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According to webster's collegiate dictionary, democracy is 'a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.'' It might interest ms. elnora Daniel, the president of Chicago State university that these former military generals are not believers in social justice and economic equality. They are not democrats. They are Shariacrats. If they were democrats, they would had preached, practiced and promoted democracy in Nigeria when they were respectively at the helms of power. Nigeria's oil revenues and foreign reserves systematically disappeared when the generals were in charge. At the time General Babaginda was disgraced out of office Nigeria had less than $1billion in foreign reserves. In eight years of his rule, would anyone believe that Harvard University's budget was bigger than that of Nigeria, year in year out. General Abdulsalami Abubakar inherited over $6billion in foreign reserves and by the time he left office, 70% of the money was gone. Obviously, a little bit, and I don't know how much, of Nigeria's stolen wealth had found it's way at Chicago State University. And that explains why the generals are coming. Ms. Daniel and the board of trustees of CSU has to understand that why the generals are coming to flash dead presidents, millions of Nigerians cannot afford decent meal on a regular basis. While the generals lives and enjoy their hilltop mansions, 10kilo. down the hill are the blinds, beggars and destitutes. If the generals are sincere about preaching democracy I would submit to them that charity begins at home. And, one last question, why did the generals not show up at the celebration of Nigeria's 40th independence? Because they would have risked being stoned. I would hope that the president and board of trustees of CSU would abandon the Abdulsalami lecture series because millions of Nigerians have suffered untold social and economic hardships at the hands of the generals. Just remember that the money given to CSU by these generals were stolen and dirty. Thanks, W.C.O
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y initial reaction was that of shock and betrayal and then I started
thinking that money must have played a major role for Chicago State
University to invite former Nigeria's military heads of state to deliver
lectures on democracy.