By Charles Ogbu.
A serving Secretary to a government that prides itself as allergic to
corruption, Lawal Bachir a.k.a the grass-cutter, approved the contracts
of 270million naira just to cut grasses growing around hunger-ravaged
IDPs, awarded the said contract to himself and yet failed to execute it,
according to the testimony of Yobe State govt chief scribe.
How did this financial terrorist Grasscutter defend his action?
He claimed what he budgeted the 270million for was not ordinary grasses
but 'Invasive Plant Specie'. Just like when you want to steal from your
illiterate father, you ask him for money to buy 'Oryza sativa' which is
just the scientific name for rice but seeing as Oryza Sativa sounds big
and would most likely confuse your old man and make him think you need
so much money to purchase such a high sounding item, you will use the
name instead of saying ordinary 'rice'. That is you learning how to be a
crook.
And what was the reaction of the same govt which claims to be of distant relation with corruption??
Wait. I will tell you:
The office of the President wrote a very long letter defending this
grass cutter Secretary Bachir who stole from no other people than the
IDPs.
In the letter, President Muhammadu Buhari made it clear that Mr
Grasscutter had no case to answer. This letter was submitted to the
Senate by the Attorney general of the federation.
Recall that the same
govt conducted the fastest investigation in the history of any govt when
it cleared the army Chief a.k.a Dubai landlord of corruption within
24hours.
And Mr Grasscutter carried on with his grass-cutting
ministry as though nothing happened. Last month, the Senator Sani Shehu
led committee on the NorthEast found that this same Grasscutter had
awarded contracts worth billions of naira to about 20 non-existent
companies.
The Grasscutter did not just refuse to appear before the
senate, he carried on with his grass cutting activities with supreme
impunity and Buhari-like arrogance.
Then, suddenly, a statement
was issued by a certain Asorock chief 'Abobaku' known as Femi Adesina to
the effect that the No-Where-To-Be-Found President Buhari has approved
the suspension of this Grasscutter govt secretary Bachir and has ordered
that he be investigated by a committee made up of Vice President, NSA
and the same Attorney General who had earlier defended him in a letter
written in the name of President Buhari.
And supposedly educated Nigerians are singing 'Kumbaya' and heaping praises on the President?????
Meanwhile, apart from the bunch of political terrorists masquerading as
the Cabal, no Nigerian can say for a fact what the status of their
number 1 employee is.
Whether he is dead, alive, incapacitated, on
wheelchair, or bed-ridden, Nigerians who are the employers of this
president do not know. Even the clowns masquerading as the president,s
media aides are not cognizant of the true status of the man whose
mouthpiece they claim to be.
They themselves are glorified robots. They
simply happen to be in the higher chain.
Your president did not
attend last week's Federal Executive Council Meeting. A certain
integrity-challenged buffoon by the name Liar Muhammed who doubles as
the information minister told you your employee is too busy to attend
the most important govt weekly meeting called FEC. This Wednesday again,
the same President was not at FEC meeting.
To keep you busy like
the horde of idiots they take you for, they announced the suspension of
the same man they have earlier sworn by the 7 gods was innocent.
And like a horde of idiots, you are now busy singing 'Hossana To The
President' for supposedly suspending the same man he had vehemently
defended.
You are not demanding for the whereabout of the man
whose feeding, clothing, accommodations and every other expenses you are
catering for including those of his family??
You are not
worried that ever since a certain shadow that looks like your president
was brought back after 50 days of intensive medical attention abroad,
your president has not deemed it necessary to address you, his
employers??
You keep hearing: "The president said this, the
president said that" And you have never wondered if it was really your
president saying all that or some other people have taken over power
through the backdoor??
When last did you see or hear your
president speak to journalists?? When last did you see your president
speaking live on Television??
What do you even know about the status of the man you call your president?
Can any of you say for a fact who is in charge of the affairs of this country at the moment??
Why are you not asking the right questions?
Why are you not looking beyond the surface?
Why have you refused to look beyond what these destiny rapists want you
to see and see that which they want to keep you from seeing??
Of what use is our education if we can not think for ourselves??
It is indeed a very sad day when supposedly well lettered men decide to
let their brain secede from the rest of their body for no just cause.
This would be fantastically funny if it wasn't such a crying shame.
It is a joke, all the same. A very terrible joke.
But,
The joke is neither on the Daura-born ex-soldier called Muhammadu
Buhari nor the financial terrorist known as the Grasscutter. The joke is
not even on the products of Quota System known as the Cabal currently
ruining our collective destiny.
The joke is on us!
Yes,
the joke is you and I who despite laying claim to number-less Degrees
and a near perfect appreciation of the Queen's language, we still ended
up being fooled by some poorly lettered cavemen who would go to any
length to acquire and keep political power.
Quite frankly, here in Nigeria, education is hugely over-rated.
Our eduaction is an insult to knowledge. Our wisdom, an affront to common sense.
There is no task more tedious than educating a man who is not even aware of his own ignorance.
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