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The clip was an excerpt from his address during the multi-sectoral National Anti-Corruption Conference held in January when he narrated an anecdote ona corrupt Nigerian minister.
The clip was picked up by Nigerian twitter user Chiekezi Dozie who captioned it “When other nations crack these kinds of jokes about Nigeria in public, you know we are finished.”
A user stated, “This is so sad, and I hope it’s a wake-up call for our president to rise up to the occasion and make the true change. By God’s grace Nigeria will thrive again with or without these set of leaders. They and not our nation will miss out at the end,”
“This is a very sad reality. It addresses the true state of affairs. We are now a joke,” another noted.
During his address, Raila drew parallels between how development projects are carried out in African countries as compared to Asian and European countries.
“A minister for Roads from Nigeria was invited for a tour by his Malaysian counterpart and when he got there, his host took him on a tour to showcase various infrastructure projects and at the end of the day he had dinner at the Malaysian minister’s palatial house.
“At the end of the evening, he asked his host how he had managed to do so well for himself to which the Malaysian minister took the Nigerian to his balcony and showed him a highway far off. ‘You see that highway, 10% here’ the Malaysian said,” Raila narrated.
Raila continued, “When the Nigerian had taken the visiting minister round his house in Lagos, the Malaysian repeated the question, ‘how did you manage to do so well for yourself?’ he asked.
“The Nigerian took him to the balcony and asked him to look far into the horizon. ‘But I don’t see anything’ the foreigner said. The Nigerian explained, ‘That highway, 100% here’,” Raila concluded.
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