OF MANIFEST PSYCHOSIS & PSYCHIATRICS IN POLITICS I-III. He has lost the greater chunk of his sanity that steals, loots and amasses wealth he wouldnt exhaust in ten life-times had he lived them in reasonable comfort. Greed inexplicable is insanity and unbridled looting psychiatric. - Prof. Chris Nwaokobia Jnr. I read about politicians criss-crossing from Party A to Party B. I read about the oft empty logic and reason for such frequent decampings. I read somewhat strenuous efforts by some to present their political harlotry as pro people. I wonder why these men speak from both sides of the mouth, and I marvel why they all too often return to their vomit. Some have gone back and forth twice or thrice and some will yet move, yes it is their inalienable right to so do BUT to present a self-driven decision as altruistic and people oriented is where I disagree. Money and power humbles and calls men in other climes to responsible conduct alas in our clime it mimes the tune of graft, of greed, of ignoble quest for political position cum positioning, of thieving, of oppression and of reckless tendencies within the corridors and frontiers of power. I was thought as a Law Student some 20years ago that as one ages and closes the gap between one and hades the tendency to do wrong, lie or give false evidence diminishes, this legal protocol is called a dying mans declaration BUT in Nigeria men loot and steal in their 60s, 70s and 80s, they loot as though stealing is right, and they fleece resources they do not need in ten life-times such defines their mental state. Methinks that the preponderant number that trots our political amphitheatre if subjected to psychiatric tests will fail, that I am sure of. To be CONTD. Prof. Chris Nwaokobia Jnr. Pin:7F35E1F5 Pin:27169311 Twitter@CHRISNWAOKOBIA Twitter@CNWAOKOBIAJNR OF MANIFEST PSYCHOSIS & PSYCHIATRICS IN POLITICS II. A National Assembly where an individual lawmaker takes home in one month the equivalent of the annual salary of a Lawmaker in the U.S, shows a psychiatric disconnect from the Nigerian reality, in the face of festering poverty they feast on jumbo pay, in 15yrs they are yet to successfully amend our flawed Constitution, yes this cesspool of the absurd and the sickening continues. - Prof. Chris Nwaokobia Jnr. If they are not decamping from one Party to another in furtherance of individual ambition and or greed, they are fueling insurgency and insecurity so more Security Vote can be appropriated/approved, stolen and shared amongst those who appear unmindful of the fact that the primary essence of governance is to guarantee the safety of lives and properties. The people/masses are themselves trapped in a Psychosis of sorts, one manifest in the way we take sides with Parties and Individuals who have largely failed the nation and left the people brow-beaten by hunger. I read plenty press where people trade words from partisan prisms, religious recesses, and from sectional cocoons ignoring the fact that those bleeding Nigeria to death are in cahoots indiscriminate of their faith, tribe or region. They are united in infamy and villainy, sadly a harangued citizenry buys their treachery. I read insults from PDP sympathizers hurled at APC admirers; I read diatribes and threats about whose turn it is to govern and who must wait; I read passionate but ill-conceived homilies about the successes of one Party over the other as though we are a blind people; and I ask my Countrymen, must we always applaud mediocrity? The truth is that logic and clear thought appears to have gone on AWOL, in our clime sound thinking is on Absence Without Official Leave, such is the tragedy of our nation, so sad. To be CONTD. Prof. Chris Nwaokobia Jnr. Pin:7F35E1F5 Pin:27169311 Twitter@CHRISNWAOKOBIA Twitter@CNWAOKOBIAJNR OF MANIFEST PSYCHOSIS & PSYCHIATRICS IN POLITICS III. O what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive - Sir Walter Scott In the face of insurgents hoisting secessionist flags within the Nigerian territory we hear shameless refrains like what do you expect from Jonathan do you not know that Boko Haram is the conspiracy of the North against GEJ and the likes, and one wonders why the jesters are unable to gauge the enormity of this miasma and the collateral damage it poses. They also shamelessly overlook the fact that GEJ remains the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, as such the buck stops at his desk. On the converse side some regale us with the supposed credential and achievements of Fashola in Lagos, one that includes 1km of Road being tarred at 1b naira and above whereas the true value for such construction should not exceed 100m naira, and we read claptrap and tommyrot like he is doing better than the others in the land of the blind one eyed man is king and inanities that defines psychosis and psychiatry. We are faced with a choice between the bad and the evil, instead of seeking a new benchmark, instead of setting new moral margins for leadership and plotting a new paradigm, social commentators like their visibly sick political counterparts debate the choice between worse and worst. Sad. We must show to posterity the path to excellence, mediocrity is not. We must nudge our children away from the choice between failures and teach them that good is noble and excellence nobler, and that no matter how seemingly impossible the journey down the path of excellence appears, it is yet possible and achievable. Good will always overcome evil, sadly court-jesters are inured to this ageless reality BUT like Carlyle once opined truth on the cross, falsehood at the throne, that truth sways the future. Yes it does. To be CONTD. Prof. Chris Nwaokobia Jnr. Pin:7F35E1F5 Pin:27169311 Twitter@CHRISNWAOKOBIA Twitter@CNWAOKOBIAJNR Please Share.
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