Subsidy removal has been about the only advise Nigerian authorities have effectively resisted from multilateral financial institutions for over three decades.
The point, though, is the expectation that leaders of poor countries ought to be humble and more prudent with public resources. But this is seldom the case. They are frequently the ones who jet off to Western capitals with pomp and flair to solicit aide. They are more adept at wrong precepts and thrive in them.
But this is not a comparison between a head of state and an athlete. After all few people on the street ever know that Alberto Fernandez is the name of the Argentine president, or that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is the name of the Portuguese president. But every school boy can tell tales about Lionel Messi of Cristiano Ronaldo.
Materially, Mujica couldn’t possibly compare with a supervisory councilor – not to mention a local government chairman, state or federal legislators, governors, anyone in the cabinet or presidency for that matter. – Long convoys of the most expensive vehicles money can buy, retinues of aides, every kind of imaginable benefits without taxes and at the expense of the state.
It defies logic that a nation with a GDP per head of about $2,065 parades the highest paid legislators in the world whose outlandish accruals doesn’t come anywhere near their output in terms of legislative performance of oversights and other responsibilities.
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