The graves and the burials

Graveyards will be empty if there are no burials. So, somehow, the NNPC has been able to bury N1.40 trillion between 2009 and 2011 in unmarked graves, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) audit report shows.  The report showed how the NNPC bypassed the fuel importation regime specified payment rules, by paying itself from the domestic crude sales proceeds before remittance to the Federation Account.

Not only was the NNPC refusing to remit all monies into the Federation Account, but it also collect monies from other sources without remitting same. It may interest you that this is not the first burial the NNPC is accused of, no be today.

Angered by the decision of the court not to  investigate in which graveyard Yusufu buried 23.3 billion Naira he stole from the Nigeria Police Pension Board, hundreds of protesters descended on ministry of justice in Abuja onThursday. Although the pension thief has been re-arrested by the EFCC, the pensioners are conveyed in hearse to the graveyard one after the other. Truly, a worker's wage is in heaven.

Speaking of graves, the nation is busy either  with a burial or an exhumation of rotten bones. The latter was the case when “the wicked stepmother” Madam Due Process took Nigerians to the graveyard of about 10 trillion Naira buried by the GEJ government in less than 6 years. The government has been trying to deal with the stench flying in the air ever since.

Tired of stench, flying coffins and subsequent graveyards in Nigerian airports the Federal Government has decided to clear the plane graveyards. Workers at the international airport in Lagos are currently busy dismantling planes abandoned in an area called the "graveyard". You'll remember the 2005 plane crash? The company involved still have two of its aeroplanes rotting at the graveyard as it went into the darkness.

Darkness is one feature of the graveyard in this country. An American energy giant General Electric says it will bury $1 billion in Nigeria, promising to more than triple the country’s electrical output over the next 10 years.Let's hope the sting of death and the power of the grave will not prevail over our foreign friends.

Atiku Abubakar has said China is our genuine friend. I'm sure the Chinese are ready to reinforce the concrete on the graves of our dead and buried textile industries. 你是我的朋友怎么样？  

Maybe the demise of the industry made girls dress in skimpy clothes and walk the streets of Abuja almost naked at night. The FCT administration has decided to bury N5 billion into rehabilitating Abuja babes in mini skirts.

Not sure of the promise of naked virgin in the grave, some members of the dreaded Islamic sect defied the cease fire and sent some police officers to their grave in Gombe.

After months of scratching the grave and mourning the loss of $500, 000 Otedola bribe the EFCC has decided to charge Farook to court and bury the case once and for all.

So, have a nice day as we wait to be served the souvenir from the burial of subsidy payment, after all its all about graves and burials. Stay alive!