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  • Obasanjo’s recipe for Boko Haram is inhuman

    Obasanjo’s recipe for Boko Haram is inhuman

    SIR: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in his latest blistering public criticism of the Federal Government, said President Goodluck Jonathan’s response to the Boko Haram insurgency was slow. This is, no doubt, arguable. He spoke in Warri as the moderator of a public lecture by former External Affairs Minister, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, in honour of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, who was marking his 40th anniversary as a pastor. He seemed to have chosen theright forum to express his concern over a scourge that has become a national security problem, but his position was defective. The former president reportedly accused his successors of allowing the Boko Haram insurgency to fester. But Obasanjo retains the unenviable record as being the only former Nigerian leader (apart from General Muhammadu Buhari who is understandably an oppositional presidential candidate) who relishes open castigationof the seeming actions or inactions of the government of the day. The impression Obasanjo creates about himself is that he is not happy to see the other man in the leadership saddle. This tends to confirm the views in certain quarters that he has the penchant to destroy people than to build them. At a point, he donned the garb of a conciliator by going to Maiduguri amid the escalating Boko Haram insurgency to seek to broker a truce. He claimed to have obtained the permission of President Goodluck Jonathan before embarking on the enterprise. At the end of the day, the move turned awry when his host in Maiduguri with whom he sought to kick-start the process of reconciliation, was killed about three days after he (Obasanjo) left the town. But today, it is convenient for Obasanjo to wrongly accuse Jonathan of slowness in responding to the Boko Haram insurgency simply because he wants to portray the current administration as weak and incompetent. It is also game for Obasanjo to stomp on the Jonathan presidency just because he was instrumental to the political arrangement that threw up the Umaru Yar’Adua-Jonathan presidential ticket in 2007.

    The truth, however, is that Obasanjo cannot approbate and reprobate at the same time on the same issue as he has tended to do in the Boko Haram case. Here is a man who went to Maiduguri purportedly on a reconciliation mission now turning round to recommend the Odi treatment for the town of Maiduguri and perhaps other towns in the North just to nip the Boko Haram insurgency in the bud. He would have loved to see Jonathan deploy soldiers to the flashpoints to level the places – annihilate the innocent and the ‘criminals’ in a military action. To Obasanjo, this is pro-activeness. This is how to show that the Federal Government or the President is not weak. This approach does not accommodate rationality that is grounded on humanity: how can you commit genocide because you want to take out some criminals? While reflecting on the crisis at Odi, Obasanjo had said at the Warri forum: “I attended to a problem that I saw; I sent soldiers. They were killed, 19 of them (were) decapitated. If I had allowed that to continue, I would not have the authority to send security anywhere again. I attended to it…. If you say you do not want a strong leader, who can have all the characteristics of a leader, including the fear of God, then, you have a weak leader and the rest of the problem is yours.”

    Obasanjo claims Jonathan’s response is slow. He also claims that his successor, the late Yar’Adua, was soft on corruption; but I ask: when he (Obasanjo) became president and inherited the problem of militancy in the Niger Delta region, what did he do very quickly to end the scourge? Was it not the late Yar’Adua who ended it with his famous Amnesty deal?

    Indeed, on both scores, Boko Haram and corruption, Obasanjo has been unfair to his successors. It is in his character to be so disposed; only that I am surprised that he is behaving as if he has fallen out of favour with the government he helped to enthrone. But then by recommending the Odi recipe for the Boko Haram insurgents, Obasanjo has succeeded in showing to the world the inhumanity and irrationality of his presidency. He cannot in a self-ignited frenzy railroad a cruel recipe on Jonathan; and, as far as I am concerned, the president’s systematic and multi-faceted approach at tackling the Boko Haram insurgency, which factors in the innocent civilian population, is the best in the circumstance and should therefore be sustained.

     

    • Callistus Omoregie,

    Benin City, Edo State.

     

  • Let’s unearth the truth about Boko Haram

    Let’s unearth the truth about Boko Haram

    SIR: I was very enraptured when I came across the invitation by Boko Haram to have General Muhammadu Buhari as one of their mediators with the Federal Government. It was in the belief that more revelations would emerge. As a concerned Nigerian and a practising Christian, I am worried, just as others are, on the frequent attacks on churches by the sect which led to the loss of some of my precious teachers at the Bayero University Kano some months ago.

    Many people are of the suspicion that Buhari was behind the hazardous activities of the sect, quoting what they claimed was his proclamation in the 2011 campaign tours that “he would make Nigeria unstable if he was not elected president,”, a statement I never heard from him because I actively participated and heard all his speeches during the presidential campaign tour. They alleged his statement gave rise to the post-election crisis and now Boko Haram.

    I remember vividly, Buhari’s popular statement to his teeming supporters was“vote, stay and guard your votes till they are counted.” He said this everywhere he went. The 2011 general election which was to some extent, rigged in favour of the government in power generated a lot of crisis in the northern part of the country, which led to the burning of numerous churches by the hooligans. The hooligans whose targets were the PDP big shots suddenly turned the whole aggression against Christians, not minding the fact that a lot of them had supported and voted for Buhari against their Christian brethren.

    With a Christian cleric, Pastor Tunde Bakare, as his running mate and for the fact that the National Chairman of CPC, Prince Tony Momoh himself was a Christian, nobody from the Buhari camp could have encouraged any mob action against Christians. Now, the sect has mentioned the General along with five other personalities as trusted mediators between them and the federal government. The blackmail of Buhari is now seen as the bargaining power for juicy gains from the PDP government and some inconsequential people have taken that as their new profession.

    The General, who rejected his invitation on the grounds that he could not mediate for a group he does not know and which revels in killing innocent souls, has never been confronted by anybody for turning down the request. If he had not been invited as a mediator by the sect, his detractors wouldn’t have had the privilege of knowing his innocence.

    If Buhari had any hand, directly or indirectly in the activities of Boko Haram, he would not have come out openly to denounce its invitation as a co-mediator. The sect would have come out with some striking revelations if at all Buhari had betrayed them. There are some disgruntled elements in Nigeria who are usually prepared to use religion for their personal aggrandizements; they derive benefits from sponsoring violence and this is not new in our dear nation.

    During Shehu Shagari’s administration, the Maitatsine crisis broke out in Kano and other parts of the north where innocent people were killed; up till now, and just like Boko Haram, nobody can clearly define its objectives and what the Maitatsine really stood for. This was the handiwork of some disgruntled elements who wanted to create unnecessary confusion in the polity. That was not Buhari.For anybody to link him to the chain of unfortunate activities happening presently in Nigeria is a disservice to the nation.

    If President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had confessed in a national broadcast that he knew members of Boko Haram and some are part of his PDP-led government, I can’t understand why Nigerians are not pressurizing him to expose the so called members but rather accusing people whose guilt are not confirmed. Where would somebody whose income and financial status is known by all Nigerians, get the funds to procure the expensive cars and other weapons used by the Boko Haram?

    Even if it is true that the person who spoke for the sect was their real spokesperson, it could be that they have seen Buhari as an honest person who cannot be bought over by both sides. This is because of their involvement of other reputable Nigerians like Dr. Shetimma Ali Mungono, who can be attested by anybody as a patriotic Nigerian in their negotiating team.

    While I strongly condemn the devilish activities of Boko Haram and those behind them, I strongly believe that their day of reckoning is around the corner. I believe in the universally accepted statement that “ninety-nine days for the thief, one day for the owner”.

    • Comrade Richard Tersoo Mnenga,

    World Peace Academy, University of Basel,

    12, Basel 4053. Switzerland

     

  • NCC’s ban on telecoms’ promos in order

    NCC’s ban on telecoms’ promos in order

    SIR: The indefinite ban placed by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), on all promos and lotteries in the Telecoms industry is a welcome development. According to the Director, Public Affairs of the NCC Mr. Tony Ojobo, the ban is with immediate effect and shall continue to remain in force until such a time as may be determined by the Commission. It is very valid to assert that prior to the coming of this ban, Nigerians had for months suffered unnecessary hardship imposed on them by GSM providers in the country who under the guise of carrying out promos, which was nothing but unbridled capitalistic war to outwit each other, recklessly rolled out all manner of ridiculous promos, and bogus prizes.

    It is on record that while this long season of anomie reigned, no week would pass by without one new promo or the other being unleashed by a GSM provider, ostensibly to overthrow the other competitors. Thus, the GSM companies simply

    relegated efficient service delivery and subscriber satisfaction to the background, and in a naturally expected bourgeois class-imposed scramble, some Nigerians too, unmindful of the huge fortune being made by these GSM companies via this conduit, also latched on to the so-called promos, seeing them as free-for-all. Most of them spent thousands of naira buying loads of recharge cards in time past with nothing to show for it. Had it stopped at just the problem of terrible over-congestion of the networks and continuous dropped calls perhaps it would have been a lot easier to explain. It got to a stage when the GSM companies were promising subscribers amazing prizes like winning an airplane for recharging up to N3000, or a huge luxurious bus to start a dream transport business or winning one billion naira.

    At this point, the scramble to win the so-called star prize simply skyrocketed. While the GSM provider smiled to the bank, the already

    terrible network congestion tightened, confidence of subscribers in the sector was further imperilled and after so much pressure. Close to six months of this reign of “GSM Calls go-slow” that was mindlessly imposed by the Telecoms companies, Nigerians suffered one unsavoury fate or the other, only by reason of the fact that they could not make calls out when caught in very terrible situations, and as at that time the NCC was nowhere to be found. Where then does one situate all of these losses, if not at the doorstep of the NCC? The NCC like every other Government Agency is not supposed to avail itself of a deep slumber akin to the type the biblical Jonah in that Ship on the way to Tarshish, while companies under their superintendence go on frolics of their own. A chronicle of the plenitude of misdemeanours of these GSM companies will leave one amazed. For instance, many a time, Nigerians have had huge amount of credit vanish from their phones after

    making just a short call

    without a refund from their GSM provider. Countless times too, people are simply cajoled to switch from one package to another, usually offering all manner of goodies, only to do so and see that all of one’s credit is gone. That is not to also leave out the unending flow of very many unnecessary promo SMS asking consumers to get one song or the other that usually adds no significant value to the subscriber. Also, the idea whereby some of the self-acclaimed giants amongst the GSM companies periodically thump their chest claiming to have hit a certain subscriber base usually above 10 million, whereas the necessary infrastructure is totally lacking, is just another way of short-changing subscribers. Much as Nigerians appreciate the NCC ban, it may turn out to be nothing but removing a tiny speck out of a log-filled eyes, if these other menace catalogued about are not addressed. Now is therefore the time for the NCC to indeed regulate these GSM companies

    and checkmate their unconscionable recklessness which transcends the congestion on their networks, but rather streams into their other roaming activities.

     

    • Olusola Adegbite, Esq.

    Block 107A, Mayo-Belma Close,

    PW Estate, Kubwa, Abuja.

     

  • Let’s remake Ekiti State University

    Let’s remake Ekiti State University

    SIR: Of recent, the Ekiti State Government has been beaming its searchlight on primary and post-primary education in the state, an effort that has, in no small measure, pitched members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) against the Kayode Fayemi administration. However, my observation of education and its minders in the State has shown me that the rot and celebrated mediocrity do not stop at these levels, but extend deep into the recesses of the newly christened Ekiti State University (EKSU) and the College of Education, Ikere Ekiti.

    Higher education is a learning that captures universality (the world view). It is an institute where talents and potentials are discovered, nurtured and groomed to partake meaningfully in creating a better world for the convenience of its inhabitants.

    Gradually, the world is progressing from an energy-based economy to a knowledge-based economy where technology is shaping our lives and world view. In Korea and the East Asian, human resources rooted in cerebral creativity, have moved these countries from the backstage of economic doldrums to the centre-stage of economic advancement. In all these countries, the university plays a crucial role in developing and grooming the drivers of these economies. Can the minders of Ekiti State University (EKSU) seriously say they are grooming students for leadership positions? Can they beat their chests and proclaim that the knowledge they are dishing out is in tandem with the 21st century?

    The university represents hope, exposure, expression and exploration for students and would-be students – someone coming from the rural parts where native knowledge is in excess and modern knowledge is in shortfall.

    Ekiti State University can barely boast of any aesthetic beauty. You are confronted with structures, poorly executed in some instances. Recently, I was at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB). In fact, the lush surroundings of FUNAAB seem to be better-minded than that of OAU.

    It seems that year in, year out, the minders of EKSU have concerned themselves more with in-fighting, politics, and fraud-related crisis. Rather than create conducive environment for learning from the tuition fees they take and their yearly subvention, the school authority seems to have lost the purpose of its calling. As a patriotic Ekiti man, after 30 years of the university existence, with its chameleonic nomenclatures, I still feel that my state does have a university. And this is why I agree with the scrapping of the mushroom universities established by ex-Governor Governor Segun Oni which could have worsened our already festering situation.

    Besides the stifling environment of the university, there are some of the university’s lecturers (and this is verifiable) who still use the lesson materials of early nineties when in fact there are changing views on the world stage on a daily basis.

    Governor Kayode Fayemi and his Commissioner of Education, Mrs. Eniola Ajayi, have got their job cut out for them. We simply cannot continue to add to Nigeria’s problems by producing ill-prepared graduates. If we fail to do anything, in future, these students would curse us all for ill-preparing them and making them worthless in the labour market. Ask graduates of Ekiti State University (or UNAD) who apply for Masters at UI or OAU; they would share their ordeal with you. Should our university become a brand for rejection or excellence? Now is the time to make our choice? Fayemi is trying his best but he needs to make the necessary changes now.

    Professor Akin Oyebode was in the process of setting the school on the path of glory before Ayo Fayose yanked him off in the name of politics. Governor Fayemi should discountenance these coat-wearing multi-degree-parading so-called university administrators with no exposure and administrative competence. Now is the time to shun theory and give vent to practical if Ekiti State University must truly become a university.

    • ‘Dimeji Daniels

    dimejidaniels@gmail.com

    Ekiti State.

  • Nigeria needs urgent revival for rebirth

    Nigeria needs urgent revival for rebirth

    SIR: Consequent upon the challenges Nigeria is passing through in terms of unrighteousness among the rank and file of its citizens, widespread corruption from the leaders to the followers, insecurity, immorality, organized mass killings motivated by religious, economic, political and ethnic hatred, bombing, mass poverty, electoral fraud, violent crimes, kidnapping, financial fraud, human/ drug trafficking, cultism, greediness, and lack of fear of God, I want to state prophetically that Nigeria needs revival courtesy of the religious leaders in the country especially in a time like this when everything seems to be fighting against the peace and progress of the nation.

    The revival in Nigeria will put to shame the devil and his agents that have united more than ever to wage war against Nigerians and break up the country (God forbids) hence, the revival will liberate and revive Nigerians from the shackles of the wicked and make Nigerians submit to God (Isaiah 66:3).

    God has heard the cry of His people in Nigeria and the revival will make the enemies of Nigeria and Nigerians submit by freeing them from all sins and unrighteousness. As this is also a time for Nigerians to seek the face of God for Him to restore peace and bless the country.

    Through the revival and by the greatness of God’s power, all the enemies troubling the nation will submit – Isaiah 59: 19. Nigerians need to tow the path to genuine repentance, trust and fear of God so that with our collective prayers, Nigeria shall overcome her problems and rise again, as God will deal with the Pharaohs and Egyptians of our nation.

    Most Nigerians do not know or understand the efficacy of God’s power, such that, there is lack of Knowledge, as recorded in Hosea 4:6. Most people exalt the power of Satan and his agents more than God’s because they are ignorant of God’s power. They cherish human beings, worship lesser gods and disobey God.

    • Prophet OIadipupo Funmilade-Joel (Sekunderin)

    General Overseer, The Way of Reconciliation Evangelistic Ministries (TWOREM) Int’l.

  • We need citizenship education

    We need citizenship education

    SIR: Over half of the entire populace of the country are not grounded in the nation’s ideals. A therapy for this ailment is the introduction of the study of Citizenship education in our institutions of learning.

    As the family plays its part in building veritable citizens, so should the schools and institutions of learning play their part for things to work well together. Of importance should be the secondary schools because this is when the individual’s formation of character begins. I was filled with satisfaction when a secondary school approached me to see him through his assignment on the subject. It is a step in the right direction. If such an attitude is sustained, it will be good for our nation.

    Section 23 of 1999 Constitution which states that “The national ethics shall be Discipline, Integrity, Dignity of Labour, Social Justice, Religious Tolerance, Self-reliance and Patriotism” should be the foundation, which can be followed by upholding the contents of Section 24 and other similar sections.

    Nigerians stand to gain a lot with the inclusion of this scheme to the curriculum of different institutions of learning.

     

    • Ekpo Uduakobong,

    LagosState.

  • Worship places as theatres of war

    Worship places as theatres of war

    I concede to the laconic axiom of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, which holds that “Our life begins to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Ipso facto, it matters to me on this day to publicly condemn in strong terms the lugubrious transmogrification of places of worship into a theatre of ‘war without end’ in some part of the country.

    As at today, despicable people behaving like monstrous ogres have invaded places of worship like the biblical thief in the night to kill, steal and destroy with apparatus of war transmuting birth certificates into death certificates. These ‘evilitarian’ icons of doom with unquenchable appetite for innocent blood kill in the name of God. Oh what a pity! The God I know cannot send any man to kill his brothers and sisters in His name, because he told us in his Word that “we should be our brother’s keepers.” Then why kill those he asked you to keep? Those who kill in the name of God are victims of ‘theomania’ and a place called ‘Hell’ awaits them all.

    I hold that religion can be a bridge of unity if humanity realise that there is none but one God even though we worship him in different ways. Therefore, we must allow our fellow man to practice his religion so long as it does not breach public peace and security.

    The ongoing ‘luciferian’ act of killing in places of worship has made children orphans, women widows, men widowers, brother and sisters incapacitated with irredeemable disability, while others die in pieces like victims of canes-venatici (i.e hunting dogs). Oh, what a painful way to die!

    I wish to urge those who kill in the name of God to lay down their weapons and adopt the creed of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which states that “non-violence is a powerful weapon. It is a weapon unique in history which cut without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heal” in their strategy to express their grievances.

    I call on Nigerians to key into the fight against terror by giving security agencies timely and impeccable information about criminal element in our community.

    I appeal to the federal government to bury the recent Amnesty International report in the dust bin. Oh yes! That is the best place for such a report because it fails to align itself with the words of Abraham Lincoln which state that “those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God can’t retain it.”

    Consequently, we must intensify effort to flush out perpetrators and sponsors of violence in any way we consider fit. So that peace can return to our land.

    God bless Nigeria, may Allah protect us.

     

    By Ehis G. O.

    Ubiaja, Edo State.

  • Nigeria needs a revival now

    Nigeria needs a revival now

    Due to the challenges Nigeria is passing through in terms of unrighteousness among its rank and file, widespread corruption from the leaders to the followers, insecurity, immorality, organised mass killings motivated by religious, economic, political and ethnic hatred, bombing, mass poverty, electoral fraud, violent crimes, kidnapping, financial fraud, human and drug trafficking, cultism, and greed .

    I want to state prophetically that Nigeria needs revival courtesy of the religious leaders in the country especially in a time like this when everything seemed to be fighting against the peace and progress of the nation.

    The revival in Nigeria will put to shame the devil and his agents that have united more than ever to wage war against Nigerians and break-up the country (God forbid). The revival will liberate and revive Nigerians from the shackles of the wicked and make Nigerians submit to God (Isaiah 66 : 3 ).

    God has heard the cry of His people in Nigeria and the revival will make the enemies of the country to submit by freeing them from all sins and unrighteousness. As this is also a time for Nigerians to seek the face of God, so that God can restore back peace and bless the country.

    Through the revival and by the greatness of God’s power, all the enemies will submit, according to the book of Isaiah 59 : 19.

    Nigerians need to toe the path to genuine repentance, trust and fear of God. So that with our prayers together, Nigeria shall overcome her problems and rise again, as God will deal with the ‘Pharaohs’ and ‘Egyptians’ of our nation.

    Most Nigerians tend to limit the power of God because they do not know or understand the efficacy of God’s power, such that there is lack of knowledge, as recorded in Hosea 4 : 6 – “My people are destroyed for lack of Knowledge”

    For of all – sorts – of, most people go on to exalt the power of Satan and his agents more than God, because they are ignorant of God’s power. They cherish human beings and worship lesser gods and disobey God.

    If we know that, what God cannot do, then, no man or woman can do, hence, we should all submit to the will of God and trust Him.

     

    By Prophet OIadipupo Funmilade-Joel

    The Way of Reconciliation Evangelistic Ministries (TWOREM) Int’l, Lagos.

  • President Jonathan, take oil sector probe seriously

    SIR: Since the leakage and eventual submission to President Goodluck Jonathan of the Ribadu-led Petroleum Revenue Task Force Report, it has been deluge of controversies, accusations and counter-accusations. It took the leakage of the report by a foreign news agency, Reuters, before the government moved to give Nigerians an insight into the dealings in the oil sector. Even at that, details of the probe are still sketchy. Minister of Petroleum Resources Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke told Reuters that she received the report in September.

    The Task Force is a 21-member committee set up at the behest of the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources among ad hoc bodies set up by the federal government following the removal of subsidy on petroleum products in January this year. When Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was appointed as the committee’s chairman, majority of stakeholders hailed the move, considering the pedigree of the anti-corruption Czar. Not a few expressed reservations about the likely outcome of the probe.

    The probe report revealed a cesspool of corruption and irregularities in the nation’s oil sector. Though Petroleum Minister claimed the government needed to make input into the report before its final adoption, this shouldn’t have caused such delay.

    Besides, if the government had to do so, why didn’t the Petroleum Ministry allow the committee to submit the report to the president before its input since according to official procedures, the government would be expected to study the report and perhaps come out with a white paper for its implementation?

    Just like the KPMG probe report of the NNPC – which has been lying in government’s files- that contains mind – boggling revelations, the Ribadu-led Task Force Report is fraught with fraud. The report has only reaffirmed the call for a closer look into the activities of the NNPC which has come under criticisms and controversies over the years.

    The report says about N 86.65 billion earned in 10 years by the NNPC is missing. This claim ordinarily should sound bogus considering the amount involved, but events in the country where cases of monumental corruption have become commonplace may suggest its possibility.

    Also, the report alleges that international oil traders sometimes buy crude without any formal contracts and that foreign oil firms had outstanding debts in terms of unpaid royalties, bonuses and proceeds from gas sales. Another issue raised by the committee is that Nigerian oil ministers handed out licenses at their own discretion.

    It’s saddening that the happenings in the nation’s most critical sector have been dogged with tales of recklessness and maladministration for years. The business in the sector cannot be continued to be run as a ‘family affair’ where decisions are taken perhaps irrationally.

    But beyond the intrigues and confusions that have trailed the report, what President Jonathan owes the people he has sworn to protect is to shove aside all the machinations of the concerned ‘oil thieves’ who are hell-bent on frustrating a comprehensive sweep on the critical sector. Though the report seems to have been literally dismissed by the government going by the reaction of the President’s Special Assistant on Public Affairs Dr. Doyin Okupe that the report is inconclusive and shoddy, Dr. Jonathan still has to make sure that the aims of the probe are not defeated.

    One must not fail to ask what the intentions of the government were when two members of the committee Mr. Steve Orosanya and Mr. Ben Otti were appointed into juicy positions of the NNPC when the committee was yet to conclude on its assignment. As opined by Ribadu, why didn’t the affected members of the committee resign their membership of the committee when they were appointed?

    What Nigerians want is a thorough cleansing of the oil sector. The government must not rely on technicalities or rhetoric in order to defeat the aims of setting up the committee. Whatever has to be done must be done, and quickly too.

    • Stanley Ibeku,

    Lagos.

  • Let our leaders be warned!

    SIR: On the state of the nation, Nigeria and Nigerians need prayers. Nobody understands the present situation. The leaders should be sincere for the sake of the corporate existence of Nigeria. They are hiding a lot from the public.

    The unfaithfulness in the nation leads to corruption and fraudulent practices that are eating deep into the resources of the nation and affecting the economy very seriously.

    We pay for electricity that is not there for us. People are paying more for the water that is not supplied. Instead of the government to provide electricity, water and other basic amenities, they are short-changing the public by importing generators for the public. Our roads are not motorable. They are death traps. On the petrol subsidy, government is not subsidizing anything.

    They are increasing tuition fees in higher institutions, beyond poor man’s reach and they are not creating jobs. Nigerians are already frustrated, hence the spate of kidnapping, blood shedding, arm-robbery, killings here and there. They should know that if the children of the poor are hungry, the children of the rich will not sleep.

    Let our leaders be warned that unfaithfulness and corruption will continue to make people frustrated and the more frustrated the people are, the more problems should be expected in this nation. The Bible says: “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” Proverbs 14:34.

    Our leaders in every sphere of governance should read the handwriting on the wall and repent, hence, they should be expecting more problems for the nation, because – Proverbs 15:27– “He who is greedy for gain, troubles his own house, but, he who hates bribe will live”. Also, 2 Chronicles 7 : 14-15 record that – “If my people who are called by my name could humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then, I will hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land”.Therefore, let our leaders repent from their wickedness, selfish ways, so that, God can hear our prayers.

    • Raphael Olalekan-Adesina

    Lagos.