[ajimoh]

...our universities had been grounded for a while now by the strike action and that Government doesn’t seem worried about it because most of the children of the top Government functionaries [including top military officers and the police] had [and still have] all their children schooling abroad. In addition to obtaining superior education and superior degrees, they now also get to meet and marry Americans.

Why then should they be bothered about the rest of us. We spend five-six years to get a four year degree; we walk the streets to find a job. We are victims of the worst conditions on earth...We remain of this brand. A distasteful brand. While ‘they’ continue to re-brand themselves.

...I have everything against a system that has made some people very much ahead of the others. A system that continues to allow a few ahead of the lot. A system controlled by this few who have continued to look the other way because the status quo favours them. A system they say they are re-branding!

All I see is our leaders re-branding themselves. Today Prof Dora Akunyili succeeded in re-branding her daughter. She is now Njideka Crosby. Now she becomes a citizen of the free world. Never again will she worry about our bad roads and our death trap hospitals. Our dry tapes and our dark nights. Our unemployment and our failed universities. She is free. She’s been re-branded.

I want to thank Nze Ifedigbo and to associate myself with his sentiments above, as highlighted by me. At the Lagos University Hospital Idi-Araba, in addition to contending with epileptic power supply, the poor doctors find themselves having to borrow medical tools like scalpels. Just like Yar'dua is not fortunate to experience such harshness, madam re-brand [Ibori & friends first] and her cohorts are far removed from realities of life on the streets of Nigeria hence she can mouth obscenities like re-branding. Now, at least, we know what re-branding means to them!