Category: Tony Marinho

Our Girls are still missing since April 15 2014. We pray negotiations will work.

The question raised by a friend is ‘If you have a leaking water tap, no amount of wiping the floor will dry it until the tap is turned off’. Where is the tap of corruption in Nigeria and can it be turned off? That corruption tap is the national or state political party machinery in power overreaching itself with assumed access to the entire budget. Every kobo of the billions mismanaged, used to alter the course of elections, was meant to help give make Nigeria a 21st Century caring development.

President Buhari and the country must build trustworthy structures that act as a STEEL BARRIER, AN ANTICORRUPTION WALL TO CUT AND BLOCK THE CONDUIT PIPE BETWEEN THE BUDGET AND THE BRAZEN PARTY THIEVES OF ANY  PARTY IN POWER AT ANY LEVEL who ‘Steal and Mis-allocate’ the budget. Some of these stolen funds are used for personal enrichment and as a ‘War Chest’ for election manipulation and ‘stomach infrastructure. Come 2018-9, the country will again be plunged into our ‘TRADITIONAL 3 ½ YEARLY PRE-ELECTION HIBERNATION’ and shut down for six months when no salaries will be paid, no government work will be done, no authentic contracts will be awarded. Government and party-in-power officials will steal the nation and state and the LGA blind through bogus contracts and use the stolen funds as their personal ‘gratuity’ and ‘war chest’. These war chests are rumoured sometimes to reach N10,000,000,000+, N10b+, by some governors. We see a mini-version of this in December every year when government offices rush to award a rash of rubbish contracts, a ruse to steal left-over money in department and ministerial budgets which they should have spent for the good of the people. They actually sit down and have a ‘December Plan to Steal’. Miraculously it was stopped in 2015 at federal level by the Treasury Single Account but not at state level where it continues unseen.

Buhari, his Kitchen Cabinet and the EFCC have demonstrated bias in their activities – incontrovertible administrative corruption as deadly to the citizens’ morale as monetary corruption is deadly to their development. However, only one party and its members had access to the entire federal budget, CBN and forex as its personal pocket money since 1999 at federal level. For the states, each state AGIP, any Government Political Party In Power did the same! Not many in APC come with clean hands and many cross-carpet-ers also are questionable.

So, History is back? Will those who executed the plan to destroy Nigeria’s intellect escape punishment through bad education decisions-a form of intellectual or administrative corruption? Does history’s reinstatement or resurrection require such an extravagant History Conference when it was dismissed with ignominy by easily identifiable Directors General and Directors of Education some 20 to 30 years ago? The minutes of meetings should expose the ‘Anti-History Coup Plotters’ deserving an ignominious ‘Anti-History Award’. Already some are talking of curriculum overload, shame on them! Making Nigeria the only country to bury history for 20+ years is worthy of jail time!

In the warped Nigerian economy, it was difficult to honestly do business with bank loans at 21-25%. How much more difficult in a depressed economy? Favoured businesses are having the ridiculously high MPR Monetary Policy Rate of 14% dropped making loans single digit. This should be extended to all Nigerians, crashing the cost of money and boosting business, living, leisure and pleasure. What company doing honest business can return 25% on a loan without extorting from the customer and increasing the cost of business and living? CANCEL MPR NOW!!

Personally I disagree with British ‘innocent until guilty’ and prefer the French ‘prove you are innocent’ approach to questionable offences including corruption charges.

Did any political party announce a policy to cut political Salaries and Perks, SAPping and draining Nigeria dry? SAP is real. Visit an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp to see malnourished citizens in 2016. Did National Assembly (NASS) announce a cut to one House, a cut in salaries to sitting allowances, a part time NASS of volunteer politicians? No, no, no. Did NASS announce a new law to increase the driving licence age from 70 to 75 or 80 or increase the driving licence life span from current three years to five or 10 years? Yet it calls for the sack of yet another lady. It is very fond of calling for ladies to be sacked! Remember Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Arunmah Oteh of the Stock Exchange, and now Kemi Adeosun. The few men in their radar are usually whistle blowers exposing Nigerians to workings of their ‘s-hallow’ chamber.

NASS is a millstone around Nigeria’s neck. God is waiting for politicians at each one’s personal ‘End Time Rapture or Rupture’. You may get an ‘Adjourned Sitting’ when you die in NASS but you get instant judgement. You do not die as a political party but as an individual, and instant ‘incorruptible judgement‘with no ‘perpetual court injunctions’. Beware: Chinese MP sentenced to death for corruption! Beware! Nigerians are sick of your tele vela soap opera on NTA and are nauseated when NASS and politicians appear!

For example what is an ‘Ultramodern Shed’ ‘donated’ by an LGA politician? Like irrelevant tiny 5,000Mw electricity targets, Nigeria takes too low standards from politicians!! The citizenry and media must set higher intellectual standards and development goals for the politicians to reach in 2016!

Our Girls are missing since April 15 2014, snatched in the largest terrorist kidnapping in West Africa since the terrorist slave trade of which my ancestors were victims. Congratulations to negotiators releasing 21 Girls. More please!

Hurray, Ambode’s Lagos State accepts monthly payments for ‘Own Your Home’ mortgages cancelling the crippling 10-30% deposit and full payment within 1-3 years which enthrones corruption. Developed countries have ‘MONTHLY PAYMENTS FOR RENTS AND MORTGAGES’ as development strategies.

PMB/AB: Nigeria! Another 14-year-old married and a well-planned or spontaneous wife’s cry that her husband is under yet another ‘Cabal’, speculated as Kaduna Mafia remnants. Our PMB calls on ‘culture’ saying his wife belongs in the KITCHEN, THUS OUT-TRUMPING EVEN TRUMP – ‘BUHARI [K]PA TRUMPI’!!! Most men secretly applaud the FULL STATEMENT, as they like being idol worshipped and suffer sexual deprivation at home from not having ‘had any’ this month due to too many ‘Nays’ and not enough ‘Ayes’ in THE OTHER ROOM causing ABSENCE/ABSTINENCE. Women get- power O! Was his ‘spontaneous’ remark written by the KITCHEN CABINET to put her ‘in her place’?  I always object to abuses of UNELECTED First Ladyism at Federal, State and LGA with cult-like expensive, grandstanding, over-dressed, NGO funding and even greedy and corrupt, wrongly distributing ‘our’ funds as ‘their’ charity. Many women eminently qualify in kitchen, ‘other room’, politics, Presidency, kitchen cabinet and President’s seat. They would be electable when we stop rigging! ‘What does AB, Aisha Buhari’s exposé mean and what will it gain for Nigerian democracy and cost her? Will she be dismissed as rantings of a disgruntled wife or heard as revelations of yet another whistle-blower? Will it empower or weaken the President? Will she be ‘arrested’, domesticated, confined, passport seized and, ‘humiliation of humiliation’, serve the ‘Kitchen cabinet’ snacks as it plots control and consumption of Nigeria, not its development? By naming names, are Fashola etc. targets for ‘political assassination or inactivated‘? Is it the first world press conference as the ‘first, first lady’ seeking Nigeria’s Presidency come 2019? But who ‘controls’ the President?

DSS/Judiciary:  Judges, like Caesar’s wife, must be above suspicion.  Justice means ‘Being impartial, apolitical, ethical, legal, morally sound and just to all political and individual parties concerned’. ‘Court’ should instil respect, not fear of being cheated and the odour of corruption in your nostrils when you arrive.  But judges, prostitution and tax collectors are in the Bible needing special salvation! A Nigeria with ‘exemptions and immunities for common crimes’ for politicians and judges is ‘corruption’. Already conflicting legal comments confound us and confirm the law, if not lawyers, is actually an ass, as quoted! After the slow anti-corruption war even within the judiciary, we complain about the ‘unnecessarily violent’ earthquake in the judiciary which may taint good judges. The gain is the judiciary will NOT take a bribe from today! Abi? Abi no bi so? This harmattan cloud of DSS dust blinds us, while judges/magistrates/registrars relocate ‘loot/evidence’ from the traditional hideouts in home fridges to friends’ freezers and beer cartons. We need true petitions on other judges! The cleansing has begun but corrupt judges and medical doctors are masters at ‘sick leave’ for ‘caught at corruption’ hypertension adjournments. A judge found guilty of a common crime VOLUNTARILY REJECTED RESPECTABILITY and sinks to a criminal, beneath a common man. A corrupt judgement poisons the Nigeria’s drinking, bathing and cooking waters creating a murky muddy smelly cesspool of corruption and societal despair and destruction. May all innocent judges be promoted while the guilty are jailed after recovery of bribes, reversal of all their malicious judgements and not ‘JUST’ ice, retired or sacked!

Professor Toby Mike E AkenOva deceased@70 was a key part of solutions to Nigeria’s problems. Astute, punctual, analytical, encyclopaedic, a student/teacher of history, no nonsense with wide unbiased knowledge. He spoke his mind often writing letters in crisis/conflict, contributing to political and social debates at many U and T-junctions in Nigeria’s life. He was a master at ‘Letters to the Editor’ and articles, particularly in the Guardian. During the oppressive criminal malignant murderous military madness we both wrote under pen names.

We fought against the cancellation of History, Geography, Civics and Physical Education from Nigeria’s school curricular- a disaster. He cherished his school days especially at Kings College. He was excellently witty and deeply sarcastic, the hard working true Nigerian we seek but mistakenly complain is hard to find! Toby did not hide or at worst he was hiding in plain sight.

He was a founding member of Educare Trust in 1994 and in 21 years where he contributed his experience and time, his mini Japanese-style plants-Bonzi, and finance to uplift the youth through Educare Trust Youth Empowerment Programmes and Projects. He left a massive Print Media Archive of newspapers and magazines. Finally we must situate Toby in the struggle for the liberation of Nigeria from the political and educational tyranny against the deliberately underdeveloped youth and for the restoration of true valuable values in our punished society. As our hearts go out to Yetunde, his wife and Osato his son, we miss this exemplarily unassuming gentleman and his unique Toby humorous ways and means, particularly at Trenchard Hall, UI Concerts.

Toby, our truly great husband, father, first-born sibling, colleague, teacher of subjects and morals, mentor, linguist, author, wit and thorn in the flesh for wrongdoers and mediocrity, your work is done here. – Rest in Perfect Peace. www.tonymarinho.com

Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. Work and pray for their safe release.

The Criminal Code Number 419 encompasses non-political and political criminal acts to extort money, favours, votes, all under false promises, a pastime of lying politicians and internet avengers. To add to the infamy of 419 as applied to them, the politicians have unwittingly  provided a new number – 180. Their new telephone number is +234-419-419-180-180. On TV Nigerians witness a rash of questionably ‘legal’, morally repugnant, reprehensible, but definitely defensive closing of the political ranks across political parties, ‘ayes’ 100%, ‘nays’ 0% against whistleblowers and those playing discordant tunes. The new mantra is ‘Suspended for 180 days’ of ‘sitting’ effectively denying the constituents who voted in the individual, herein-after called ‘the victim’, of a key element of democracy, ‘representation’, and other services for an entire calendar year. This is also an anti-democratic devastating deterrent to any ‘different opinion’ whistleblowing political gladiator who will also receive ‘Are You Mad wahala’ from friends and family.

Nigeria should sacrifice for the economy by giving up our sick National Assembly (NASS). Give NASS a dose of ‘180 Medicine’, suspend it without pay for 180 days of sitting i.e. a year, as a multibillion naira cost-saving boost to our economic and political recovery. Alternatively perhaps NASS will self-medicate and commit suicide, ‘hara-kiri’, in the national interest. The ‘parasitic politicians’, under ‘parasitic parties’  announced ‘do-good projects’ which have always done ‘good’ only for themselves, their unborn progeny and their bank accounts. Nigeria cannot afford the gluttonous parasitic political class, parasitic party policies and machinery and the poor returns on political stock investment. Do Nigeria’s citizens benefit N100 in every N10,000 expended on and by the political class elected at murderous cost in bloody and violent campaigns, thuggery and death, voting time and rigging? What an institutionalised violent 419 against Nigeria.

Today’s ever bolder and violently evil Epidemic Of Antisocial Behaviour is a malignant growth by non-beneficiaries of the TV promoted Epidemic of Instant Millionaire-Ism of the past 20 years strategised and promoted by an avaricious and misplaced immoral Corporate Product Promotion Strategy and the morally corrupt instant wealth of parasitic politicians – Money Without Work. Who does not want to be an Instant Millionaire?

Justice Uwais’s Electoral Reform Committee provided solutions to illegal political funding, rigging and violence in elections perpetrated not by INEC or normal citizens but by the 419 politicians themselves and the party, never punished. Yet Nigerian political commentators castigate and vilify INEC for ‘failures’ when INEC is merely the umpire between inexplicably belligerent criminally dishonest, unpatriotic, unsportsmanlike and violence parasitic parties.

Now the Electoral Reform task, unimplemented, is before a new committee, under Ken Nnamani, who as a politician participated in the elections methodology needing reform. Will the Nnamani solutions also take ‘for never’ to implement – 2019+? Will Nnamani be nationalistic at this, yet another, critical crossroads in Nigeria’s fate, I mean future.

There are skeletons in every politician’s briefcase and even the most revered are found wanting. When some need money, they phone the CBN Governor for $10,0000 or $100,000 – no be 419? Can the police not see the master fraudsters sitting in NASS and government houses who perfected TAKING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES even by multiple pensions -THE DEFINITION OF 419? The big Nija political boys and girls have always been first place in 419, wheeling and dealing in budget padding, contracts inflation and phantom projects.

Nigerian society is conditioned to ‘no expectations’ from the political headship down to workless workers with low productivity and acceptance of government failure from a ‘combination lock’ of ‘Maximum Corruption, Incompetence, Negligence Selfishness’, ‘CINS’. This is the modus operandi of the parasitic political class, the lead architect of our ‘failure to thrive’. Which politicians removed or allowed the removal of history, civics and geography from our curriculum? We have not had an inspired or inspiring follow-my-lead leadership- until today hopefully. Is Buhari the leader, the stepping stone to the expected leadership or merely a diversion up to 2019 and replaced by a re-run gluttonous President –another of our harvest of treasury-looters? That gluttony is why there is no serious robotics in Nigeria’s engineering faculties. We must insert such items in the 2017 budget even if the space in the budget is filled with ‘zero allocation’ in 2017. Due to political gluttony today, five out of six cancer treatment units have collapsed. This emergency requires immediate courier solution! But Nigeria requires 37 to 74 such cancer treatment units, 1-2/ state, London has 250, and had the money. Is your governor not ashamed that cancer victims, 100 per day, must travel out of state for cancer treatment? One day someone in authority will make that long overdue allocation to robotics or cancer machines et cetera rather than steal. We live in hope and must raise our expectation and force it on the parasitic political class.

The economy did not fail us. The leadership failed the economy, mismanaging the raw materials of prosperity handed to Nigeria by God, and then leave in penury as they gloat gluttonously over their massed massive dollar fortunes as the naira falls deeper into toilet paper range!  Our leadership constitutes the architects of this failure, lacking visionary vitality, consumed by the gluttonous conversion of Nigeria’s vote, treasuries and CBN for personal and party criminal gratification. Can Buhari, Uwais, Nnamani, stop the seasonal assault on INEC and Nigeria’s  treasuries?

our Girls are still missing since April 15 2014. We pray negotiators from anywhere help.

Today we discuss The ‘Nigeria@56 Dependence’ on generators and imported fuel, our 3,000Mw rubbish power supply, Oxford University and UI!

I still sit in the darkness@56 of 3,000Mw, like millions, for my second week of pre-Nigeria@56 personal protest and money-saving for myself and Nigeria by not buying imported generator fuel by 100-150 litres/week. In this perpetual darkness, I never pray to God for light. God has nothing to do with our monstrous power-failure and is busy in famine-ridden Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps.  Nigerians refusing to protest decades of 419 governance abandoning grid growth and refinery output. Instead, we sheepishly ‘managed’ to buy 1+ million generators and now each pay N150-N10,000 daily for 10-100 million litres generator fuel nightly for light that should not cost 1/15th that if refineries, PHCN/DISCO delivered.  I type this article in 22-24/7 darkness with a torch. Buy luminous keyboard laptops for Nigeria’s Dark Ages. A 20 year is going back home because there is ‘24/7 light- and no generators’ in Togo’. We struggle@56 with 3,000Mw instead of 150,000Mw. Generators generate pollution and corruption and must be silenced.

Breaking News: In response to President Buhari’s statement that Nigeria’s looters were behind the economic sabotage of bombing of oil facilities, The Institute of Looters Of Nigeria, I-LOOT-ON, direct descendant of The ABN- The Association to Bastardise Nigeria, sent the scum, I mean ‘some’, of their membership, a subsidiary called  The Nigerian Professional And Political Official Looters Association aka ‘NIGAPPOLOOTAss’, from their secret guesthouse HQ, provided by a governor seeking future immunity  in National Assembly, NASS for financial crimes to be committed, and situated somewhere near ‘14% Monetary Policy Robbery- I mean Rate’, MPR CBN Building, Abuja. [Who will bring the CBN Governor into No MPR and low interest rate line?].

They appeared disguised in mufflers, mufti and masks before a World Press Conference to deny the Presidential claim and mischievously asked the Accountant General and Minister of Agriculture how much Nigeria was spending feeding the Presidential pet cow ‘with no name’, last spotted in 34 states nationwide on a ranch or on rampage near you! Their identity is being determined by Wikileaks and Sahara Reporters. Many were seen heading in convoy [back] to the ‘Complex NASS’ perhaps to a meeting with the committee investigating the goodness of padding and the badness of whistleblowing? At NASS, a crowd, herein-after called ‘We-The Masses’, had gathered but did not stone them with the pure water sachets made available for the purpose by a Coordinating Member of the Civil Society Organisations as We-The Masses cannot afford to drink pure water, much less throw it even at the most 419 politicians. Sometimes at an ex-President yes! Instead ‘We-The Masses’ drank the water weapon, consuming the evidence, and dumped the empty plastic sachets in the drains of the NASS in a cunning ‘block the drain’ protest. ‘An Act of God’ or a Maradona-ic ‘Hand of God’ downpour conveniently immediately ‘down-poured’ and flooded everywhere. ‘We-The Masses’, well soaked were duly arrested for Environmental Pollution by road agencies because Environment Staff never come out in the rain to supervise the drains, and the Road Agencies were trying to meet an Internal Generated Robbery I mean Revenue quota, herein-after referred to as ‘IGRobbery’! The arrested protesters aka ‘We-The Masses’ some armed with umbrellas and brooms have since laid down these ‘dangerous’ weapons of kitchen combat, and been charged with false assembly at the National Assembly, sabotage, possession of dangerous water, poor sanitation and waste disposal, abuse of ‘immune’ ‘Distinguished and Honourables’, bringing Nigeria@56 into disrepute during Generator and Fuel Imports Dependence Celebrations and failure to stop for a siren. On parade before the media they all claimed they had great difficulty in identifying a truly ‘Distinguished or Honourable’ Nigerian@56 among those self-styled as such and had gone in search of same. They were given bail in the sum of N5,000 ‘bail-is-free-he-he-he’ non-refundable ‘deposit’ to the inconvenienced ‘arresting’ police officer, their own recognition, passport photo A4size and BVN. Then miraculously they were discharged and acquitted as a Nigeria@56 present from the Chief Judge or was it the President.

Meanwhile a group of NASS members held another Press Conference marking Nigeria@56 by insisting on part-time sitting and minimal sitting allowances, no salary or hidden allowances and to reduce the number of houses in NASS to one with one third the number of members if they could get 25million signatures demanding such followed by a referendum and threatened recall of all NASS members. They also ceremonially turned off their official jeeps and generators promising to wait for the grid to power their homes and offices. Nigerians are waiting for ‘change’ from a greedy 419 political class. A Luta Continua! We all have a dream for Nigeria come Oct 1st@56, abi?

As we congratulated Para-Olympians, congratulate World University Ranking 1st Place Oxford University where the commonest mode of transport is ‘the environmentally friendly bicycle’. Where do Nigeria@56 universities stand in a country unable to provide 100,000Mw? The University of Ibadan is threatened for being Nigeria’s Cradle of Western Education. We say NOOOOOOO!  Science and Technology need research grants and 24/7 power. As a Chinese firm invents radar technology to track the US radar-proof stealth Bomber and the world uses robotics and debates AI, Artificial Intelligence, Nigeria still suffers corruption-driven ‘de ayes have it’ voice-voting in NASS. What ‘change’ in Nigeria@56?  tonymarinho.com

Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. Pray and feed the IDPs.

Today we discuss ‘out of the box’ ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS and REWARDS FOR OLYMPIANS/PARA-OLYMPIANS.

The military bequeathed, and politicians perpetuated, a lifetime in darkness making Nigeria the UN’s LAUGHING STOCK ,no matter how many siren-ed Mercedes Benzes or UN General Assembly Meetings we address or US Presidents we meet. A country WHICH DOES NOT GET ITS POWER RIGHT HAS NO RIGHTS TO THE NAME ‘COUNTRY’ IN THE HIGH TECH 21st CENTURY.

Do we want to be just a ‘Tourist Carnival Attraction Demonstrating Primitive Life On Earth’? Right now NIGERIA IS DOWNGRADED TO A GIANT CATTLE RANCH. The cancer of power failure has grown since the military and now handicaps every Nigerian, building and business, truncating every economic advance. O! How we have been forced to suffer by coup-plotting Nigerian officers and plotting Nigerian politicians, too few gentlemen.

SOLVING THE POWER PROBLEM BY PROVIDING one to two million generators is stupid, uneconomical, mega-fuel consuming and NEGATIVE ECONOMICS, another huge backward step like the OKADA EPIDEMIC creating one million+ victims, orphans, widows and widowers. Everyone knows one okada victim and generator owner and has witnessed one okada crash and a generator poisoning the environment -The NIGERIAN GENERATOR EPIDEMIC.

OCTOBER 1, is our 57th year of Independence and since approximately 1975, 42+ years ago, when generators began their evil journey to power Nigeria, draining our fuel due to 42+ years of inability to provide grid power  –an abysmal breach of Nigeria’s Human Right to a social development contract  and a major military and political governance failure.

I have, 42 years and counting, this week sat in darkness whenever power was cut 15-24/24 hours/day  and I am going to continue. It is a depressing experience with only torch and no radio. It saves money and does not pollute and is silent.

Contemplating our forced sacrifice for zero development, thinking out of the box, I recommend ‘ABSTAINING FROM GENERATORS’ for a DAY, A WEEK A YEAR  as a powerful economic saving of billons of naira weekly  to President Buhari, from the Federal Executive Council, Council of State, National Assembly (NASS), governors to LGA Councils and all MDA at all tiers of governance. BAN FUEL ALLOCATIONS TO GENERATORS NOW! Only then will they realise the bastardisation and backwardness from lost opportunity they, as a political class, have inflicted on the citizenry, even children reading for NECO,  for 42+years through incompetence and devilry. Civil Society Organisations can champion a march against generators in government offices and homes as part of the march for one NASS house, part time sitting and no dual salaries/pensions to save billions.  Nigeria will not survive more disgraceful powerless and political fissures without riots or revolution. Nigerians will not remain didirin or mumu forever!

The OUT OF THE BOX CHANGE IN POWER starts with a BUHARI PRESIDENTIAL ORDER to STOP GOVERNMENT GENERATORS AT HOME AND OFFICE TODAY. The grid will quickly start to work properly. We want the Political and Electricity Contractor Class to shut down generators bought with Nigeria’s money and Nigeria will run without generators.

The Emergency Economic Summit for ‘OUT OF THE BOX SOLUTIONS’ requires these ‘All Together Now’ solutions.

A] Morale Boosters, Peace: Stop the Niger Delta insurgency. Get Our Girls back.

B] LET THERE BE LIGHT! SAVE BILLIONS IN GENERATOR FUEL IMPORTS!! SILENCE GENERATORS, pollutants and money guzzlers! Give Nigerians ELECTRIC POWER in 2016!!! ‘Get out of the box’ with SERIOUS SOLAR and Google available EMERGENCY POWER COMPANIES TO PROVIDE AN EXTRA 10,000MW  immediately within three months like for Japan post the recent nuclear plant disaster. Then add 5000Mw /quarter to get 30,000Mw by mid- 2017.  You must use $2-5b CBN Solar/Electricity Power Loan Scheme to empower citizens and business to get into SOLAR.

C] Nigerian Marshal Plan to get NIGERIANS MOVING AGAIN. Nigerians need an enabling environment, not hampering governance. 1) Business is literally stuck in potholes. Employ millions to FILL ALL POTHOLES and ‘MAKE SMOOTH OUR PATH’. 3) Build 100 Lekki Bridges to redistribute road transport! Choose some 30+ KEY BRIDGES Nationwide for international soft loans  2nd , 3rd Niger Bridge and 1-3/state to decongest Nigeria’s  clogged roads. 2) Implement through States/LGAs serious local materials LOW COST, MASS HOUSING SCHEME PERHAPS with Chinese and Pension Fund NOT SELFISHLY FOR FEDERAL CIVIL SERVANTS ONLY!

D] Announce POLICIES THAT IN SIX MONTHS ALL PETROL PRODUCTS WILL BE REFINED AT HOME AND THE EXCESS EXPORTED!  Get 20 LGA/ private MODULAR SMALL SCALE REFINERIES APPROVED and working to CUT OUR FUEL IMPORT BILL TO ZERO in six months and make us exporter to West Africa.

E] SINGLE DIGIT INTEREST RATES OF LOANS for ALL NIGERIANS. Cut MPR to under one percent.

F] A ‘BUY NIGERIAN’ CAMPAIGN. NIGERIA IS OUR BIGGEST MARKET.

Congrats to our NECO successes, Hurray to our teachers!!

ABOUT PARA-OLYMPIANS: They got no Dasuki-gate or Halliburton grants. Beyond a ‘fat’ Presidential financial handshake covering their costs, emotional and economic, for the last four years. Will Nigeria give them jobs and corporations make them Brand Ambassadors,  Media stars, Nollywood documentaries/films  subjects,  LGA and States role models, give museums/exhibitions Olympian Corners and Primary schools named, books and plays on ‘My Olympic/Para-Olympic Odyssey’ in school, rewards for carers, funded tours or will they be ‘dropped’?  A physical challenge can be a challenge for life so they should not expect much in Nigeria which cannot save its own IDP children from war-like starvation.

Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. Ken Atsuete Barrister, Human Rights Lawyer is dead. More assassinations, making a holy host of Good Nigerians killed by cunning political will, riffraff or ‘merely’ killed by ‘idle’ security operatives thirsty for ‘daily blood’ not bread, at checkpoints and chance encounters, like carnivorous convoys of banks and devilish dignitaries. The dead shed their blood for an undeserving Nigeria, A STRANGE VAMPIRE LAND, where the wicked thrive on Champaign and THE HONEST DIE IN POTHOLES –thirsty for blood. Is pothole filling really Nuclear Physics for Nigerian governments? If so LET US EXPORT OUR ‘MADE IN NIGERIA’ POTHOLES!!

Nigerians are ‘escorted’ to an ATM for illegal ‘bail’ or ‘fine’ money. We demand an APC ‘change’ Law that ALL ENCOUNTERS WITH CITIZENS, INTERROGATIONS, ARRESTS AND PAYMENTS MUST BE RECORDED ON CELL PHONE CAMERAS to protect the accused and the accuser! How many Nigerians have N25,000, more than minimum wage, for a false accuser in uniform of a state government participating in a governor-sanctioned INTERNALLY GENERATED ROBBERY scam! And sirens and checkpoints are back! Nigerians live in fear of uniforms, paid by our taxes, and this in a democracy-perhaps demented!

Desperate soulless governors nationwide unleash a deranged ‘unsupervised’ army soullessly seizing the car of a woman and child who stole ‘nothing from nobody’. That is anti-God! No wonder they are in the Bible as tax collectors.

This current assault on the citizens, with short payment times of taxes, and fines shows vulture-like state governments preying on citizenry. Answer ‘How easy is moving around and doing business in your state? The answer will paralyse further investment. Being a banker, the Ex-CBN Governor Sanusi ignored the human cost of Lagos State’s IGRobbery, with extortionist Demand Notices and fees for signatures. Bankers ignore the effects of a lifetime of 25% interests with 14% going to CBN. ‘Is 30% of all ‘taxes’ raised by towing in other states under APC going back to Lagos Consultants and their owners? Can those states afford such a 30% drain on their IGR resources instead of using ‘locally available contractors’? We should pray for APC INTERNALLY GENERATED ROBBERY STRATEGY CHANGE or come 2019 the traumatised citizens may vote a different ‘change’.

Change is only good if it is beneficial. For me Lagos, my home state, is unkind to its citizens whose tax money was rumoured to be used to win elections in other states in the past- political sagacity? In your state, can government confirm that the money currently being raised is staying within the state or is 30% going to Lagos Tax ‘consultants’. Buhari’s APC fight against past corruption, in other parties, becomes nothing compared to this current corruption destroying a good business environment. There is NO CAR Park in Ibadan. Are cars to drive through like visiting Yankari Game Reserve? Do not stop or you will be eaten by the towing lions! WHO ARE THESE SUPER-INTELLIGENT PEOPLE MAKING ‘BUSINESS MUST DIE!’ DECISIONS? Do they consult the NISER Traffic Department or the local community before drawing Yellow lines everywhere as they have in Owo? Many roads have been widened by governments to accommodate PARKING WITHOUT GO-SLOW. Accessible shops make Ibadan a business hub.

Unfortunately the Ife Roundabout under the flyover has again become a slum and hoodlums’ paradise because police are not there at night protecting the citizens and directing traffic. The gateway to Ibadan road leading to Iwo Road from the Roundabout is just one lane obstructed by commercial traffic there. There is an obvious ‘ignorance’ failure of governments nationwide to FILL POTHOLES to keep the people moving doing business bringing taxable activities.

Nigerians feel raped when stopped by security operatives, Federal Road Safety Commission officials, Customs, Vehicle Inspection Officers or towing companies because their genuine documents are suddenly ‘fake’, some ‘fault’ is found and they are punished maximally, financially and mentally, without a civilised warning, a second chance, ticket or time to pay the huge N25,000 fine.

Mega-contracts N1billion/kilometre are gone though some linger like the IBADAN EXPRESSWAY WHICH DOES NOT NEED 200KM OF DOUBLE CONCRETE MEDIANS when there are more than 10 MILLION MAJOR KILLER POTHOLES to be filled nationwide with that same money. NIGERIA NEEDS MAINTENANCE- FILL THE POTHOLES please!!! And build new and repair the OLD 60s ROADS without concrete medians. Medians can be inserted as prosperity returns. Since about 60-80% of contract sums were politically stolen, the non-stealing Buhari government must target building good roads at 40% of previous costs without stealing for party, political and personal reasons. ‘Compare and contrast’ the cost of filling all the paralysing potholes and section collapses on the Ibadan-Ife, Ife-Ilesha and Akure-Owo Roads with the funds their politicians have invested in elections. Has the Ibadan-Ife road been awarded three times? Ask the new Oni of Ife if he frowns on potholes murdering the citizens in his kingdom.

We HOPED the APC FIRST YEAR PLAN FOR ROADS would be a ‘NATIONWIDE POTHOLE FILLINGS BY LOCAL CONTRACTORS’ to stimulate the economy and give locals Public Works Department jobs and improved travel, FOR BUSINESS and PLEASURE! Make this THE AGE OF POTHOLE FILLING and reduce axle load weight of trailers to cut road damage.

NIGERIANS VOTING IN 2015 THOUGHT THE APC Change meant an immediate 2016 END TO Nigeria’s POTHOLESS. KILL POTHOLES NATIONWIDE IN 2016, NOT NUCLEAR PHYSICS. IF NOT, Entrepreneurs should fill or EXPORT THE POTHOLES. We have no excuse for not getting potholes off our roads. Have we no shame?

Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014.  We are talking of a Boko Haram- Our Girls swap. As unpalatable as that sounds, it may be the solution. We must never forget them or the 25,000 Boko Haram dead and 3-4million victims and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of both Boko haram and the in which 25,000 farmers and family members have been killed. We have warlike displacement of suffering millions with laying waste of blood-soaked farmlands! I warned two years ago that IDPs are old enough, educationally and professionally diverse enough in experience and should RUN THEIR PROGRAMME DIRECTLY and ‘PROJECT IDPs’ THEMSELVES. Why cannot IDPs manage funds inside and outside the Victims’ Support Fund management? I recommended that IDPs must look after themselves from procurement to distribution to cooking to eating and drinking and sanitation of camps, but you did not listen. Now we have tragic and preventable poverty in IDP camps and subsequent riots to eliminate the greedy middle men and women masquerading as humanitarians mostly from other states. Is ‘Shame’ Nigeria’s middle name?!

Daily we have reports of Fulani herdsmen tragically killing farmers and other citizens including Catholic Seminarian and a woman most recently in Enugu State after scores were killed in Nimbo. When will this end. This war is too one-sided. When will we have an end to this very bloody war destabilising communities nationwide. Perhaps only when we have a MEAT BOYCOTT?

Most roads are rubbish and do not need a 2-4 year contract until after the potholes have been filled to SOS, Save Our Souls, today not in four years’ time. I do not wish my worst enemy a trip to Lagos from Ibadan with the Berger bridge traffic jam adding 2-3 hours to the journey. Sunday afternoon has always been a day mare lasting 4 -5 hours for a 40km distance with standing traffic 30 kilometres long and 5-6 vehicles wide. Nigeria needs more and cheaper alternative, parallel and transverse motorable roads to take the pressure off the main road arteries.

Government must reduce the tonnage carried by road destroying and traffic-causing smoky overloaded slow-moving trailers to speed up traffic while waiting for the railway revolution to increase and diversify haulage in Nigeria.

Shame again at the needless loss of life at a dam in Ekiti State because the four boat researchers were without LIFEJACKETS! But they are clearly called LIFEJACKETS! What a waste of human capital.

We Nigerians must also never forget the season of ‘poverty’ we are enduring is not caused by the drop in oil prices but the all-consuming greed of cross-party leadership and political followership since particularly 1999-2015. Corruption used to be one penny on every bottle of soft drink and then $1 on every barrel of oil and then 10 % of contracts and the Minister of Finance saying to a contractor ‘I dropped my wallet with £10,000 in it not £1000’ expecting the wallet to be filled.  Now it is multi-billion dollar with padding and theft with no apology for lives lost. Is sending soldiers to their graves, THROUGH CORRUPT DECISION MAKING not a crime against humanity? THE EVIDENCE IS IN ARMY ORDERS AND MINUTES OF GOVENRMENT MEETINGS. THERE IS A GRAND CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE CITIZENS AND COUNTRY OF NIGERIA. Grand larceny requires a Grand alliance against Corruption, the perpetrators and the beneficiaries! We cannot leave this battle to Buhari and a few good men and women. We, the nation, are under attack. Unfortunately the uniformed bodies are still doing ‘particulars’ and ‘wetin you carry’ checkpoints and ‘welcome to Nigeria, anything for us’ to innocent travellers. The uniformed bodies have so far failed to commit to the Buhari mantra of anti-corruption even after 18 months of pressure – still no change.

Buhari must take the gloves off, reassess his current team, get compliance or appoint new faces, no nonsense people, to lead these forces or services to achieve the change agenda and change them frequently until we have clean forces. We have only two more years before the backlash tsunami or avalanche against change tries to wrestle the country back again. Nigeria will not survive another round of the corruption gangs from any party.

We shout about the tourist trade as being a way out of poverty when the ‘tourists’ nemesis is armed and dangerous and walking the streets as often unfriendly ‘The Police Is Your Friend’, or more likely as FRSC ‘Stop You In The Middle Of A Traffic Jam And Search’ for ‘Particulars And Out-Of-Date Tyres’.  The rats have not left the sinking Nigerian ship. They are just waiting for more meals to steal. Will they get the chance? The citizens will clean up when the police and customs are clean! Do not expect tourists or current foreign residents to give a good report and get others to come as tourists when they and Nigerians in their own country are subjected to the ‘uniforms’ who are cunning and deceptive and legally-illegally tow their vehicles because of ‘parking laws’ without ‘No Parking’ signs. Efforts to raise Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, by any agency has been characterised by Internally Generated Robbery -IGRobbery. We have to superintend any ‘uniform’ charged or empowered to raise funds especially under this change regime. The Nigerian Human Rights Commission must be proactive and not reactionary and put out ‘Rules of Engagement with Nigerian Citizens’ for Police, Customs, State vehicle Transport Regulatory Bodies, FRSC et cetera.