By EMMANUEL OGEBE, Esq.

1. Mop up foreign currency for use in political bribes pushing your own currency to its lowest point

2. Stop money remittances from abroad coming in in cash creating dollar scarcity and crashing your own currency more

3. Stop Treasury Single Account so government agencies can keep public funds in private banks to earn interest and kickbacks for corrupt officials

4. Remove ban on importation of certain products to kill local industry and cause capital flight

5. Sponsor over 1,000 people on international junket sucking up forex and promoting money laundering and more capital flight

6. Increase fuel price to cause spiralling market prices across all sectors

7. Increase import duties making cost of foreign goods exorbitant including used cars

8. Fail to protect or rehabilitate displaced farming communities causing drop in food supplies and increased costs

9. Propose land title “recertification” fees to tax people more

10. Abolish biometric-based staff payment authentication systems to allow for ghost worker fraud.

11. Borrow $3Billion to defend the naira and repay it with $12Billion future oil production

12. Borrow another $7Billion to defend the same naira promising to repay it in five years with your gas income even though you have no gas income.

13. Spend billions on pilgrimage subsidies

14. Buy presidential yachts, planes and limousines

15. Appoint a mega money launderer who moved Abacha’s billions abroad as your budget minister

16. Refuse crude supplies to a local refinery in favour of importation by saboteurs.

•Emmanuel Ogebe, Esq., International Human Rights Lawyer, writes from Washington, USA.

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