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By

Noel A. Ihebuzor

Sometimes when I read our print media or listen to remarks and commentaries on electronic media, the following thoughts and expressions flash through my mind:

• The banality of trivia
• The absurdity of pettiness
• The debility of assumed grandeur
• The inanity of affected class
• The profundity of shallowness
• The arrogance of ignorance
• The emptiness of arrogance
• The deceitfulness of self-ascribed innocence
• The shallowness of assumed depth

In many ways, the thoughts and their structural expressions borrow heavily from Barrack Obama ground breaking book – The audacity of Hope, but whereas the inspiring structure is made up of an association of two positives – Audacity and Hope, these expressions are not.

A lot has changed since May 29.

The fight against corruption is very actively being pursued on the front pages of newspapers and on news headlines, largely.

A system of establishing guilt and conviction before trial is being trial-tested. Someone is reading “The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland” and  trying to apply some of the bizarre happening there to real life situations.

Nigerians are beginning to discover that all the rotters and knaves in this country belong to only one political party. The other party is peopled by Knights and saints. Never mind if some of principal characters in this club of saints were in this club of looters, knaves, rotters and robbers just not too long ago. Crossing over a line of defection has more cleansing and whitening power than the River Jordan had in biblical times.

The price of crude oil has changed and some die-hard government loyalists can’t still make up their minds whether or not to blame GEJ for this.

The Dollar-Naira exchange rate has worsened and the blame for this must be placed where it belongs.  Blame GEJ, the man from Otueke.

Our theory of change (ToC, also called the logic model) was revised to allow for creative flexibility and damn outright obsequiousness in our efforts to explain some observed positive changes – body language is now being ascribed more explanatory powers.

A lot has changed indeed. Change is happening!

 

 

 

Source: SORRY, BUT BUHARI IS NOT FIGHTING CORRUPTION | By Ayo Sogunro

By

Noel Ihebuzor

 

Great readings for this Sunday of advent.  Five take-aways for me –

• Reassuring and repeating themes and messages in all the readings and the psalm – our future will be better than our present and broken hopes will be restored.
• A reminder for us to be grateful to God (even in our current hardships) for the many gifts He has bestowed on us. Many more are coming. Let us hang in there in faith, hope and charity. Salvation is round the corner.
• An invitation for us all to prepare for the coming of our Savior.
• A call for us to remove all obstacles that stand between us and the coming of our savior.
• A cheering announcement of the imminence of the arrival in our hearts and hearths of His Eminence, our Lord and Savior.

All five have an appeal for the dire times the people of Nigeria are currently going through – times marked by ever changing promises, policy vagueness, reneging of assurances that were freely, distortions and accelerating slide to despondency.

Warm greetings from cold, damp and windy Manchester.

Should politicians be held accountable to deliver on promises they made during campaigns? http://freeandagile.blogspot.com/2015/06/should-politicians-be-held-accountable.html

When Body and Beauty fade http://freeandagile.blogspot.com/2015/08/when-body-and-beauty-fade.html

Avoiding corrupting practices in anti-corruption campaigns http://freeandagile.blogspot.com/2015/10/avoiding-corrupting-practices-in-anti.html

Initial thoughts on the “growth” of corruption http://freeandagile.blogspot.com/2015/04/initial-thoughts-on-growth-of-corruption.html