"THE MADNESS ABOUT PRIVATE JET OWNERSHIP IN THE GOVERNANCE OF NIGERIA"

Nigeria has about 17,500 public elected and appointed officials at all levels of her government. These political leaders account for about 0.001% of the entire Nigerian population of around 160 million citizens. These public officials gulp about 1.13 trillion Nigerian Naira ($7.1 billion) yearly as their yearly salaries and allowances out of the federal budget of 4.9 trillion Nigerian Naira ($30.6 billion). In terms of numbers, the 0.001% of Nigerians are using 24% of the federal budget of Nigeria for themselves in the name of democracy and public service and leaving behind the 160 million ordinary Nigerians to jointly share the remaining 76% of the nation's income or $23.5 billion. The data above shows that Nigeria as a nation practices the highest wealth gap, the most massive poverty-creation scheme and the most pronounced income inequality today all over the human universe through this system of governance.

Today in Nigeria, some of the 36 governors are now acquiring expensive private jets that run into tens of millions of the American dollar through their tax payers' monies, state budgets or their own state security votes in the name of governance or public service. The states that most of these governors run in 2013 do not have the basic MRI machines in their hospitals, computers and internet connections for the students in their public schools. The roads in the states that they govern are all 21st century death traps and their citizens do not have any access to treated water or employment opportunities. These governors who own those private jets govern states that are so geographically small or insignificant in their territories or landmass and their states can be criss-crossed easily in two hours of road driving.

The only two public elected or appointed officials in Nigeria today that can truly justify the ownership of those private jets are the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and his foreign affairs minister. The President has constitutional responsibilities that cover the 36 states of Nigeria, ECOWAS, African Union, Commonwealth of Nations, United Nations, bilateral agreements and treaties with other governments and nations of the world. The foreign affairs minister has a portfolio that takes him or her to all the nations of the world that have diplomatic relationships with Nigeria. The other federal ministers and the 36 governors in Nigeria do not have any demanding constitutional responsibilities that are worldwide in nature in all truth, honesty and reality to own those private jets. They can fly on the first-class or the business class tickets of the major commercial airlines that fly into Nigeria from the nations of the world and also fly out of Nigeria to the nations of the world.