GoodLuck's Xmas Gift

 2009  a year when the credit crunch is ravaging the world economy, Nigerian banks tending towards bankruptcy,More than half of the 150 million Nigerians living at $1 (dollar) per day , fuel scarcity,  the crash of the Nigerian stock market value (i’m very sure of this part because my portfolio is about 20 percent of its former value),  kidnapping on the rise  and guess what the Vice President GoodLuck  got for Christmas ? , “everyly” i go tell una!

The Federal Executive Council in ALL its ‘WISDOM’ on Wednesday(23^rd dec) decided among projects of national priority to build a befitting accommodation for VP.GoodLuck  at the price of .....wait for it .

BOOM  7.1BILLION Naira (billion is the one with nine zeros ). 
I was incensed when i saw this figure ! and it would be completed in just 20months !

If one  lives in a 7.1Billion Naira house while on earth ,omo there’s no need to go to heaven again , abi what do you think? What insensitivity?

I dare say it is the mark of a bad leadership and even worse a corrupt  government.

At a time of financial and National distress Oga GoodLuck gets the most expensive gift for Xmas (if you got one more expensive pls email me) .

To let you understand the magnitude of this project I converted it to dollars and  got the amount of $47,579,278 and with this price tag i went looking for property within  the range of this outrageous sum of cash.

Here are a couple of properties i found with their price tags

$7.9million

$28million 

$13.9 million 

$45 million

• Private golf course (and indoor virtual golf)
• 2-lane bowling alley
• Full arcade and restaurant
• Home theatre (seating at least 25) replicated after The Fox Theater
• Model train room
• Horse stables and riding ring
• Carriage house
•  82 rooms;
•  10 bathrooms; 
• 9 half bathrooms
• 12-car garage
• 2 elevators
• 28 foot ceilings
• 47,000 square feet
• 72 fenced and gated acres

$...???...

And how do they compare with the squalor that is Nigeria? 

(the reality of the average citizen ?)

$?????????

$????????

$??????(priceless huh?)

I’m sure you can now see the chasm that exists between the  leadership and its citizenry  

How in Gods name can we as a nation justify building ‘Disney Land’ for our VP at a time like this  ?