Stop Debating Violence Against You By Pius Adesanmi.

My blockapalooza will now extend to any annoying Nigerian citizen whose moral compass has been so whacked by Nigeria that s/he thinks there is room for debate over the ethics of padding.

Just what exactly is wrong with you, citizen? Is there anything, anything at all, that your traducers are capable of doing to you without your somehow managing to be split in the middle over right or wrong?

No politician IN ANY PARTY has been indicted over theft in recent memory without your splitting in the middle to argue whether theft is right or wrong.

No politician IN ANY PARTY has been indicted over fraud in recent memory without your splitting in the middle to argue whether fraud is right or wrong.

Indict a politician for rape and there will immediately be a national debate over whether rape is rape in every context; whether there are contexts where rape may actually be good for the the victim.

Worse, let a politician openly confess to any of the aforementioned crimes and there will still be a split in the middle.

Politicians are openly indulging in a mud fight over the extent to which they have inflicted economic genocide on you in the name of padding and what do we get?

People are confessing to padding. Dogara is even arrogant enough to declare it legit and what do we get from the victims? A split in the middle.

We get useless talk over the ethics of padding.

We get nonsense talk over the morality of padding.

From the victims fa.

You hear:

"Ehn, is padding really a crime? Is padding really a violation of the constitution? Shebi in America, they do earmarks. Shebi in America, they do pork spending."

Citizen, why do you think there is room for debate over every issue? Are you CNN? It is CNN that will discuss racism or lynching and feel compelled to "hear all sides". Lets hear from racists and lynchers.

Since 1999, some estimates put padding at about N12 trillion naira - 80% of which has disappeared into the private pockets of your Reps and Senators. They have stolen 80% of N12 trillion since 1999 and you are all over the airwaves cutting and slicing the meaning of padding.

Padding means you inflate the national budget in the name of "constituency projects" and you then keep the inflated part. What is even more perplexing is that your Reps and Senators never stop at stealing just the padded part. Even the legitimate remainder is also looted.

They then compensate you via trickle down by donating exercise books, ajinomoto, recharge cards, bags of rice, okada motor cycles, boreholes in the 21st century, public shalanga in the 21st century, ero alota, and sewing machines. They gather these items in the public sphere in some rickety village and make banners and invite some useless state governor to put one leg on top of another leg to come and launch nonsense.

Then some annoying aides will start posting nonsense pictures of the launch of their oga's "welfare and empowerment scheme".

Nigerian, take a hard look at the photos always splashed on walls by these foolish aides - does that look to you like 80% of N12 trillion? The real money, that should be providing you first class health facilities, 21st-century classrooms, roads competing with the German autobahn, that part of the proceeds of padding is what buys their mansions in London, Paris, New York, and Dubai. That is what maintains the ostentatious lifestyle of their children, wives, and concubines abroad.

What part of this scenario calls for the nonsense debate you are having over whether padding is right or wrong? And who told you that Americans don't frown on earmarks and pork? And do you have the checks they have in America?

The worst an American politician can do is put pork and earmarks in a budget in order to build roads and bridges in his constituency that are not really needed. Then he will accept a wristwatch gift or golf subscription for a year from the contractor and go to jail whenever Uncle Sam finds out.

You dare to drag this scenario into a comparative frame with Nigeria? May God soda your mouth for that comparison. And must we even use what is evidently a weakness in the American system to rationalize a monstrous crime in the Nigerian setting?

We are getting to a point where a politician would go on TV and confess to murder and Nigeria would immediately split in a debate over the ethics of murder.

I don't know what we can do to enhance the massive national repair of individual psychologies that we need.

We do have a National Orientation Agency - and agency that should have been integral to the plans of APC and President Buhari. Sadly, both APC and President Buhari have not been up to scratch in understanding the importance of national orientation. They have therefore bequeathed us with a National Orientation Agency whose uselessness is not subject to debate.

Sad.