This is the power of lrony. She thinks heRekindle in a sort of messianic light, not for society but for herself. She feels wronged, she feels purloined and betrayed.
Nothing will sway her or dilute her resolve. How come her 15m Dollars was taken away from her? And no one thinks she should not fight? Others will call her naive and say let others take the fall on her behalf. But she wants to prove to the Magu-led EFCC that its her money and they must return it.
Patience Jonathan being a naive woman flops about with a sort of dangerous innocence. She thinks it was rightt for her to open a dollar account, or accounts, ply them with humongous sums of money.
She was only a permanent secretary and a first lady in those years, and no one could makea fraction of 15mDollars without raising a high brows. That is innocence, Patience Jonathan style.
No one is sincere when she said "there is God O! or when she insisted that she was husbandless in "fellow widows". Or when she asked a photographer. " are you taking us alive?"
She never bothered about her illiteracy. She has not tried to restrain herself, or attempted a lesson in civility or public etiquette. Mama peace's story only exposes herself. Her revelations tell us two things, among others.
One, she unveiled how people in Hijgh places take away money in stealth, except that she is not prepared to hide because she believes it is her money.
Two, that her husband was not able to tame her. She is the shrew that got away. She spoke her mind,hurt people, humoured a nation, created traffic bedlam in Lagos and never saw a reason to apologise. She said she took the money to heal herself.
The other lesson is the "Baboon dey chop, monkey dey work" syndrome. Just like we saw in the confessions of Dasukigate, people had easy access to public funds without labour that Is the primitive splendour of capitalism.
They wanted to turn lazy hours into wealth. We still have many of them who are now finding it hard because Buhari's era does not reward the grandiose lndolence of the Jonathan era.
RPI......................Mission rekindled.
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