Let’s move the argument a bit further: How come your president (Nigerian) has ten presidential jets, and he wants to acquire the 11th one as appropriated in this 2014 Budget, yet you have no functioning hospitals across towns and villages in Nigeria, and Nigerians allow such madness, “praying and fasting,” and playing “dumbo” before some semi-smart pastors every Sunday, who skin them with “tithes and offerings,” that the clever pastors “take straight to their private bank accounts the next Monday?” Look, in Malawi, Mrs Joyce Banda, the current president of that “blessed” country came to power in April 2012 and discovered it cost an average of $1.5million annually to maintain and run the single Presidential jet the former president, Bingu Wa-Mutharika acquired to show-off at African union meetings and similar places that African moronic leaders meet every now and then, to discuss bullshit! Joyce Banda was infuriated when told her about this exorbitant running cost of a jet and she ordered they should sell the only jet the country has immediately and they did, because she felt that money could provide cottage hospital in the villages of Malawi. Who knows whether one semi-idiot Nigerian pastor or “money-miss-road” rogue may have bought it off the Malawian government to “show-off” with it and probably parked it at MMA, Lagos or Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja incurring heavy parking costs in dollar terms. Very wasteful and corrupt country with too much free money to be acquired or stolen and no one asks questions in Nigeria. The lawyers and Accountants are even worst in terms of stupidity compared to their counterparts, even in third world African countries like Ghana and Sierra Leone; they do not understand Taxation- neither direct taxes on personal and company income nor the indirect taxes, like VAT and Excise taxes! The Otedolas and the Dangotes, and even the Indians and Chinese smart people resident in Nigeria make huge amount of money and hardly pay any taxes on these massive free earnings, because Nigerian Accountants and Tax authorities have no clue what corporation and income tax is about not to talk of the more complex indirect taxes, like VAT. I think Fela Kuti got it right since the 1970s when he sang about Nigeria as: “ one big blind country.” Had Fela being alive today he would sing about “Too many mumu for one country when dem call Nigeria, yepari pa..ooOooo!” Tony Ishiekwene
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 05:52:29 +0000
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