There is a famous expression- "a goat grazes where it has been tethered". Being in government gives certain corrupt officials the opportunity to make money by hook or crook before it is too late. They serve themselves and not their people or country!
The late Marshall Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Nbgendu Waza Banga- of Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) even advised his cabinet ministers to loot treasury. He, however, cautioned them not to steal too much and to do it with caution and not to be caught!
There are still people of good conscience around:-
The former Minister of Public Health and Transport in Cameroon, the late Professor Bernard Nsokika Fonlon, was once asked why he did not loot the treasury and Build houses with ill-gotten gains like his cabinet colleagus. His answer was,
'They build houses, and I build people.' 'Dodere, Movere, Placere'
Culled from the book by Boniface Ndemping Wewe: The Joys of African Sex, Jokes , Courtesies and Idiosyncrasies © 2004
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