As starving villagers eat grass,corrupt prof,CEO pockets $700 000

By Irvine Syazyombo
Unbearable congestion on the passenger train is normal. It is as hot as an oven inside the coaches. Because of overcrowding the vast majority of passengers have to stand along the isle.

The train is extremely dirty too. There is shit all the time on the toilet pans so the whole train reeks of a combination human waste, bad breath, shoes and sweat.

Passengers who are on long journeys of over 600 kilometers in that third world country have to endure the congestion and stench for four days because the diesel locomotive engine cannot zoom on the old fragile track.

If there is a derailed goods train ahead, the passenger train will ram into the wagons because of poor communication.

Meanwhile, passengers will have to spend a day or so before the derailed train is moved to have the track repaired.

Having seen problems of this nature,the new government employed a professor from a prestigious western university as CEO so that he corrects the situation.

The country with eighty percent of her citizens desperately poor also borrowed heavily so that when the railway system is changed into an electric one, doing business would be made cheaper, thereby boosting economic growth .

Little did authorities know that Professor Chilize had his own selfish ideas. He seized that opportunity to amass wealth.

Firstly, from a poor country awash with street kids, orphans begging in public places ,street venders earning half a dollar a day from selling little merchandize like sweets, vegetables and roasted cassava, and starving small scale farmers who have to eat grass to see another sunrise, Chilize demanded to be paid $600 000 per annum.

Professor Chilize also demanded that the railway company rent a house for him at $170000 annually. Clif Chilize also demanded ten air tickets per year to wonder with his wife anywhere on the globe.

Surprisingly, the company met all the crazy expenses before the CEO extended his greed to the capital he was supposed to use to change obsolete rail transport to electric trains.

Without caring what impact the loan would have on the tax payer, the learned man orchestrated frequent fraudulent board meetings which gobbled $150, 000 per month.

Two board members would meet at any of their increasing mistresses’ homes to frolic, dine and wine. After that they would inform the CEO who would readily pay hefty sitting allowances without any minutes to justify the expenses.

When the scandal reached the public domain, the CEO accused his board members of corruption. They in turn also smeared graft charges on him.

Disgusted, the government suspended Professor Chilize to give freedom to his board members to uncover his corruption misdeeds like the numerous air tickets the company bought for him to wonder with his wife from south to North Pole.

Authorities also need to find out how much of the borrowed money has been squandered by the irresponsible CEO and his board members.

For now, Passengers will have to cope with the increasingly congested slow train until the track is turned into an electric one. That is ,if Clif Chilize has not squandered all the money his government borrowed specifically for railway infrastructure.