So when will
African/Nigerian leaders stop stealing the funds they cannot use, reach,
access, or touch; which are eventually lost to handlers of stolen goods,
abroad. When will African/Nigerian leaders start copying Nelson Mandela and
stop behaving in ways that endear them to no one? When will they start
realising that the public at home and their foreign deposit countries loathe
them? The foreign countries do not like them but love what hey bring to them
(stolen money), at the expense of their own people (Africans/Nigerians).
Is it not phoney when you
hear that Dangote is the richest man in Africa/Nigeria? He may be the richest
business man, but he is clearly not the richest man in Africa or Nigeria. The
richest men in Africa/Nigeria can be found in ex -ministers/Presidents, Prime
Ministers, Governors. Nevertheless and unfortunately Forbes magazine cannot
categorise them as richest, because first, they know that their funds were
stolen, and second- they are aware that they don’t even have access to their funds
nor control them.
Furthermore, because these
funds running into billions are stolen and hidden, groups like Forbes find it
difficult to categorise, classify, or measure their wealth. The recent missing
$20 billion dollars in Nigeria is a case in point. This is just unaccounted
funds just for about one financial year. Where do you think the money has gone?
Mobutu is believed to have lost about £4 billion dollars of his country’s
resources in Swiss Fortes.
“Kleptocracy is a form of
political and government corruption where the government exists to increase the
personal wealth and political power of its officials and the ruling class at
the expense of the wider population, often with the pretence of honest service.
This type of government corruption is often achieved by the embezzlement of
state funds”.
While the stealing
continues, the primary schools are in shambles, there is no primary health
care, the Universities are shot, poor roads are constructed, if at all, and
there is no pipe borne water. The health systems remain so rotten that almost
all the Kleptocrats pride themselves in accessing health facilities abroad.
Past and present
African/Nigerian politicians compete on who builds the best marble houses, with
looted funds, – for personal use, and on hill tops. They also compete on who is
rated as having looted more billions of dollars, pounds and naira. And you know
what; the people hail them in these unholy competitions. The people will say
that “he/she is doing well”. “He just built a personal marble house after just
6 months in office”.
The culture of stealing
public funds in Africa/Nigeria is alarming. African legislative houses are
houses of thieves. Unintelligible gangsters rule Africa/Nigeria. African
political officials are voted in- NOT to do well, but to help to dismember the
treasuries.
So, when will
African/Nigerian leaders start to realise the vanity of their stealing spree?
When will they begin to realise that the deaths of African presidents Zenawi of
Ethiopia, John of Ghana, and Bingu Mutharika of Malawi, all in one year, are
enough signs to prompt them to reflect and realise the vanity of their stealing
spree? When will they begin to realise that African/Nigerian people are the
only losers in the stealing debacle? When will African/Nigerian people stop
cheering their kleptocrats?
When will African/Nigerian
politicians start returning their loots before they are lost to greedy western
banks and countries? Who will introduce an African/Nigerian money return
initiative to help save the stolen funds stashed in Switzerland and its ilk?
When will the world commence prosecuting African/Nigerian politicians for
economic terrorism against their people?
Article Written By Austin
Aneke
Austin Aneke is the founder june12post.com
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