Immediately after the rainy season in Nigeria, President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana made the first of a series of visits to Nigeria in order to hold talks with General Sani Abacha. Their talks would take place over the next 9 months as they would seek to develop a micro enterprise system among small businessmen from both countries as well as enter into a free trade agreement with the two neighboring countries.
Upon arrival at the airport, Jerry Rawlings and his entourage of 25 were greeted by Abacha and his entourage of 50. There, they exchanged pleasantries and immediately drove off in Abacha's Limousine.
They were not five minutes out of the airport when Jerry Rawlings spotted a man urinating at the side of the road. Five minutes had passed and Rawlings saw at least six more men relieving themselves at the side of the road.
Too his amazement, Rawlings then spotted a woman and her four children all urinating on the road.
It was at this point that Rawlings threw up his has in disgust. "Why is it that Nigerians are so dirty? Every place I look, I see someone urinating or taking a S_ _ _ on the street as if it were a toilet. Can't you maintain better control of your people?" said Rawlings.
"Shut up!" yelled Abacha. "You stop all of this self righteous rubbish immediately! Everywhere in Africa, this is the way of life. All Africans do this. And besides, you can not fool me for one minute and tell be your people are above this."
As silence came over them, Abacha made a mental note to himself, that on his next visit to Ghana he would point out how Ghanaians piss in the street.
Upon arrival with his delegation at the airport in Accra Ghana, Abacha made it his duty to point out the first urinator that he saw.
Jerry Rawlings was not yet finished asking how the Abacha family were doing, when no more than three minutes had passed since they departed the airport that Abacha so a man in a long white flowing robe urinating.
"Mr. President! Look. I thought you said your people don't piss on the streets?" said Abacha.
In a fit of rage, Rawlings ordered his driver to stop at once and apprehend this violator. When the man in the white robe was brought forth Abacha's eyes bulged from his face and he fainted.
The cause of such reaction was he recognized the roadside pisser in white was his (Abacha's) Minister of Housing and Development!!!!!



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