'Crude oil thieves stole an average of $2 billion daily the last time anyone cared to check, and this puts the loss to the nation at nearly a trillion dollars annually. This should alarm anybody else but President Jonathan, it appears. What is alarming is not just that $1 trillion annually could easily put the current state of Nigeria’s infrastructure at par with those of the First World countries but the impression it gives the rest of the world that the country known and called Nigeria may indeed be a banana republic. I don’t know of any other country on Planet Earth where it is possible to steal this quantum of national resources where there is a government in place. Unless of course it is government people that are doing the stealing. If the constituted authority of Nigeria has lost control over vital swathes of its country, north and south, then, it should become a matter of urgent concern for the elites of this country. If the leader of any country, whether elected or not, is too weak or too incompetent (or both) to the extent that nearly $1 trillion (one trillion dollars) of the nation’s resources could be stolen annually, then, the elites of that nation should, as a matter of urgent enlightened self-interest, sit up and save themselves.' *************** Jonathan is #AntiNigeria. True or False ?
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:50:27 +0000
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