Anger at 'pilfering' politicians

ANGER is in the air as the public is seething for revenge against politicians, public servants and their families who have tried to pilfer to blind public money as much as they could, Southwest People finds this out in vox pop conducted recently.
     A female civil servant who gave his name simply as Oluwakemi said the public's confidence in Nigerian leadership has “hemorrhage” because of the degree of stealing that permeated the President Goodluck Jonathan regime.
      She said politicians who are find guilty of this crime against humanity should not only be jailed all the looted funds should be retrieved and pour such recovered funds into education and health.
Oluwakemi said: “Maintaining the current degree of stealing of public money in our political practices creates hardship which this incumbent President Mohammed Buhari inherited.
     “Nepotism which makes the wife of a former governor becomes a senator or the son of an influential political leader to become member of national or state assembly also creates another layer of corruption, protects political dynasties, and creates the appearance of politicians and their families trying to pilfer as much as they can.”
    Chief Adejare Ogunwale said the issue of corruption is not what a 4 year-regime could tackle. “To actually tackle corruption in Nigeria we need 16-year regime of the kind of President Buhari.
    “You cannot imagine that a sane man would steal raw one million dollars and kept it in a septic tank. You will also remember a female civil servant who kept over two billion naira in a bunker she inside her bedroom. Surprisingly, she never let her husband to know. My brother, these people should be lined up for firing squad. They are mentally sick,” Chief Ogunwale said bitterly.
Alhaja Ramota Akinpelu while responding to thedispatch's question began by raising expletives against the pilfering politicians, public servants and their families.
Akinpelu said: “If I have my way I would have liked these people (corrupt people) to be given the treatment given to Okotiebor in the 1966. Though I was yet to be borne by then but I was told that the man was tied to moving vehicle and dragged around before his mutilated body was dumped somewhere  from where his family picked up the shattered body for burial.
      “There must be a way to shame corrupt people to serve as deterrence for others. I am ashamed to be a Nigerian when you hear the amount of stolen money by individual. You ask yourself what they want to do with that kind of money.”
      A student, Tony Osofisan, told thedispatch that by the level of stealing that EFCC has reported Nigeria's walking corpse. “The country is dead. Our future has been stolen. What do we do? I pray for parents to get money to pay my school fees.”
    Mr. Stephen Enisola, who describes himself as church priest, told thedispatch President Buhari was God's judgement over those who have kept this country backward over the years. He said if the only achievement of President Buhari administration is to wipe off corruption in Nigeria he would have achieved significantly.
     “Every Kobo stolen should be recovered from these corrupt individuals. They should be put in jail for at least ten years. Their names should be published and placed on bill boards all over Nigeria so that we can remember them from time to time. Shame their families too,” Enisola suggested.