Dec 2018
Under a petty ruse,
Cloaked in plain sight,
Not well hidden,
A sanctimonious deceiver;
Sanctioned by incumbency,
Clever use of state resources,
Bending the rules in favour,
Open abuse of executive latitude;
But do the people care?
Too impoverished to mind,
Would readily be had,
Even for a few grains benevolence.
Cloaked in plain sight,
Not well hidden,
A sanctimonious deceiver;
Sanctioned by incumbency,
Clever use of state resources,
Bending the rules in favour,
Open abuse of executive latitude;
But do the people care?
Too impoverished to mind,
Would readily be had,
Even for a few grains benevolence.
The ruling party in Nigeria has cleverly devised a means of buying votes toward the 2019 elections by disbursing stipends to traders: market women and men; in the names of TraderMoni and MarketMoni. Softloans of ten thousand and hundred thousand naira respectively offered petty traders without collateral. This state backed daylight use of state funds ti bribe potential voters of that particular bloc comes weeks to elections in 2019. This is no different from outright exchanging money for votes, only cleverly wrapped in doling out pittances.
