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sunnysunny69:
One funny group will reign supreme for few months only to go underground after they made their Billions from gullible followers then another will spring up and all of them will rush to the new group chanting Biafra Biafra only to go underground in few years, may God help those people.

You seem to be saying this Biafran agitation is all about people taking advantage to make money? Is that what you honestly believe or is it what you're hoping for?

gidgiddy:
Where is the clash?

One group wants to celebrate Biafran day on 22nd, the other is doing their own on 30th. So where is the clash?

Don't mind them. Some people are thirsting and digging hard for any negative news about Biafra!

[quote author= post=67447709]DMGS/ZIK's Statue Roundabout, Onitsha, to Wear a New State of the Art Look!

His Excellency Chief (Dr.) Willie M. Obiano in steady resolve and momentum to accelerate urban infrastructure upgrade and upkeep the beautification of urban spaces in Anambra State has ordered the remodeling of the DMGS/Zik's Statue Roundabout in Onitsha to 21st Century standards.

The site preparations of the remodeling work has commenced at the roundabout. And when the work is completed within the next 3 months, the historic roundabout will be sporting a new modern look as rendered in the 3D images bellow.

The following approach was taken to achieve his Excellency's directive:

1. Reconstruct the existing roundabout to meet modern standards in aesthetics and functionality.

2. Reconstruct the base (pedestal) of the existing Zik's statue and raise the platform to an elevation befitting the legend of the Right Honorable Dr. Nnamdi (Zik) Azikiwe, Owelle Osowa Anya Onitsha.

3. Introduce an iconic monument that maintains the grandeur and icon stature of Zik's place in the State and the Nation as well as represent an easily recognizable cultural element of the Onitsha people.

4. Altogether make the roundabout into a pleasing garden/open space that adds great value to the environment.

***** Next Up; Urban Renewal of Okpoko! *****[/quote]This looks promising.

There's a distinct lack of trees in the pics. Hopefully they'd think of greening up the area as well.

Also, i hope they're not thinking of painting the base with that garish yellow-black-yellow scheme shown in the render! Painting that structure is a bad idea...the precast concrete should be left with its natural look.

OP, get a life! Wetin concern Evans crying with politics?

It's funny that at a time this country is witnessing the most brutal episodes of ethnic cleansing, bank robbery and highway robbery, it is this Evans court case that is capturing the headlines and trending on social media!

As bad as he was, is Evans being tried for murder?

Ttipsy:
Northern Nigeria is the Reason this country is backward despite the so oil revenue..

But they have the largest number of billionaires! Surely that should count for something?

Mickey Mouse! let's face it, he can't do any worse than the guy presently occupying the seat!

You mean even Somalia is better off than us?

Throwback:
Ahmadu Bello never cared about Nigeria, hence his decision to remain in the regional space to remain as premier and rather allow his deputy party leader Tafawa Balewa to proceed to the federal parliament and eventually become Prime Minister. Unlike Awolowo and Azikiwe, who like Bello were also pioneering regional premiers but had federal ambitions that bello never cared for.

Whatever policy he enacted for the good of his own region is apt if it serves the people and purpose of that region. No one dictated policy to the West or East, so no reason why anyone should dictate to the North what should be best and accommodating for migrants of other regions who had already fully occupied their own regional space and jobs before looking outside.

So indeed, I have no problem with what a regional premier that is well known to accommodate the culturally and religiously diverse tribes of his enclave, initiated for the benefit of his own region. Later history has already taught us that even within the same homogeneous ethnicity and religion, some states will lay off workers just because they are from a different state, while the other state too reply with same intra-tribal discrimination.

That you too bemoan that Northenization policy for its North first agenda, only suggest that I am right to say you Igbos left your own region having found the opportunities there limiting, and voluntarily proceeded to the greater land spaces Nigeria afforded you to make a better living. A Nigeria that was yet to "marginalize" Igbos as you all love to wail and whine about.

As for the oil and gas that has so much benefited Nigeria, most of it has remained outside of whatever you chose to call Alaigbo. For what you call Alaigbo, I could also mention the Yoruboid Itsekiris who have been commercially producing oil long before any Alaigbo tribe. If you mention Imo and Abia oil, then you should remember that Ondo has also been producing more oil than those 2 SouthEast states combined, and Lagos is now producing too.


I am not asking you to be grateful without reason, I am telling you to stop denigrating and disrespecting the places you found economic refuge for yourselves, for which you now try to claim you were forced to migrate because your own region under your control was denied development.

I am also telling you to remember what made your tribe depart the tribal enclave on an economic sojourn, as you now clamour to bring the lost sheep back into the same enclave they voluntarily departed and continue to flee from till today. Remember your economic condition when you dreamed of a life outside, and your economic condition now that you arrogantly claim and regret that you have developed a foreign place you arrived with no penny in your pocket, so you want to now return home to develop your origins.

Remember that the star that does not remain in the sky will only drop to the Earth and turn into dust, while the sky will ever remain shining with newer stars.

Now i know what it means when your type are called revisionists!

The Sadauna could say whatever he liked about Ndigbo....it's a case of free speech! But ain't it curious that you give him a pass for all the subjective tripe he said about Ndigbo, yet when Mazi Nnamdi Kanu takes advantage of his own God-given right to the same free speech, you bleat for his head on a platter and cheer on the fulani soldiers as they invade the South East to kill or kidnap Mazi Kanu and his parents and kill unarmed protesters! You see where your two-faced nature, double-speak and your bigotry has got you?

Like i said, the Sadauna could say whatever he likes, but then the tag of 'founding father' or 'nation builder' shouldn't be used to identify him. Calling him a regional champion or father of Arewa would be more apt don't you think? He could make whatever discriminatory policies against Ndigbo that tickled his fancy, but for you to sit there and say this was ok and that you don't have a problem with it says all that needs to be said about your character and whether or not you believe the Nigeria of today should continue as country! I hope you're beginning to see the difference between you 'one Nigeria' pretenders and the likes of IPOB and myself that are realistic and pragmatic enough to question the basis for the continuation of the farce that is 'one Nigeria'?

The question of some states laying off workers has been dealt with exhaustively! I take it you're referring to Abia state and Ochendo-Global? Well, for what it's worth, i and many right-thinking and pan-Igbo Nwafors think the guy is a nut case! No right-thinking Igbo supported that action, and in any case, issues like what happened in Abia is nothing but a consequence Ndigbo being in 'one Nigeria' and how this has wrecked havoc on our Igbo identity! You think the balkanization of Igbo land into smaller states and equally taking part of it to Rivers state to be administered by the Ijaw.....you think that did any good for Igbo unity, cohesiveness and homogeneity? This is why i want my people out of this cursed entity called Nigeria...so they can rediscover themselves and the values and opportunities they once had that made their region one of the fastest growing in the world at some point!

With you it seems one has to repeat himself again and again! With the regional system of gov't being ran at the time, the Sadauna was well within his rights to pick and choose which people he would like in his workforce! What i take exception to was the lies he was spreading about Ndigbo simply because they are a hardworking people and take advantage of any opportunity they get to excel. Obviously, this would have been a problem for him since his own people were not as educated, but the fact he says he'd rather give a job opportunity to a foreigner than a Igbo (who hasn't killed of hurt anyone) paints him in a bad light! That being said, that same way of thinking would be unconstitutional in Nigeria of today given the lack of fiscal federalism and unitary form of gov't we operate!

So you accuse Ndigbo of liking to 'wail' that Nigeria is marginalising us? So you reckon that since the end of the uncivil war to date we've been treated with fairness and equality with say the Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani?

You're a bold-faced liar if you want to sit there and posit that Igboland does not extend into Rivers state thanks to the shenanigans of Gowon and his advisers! I'm from Rivers state myself and consider myself first Igbo before any other thing! You want to show me your proof that Igboland is restricted to and confined solely within the boundaries of the South East? When Rivers state was created in 1966, can you show me the modalities that were used to determine that Ogba, Egbema, Ndoni, Ikwerre, etc, were not Igbo for them to be lumped in Rivers state? Of course the fact they were rich in hydrocarbons had nothing to do with it abi? You want to tell me you don't know a community (Egbema) was split in two just because the Igbo haters couldn't bear the fact that East Central state of the time would have access to 'all that oyel money', and hence they placed the richer part of the community in Rivers state so they (the leeching Igbo haters) could have easy and unhindered access to plunder its resources at will? Of course all this was part of the plan...the plan which now makes you want to brag that Ondo produces more oyel than both Imo and Abia combined! Come to think of it, just how much of that oyel and gas in Ondo belongs to the Ijaw? They took rich Igbo lands and placed in Rivers while taking rich Ijaw lands and placed in Ondo for the Yoruba to control, and you don't see a conspiracy against Ndigbo in all this?

As Nigerians, Ndigbo didn't find 'refuge' in any fuc'king place so just quit it with that misplaced feeling of benevolence! As long as they're Nigerians they're free to go live and work in any part of the country, and if you don't like it then support IPOB or forever hold your peace!

Exactly what 'denigrating and disrespecting' are you talking about? You want us to compare the insults and wickedness Ndigbo have received from your soldiers, obas and politicians as against what Ndigbo are supposed to have said and done to you lot? Or are you taking the few insults thrown by a few Igbo on this forum in response to the insults they received as proof that Ndigbo 'denigrate and disrespect' you? I hope you know this insulting is a two-way traffic?

Ndigbo helped develop Lagos! Why does that fact eat you up so much? But for Nigeria, Lagos wouldn't have been any better than Cotonou or Ibadan!

LOL@ the Doctor promising to keep him alive till his second tenure is finished! They'd most likely pump him full of steroids!

Tundeobama:
lazy Ipod artist I laugh when he rejected award last year does he worth it.no international award for him yet the likes of eazi have bag them.Tecno very lazy one beat and style artist.have never seen his album cd on street who go buy copy cat.

You truly are predictable...not to mention pathetic! The basis of your dislike for Tekno seems to be the fact that he's Igbo!

Igbos are truly in trouble in this country but some are too naive to realise it! They're surrounded by envious bastards who seem to lose sleep whenever any Igbo surpasses one of theirs in anything!

divicoded:
biaffrauud
They cannot even co-ordiante themselves internally and see them shouting woof on Headies award
yeye republic
banana republic of biafrauud

It was just a question of when not if some Igbo hater will latch on this story as a justification for why Biafra shouldn't be.

Of course the fool i'm quoting has conveniently ignored all the evil going on in his 'one Nigeria' that would make even lucifer himself shudder in disgust!

Throwback:
So you are saying Igbo traders that populated the North and West and Lagos, went there to take up colonial jobs with the British?

Ethnic groups already had more control over their regions since 1952, but the Igbos were more interested in political power in the West, and economic opportunities and regional government jobs in the North.

Till today, the Igbos still wail over the Northern Premier's decision to protect and preserve Northern regional jobs that would be made available to Northerners who were soon graduating from universities.

The Nigeria you claim we all signed up for, was truncated by Igbos who were so greedy they wanted more in other regions and total domination of the federal space where Igbos only should be the ones qualified for federal positions.

You continually fail to acknowledge that your migration attitude helped to create rich Igbo men who either made wealth outside of their region or who exploited the human movement to become rich transporters.

The irony is that you then despise the places you made this wealth and claim to be the ones developing such places, when it is not recorded that the Igbo man brought the wealth of his village to develop the foreign soil he found himself. Rather the money made from foreign soil was sent back home to develop the East and empower many waves of emigrants to also depart the East as paupers but to return as high chiefs.

If any Igbo has made money in a location, it is only proper you should be happy paying taxes in a place where you have amassed the wealth that eluded you at home.

If you choose to leave where you were not forced to come to, you should remember why you had to seek refuge there initially, even when you were not marginalised by any other tribe at a time your regional destiny and development was in your own hands, and at a time the federal government was in your pocket to define federal merit as Igbo only.

Read through this thread and see where the same people claiming to be sufferers of Nigeria's attempt to hold them to the ground, are equally boasting that they are doing so well, which is majorly in the Nigeria that is beyond the confines of the SouthEast.

I just knew you'd bring up that 'greedy Igbo truncated the first republic' line! It's hilarious! Care to point out when and where Ndigbo mandated Nzeogwu and co to carry out a coup? You do realise that Ndigbo in particular and the Eastern Region in general had no reason to change the status-quo seeing as they were doing quite well economically. The choice of planning and executing the coup should be placed squarely at the door mouth of Nzeogwu and co, and last i checked they were not all Igbo. So i don't get why you people keep on propagating this lie of 'Igbo coup'.

Besides, isn't it your kind that say Igbo are only found within the confines of the South East? Or is it a case of changing the ethnic make up of the Aniomas depending on the argument at any point in time and depending on which side of the bed you get up from in the morning?

You see, i blame the likes of Zik for not seeing the insecure, tribal and bigoted type of people he was intent on coupling us with! The jobs ndigbo got in the north and south west, did they get them by holding a gun to anyones head? If guys like you made up the generality of the population of places like the US or the UK, they'd still be backwards uncivilised cesspools of mediocrity and ethnic strife! You listen to the argumant a so called founding father of Nigeria made, and you have no problem with it solely because his fire was aimed at Ndigbo! All his assertions were all subjective and libelous....a so called founding father, yet you have no problem with what he said!

If a people settle anywhere, they're free to vote and be voted for at the place of their abode! Any position to the contrary should be backed by the constitution and not by the whims and prejudices of hateful, insecure bigots!

You need to quit with this argument of Ndigbo needing to be grateful for some imagined benevolence accorded them by the 'owners of the land' where they went to 'seek refuge'! It smacks of a misplaced and unmerited sense of superiority, smugness and arrogance! Ndigbo are only taking advantage of opportunities accorded them by the constitution, and were not handed anything on a platter....which is more than i can say for those stealing our oil wealth in the name of 'one Nigeria' and questionable laws that place the ownership and control of the oyel and gas in my backyard in the hands of some far off leeching bigots!

You actually want to argue that if things are done on merit in Nigeria that Ndigbo would not come out second to none...that the Hausa/Fulani would still occupy all the 'juicy' and critical appointments and jobs in the civil/public service? You think the fact that Ndigbo economic and administrative capabilities were trusted by the British, and thus on the day of 'independence' in 1960 held a good number of critical positions in gov't, military, politics and the economy...you think all this was just a fluke and that the Brits didn't know what they were doing? Dude, get real!

You do realise the Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani have gained more from the Igbo than we've gained from you? Calculate the amount of money you lot have made from the exploitation of the hydrocarbons found in Alaigbo (note: i said Alaigbo and not the politically contrived South East)....you'd be amazed at what you find! I'm including all the hydrocarbon rich areas you conniving lot took from the East Central state (and later Imo and Abia states) and placed in Rivers state just so you could get easy access and control away from those 'pesky inyamiri/y'ibo/fla'theads'!

tribalmall:
Slow but steadily Nigeria is moving forward while Igbo n it’s Ipobtic destitute are making noise up n down on NL.

Of course why wouldn't your belle be sweeting you!

The 'hated' Igbo are being pushed to the back burner while the Lagos-Kano axis gets first dibs at anything being shared! But of course, that's why you love your man buhari and his party apc....they're dealing with the 'inyamiri' as per the script!

Throwback:
Thank you for admitting that at the onset, Igbos chose to leave their own land to move elsewhere for their own economic benefit and not because the system was rigged to make their own lands underdeveloped, hence the need to move towards development.

The whole thread had been filled with posts that were alluding to the known fallacies that the Igbos only seek opportunities outside because they had been deliberately starved of internal development by Nigeria, so they had to move out to the greater Nigeria land space to survive.

Simply put, from the onset, you chose to exploit what opportunities laid outside for your own good.

For your own good alone. Nobody forced you, or underdeveloped the East at the onset of Nigeria.

You're being clever by half!

The dynamics at play that determined the reasons for emigration of Ndigbo during the two periods (pre and post independence) are largely different. You're playing smart in not making a distinction between the two periods.

Like i stated earlier, during the pre-independence era the Igbo emigration was determined largely by the British colonial gov't. The political, administrative and economic gravitational pull of Lagos and Zungeru at the time was largely responsible for Ndigbo moving to these places.

Now post-independence, the mode and reason for migration amongst Nigerians was not expected to mirror the pre-independence period. After 1st Oct' 1960, we had a new order at play, a new constitution that was birthed from the 1957 and 1958 constitutional conferences** in London between the founding fathers of the country and the British gov't.

With this new order, ethnic groups and regions had more control of their destiny, resources and economic fortunes. There was fiscal federalism at play, little meddling in the affairs of the regions from the centre, and these regions even had their own separate regional constitutions. This was the Nigeria we all signed up for. If we still had that order in place today, the migration pattern would be totally different....Ndigbo and other ethnic groups would be in control of their resources and their destiny and would not be held down by wicked, leeching, 'one-Nigeria' bigots bent on grabbing everything to their regions, controlling and siphoning our resources, and scheming to prevent anyone but themselves from becoming president of the country!

This is why you have separatist and agitation groups like IPOB today. Nobody would tolerate the nonsense and wickedness Ndigbo have been put through in this country without fighting back at some point....certainly not the Hausa/Fulani!

The way out of the quagmire we find ourselves in today is to return to the 1960 constitution (with slight adjustments given the political and economic realities of today). It's either we do that or we all agree to go our separate ways! We are all born equal and free and nobody is a slave to anybody else!


**https://passnownow.com/1957-1958-constitutional-conference/

Throwback:
Yet you do not have the knowledge or courage to prove it so?

Lets start from the very beginning.

What moved the Igbos out of their land upon realising that they have free access to a land mass that dwarfed the old perimeter of their known existence?

Why wasn't there mass immigration into Igbo land instead of emigration at the start of the 20th century (1914 to 1940)?

Looks like you're just looking for an argument just for the heck of it! Ask any neutral today who the most daring and most widely travelled group in Nigeria are and chances are 8 times out of 10 you'd come up with Igbo as the answer!

Because of our daring, independent, republican and mercantile nature, Igbos are not afraid to seek out new challenges, new opportunities or to broaden their horizon. This stands in stark contrast to those who generally chose to be insular and preferred to play it safe by sticking to already known and defined borders (remember you accused only Ndigbo of travelling, so don't blame me for the assertion made in this paragraph).

Because of their republican and democratic society, during the period of the empires Igbo interaction with her neighbours was more by way of trade, whereas for others at the time it was more by way of conquest to expand their empires. The Sokoto Caliphate, Oyo Empire and Benin Empire were examples of such. If Ndigbo had been interested in territorial conquest and expansion, it's most likely you'd not have had the many other languages in the south Eastern part of Nigeria as you have today...they'd all probably be speaking Igbo like you have in the western part (minus Edo and Delta states) where they all speak Yoruba. If you check the old map of the Oyo Empire you'd see it stretched into present day kwara and Kogi states...hence the Yoruba influence and Yoruba speaking groups. Same influence can be found in the way almost all the northern part of Nigeria speaks Hausa, due to the influence of the Sokoto Caliphate and the later Sokoto Oligarchy.

So what i'm saying is that the Igbo, even though they are a widely travelled people, had a different kind of relationship with her neighbours than was the case with the other big two.

Another daring and widely travelled people were the British, Spanish, Portuguese and the Germans. You can't say their travels were borne out of a serious case of inferiority complex can you?

You mentioned the dates 1914 to 1940. I don't know why you chose that particular period, but any noticeable spike in the emigration of Igbo to other parts of Nigeria during this period would be as a consequence of the interplay of two factors: 1) the daring, mercantile and independent-minded nature of Ndigbo; 2) and the coming into being of Nigeria (first Southern Nigeria and then the amalgamation of the two protectorates in 1914 by Lugard). Remember that at the time Lagos had the gravitational pull both for administrative and political purposes, and it says something that a people can travel from so far and still be able to make their mark in a far off place like Lagos was at the time. Same scenario played out after 1914 in the North when the Igbo were found there in their numbers playing key roles aiding the British colonials in their administration of the region. Both Zik and Ikemba were born in Zungeru. I hope you remember the part Zungeru played during the Norths colonial period?

STARKACE:
I swear, asin they for just bath the guy with bullets and turn back to avoid killing other people.

When i say these people hate and fear Mazi Kanu in equal measure, posts like the one quoted bear testament to this assertion! The guy i'm quoting is in all probability from either of two places (these two places are in the north or south...this one is most likely from north), and you begin to wonder how anyone can advocate the self-help and extra-judicious measure of 'bathing someone with bullets' just because of them exercising their right to free speech! And if you feel the free speech goes against your own rights, in a civilised society (which is distinct from an uncivilised, medieval and zoo-like society) there's the courts to help settle any infractions and apportion blame and punishment accordingly.

This animal i'm quoting is enough justification for Ndigbo to get the out of 'one Nigeria' ASAP! In a war, pogrom or state of anarchy, if you're looking for the type of person that can shoot at anything that moves, that can starve civilians to get at the combatants, and the type that can round up all the over 18 male inhabitants of a village and summarily execute the lot of them...if you're looking for the type that can do this type of evil, then look no further than the scum i'm quoting!

Ndigbo, in this day and age, are so unfortunate to be sharing the same country with some truly despicable individuals!

Personally, i've given up on this country called Nigeria! It feels like a cage!

Euouae:


Fayose lost this one!

To who....those desperadoes in APC?

Bamz:
I thought I really put in my best to get to the interview stage. We may never fully know the assessment criteria. Good luck to all the successful applicants.

Quota system! If the quota from your own region is filled up, then kiss the whole thing good bye. You could write a professorial thesis that would make Einstein green with envy...it will all mean nada if the quota for your region is full!

His guns are looking impressive in the pic. Must have been hitting the gym lately!

Naza25:
I think it was a typographical error, he intended to write May 7

So you mean the letter wasn't proof-read before being sent to the press?

jerseyboy:
Tinubu's attorney general. You wrote the Alfabeta scam law taking our tax money under permanent consultancy that never ends. You were given a paltry share held by your proxy in Alfabeta to keep you compromised and silent.

Who thief for Nigeria pass Tinubu ya master?

There's thieving and then there's 'legalised' thieving!

Profitbase:
They are not up to twenty, Alex oti will take the rest and will win abia state come 2019

The only way he can survive 2019 is if he does the same 'magic' he and Ochendo Global did in 2015. It beggars belief that this man has spent three years as Governor of Abia, and all he has to point to as achievement is a few roads in Aba!

We should have state parks that look like that golf course. See how nice it looks!

melodyogonna:
I think I quite agree with ofuzo, selling plots of lands to individuals is not the best practice, the houses they build end up becoming an eyesore.
It is better to sale the lands to real estate developers or impose strict rules on how individuals should build their house.

You can still sell plots of land to individuals and still ensure they keep to the rules. But the way i see it, the problem isn't so much the private developers as it is gov't. It's when gov't doesn't do its work properly by ensuring strict compliance to building regulations that individuals get away with all manner of contraventions. Also, it's very easy to bribe those whose responsibility it is to ensure the rules are kept. That's how those officials survive....and not by the nonsense salary they're lucky to get every month!

spyder880:
While we all await pictures of Amelika This is a part of Enugu, who knows this spot?

That's got to be either UNEC or the golf course! My money is on UNEC!

Another short video.This one is a birds eye view and even more impressive....some sections look like obodo oyibo and not a rural community in Nigeria :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgTAk29apEs

asha80:
the environment of that school of nursing isn't that great though. no greenery and too much concrete

You're right. Normally i'd have said something about it, but given that this is Ebonyi we're talking about i think i'll cut them some slack. At least the surroundings during the drive to the school was lush and green. I even noticed sidewalks at some point!

Pics of Abakaliki. Fourth one shows the ongoing construction of cement based roads in neighbourhoods.

YouTube video attached below is of a trip around some rural roads in Ebonyi State. You can also see how solid the new cement roads look and how they improve the driving experience in the rural communities. Also notice the street lights installed.

I wonder where Umahi is getting the money for all this quality jobs he's doing. You can see he has an eye for detail as well as aesthetics too.

Video courtesy of Dunaetmacce.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGDQVYKxSF4

'Igbo bụ Igbo' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Keynote Speaker: 7th Igbo Conference


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY7aDPT6afQ

markfem2:
Governor obiano, if you are reading this contact this man and give him an appointment as soon as possible. This is one of the brains needed to take anambra to a whole new level.

You know when you read the suggestions proffered on this and other Igbo related threads, it becomes clear that the wrong type of people are being appointed as commissioners and special assistants. If all these suggestions we've been giving all these years are being implemented to the letter, the South East would have been the best developed region in the country.

You get the felling you're being strung along, and that all these appointments and policy statements being made are just playing to the gallery and being done to give a semblance of governance. We all know what governance (at state and federal level) is all about....it's all about answering your excellency, honourable or distinguished, and spending the whole day looking for and awarding contracts to swell your bank balance and steal the one that even your great-great grandchildren wouldn't be able to chop finish in their lifetime!