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Hi Folks,

 

This is surely going to make you laugh, just read to the end! Just for fun; don't attach strings please. 

 

Your mother has a child, and your father has a child. This child is not your brother and is not your sister. Who is he?"


 

 

Once upon a time, when Baba (Obasanjo) was in office as the president, he got an invitation from the Queen to come for a visit to England. After all the banquets and carriage rides and what not, Baba finally got the quiet moment he had craved all day in order to have a one on one chat with her majesty. After the usual small talk, Baba quickly popped the question. He asked her what the secret to her success was. You know Nigerians, we think everything is a secret…the President’s health status is a secret, his whereabouts is a secret, reports of the various panels of enquiry set up by govt to investigate the causes of different crises around the country are kept secret, we even have secret registries in every government agency in d country. Maybe we are a secretive people, we love secrets. 
  
Anyway, back to our story. So Baba asked for the SECRET
to the Queens’s success and she told him that she relies on her people a lot and therefore she makes certain that only the intelligent get to positions of authority.


She decided to show him exactly what she meant and so she phoned Tony Blair. "Now listen carefully, Mr. Obasanjo. I'm going to ask Mr. Blair a question to determine his intelligence.” 
  
Queen: "Hello Mr. Blair, I have a question for you: your mother has a child, and your father has a child. This child is not your brother and is not your sister. Who is he?"


Tony Blair replied instantly, "It's ME Your Majesty!"


Queen: "Correct! Thank you and goodbye"


"You see Mr. Obasanjo?" said the Queen.


"Yes”, he replied “and thanks a lot, I'll definitely be using that!"


Once back in Nigeria, he decided that he had doubts about Mantu’s level of intelligence and he decided to test him. He arranged a meeting with him and asked him:

  
"Mantu, I have a question for you; your mother and father have a child. The child is not your brother and is not your sister, who is he?."


Mantu thinks...... and thinks………and thinks, and finally says, "Em, Mr. President, you must give me more time to think about it."


And Mr. Obasanjo gave him 2 weeks to come up with an answer. That afternoon, Mantu called a meeting of all his aides, advisers and assistants to discuss the question, but NOBODY knew the answer. So he decided to take it to the floor of the Senate. After a heated debate the Senate President thought it wise to clear out the gallery and go into a closed session as he believed the revelations that might result could be damaging to the family and reputation of the distinguished Senator Mantu.


After about two hours of deliberations, the house decided to set up an ad hoc committee to look into the matter and report back to it in ten days. The committee was given the following terms of reference
  
1. To come up with a complete family tree of the entire Mantu clan 
2. To pay a courtesy call to the traditional ruler of Mantu’s village and the State Governor 
3. To interview all living relatives of Senator Mantu 
4. To determine if Sen. Mantu’s dad had any extramarital affairs 
5. To determine the DNA composition of Sen. Mantu (in Germany of course or Saudi) 
  
On completion of its assignment, the committee was to submit its report to the Senate which would then pass it on to the Senate committee on special duties.
This committee would then review the report of the ad hoc committee and come up with a draft “white paper” (whatever that means). This draft “white paper” would then be brought back to the Senate and on approval would be passed on to the President through Senator Mantu.


The Ad-hoc committee then submitted its budget which, of course, was kept SECRET, but included funds for; 
  
a) The immediate purchase of Land Cruiser jeeps for each of the 12 members of the committee. The jeeps would be used to travel to Mantu’s village because, as you know, Nigerian roads are bad and Mantu’s village is remote. 
b) Air tickets (first class of course) and hotel accommodation in Jos for committee members and their numerous aides. They’d stay at the Hill-station hotel and drive to Mantu’s village in the morning. 
c) Air tickets (again first class) to Germany and back, and hotel accommodation (five star) for everybody. 
d) Estacodes and hazard allowances 
e) Logistics 
f) Miscellaneous 
  
Even though the budget was kept secret, you can easily come up with the figure by taking the actual estimate of the above list and multiply by ten. You’ll only run into problems when you get to the final two items (logistics & miscellaneous) , as these are usually added to cover for all the people that need to be “settled” in order to ensure that everything goes smoothly. Therefore the figures have the tendency of varying widely and so it can’t really be predicted. 
  
Anyway, the money was released and the committee started its assignment in earnest. They finished within the time frame that was stipulated in their terms of reference and they prepared a voluminous report which was to be presented at the senate at plenary. But on the d-day when the chairman of the committee was about to make the presentation, a distinguished senator from the Southern part of the country raised a “point of order”. He argued that the committee was illegal because its composition was lopsided in favor of a certain region in the country. He pointed out that of the 12 members; seven were from the North and only five from the South. Not to be outdone, another senator, this time from the North, raised a “point of order” on the “point of order” that was raised by the senator from the South. He argued that since the committee’s assignment was primarily to investigate the lineage of Senator Mantu (who was from the North), they needed 
senators who knew the terrain, who understood the culture of the people and their language. 
  
More points of order followed and after a while the Senate President decided to put a stop to it by subjecting it to a voice vote.


And thus he announced, “All those in favor of the committee being considered legal and thus go ahead to present its report say “AYE””.
And the house responded accordingly.


And then he asked again, “All those not in favor of the committee being considered legal and thus should not go ahead to present its report say “NAY””. And the house responded accordingly. 
  
Unfortunately for Mantu, the “NAYs had it” and thus the report was never presented. Now Mantu had a really big problem, because the President was waiting for an answer and he had run out of time. So in one last effort, he decided to phone his very good friend Jerry Rawlings who had always sounded intelligent to Mantu and thus might have the answer to this really difficult question. 
"Jerry, your mother and father have a child. The child is not your brother and is not your sister, who is he?." 
  
Jerry answered immediately. "Hey, Mantu, It's me of course, you dumb Nigerian!" 
Mantu couldn’t believe his luck and so he rushed to Aso Rock Villa, his motorcade of five cars moving at top speed with sirens blaring. Ordinary Nigerians going about their normal businesses scampered out of the way. When they finally arrived their destination, Mantu literarily ran all the way to the President's office. 
  
"Mr. President, Mr. President”, he called out, breathing heavily. “I know who he is.” 
Obasanjo: “Good, so tell me” 
Mantu: “It’s Jerry Rawlings Sir! In fact, when he revealed the SECRET to me, I started to see the resemblance between us"

  
Obasanjo: "Jerry Rawlings ko, Jerry Gana ni. You are such a stupid senator. Olodo rakpata! I'll make sure you don’t return to office after this term. Stupid man, the correct answer is TONY BLAIR!" 
  
And that’s how Mantu never returned to the Senate even though he supported the President’s third term agenda.

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laughable as it may be, this is the most accurate illustration of how wasteful our political office holders are.
it also illustrate how matters of public interest is being shrouded in secrecy.
& finally it paints how incapable they are.
it's high time we start putting round pegs in round holes, it's high time we start fighting imposition & embrace credible election f competent candidates.
God help us.
Wao. It is well. Whoever this author is, you are not being fair to Nigerians, we are not this dumb!!! Cheers
Wow! There are indeed intelligent people in Nigeria but they are not allowed in the places of authority. There is no doubt in the fact that there is surely going to be great changes whenever Nigeria starts having well-educated and intelligent leaders. Imagine a prospective senator being asked to mention some mineral reources that we have in Nigeria and he started saying; we have coke, fanta, sprite etc. Tell me don't you think if that person is asked to represent Nigeria among other countries, he has already disgraced Nigeria. People might even think all Nigerians are like that. NIGERIA!!! May God help us.
We really need to seriously and earnestly pray to God for his intervention to return us to where we belong as the Giant of Africa and a country of incorrupt citizens because we don't need to deceive ourselves about the fact that we've lost our place and position among other countries both in Africa and among other countries of the world.
I can't stop reading it over and over again...
You are really good.. This is so true of the people governing us..
who is olodo among two of them,you make me laugh too much.is that the secret.stupid people wasting our resources may God give us better leader.you guy really tril keep the flag flying
Infact, this is the real picture of what our leaders are, "a blind man telling someone else you cant see" then what exactly has he seen? Please more of this is highly welcome, am still laughing as am typing this, I had almost laugh my head off!!!!!
NICE PIECE BROS. KEEP IT UP.
Infact it's joke of the year, CLAP FOR YOURSELF. It's a joke but means alot, a question that was solved with just i minute call in london was never solved with ONE BILLION NAIRA in Nigerian. when you appoint mediocre what do you expect. ABEG MORE JOKES FOR OUR BELLE.
Haba! I doubts if our leaders are so stupid as projected.
The joke is not bad anyway. Kudos
GUY U TOO MUCH BRAVO, I NO NIAJA PEOPLE ARE INTERLIGENT YES WE ARE. THANK YOU.
No its joke of the year..sounds real though;our leaders are stupid and chase only money.

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