Response to Youths Earnestly Ask for Jonathan
Posted 07-20-2010 at 12:47 PM by mel
Origin http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=178548
An excellent piece. Reminds me of the Simon Kolawole I used to know.
Like my friend Chxta Nwanze will always say, the greatest undoing in the country is the toothless or perhaps better put - inadequate judicial system. That sad factor, is the fertile ground that Any Government In Power - AGIP (borrowed words of Simon Kolawole, Thisday) thrive on.
Political sycophancy is not peculiar to Nigeria but ours is a case where the political jobbers gain induced immunity to their past and future crimes. Like Kola rightly said, the more things seem to change, the more they remain the same.
A president that does not sanction the actions of the criminal minded AGIP, has the wherewithal to make them stop. If he can't, he is essentially defining his person to us.
Lets open our eyes, what has GEJ done since assumption of office?. Same routine like others - silently ease criminals out of the system without them facing the long arm of the law, albeit a decrepit judicial system. Treason, complicity in corruption and subversion of funds past and present (Halliburton, Gulf oil windfall, PHCN, 50th Anniversary etc), silence on Oil spillage in the Niger Delta .. my list may just be endless.
Facebook though a good measure, has come to replace the loudmouths of the Tom Ikimi/Femi Fani Kayode persona of Administrations gone before. Same difference!
GEJ, if you have good intentions - your actions should speak louder and reach more people than the digit counts on your facebook. Another good political move is to distance yourself from the AGIP jobbers.
An excellent piece. Reminds me of the Simon Kolawole I used to know.
Like my friend Chxta Nwanze will always say, the greatest undoing in the country is the toothless or perhaps better put - inadequate judicial system. That sad factor, is the fertile ground that Any Government In Power - AGIP (borrowed words of Simon Kolawole, Thisday) thrive on.
Political sycophancy is not peculiar to Nigeria but ours is a case where the political jobbers gain induced immunity to their past and future crimes. Like Kola rightly said, the more things seem to change, the more they remain the same.
A president that does not sanction the actions of the criminal minded AGIP, has the wherewithal to make them stop. If he can't, he is essentially defining his person to us.
Lets open our eyes, what has GEJ done since assumption of office?. Same routine like others - silently ease criminals out of the system without them facing the long arm of the law, albeit a decrepit judicial system. Treason, complicity in corruption and subversion of funds past and present (Halliburton, Gulf oil windfall, PHCN, 50th Anniversary etc), silence on Oil spillage in the Niger Delta .. my list may just be endless.
Facebook though a good measure, has come to replace the loudmouths of the Tom Ikimi/Femi Fani Kayode persona of Administrations gone before. Same difference!
GEJ, if you have good intentions - your actions should speak louder and reach more people than the digit counts on your facebook. Another good political move is to distance yourself from the AGIP jobbers.
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