I don’t think people know there is an eye hospital in this Abuja that is managed by Indians that there surgeries are very cheap. They charged 75k for a cataract surgery for as against 500k in Enugu. Their services are seamless and swift.
All these made up stories will further damage the little values that we have as a people.
It's no longer gele and ichafu or Owanmbe. Now we have to fight over ai stories.
This is surely not how to build a functional society.
We need to stop excusing the bad behaviour of our politicians and calling everything “politics.”
No.
It is not politics.
When you deliberately lie against another politician like Soludo is doing to Peter Obi, that is not “politics.”
It is bearing false witness.
When you deliberately misrepresent a policy that could benefit the country, work against it, and then years later come out to say:
“I was only playing politics.”
NO.
You deliberately put political interest above the interest of the country.
When you pay people to vote for you, disrupt elections, snatch ballot boxes or manipulate election results, that is not politics.
That is electoral malpractice.
That is undermining the people’s right to choose their leaders.
When you misappropriate public funds, that is not politics.
It is stealing.
When you abuse your office for personal gain, that is not politics.
It is corruption.
When you deliberately sabotage something that would benefit Nigerians simply because your political opponent might get credit for it, that is not politics.
That is putting personal ambition above the public interest.
I can go on and on.
There has to be a line between playing politics and engaging in conduct that is simply wrong, unlawful and punishable.
We have become so used to politicians doing terrible things that we have created this convenient umbrella called “politics” and thrown everything under it.
No o.
Politics is not a licence to lie.
It is not a licence to steal.
It is not a licence to rig elections.
It is not a licence to sabotage your own country.
It is not a licence to put your personal political interest above the welfare of millions of people.
Call bad behaviour what it is.
Because the moment we start excusing everything as “politics,” we make accountability almost impossible.