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IN DEFENCE OF PRESIDENT BUHARI’S WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION
- Prof. Hassan Saliu
Different platforms have been seized by Nigerians and their foreign friends to run commentaries and series of interviews on the commendable war that President Buhari has been waging against the destroyer of our nation-corruption. While the avalanche of opinions seems to raise issues with the scope of the war and the manner of waging it, a few others have penned support for the war. Most of the commentators in their rush to pass a judgment on the efforts have forgotten that the President made the war against corruption one of his campaign promises when he was vying for the office. This intervention is therefore supportive of the efforts while noting that some of the limitations that are inherent in the strategy of fighting the war against graft so far adopted are overshadowing the consensus for the need for it.
I begin with the premise that if any cancerous worm must be tackled or uprooted from Nigeria at this point in time, it is the tendency by our public officials to elevate their own comfort at the expense of the generality of the citizens which they claim to be serving.
To be sure, corruption is pervasive to the extent that one will be correct to assert that it represents the main issue that has been retarding development in Nigeria and responsible for her present glooming picture that finds expression in non-payment of salaries to states’ workers, collapsed infrastructure, resort to monthly borrowing to pay the salaries of federal workers and the thorough-bred negative image that the nation has across the globe. A lot of our institutions and the personalities running them are drenched in corruption and only a few of them have accepted that it is morally wrong to short change the nation in various fields of human endavour. Most of our contemporary leaders do not give a damn on the high level of mismanagement and stealing that has taken place and consequently earned our nation some level of scorn in the international system . Robert Mugabe, a couple of years ago warned his country men and women not to descend to the unenviable level of Nigeria where corruption defines her existence. Although President Mugabe and his government are not easily a model in transparency, the point should be noted that corruption is one of the export commodities of Nigeria which impact is being felt in China, Angola, USA, Britain and other places including our neighbours in west Africa. Peace keeping operations and other forms of rendering support to other nations have been invaded by corrupt tendencies and proven cases of graft, among other socially unacceptable behaviours.
Only recently some hefty amounts of money meant for arms purchase have been pocketed by some privileged Nigerians, while many of our fellow citizens have been turned into refugees in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and other places with over two million others rendered homeless and turned into Internally Displaced Persons on an account of stealing by the nation’s leaders in all sectors of the political economy. As unfortunate as the situation is, some other Nigerians have found comfort in diverting resources from the needs of the Internally Displaced Persons to personal ends. Costs of contracts have been criminally increased even in the face of the new Procurement Policy. Projects are abandoned, if executed at all. Our politicians with their civil servant collaborators have become special people in terms of their itching fingers. The initial suspected padding of the 2016 budget by the House of Representatives which has now been confirmed and the congested table of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other anti-graft agencies on cases of corruption traceable to the nation’s elites should clear any doubts on the entrenched nature of corruption in our country.
It is therefore not surprising that the Buhari government, against all odds and pressures, is marching on in confronting the menace. Some observers have taken a swipe on the President as the only person who is talking about corruption at times to the displeasure of some other privileged Nigerians who think that as an entrenched culture, he needs not lose any sleep about it. One does not feel that this is necessarily a drawback. Any reform agenda on proper public conduct especially in our own circumstance must start with the leader based on the strong presence of the public sector in our lives.
The history of countries that have made breakthroughs in changing their conditions of existence positively tells us of patriotic leaders who charted the course of rectitude for others to follow. Our situation cannot be different from others. That some people who are serving in Buhari’s government are hand in glove with corruption is a reality but we are talking about a national crusade that definitely possesses the potential of being contagious. All the rough edges stand the chance of being smoothened out as long as we go along the path of rectitude. I think what is important is for the citizens to be prepared to be whistle blowers in exposing such people by providing credible evidences to support their claims.
The All Progressive Party (APC) may not be made up of saints but the most important thing is that the Captain of its ship is ready to lead the fight. Some mistakes may be made as customary of any crusade on a scale we are talking about but the most important thing is that the war is progressing and the necessary corrective measures will surely be taken along the line.
I see the revelations coming out of the National Assembly as a confirmation of the level of financial recklessness in the country and how close-knit the people involved in it are. The issue coming out now notwithstanding whether our law books capture padding or not as a crime indicates that the war against corruption is succeeding. Consciousness, caution and more importantly, the integrity of the President seems to begin to have some salutary effect in the country.
There is also the perspective of the absence of credible agenda that enjoys the support of everyone. My view on this is that it is utopia to expect all Nigerians to agree and be counted on the war that feeds the opaque obscene wealth of our privileged few, upon which some dark forces, according to Ibrahim Magu, are working hard to derail. On an occasion like this, people have to be whipped into the line using the extant laws and processes to tame the greed level of most Nigeria’s leaders. This is precisely what the President is doing to a large extent.
There have been arguments that the war is slow. Mr. President has an answer for this. Other arms of government are not on the same page with him on the issue even in the face of the reforms carried out on the Justice System that has no tolerance for untenable adjournments and delays by senior lawyers.
Quite unfortunately, we still experience sloppiness on the part of some judges, leading the President to publicly lament the clog that the judiciary is still constituting to the on-going war against corruption. Can we also blame the President for allowing the due process of the law to be followed? One can therefore observe that the network of corruption in our country is quite expansive and it therefore constitutes a drag on the anti-graft crusade as some institutions and individuals have been compromised and in the estimation of some people, beyond redemption.
Institutions are good and could be made effective under an ideal environment. Individuals however make institutions not the other way round. This explains why Magu is crushing obstacles to efficiency that is raising the profile of EFCC more than what was experienced under Lamorde as the head of the anti-grant agency. Ideas need to be developed and flourished and strong commitment by the highest political leadership needs to be shown before the heads of institutions can have the confidence to do their work.
Undoubtedly, the various institutions that are involved in the war against corruption will gain strength to perform better than they are currently doing if the political environment remains focused on the war. Judging from where we are coming from, there is no way the house can instantly be swept clean by mere existence of institutions without the concomitant level of political support to assure them especially the weak regime of law enforcement. Perhaps our analysts have not reconciled themselves with the possibility of compromise that makes Nigeria’s institutions to be highly susceptible and vulnerable to manipulation. With a lot of dirty money in circulation, effective supervision and firm political commitment are required.
On the issue of what have we gained from the war, my submission is that there are two crucial accomplishments. One, the recovery of over three trillion Naira from Nigerians who have plundered the treasury is crucial evidence that the war against corruption is alive and progressing. Two, the due care and consciousness that attend public matters these days are eloquent testimonies to the commendable efforts of Buhari’s government on arresting the killer of Nigeria, corruption. The critics of the government, no doubt, have their point when they argue that the war is not yet contagious enough as itching fingers even in government circles have not shown any fidelity to the avowed commitment of the president to combat corruption.
This author, however, believes that the fact that some officials of government are still deemed to be corrupt is not sufficient to berate the on -going efforts. Corruption is a deep business in the country. As such, finding one man that is still standing up to it is significant for our collective being. The demonstrated commitment of the president against public thievery will over time translate into no more hiding place for the yet unaffected Nigerians. The fact of his unwavering commitment to the crusade should not be lost on Nigerians. After all, it is not that our past leaders did not declare war against corruption, the missing link until recently was the demonstrated lack of political will to walk the talk.
There is another perspective one has identified with some commentators and analysts including some respected Nigerians who have argued that there is no need to look back in the war. What Nigerians wanted and still want is for Buhari to drop the idea of looking back into the corrupt cases of the past but rather to focus on the present and future. For this paper, this is untenable. Whatever the facts at the disposal of government should dictate its actions and it should not be sparing. What is the morality of arresting the infractors of the present while ignoring the parasites (to borrow Samora Machel’s word) of the past who prepared the ground for the new fortune diggers? A corrupt public official is a corrupt official irrespective of the time and space when he commits his crime. One agrees with President Buhari that we cannot build a nation where impurity of the past is not interrogated and swept under the carpet.
Is the war selective? I doubt the basis for this conclusion. If the concern is corruption and the thievery is at the federal level, it stands to reason to expect that the preponderance of people that would be investigated and charged to courts are going to be people who have access to public resources by virtue of them being members of the immediate past ruling party. That is not to suggest that if any member of the APC has violated the law, he should not be interrogated. One knows a few of them that are being tried despite being from the ruling party.
The war against graft anywhere is a difficult one as those who are involved in the act of corruption are always smart at covering their tracks and in resorting to primordial sentiments to confuse the general public especially now that there is economic hardship in the nation with the attendant high prices of food stuff and other essential goods and services that is not often appreciated by analysts who want quick fixes to resolving corruption cases.
Everything may be done by the prosecutor but the matter does not end there. The judicial arm also has a role to play. Therefore, failure to secure convictions should not be used to query the commitment of the government to tackle the incidence of corruption. There is however a sense in the argument on the need to beef up the level of preparations by the prosecution teams. From the reports, the prosecution processes require a major overall as government prosecutors are always overshadowed by the retinue of senior lawyers that have appeared for defendants in the on-going corruption cases.
Judging by the havocs that have been wrecked on our nation, the willingness with which the arrested and yet to be unarrested corrupt Nigerians are returning parts of their loot and the global perception of Nigeria as a fantastically corrupt nation, the Buhari government was right to have initiated the war against corruption. There abound to be mistakes based on the expansive environment for corrupt practices but with the active and robust civil society groups and citizenry, the government can be steered on the right part.
There is nothing wrong in the President being the arrowhead of the war. He is the most important factor if the anti-graft institutions must be effective and efficient in prosecuting the war against corruption. Without his own firm commitment to the war so far displayed, there would have been no chance of recovering the huge amount of the looted funds and the global acceptability even if token that the nation now enjoys in the international system. The President needs our encouragement in continuing with the war and on how to judiciously utilize the trillions of Naira that have been so far collected from Nigerians with looted funds. The alternative is to pressurize the president as some notable Nigerians have done to drop the idea of fighting corruption because it is hurting the privileged class. That direction will be quite dangerous for our nation in deep recession to contemplate.
Whatever is the level of overzealousness/weakness observed in waging the war against corruption through the legal process should be corrected while constitutionalism and the rule of law are seen to dominate the crusade. What I think is missing that tends to give substance to the arguments against the government in its war against corruption is the failure to develop a well- thought out public agenda or what both Professor Ibrahim Gambari and Mallam Adamu Ciroma have called priority areas that link the war against corruption to a wholesale economic blueprint on how to tackle the myriad of problems facing the nation.
Had it being in existence and appreciated by all, it would have connected the recovered funds to the critical felt needs of the people and that would have assured Nigerians that the efforts of government are being driven by the need to ameliorate their sufferings and wipe away their tears through the deployment of the recovered funds to attack essential issues of daily existence to force down the prices of goods and services. It is only by so doing that the government would begin to see more appreciation being developed for its deserving war against the killer of Nigeria, corruption.
As I was about to conclude this article, the disturbing issue of budget padding broke out essentially among co-travellers in the morally repressive resort of short changing Nigerians through the stealing of the commonwealth. A worrisome dimension has just been introduced into the imbroglio by the attitude of the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, a law maker who is giving the impression of being above the law and the controversial clean health of bill given to him by some aides of the president.
More than anything else, the war or battle (matter of semantics) against corruption has been somewhat tainted by the tendency to truncate the on-going investigations by the statement that the president did not sign the padded budget when the police and the EFFC are still investigating the case. The members who were involved in the act have spoken including the Speaker. His own quarrel is that Abdulmumini Jibrin is talking about an offence that is not among the list of crimes known to the country’s laws and as a legislator, no one can arrest or investigate him(one is aware of the modifications of his position on his trial and investigation). Surprisingly, the executive has constituted itself into a judge on the matter by clearing him of all misdemeanors. Are we then to believe Ghalli Na’abba’s thesis that budget padding is a collaborative undertaking between the legislature and the presidency?
My hunch is that there may be more to it than what we have come to know on the matter. There may be people out there who are using the name of the president to either erect a comfort zone or sustaining it for themselves, while hiding under his good name. The whole issue of budget padding is therefore a low point in the fight against corruption especially with the premature and disappointing interventions by the aides of the president to the effect that no evil has been done and the 2016 budget was not padded.
The expectation of Nigerians however is that a proper investigation of the allegations would be carried out and not the resort to cover up that is currently being suspected on the padding issue to shield the likely guilty ones. Notwithstanding, one still feels that given the level of damage that corruption has done to our nation that shows in the deepening financial crisis facing us, high prices of goods and services and the general perception of Nigeria by global actors as a corrupt nation, all pointing at poor development climate in the country, the war against corruption should go on, its tempo should be increased and the genuine concerns of the people addressed. It can only get better if we continue along the path.
It is unrealistic to expect a sudden jump from the prevalent corrupt environment we are in; where our foreign receipts are not enough for our imports, leading to growing the nation’s debt overhang to an environment where we can equal the standards set by certain countries on corruption that we have not succeeded in being their carbon copy in several other respects.

THE DANGER OF ADOPTING THE STREET APPROACH TO NIGERIAN FOREIGN POLICY

By Prof. Hassan Saliu

Students of Nigerian foreign policy are excited about the high level of interest that Nigerian foreign policy has generated in recent times in public discourses. This, no doubt, speaks to the impact of democracy on the country’s foreign relations. Beginning with the high profile of foreign trips being embarked upon by President Buhari and their contents, Nigerians have not stopped interrogating some aspects of the nation’s foreign policy. Of particular interest to me in this intervention is the tendency by some Nigerian commentators especially members of the political class to be taking steps using the formal structures of foreign policy to canvass their personal views and perspectives on the thrust of Nigerian foreign policy under the current government without minding their long time implications for Nigeria. One of such occasions was the recent visit to China by President Buhari to seek economic support to implement the 2016 annual budget. As expected, opinion differs on why Nigeria should be going around the world to shop for funds with which to fund the high level of deficit contained in this year’s budget. While some Nigerians who were opposed to the visit of President Buhari to China in the second week of April, 2016 at the instance of the Chinese have based their disapproval of it on some geo-strategic and imperialistic considerations, there are others who have argued that there is nothing unusual in Nigeria reaching out to other parts of the world for economic assistance.
Specifically, this paper examines the implications of the decision of Mr. Ayo Fayose, the Ekiti State governor to set aside all caution to write a letter opposing the federal government in seeking to get loans and/ or investment capital into the dilapidated infrastructural sub-sector of the country’s economy from China, the second largest economy in the world. As events later turned out, the Buhari government, contrary to the assumptions of Governor Ayo Fayose, was mainlyinterested in attracting investment into the country under favourable terms.
Also, it was agreed that the Chinese currency would be used as an alternative to the US dollar in transacting businesses at the world stage with a strong possibility of the country serving as a kind of hub in West Africa on this score. Not waiting to get the details of the agreements reached with China and perhaps informed by his motives, Fayose went overboard in advising the Chinese authorities not to borrow the country money judging by the high level of resources being committed to servicing the accumulated external debt of the country. Good as the intervention was in terms of citizens’ engagement of foreign policy, the resort to writing to the Chinese President through the embassy of China in Nigeria and his decision to back this up with his visit to China, were awkward approaches that have betrayed the little understanding of the inter-state relations especially its delicate context that often compels actors on the international scene to be mindful of the actions they take in the international system.
If Fayose had expressed his opposition to the China trip and the expected outcomes which may look offensive to him, using internal platforms in the country, probably not much fuss and indignation would have followed his concerns as a citizen of Nigeria. But on this occasion, he chose to externalize his engagement.
By his action, he has poorly digested the whole concept of citizens’ engagement of foreign policy. Taking after Fayose, Femi Gbajabiamila has equally written to the president of China, Xi Jinpin to repudiate whatever arguments that Fayose had massaged in his letter. Also, as a citizen and the House leader, no one can stop Gbajabiamila from resorting to self- help on behalf of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). But the problem is that no matter how open a society may be and what one feels about an issue, there is the need for restraint in dabbling into international issues given the nature of the international system. Again, how can one justify and defend his own intervention beyond the interloping theory that he has propounded on Fayose?
As the leader of the House of Representatives, his brief does not include writing to the sovereignty of another country whatever may be the issues and how he feels about them. While no one denies that patriotism could be the motivation for the two letters, the Chinese have the right to deconstruct them and draw their own conclusions which one is almost certain would not be in accord with the pedestrian considerations of the two personalities. This is the worry of this writer. Foreign policy is such a sensitive policy arena that does not require any self help by people who have no mandate to do so or are operating at the margins of being spoilers or attention-seekers.
To forestall misunderstanding, foreign countries, their agencies and indeed, international actors always watch events as keenly as possible to draw their far reaching conclusions on the next steps to take about other countries. Unfortunately, neither the President nor other intruder politicians may be in a position to anticipate or erase the backlash effects that may follow the street approach to the country’s foreign relations.
At this point, one wants to sketch out some of the costs that Nigeria is attracting by allowing personalities who are not officially designated to speak for her to invade the foreign policy turf with a careless approach. Before going into that, it is also important to caution even some government officials to mind the briefs of their offices by not meddling into the foreign policy arena through their deep commentaries. Two of such personalities are Raji Fashola and Lai Mohammed. While Alhaji Mohammed can be forgiven at times because he is the spokesperson for the Buhari government that consideration can hardly be extended to Raji Fashola.
Nothing guarantees Fashola, a cabinet minister the right to reflect deeply on Nigeria’s Foreign Policy outside the cabinet and making such public. As a kind of super Minister, he already has his plate full especially with housing deficit, bad roads and darkness that the country has been condemned to by her leaders. Surprisingly, he still found the time to render unsolicited self help to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama who a week or two later came out in Lagos at a Town Hall Meeting to agree substantially with Fashola in his defence of the foreign trips of President Buhari.
As for Alhaji Lai Mohammed, his information on the China trip flew in the face of the realities of the trip as given by Garba Sheu and Femi Adesina, both aides of the President, indicating that not much has changed in terms of uncoordinated approach to Nigerian foreign policy. As remarked by a columnist, the Minister of Foreign Affairs was completely missing on the radar and when he eventually showed up to make some clarifications, Professor Bola Akinterinwa was not sure if his clarifications were even needed on the issue of currency swap as the explanations he offered have since been countered by some officials of the government such as the Governor of the Central Bank, Mr. Godwin Emefiele and some Chinese officials who have spoken on the visit and the numerous agreements reached.
Back on the issue of the dangers of the resort to street approach, one notable danger is the confusion that this will transmit to the outside world especially now that the image of a country in some instances is much more important than the reality of its existence. No doubt, the image will suffer not minding the courteous remarks of the outgoing Chinese ambassador, Gu Xiaojie when he visited the President in May, 2016. The point being made is that in 2013 when President
Jonathan visited China with a large entourage and signed some agreements, not much was realized by Nigeria let alone now that the bent of street approach is the high point in Nigeria-China relations. This author is afraid to remark that more work will certainly need to be done to make the goals of all the visits realizable based on President Buhari’s promise of working on all the previous agreements.

However, agreements in inter-state relations are works in progress that still have a long road to travel before they become manifest achievements. Any untoward action such as writing a letter to the Chinese not to assist Nigeria in overcoming her economic challenges is tantamount to sabotaging the country and a development that can be latched on by low spirited economic partners of Nigeria. Politicians and even Nigerians generally can hold a different view from that of the government and go public with it. It is however bad politics to turn the global arena into an avenue to ventilate their ill- conceived ideas based on the nature of politics within the country.

Nigeria does have rivals in Africa in terms of counting on China for support. South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola, Ghana, etc., are surely some of them. If these countries show more decorum than Nigeria, the expectation that with a large market, the country can behave as she likes may not make the efforts of President Buhari to count much especially given the grim economic circumstances at home.

More signs of disunity are likely to be seen by the international community through the reckless incursions of some Nigerians into the foreign policy arena. Neither Mr. Fayose nor Gbajabiamila has the mandate to speak for the Federal Executive Council or write to the President of another country. It is only the President or his designated officials that are expected to do that. To that extent, the bitterness that motivated Fayose may be interpreted more deeply and seriously than
the word that THISDAY newspapers has found for his letter in one of its recent editorial- silly resort. What the fayose episode has therefore shown about our political parties is that they are as disoriented as most of their members. The point being made by the governor save writing to the Chinese would have been made better by his political party, PDP through well informed reactions made in the country that would have carried the necessary weight and attracted much more attention including from the targeted country, China. Ideally, an institutional approach to opposition is much better and rewarding than operating as a one man riot squad, more so when such a person is limited both in training and experience on international issues.

Long after Fayose may have completed his term in office as governor and critic of Buhari’s government, Nigeria may still have to be paying the price. China has many requests on her table. Nigeria is just one of them. The country does not have the luxury of misbehavior in the international system and still hopes to gain handsomely from it. More worrisome is the fact that the trade balance between the two countries is more in favour of China and the country is not yet the largest economic partner to China in Africa beyond her potential large market being eyed
by Beijing. Fayose ought to have appreciated all these before he took a gamble with his letter to the Chinese President. Gbajabiamila was therefore correct in describing Fayose “a meddlesome interloper”.

One cannot agree less with the description as seeking loans and other economic transactions from the global system in the current federal system in Nigeria are a federal responsibility, not that of the states. Moreover, the governor got his facts wrong when he argued that the efforts of the president at seeking assistance from China enjoyed no legislative backing. Other factual errors such as the amount involved in the transactions, the percentage being committed to servicing debt in the country, etc., would suggest poor understanding and the penchant towards propaganda on the part of Fayose. Based on all these, the Governor should have minded the myriad of problems facing his state that he has the constitutional backing to attend to instead of displaying his ignorance on the international scene and thus abdicating his responsibility to the good people of Ekiti state.

Unknown to Fayose, as President Buhari was being received in China, another global event was taking place in Japan to commemorate the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan with the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, in attendance. As an interested party, the Chinese viewed the event more seriously given the raw deal they had received in the hands of Japanese during the Second World War. The implication is that China had a divided mind when meeting with Nigeria and the tempestuous letter of Fayose may be the excuse needed to renege on some of the agreements reached. Nothing is cast in iron and stone in the international system. It bears repeating that not all the previous agreements reached with China have been fully implemented but with Fayose’s irritant letter, all may not be equal in the circumstance as the element of reluctance can show up anytime to deny the country the much expected financial elixir from China.

The memory of the Fayose missteps can linger on for long. He may not have anticipated the dangers of his approach but those actors who relate with the country may not be in a hurry to forget the letter, its contents and what it portends for Nigeria’s international relations. Its impact may begin to show in the further reduction in the influence level of Nigeria that is already a reality in the international system.

Calls may start pouring in on Nigeria to review some economic agreements she had previously signed with some countries on account of the strong views expressed in Fayose’s letter to the Chinese. If this happens, the Ekiti governor may inadvently be harming his own state as whatever happens to the nation will also affect the people of Ekiti state whose interest is being appropriated by the unusual tenant in Government House in Ado Ekiti. As repeatedly made known by the President especially during the signing ceremony of the 2016 budget, the economy has been ran aground by his successor in office. Concerted efforts are therefore required by all Nigerians and their foreign friends to revamp it. To that extent, Fayose ought to have thought through his option of writing a letter to the Chinese President because of its repercussions that may be more devastating than the base politics that he is more familiar with.

From the foregoing, Mr. Fayose can be considered a credible threat to Nigerian Foreign Policy and by the same token, a compounder of the country’s external image problem. It is in the nature of international relations to be sensitive to any wave or current especially when it touches on long term economic relations between and among countries. One immediate potential cost of the garage approach adopted by Fayose is the reversal of the tangible and intangible diplomatic gains being engendered by the President that are encapsulated in good external image for the country. More Nigerians need not to take after him in his reckless pursuit of opposition. We recognize his right to disagree with the APC and even the President but extending that opposition across the borders in the form of writing a formal letter to another sovereignty when no personal danger is being anticipated and when he is not the symbol of Nigeria’s sovereignty, is reckless and unexpected of a state governor who should show more exemplary conduct and behaviour in the country. To be sure, Fayose in his tactless incursion into the foreign policy stuff was not well briefed and he is therefore not a good model on how citizens can engage Nigerian foreign policy with a view to effecting more desirable change in its content and orientation.

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Very nice article. Most Nigerians, both educated and less-educated are less enlightened about the importance and benefits of Insurance. To worsen the situation, apart from the fact that they dont trust the insurance coys, they also believe that insurance products are meant for millionaires because they are very expensive. So, real work need be done in these areas. They need to know that insurance products are very cheap and simple to operate. And that insurance policy is about the best thing that can hapen to any humanbeing.

The guy dey learn