If you want to get rich quick, here is the Nigerian blueprint. But
please, don’t tell anyone I “wiki-leaked” this highly-classified
national secret to you
1 Rob a bank
This strategy has
gone through some transition. Bank-robbers used to be men of
theunderworld who held banks hostage at gunpoint and then made off with
the cash. However, it was soon recognised that this approach has
distinct disadvantages. You might get arrested and jailed. Even worse,
you might get shot. It also became apparent that banks carry limited
amounts of cash.
Therefore, a successful bank robbery of this
violent kind might only land you perhaps 50 million naira tops, which is
not even enough to buy or build a house in Banana Island. There is a
better way to rob a bank with far limited risk. Simply establish a bank.
When
you establish a bank, you can rob the bank every day without a gun.
When people deposit money in your bank, they don’t know that they are
handing over their life-savings to a thief. You then rob the bank you
establish in a number of imaginative ways.
For example, you can
lend money to your bank and then charge it a very high interest-rate.
Better still, you can borrow billions from your bank and simply forget
to pay it back. Or, you can use the money deposited in your bank to buy
houses and then rent them out as branches to your bank at exorbitant
prices.
This approach is guaranteed to make you a fewbillion
naira until the EFCC policemen come calling. When they do, you can
quickly fall sick, spend a few months in Deluxe Hospital Hotel and then
relocate to your village to enjoyyour wealth, never to be heard of
again.
2 Join the PDP.
This one is a sure banker. As a
member of the greatest party in the history of Africa, you will be given
a credit-card to spend Nigeria’s oil wealth. If you are not getting
enough attention in the party, make a lot of noise. Abuse Tinubu on the
pages of the newspapers and call Buhari an .
Insist that Goodluck
Jonathan should not only run for re-election unopposed in 2015, there
should be a constitutional amendment to make him a life-president. This
is a tell-tale sign thatyou are hungry; and the powers-that-be will soon
invite you to “come and chop.”
As a distinguished member of this
great party, the opportunities open for you to set yourself up for life
are considerable. For example, you can start collecting billions for
petroleum subsidy and simply not import any petrol whatsoever. You can
get the government to change all car license-plates nationwide; and then
become the sole supplier of the new license-plates.
You can ask
the president to make you the soleimporter and distributor of diesel for
the entirecountry. Of course, this might also entail that you become
the chairman of his re-election campaign, to which you duly make a
handsomecontribution. Alternatively, you can ask to be chairman of the
Nigerian Ports Authority.
Nobody will bat an eyelid when, within a
matter of months, you have a fleet of cars, havetwo or three houses in
Asokoro, and own four hotels in Dubai.
You may even kick out your
wife and marry a fourteen-year-old “Suzie” befitting your new status.
You have arrived as one of Nigeria’s celebrated rich men. But keep your
eyes on the ball. Don’t get distracted or carried away. The enemies of
Mr. President must always remain your enemies.
3 Start a mega-church
This
one is pure genius. Peradventure you loseyour job or fall on hard
times. Don’t go into depression. Just start a church. Make it a
purpose-built church. Think of something that men need. Tell them you
have the anointing toprovide it. Tell them whoever wants to be a
billionaire should come to your church. Start afew of your messages with
“Thus says the Lord.” Then teach your congregation the everlasting
principles of sowing and reaping.
Make sure they understand that
if they really want God to bless them financially, they first have to
give you as much money as possible. Create a special prayer group for
millionaires and billionaires. That way, if they get any new government
contract they will attribute it to the efficacy of your prayers and
credit something big into your bank account. Tell everybody to give you
their “first-fruits.”
That is a code word for their entire
January salaries. Then come up with imaginative offerings to collect,
such as “prophet’s offering,” (you, of course, being the prophet);
“Father, Son and Holy Ghost offerings;” “Jesus will do it offering.”
Very
soon, you will be flying your own private jet to preach your gospel in
Ilesha; you will be wearing white Armani suits and jerry-curling your
hair; you will be collecting gate-fees for new years’ eve services;
billionaire thieves androbbers will be queuing up to see your
private-secretary on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. In short, you will be
living large. For good measure, you will also be slapping demons out of
poor bewitched damsels with impunity.
4 Become a mule
There
is high demand for this job. There are many politicians and men of
timber and caliberlooking for mules; men who can keep stolen money for
them, or smuggle it to safe havens abroad. This is a highly lucrative
job because for every ten billion naira you smuggle, you can pocket one
billion. Don’t get greedy and come to the conclusion that you can make
off with the entire loot.
That is a sure way to have assassins on
your tail. Before they kill you, they will first break your legs. If
you are caught while smuggling money abroad, you can easily escape and
comeback home dressed as a woman. Then you can get a national merit
award.
If you are a mule for a president or a governor,you are
set up for life. You will get 24 hours military protection so that no
petty thief can come near you. You will get to travel all over the
world. You will get free medical check-ups,so that you don’t just fall
down one day and die.
That would be disastrous, especially if
your sponsor does not know exactly where you kept his loot, or if he
does not have the password to the secret account you opened for it in
the Bahamas in the name of Ali Baba.
5 Obituary
I
remember the story of a former Nigerian Head of State who allegedly kept
a billion dollars with a mule. Then the mule had a stroke. Every effort
was made to get him to say just a few words, namely the number of
theaccount where the loot was stashed; but to no avail.
After a
few months, the man died. This “national” calamity has prompted the
review ofthe conditions of service of mules. There are now two new,
strictly prohibited, clauses. Mules must not have strokes, and under no
circumstances should a mule presume to die. If he does, his generations
yet unborn will suffer for it.
(P.S./N.B. If you have perfected
other Nigerianapproaches to quick wealth than these, don’t hesitate to
let me know. I promise to keep the matter strictly confidential). Abeg
if them catch you no mention my name o! Infact, we no meet sef. U no
know me I no know U.. Gbam!
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