WHEN GOVERNMENT PRETEND TO BE COMMUNIST JUST TO PILFER NATIONAL TREASURY!!!

I will love to share something with you all, this thing I am about to share should not leave this ‘place’ and should be read with ‘open minds’…. But before I share this secret with you all, I want you to create a space in your heart for this aphorism; 

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.” - Martin Niemöller

                                    

Now, to what I was about to share with you all, you all know it is not the business of the government to know what you cook or how you cook what you cook as long as it does not stand as a threat to the nation’s security in a democratic system of government. Except we are practicing a system of government, where all wealth and property in the nation/country is owned and managed by the state, we can give the government the right to decide how we cook our food.

Consequently, with all the menace going on in this country, be it in; the political, social, security and economic sectors, the Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the purchase of N9.2bn worth of cooking stoves and ‘wonder bags’ for rural women under the National Clean Cooking Scheme, according to a report by Punch Newspaper. I am not vexed at all, I am only just choleric to the way the government of this country handle things. I must admit that the government is free from any indictment of corruption. Our government has been efficient enough to listen to the cry of the people, and provide for the people the basic necessity needed to make Nigeria a free from corruption and developed country like her contemporaries.  Just in about a year to the 2015 General Election, our amiable president, President Goodluck Jonathan took it upon himself and his cabinet to implement and provide the following actions amidst the many negative ‘situations’ faced in our country;

1.      When EBOLA came, GEJ lunched dispensers at an expenses of about 1.9Billion

2.      When no fertilizer, no tractors, GEJ earmarked Billions for cellphone to farmers.

3.      When housing is zero in the country, Billions were budgeted for refurbishment of ASOROCK banquet hall.

4.      Billions of Naira was budgeted for purchased of Abuja wastebasket.

5.      Also $20Billions not accounted for…among plethora of inane projects.

Apart from the fact that our government is bereft of sound advice(s)/judgment, the bogus money earmarked for the acquisition of mere 750,000 units of cooking stoves with 18,000 wonder bags is another way of looting Nigeria treasury. If we add 750,000 with 18,000 units of both the cooking stoves and those wonder bags, we will get the total units of the expected products as 768,000 units, which according to the federal government should be 1million units per annum.

Now on calculator, if we divide 9.2 billion naira by 768,000 units, we are approximately looking at 11,980 naira as the cost of each unit of the cooking stoves and wonder bags. How on earth will a prudently responsible government spend roughly over #12 thousand on each unit of cooking stove and wonder bags to be distributed to the rural poor women in 21st century? This is a question raised by a citizen on a social media forum. No wonder they are talking about austerity measures when it comes to the economy. This is the cause of austerity I must say, the looting and financial mismanagement in the government is responsible.

This action by our good hearted Goodluck president left me with so many questions like the following;

Are the materials to be used to manufacture those items going to be imported from heaven? Are they going to make the stoves and wonder bags out of gold? What kind of corruption is this? Even if the highest average cost of each unit of the cooking stoves and wonder bags is 1000 naira it is still not too unimaginably exorbitant. Coupled with the fact that poverty is ravaging the whole country and our economy is not progressing but moving backward, why are we wasting and looting our treasury in this manner? Our naira is disvaluing day by day because of some selfish bigot who have stacks of foreign cash. You as a middle class cannot transact business in Europe or the US because our currency has no value anymore; what about going to study abroad? It is not painful at all; it is just disheartening and heartbreaking to see these things happen.