Article: Bangkok Post, Thailand, Insider Column.

Jan. 29-- THE RICE THAT NEVER ARRIVED: Bemoaning official corruption is a favourite parlour game locally, but those who carp sometimes need to be reminded that things could be worse. You could be living in, say, Nigeria.

From Allafrica.com comes a delightful tale of a rice shipment that never reached its intended destination. And, as a colleague observed, if the existence of the shipment had not been broadcast in advance, its failure to arrive would never have been noted at all.

The story began with announcement by the government of Ondo state that it planned a Christmas and New Year gift for its hard-working civil servants, in the form of 215,000 sacks ...

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