Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. Pray and work for their release.
We must ban and criminalise corruption driven political party funding and political election funding from budget theft or manipulation through contract inflation and percentages. Nigerians need massive reorientation before Election 2019 including Nollywood and Nigasong stars films and songs to ridicule theft in politics. This will require close pre-emptive EFCC, ICPC monitoring of political party activities before and during and not after the election. Shameless senators are still daring to distribute our funds as ‘their dividends of democracy.
Since Nigeria’s birth, citizens have employed politicians who mostly impose themselves on us as conquerors through massively corrupted elections. We pay, clothe, house, transport, feed and them but they take more. As development indices decay, politicians prosper beyond comprehension -stupendous Salaries and Pensions and Perks, SAPP, retirement mansions, frequent car changes, magnificent medical cover. Then, greedy beyond need, they steal our resources to perpetuate themselves in the arrogant style they have become accustomed in pursuit of a grandiose delusion exemplified by prefixes of Excellency, Distinguished and Honourable. Nigeria must abolish such titles.
Get it into your head and teach your children! The transfer of government revenues to political party activities or individual politicians is called ’Theft’!! The receiving political parties and politicians are ‘Receivers of Stolen Goods’– common criminals -a Criminal Offence! Period! This nightmare of fiscal malfeasance is revealed through the federal government Whistle-blower Policy. Extend whistleblowing to states and LGAs. It shows zero respect and disgust and disdain by politicians and their parties for the citizens- ‘I don’t care! Go, riot and die, my first demands as elected politician are 24/7 free electricity, security, multiple pensions, mega salary, home and transport all paid for by you koboless ‘mumu’ voters voting for principle, party, personality, ethnicity, rice or naira. Then I will laugh all the way to bags of your money in my safe house, soakaway and water-tank. Yesterday’s and today’s stolen money quickly becomes my today’s and tomorrow’s legitimate great family fortune to rule you till beyond Kingdom Come – if Heavens’ Gatekeeper will take a bribe! Hahaha’.
Nigerians be fully aware that as you go to work, many politicians go to the office to steal! Imagine recordings from the 100 political party meetings from LGA to federal planning to steal budget funds. Chief, Alhaji, Otunba, chairman says ‘Take N10m or $10,000,000 from the budget of health or education and give it to chief’s personal assistant to fix the elections. Oh, and, give N3b to INEC’. Is that not treasonable felony ‘punishable by death or imprisonment’? Whistle-blow about ‘who said what, when, where’. Who are the despicable political people that planned and executed this treason causing our underdevelopment by fixing elections and fraud, corruption and citizen killing, violent coup plots to put a wrong government in power or perpetuate a fraudulently elected government in power? Coup plotting remains a capital crime- political or military – even in our much rubbished undemocratic constitution! We must ‘whistle-blow’ ‘How All Parties Defraud the Citizen by Funding Elections from stolen government budgets.
The cross-party unquenchable ‘policy of massive diversion of public government funds’ and its implementation across Nigeria by the political leadership furnished their every need, legal and illegal, like election fraud. This is not a comedy because it is killing citizens. It is not ‘laughable’ or ‘laudable’ because it is not a Robin Hood crime where the poor benefit from crime proceeds carefully misnamed DOD- dividends of democracy. The theft and diversion of multibillions is ‘Heartless and Political Man’s Inhumanity to Suffering Citizen Man’.
It is what the Americans call ‘Grand Larceny’ – a despicable theft of the nation’s patrimony by a large gang or breed of common criminals. Worse, it is a brazenly arrogant rubbishing of the citizenry by never delivering ‘social services’ from the abundant gifts from God. Without all the political theft, just like in non-thieving countries, Nigeria would have had $100-200b in foreign reserves, keeping the naira strong and infrastructure to be proud of. To date we have lost 50-70% of our gross income to fraud, fraudulently run projects and fraudulent policies. Only those inside the political theft circle clap but even they complain as they squabble over sharing of such humongous loot, looted from the mouths and futures of babes of Nigerian families. There is no honour among thieves. The repetitive political fraud repeatedly insults us screaming that ‘we the people’ are irrelevant. Politicians have become monsters giving crumbs to Nigeria.
Most politicians blatantly lie during elections with never-to-be-fulfilled promises and distribute a few of the stolen naira for ‘stomach infrastructure’ lasting one meal or one day in order for the politicians to secure 4 -8 years of luxury pay and lifetime undeserved electricity supply, transport and pension! A very good ‘exchange rate’ for politicians, not for Nigerians! There must be a limit to political and all fraud and corruption. No country can survive more than 10% corruption.
Come Election 2019, Nigeria cannot survive another election fraud culminating whether the money used is stolen, allocated illegally, stored or re-stolen for later re- and re-stealing.
Solution: BAN CRIMINAL DIVERSION GOVERNMENT FUNDS FOR POLITICAL PARTY ACTIVITIES AND ELECTION CAMPAIGNS, ON PAIN OF IMPRISONMENT AND PROSCRIPTION OF PARTY. ENFORCE monthly PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF PARTY DONATIONS.
NB: You must identify and put forward a new generation of untainted ‘I LOVE NIGERIA’ KNOWLEDGEABLE CANDIDATES for 2019’. www.tonymarinho.com
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