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Category: Tony Marinho

  • Our Girls; ‘Made from Nigeria’ billionaires: Give up oil blocks and more

    Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. Pray and work for their release.

    At last a piece of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) has been passed –7 or 8 years behind schedule partly because of animosity to allocating a miserly 10% of oil block profits to the community? I have said that all oil blocks should be recovered, from their already billionaire owners for little benefit to Nigeria, by the federal government and returned to the communities for the benefit of thousands. Nigeria should enrich thousands with millions instead of one with billions. Why is one $50,000,000,000 Bill Gates is better for society than 50,000 millionaires or why one $19,000,000,000 Dangote is better than 19,000 millionaires catering for 19,000 families?

    Why do individual hairdressers, fashion designers, generals, Alhajis, Obis, Kings, ‘seasoned politicians’ and insultingly, their progeny, have the singular right to ‘a king’s ransom’ in billions annually because apparently devious, selfish and even anti-Nigerian Presidents ‘dashed’ away Nigeria’s sovereign property? Depriving host communities where the billions are made but which wallow in the mud of exploration and developmental deprivation without books in their rubbish schools, medicines in clinics and with maximum potholes per square meter of road. Shame! They are now over-wealthy enough in Nigeria with a minimum monthly wage of N15-18,000 that shamefully does not fill the petrol tank of a politician’s jeep bought with the people’s money.

    Have the oil block leases not expired? Can we not ‘expire’ them? If not, government should exercise sovereignty and demand loyalty from our ‘Made in Nigeria Billionaires’, MINB, to give space for others. Call the oil block owners to agree that enough is enough and get back our oil blocks. Change the ownership of oil blocks in favour of the people and change Nigeria forever. Amen. In fact there is still too few Bill Gates/Warren Buffet ‘GIVE BACK’. I call it ‘Shame for exploitation or self-enrichment’ at the expense of others, though WB has an apparently clean slate.

    Conscience should encourage our ‘Made in Nigeria Billionaires’, MINB, to also come together to change education with a few million books and a few thousand libraries and a few thousand science laboratories and a few tens of thousand sets of sports equipment and change the face of medical cancer care with 37, one per state, modern cancer investigation and equipment centre and  a few hundred hospital upgrades and change the face of transport with a few hundred kilometres of modern high-speed railways.

    When Steve Jobs died, he regretted family and fortune – poor links with family and poor spending of fortune. At death everyone wealthy wants to give away most his fortune to make life better for others [and get to heaven], but is usually too incapacitated or prevented from doing so by friends, family and lawyers. At death no one regrets not buying Arsenal. Are they happy the price of cement went up from N300 to over N2000 on their watch? So why should we praise them when they donate N1-400,000,000 to a Presidential library? I do not think so!!!! MINB need to work harder in D-CSR-Developmental Corporate Social Responsibility to each every village and school!

    Imagine Customs holding up yet more imported electricity equipment at the port and thus further delaying Nigeria’s electricity empowerment and emancipation from generators. Whatever happened to joint inter departmental an inter-ministerial meetings where movement of such goods is monitored and accelerated in the national interest? Too many illegal and legal bottlenecks! Open them up or kill Nigeria!!

    The rumour of a coup is not the question but a wrong answer to a Nigerian citizenry unnecessarily burdened by the financial and power excesses of its servants- politicians and civil servants and contractors- all running roughshod over us with no sense of loyalty! The real question is ‘What manner of ‘Malware’ politics are we enduring that gave rise to any requirement for ‘rumours’ of a coup, even if not in fact? Certainly it is not the abuse of the now legendary debilitating and corruption infested and sometimes laughable ‘Electoral Process’ by almost all of Nigeria’s serving and past politicians and many citizens- thugs and stomach infrastructure givers and beneficiaries. Politicians should correct their self-enriching and vocally arrogant ways in favour of the citizens’ will for change.

    Not one of the millions of suffering citizens with any ‘mental, physical, emotional or body-count injury from or memory of military rule’ wants a ‘military one step forwards, 100 steps backward’ and probably bloody coup and counter coup, no matter how they is couched in wild imagery of near-divine rescue – ‘salvation’, ‘redemption’ or ‘corrective’ and even ‘punitive’. But unfortunately our politicians, who must exonerate themselves from being mostly election-manipulators, bribers and corruptors of elections, also know this and are largely running roughshod over citizens and emptying the treasury in their impunity and immunity from even coup plotters violent ‘justice’. Because of the general hatred and unfriendly international attitude to coups, politicians think Nigerians have no way of reacting to their abundant, abysmal, arrogant and avaricious anti-people actions. But one day ‘We The People’ will be forced to react to abuses and insulting behaviour including arrogant and insulting unsubstantiated claims to being Distinguished, Honourable or Excellent! It may be at the forthcoming elections when hopefully Nigerians will rise above stomach infrastructure and bribery for votes!

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  • Our Girls; VIO dead? Good. Now Police Corruption

    Our Girls; VIO dead? Good. Now Police Corruption

    Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. Pray and work for their release.

    Government at state and federal must implement long-term anticorruption strategies. We are happy with the Lagos State Governor Ambode’s outrage at corrupt practices in the VIO, a Vicious Invasive Organisation, with a long tradition of terror from the motoring citizenry, not just in Lagos and his warning to FRSC to revert to preventing road crashes on highways and not hamper traffic with disruptive checks and blocking roads with their vehicles. I was stopped by Federal Road Safety Corps, on Saturday on UI Secretariat Road, Bodija, for ‘car check’. Is it even a federal road? And I have been stopped by the same FRSC more than 10 times including again last week on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway while trailers destroy traffic rules and roads by overloading and driving on the left lane. ‘Trailer/Lorry- Drive in Right Lane’ and ‘trailer-Lorry Anti-Overloading’ Education Campaigns would be appreciated. Please extend the ban nationwide till the VIO is cleansed.

    Most government agencies quickly mutate into uniformed criminal organisations. I fear for the citizens at the hands of the newly created local policing groups unless there is proper monitoring and daily documenting and review by civilian security monitoring committees/ Security Ombudsman. We know that citizens need protection from uniforms. It is sad to see the driving of high officials even the dark blue clad and gun-toting Civil Defence in Bodija Ibadan every morning at 7.30am.

    This government made a huge mistake. It could have stopped institutionalised corruption in its uniformed organisations from Day 1. By all means chase our corrupt outflows of money cross-party please. Which party is innocent of corrupt diversion of public funds? But they can all stop today!

    Government should have immediately on assumption, read the ‘Stop Your Office Corruption Now Or Your Head of Department Will Be Fined/Fired/Retired Agenda’; not the ‘Please Come On Boards If You Like Agenda’ to all its uniformed agencies. These uniformed agencies, instead of being helpful to citizens, extort massively from citizen and business which mop up and therefore add an additional ‘Hidden Cost of Business And Living Tax’ conservatively estimated at N12-24b for citizens using checkpoints and another N50-70billion from ‘Seasons Greetings’ Customs etc. checkpoints at airports, ports, Customs roadblocks and borders nationwide. This does not include the extortion of tax agencies, ministries and agencies where citizens seek services. Government has at long last taken action against Customs, a most corrupt outfit and is also ordering ports to work 24/7 something ports should have been doing for 30 years.  It is similarly easy to reform the Police and wean that organisation from its established reputation of corruption which the FRSC seems strangely happy to also inherit from it. The citizens are already armed with social media ready to flood government with information on corruption from cell to commissioner. To stop police corruption, government should not go to the streets but face the top brass. A Federal Executive Could meeting should simple inform the Inspector General of Police that if in one week, there are still reports of corruption from any part of the country, he will be suspended and if it continues for two weeks he will be fired/retired unceremoniously- no parade and perhaps so will all his top circle of AIGs and commissioners! He should be instructed to return in one week to inform FEC about any remaining pockets of corruption in the Force which he/she needs help to eradicate. He will quickly turn to bite his AIGs and commissioners with the same threat and they will turn to bite Area Commanders who will turn and bite their DPOs and road block remnants. By the time 10 DPOs, five Area Commanders two state police commissioners and one Zonal AIG are under suspension for ‘Dereliction of Duty’, they will understand the seriousness of the government.  Allowing or not preventing corruption is a failure of leadership and ‘Dereliction of Duty’ means permitting corrupt behaviour on their watch. Police corruption will stop and if it does not then sack more and more until we get a clean force. Corruption is indeed a disease but not like hypertension which does not go away. Corruption kills the country. It is not compulsory even if it has been a way of life for 50 years. It is an action which is not necessary and you will not die or choke if you stop. Everyone alive can stop being corrupt for a day, a week, a month, a year if the cost of corruption is instant, sufficiently high with disgrace, suspension without pay and without uniform rights, incarceration, an instant dismissal and prosecution.

    The same process must be repeated for all uniformed agencies and MDAs with a huge nationwide ‘Neighbourhood Watch’ monitoring network observing and reporting corruption among traffic police, traffic wardens and prison warders. I can safely say that simple ‘50metres Observation Post Test’ will prove that too many of the traffic wardens including females in Bodija and at Orita Mefa in Ibadan are very busy with extortion from danfo and micra taxi illegal taxation and also private car ‘greetings’ demanding ‘gratification’ embarrassing and disgracing the uniform in the presence of children, our future leaders and doing wrong with no punishment. However there is redemption as there is a traffic warden, male, light complexioned, at Customs junction Secretariat who is a saint and should be triple promoted.

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  • Our Girls; Budget DelayGate; Killer MPR

    Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. Pray and work for their release.

    At last the very annoying and slow running Abuja Saga ‘Budget DelayGate 2017’ is perhaps finally over and the budget has been passed back to the presidency for assent or rejection of any additional funding inserted by the National Assembly (NASS) which could bring even further delays perhaps making Nigeria miss a whole budget year- like with university strikes!  The presidency has to swallow a bitter pill if it wants to get moving. If not, the saga will continue. This Budget 2017 has been passed in May five months ‘too’ late, by the ‘Almighty’ NASS which seems to have forgotten that more than half of it is from the President’s own party, in theory at least, even though many appear to have two party caps. They also wear the toga of NASS and they ignore party responsibility and act against everyone else. Yet they were sent to the NASS building to fight for and protect ‘our’ rights and not their own rights. Why does it seem to us that NASS sees itself as ‘a separate entity’ immune to the needs of the citizen?

    Whatever the cause of the ‘Budget DelayGate’ the Nigerian people will never forget or forgive the NASS for this delay of the budget. It is unfortunate for the citizens that they are on the receiving end of such poor cost effectiveness from a very expensive organ of governance which is getting more expensive by the day and refuses to reign in its own financial ‘budgeting’.

    Let that NASS know that ‘We the People’ are very disappointed with the delay and recent increases to the budget. How many Nigerians truly believe that constituency projects (CPs) are really primarily of any real value to the citizenry and not just conduits for fund diversion through corruption drive chosen contractors? EFCC should investigate every single CP in the past eight years and discover if there really is monumental fraud by those who claim they own CPs or is that just fake news? EFCC should become more proactive and preventive by placing itself in the vanguard of ‘Preventive Monitoring of the CPs and Budget’.  EFCC requires to ‘budget for’ training, equipping and dispersal of an ‘EFCC Preventive Unit’.

    This government must learn from its mistakes and the activities and inactivity of NASS which have slowed down governance and government activities and reducing the impact of government on the citizenry. Government must submit the Budget 2018 by July or August 2017 latest so that for once we can start a budget on January 1, 2018. Then in December submit a 2018 Supplementary Budget to take care of any improvement in financing that occurred between July and December.

    Is the monstrously murderous Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) not also a deadly parasitic disease punishment for being Nigerian inflicted by a past CBN and government and perpetrated for government and CBN to illegally continue to live off Fellow Nigerians and their sweat? Nigeria has suffered assault and battery and murder by politicians, corrupt officials and the maliciously calculated MPR. Who was responsible for our high MPR? Strangely economists have not called loudly enough for the CBN to kill the Development killing ‘Killer MPR’. The Monetary Policy Rate of 14+/- 2% is inbuilt in that rate by ‘tradition’ and enriched CBN beyond all expectation directly at the expense of the nation’s needy borrowers. The MPR is a prime example of the Banking Extractive Industry at work and remains a huge problem and obstacle to development at the family, microbusiness, mid business levels. Indeed this has been recognised as many programmes are ‘magnanimously’ exempt by government from the MPR in order to get more realistic, family budget and business-friendly single digit Interest rates of 5-9%. The entrenched MPR in the economy is a major stumbling block to business borrowing. Since many organisations, Nollywood, Aviation, Entrepreneurship programmes are now exempt it is time to exempt all borrowing citizens and all businesses for such a yoke.

    Away with ‘Killer MPR’ above 1-2%! We now know that hyper-inflated politicians and arrogantly high government and parastatal officials whose excesses are already paid for by our taxes, have access to huge slush fund sums in bastard safe houses and stolen cash caches stashed in cartons and coffins and caves with friends, gardeners, and even cemetery attendants. Ordinary citizens, unlike the big guns, suffer from low power supply, high cost of power substitution and high interest rates for goods and services needed for business development. Government needs to realise that entrepreneurship is not a new word. Tens of millions of Nigerians employ the rest of our fellow Nigerians in micro, medium and large businesses, educational institutions, agricultural establishments, market shops and in medical and media professional groups around the country.

    The only recognition Nigerians get for keeping the country going by market activities during the decades of power darkness,  maximum theft, and no pensions and salaries-also due to government appointees’ theft, is not ‘a tax holiday’ but their reward is to be hounded by the tax man or woman. And this while they witness the billions recovered from those who were and maybe still are in power.  We are tired of governments perpetuating past government’s irresponsible policies. We are tired of CBN, taxing us with 14% interest on loans in the false name of economic stability.

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  • Our Girls; Health-President/School; NASS hyper budget

    Our Girls; Health-President/School; NASS hyper budget

    Our Girls missing since April 15, 2014 have 82 more released and have met President Buhari! Hurray for all involved.

    Life is serious and deadly in a country lacking visionary leadership in the past and even electric power – the basic foundations of sustainable rapid development for every business. Generators should not be in Nigeria’s business plans! None of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway 26 dead expected death especially death-by-burning through commercial driver carelessness and arrogance. We add the 30 electrocuted in Calabar and farmers murdered by Fulani herdsmen.

    Death is all around us. Nigerians fall sick with serious consequences for themselves, families and finances. Today our President’s health is The Big Issue among all Nigerians and foreigners and threatens to destabilise the ‘Nigerian Ship of State’. ‘The Health of Our President Is The Health Of Our Country’ is a reality quote. Interpreting the ‘lack of information’, our President’s health challenges oscillate between good and bad days. Fortunately many pray for him, believing that his family, the anti-corruption war and the naira need him, while others wish him evil so they can return to corruption and a weak naira inflating the naira they get for stolen dollars. As with any sick working patient, the President has just three options all in his own, family and country’s interest: ‘Recover, Resign/Retire, or Expire’. Beyond his control is a fourth option ‘Option Impeachment’ by the tarnished National Assembly. Our President is in UK since Monday on ‘Medical Leave of Absence’ and has handed over to the VP Osinbajo as acting President. We wish President Buhari a speedy recovery and AP Osinbajo a second successful outing as acting President.

    With firm criminal historical precedent, election 2015 money came from development-denying massive budget-theft, diversion and contract kickbacks at federal and/or state levels for every single political party ‘in any power’ with full knowledge of almost every politician who immediately becomes an accessory after the fact and  ‘ARSG’ – ‘A Receiver Of Stolen Goods’. However, most Nigerian voters were not bribed to give Buhari the Presidential mandate but believed in the Buhari mantra of twin gaols of fighting corruption and protecting the naira. To avoid rumours that he is sick making him a puppet president while others rule, he must appear regularly to annoy his ‘death-wish’ detractors.

    The ominous gathering of ex-military, non-civilian, past presidents in Minna reminds us that, had he lived, Abacha would have been in Minna too, pontificating on our presidential future. Others nko?  Nigeria must resist perpetual underproductive, non-developmental interference of the PPT-Past Presidential Triumvirate’ in our ‘Present Presidential Predicament’. They ‘gifted to Nigeria’ massive underdevelopment. The National Assembly, that bloated highly expensive, cost-inefficient, underproductive, self-centred, millstone around Nigeria has side-tracked party policies, party allegiance and has formed a dangerously reactionary ‘Politician-Protectionist, self-aggrandising Third Force’ against the party in power, and the people since it has not passed the budget in -5+ months. Politicians in this recession have just insulted us further by instructing an increase in NASS hyper budget from N120b to N150,000,000,000. So what is the lot of ‘We the People’ as our development money has been massively and repeatedly stolen at state and federal levels to fund fraudulent political lifestyles and fraudulent election purposes?

    In one day I saw a woman whose first pregnancy has ended in sudden death inside her of her baby at 32 weeks, a 30 years old lady with breast cancer spread to her liver, a two-month infant with glaucoma, a child with retinoblastoma- an eye cancer, a foetus with no head in the mother, a man with fatty liver, a man with prostate cancer and two schoolchildren who had an eye each injured, one by a playmate using a catapult and the other by a cane. That is one small clinic. Imagine the medical problems nationally where many states refuse to upgrade health facilities in order steal the money meant for medicines, salaries, equipment and employment of specialist consultants.

    Anyone can die of natural or murderous causes, but all suffer from poor electricity and poor health services and too little organised Preventive Medical Education in school. The Meningitis, Cholera And Typhoid epidemics, though not as flamboyant as Ebola, were spread by ignorance caused by poor School Health Education Strategies.

    Medicine is about Treatment, Research and Teaching Prevention. Nigeria’s ministries of health and education must unite to quickly implement the strategic teaching of Preventive Aspects of Medicine to 50m youth from an as yet unwritten Inter-Ministerial Preventive Health Textbook – A Topic A Page, 100-200 pages, 100-200 topics, in our schools and read ‘One Page Daily’ at Morning Assembly –nationwide backed up with Health School Posters Series.

    Hands should still be washed after toilet use and handling food. Drink enough water, 2-3litres a day, or you risk kidney stones, blood in urine and kidney failure. Fasting from fluids causes kidney disease. Urine should be colourless, clear like water. If it is yellow, drink two glasses of water immediately to make it colourless. Constipation is a crime against your colon and is a preventable, treatable disease and affects even children. Backed up undigested food in the colon causes haemorrhoids, abdominal pains, and can be misdiagnosed as typhoid and appendicitis. Prevention is drinking water, eating fruit and vegetables, soft watery cooked beans, and cupful of cooked vegetables like ewedu, okro, efo and bitter leaf. Adjust quantities for daily bowel movements.

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  • Our Girls; Bank overprofits;  Change Census 2018?

    Our Girls; Bank overprofits;  Change Census 2018?

    Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. Pray and work for their release.
    The 2016 Over-profits in tens of billions of naira by some banks, fail the citizen, contrasting disgracefully with North-east and national suffering and starving citizens. Worldwide traditionally, banks prosper from recession largely because they have a bank bubble i.e recyclable government funds and exorbitant interest rates. Banks and corporations should decentralise to towns all Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to let development impact the hospitals, schools, sports facilities and markets in their local ‘Square Mile’ of influence instead of costly T-shirt CSR in state, federal and corporate headquaters. Decentalise CSR to the branch, distributor, vendor and kiosk selling your products.
    Census 2018? Hope or hoax? No bribed census officials with N3 billion o! Census Corruption is wrong form filling, ‘counting down’ and ‘counting up’. Are we ready for a transparent, verifiable, corruption-free ‘Change Census’? If not, why waste N272billion which should solarise Nigeria and save every Nigerian more than N1,813 in power substitution? Population census counting is vital for statistics and planning. Should we spend one kobo on counting instead of feeding and financially empowering our 8,500,000 North-east compatriots, starving and needing support? We shamelessly beg UN and foreigners to feed them even as we struggle to recover from economic depression and financial rape. As usual Nigeria’s ruthless priority is in a corruption-prone miscount census, not feeding the dying and funding the living.
    Nigeria’s censuses have been a crime against Nigerian Humanity, fraught with government deceit – the highest form deceit-moral corruption! What has changed? Will we be deliberately miscounted again and conjure new False Figures to perpetrate False Federalism – the key disease causing Nigeria’s failure under-development?
    The corrupt policies in place are the deliberately criminally lopsided creation of LGAs each getting a handout of an average of N1b/annum, census manipulation, Value Added Tax and other revenue formula distribution, lopsided political and financial policies and appointments to name a few stumbling blocks to real equity and unity. In spite of these huge ‘illegal’ revenues diverted over 30 years from other parts of the country by a strange revenue sharing formula, the lack of development is glaring. It is so bad that UNICEF etc spend billions to replace ‘Lost Trillions’ stolen by the leadership! Is this reward for stealing- someone else will cry for your deprived children and replace the stolen funds?
    UN agencies regularly use the excuse of poor development indices to pump money in to substitute for the poor funding.  Our leaders have never been honest enough or strong enough to count us honestly. Festus Odimegwu tried to reveal facts while he was chairman National Population Commission but was unceremoniously dismissed. Is the census count still too sensitive and financially rewarding to be an honest count? Why will Census 2018 be any different? What will make even an honest count not be manipulated at NPC HQ as usual since 1956 figures? What is in favour of a sudden infection of Honesty Counting and Accurate Arithmetic in Census 2018? Nothing! Is there the political will while corrupt allocation of funds distributed based on a false federalism and false census figures giving permanent advantage to some and cheats others?
    Foreign embassies use satellites to project our true census figure. Immunisation statistics are easily manipulated for vaccinators to keep relevant, keep their jobs or under threat. Population and counting are huge money. Can Nigeria afford another census fraud spending N272,000,000,000 for a ‘census doomed to fail’ while counting an overestimated population nearer 150m than 180m with 50m added chicken and goats? At 150,000,000, this is N1,813,3/Nigerian.
    When will politicians distinguish between ‘The People’s Money’ and ‘Free Money Available To Steal?’ In normal countries there should be ‘NO Free Money Available To Steal From’ as every kobo stolen from the budget is actually crippling families across the country and is stealing food, education and a future from the mouths of children in rubbish bookless graveyard schools and steals medicine from needy mothers in filthy ill-equipped death-delivering delivery wards.
    Politicians need reorientation away from ‘the Free Money’ mind-set to one of ‘Achievement through development’.  We must urgently change our politics to alleviate the needles generational suffering precipitated by 50 years of needless theft of our needed budgets by politicians driven by greed beyond their needs should have been allocated to alleviate the needless. The ‘Steal Budgets To Steal Elections To Steal Government’ mind-set must be changed now before the 2019 election kick-off! Imagine if no budget or contractor funds were stolen or diverted. This would guarantee budget execution and development activities to the fullest even up to the election and appointment days of the elected 2019 government.  Imagine an election without stolen budget or contractor funds. Much cheaper elections will bring more honest politicians to the election. Also having spent this stolen money on elections, these parties and politicians seek to ‘recover’ their costs as soon as they get to power as if it was their own, and not the money stolen from citizens. Cheap elections  mean less need to steal to create huge ‘Election War Chests’ usually claimed to be N10,000,000,000 or N5000-10,000 for each of 1,000,000 citizens. Imagine what N10b could do in your state instead of dissipating it on ‘corruptly electing a governor’ with nothing else to show!
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  • Our Girls; Criminalise budget diversion for politics

    Our Girls; Criminalise budget diversion for politics

    Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. Pray and work for their release.
    We must ban and criminalise corruption driven political party funding and political election funding from budget theft or manipulation through contract inflation and percentages. Nigerians need massive reorientation before Election 2019 including Nollywood and Nigasong stars films and songs to ridicule theft in politics. This will require close pre-emptive EFCC, ICPC monitoring of political party activities before and during and not after the election. Shameless senators are still daring to distribute our funds as ‘their dividends of democracy.
    Since Nigeria’s birth, citizens have employed politicians who mostly impose themselves on us as conquerors through massively corrupted elections. We pay, clothe, house, transport, feed and them but they take more. As development indices decay, politicians prosper beyond comprehension -stupendous Salaries and Pensions and Perks, SAPP, retirement mansions, frequent car changes, magnificent medical cover. Then, greedy beyond need, they steal our resources to perpetuate themselves in the arrogant style they have become accustomed in pursuit of a grandiose delusion exemplified by prefixes of Excellency, Distinguished and Honourable. Nigeria must abolish such titles.
    Get it into your head and teach your children! The transfer of government revenues to political party activities or individual politicians is called ’Theft’!! The receiving political parties and politicians are ‘Receivers of Stolen Goods’– common criminals -a Criminal Offence! Period! This nightmare of fiscal malfeasance is revealed through the federal government Whistle-blower Policy. Extend whistleblowing to states and LGAs. It shows zero respect and disgust and disdain by politicians and their parties for the citizens- ‘I don’t care! Go, riot and die, my first demands as elected politician are 24/7 free electricity, security, multiple pensions, mega salary, home and transport all paid for by you koboless ‘mumu’ voters voting for principle, party, personality, ethnicity, rice or naira. Then I will laugh all the way to bags of your money in my safe house, soakaway and water-tank. Yesterday’s and today’s stolen money quickly becomes my today’s and tomorrow’s legitimate great family fortune to rule you till beyond Kingdom Come – if Heavens’ Gatekeeper will take a bribe! Hahaha’.
    Nigerians be fully aware that as you go to work, many politicians go to the office to steal! Imagine recordings from the 100 political party meetings from LGA to federal planning to steal budget funds. Chief, Alhaji, Otunba, chairman says ‘Take N10m or $10,000,000 from the budget of health or education and give it to chief’s personal assistant to fix the elections. Oh, and, give N3b to INEC’. Is that not treasonable felony ‘punishable by death or imprisonment’? Whistle-blow about ‘who said what, when, where’. Who are the despicable political people that planned and executed this treason causing our underdevelopment by fixing elections and fraud, corruption and citizen killing, violent coup plots to put a wrong government in power or perpetuate a fraudulently elected government in power? Coup plotting remains a capital crime- political or military – even in our much rubbished undemocratic constitution! We must ‘whistle-blow’ ‘How All Parties Defraud the Citizen by Funding Elections from stolen government budgets.
    The cross-party unquenchable ‘policy of massive diversion of public government funds’ and its implementation across Nigeria by the political leadership furnished their every need, legal and illegal, like election fraud. This is not a comedy because it is killing citizens. It is not ‘laughable’ or ‘laudable’ because it is not a Robin Hood crime where the poor benefit from crime proceeds carefully misnamed DOD- dividends of democracy. The theft and diversion of multibillions is ‘Heartless and Political Man’s Inhumanity to Suffering Citizen Man’.
    It is what the Americans call ‘Grand Larceny’ – a despicable theft of the nation’s patrimony by a large gang or breed of common criminals. Worse, it is a brazenly arrogant rubbishing of the citizenry by never delivering ‘social services’ from the abundant gifts from God. Without all the political theft, just like in non-thieving countries, Nigeria would have had $100-200b in foreign reserves, keeping the naira strong and infrastructure to be proud of. To date we have lost 50-70% of our gross income to fraud, fraudulently run projects and fraudulent policies. Only those inside the political theft circle clap but even they complain as they squabble over sharing of such humongous loot, looted from the mouths and futures of babes of Nigerian families. There is no honour among thieves. The repetitive political fraud repeatedly insults us screaming that ‘we the people’ are irrelevant. Politicians have become monsters giving crumbs to Nigeria.
    Most politicians blatantly lie during elections with never-to-be-fulfilled promises and distribute a few of the stolen naira for ‘stomach infrastructure’ lasting one meal or one day in order for the politicians to secure 4 -8 years of luxury pay and lifetime undeserved electricity supply, transport and pension! A very good ‘exchange rate’ for politicians, not for Nigerians! There must be a limit to political and all fraud and corruption. No country can survive more than 10% corruption.
    Come Election 2019, Nigeria cannot survive another election fraud culminating whether the money used is stolen, allocated illegally, stored or re-stolen for later re- and re-stealing.
    Solution: BAN CRIMINAL DIVERSION GOVERNMENT FUNDS FOR POLITICAL PARTY ACTIVITIES AND ELECTION CAMPAIGNS, ON PAIN OF IMPRISONMENT AND PROSCRIPTION OF PARTY. ENFORCE monthly PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF PARTY DONATIONS.
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  • Our Girls; $43M; Oil wells; INEC; Braids

    Our Girls; $43M; Oil wells; INEC; Braids

    Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. THREE long, hard, painfully traumatic YEARS.
    Below we discuss MegaMoneywhistleblowing, oil well ownership, INEC N3b bribe, and FRSCfemale haircuts.
    We had no power for Easter 2017! The WHISTLEBLOWN money $38m, N23m, £27,000, $43m hidden and not in circulation explain why Nigeria remains undeveloped with 2,500Mw power. Are such MegaMoney caches not too big for one person’s greed or excessive need? Are they [1] NIS safe house funds or [2] secret stolen political party funds, stashed, awaiting [a] forgetfulness to allow ‘disappearance’ or [ b] to be used for bribery to encourage [c] party defections and [d] Election2019 fraud? Wike [ W-likes, W-leaks, W-pedia], Amaechi and NIS, maybe all three, but certainly one or two are blatant liars who will be revealed by tracing the currency serial numbers from the USA to CBN to the issuing bank[s] and tellers. What security, spying, surveillance, Nigerian detective Lance Spearman or UK’S 007 James Bond-ic activities require $43m ‘ON CALL’ in one safe house? How many others? The $43,000,000 is FULL INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 860-1720 PERSONNEL to INTERPOL, @$25-50,000/annum OR ONE 2017 SUPER-FORENSIC CRIME LABORATORY in each geopolitical zones or every state and 2017 SPY TRAINING FACILITIES for ‘NIGASPIES.COM’. Why do we bury biblical ‘talent’ while the ‘SUFFERING’ police go begging states for logistics-a surveillance necessity? If it is Federal money why is it not in TSA? Money in the safe is financially unproductive and useless but easily ‘disappear-able’ from Superspy ‘Handing-Over Notes’. Is it just unused 2016 money to be chopped at year end? Such money in anti-democracy political hands can overthrow governments. Such ‘Safe houses’ are unsafe for Nigeria’s democracy. Remember it was ‘just’ N3,000,000,000 that corrupt INEC officials received from a single source??? Solution: Return ALL money to the FG Single Account or Rivers State if it is honest money as the serial number log dictates!
    INEC, which political party offered staff those bribes? Such corruption is usually multiparty! The other sources of INEC bribes, nko? Such bribing political PARTIES AND THEIR PROXIES have committed ‘treason’ –the attempted overthrow of the state by vote manipulation. Such PARTIES and those involved MUST BE FINED AND BANNED for 10 years! Meanwhile citizens who in 2015 gullibly lining up thinking ‘My Vote Counts’ will now vote ‘INEC- Zero Credibility. This is verified criminal ANTI-DEMOCRACY ACTIVITIES BY KNOWN POLITICAL PARTIES and evil political machinations of many politicians. So INEC is like a fake party with the deciding secret vote proportionate to the bribe. So INEC’s televised ceremony of sham/shame ‘INEC Certification’ to ‘and the winner is’ is often a crime scene.
    Guilty INEC officials and Political ‘beneficiaries of INEC bribes’ have violated their ‘Oath of Office’ and must be sacked outright, not suspended from office, prosecuted, jailed and forced to return monies taken as salaries under false pretences! THE PARTY ‘SUBVERTING THE PEOPLE’ IS guilty of ‘MEGATERRORISM’ and punishable by PROSCRIPTION and jail-time for the authorising leaders and foot-soldiers? These ‘politician’ terrorists are worse than Boko Haram because they pretend to be servants of the masses but they disenfranchise millions, causing untold hardship, death and destruction of livelihoods by depriving the economy of the bribery money and the citizens of their democratic election right. Some of Nigeria’s finest soldiers have been executed for lesser offences.
    The painful saga of $1.1Billion Bribe involving of the Malabu Oil and OPL 245 should force an OIL Block Policy Rethink. President Goodluck Jonathan denies knowledge but how many aides make demands and chop ‘on oga’s behalf’ but without ‘oga’s knowledge’, receive and forget to deliver ‘all or none’ to ‘oga at the top’ or the person in ‘the other room’? How can we explain to our children that yet another round of ‘oil well dashing out to cronies and connections’ is looming???
    ANOTHER WRONG OIL WELL STEP: When will NIGERIA REVERSE ITS trillion dollar losses from a stupidly DISASTROUS DECISION TO ‘GIVE’ NIGER DELTA OIL WELLS TO INDIVIDUALS ‘forever’ who are largely not even from Niger Delta? Even if the allocations had been for a finite time like five or 10 years and then returned, it is beyond belief that the malicious decisions in the 70s and 80s to maliciously SELL OF OUR PATRIMONY SECRETLY to SOLIDERS, RULERS AND EVEN HAIRDRESSER/TAILORS TO BECOME multibillionaires, silent or known. NOW THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS HAVE MADE BILLIONS for themselves and perhaps their benefactors, WILL THEY PLEASE RETURN THEWELLS TO NIGERIA AND THE HOST COMMUNITIES so the oil remnant will save us? A ‘RETURN OIL WELL REFERENDUM’ could force INDIVIDUALS to give up 50-100% of their stake to the currently suffering local community in which an oil well exists. ALL PERSONALISED OIL WELL LICENCES SHOULD BE REVOKED/RETURNED. NO NEW ONES MUST BE GIVEN TO INDIVIDUALS. Nigeria cannot survive another major bleed of its oil-blood given by God to communities NOW MIRED IN POLLUTION. When will Nigerian Presidents learn they have more responsibility for the common above making a few billionaires -‘$1b for one person’ which is $100,000 for 10,000 families!
    FRSC female staff did not sign up for ‘ASSAULT AND BARBER-Y’ haircut or braids-cut. Only qualified barbers can cut hair on invitation only. FRSC should CUT DESPICABLE CORRUPTION AMONG STAFF, not hair. What next –TUMMY TUCK? Corruption is bringing FRSC into disrepute, not hairdos.
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  • Our Girls; IMF; NASS

    Our Girls; IMF; NASS

    Our Girls are still missing since April 14th 2015
    IMF Prescription: Medicine or Machiavellian Mischief?
    We have had relations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) before and been left with our youth devastated, raped and robbed of a future. Africa, Nigeria and the youth in the 70-80s, lost a chunk of their future achievement and income potential to IMF conditionalities and mis-advice. IMF makes you feel small. Such funds and banks have few morals, just secret missions to enslave societies to IMF financiers. To them, MONEY MATTERS MORE THAN MORALS OR MANKIND. Though apparently reformed, it is still trying to further discredit our currency, recovering from a multi-pronged attack which decimated it and the earning power of every citizen. Many countries fight the IMFs call to devalue. Why should we stand by while our currency is ambushed by IMF advice? Everyone in IMF earns dollars and cares little for our Naira. Is the IMF the World Economic God and trustworthy? Is the IMF so uncomfortable with the Africa’s cheaper loans from China that it seeks to weaken us making the loans more difficult and expensive to repay. Every Nigerian nationalist must ‘fight the naira fight’ – our only pride and power. Why do we give it up so easily?
    Tragically for me and millions of my generation, and I am very annoyed that in my working lifetime bad governance has reduced Naira value from N1:$1.5 to N500:$1. Yet strangely we still seek advice from our Presidents who supervised the underdevelopment of Nigeria and destruction of our naira. No bank manager wants you to buy official dollars. They always use an intermediary to jack up the price. Among our leaders, only Buhari has defended the naira value. He does not own a foreign account and seeks to leave the currency where he ‘met it’ when it was N150 to $1 or when he was last President at N8:$1? A strong naira makes loans cheaper and life more abundant with fewer below the poverty line.
    IMF got it maliciously wrong dragging Africa back in education and health adding to the effect of corruption. IMF’s bad reputation made me call the IMF the International Morticians Fund because it buried millions of youth dreams and call the World Bank its wicked sister body, the Woe Bank because it brought woe to many millions. They are both their funding master’s voice. Is the IMF wrong again? Can this government prove the IMF/WB twins wrong by increasing foreign reserves to $50+billion ASAP? If not, is our currency again destined for the dustbin to further enrich those with foreign accounts, Nigerian banks who take our remitted dollars and deliver naira to Nigerians and foreigners with assets in Nigeria who benefit from a weak naira? The IMF prescription is poisonous medicine and Machiavellian Mischief in intent. The cure will kill the patient- again!
    Senate or Circus continued
    NASS members should not sit easy in NASS. Nigerians see blood when they see Red Senate in sitting on TV. Firstly the Red of Senate seats is not signifying ‘Royalty’ or ‘Refugee Status’ for wayward governors and businessmen seeking ‘Immunity for and from their crimes’. Each NASS seat represents at least ‘100 DIED IN DEMOCRACY & ELECTION ACTION’. EVERY SENATE AND REPS SEAT SHOULD RESPECTFULLY BE NAMED AFTER A HERO OR HEROINE OF DEMOCRACY. SENATE RED IS THE HIGHEST NATIONAL MEMORIAL TO THE BLOOD SHED BY NIGERIA’S ‘DEMOCRACY DEAD AND DEPRIVED’. Senate Red is a flag waved arrogantly before the Nigerian Bull.  The REPS GREEN REPRESENTS THE GREEN BILE VOMITED BY THE THOUSANDS OF INCARCERATED DEMOCRACY AND ELECTION VIOLENCE VICTIMS. The democracy struggle is in two parts –struggle against the MILITARY COUP plotters and struggle against non-democratic forces seeking to pervert the course of democracy –the election of civilian coup plotters. So the red and green seats drip with real memories. Are NASS members too self-centred for the job of using NASS for the care of the people? If in our opinion this is not done, we the people do not have to watch our words when castigating NASS members. NASS members are obviously under the illusion that obtaining a certificate from sometimes criminal INEC officials gives its members the right to bite the citizens’ hand. NASS likes congratulations and unearned prefixes of ‘Distinguished this’ and ‘Honourable that’. NIGERIANS SHOULD WITHDRAW SUCH POMPOUS TITLES for disgracing NASS, the institution in the eyes of many.  We the people are supreme and will speak and judge it how we feel. Neither Senate nor Representatives is above the citizens ‘Call to Order’. It is time to start a tradition of midterm recall to account for stewardship and to pass the people’s verdict on each NASS member.
    NASS is our proxy, our servant in this democracy; our representative which has forgotten ‘true representation’ and never asks our opinion outside public hearings, and is too expensive@N120-150b/annum and resistant to change. Servants must be put in their place. As a voter, has any politician sought your opinion? Our mistake since the inception of Nigeria was to allow politicians to become God-like and insulate themselves. While we need 150,000Mw but collapse to a disgraceful 2,500Mw, politicians empower and enrich themselves.  Are Oyo State’s new LGA caretaker chairmen taking chunks of funds as fully fuelled 24/7 generator power and other perks? The cycle continues! Happy Easter!!
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  • Our Girls; Senate or Circus?

    Our Girls; Senate or Circus?

    Our Girls are missing since April 15 2014. Work for their release and Pray.
    I apologise that the powerful words ‘Our Girls’ was missing from the Title in the article of 29/3/2017, the first time since the Chibok Girls tragedy of April 15, 2014. I committed to using ‘Our Girls’ as first heading and the first comment in all my articles to keep public awareness high until all are returned or accounted for.
    Now, like Macbeth, NIGHTCLUBS IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS like Bodija Ibadan, and Admiralty Way, Lekki, HAVE MURDERED SLEEP and families shut windows and suffocate in the heat. The Environmental Laws must RESTRAIN OR CLOSE CLUBS after NOISE LEVEL INVESTIGATIONS AT NIGHT and HEAVY FINES which should be distributed as ‘NOISE COMPENSATION’ to nearby residents. The clubs must be shut down until SOUNDPROOFED with SOUND REMAINING WITHIN THE CLUBHOUSE.
    NATIONALISTIC MEDIA ALERT: Every Nigerian media organisation, journalist, editor, publisher, should be very concerned with the current blackmail and stonewalling in politics. They must leave their desks and food, science, aviation and branded specialties to engage the Nigerian political web. Without a growing positive politics, their work will become useless. Sport is useless if the country is burning or collapsing. In particular, they should strategise to engage NASS critically in thought, word and deed, in eye contact, debate, dialogue, discussion, disagreement and detailed interrogation. In short, they require Forensic Investigation and Reporting to protect our moribund democracy. If the media does not take on this role 24/7 in its pages, on the air, on TV, there will soon be nothing, NASS or the nation. We must save the nation and NASS from a severe people’s backlash. NASS members should read history and note Oliver Cromwell’s speech on April 20, 1653, justifying his sack of the British Parliament. If you forget Cromwell, everyone remembers fireworks commemorating Guy Fawkes’ misguided efforts. Indeed, NASS members should look at the ‘Why we struck’ and ‘Take Over’ speeches giving the excuses of every Nigerian military leaders since 1966, and most of them are still alive and on the Army Reserve List, along with thousands of fit retired officers and men.  Is there any difference in the tide and times especially in NASS? NASS waves the Red Flag in the face of the suicidal nation reeling in poverty induced by politics. Defence may become offense. Right now, ‘NASS, ‘cost-effectiveness’ is the problem it has with Nigeria’. NASS tries to deflect the focus to the Presidency, but increasingly NASS gives the overwhelming impression that it is the real problem, diluting, watering down and obstructing the VERY REASON WHY THE PRESIDENT WAS ELECTED. Increasingly, Nigerians ask: Is Nigeria better off with or without NASS at a cost of N125-150b/year and for what?
    Is this NASS what we fought, cried, were incarcerated and many died for, or dreamed of? Do we so easily forget the bloodshed and the DD-‘Democracy Dead’ while freeing us from all military rulers? Of course, the military are still so entrenched, being recycled as democracy heads of state –for worse or for better? Many of Nigeria’s democracy dead have their families living in poverty. No one comes to their aid in appreciation of the sacrifice, and even murder, of their relations and breadwinners during anti-military demonstrations and election violence and mayhem. What do they, ‘Descendants or Survivors of the Democracy Struggle,’ think of the real or apparent opulence and nauseating arrogance, the as-yet secret super-salary structure, hyper-pensions and apparent historical shallowness of debate and forgetfulness of NASS? Do they not see and hear that foreigners, who manage their own resources well and earn less than they do, are so moved to tears by the plight of thousands of starving Fellow Nigerian Children that their governments cannot bear to neglect the dying anymore and offer financial aid to feed them and replace the Nigerian state, steeped in corruption and hyper-salaries at all levels? The foreign embassies should remind NASS that one month of their super salaries, one car of one senator could be sold, or this new armoured jeep of no ownership could save the lives of all those children. But ‘no’! It appears that NASS members like nothing better than to dance on the graves of the democracy dead in insulting videos, adorn themselves in stupendous amounts of the nation’s money as self-styled salaries and perks, and even hyper-pensioned opulence, and some perform wizardry with green scarves and academic de-‘feats’ in academic regalia perhaps above their cranial degree grade, and perhaps act the imaginary funny person in the imaginary but expensive Senate or Circus.
    Let NASS members know that ‘we the people,’ we do not have to justify the citizens’ query and criticism because ‘we the people’ are the employer.  NASS membership, so arrogantly happy to castigate others at almost vengeful public hearings with follow-up retaliation, must know that NASS is not their playground or exclusive preserve to do what they like inside. In our eyes is now a ‘VERY UNHALLOWED CHAMBER’. NASS is public property in a public space owned wholly by Nigeria and Nigerians. We the people voted to lend our NASS complex to NASS members for 4 years to work out of, nurture, care for, return after 4 years. Are NASS members too self-centred for the job! To be continued
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  • Corrupt ‘Uniforms’ kill change; UP Naira

    Corrupt ‘Uniforms’ kill change; UP Naira

    Our Girls are missing since April 15 2014. Pray.

    God has blessed Nigeria mightily with gifts, but we repeatedly abused that blessing, leaving citizens underdeveloped in power, water, housing, education, health, transport and security. THE GIFTS ARE FOUR. The OIL we steal, impoverishing the nation; the SUN we ignore, making us powerless; the CITIZENS we cripple with Corruption. Only the CLIMATE allows us to endure the loss of the first three.

    Buhari’s anti-corruption agenda appears rejected by the Uniforms which are killing change – The police, ‘yellow fever’, customs, and road law enforcement. I see one NCDCC in Bodija Ibadan at7.30am every morning, arrogantly displacing traffic with a siren and armed men. Corruption elimination is not nuclear physics. One past IGP succeeded at checkpoints.

    The President Buhari Agenda must show the public actual signs of ‘UNIFORM CORRUPTION’ elimination. He will be judged by all Nigerians suffering the ‘NIGERIAN UNIFORM CORRUPTION EFFECT’. Every Nigerian child has seen a ‘UNIFORM INVOLVED IN A CORRUPTION ACTIVITY,’ from checkpoints, crossroads, ‘charge-and-bail-is-free-but-pay-N5000-sha,’ customs points, unanswered calls during robberies, to simple going to a police station to report, where you could become the accused! All need sanitisation. Solution? As the New Sheriff in Town, Buhari holding monthly ANTI-CORRUPTION MEETINGS must CHALLENGE EACH HEAD OF A UNIFORMED ORGANISATION WITH a QUERY, SUSPENSION and or SACK IF CORRUPTION PERSISTS IN 1-3 MONTHS. The country, Georgia, did it, so Nigeria can do it! REPEAT THE PROCESS WITH THE REPLACEMENT OF HEADS OF UNIFORMS UNTIL THEY CLEAN UP THEIR ORGANISATIONS.

    Do these people AND President Buhari even get a ‘NATIONWIDE CORRUPTION PERCEPTION REPORT’ broken down by LISTING IN ORDER THE MOST TO THE LEAST CORRUPT LGAs, State, MDAs? Publish the list monthly. Maybe NEIITI or Transparency International –Nigeria should also do this? The Government must continue to encourage WHISTLEBLOWING.

    For some time, the naira has been reduced to the status of toilet-paper due to years of PPP- Political, Public and Private Sector-theft. But now Nigeria appears on a new course with the naira, which is only considered precious by those with no foreign account. MAJOR NAIRA APPRECIATION, NAIRA UP, DOLLAR DOWN. This is an almost unknown event in Nigerian banking, demonstrating the treacherous triangle of speculators, CBN policy maladjustments and government policy precipitating the collapse of the naira recently! The recovery is supported by a reasonable dollar inflow from oil from a semi-peaceful Niger Delta, a massive reduction in frivolous spending, a stranglehold on corruption. But let us not stop at N309 as it is not the real signpost of value. The naira must reach N150, and even N80, to improve the value of money in our pocket. The better the naira value, the less agitation for salary increase!  Nigeria must also be rescued from the ‘FRIVOLOUS SPENDING’ ON MULTIBILLION POLITICAL SALARY and Perks and hyper-Pensions of NASS which must be cut by 90% with sitting allowances only! Speculators- sell or frame your dollars bought for N4-500 dollars. Dealers are protesting to the CBN because they have NEVER experienced a ‘Rise in naira value.’ WHO HAS QUANTIFIED THE ‘FEEL GOOD’ FACTOR OF A STRONG HEALTHY NAIRA?

    With a policy guaranteeing increased Foreign Reserves at $1-2b/month, we can predict a figure in 2019 of $50-80b, a figure we should have attained 10-15 years ago if our Presidents and NASS had been responsible, longsighted and held naira in higher esteem. Of course, too many officials managing Nigeria’s naira think first of inflating the value of hoarded stolen dollars by devaluing the naira. The cheaper the naira, the more naira they got for stolen dollars. They are in-house ‘NAIRA TERRORISTS’, destroying millions of citizens’ goals and aspirations and the naira fall for their evil personal gain. And the cheaper the naira, the easier it is to pay salaries cheaply with fewer dollars –which they still manage not to do, even with Paris Club Refunds. All is corruption!!!

    Among Nigeria’s Presidents, only Buhari has seriously protected the naira. The others agreed with economists that a weak naira promoted exports. These economists are also against paying pensions in order ‘to prevent inflation’. Inhuman economics, abi? The naira should reach N150 or 80:$1 by 2019 Feb. In agreement with the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, we must stop importing petroleum products, reducing dollar demand, ASAP. BRING OUT HOARDED NAIRA NOW! Millions of people will be elevated from poverty by empowering the naira!

    Fulani cows should be branded, confined and fattened in their home states and shipped by trailer or train, NOT TRACK. No nationwide free and murderous grazing. To feed a dog, chicken or child, you buy food and feed it. Same for cows. A farmer’s produce is not FREE FOOD, and his life is worth a million cows! Allocate money to feed cows.

    After 20,000Mw of power immediately, the most important responsibility of any Nigerian President, so far abandoned by all except Buhari, is to EMPOWER THE NAIRA to empower all Nigerians, not a devaluation which depresses everyone and empowers only those who corruptly acquired dollars.

    NIGHTCLUBS HAVE MURDERED SLEEP nationwide, particularly, in Bodija, the residential area around Awolowo Road, Ibadan, Oyo State. This is now a BODIJA NO SLEEP NIGHTMARE NIGHTCLUB DESTINATION just like Admiralty Way, Lekki, Lagos. Citizens suffer throughout the night. SOUNDPROOF NIGHTCLUBS. RESPECT THE CITIZENS’ RIGHT TO SILENCE AND SLEEP. Where is government?

    NNB: Nigerians, you, must put forward a new generation of untainted ‘I LOVE NIGERIA’ KNOWLEDGEABLE CANDIDATES for 2019.