THE PANAMA PAPERS REVISITED; WHICH WAY NIGERIA?

Most African elite have been aware of the revelations, in 2016 of the Panama Papers compiled by a network of International Investigative Journalists exposing how corrupt leaders and business moguls in advanced economies and third world nations alike milk their people to the detriment of the common good. The world seems to have taken these revelations in its stride and moved on. Those indicted have hardly shown any sense of remorse starting from the poorest African potentate to powerful friends and point men of Russia's Putin.

And now another trove has been recently released under the name Paradise Papers. Yes, more of the same. Who cares? Should any one care?

It is amazing that with the recent revelations in the Paradise Papers some Nigerians have found it appropriate to circulate once again the following summary from the earlier document, the Panama Papers made from an African perspective. From the report on Zuma's South Africa I have been struck by the following:

"MAKING BABA HAPPY
The story of the Zupta Empire shows how even a country with a professional and independent judiciary and media, parliamentary oversight, political and press freedom; a ruling party that was once headed by Nelson Mandela with a programme of democracy, good governance and justice for all; an industrialised economy, modern urban centres with electricity, water and roads infrastructure, can regress."
We should all be seriously worried by this trend.

Nothing could be more illustrative of Zuma’s view on accountability than this anecdote reported by a former government official concerning his response to questions in parliament:

“He once told me that Putin doesn’t have to account to parliament, so why should he?” Etc! .
If you swap Zuma’s name with Congo's Joseph Kabila or Rwanda's Paul Kagame, the conclusion is the same.

I just wonder why this "African" Report didn't bother to offer any insight into Nigeria's own sorry situation. Perhaps it is such a hopelessly irredeemable case. Is it?

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SEXUAL HARASSMENT: HARVEY WEINSTEIN DISPUTES LUPITA NYONG'O'S ACCOUNT. OH YEA?

If we are to believe the deranged Charleston Emmanuel AME Church shooter Dylan Roofe, since the advent of slave trade into the New World four centuries ago, the average black male spends all his waking hours dreaming of a sexual encounter with the wives and daughters of his white "owner." They certainly couldn't have been working and planning how to break free, the subject of the many epic tales of rebellion by black slaves. Yes, their brains must be in their loins. The white version of US history resolutely refuses to acknowledge that black slaves, despite centuries of conditioning, would never want to be slaves, actually did want to be free and given half a chance went for it. Unfortunately such narratives whether in Haiti or the Carolinas are not supportive of white ego.

It is against this background that a powerful white male will be a predator with respect to all females within his span of control. For goodness sake why would a Harvey Weinstein, against the run of play, now choose to display a discrimination in taste when the lady in question in the equally delectable and black Lupita Nyong’o? Nobody is fooled. Louisiana and the entire southern US is filled with evidence of the escapades of whites, powerful or not, who couldn't keep their eyes and hands off hot black women. ## [Harvey Weinstein, accused by dozens, specifically disputes Lupita Nyong’o’s harassment claims - The Washington Post] is good,have a look at it! https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/harvey-weinstein-accused…/…

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