They have never failed to live up to what really people thought they have been up to. They would, and, indeed, have been grabbing every opportunity to fight back with the hope of bringing down the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, simply because he has declared war, practical war on their pay-masters.
This time around, the fight back platform is the issue of President Buhari inserting in a speech he delivered a fortnight ago, a paragraph of Barak Obama’s inaugural speech in 2008, as American President.
Yes, some smart alecs had dug deep to bring out the portion of Obama’s speech which was stolen, known as ‘intellectual property’: yes, the Presidency itself has admitted the situation as it was presented and apologised, but they would not rest – those corruption-fighting-back brigades.
As a matter of fact, the way they have been beating the drum of ‘crucify him’ you would think that plagiarism has anything to do with the high prices of foods and other items in the Nigerian markets!
You would think that the act of plagiarism is the same as stealing the nation’s billion of Naira and even Dollars by a few privileged ones. Indeed, one gets confused by the noise being made by those Brigades about plagiarism to the point of asking, what really is plagiarism or how does it affect the nation’s economy or individual well-being?
The American President, Obama, whose words were plagiarized has never said a word so far; none of the aides of Obama has uttered a word so far (I stand to be corrected), but here in Nigeria, it is a big deal. It is another opportunity to make ear-shattering noise and get paid for it.
We have all forgotten about the poverty in the land or subdued it; we have all forgotten about high cost of goods and services; about lack of food to eat, about lack of job to do to earn a living, about the real thieves who are daily being brought for all Nigerians to behold, and what we hear from corners of the country, from the loud-mouthed ones is plagiarism. Plagiarism!
From one fruitless and none issues to another, the corruption-fighting-back-brigades have continually lost out as the corruption battle on the heartless few rages.
Of course, those of us who have maintained our sense of reasoning because we are not corrupt, watch with baited interest, the fizzling away again, of this plagiarism job for the boys.
Una do-o-o!!! [myad]
