President Jonathan made a rather feeble attempt to justify his generous disposition to corruption during his last week's media chat, drawing from a very apt parable; that of the goat and yam. That parable got me thinking; what manner of farmer would see a herd of hungry goats devouring his limited pieces of yam tubers; and his default reaction would be to sit down to figure out a grand (technologically advanced) method to chase away the goats? I guess none, because by the time grand idea comes up, the tubers of yam would be no more.

A sensible farmer would rather rush towards the intruding goats and "shu" them off aggressively; at least, to ensure his merchandise are safe. He may afterwards decide to build fences, etc; to forestall a future re-occurrence of the intrusion.

Drawing a parallel between the parable and corruption in Nigeria; you do not claim to fight corruption when your approach still leaves the goats (corrupt politicians) with our yam tubers (resources). That stand reeks of lies and moral depravity.

Mr President, what Nigerians want is very simple and does not require a grand technological methodology; we want the devilish goats to be PHYSICALLY (not technologically) separated from our yam tubers. We believe this is not difficult since we have laws and law enforcement agencies in place to do the physical separation.

God bless Nigeria

God Bless Nigeria