[Comment]So Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road? (the Bode George Prison-uniform Edition)

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[emj]

Goodluck Jonathan, Vice-President: This is all really very sad. I think we are treating the wrong ailment. What is corruption? We must remember that things like this arise out of insecurity as most people accumulate wealth for fear of the future. They worry about how to pay school fees for their children, provide food and other essentials. Some people may not want to be corrupt, but because they want to secure their future, they go the extra mile to get out of the way. Looked at this way, what we call corruption may merely be a response to insecurity. When a man goes to jail for something like this, we have to question whether the law got it right. And while we question ourselves, let us not compound what may be an error of judgment by insisting that an important citizen be made to wear a prison uniform. That is going too far.

Error of judgement gan ni...did we got/get it right?

Olusegun Obasanjo: Well, this is what Nigeria has come to. First, they send him to jail without real proof of his
involvement in any crime, and now they want him to wear a uniform. This is pure miscarriage of justice, and you can quote me. The punishment does not fit the crime, if any crime has been committed at all, so why should the uniform fit the man? I have been the leader of Nigeria twice, and I know Bode George to be a fine man. He has served Nigeria in many capacities and I appointed him to the Nigerian Ports Authority. To say that he was corrupt is to say that I am corrupt. Nigerians are very ungrateful, I tell you.

Abi ke, wats does all dis bloody civillians know? Corrupt people all of them pori kori/komplete

James Ibori: Why are you asking me this question? As the Ofufugborigbo of Africa I should not have to talk to journalists. Tony Eluemunor does that for me. You people have put an innocent man in jail, and now you want to dress him in emm..Tony…Tony E., what do you call it..yes, in the robes of a criminal? How can such a distinguished Nigerian who has served the country so well, a former governor and one of the leaders of the greatest party in Africa be asked to wear a uniform? This is a man for whom we should be building a palace, instead, you send him to…to…to…in fact I hate the word…prison, and you want him to wear a uniform. What insult?

Respects ojare, as per prisoner to prisoner and co Inc

Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State: As I have said before, it is a sign of poor leadership that Nigeria, the world’s 6th largest producer of crude oil, still imports fuel. Investors will not be attracted to states with failed or weak leadership, crime and civil unrest or corruption that taint every transaction and decision. When common criminals are permitted to carry on as kings—or as presidents merely visiting prison quarters—that credibility will never be there. Such states will be shunned by others, and by-passed by development. Bode George is an important asterisk.

Haa, asterisk ke, she also does dat cartoon...chei

Michael Aondoakaa, Attorney General: It is a curious situation. You blink in this country, and people take advantage! It is incredible that His Honour gave the ruling that he did, sending BG to jail. I had completely forgotten to have a word with him. Do you know that this is the political equivalent of an earthquake? How can anyone construe BG and jail in the same sentence—unless in the sense of BG himself sending someone to jail? This is a grave embarrassment to the president, who is the successor of a man who thought so highly of BG he appointed him to run the NPA in the first place. And now they want him to wear a prison uniform? What uniform is big enough for a man of that substance? And how are they going to put it on him – remove every other item of clothing in his cell?

Haaa Aondaa, dis wan wey una dey pass blame no good o..ehen

Turai Yar’Adua, First Lady: Well, we are in Abuja, and it seems people are just doing as they like in Lagos. But Lagos is close to Otta, and close to Obasanjo. This is an indictment of Obasanjo, not my hard-working husband. Obasanjo knows his way around prisons. He should drive to Kirikiri Maximum and beat up every tailor in Apapa.

Abi o Turai, na which wan konsine ur agbero with overload..make Objoke carry hin bolekaja ojare...da 2 both of dem with pot belle

Okay Sonala....as to why the chicken crossed the road....there was a eherm, eherm at the other side of the road

[Araba]

Mr. Olumenhse, you can add me on the list too.
Araba: At least we Yorubas are jailing our so-called thieves. Justice Olubunmi Oyewole jailed Olabode George and ors. When will the Federal Character Principle apply?

[Ofunwa Villager]

It would have been interesting to know what the former chairman of KiriKiri prison, Alamesiegha has to say on this. Alams over to you

[dem]

Wole Soyinka: Bode cannot be anaesthetized to prison regulatory practice. But this is a deconstructive recast of a grandiloquent moment. The vicissitude and unreflective effusions of the political cabal was always, in time, going to actualise an adversarial reversarial corollary upon their very craniums.

Sonala Olumhense: Get out on your streets and cities and shout to reclaim.

DEM: Yeah…yeah.