Shamelessness and the road less travelled

Politicians in Nigeria are showing us what it means to be unprincipled inglorious and just plain power mad. In most forms of government honour dignity and compassion are required but not it seems in  Nigeria as presently constituted. Last week in the United kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland an election was held as a result of a defection by a member of parliament from the ruling coalition to another party. Mark Reckless the legislator  in question did win the  election and thus confirmed what the rest of the public knew that his constituents preferred him to any other. In Nigeria the head of the house of representatives defects to the opposition three months to the general elections and doesn't have the decency to either resign or submit himself for an election by his colleagues. predictably the government are rattled and them not being wise go on the attack. Both government and opposition now begin to trade insults and praise each other based on dubious democratic credentials. The Nigerian intellectuals who are aligning themselves with either side will be judged harshly by history and by the people. Journalists who take sides


Which politician has shown a compassion for the next man. Why do leaders look down on the people to whom they have a responsibility?


 We hear of a governor shouting at a widow to go and die. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hI8jdZ33Zs. After a public outcry it is spun by his advisers  into a photo op and she is given N2million. Watch the feudal serf relationship being played. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSGVcQMyUzI




We hear of presidents  shouting at people who have gathered to remember victims of bomb blasts and letting them know that he was doing a favour by being present at the occasion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnMP45F5YBM




History will judge most of these people. Vagabonds in power.
I was at a dinner party once and there was an interesting conversation going on between two people. One was informing the other and the rest of us who cared to listen that her uncle a former governor and his family were going to continue feeding off the resources of the state ad infinitum. I wonder when they will choke on the booty.


The Nigerian army has been an army of occupation used to crush dissent and to keep the people in check.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odi_massacre
No part of the country is spared from abuse.


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






The chickens are coming home soon.