Between Alison-Madueke and her message

A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Maduke, stepped on the tail of the tiger this last week. It is curious that Nigerian political leaders do not see how angry the people are at the continuous rape of the country and the mismanagement of people. Not just that, they also do not seem to see a nexus between this mis-governance and the frustrations that lead a lot of ordinarily hardworking youths into shadiness they would rather not dabble into.

Today, millions of Nigerian youths are not just idle but they also are untrained for no fault of theirs. Every year, hundreds of thousand young boys and girls who obtain their secondary school certificate qualifications, and write matriculation examinations are unable to get placements into higher institutions because the country does not have placements for them. This year for instance, about 2.

How is it therefore that when Nigeria’s political leaders speak, they fail to see the relationship between the collapse of educational institutions, the mindless stealing of national resources by the political class, the wanton disregard from common democratic ethos of freedom of choice as well as their own ostentatious glorification of wealth as incentives for the warped societal values.

While the former minister denies these accusations, two officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission have been tried and sentenced in relation to the alleged crime. In addition to that, a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, last year, ordered the temporary forfeiture of items said to have included 419 bangles, 315 rings, 304 earrings, 189 wristwatches, 267 necklaces, and a customised gold iPhone all worth $40m believed to have been owned by her.

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