We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop Whatever next? Ebenega Okorodudu , has requested that state and federal governments immortalise late Pius Akpor Ewherido. And he also would like the speedy release of former Governor of the State, Chief James Ibori, from London prison. Where do you begin with such people, even the pope cannot beatify any one unless there has been evidence of sustained good deed and miracles. So unless the state and the federal government have become the Vatican then,I am afraid,that there is a case of delusion of grandeur going on. Certainly the sudden death of Ewherido in some quarters,must have evoked so much emotions but I think common sense should prevail andshould accept that death is agreat leveller. As for Ibori? The good doctor is requesting that Ibori should be pardoned; he argued that the former governor was instrumental in the improvement of his state. Dr Okorodudu seem to have no integrity or morals when he talks warmly of Ibori’s crime ,the man has no shame and has lost touch with reality with the ordinary Deltans and Nigerians in general. There is a big omission here; that Ibori is indeed,a convicted common criminal pure and simple. Nigerians should know right from wrong as the present crop of politicians are self serving and desperately want to hold on the last vestiges of power while ordinary Nigerian starve and pillage for need to know what is wrong from right and we cannot paint people as dignified and full of integrity until they have been caught,convicted of criminality because he that great that he improved a small part of his state, while he was siphoning the state coffers? He is where he belongs for the crime he had committed and it is evident that Nigeria would have done nothing but parade him as an honest for governor.The message to the younger generation is clear; you are honest provided that you are in government. In his own reasoning, Dr. Okorodudu said that the Federal and States governments to fast -track a means of releasing the former governor from the British custody where he is currently serving a jail term for offences bordering on money laundering, said the ex-governor is only a human being who can err, but if after owning up and apologizing to his people and the nation, he should have been given a very minimum sentence. Am not sure what stealing vegetable by a hungry person is nowadays but,I am sure it is not a minimal sentence. Yet a thief can steal billions and we create and perpetuate a corrupt society and we all shrug our shoulders and we reasoned that there is not much we can do about it as everyone is doing it! Here lies the problem,we look to others to change their ways whil we continue being dishonest and incorrigible. So for an errant politician, they demand a softly, softly approach. Nigeria has a problem and our lawmakers are a representational of our people and there lies our problem. We have no sense of what is right from wrong
Posted on: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 21:42:21 +0000
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