If YOU were a Politician, Wouldn't you LOOT Nigeria too?

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Everybody does it. Why should you live off pennies and scraps while others are living in vast mansions with sycophants at their finger tips - eagerly awaiting orders to do their bidding.

Oh, I forgot.

The British did this already and the current structure is merely being continued.

After all the WHITEMAN taught you this. Why give it up?


You are a POLITICIAN! A BIGSHOT!

Why should you act like you care for your people? Nobody else is doing it.

After all, you only live once......might as well have at it.

Of course I would loot but I would be civilized about it like most in the western world. More like a Fashola. Loot, but do the job unlike the other 'hungry' governors.

Most western countries have looters in power. But they do their jobs. But not in Africa. Loot and keep the country in servitude and poverty.

Yes, I will loot, but not at the expense of the people I have chosen to serve.

The greatest thieves in this world are the Americans and the British, but take a look at their countries. You can loot, but don't get caught.

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Originally Posted by Simbili

Of course I would loot but I would be civilized about it like most in the western world. More like a Fashola. Loot, but do the job unlike the other 'hungry' governors.

Most western countries have looters in power. But they do their jobs. But not in Africa. Loot and keep the country in servitude and poverty.

Yes, I will loot, but not at the expense of the people I have chosen to serve.

The greatest thieves in this world are the Americans and the British, but take a look at their countries. You can loot, but don't get caught.

I respect your honesty.

America and Europe ARE the biggest thieves. It has been this way since modern times.

[Obugi]

At least American and British citizens fought successfully for the freedom of their countries. That is why their politicians respect their people and lead them abroad to steal from others.

Africans deserve what they're getting, same as Americans and the British deserve what they're getting.

Anyone who has the chance to loot in Nigeria would be a fool not to. Nigerians in particular are easy to take advantage of. Collectively, in general, they are superstitious, greedy, Negro-phobic and not very intelligent.

If Africans would rather die than be misruled, nobody will misrule us. We need more looting, more misrule, more brutalization and oppression....it needs to get bad enough for the African to do something. When we finally realize that Jesus isn't coming back soon enough to dash us a ready made paradise, then we'll get serious. Knowing the African, its going to take a loooonnnnnng time.

Ibori for President!!!

Obugi.

Originally Posted by Obugi

At least American and British citizens fought successfully for the freedom of their countries. That is why their politicians respect their people and lead them abroad to steal from others.

Africans deserve what they're getting, same as Americans and the British deserve what they're getting.

Anyone who has the chance to loot in Nigeria would be a fool not to. Nigerians in particular are easy to take advantage of. Collectively, in general, they are superstitious, greedy, Negro-phobic and not very intelligent.

If Africans would rather die than be misruled, nobody will misrule us. We need more looting, more misrule, more brutalization and oppression....it needs to get bad enough for the African to do something. When we finally realize that Jesus isn't coming back soon enough to dash us a ready made paradise, then we'll get serious. Knowing the African, its going to take a loooonnnnnng time.

Ibori for President!!!

Obugi.

:d :d :d :d :d

lol

Very true.

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There is ONE who could NOT be bought and did not sell out.


http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009...rder-shell.php

Ken Saro-Wiwa stood up to the oil giant Shell with peaceful demonstrations and vocal opposition—until he was executed by his own government on false charges. A legal battle was then waged for nearly 15 years, in which Saro-Wiwa's fellow Ogoni people charged Shell with funding the government backed security forces that lead to the violence against them. Now, Shell has just agreed to pay $15 million to settle the case out of court—though the company still says it did nothing wrong.

Ken Saro-Wiwa was an Ogoni, an ethnic group of Nigerians whose homes and health were (and still are) endangered by oil extraction practices in their native land. He took to organizing, writing, and activism to bring light to his people's plight.

According to the Environmental News Service:

An early member of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, organized and led nonviolent protests of up to 300,000 people against Shell's practices in Ogoniland, where crude oil extraction has taken place since the 1950s. The land and communities have suffered extreme and unremediated damage from decades of oil waste dumping and gas flaring, which continues today.

Shell of course despised and feared the negative PR beginning to swell around their activities, and the Nigerian government felt economically bound to the giant company. And so what happened next was yet another atrocity in the sad and despicable history of powerful conglomerates protecting their interests:

Shell grew increasingly concerned with the international prominence of the Ogoni movement and made payments to security forces that they knew to be engaging in human rights violations against the local communities.

The military government of General Sani Abacha violently repressed the demonstrations, arrested Ogoni activists, and falsely accused nine Ogoni activists of murder and bribed witnesses to give fake testimony. The nine were denied a fair trial and then hanged on November 10, 1995.

Now, nearly 15 years later, the Ogoni have won a small but deserved victory. The case they brought against the company under an obscure US law that allows foreigners to sue companies for human rights abuses has just been settled out of court. Though $15 million may seem a paltry sum to repay the vast injustices done to their people, and the murder of some of their brightest, perhaps the international attention garnered from this case will draw some attention to their plight. And even though Shell hasn't publicly admitted any wrongdoing, sometimes, actions speak louder than words.

Ken Saro-Wiwa, with his courageous dedication to protecting his people, has proved that.