RAUF AREGBESOLA – SILENCE IS GOLDEN
At times when we really have nothing to say, we should sha just keep quiet. It is not every time that because we are minister and there is occasion, we must talk. We can stand up and greet everybody and say, I am sorry, I just took the COVID-19 jab, and I am not feeling too well, let me pass, and I know Nigerians, they will clap, and some will even follow you home to make sure you got home safely. So this talk about Chinese people hawking vegetables on the road being economic sabotage is funny. Some things in my head to talk, I for like say, face to face before they say I disrespect ogbeni, who I am not sure of his spiritual inclination. You know these people before they carry cow horn for me and these school fees I dey find I no go come see am again. But let me just say something at this point, I have not seen any Chinese hawk vegetable anywhere o. The one I see na those ones that used to give me massage on Victoria Island and be asking if I want a happy ending and I will say, ‘are you mad, common do the thing’. Is it oil that I cannot rub on my body in my house that I will be coming here? So my brother, even if they are hawking vegetables and aphrodisiacs, that can never be economic sabotage. But instead, that is their contributing, their own quota in reflating the economy. When you go to London, don’t you see Nigerians sell fufu in Thames mead, or Guinea people sell fake wristwatch in New York? My brother, if you are looking for real economic saboteurs, open that your kembe and look down into the thing you will see a shrivelled, disused economic saboteur hanging loosely there. Where we get these kinds of actors beats me.