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By Martin A. Ugboma
As Nigeria glowed successful the warmth of the rebirth of ideology aft the brutal dictatorship of the antheral successful the acheronian glasses, we showed.
The recently elected talker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Salisu Buhari owned up to falsifying his property from January 1970 to January 1963 to conscionable the law request that members of the location indispensable beryllium 30 years old.
He besides confessed to a fake grade successful Business Administration from the University of Toronto, Canada and forged a NYSC Certificate and was truthful forced to resign. At 29, helium was not satisfied with being a subordinate of the house, helium yearned to beryllium the 4th astir almighty person successful the country.
But that is not the story.
Barely 14 years after, President Goodluck Jonathan appointed the aforesaid disgraced forger a subordinate of the governing assembly of the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
As we know, if you unrecorded agelong enough, you volition spot enough.
Our Minister of Technology and Innovation, Uche Nnaji, has conscionable resigned implicit allegations of forged certificates from the aforesaid University and the NYSC.
Nnaji volition consciousness nary shame oregon overmuch successful presumption of remorse. His ambition to beryllium Governor of Enugu authorities volition endure nary fatal sore arsenic helium volition instrumentality solace successful the travails of Dr Okechukwu Ikejiani who was removed arsenic Pro-chancellor of the University College, Ibadan successful 1951 for forging a Doctor of Science degree.
(He was a qualified aesculapian doctor) but was subsequently appointed Chairman of the Nigerian Railway Corporation.
We person normalized these scandals.
No shaking!!! Nothing dey happen.
And wherefore should we shingle erstwhile our politicians proceed to flood the societal media abstraction with nationalist demonstrations of affluence, showing disconnected their convoys of ever caller four-wheel thrust vehicles and retinue of telephone and briefcase carrying of aides?
Why should we shingle erstwhile Ethiopia has commissioned a 5000+MW powerfulness plant, China has the 20,000MW 3 gorges dam and has breached crushed for a 60,000MW hydro electrical project, and our legislature is debating the instrumentality of a suspended pistillate legislator to the house?
Why should we shingle erstwhile arsenic has go customary, the Inspector General of Police has sent america to a brand-new website (For evident reasons) to get tinted solid permits and the Nigeria Customs Service is demonstrating uncommon determination successful its quest to instrumentality a 4% levy connected escaped on-board costs for imports?
And portion we process these absurdities, we awake each time to caller WhatsApp invitations for a committee of friends for a ceremonial oregon day celebration. In galore instances, these committees are created adjacent earlier the bodies are moved to the morgue. What relation should your friends and acquaintances play successful your quest for a befitting ceremonial for your chartless auntie, relative oregon uncle?
Your friends, your existent friends volition ever travel unneurotic to bash what they tin to alleviate the fiscal load we person placed connected ourselves for these events. But it is shameful for the celebrant to beryllium the organizer of these fund-raising committees. Oya, I person this event. Come unneurotic and rise funds for maine to person a befitting celebration.
If you crave a lavish ceremonial oregon day celebration, delight wage for it. Burdening friends and acquaintances is an admittance of poorness and is wholly unacceptable erstwhile your intent is to show wealthiness and affluence. And if this makes you consciousness shame, you tin ever punctuation the Holy publication and fto the dormant hide the dead.
What is truly the explanation of a befitting ceremonial and however should this beryllium funded? What drives our request to show affluence portion we conflict with schoolhouse fees and aesculapian expenses?
Apparently, our explanation of a befitting ceremonial is simply a Roman feast wherever entree to the venue is filled with a grilling colony of full cows, goats, alligators and antelopes. A rowdy postulation of masquerades, thoroughfare vendors and musicians, beggars and pickpockets.
And we situation not hide the clergy who prehend these opportunities for agelong rolling sermons and fundraising for immoderate project.
It whitethorn beryllium understandable that our politicians person immunized america each from ungraded and shame, but we are surely pushing the envelope by our ain actions. Looks similar arsenic schools alteration textbooks each twelvemonth to unit parents to acquisition caller ones and marque it intolerable for siblings to trust connected books utilized by their elder siblings...
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