Saturday, May 16, 2009

NIGERIAN FRAUDSTERS, NEED RE-BRANDING?

Dora Akunyili, now you have your job cut out for you, as these Nigerian alleged fraudsters could use some of your re-branding potion! They are very good candidates for your re-branding program? They are the reason why Nigeria has no moral value abroad and treated with utmost disdain as a very fraudulent country? Who gives Nigeria a bad name but such fellows as were arrested in New York just recently, for various credit-cards frauds?
This people and their likes are part of the reason why Nigeria needs re-branding? Icheoku says, an opportunity has never presented itself better for the anti-corruption crusade in Nigeria, than the present arraignment of these Nigerians for various acts of frauds in New York, United States of America. If convicted, EFCC must explore ways to re-try these people in Nigeria for their anti-Nigeria's image activities; and possibly confiscate their assets and properties which they have squirrelled up in Nigeria over the period of their expatriate escapades! Examples are painful but are very instructive!
What very "good" ambassadors of Nigeria these folks really are? Probably, they fell under pressure of trying to prove themselves to their people back home in Nigeria, that America is all this and that; that they have made it and now living the American dream? What an unfortunate nation that produces so much criminality that no sane person trusts any of them throughout the globe?
As always, Nigeria is once again "demanding" that United States of America government give them details about these 40 Nigerians. Icheoku asks, doesn't the Nigeria government know that freedom of information act is operational in America and that a little diligent search of publicly available records would reveal all there is to know about these suspects? Better still, they can engage an attorney to go to Borough of Queens, New York and demand to see what evidence they may have against these arrested Nigerians?
However, Nigeria have made so many broken promises to her citizens in the past and no one really looks forward to seeing anything come out of the present development in New York. The fact of the matter is that Nigerians need to change their ways; and until the world begins to see Nigeria as a safe place where the incidences of fraud and corruption no longer take the center stage, it is going to remain same old same old! Icheoku says, what is required now is a firm commitment by the authorities in Abuja especially EFCC to set example of their anti-corruption effort with this 40 Nigerians, who have rubbished whatever is left of the image of Nigeria. Enough should really be enough, and opportunity now knocks!

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