We are borrowing billions to replace the billions stolen by a cohort of political and other so-called leaders who should all be deeply in jail by now.
If one governor can take N7,680,000,000 from his people’s funds without a word of apology or remorse, what have the other governors and co-conspirators done? We blame an abusive federalism as the cause of our problems and it has contributed to our woes.
However consider what that N7.6b, over N16b today, could have done against poverty and for job creation, scholarships, training, education, roads and agriculture in one state of 3.5million [N2000+/soul] or in your state. Check your governors. Does the time fit the crime?
How do judges calculate the jail time for serious crimes like massive unimaginable fraud and mind-numbing theft? It seems that judges seem to under-calculate the jail time for serious fraud and theft?
Is this because they are bound by outdated laws which were written when no-one, not even greedy politicians, ever imagined anyone being so sick as to steal N1billion, let alone N7b from suffering citizens desperate for your leadership? We in medicine know that fraud and theft cause death and disability.
What is a just sentence, fair for the guilty and the deprived citizen? The idea that stealing money is ‘not really a crime’ because ‘no harm is done, no blood is shed, there are no dead bodies’ is a lie told first by thieving bankers and retold by serially thieving politicians.
There is harm, bloodshed and dead bodies. If a person can face a sentence of life, and it was nearly a death sentence, in prison for ‘hate speech’ and 21 years for exam cheating, why can we not equate cash with equitable criminality and prison time?
Remember that the same justice system puts thieves away for seven years for stealing a goat. If a person steals N100,000 should they go to prison for seven years or a week or a month or a year? If one steals N1million, N10million, N100m, N500,000,000 or N1,000,000,000 or 7,680,000,000 or N7.6billion, what are the appropriate jail times? Surely anything over N100,000,000 should attract a lifetime in jail – 30 years.
Nigerian thieves appear to be the best and greatest. Justly, therefore, they deserve and should be given the very best and longest jail times because they steal so much, depriving so many of a successful life and sometimes depriving them of their lives.
Judges should not be shy. Please give them the best and longest sentences. The thieves do not steal concurrently, they steal serially.
Therefore, their crimes should be added together, one after the other. There are many more governors and LGA chairmen needing jail time.
Who gave motorcycles aka Okada, the authority to displace four-wheel vehicles on the roads? Who allowed okada to drive like cars in the middle of the lane instead of on the right side?
Who empowered okada riders to be so foul-mouthed, to live so dangerously, to drive so fast, to ignore the safety of their passenger and themselves and to swarm like stinging wasps? The okada epidemic is a daily danger to everyone and not just the passengers and cars.
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One is always fearful seeing women and children, some babies, being driven at 40-80km per hour. The okada rider’s aggression, rudeness and speed must be combated. Already the death and destruction caused by okada have become the norm.
Have you tried using a crossroad or a roundabout, especially if there is no police presence or a traffic warden in Ibadan or many towns and cities?
There used to be ‘offside rule’ which merely says, ‘do not enter unless you can exit’ and prevents roundabouts and level crossings getting blocks. Unfortunately, from morning to night, drivers abandon their good manners, common sense, respect for others on the road and the Highway Code.
They go mad, preferring to block the road with a mental plan of ‘if I cannot go then no one goes’. They do this rather than obey the first laws of the civilized road ‘after you’ and the answer to merging lanes ‘one each from each lane one after the other‘.
Hurray: French court jails sex traffickers, mostly Nigerian, for forcing Nigerians into prostitution. At last they arrest the organisers and pimps not the girls. Nigerian police take note!
Why do kidnappers and robbers maliciously kill policemen and drivers doing their job? More than six this last week. No compensation can be enough for the families of these ‘Killed in The Line Of Duty’.
Another day another fire! Market fires are 80% of fires in Nigeria. This time at Owode Onirin market Ikorodu Lagos State where there as a fire last month.
And we say we have no jobs for our town planners. We all know our fire services nationwide are often underfunded, have poor quality employment requirements and are treated as third rate or of no consequence by state political officials.
In the UK and USA, the Fire Chief stands next to the governor during press briefings on fire disasters and can speak authoritatively. No so in Nigeria. Fire prevention must be our goal, not fire quenching.
Olympics 2020. Let Nigeria know that it is almost too late to begin to plan. The USA, UK etc have been planning, practicing and preparing for over 20 years for the 2020 and 2024 and 2028 Olympics etc. Whither Nigerian sport?
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