal level.

Mr. Solomon was born into an immensely wealthy family but not brought up to know the virtues of diligence and hardwork. Mr. Dungari was born into an even wealthier family, but was well grounded right from infancy; he was raised to be a paragon of virtue. Mr. Twoleftfeet was born abjectly poor, abandoned at a young age in a company of vagrants and left to fend for himself. Mr. Springfield was born into an even poorer family than Mr. Twoleftfeet's, but was bred nonetheless to understand the sanctity of human dignity.

Ruminate these scenarios and draw your own conclusions. I'll bet you my last dollar you'll not fail to see that our present political class represents an amalgam of Messrs Solomon and Twoleftfeet. Therein lies our nation's misfortune.

Uncultured profligates and imbecilic opportunists who have arrogated themselves the right to run the roost in this country. Of course, they, and us, know for a fact that they are a pitiful bunch of losers whose only measure of success is the speed at which they can wolf down the coffers of government. They steal no end; their lies know no bounds; and their wickedness and inhumanity have no compare. They are a baggage of garbage that we don't have to bear; an albatross around our thinning necks; an unnecessary burden on our collective destiny.

The NASS has become an extension of the EFCC and ICPC; endless probes and inquiries; meaningless fact-finding trips abroad; forgetting their primary roles of enacting laws to effectively diminish the likelihood of corruption and to hold the government to account at all times. The NASS has become like a beer parlour where personal disputes come to the fore and are settled in-house wherever possible, or spill out for all to note when settlement fails. The NASS even has the time, you won't believe it, to summon a car manufacturer when one of its members became dissatisfied with the performance of a N4m car he bought for his wife! Nigeria is in deep trouble.

Our courts are presided over by God-cursed greedy idiotic judges who quash all manner of charges of financial improprieties, only for a foreign court to extract justice for Nigerians. The balance of justice in Nigeria invariably tilts in the favour of thieves, while honest and hardworking Nigerians are made to pay the price for the mismanagement for which they were not responsible. If you don't steal billions the justice system punishes you, or why do you think you find petty thieves (who do so for survival, though inexcusable) are left to rot in prison cells for years on end without trial?

If these odious non-beings last till then, we'll meet at the gates of 2015. They are readying themselves and manipulating the political landscape to their own advantage, but all that will come to nought when they and their ilk will be made to carry the can at the altar of electoral justice. All the remaining Iboris will partake in the soup of justice that will surely be served.