RE: Interesting to see the 2 teams23 Jul 2022 22:30
well CJ, quite a bit to deal with here. you flatter yourself if you imagine your utterances are worthy of rage though. pity might be closer to the mark. first things first. you have told this board that you no longer hold stock in San Leon, having sold at a significant loss after the collapse of their business in Poland. fair enough i suppose, although to the casual observer you must admit it's a bit weird all these years on to be attacking San Leon’s Nigerian business, when that was irrelevant to your own investment decision and you're no longer even a shareholder? you tell us you worked in oil and in Nigeria and you claim to have some empathy with Nigerians. you appear to have no problem though in quoting your board friend, Afamefuna, on his research on corruption in Nigeria, despite his showing no compunction in faking west african pidgin as his style of communication with this board. i wonder if you have ever imagined just how insulting that is to genuine West African people who read our board? no? you were correct in reporting that David Cameron observed that Nigeria was 'fantastically corrupt'. he was speaking with the Queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury, quite inappropriately imo for a PM on the occasion of the UK hosting a conference on anti-corruption. apparently Justin Welby had to correct him by saying that Buhari wasn't corrupt and was trying very hard to sort the problem. when Buhari was approached the following day by the BBC, he looked disappointed saying that everyone knew his country had a problem but they needed help from the UK in repatriating the billions of dollars laundered here principally in real estate in London. sadly no response from Cameron, who i'm afraid looked like the t0sser he always was. you need to be careful throwing around glib accusations of corruption, as they have a habit of coming back and biting you on the btm, as we've found out only too recently with the vast wealth invested here by corrupt Russians. i think most San Leon investors have got their heads round this issue and have taken a pragmatic view. which brings us neatly back to you CJ and what you're really about here?