Nigerian Leadership pockets $380 Bn - what would you do with the cash?

[zoltan]

I'd keep the rest and use my immense wealth to bankrupt a small country just out of spite

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Switzerland seem to have it coming, seening as it wqs pretty intergral the theft in the first place

 

[Poi E]

Switzerland seem to have it coming, seening as it wqs pretty intergral the theft in the first place

I vote the UK! Probably taught the generals everything they know.

 

[subversplat]

Is that enough money to seriously destabilise some world economies?

You could pay everybody in the UK £7,000 not to go to work for a few months! That'd fuck some shit up.

Maybe just pay everybody on minimum wage more dosh than they'd earn working to stay home?

 

[editor]

I'm renaming this thread and moving it to the right forum

<shakes fist>

 

[Firky]

I think it stinks, especially since the money was nicked following independence. Human rights and foreign investment are going to be hampered because of this, and any attempts for justice... pfft! Why bother.

Sad day for Nigeria

 

[Firky]

http://allafrica.com/stories/200610180014.html

"That is to say that the money that past Nigerian leaders have stolen in a 40-year time could have recreated the beauty and glory of western Europe six times all over in this country.

"By 1998, the Central Bank had computed that N200 billion was lost in the failed bank phenomenon," he stated.

 

[Poi E]

Probably fart all compared to Mobutu in Zaire/Congo.

 

[slaar]

that is a rather simplistic argument. you have a token that is issued for the purposes of exchange in a compulsorially monetary economy

What's compulsory about it? Bartering is still quite legal.

 

[slaar]

http://allafrica.com/stories/200610180014.html
That is to say that the money that past Nigerian leaders have stolen in a 40-year time could have recreated the beauty and glory of western Europe six times all over in this country

This is absolute rubbish. The money they are talking about is peanuts compared with EU income. The UK GDP in 2004 alone was over two trillion dollars.

 

[gosub]

Private space program. Moonbase Crispy.

The Nigerian space program existed, and is still marked of Jetway maps as a number of small circles of no fly up to 80,000. A Dutch 'gentleman' convinced the government that the whole satellite aspect could be done with tethered balloons. I don't know how much money the government gave him but the balloons have ye to arrive.


Had the 'pleasure' of being targeted in Bangkok by the crew who did the magic bag scam for the whole civil service salarlies, it's the paper thats magic not bags. bDidn't get done, but boy were they persistent.

 

[marty21]

drugs and hookers

and just waste the rest?

 

[gosub]

This is absolute rubbish. The money they are talking about is peanuts compared with EU income. The UK GDP in 2004 alone was over two trillion dollars.

The European Commision reckons the Single Market benefits the economies of the EU to the tune of €164.5 billion a year whilst Gunter Verheugen, the EU enterprise commissioner, reckons that compliance with Single Market regulation across the EU costs €600 billion a year.


According to

http://www.evertiq.com/newsx/read_news.aspx?newsid=5489&cat=6

and
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/10years/docs/workingdoc/workingdoc_en.pdf

 

[slaar]

The European Commision reckons the Single Market benefits the economies of the EU to the tune of €164.5 billion a year whilst Gunter Verheugen, the EU enterprise commissioner, reckons that compliance with Single Market regulation across the EU costs €600 billion a year.


According to

http://www.evertiq.com/newsx/read_news.aspx?newsid=5489&cat=6

and
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/10years/docs/workingdoc/workingdoc_en.pdf

Why is this relevant?

 

[JonnyT]

I'd buy ZOG. Or maybe the Vatican. either way, get some powah

 

[gosub]

Why is this relevant?

Because on the estimate it takes Nigerian government approx 45 years to squander what is pissed away in the EU in one year, though only have Commissioners word for that, as they haven't had accounts signed off in over ten years. Did you know that under the 2004 Financial Services Act it is illegal for the UK government to give monies to organizations that fail to properly account for it?