Nairalanders List Your 5 Top Nigerian Criminals Of Your Choice + Reasons.

Shinatu!! When i posted the below: , it was not specificaly addressed to anyone in particular and really can't understand why you are sweating up, Besides, the post says "As long as you you DO NOT, " and so if you pay your taxes and bills, why respond to it? You need not respond to every post ok? If you are bored or jobless, then start up a sensible topic rather than talking rubbish here.  You don't know me, neither do you know what my family does so why mention my family? This is absolutely out of context and you are not talking from a position of knowledge at all. If this was to be an english test, i am afraid to say that you would have failed very woefully, you have responded absolutely out of context, All i said was " as long as you do not pay your taxes and bills, then you are a thief", i never mentioned anyones' name, it was a general comment, everyone knows that taxes are compulsory levies and must be paid, i have not said anything out of place, and if at all you don't agree with the post then criticise the post not the poster , afterall @ redsun  even though he did not particularly agree with my post, he was able to back up his point without making reference to the poster personally, so why mention " me, my family and whatever i may have been exposed to , " You are a disgrace to english language and to those that tutored you in school i  must say, Please keep quiet next time if you don't have anything tangible to say okay?

i want to add to it :

OTUNBA GBENGA DANIEL : 1055 VOUCHERS MISSED IN FINANCE DEPARTMENT NO EFCC CHASING OGD

JAMES IBORI
PETER ODILI : ARIK AIR

ABEG THEY ARE MANYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

**** They r wayyyy more than 5**** 

         I can't say we are blameless but if you are fraudulent without regard to the sufferings of your fellow humans then SHAME  on you! please don't come here and generalize to satisfy your guilt.

         Take Tafa Balogun for instance, he stole so much money(Billions) that even our tyrant of a leader was irritated. Yet he put his surbodinates in jail for taking twenty niara bribe! That is pure wickedness ^{Has anyone cared to ask how much an average policeman earns?}
        
          Obasanjo on the eve of leaving office decided to increase fuel price to 75 niara per litre because he was bitter that God didn't allow his thrid term to hold sway, is that not pure wickedness??

          When you are in the position of power and responsibility and you miss use it is a very very _{*bangs table*} grievious sin  because you hurt so many people under you, Christmas is around the corner and you will hear these thieves in high places charging the masses to be "Christ Like" in what they do, to "Have a new resolution" bla bla bla. These bloody hypocrites,  well, we have a God sha.

         On my way to Obalende this morning, these was a shortage of commercial vehicles that usual, so the 911 i boarded was so full there was hardly any space to put one's foot. people were sleeping while standing! ^{without even getting to work they were already tired!!!} And to make matters worse some Oyinbos in an AC toyota hiace brought out digital cameras to take shots! like they will do in a zoo. They were astonished!!!! I wonder what they thought,  God punish our irresponsible leaders



          

        

@D-chair, alafin, - i am at loss for words for you!! Get back to work will you?

@Shinatu,

I am equally as passionate about my country and the fact that i am presently out of Nigeria does not make me less passionate.

Sorry  about the weight of the abuses!!! Pele, 

@redsun,
Many thanks for your invaluable contribution and comments, keep up the good work!

@dablessed,i hear you my sister,so easy,yet so difficult,i just can't wait to go back there for good and be a part of the struggle for real.

Yes jare,  my brother!! Home sweet home!!! Another 6 months and am back as well, can't wait!!!

 Let me say from the outset that this list is not likely to change any time soon!

1. Ibrahim Babangida

2. Olusegun Obasanjo

3. Ibrahim Babangida

4. Olusegun Obasanjo

5. Ibrahim Babangida

I`ve put many things into consideration before arriving at this list. It`s nice the poster also wants us to explain the reasons for our choices.
One of the things those of us in our 30s can say about Nigeria is that we`ve been lucky to see her at her very best, while it`s the other way round for the twentysomethings. Whenever I visited Nigeria in the recent past, I`ve always had to ask myself whether the Nigeria that I`m in is still the same Nigeria that I was born and bred in. Can this be the Nigeria of FESTAC `77 ? Is this still the Nigeria in which Tai Solarin decided to resign from his post simply because he could not produce his driving licence on demand when he was stopped by the Nigerian police ? Is it still the same Nigeria where Buhari sent some of the governors of the second republic ( 1979-1983 ) to jail because they diverted less than 10,000 Nigerian naira into the purse of their political parties ? And is this the Nigeria in which Obafemi Awolowo took on a member of his own political party who was a popular governor of the then Bendel State asking him to refund the money he spent during the burial ceremony of one of his parents-with immediate effect! That was after the professor governor had told him that, `` Sir, I didn`t use this money to feed my family I used it to feed the members of the public that came to the funeral ceremony``.
Each and every time I ruminate on the state of our nation and the genesis of the mess we are in, my analysis has always taken me to no other individuals than Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida.
The rot we`ve been experiencing to this day started in 1979. Obasanjo was the military leader who was preparing to hand over power to the civilian. But it happened that one of those contesting the presidential election had made it clear that, if elected, he would probe the military because they had mismanaged a lot of things. Well, the candidate that made that threat was Pa Obafemi Awolowo and Obasanjo was determined to stop him. Elections were held, rigged as usual, results disputed and Awolowo held to court. What followed was a mathematical joke that we needn`t go into. But what is important is the fact that Obasanjo had just rigged the first presidential election in the history of Nigeria. Before then, people had seen the military as a credible institution- and they were! So, for the first time in the history of Nigeria, Obasanjo showed the military how to rig an election to achieve a pre-determined goal.  The result of this was the emergence of President Shehu Shagari, a good man who was too weak to lead anything. The people around him capitalised on his gentle nature to steal and loot the treasury between 1979-1983.
But the destruction of anything Nigerian started in 1985 when Babangida outsted Buhari for no reason whatsoever! Never in the history of Nigeria has a military man done what Babangida did to Nigeria. It was a season of corrupt practices. His was leadership at its indecorous worst! Corruption became an ideology and the ideology was corruption! With Babangida, stealing from the treasury was just fashionable and only the stupid ones would do otherwise. Going into offices simply became the same thing as going to transact a business at a market place. The truth of the matter is that once a military leader shows  the people of his country that nothing is wrong with stealing and indscipline, that country is dead and it was under Babangida that Nigeria was murdered. Abacha merely performed the burial ceremony. That is why I laugh when people ask why we are like this in Nigeria. We are like this because we had the misfortune of having Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida in our midst. If these two had not been born in Nigeria, the country would have become a developed nation by now! If you look at each and every characteristic on parade in Nigeria today, you could easily trace it to either of them. In an ideal country, Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida would be nothing but gangmasters, permanently on police radar, constantly running from state to state for refuge!
I thought very briefly about including people like Ojukwu, Ernest Shonekan and Patricia Etteh. Ojukwu for starting a reckless war he would never be able to win in a million years; a war that set Nigeria back many years. But I honestly don`t see a link between Ojukwu and the state of our nation today. And Ernest Shonekan is just a useless old man that doesn`t deserve a battery space in my write-up. As for Etteh, well, she was just doing what Obasanjo and Babangida taught him, really!
A Nigerian that wants to see the big picture is always going to see these two as the only thing that is wrong with Nigeria.
There is no point in blaming businessmen for the rot because they can only do what the governments allow them to do. Donald Trump is what Ronald Reagan made him to be. A businessman is out to make profit and his bottomline is just as simple as that. Buhari showed us that citizens do whatever their leaders demanded. What Obasanjo and Babangida demanded from Nigeria was 419 and that is what we have become as a nation!
Some of the governors you guys are hammering wouldn`t have got to the upper echelons of power if not for the two criminals that I`ve discussed here! And it`s unfair to blame poor Nigerians for the crimes of Obasanjo and Babangida. These two and all their children are guilty of the crimes that have brought Nigeria to her kneels and they should be the ones held responsible, not any other individuals!

@DABLESSED

and remember to pay your tax.

DABLESSED BABY

Just a joke sleep thite

ow11,faketan,maxidoe and our fellow saints on nairaland, why do u guys want to crucify me, don't i ave a right to my own opinion

u said urs nobody querried u why are u taking the issue personal and calling me names, Some 1 called me an imbecile did u check your dictionary for the meaning of that word, am sure u dnt know wht it means u just heard people say it and u want to say it too.

am sure all this guys that are acting like they are saints i blive if they are in the politicians shoe they will do thesame or do worse.

am hardworking  and i will never steal wht does not belong to me.
but guys when next u are posting just post your own opinion and dnt insult people u dnt even know.

Some one was talking about public funds, how about the private funds too how is it managed.

Wht do u call our policemen that collects money frm innocent drivers?

wht do u call an ceo that wants to sleep with a lady before he employ her ?

fellow nairalanders we ave so many crimes in this country.


am not saying our politicians ave done well by stealing our money this thing has been in practise 4 a long time what has been done about it?
nothing.

but  i thank God that EFCC is on their trail.

EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT.

@ MIP

Nigerians collect bribe and break laws at will. We all know that,  bottom line; The reason for the anarchy is that the custodians of the law break them ,hence cannot enforce any law. How can a thief arrest a thief. Where is the justification?

For example, if the government pays a policeman well, why would he collect N20 from a bus driver?

I see your point about the everyday dishonesty but the thread is about plundering of the nations pocket to buy houses in Knightsbridge and Palm Beach at the detriment to hungry people in Nigeria.

Its sickening and I wish the the list can be extended to 10 so we can add the ANAMBRA politicians, IWURUWURU, LGA chairmen + their councillors and NNPC staff.

why can't the rogues make Nigeria a nice place so other African and Asian theives can come and buy houses in Abuja at 10x the price as they are being sold to in London. It will benefit our economy and our leaders. Is George Bush or Gordon Brown poor?

@ ow11

u are right yes a thief cannot catch a thief. The problem we have in this country is bad leadership the problem is from the top. Only if we can eradicate that then i dnt think anything can be done.

This people we mention their names as criminals, ave got no shame their names has been mentioned times without number on our daily tabloids wht difference has that made in their attitude.

even their children don't give a damn about wht u do to their parent name all they do is just have a change of name and u will never know who they are related to.

You can imagine them locking sm1 up for just 6months after all he had done.

ow11 this country needs God's Divine Intervention and nothing more, this battle is not ours is the lords.

If the lawmakers cannot punish them appropriately God will punish them 4 us.

but i still maintain if this kind of issue is discussed u dnt take it personal.

This country na our own and only us can make it a better place.

@ D chair

your brainless response to two previous posters ironing out an issue with their PREVIOUS post is pitiful. if u had taken some time to read through the thread before typing trash . You would have seen how stupid your insults have made you look.

Go back to the first page of the thread and read my post, understand it then maybe make a new thread about shortsighted N/Landers and add your deranged self to it

PLONKER!

@D- Chair

 

but OWU11 beware of that M.I.P she's a liite bit sly trying to deviate from her original post.