WHAT IS YOUR REACTION? Says Professor Pius Adesanmi: This man called Nelson Mandela, with almost four million likes to his Facebook account, is always doing strange and unAfrican things. He dies and leaves a paltry estate of just $4 million - the bulk of it given out to humanity, even domestic staff? What sort of thing is this? That is not in the handbook of African leadership. It is in fact a very serious violation of our leadership ethos in the continent and the Heads of State in the African Union must establish a mechanism for preventing such embarrassment to the continent in the future. Whats in the handbook here in the continent? You die in reluctant retirement (or in office if you are a Francophone African Father of the Nation). Time Magazine and Jeune Afrique begin to speculate that your estate is put at between USD 2 billion to USD 4 billion, 99.9% of it untraceable because it is smiling in the hallowed vaults of Swiss Banks. Years later, talk about it vanishes. The Swiss smile, confident that you were buried with the codes as sole signatory to the account. Sometimes, pangs of conscience make the Swiss release a fragment (aka Abacha loot) of the loot back to the jackass African country whose citizens allowed you to turn the national treasury into your personal estate in the first place. Whatever the Swiss release will of course be promptly relooted by the new leaders on the ground and deported to its home in Swiss vaults. That is the handbook - the familiar - in Africa. What then is this strange story that I hear about Mandela and his chicken feed estate? READ ABOUT MANDELAS ESTATE HERE >> news.naij/58312.html
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:06:05 +0000
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