Lucky Dube, the late South African reggae singer once sang that “prison, prison” is the only thing European supremacists freely build and donate to Africans. The Church is another oddity that Caucasians give as gift to Africans at freewill. Lucky Dube had wondered why Europeans keep building prison, prison instead of schools and hospitals. Meanwhile, last month, the German President Christian Wulff resigned from his duty post for two ‘simple’ reasons of conflict of interest.
Lucky Dube, the late South African reggae singer once sang that “prison, prison” is the only thing European supremacists freely build and donate to Africans. The Church is another oddity that Caucasians give as gift to Africans at freewill. Lucky Dube had wondered why Europeans keep building prison, prison instead of schools and hospitals. Meanwhile, last month, the German President Christian Wulff resigned from his duty post for two ‘simple’ reasons of conflict of interest.
On the one hand, the onetime German President was accused of accepting a sponsored holiday trip from one of his friends.
Secondly, he was said to have collected a five hundred thousand Euro loan from another of his friend. His sin here was that his friend had offered him the loan with a cheap interest rate payback. Germans were crossed with anger and unable to understand why their president should get a cheap loan from his friend. When indeed ordinary Germans borrow money from conventional banks with high cutthroat interest rates Germans started to lambast, criticise and abuse their former president immediately the scandal broke loose.
They told Christian Wulff with all due ridicule to step aside. The disgrace from German people quickly reached a crescendo. And as result, when their ex-president could not take it anymore, he wilfully resigned from office. With the sole aim to protect the German presidency from international ridicule.
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President Jonathan should henceforth resign his appointment to save our people and statecraft from disgrace.
If Germany were to be Nigeria, some funny Jonathan supporters could have sermonised then rationalised the inequities of Christian Wulff. They could have passed his abuse of office as best presidential and democratic normality. Germany is not Nigerian. Back home, Jonathan’s fans have been turning moral reason upon its own head over the Italian church-for-favour gift. They have since declared Mr Jonathan their principal as the next best thing to come out of Africa. To them, it is OK that Jonathan brushed ethics aside and collected a church building gift from Italian firm handling government contracts.
President Jonathan had, out of self-announcement bragged of receiving a church as gift from Gitto an Italian firm doing government contract. The incident happened in the president’s hometown of Otuoke, during a dedication of the said rogue church. This particular goofy insensitivity of the president is one blunder too many. It has been ranging about town like wildfire as expected of this magnitude of presidential abuse of office. The Water Gate scandal which drove Richard Nixon from US presidency is minuscule compared to the by-now Jonathan’s church-gate indiscretion. Few years ago, the Israeli president Mr Moshe Katsav resigned from office because he slept with junior female worker way back before he became president. I don’t know how to compare this Jonathan’s latest sin with erstwhile Israeli’s president’s own without telling the man from Bayelsa to resign forthwith.
We have had parents sleep with their son’s wife in Nigeria and get away with it. But believe me. This present irrational corruption of President Jonathan is not going away any time soon. This bribe is unlike his many other official gaffes which melt away before morning.
Like contaminated water would make dirty waves. Some further nagging issues have popped out from President Jonathan’s self-announcement of requesting from, and accepting a gift of church building from an Italian company undertaking government contracts. It’s not every day you hear leaders tell the world openly that they have committed impeachable offence of conflict of interest. That is. The president has trampled upon the constitution Instead of safeguarding and making it his watchword. Let him go.
President Jonathan’s Otueke Church Gate scandal has pushed a core matter to the front. That is that. Nigerians who have been urging the president to undertake an intelligent quotient evaluation test have been rightly so vindicated. There are those who have been telling President Jonathan to take an IQ test and make it public. They are right on cue after all now.
Nigerians who seriously lampoon and criticise the president are doing a national duty. I know this firsthand from how Germans pounced upon their bygone president Mr Wulff after abusing his office. If Germans had tolerated such brazen abuse of office by their president: he probably would not have resigned. Richard Nixon could’ve stayed put and the onetime Israeli president might just have been throwing swipes at opposition parties who ask him to step aside. He too, probably would still have been there like Jonathan if his countrymen and women were complacency.
Taking an IQ test will not do after the president could not know that a church gift constitute conflict of interest. Jonathan should step further by taking a mental test. It is worth the while to know the saneness or otherwise of our leaders. There is nothing wrong with the president showing us the report about his IQ evaluation result coupled with proof of his mental state of health. Leaders around the world are taking all kind of health examinations and bringing the results to their citizens in good faith. President Obama had even at a time; shown his birth certificate to prove doubting Thomases wrong that he was not a foreign born. Likewise most Nigerians have indicated interest to see the president Jonathan PhD thesis all to no avail. Dream on! You are expecting all that from a president that has not had the decency to do ordinary tax declaration and make it public.
Nigerians who criticise Jonathan seriously aren’t belittling his office. Nor are they agent provocateurs as hypocrites and sycophants are branding them. The Jonathan’s lapdogs that badmouth his critics and call them names should be ignored. As a matter of fact, it is President Jonathan that has been bringing disgrace and shame to our statecraft and the Nigerian people. In effect, Jonathan owes Nigerians change for desecrating our ship of state and shaming all of us thereby.
By donating church to Jonathan instead of schools and hospitals the Italian contracting firm Gitto has confirmed that it is an apartheid and colonial corporate entity. The firm has not only brought to the limelight, it has also reminded us one again that donating church as gift has been a longstanding legacy of slave masters from time immemorial. Gitto and other White supremacist entities around the world today can never donate benefitting things of note to Africans. Welcome Gitto the slave master, the president as the slave and the Otuoke rogue church as symbol of European continuing oppressive monument plenty of which are scattered all over Africa.
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