Nigeria's Stolen Funds: Truth be told - Ali Baba

Nigerians are suffering directly and indirectly as a result of stolen and mismanaged public funds such as 'Arms Fund' shared by former NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki and the loot by former petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke. 

Nigerians are however regarded as the happiest people on Earth because they still laugh under any circumstances and make joke out of anything. This attitude might be having negative effect on Nigeria as a country as politicians and corrupt office holders take opportunity of that. 

Also, many think such things don't affect them since they are not directly involved but they are wrong. It is in this regard that the respected comedian, Ali Baba puts up another piece on his Instagram page to address Nigerians' attitude and the call by some people that the President should let go of some of the arrested looters under investigation.

As written by Ali Baba:

"Until something affects us directly in Nigeria, people think and believe it has nothing to do with them. Hashtag "e no consign me". Think about it, now that these monies that were STOLEN BY SOME PDP bigwigs were not directly (and I mean that as, you do not have access to it, and can't draw on it) it looks like it does not concern us. Okay, let me flip the script, if the money were your deposits and life savings in a bank, and the MD and his friends shared it. And Buhari is trying to get them to return all of it, which of the excuses that have been put up for why some of them got a slice of the loot, will make you say, "you can't hold anyone for more than 48 hours" "It's an affront on democracy" "Buhari is a dictator". By now all the known houses of the directors of the bank will be up in flames. All their billboards will be history. No staff will want to be caught going to work in the bank's official cars. By now the queue in front of the bank and the crowd at entrance of the court where the bank officials are being tried will be beyond control. Ordinary estate association, when money is budgeted for fixing security issues of the estate, fumigation and general cleaning of the common areas, woe betide the financial secretary, if after 2 months, nothing was done. And in that time, robberies took place, rats had unprotected sex, epidemic, overgrown bushes in the common area... And in the next meeting you hear, "Chairman asked me to give Mr LABINJO 3m, Ms Sade had cash issues we gave her 2m, we dashed Mr & Mrs Osagie 1m for their wedding. Oh, my son needed a car, so We agreed to give him 4m, and it even a Tokunbo car o..." The committee will be impeached that day! But hey what is 2.5b dollars? Please let them go. Is that why we voted you in? Who is not corrupt? We are in a democracy ooo! Nonsense! What were we in when they shared money meant for waging war? And the soldiers were not being paid. So the soldiers bore it till they couldn't any longer, so they protested. You sentenced them to life for mutiny. While PDP was sharing their monies and living large, they were dying to protect us. Come to think of it, what happened to the guy that chopped Pension Funds? HABA!"

Nigerians wake up!