MrHyde:
We certainly deserve the leaders we have.

surgical:
so true,mr saint the zombies Messiah has wipe out corruption in Nigeria,one of the reasons for his reelection by his mumu suffering and smiling supporters

BBT2020:


Namdiot coward Cownu is still raping your shithole olosho mother while your drunkard bastard father is holding her legs wide apart.
Bastard retarded brainwashed IPIG delusional monkey.
Go and preach to your fellow ret@rds and get the Bleep out of here.
Fvcked up low IQ imbeciles like you will listen to a sore loser like this slowpoke, intelligent people like myself knows where he's coming from.

STFU and get lost.

bakobenjamin198:
you see, that's still the problem with people like you. You tag anyone that is against a bad government an IPOB and associate the person to Nnamdi Kanu. I don't blame you Sha, you caged yourself in your little world of Western part of the country and just believed and assumed that, that is how things are done in the wider world. Mind you, I am not from that part of the country. I am a bonafide son of Kaduna and a Northerner. If there is a body that would tell you much about Buhari and his government, it should be "We" the Northerners. We are tired and fed up with his government and never wished to be ruled by people like him. But, if you think he is the best thing that has ever happened to your life, then, may you and your generation be everly ruled the way Buhari is ruling Nigeria and may your heaven be like the current state of Nigeria. Mind you, I am not interested in knowing the OP nor where he comes from, but rather, his message which is positive is my concern and not him.

BBT2020:
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TRASH.
STFU and GET LOST.

slivertongue:
GMB and his forty thieves are confirmed unrepentant scammers

Royalfurnitures:
The drama has become worse since this govt came in five years ago

BBT2020:
This Atiku stooge is still out here wailing and crying like a hoe. Idiotic fool.

bakobenjamin198:
well, I can see the truth frightens you. unfortunately, you are Soo dumb and naive that you know nothing about anything. Continue caging yourself in your little delusional world.

BBT2020:


Namdiot coward Cownu is still raping your shithole olosho mother while your drunkard bastard father is holding her legs wide apart.
Bastard retarded brainwashed IPIG delusional monkey.
Go and preach to your fellow ret@rds and get the Bleep out of here.
Fvcked up low IQ imbeciles like you will listen to a sore loser like this slowpoke, intelligent people like myself knows where he's coming from.

STFU and get lost.

Racoon:
Corruption have taken a frightening dimension that it has become a comical joke in this country.In fact, not being corrupt is now a crime because only the extremely corrupt or atrocious are being celebrated wella.

BBT2020:
This Atiku stooge is still out here wailing and crying like a hoe. Idiotic fool.

BBT2020:
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Buy or borrow some common sense. That's my only advise for you.

dangermouse:
Attack the message not the messenger. Dude just told the raw truth and every well meaning Nigerian should reflect on.

BBT2020:
This Atiku stooge is still out here wailing and crying like a hoe. Idiotic fool.

MajohBankz:


At a time eh....
There are maggots and there are demented maggots but I can't seem to place you in either because you sound like a combination of both. Twãt

BBT2020:
This Atiku stooge is still out here wailing and crying like a hoe. Idiotic fool.

News of corruption used to outrage our moral susceptibilities. now they excite our faculty of humour.

In Nigeria’s increasingly dreary and despairing political and economic climate, people now look forward to news of bizarre acts of corruption as a source of cathartic hilarity.

We thought politicians faking illnesses and enacting histrionic displays in the courtroom to evade justice was the ultimate comedic mockery of justice that nonetheless helps us purge the ever-increasing emotional tensions that governmental ineptitude activates in us.

Then in February 2018, a JAMB employee in Benue by the name of Philomina Chieshe took it a notch higher.

She alerted the nation to the existence of a moneyvorous“spiritual snake” that mysteriously swallowed 36 million naira realized from the sale of JAMB scratch cards.

Her story stimulated mass psychotherapeutic laughter in the country and inspired countless creative memes on social media. The national laughter her story stirred drowned out the outrage of her theft.

Exactly two years later, on February 7, 2020, the bursar of the University of Ibadan by the name of Michael Alatise told the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts that the university hadn’t submitted its audit report to the Auditor-General of the Federation since 2014 because the external auditor it hired to audit it went blind in the course of doing his job!

Perhaps, the fraud the external auditor discovered was so blindingly eyewatering it caused him to lose his visual sensibilities.

Seriously, though, as House Public Accounts committee chair Oluwole Oke said then, “That somebody went blind does not mean that the firm [has gone] into extinction.” Instead of striking the nation with revulsion, the story became another laughter tonic to relieve stress.

Since then, of course, more consequential government officials and private sector operatives that have direct dealings with government have discovered that the most artful way to elude consequences for corruption is to be so inordinately outrageous in your justification for corruption that the nation goes from indignation to bursts of deep loud hearty laughter.

For instance, on April 10, Maryam Uwais, Special Adviser to the President on Social Investment,told Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily programme that she couldn’t account for the billions that she and the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs putatively gave to weak, poor, and vulnerable Nigerians to ease the hurt of the coronavirus pandemic because, “Those who benefit from the conditional cash transfer of the Federal Government as palliative to cushion the effects of the lockdown caused by the deadly Coronavirus don’t want to be addressed as poor people. That is why we can’t publish their names.”

As I pointed out in my April 10, 2020 column, “Anyone who is too proud to be called poor is clearly not poor. The pangs of hunger are stronger than the vanity of self-esteem. That’s why there are hordes of Nigerian ‘e-beggars’ who drop their names and account numbers on social media without shame during social media ‘giveaways’—and sometimes without ‘giveaways.’

“But the whole point of asking for the identity of the people who benefited from the government’s ‘palliatives’ is to be able to authenticate government’s claims.”

However, as is now the norm, instead of being outraged by her explanation, Nigerians found it a welcome source of therapeutic mirth. And nothing has been heard about it since then.

When a video circulated on social media showing the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy telling what appears to be a white woman from an unidentified Western country that government uses the top-up data on phones to determine the economic needs of Nigerians and to wire money to them to relieve the economic burden of COVID-19, there were loud cyber guffaws all over Nigerian social media.

But an infinitely more hilarious moment of governmental corruption was to come later during the probe of multi-billion-naira corruption at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).For example, acting Managing Director of the NDDC, Daniel Pondei, “fainted” in response to questions about the enormous corruption in the commission. This earned him freedom from further scrutiny.

This event has become a goldmine for inventive humour, memes, and laughter therapy. So was the spat between the former MD of the NDDC, Joi Nunei, and Niger Delta minister Godswill Akpabio.

Nunei’s claim that she slapped Akpabio when he attempted to sexually assault her provided grist for the humour mills and overshadowed the corruption allegations both of them are mired in.

The comedic entertainment that modern Nigerian corruption provides was also fully realised when Akpabio said members of the National Assembly committee probing the sleaze in the NDDC were beneficiaries of the corruption they were probing.

“It’s OK, Honorable Minister!” members of the probe panel could be heard pleading. “Off [turn off] the mic!” The songification of this tragicomic encounter has gone viral on social media.

Sadiya Umar Farouq, Buhari’s minister of humanitarian affairs who has become a byword for audaciously aggressive and hard-boiled corruption, also said a few days ago that she spent more than half a billion naira to feed non-existent school kids in their homes in Lagos, Ogun, and the FCT while schools were shut!

She said this to “correct” a viral social media message that suggested that she’d spent 15 billion naira to feed schoolchildren nationwide.

Her “clarification” said nothing about how much she spent to “feed” school children in other parts of the country—or why only school children in Lagos, Ogun, and the FCT were “fed” to the exclusion of others. Or, more crucially, what she has done to the money budgeted to “feed” children under lockdown in other parts of the country if only kids in Lagos, Ogun and the FCT were fed.

Of course, if she spent more than half a billion to feed phantom schoolkids in just two states and the FCT, it isn’t unreasonable to suggest that she spent 15 billion—or more— to “feed” children all over the country.

Again, instead of crying, Nigerians laughed about what I characterised as the minister’s explicit and unapologetic governmental theft by outrageousness.

Finally, on August 10, it emerged that the CEO ofFirst City Monument Bank(FCMB) by the name of Adam Nuru told the Ayo Salami panel probing Ibrahim Magu’s corruption at the EFCC that he paid N573million into account # 1486743019, which is the church account of Magu’s pastor Emmanuel Omale, in error, and only discovered the “error” four years later after the panel summoned him. This humorously infantile lie provoked another round of comic excitation across the country and inspired lots of creative editorial cartoons.

The bank’s face-saving “clarification” of what it a meant was another exercise in comically obscurantist verbal buffoonery.

“To provide further clarity, during a maintenance upgrade of our systems in 2016, a defective file led to the aggregation of multiple unrelated entries into a single balance under the affected customer’s name in one of our reports,” the bank’shead of Corporate Affairs said in a statement.“This aggregation occurred only in the weekly automated report to the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit. It had no effect on any customer account balance or statements and therefore was not immediately identified.”

Obviously, Nigerians are laughing to keep them from crying. But the corrupt will continue to intensify their theft while we laugh at the innovative wackiness of their corruption.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/transformation-of-nigerias-corruption-from-outrage-to-comedy/

batstan:
A well written article.

We are just a different breeds.

That time we dey play ball, our coach say make we gather 20 20 naira to buy ball. We reach 42players, that is ₦840 and ball na ₦550, for correct one ooo. Transportation fare, highest ₦20.
Where the change?

Till tomorrow we never settle the matter.

Coach Yinkus

BBT2020:
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Buy or borrow some common sense. That's my only advise for you.

Omooba77:


https://tribuneonlineng.com/transformation-of-nigerias-corruption-from-outrage-to-comedy/