THE Dead HorseTheory Of Governance in Nigeria

The tribal wisdom of the Red Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says, “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.”

However, the Nigerian government prone to copying anything that is from the Americas, imported  the wisdom and advanced the strategies the Indians employed in dealing with a dead horse to the next level, such as:

1. Buying a stronger whip for the dead horse.

2. Changing the riders of the dead horse.

3. Appointing a committee to study the dead horse.

4. Appointing another committee to study the cause of death of the horse.

5. Appointing a third committee to study the reports on the dead horse; the cause of dead and  advise government accordingly.

6. Hiring Consultants to advise government on what to do with dead horses in future and or how to stop horses from dying.

7. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.

8. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included in monetary allowances for being dead.

9. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired and ascribing it a Federal character.

10. Visiting the six geopolitical regions in Nigeria in order to see whether each region has a dead horse, so that there is Federal Character of dead horses.

11. President Goodluck Jonathan will go on national Television and his face-book page to tell Nigerian that as a patriotic and transparent leader, he knows exactly what to do with dead horses in the interest of Nigerians and that the future will be bright for dead horses.

12. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

13. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.

14. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse’s performance.

15. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse’s performance.

16. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.

17. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses, dead or alive

18. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

19. The sycophants and ‘eye service people’ will hail government’s trans-formative agenda for dead horses to be the best thing that will happen to Nigerians, lastly

20. PDP, the ruling party in Nigeria and of course some gullible Nigerians will come out strongly against Tunde Bakare, El Nasir, CPC, ACN or anyone that offers suggestion contrary to position of government on dead horses, as detractors and lacking credibility to question all the foregoing laudable achievements of President Goodluck’s transformation agenda for a dead horse.

What a Country? So much Ado about a dead horse. CRY, MY BELOVED NIGERIA!

I. L. SAMBO ESQ.

ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, ARBITRATOR &

CAPITAL MARKET CONSULTANT.

Abuja – Nigeria.

EMAIL: ilsambo@yahoo.com

10/2/2012