Bankoleism, The National Assembly, And Public Thieves

Very quickly, Bankoleism is a term used to describe a man that adorns himself in white attires all the time, yet engages in activities that are at best black, such as conniving with bank officials to borrow, collect, use, misuse, manage or mismanage by sharing with fellow colleagues while majority of citizenry suffer.

Bankoleism, has different phases, it all depends on what side of the divide one chooses and you will be surprised about what you see. Bankoleism is when the Inspector General of the Nigerian Police decides o pay you a social visit on the eve of your arrest, abduction or invitation to a sister organization to answer questions regarding money that has already be spent, chopped and whacked.

It also is a state in which one falls from grace to graceful grass because N10b is not just ten naira.

While the larger society listens to the Bankoles and his sweet sounding grammar, they take loans and share amongst themselves in millions and billions. In Bankoleism its either you are judged on the pages of newspapers or your running mouth could put you into trouble, it all depends on whose shoes you take, whose foot you step on,

It's funny how the tables turn, one moment, former speaker Dimeji Bankole was telling the world how EFCC was not worth a dollar and next minute, he is going to be doing WAEC questions for hours nay days in the same EFCC.

The Bankoles of these nation, its political class and people are many, they include but are not limited the Patricia Ettehs, impeached for inflated contract of N620 Million and recently forgiven and before that given a national honour, the Wabaras, of the bribe for budget fame, the Bode Georges, took billions got a slap on the wrist, a thanksgiving and back grooving as a party chief, or is it the Ibrus, convicted and serving time in elite hospitals.

Bankole should have seen it coming, but sadly with so much to steal, they never see it coming. First it was the N2.3B naira car scam, and then the N9B naira contract scam.

And to imagine that Nigerians are celebrating Tamborine or Tambuwal, the new speaker tells us we are in for a long haul, we celebrate everything, like goodluck in the face of a lacklustre lucklost society, we are plagued with all sorts, in one week, we beat Argentine and it's called match-fixing, and same week are lucky by 6minutes not to have lost to Ethiopia.

A nation that celebrates when PHCN brings electricity with shouts of 'Up Nepa' is already cheering, PDP Dealt with, Obj looses out and all those tantalizing haedlines. However the truth is that "It will cost the country at least three hundred and thirty-eight billion, six hundred and forty-five million eight hundred and forty-five thousand, five hundred and ten naira (N338,645,845,510bn) in taxpayers' money to keep the 469 members of the incoming seventh National Assembly in office for the next four years."

For a nation that imports fuel that it has in abundance, because it cannot get just two refineries to function optimally. It would spend all that money for Mark, and Tambuwal, for doing nothing, It may interest Nigerians to know that sixth senate which just ended, passed only 91 bills in a period of four years with as much as over 20 Senators not having been to the chamber since January."

In the whole Bankole saga, it remains to be seen if it will end any better than other such Nigerian movies, we are either waiting for part two, or it's to God be the glory. EFCC says they discovered Bankole was plotting other schemes to thwart his voluntary surrender, arrest or kidnap, same time, the commission says the former Speaker will remain in custody to enable him have sufficient time to answer questions on the numerous fraud allegations against him.

In all these the ordinary Nigerian just watches not knowing who to believe and exactly what is happening.

The whole Abuja is agog, well wishers and jobbers and one wonders for a group that cannot explain, how just March 30, 2010, approved for itself : Speaker, N100m, Deputy Speaker, N80m, House Leader, N60m, Dep. House Leader, N57.5m, Chief Whip, N55m, Dep. Chief Whip, N54.5m, Minority Leader, N54.5m, Minority Whip, N50m, Dep. Minority Leader, N50m and Dep. Minority Whip, N50m for expences.

At a time when Nigerians are groaning under all sorts of economic pains, when governors while stealing claim they cannot pay N18, 000.

For the Bankoles in our society the arrogance is swell, its continuous, because what can the people do, it remains to be seen how Jonathan can achieve the feat of getting back a semblance of sanity into a corrupt system. With men like Dimeji's father Chief Alani Bankole, an Egba High Chief whose only comments were, he was not worried about the arrest of his son because he was sure that at the end of the day, the embattled former speaker would not be indicted.

“I trust my son. He will not be indicted. You can quote me as saying so.” What air of certainty, who would not feel that, if my son can steal, my error, I mean take a loan of N1B only I will say same I am sure?

I will take excerpts from an essay I wrote some five years back and conclude, Corruption has and will continue to thrive because we have power concentrated in the hand of few people who are not practically accountable to the people. Nothing visible and strongly commendable has happened, we can only hope for internal system restructuring, a form of self-repair.

We are on a continuous guinea pig breeding exercise of corrupt public officials that keep thriving because of a dysfunctional budding democracy, a democracy that has continued to remain nascent at the expense of public good.

Despite the entire baby crawling efforts at posturing that Jonathan will do, this government lacks the commonest transparency as those before it, and as been done in the past, with aid from some eggheads, and credit to them, we will watch as they increase the technical complexity of their so-called reforms to conceal or pave way for the further distortion of the economy.

Bankoleism will be further enshrined into the system because of an illiterate, apathetic and ignorant populace, without adequate public discernment of political choices and knowledge

Our inability to tackle the menace of Bankoleism will leave us in the present masquerade supervised corruption in health, education, Police, transport, aviation, roads, housing, etc.

Jonathan and his team, if he can, if he will, needs to answer the following question, how does a public official advertise his corrupt services, what are the methods for concealing a corrupt payment, how do corrupt partners integrate vertically? If these and many issues are addressed, there would be fewer Bankoles.

It's not about eliminating corruption, it's about rebuilding the system, and we all have a part to play. Jonathan do one thing!

Addendum
Now the FOI Act has become water, when do we start drinking, even though its not well packaged, man shall not live by bread alone, but off course that's why there is butter. Nigerians should start asking questions from the Bankoles, their elected or selected representatives.

Armed forces of Nigeria should please take over from these politicians before they ruin Nigeria further beyond repairs. This is essentially necessary and critical because the Armed Forces owe Nigerians a duty of care to protect Nigeria and Nigerians from both external and internal aggression.

What kind of Armed Forces do we have in Nigeria today that will sit back and watch our so-called politicians and others loot and destroy our country? Our country is facing a criminal financial invasion all in the name of politics, and you the Armed Forces are there watching these politicians ruin us beyond repairs. Shame on you!

Without missing my words, I Dr. Jordan Yellow, hereby demand that the ARMED Forces of the Federal republic of Nigeria should as a matter of economic necessity and control of political rascality, SEIZE power from these criminals running our great country.

Such seizure of power will not be a Treasonable felony, rather it will be very well appreciated by Nigerians in general because the financial madness of looting, fraud, corruption, etc……. has now gone beyond belief.
Before returning power to civilians, you must please ensure that the new or revised constitution does not grant immunity to any one in office, so that politicians do not hide behind these immunity clauses to commit any criminal act.

While you the majority of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, as well as millions of Nigerians live in mind-boggling poverty, the so called leaders you have been obeying so fanatically, all live a life of pure luxury that will never come your way unless you put a STOP to this criminal looting of our fragile economy.

Previously some ex-politician and bankers were on the looting spotlight, but nothing has come out of it because they ‘SETTLED’ the authorities. Today it is Bankole. He will soon be out of custody to enjoy his loot.

I wonder why no Nigerian has questioned why politicians will be given allowances to run their constituencies. If the intention was to serve Nigerians, why did the management of NASS not employ suitable people for these jobs that the politicians collect money for and assign them to the politician directly to enhance, transparency, accountability, employment , etc…, instead of allowing them to receive allowances that they will not verify there disbursement.
Legislators should only have been allowed to earn their wages directly, and nothing more in other to curtail fraud and corruption.

The jumbo wages collected by each of these politicians per month, is more than enough to effectively employ at least ten unemployed Nigerians.

Nigeria has a large population of unemployed people roaming the streets daily, while these politicians earn an amazing sum of money and also defraud us with useless legislations that will not help any one.

Armed Forces of Nigeria, please wake up from your slumber and seize power in other to bring a level of FISCAL- CONTROL to Nigeria, unless you all rather die in poverty in the mist of plenty since you have deliberately allowed corruption and fraud to become a religion in Nigeria.

Please, ACT NOW!

Ibo-made:

Nah !!!
This figures can't be right. They are just too much.
Prof Pat Utomi seem to be on point that this democracy is too expensive for Nigeria.

Those who frame public debate in Nigeria are—give it to them—very clever. One of such debates which they have deftly crafted is that the presidential system is very expensive. They readily point to the sheer amount of salaries, allowances and other running costs accumulated by the motley crew of ministers, advisers and assistants. They also point to the cost of maintaining the legislature as evidence that the presidential system is just too expensive. Somehow, they forget that whereas the constitution only stipulates that a minister be appointed from every state, giving us a figure of 36, we end up appointing 42 to accommodate more jobbers. The constitution does not state the number of advisers and assistants but we end up appointing a battalion just to create jobs for the boys. The constitution does not fix salaries and allowances for legislators and ministers. The jumbo pays are self-inflicted. Yet, we turn round to say presidentialism is expensive, when indeed we, and not the constitution, created the problem.

To put things in perspective, Ghana runs a presidential system. Ghanaians are not complaining about costs because there is reasonable prudence in the running of government. No crazy allowances. No excess luggage. South Africa runs a presidential system. Nobody is complaining. They cut their coats according to their clothes. So we should blame the greed of public officers and the politicisation of appointments for the heavy cost we are incurring. There is nothing irredeemably expensive about the presidential system. We created the expenditure problem ourselves and then turn round to blame the system.

However, as Speaker and Deputy Speaker respectively, Mr Bankole and Usman Nafada, were not part of the proceeds from the loan since they already earned a whopping N100 million and N80 million quarterly each, the statement signed by Media Aide to Mr Bankole, Idowu Bakare said.

na like this dem dey take divide national cake.

These men are a pure disgrace to Nigeria. God will definitely deal with them

Hello friends,
You can see that my trite argument over time that the problem of Nigeria is mean, wicked, vision-less and good for nothing leadership, not RELIGION or ETHNICITY. All the marginalization issues leading to violence are caused by these heartless Nigerian leadership.

In the house, we have the most religious and ethnically biased people who lie about their love for us but borrow to increase our debt problem to swell up their account. It takes only a pathologically wicked and insane human being to increase his own Allowance from N7 Million to N10.5 Million per month in a country where over 70 Million are living with N300 per day.

God would grant them (individually) personal generational loan of incurable diseases, strive and suffering unimaginable, ( beyond 10 generations!).

This extremely wicked people deserves worse curses; please help me rain more on them.

una never hala i dey warm up to get there and sell the national assembly complex to the highest bidder.

Bankole, the head of the Armed Robbers, using Pen, should be made to go and cool off in Kirikiri, for a minimum of at least 5 years. Yet there is nothing an average Nigeria benefit, if they steal and build industries with the money, 'better', but no, all they want is to keep on stealing.

Thank God, Bankole was kicked out through votes, nothing to offer people, other than to inflict more hardship for them. God will flush all of them out of the system, one after the other. ITT.

keyamo has enough evidence, especially on the purchase of cars, to nail Bankole, he cannot escape it, and they should make all the members to refund the money they have collected to pay that loan. The 7th Session of the House should not pay it, neither Jonathan and the Bank that gave the loan should come under the axe of Sanusi Lamido.

min of 5 years for a ring leader, are you normal?

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I'd always known that the young man was not alone in the whole saga, all the members wanted was for them to earn their supposed last supper before their exit and he couldn't do anything than to dance to their tune in order to let peace reign. Now it is the new house that will sort the payment out else there can't be peace so long as it remains unpaid.

Naija for life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!