Monday, November 04, 2013

The Irresponsible Giant

The Nigerian state is like a man who is highly respected in the eyes of the public. He goes out to top-notch restaurants  and bars, buy the most expensive food and drinks for himself and enjoy, wears expensive dresses and drives the latest cars. He attends important functions and interacts with other men of higher, equal and lower status as he. 
  
Meanwhile, at home, his children are hungry, they go about begging their  neighbours for food, wear tattered clothes and their school fees aren't paid. The furniture in the sitting room are broken, utility bills aren't paid, his many wives and children are fighting amongst themselves.  

Yet this man, the Nigerian state, goes about thumping his chest and calling himself a giant. He is indeed an irresponsible giant!

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