Wednesday, March 26, 2008

It's in the blood

I find no other perfect time to relinquish my position of siddon look (sit down and look) than now that I have been able to determine that greed is not a disease fabricated for\ susceptible to gender, literacy or ethnic nationality.
I shoot by starting with the news of the resignation of Prof. Adenike Grange, the health minister, and her subordinate over cases of money-sharing.
Grange: Nice name, nice profile, huge achievements (including thievery). Until her recent under-achievement, I used to view professors as a class of elites who should know better when it comes to looting treasuries, stealing/subverting/diverting public funds and non-implementation of policies that will better the lot of Nigeria. You mean with all the books these people have read, the insightful encounters they must have had in their journey into professorship and meetings with forward-thinking people and the best brains on the earth, professors too can be infected with the virus called greed and thievery?
When Prof. Fabian Osuji was caught, I thought it was just a case of one bad egg amongst many. Little did I know that that infectious disease has also eaten deep into the minds of our intellectuals.
And if our highly esteemed intellectuals and professors can also be thinking of doing away with public funds and sharing of funds allocated to their domots (domains), who will save the nation?
We were saying that it is politicans that are clogs in the wheels of our progress, and we assumed it's definitely because most of them are not well read and have short-cut, Toronto-like certificates. What say we about highly learned intellectuals?

Now I understand that thief na thief, it's not a matter of being male or a politician.
And na person mama be dat oooo.
It definitely runs in the blood.
God bless Nigeria.!!!