Nigerian Government pulls off $16 Billion dollar Heist....

President Jonathan

The Jonathan administration has successfully pulled off a $16 Billion Dollar Heist with fuel purchases that never were.

How do you pay for an item 10 times over without realising it. I mean if it was all in one large payment you could say I mistakenly dropped all the money in or maybe I mistakenly added too many Zeros. When you actually keep writing cheque after cheque and disbursing funds after funds to pay for the same item over and over, then one could be forced to deduce that there is something horribly wrong. 

Mr. Abati....Spokesman (he does speak)

If you worked in a bank, you would be thrown in jail for losing a hundredth of that. In a school the same fate would await you. In a church you would be shackled to the alter. Even if you worked with a bunch of no good illiterates who can't spell their names, I am sure they would realise something had gone horribly wrong.

Well, our dear President Goodluck Jonathan spent N2.6 Trillion Naira ($16 Billion) For an Item that was supposed to cost N245 Billion ($1.5 Billion). It defies belief. How do you loose $16 Billion without realising it. Loosing $10 Billion in a single Calender year could bring a country like the United Kingdom to its knees. Yet in an impoverished nation like Nigeria, one man has been able to misappropriate $16 Billion. 

HOW!!!!!! 

Adding insult to injury, he decided to set up a panel to investigate who he gave the money to. Now, he has decided that the panel has become slightly too independent and now seeks to discredit it. I wonder, what planet we live on. It's not as if he took the money from a group of Billionaires who can afford to get over it. No, it was taken from the mouth of hungry children. From Children dying of one ailment or another. From Starving families and failing hospitals. From a police force badly in need of equipment and training. From an educational sector that is slowly grinding to a halt. From an aviation industry that is now a death trap. From the Ministry of works and housing who cant afford to repair their roads and pay for health services to provide for the sick and dying. From all these vulnerable and utterly harmless people he took that money from.

President Goodluck Jonathan has just broken a world record by Hauling off $16 Billion in one calender year. Loosing $16 Billion Dollars in America or Britain in a single calender year is enough to start another chain reaction that could bring the world economy rocking to its knees once again. 

It's way past a misdemeanour or a felony. It borders on treason. It is a direct attempt to cripple the economy of a struggling nation. An attempt to make it vulnerable to all sorts of things. How else do you explain this.   

No one has been questioned by the police, no one has even been invited to be questioned by the police. No one has made a statement to the whereabouts of $16 Billion Dollars. From the looks of things no one will.

Those Children would just have to die of preventable ailments, Those fathers would just have to go home to their wives empty handed. Those policemen would just have to hide behind their desk and run for cover when a robbery is taking place. Just so some thief and his son could ride down the street in the latest cars and flashiest wears.  

A year ago we thought we had moved into a bright future, now we are just realising that it was actually the brief quiet before the inevitable plunge into utter oblivion.

God Save our Souls.