Posted by Daedalus on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:45 | #

The most important part:

“Corruption in Nigeria takes on the complexion and reality of a systematic and endemic nature and it can dissolve and rupture an otherwise thriving state.

“Without seeking to befog you with statistics, corruption has cost us 220 billion pounds ($500 billion) of development assistance that has been stolen from this country since independence by our past leaders.

“That is to say that the money that past Nigerian leaders have stolen in a 40-year time could have recreated the beauty and glory of western Europe six times all over in this country.”

It’s truly laughable to see these people blame their condition on their environment. Few countries in the world are blessed with the oil of Nigeria or Angola. In Botswana and South Africa, Negroes literally live on top of diamonds.

Posted by President Barbicane on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 06:37 | #

This is interesting.  Recently I read a Nigerian newspaper, and the paper was filled with talk about the EFCC.  The EFCC is a very big deal in Nigeria, they are shaking things up a lot.
  One of the interesting things about this paper was that it contained a page that was heavily critical of the EFCC, saying that they were themselves corrupt.  Of course, this page was likely paid for by people indicted by the EFCC, but it makes me wonder if they may have a point.  I’m sure that the EFCC itself has political entanglements, and thus the $380 billion number is likely inflated, since it would be in their best interests to inflate the numbers.

Posted by Nick Tamiroff on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:06 | #

GW-In the mid 70’s,Iworked in Nigeria{and they only had 13 States then],and Chief MKO Abiola was our “in”,and we purchased a King Air turboprop[written off of course],to make bi-monthly flights to a bank in Amsterdam.Since we were an American company,and the pilot was Dutch,things always went smooth.Abiola,at that time a multi-millionaire{head of IBM Nigeria]decried politics,but when he attempted in the 90,s,won the presidency by votes,was jailed , died in prison-mysteriously.Even back then,you couldn’t get shit done without “dash"to every Black bureaucrat in the system.  Being an “official"in any Black run African country,whether a Minister or lowly PC,allows you to supplement your meager income by threats and/or intimidation.My biggest worry every month was to justify these bribes to the bean counters in the States-usually used “expedition services”,and forged a receipt.Bottom line   Nigeria is the most corrupt{and also the second-most economically incompetent country in Africa] The stories I could tell would make the most Kwanza celebrating,Kombaya singing, Liberal, Affirmative Action loving idiots scream worse than they already do at my tirades.Cheers Nick T

Posted by john on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:07 | #

So what’s happened to the 40% English pay from their earings in never ending, always increasing taxes?
Billions and billionns of pounds, all of it used by government on what?
Their politician are angels in comparison.

Posted by Nick Tamiroff on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:15 | #

John—-What? I’m American-maybe someone can translate.

Posted by Nick Tamiroff on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:27 | #

Jhon—just deciphered it now “earings"was supposed to be “earnings”;but yes,40% seems a little steep,but then you allowed all those Turd World immigrants and “asylem seekers” to enter your country,and YOU have to pay their way .Vote BNP next time,you twit.Cheers!

Posted by john on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:00 | #

Never voted. Didn’t let them in. Hope to see them leave. One percent is too much. Don’t pay for them as ex-pat.
The nigerian crooks are better than our traitors.
Hoping for a white mugabe.

Posted by Nick Tamiroff on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:40 | #

To Y’ALL-I find it amazing that the bioethnitists,alle searching genetiticists,anthropoligists,et.al.,haven’t come to the conclusion that most of we “great unwashed"accepted long ago-niggers are niggers-no matter where they be.And all the grants and taxpayer-funded “studies"will not change absolutes.Just try to enter a black"club”,evict a non-paying black tenant,or chastise some 300# black mammy for cutting the line at a check-out-you’re in for a world of shit,and your ass is in the hospital or being sued by some SPLC/ACLU lawyer.I don’t expect my dog to always crap in a certain place{definately not my ferrets],nor it to rain when promised by Ch 6.,just as I don’t expect rocket science from Blacks.So quit trying to shove shit down my throat—wez is NOT all eqkall!—{blank}

Posted by Nick Tamiroff on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:51 | #

john-just what the hell are you talking about?Either you or I have had too many Scotches,If you don’t vote-don’t bitch-you lost your right to complain.Elucidate,sir-you’re an empty cup.

Posted by john on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:04 | #

If I don’t vote I lose my right to complain? Very american.  Is that in the Bill of Rights? The only one left?

Posted by john on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:16 | #

Nick,  your point that there’s a delusional beleif in equality from some on the list is one I disagree with.
I do think there’s sometimes a delusional belief in the superiority of Westerners to no-westerners. From an EGI point of view all non-western leaders are superior to ours.  Amin was better than any American president.

Posted by Guessedworker on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:49 | #

John: From an EGI point of view all non-western leaders are superior to ours.  Amin was better than any American president.

Only because nobody wanted to migrate to the sty of a country he terrorised.  The ethnic solidarity of the common or garden kleptocrat African dictator is, let us say, murderously negroid.  That is, it is founded on an irredeemably individualistic calculation.

Here’s Bokassa’s palace.  Here’s the Kabaka’s Palace in Kampala, Uganda, where Dada Idi Amin installed himself.

In contrast, here are a few more traditional African royal buildings ... the kind of thing a mean 68 national IQ achieves when the white man’s wealth doesn’t distort everything.

Posted by Nick Tamiroff on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:58 | #

John -Funny that you should mention Idi Amin,in that to a large extent I agree with you on THIS individual.Iwas instrumental in installing and getting on-line with Intelsat the initial satellite earth stations in1977[?],broke bread with him,played basket ball with him,corresponded with him in Jedda until about a year before his death.Uganda,under Amin,was probably the best run Black country in Africa,and by far,the cleanest.His service in the British Colonial Services{only black colonel ever]served him well-he ran the country in a military fashion-work or feed the crocs[as foodstuff] Besides,can anyone accused of killing 300,000 Blacks be all that bad? Cheers [and VOTE!]
el

Posted by Amalek on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:17 | #

Africans who achieve lucrative positions are expected to endow their kinsmen. Much of what the liberal West, with its bloodless antipathy to ‘nepotism’, considers corruption would have been SOP in the English politics portrayed by Namier. Tax-farming, favouritism in awarding contracts, pensions, sinecures for your relations, simony, pluralism and absenteeism in its church… and hardly an eyebrow raised unless you overdid it as blatantly as Walpole.

Since the curse of 1789, we have been induced to think that there is something inherently disgraceful—or in the more dessicated judgement of economists, inefficient—about keeping it in the family. Yet the shamefully corrupt England of the 18th century—with its pocket boroughs and Whiggish dynastic backscratching—achieved the first agricultural and industrial revolutions in history, built a powerful global empire and became an object of international admiration for its mixed and balanced constitution.

Africans may be berks. They may also be Burkes.

At all events, as Michael Levin observed of their cousins thriving on white-financed welfare in the States, they are past masters of parasitism.