gabazin080:
Its too late to cry when the head is chopped off

Buhari won't hear this

gabazin080:
Its too late to cry when the head is chopped off

Buhari won't hear this

Icecomrade:


This statement was made during presidential media chat on 11 February 2015.

So stupid of the educated illiterate Wole Soyinka not to have sought explanation before quoting GEJ out of context during the interview he granted to Zero Tolerance.

@Gbazin is also towing the same line without proper education

This country is full of hate. It be clouds reasoning and shuts our conscience.
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socialmediaman:
Being a national figure, GEJ was very wrong to have tried to differentiate both stealing and corruption, because to a sane and educated mind, corruption is even more grevious or serious than stealing.

Corruption should be seen the same way rape or child molestion is seen, it was the elites and national figures that sowed that seed to sink into the minds of citizens.

Why is it that corruption carries death penalty in China? Because it's a very grevious crime. Why is it that Corruption carries up to 13 years and upwards in civilized countries while stealing could carry less? Because they take corruption very seriously...

So how could a president try to play down on the gravity of corruption? Stealing is grave, but corruption is more grevious in my opinion. stealing is like murder while corruption could be regarded as genocide depending on the degree of it

IsraeliAIRFORCE:


Don't separate the comment from the context.

In my town, corruption as defined is just a moral depravity and almost everybody have his/her bad side hence social stigma is hardly attached while a thief has no honour and is generally ostracized that nobody accepts gift from such a one.

Jonathan and the chief Justice were just emphasizing on the need to criminalise looting as abomination instead of a mere sin and consequently give the perpetrators the same treatment given to thieves in our society.

socialmediaman:


This is wrong. Corruption should be seen as evil, much more than stealing, because it has to do with betrayal of trust. Can you associate with a known betrayer? A corrupt person is a betrayer. He has no honor and that's how corruption should be seen. It's like you give someone money traveling home from abroad to give to some sick couple in your village but he keeps the money for himself and the couple dies because they didn't get the money for treatment. Tell me, how will you feel about the person? You would even prefer that thieves stole the money than a trusted friend did such a horrible thing knowing that the couple desperately needed the money. That's how corruption should be preached, not try to call it stealing while hiding the fact that it's more grevious and serious than stealing

IsraeliAIRFORCE:



In my domain including in campuses, one can forgive you for calling or addressing him/her as corrupt but try calling them thief and see if you will live to tell the story - This is Nigeria context and we all should understand it that way.

You are not more intelligible than the Chief Justice.

socialmediaman:


You mean the same judges trying not to be seen as evil because they're corrupt? You need to know the truth, not what they tell you. They're trying to play down on it because they're corrupt people. But you know what? Try it abroad and see the difference

My point is, there's no "Nigerian context" when it comes to corruption and stealing. People like GEJ and the Chief judge should be the ones preaching "hate for corrupt people" into our minds. Many years before now, you would've said the same thing about rape because we didn't consider it so evil, it was the elites that educated us to see it as very despicable, just like we're launching a campaign against early child marriage now, many years from now, it will be seen as evil in our society, but we have to preach the message, not play down on its seriousness, That's my point.

BashMe1:
Mr lecturer, Thank u o! dis is yadvise youtudents u taught r now findin' it difficult to secure jobs. Iranu

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MR PROFESSOR!! abi NA DOG-TOR of explanation?
That is why you spent so much time teaching PATIENCE wrong motor park grammar!!!
YOU WERE BUSY TEACHING HER YOUR OWN GRAMMER INSTEAD OF ENROLLING PATIENCE IN ADULT SCHOOL .
All your CSO'S ATEKE TOM. TOMPOLO and ASARE DOKUBO could not even advise you well!!!