PEOPLE DECEIVING PEOPLE

The first Nigerian Leadership Summit was a welcome development, yet it was an educative and a comic event. Listen to one of the notable suggestions by the Nigerian populace which was quickly adopted by public officers present at the occasion: “there should be a law that bans diplomats and all other government functionaries from sending their children to foreign tertiary institutions. Also, laws should be made to prevent such persons from depositing money in foreign accounts.” The question is: “who is to propose and make the law?” Essentially, it is the National Assembly. “Who does the law affect?” Government functionaries (the members of the National Assembly inclusive). Of course, I need not tell you that the most reasonable people in a democratic setting are always in the majority. So rationality is measured by number. So you ask the members of the National Assembly to make two notable laws that affect them negatively and it was quickly adopted. Do you expect non adherence to such proposal when it was made in public? Of course, no one could have withstood the roar of the public. Let me give you an overview of what will come out of such proposals:

1)      There will be numerous debates on the floor of the National Assembly on such issues (don’t forget that each sitting involves some handsome amount of naira to each member’s account)

2)      Due to lack of resolutions, a committee will be set aside to review the issues for determination, this also includes some investigations (also, don’t forget that you have to make payment to members of the committee for a job “well done”)

3)      The outcome will be that such a law would be unfair and unnecessary. But at this point also, the populace would have been thrown into conscious amnesia not to remember such a thing was in existence.

4)      More money has been expended on issues that yielded no result. But bear in mind that the result was worthwhile.   

But who is to blame for all these rhetorics? The citizens and not their leaders are to take the blame. If you don’t have the rationality of a bourgeois, you are bound to remain a slave