There is this aphorism in Human Resource Management that everybody is equal to his job. What this means is that if you employ a Driver and make him a Manager, one of two things will happen to the job. Either he will bring the office of Manager to his level as a Driver or he will rise from his level as a Driver and become a Manager. In practical terms it is easier for the former to happen so in most cases this is what happens.
A classic example of a Driver bringing the Manager’s job to his level is what happened to the Bayelsa State Civil Service in the last six years. The leadership of the State Civil Service was so inefficient and notoriously corrupt that the Office operated like an auctioneer at work. Everything was available to anybody if you had the asking price either in cash or in kind. Records could be accessed and changed at will. During the recently concluded Biometrics exercise it is reported that 4000 ghost workers were discovered but what nobody is saying is that more than 5000 people also found jobs dating back to 2004!
It is against this background that MatrinexPolls welcomes Rev. O.J. Oworibo to the beat as the Head of the Civil Service of Bayelsa State. Even though he is allegedly a cousin of the Governor from the same Okpoma community, that does not take anything away from the fact that Rev. Oworibo is a seasoned bureaucrat having served in several capacities in the State Civil Service. He is the most exposed, travelled and experienced of all the available Permanent Secretaries!
The task of restoring credibility to the State Civil Service after several years of high level corruption and decadence is, to say the least, daunting. First and foremost Bayelsans would like to know the exact number of workers who should be on the Government’s payroll. A situation where a State less than a fifth the size of Delta State pays nearly the same wage bill monthly is unacceptable. The last Biometrics exercise was a waste of taxpayers’ money because it did not solve the problem. If anything, it created more problems because while the exercise lasted, the top echelon of the Civil Service seized the opportunity to recruit more workers. Fresh letters of employment backdated to 2004 or earlier were openly on sale for anything between N10,000.00 to N30,000.00. It was therefore a case of one out, two in. The spectre of goal-post shifting when it comes to retirements should be stamped out. People should retire as and when due – with dignity! Training and re-training of Civil Servants should no longer be treated with levity as happened with the IT training where everybody was “trained” but nobody was taught.
So welcome aboard Rev. O.J. Oworibo. A new broom, they say, sweeps clean so everybody is watching to see what will happen in the next 30 days hoping that it is not a case of more of the same.
Tata, everybody
Napoleon
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Nigerian Terror Suspect - Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
It is often said that out of every five black people in the world, one is a Nigerian. So it is no surprise that for a country that makes news for all the wrong reasons, we now have a terror suspect allegedly with connections to Al Qaeda.
It would be inappropriate at this point to speculate on the circumstances leading to the radicalization of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab since authorities both in Nigeria and the United States are currently investigating. However, it would not be out of place to point out that this is a young man whose father reportedly complained to the American Embassy that he was no longer comfortable with his son’s activities. He was reportedly on the American Watch List but somehow managed to slip through airport security. It is troubling.
For us in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, it is little comfort that Umar is not just a home-grown “militant” operating in the creeks but an international figure with Al Qaeda ties. Unfortunately what appears to be an isolated incident may just make travel conditions a lot more difficult for a lot of innocent travelling Nigerians on legitimate business and leisure journeys.
MatrinexPolls wishes to commend The Federal Government of Nigeria for taking prompt action to unravel everything that needs to be known about the ugly incident. It is our hope that it is an isolated incident except that anybody who gains access to PETN cannot be a lone ranger. We have enough ugly scars already without adding this avoidable stigma.
Tata, everybody
Napoleon
It would be inappropriate at this point to speculate on the circumstances leading to the radicalization of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab since authorities both in Nigeria and the United States are currently investigating. However, it would not be out of place to point out that this is a young man whose father reportedly complained to the American Embassy that he was no longer comfortable with his son’s activities. He was reportedly on the American Watch List but somehow managed to slip through airport security. It is troubling.
For us in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, it is little comfort that Umar is not just a home-grown “militant” operating in the creeks but an international figure with Al Qaeda ties. Unfortunately what appears to be an isolated incident may just make travel conditions a lot more difficult for a lot of innocent travelling Nigerians on legitimate business and leisure journeys.
MatrinexPolls wishes to commend The Federal Government of Nigeria for taking prompt action to unravel everything that needs to be known about the ugly incident. It is our hope that it is an isolated incident except that anybody who gains access to PETN cannot be a lone ranger. We have enough ugly scars already without adding this avoidable stigma.
Tata, everybody
Napoleon
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Climate change
Nathan Myhrvold is not a name you come across every day. Anybody who obtained a Doctorate degree at age 24 and served as Chief Technical Officer for Microsoft for 14 years before setting up his own business cannot be a joker. That is Nathan Myhrvold’s resume.
Just when the dust was beginning to settle down after the Copenhagen Climate Summit, arguably with “meaningful agreement”, Nathan Myhrvold literally throws up this novel solution to climate change which has sent professional cynics and doubting Thomases alike scampering for cover. Members of the scientific community are wondering out aloud what to make of this apparent huge joke except that the joker is a serious minded non-joker! For us in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, any news about climate change is big news. The gas that is being flared 24/7 from thousands of oil wells in the Niger Delta region must be contributing immensely to global warming.
Dr. Myhrvold believes that the Carbon Dioxide emissions that have settled in the stratosphere, and probably will stay there for thousands of years, can be removed if we pump Sulphur Dioxide into the stratosphere to neutralize it. When asked how this would be achieved, he suggested that a 25 kilometre long hose would do the trick. Smart kid – perhaps too smart by half! What he failed to tell us is what will happen if the resident Carbon Dioxide reacts with the visiting Sulphur Dioxide in the stratosphere. If ordinary Carbon Dioxide can heat up mother earth the way we are made to believe, where is the guarantee that the product of the combination of Carbon Dioxide and Sulphur Dioxide will not roast all of us alive?
The truth of the matter is that we just do not know enough about the workings of the universe. What we think we know is merely scratching the surface. So tinkering with apparently crazy ideas like this will not solve any of the problems associated with mother nature. Those who think they know should tell us why and how we now have unprecedented levels of snowfall in Europe after all the hue and cry about global warming? Does excessive heat produce excessive snowfall?
The universe has built-in self-regulatory mechanisms unknown to man so we should stop interfering with nature in the name of Science and Technology.
Tata, everybody
Napoleon
Just when the dust was beginning to settle down after the Copenhagen Climate Summit, arguably with “meaningful agreement”, Nathan Myhrvold literally throws up this novel solution to climate change which has sent professional cynics and doubting Thomases alike scampering for cover. Members of the scientific community are wondering out aloud what to make of this apparent huge joke except that the joker is a serious minded non-joker! For us in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, any news about climate change is big news. The gas that is being flared 24/7 from thousands of oil wells in the Niger Delta region must be contributing immensely to global warming.
Dr. Myhrvold believes that the Carbon Dioxide emissions that have settled in the stratosphere, and probably will stay there for thousands of years, can be removed if we pump Sulphur Dioxide into the stratosphere to neutralize it. When asked how this would be achieved, he suggested that a 25 kilometre long hose would do the trick. Smart kid – perhaps too smart by half! What he failed to tell us is what will happen if the resident Carbon Dioxide reacts with the visiting Sulphur Dioxide in the stratosphere. If ordinary Carbon Dioxide can heat up mother earth the way we are made to believe, where is the guarantee that the product of the combination of Carbon Dioxide and Sulphur Dioxide will not roast all of us alive?
The truth of the matter is that we just do not know enough about the workings of the universe. What we think we know is merely scratching the surface. So tinkering with apparently crazy ideas like this will not solve any of the problems associated with mother nature. Those who think they know should tell us why and how we now have unprecedented levels of snowfall in Europe after all the hue and cry about global warming? Does excessive heat produce excessive snowfall?
The universe has built-in self-regulatory mechanisms unknown to man so we should stop interfering with nature in the name of Science and Technology.
Tata, everybody
Napoleon
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Re-defining Marriage
Change, they say, is the only constant in life. So people change everything from names to appearances and everything in between everyday and no questions are asked. But recent attempts by some people to change the definition of marriage in some parts of the world takes the icing!
Some people have decided that the age-old definition of marriage as a union between a “man and a woman” is no longer appropriate because it leaves out those of them with a special sexual orientation. They have struggled, with some degree of success, to re-define marriage as a union “between two people”. No problem.
My only grouse in this matter is that most of those involved in this so-called “same-sex marriages” are those who have raised families in conventional marriages and do not require any more children. That leaves a sour taste in the mouth because these people want to eat their cake and still have it. If a man (or woman) prefers to marry another man (or woman) then the “woman” or “man” among them should be able to figure out how to carry a foetus for 9 months if they decide to have babies! The corollary here is that these same-sex marriages, of whatever permutation, are not intended to produce babies which is just as well because those of us in the age-old conventional marriages are over-populating the world with our activities.
My unsolicited advise to all those Churches which condone same-sex marriages is that any couple above the age of 25 should not be “united”. If same-sex marriage is such a beautiful union, then why wait till you are 55 when you would have had all the children you require in life?
Tata, everybody
Napoleon
Some people have decided that the age-old definition of marriage as a union between a “man and a woman” is no longer appropriate because it leaves out those of them with a special sexual orientation. They have struggled, with some degree of success, to re-define marriage as a union “between two people”. No problem.
My only grouse in this matter is that most of those involved in this so-called “same-sex marriages” are those who have raised families in conventional marriages and do not require any more children. That leaves a sour taste in the mouth because these people want to eat their cake and still have it. If a man (or woman) prefers to marry another man (or woman) then the “woman” or “man” among them should be able to figure out how to carry a foetus for 9 months if they decide to have babies! The corollary here is that these same-sex marriages, of whatever permutation, are not intended to produce babies which is just as well because those of us in the age-old conventional marriages are over-populating the world with our activities.
My unsolicited advise to all those Churches which condone same-sex marriages is that any couple above the age of 25 should not be “united”. If same-sex marriage is such a beautiful union, then why wait till you are 55 when you would have had all the children you require in life?
Tata, everybody
Napoleon
Friday, December 25, 2009
My Christmas Message
This message is specially dedicated to the estimated 800 million people worldwide who went to bed hungry last night. This figure includes an estimated 4 million kids in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. On a day like this what can you tell a toddler who goes to bed without food in his stomach in the midst of an apparent plenty! The matter is further complicated by the fact that these kids will never understand. How can a four-year old understand why there is no food in the house?
No kid in Nigeria deserves to be hungry. God so endowed this country that everything grows in abundance in Nigeria. Every inch of Nigerian soil is suitable for something from the wetlands of the Niger Delta to the plateau of the Middle Belt and everywhere in between. I can understand kids going to bed hungry in Ethiopia or Somalia. The only reason Nigerians are hungry is lack of political will and good governance.
So on this anniversary of the birth of our Lord and saviour, my message to Nigerian kids is very simple: nothing lasts forever – certainly not bad governance.
Tata, everybody
Napoleon
No kid in Nigeria deserves to be hungry. God so endowed this country that everything grows in abundance in Nigeria. Every inch of Nigerian soil is suitable for something from the wetlands of the Niger Delta to the plateau of the Middle Belt and everywhere in between. I can understand kids going to bed hungry in Ethiopia or Somalia. The only reason Nigerians are hungry is lack of political will and good governance.
So on this anniversary of the birth of our Lord and saviour, my message to Nigerian kids is very simple: nothing lasts forever – certainly not bad governance.
Tata, everybody
Napoleon
Thursday, December 24, 2009
The Drones are coming
If you were born too late to be part of the Biafran experience in the mid sixties, I am sorry for you because you don’t know what you missed. Those of us in the heat of it all still recollect how we ran into “bomb shelters” when prompted to do so. For those who survived, it was fun except that it was fun that was not funny. All I know is that it is the memory of those 30 months of controlled madness that has kept project Nigeria in one piece till date.
So when we are told by the Americans that the next World War will be fought in the comfort of the four walls of the Pentagon, no one is amused. War Technology (the art of killing) has reached a level where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) now replace Fighter Planes with Fighter Pilots in actual combat. These drones (I believe that is what they call them) are remotely controlled from bases in the USA and sent to take out targets in far off Afghanistan with pin point precision. The import of this development is that there will be neither room nor time to run into any form of shelter when these drones come calling. If you perform a miracle by bringing down any of these drones, what you will find inside is nothing – sweet nothing except a bag of charred metal and junk of cables you may not find useful!
The prospects of fighting a Third World War are therefore frightening, to say the least. Over and above the Nuclear Arsenals which countries are amassing that are enough to wipe out our entire planet ten times over, there is now this new introduction into the killing mix – Drones reportedly capable of travelling several thousand miles to take out targets and return to base unmanned. My only consolation is that so far, it does not appear to be confined to one country alone. The Russians are developing them; the Chinese are reportedly in the race while Japan has their fair share in the mould so may be someday we may be able to develop our own Nigerian drones – Insha Allah. That is why I personally believe that the Third World War, as and when it comes, will be fought – won and lost by all – within 30 minutes! The only difference will be that there will be no one to tell the story. Just as well too because War Historians have a way of telling lies knowing fully well that you have no way of checking the veracity of most of the details!
Tata, everybody
Napoleon
So when we are told by the Americans that the next World War will be fought in the comfort of the four walls of the Pentagon, no one is amused. War Technology (the art of killing) has reached a level where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) now replace Fighter Planes with Fighter Pilots in actual combat. These drones (I believe that is what they call them) are remotely controlled from bases in the USA and sent to take out targets in far off Afghanistan with pin point precision. The import of this development is that there will be neither room nor time to run into any form of shelter when these drones come calling. If you perform a miracle by bringing down any of these drones, what you will find inside is nothing – sweet nothing except a bag of charred metal and junk of cables you may not find useful!
The prospects of fighting a Third World War are therefore frightening, to say the least. Over and above the Nuclear Arsenals which countries are amassing that are enough to wipe out our entire planet ten times over, there is now this new introduction into the killing mix – Drones reportedly capable of travelling several thousand miles to take out targets and return to base unmanned. My only consolation is that so far, it does not appear to be confined to one country alone. The Russians are developing them; the Chinese are reportedly in the race while Japan has their fair share in the mould so may be someday we may be able to develop our own Nigerian drones – Insha Allah. That is why I personally believe that the Third World War, as and when it comes, will be fought – won and lost by all – within 30 minutes! The only difference will be that there will be no one to tell the story. Just as well too because War Historians have a way of telling lies knowing fully well that you have no way of checking the veracity of most of the details!
Tata, everybody
Napoleon
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Echoes from Copenhagen
In addition to winning the Nobel Peace Prize in anticipation of what he is expected to do and not what he has actually done, Barack Obama, the 47th President of the United States of America will enter the Guinness Book of Records as the most articulate tenant of the White House. So when he speaks, everybody listens even when he has nothing new to say.
For the umpteenth time, Barack Obama told the world in Copenhagen that the US is investing “huge resources” in developing renewable and cleaner sources of energy in order to reduce America’s near total dependence on imported oil! What this means in practical terms is that in another 5-10 years, crude oil will be obsolete! Those of us who think the financial jamboree will last forever should begin to think of Nigeria without Crude Oil!
When the demand for crude oil eventually drops to a level that their own production level can sustain, our crude oil will be “too dirty” for their requirements – their new found twenty second century technology! I hope I’ll be around then because I will hate to be somewhere else (hell or heaven) when our Leaders will be looking for money to fund their multi-billion Naira projects in other parts of the country when the Niger Delta region has no roads, no electricity, no portable water, no schools, no nothing!
God help me see that day!
Tata, everybody
Napoleon
For the umpteenth time, Barack Obama told the world in Copenhagen that the US is investing “huge resources” in developing renewable and cleaner sources of energy in order to reduce America’s near total dependence on imported oil! What this means in practical terms is that in another 5-10 years, crude oil will be obsolete! Those of us who think the financial jamboree will last forever should begin to think of Nigeria without Crude Oil!
When the demand for crude oil eventually drops to a level that their own production level can sustain, our crude oil will be “too dirty” for their requirements – their new found twenty second century technology! I hope I’ll be around then because I will hate to be somewhere else (hell or heaven) when our Leaders will be looking for money to fund their multi-billion Naira projects in other parts of the country when the Niger Delta region has no roads, no electricity, no portable water, no schools, no nothing!
God help me see that day!
Tata, everybody
Napoleon
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
The President’s health
There are a lot of things ordinary folks like me don’t understand. I guess that’s understandable because that is what makes me ordinary. I do not, for instance, understand what all the fuss is about the present medical condition of the President. A President of a country like Nigeria suffers from ordinary pericarditis and there are calls all over the place for him to resign. How preposterous! If all those who fall ill in office were to resign how many people would be on their jobs today? How many of us have not had one form of ailment or the other in the last twelve months? All these pot-bellied “big men” with 200/140 BP, how many of them have resigned from their jobs?
Those who cite the Constitutional provision for a President – or Vice President - vacating his office do not appear to have read the Constitution properly. The Constitution requires the President to vacate his office in the event of a permanent inability (emphasis mine) to carry on the functions of his office. Is pericarditis a form of permanent disability? When IBB had radiculopathy, who asked him to resign?
My problem, however, with the President is that he prefers to be flown to all sorts of places even when he gets a minor headache thus creating room for all sorts of rumours and speculation about his health. When next Mr. President falls ill (no matter the ailment) he should be rushed to the nearest hospital. He should either recover or die there. That way everybody in position of authority in this my country will know that those hospitals (of whatever description) did not drop from heaven. They were put together by serious minded people with tax payers’ money! How many foreign Presidents have been rushed to Nigeria to be treated?
My advise to Nigerians is that Presidents are, after all, human and do fall sick but when they do, they should be rushed to the best facility they have provided and be allowed to either die or recover there. A President who ignores the health of his people does not deserve to survive in another country while Nigerians die in their millions every day due to preventable and curable diseases.
Tata, everybody
Napoleon
Those who cite the Constitutional provision for a President – or Vice President - vacating his office do not appear to have read the Constitution properly. The Constitution requires the President to vacate his office in the event of a permanent inability (emphasis mine) to carry on the functions of his office. Is pericarditis a form of permanent disability? When IBB had radiculopathy, who asked him to resign?
My problem, however, with the President is that he prefers to be flown to all sorts of places even when he gets a minor headache thus creating room for all sorts of rumours and speculation about his health. When next Mr. President falls ill (no matter the ailment) he should be rushed to the nearest hospital. He should either recover or die there. That way everybody in position of authority in this my country will know that those hospitals (of whatever description) did not drop from heaven. They were put together by serious minded people with tax payers’ money! How many foreign Presidents have been rushed to Nigeria to be treated?
My advise to Nigerians is that Presidents are, after all, human and do fall sick but when they do, they should be rushed to the best facility they have provided and be allowed to either die or recover there. A President who ignores the health of his people does not deserve to survive in another country while Nigerians die in their millions every day due to preventable and curable diseases.
Tata, everybody
Napoleon
Monday, December 14, 2009
South Africa 2010
This “for better, for worse” vow between Nigeria and Argentina is beginning to give me goose pimples. It does appear as if no matter how hard we try, we cannot avoid meeting Argentina in the preliminary stages of any world competition, be it at the U-17 level involving 30-year olds, or at the Super level involving spent forces. Not to worry, because the Argentines are more worried of us Nigerians as a team than we are scared of them – yes quote me! Greece, we can sleep well, South Korea we know their antidote but Argentina is a different ball game because when they enter the field they really appear to be more than 11 players! Maradona, their mercurial coach, is capable of slipping in and out of the pitch as the 12th player, if need be.
Having completed the draws last Friday, all of the other 31 countries have started making preparations for the real thing except Nigeria. I know my country well enough to know that preparations may not start until mid May 2010 when all other countries would have completed their assignments and gone on pre-match break. For once, could the authorities at the Glass House please help my BP by preparing early. All this debate about hiring Foreign Coach is unnecessary. Whether the coach is black, white or green is not the point.
The point is that our Super Eagles have a problem: the inability to utilize chances and score goals. You may do all the playing but if you don’t score goals you will not go beyond the preliminary rounds. You hear? You win matches by scoring goals even if you have to use your hands sometimes, like Thierry Henri! So, what to do?
First – hire a tactician to sharpen our strike force into a lethal fighting machine. Anybody who has the ability to do this should be hired immediately without consideration as to where he comes from even if he is, again, from Modakeke, Brazil or an applicant from Holland. Football at this level is now big business so no amount paid by way of salaries or allowances should be considered too much. Second – find somebody, anybody, who can mould our midfield into an airtight mass of impenetrable concrete such that if you insist of penetrating you must have bruises to show your mother back home! Ask the Cameroonians how to go about it. If we have to hire Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to come and handle body building, let’s do it.
Finally, all tacticians must work as a team and there should be no question of one man working on, over, under or beside the other – just a team with one goal – keeping the World Cup in Africa (Nigeria) for a change! Since it is now clear that the South Africans are not hosting to win but for commercial considerations, lets tell the world that we are participating to win. That Cup must not leave Africa and God bless our team!
Tata, everybody
Napoleon.
Having completed the draws last Friday, all of the other 31 countries have started making preparations for the real thing except Nigeria. I know my country well enough to know that preparations may not start until mid May 2010 when all other countries would have completed their assignments and gone on pre-match break. For once, could the authorities at the Glass House please help my BP by preparing early. All this debate about hiring Foreign Coach is unnecessary. Whether the coach is black, white or green is not the point.
The point is that our Super Eagles have a problem: the inability to utilize chances and score goals. You may do all the playing but if you don’t score goals you will not go beyond the preliminary rounds. You hear? You win matches by scoring goals even if you have to use your hands sometimes, like Thierry Henri! So, what to do?
First – hire a tactician to sharpen our strike force into a lethal fighting machine. Anybody who has the ability to do this should be hired immediately without consideration as to where he comes from even if he is, again, from Modakeke, Brazil or an applicant from Holland. Football at this level is now big business so no amount paid by way of salaries or allowances should be considered too much. Second – find somebody, anybody, who can mould our midfield into an airtight mass of impenetrable concrete such that if you insist of penetrating you must have bruises to show your mother back home! Ask the Cameroonians how to go about it. If we have to hire Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to come and handle body building, let’s do it.
Finally, all tacticians must work as a team and there should be no question of one man working on, over, under or beside the other – just a team with one goal – keeping the World Cup in Africa (Nigeria) for a change! Since it is now clear that the South Africans are not hosting to win but for commercial considerations, lets tell the world that we are participating to win. That Cup must not leave Africa and God bless our team!
Tata, everybody
Napoleon.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Echoes from China
A Diplomat is by definition and training someone who is an expert at speaking the truth, when absolutely necessary, in the least offensive way. They are trained, we have been told, to tell you to go to hell and you actually look forward to a jolly trip to hell, believing that coming from a Diplomat, hell must be a beautiful place to spend some time!
So when the Nigerian Ambassador to China tells the whole world and anybody willing to listen, sordid details of Nigerians and our involvement in criminal activities in China one begins to wonder what kind of training our Diplomats parade around the world. Coming at the heels of equally sordid revelations of tax payers money (solid money) being siphoned into paying school fees of non existing children of Diplomats, you can see my problem. Its not funny.
Mr. Ambassador believes, or thinks, that 90% of the crimes committed by “black people” in China are committed by Nigerians. The Chinese do not doctor their statistics, so I believe our Ambassador knows what he is talking about. What I do not understand in the circumstances is whether this is the language of a top Diplomat representing a country like Nigeria in the world’s most populous emerging superpower. I cannot think of any other analogy than a defence Lawyer telling the Judge details of the crime allegedly committed by his client. This is most absurd. This must be diplomacy forced to stand on its head! Which School of Diplomacy taught him that the best way to solve the problem of Nigerians and criminal activities is to tell the world that Nigerians are the only criminals in China?
Now that our Ambassador has abandoned all diplomatic finesse and descended to the gutter-bred language of ordinary mortals like us, may I suggest that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should loan him Mr. President’s 747 to enable him bring back all Nigerians resident in China since he does not see any Nigerian there living crime-free and/or law-abiding? The Ambassador should be loaded in the cargo compartment of the plane in the return journey because he has betrayed his country and does not deserve to remain in China one minute longer. He should be deported with the “criminals” pronto. May be other Ambassadors in his mould will learn to live and earn their keep. Coconut head!
Tata, everybody
Napoleon
So when the Nigerian Ambassador to China tells the whole world and anybody willing to listen, sordid details of Nigerians and our involvement in criminal activities in China one begins to wonder what kind of training our Diplomats parade around the world. Coming at the heels of equally sordid revelations of tax payers money (solid money) being siphoned into paying school fees of non existing children of Diplomats, you can see my problem. Its not funny.
Mr. Ambassador believes, or thinks, that 90% of the crimes committed by “black people” in China are committed by Nigerians. The Chinese do not doctor their statistics, so I believe our Ambassador knows what he is talking about. What I do not understand in the circumstances is whether this is the language of a top Diplomat representing a country like Nigeria in the world’s most populous emerging superpower. I cannot think of any other analogy than a defence Lawyer telling the Judge details of the crime allegedly committed by his client. This is most absurd. This must be diplomacy forced to stand on its head! Which School of Diplomacy taught him that the best way to solve the problem of Nigerians and criminal activities is to tell the world that Nigerians are the only criminals in China?
Now that our Ambassador has abandoned all diplomatic finesse and descended to the gutter-bred language of ordinary mortals like us, may I suggest that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should loan him Mr. President’s 747 to enable him bring back all Nigerians resident in China since he does not see any Nigerian there living crime-free and/or law-abiding? The Ambassador should be loaded in the cargo compartment of the plane in the return journey because he has betrayed his country and does not deserve to remain in China one minute longer. He should be deported with the “criminals” pronto. May be other Ambassadors in his mould will learn to live and earn their keep. Coconut head!
Tata, everybody
Napoleon
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