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Trapped by Coronavirus, Nigeria’s Elite Faces Squalid Hospitals

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Good, it will force the government to eat their own dog food. Maybe this will motivate them to invest a bit more in the country since it’s not only others, poor citizens suffering the consequences this time.

The amount of schadenfreude for jerks in power who treat their own citizens as second class humans and just jet away to UK/France for an actual medical industry is +1000 XP points. Few other squalid oil dictatorships come to mind next...

Not only Nigeria. The downside is that such "elites" are creating VIP covid hospitals (or wards) for themselves thus robbing ordinary citizens of a chance to get proper treatment.

Most likely it will force them to govern remotely....

Na. They are already experts at that. Nigeria's president already spends an awful lot of time outside the country. Also didn't give a speech about the virus until late last month.

Kinda makes the US president look like a hero in comparison.

Trump and Buhari are quite similar in how they preyed on the yearnings of the low class to get "elected". The Buhari administration blames the past administrations for every conceivable thing. (And I've seen Trump do the same thing).

Whenever Nigeria's current govt is caught red-handed, they reframe the narrative by saying, "This is nothing compared to 16 years of theft by PDP" (the last ruling party)

If you've read animal farm, you'll remember how the farm starved under Napoleon's rule. And how Squealer convinced the animals that they actually have more food and better lives than under Snowball and Humans.

It's amazing but these guys actually pulled this Squealer move off.

But all these pale in comparison Buhari's ultimate move. I don't know how he/they did it. But...

His supporters never blame the president - even when they grudgingly admit things are worse. They'll simply say:

The president is good. It's just that he's SURROUNDED BY BAD PEOPLE.

Still makes him look good in comparison.

A contact for Dangote was on the table one a half year ago. I am very glad now, I steered away from it.

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