All ministers out! Political Pensions no! JAMB jams results; LGA autonomy; power and security as presidential priorities, NSITF-which scam next and CBN’s Emefiele.
President Buhari: Congratulate and change all your ministers, please. Comfortable ministers are not the same thing as competent ministers. Nigerians are frustratingly used to old recycled failed ministerial and political faces in power. We thrive on change which brings new expectations, new faces and renewed desire, we hope to serve. Let the ministerial jobs go around intra-state.
More political pension abuse. When will politicians realise that Nigeria is fast changing. We are no longer silent. We have no gratitude for politicians who have failed us. Look at the budget approval delay and other shadowy activities characteristic of the Nigerian political class. If they do not change, Nigerians will have to change them until we get it right. Life pension is wrong, especially right now with so many unemployed. Even soldiers and police who risk their lives daily do not have that luxury.
More ritual killings. I am yet to hear of any serious effort to initiate preventive measures in ritual killings. We always react but rarely prevent ritual killings. Why? Nigeria, particular LGAs and states Houses of Assembly must initiate laws making ‘Annual Herbalist Registration’ and ‘Herbalist Monthly Monitoring by LGA’ compulsory. Nigerians must be protected from professional killers hiding under the masquerade of herbalist.
JAMB jams 34,120 UTME results. JAMB should be protected from fraudulent students by taking each and every fraud case to court. It is a jail-able crime. After all, the names and IDs are available. Is it possible that we still have this much cheating or are the results withheld for other reasons?
The Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency (LASPARK) is increasing the number of activities in Lagos State parks. Gardens and Parks, aka GAP are mostly empty of knowledge. Are you not surprised that Nigeria with 700 miles of coastline has no single aquarium? Why not have LAPSARK aquarium or science museums of educational posters of famous people and events and happenings in these parks? Please involve students and lecturers and tertiary departments in UNILAG, LASU, Yaba College of Technology, Oceanography School, Nigerian Medical Research Council and the various professional bodies to insert science and technology, engineering and mathematical and other subjects games and quiz questions and posters in LAPARK inspirational exhibition centres and museums to fill these ‘empty’ fun spaces to in turn help fill the ‘empty’ brains of our youth with serious science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and other knowledge. For years I have seen this GAP in youth knowledge and asked for this to be done. Nothing so far and now see the problem the youth have and are to others. See how they occupy their time.
States ‘mismanage’ LGAs of N15.6trillion in 12 years. This was done by the elected politicians legalizing illegality through joint accounts. LGAs are corrupt enough without adding governor-driven illegally legal laws guaranteeing them access to the LGA accounts. Of course even when they were independent, did LGAs perform? Will independence be any different? Serious EFCC and ICPC and community monitoring is required.
Like Ibadan like Kano when it comes to beaded crowns and creating new emirates like it was in the past?
Mr. President, Nigerians were cheated by ECN and then PHCN and now DISCOs over estimated billing. Mr. President, give Nigeria prepaid meters and Mr. President give Nigerians the electricity they deserve -24/7 like at Aso Rock. Mr. President, make the supply of electric power to all Nigerians as priority one along with the elimination of the nationwide security threat of herder and bandit terrorism.
Nigerians are often forced by law to contribute hard earned funds to organisations like ETF, only to find their funds disappear down these conduits of legalised illegality and political and fiscal rascality. We are legally forced to fund NSITF, NHIS, ETF, Police and other security funds or especially pension funds. All have failed us as funds are squandered, stolen or syphoned away in these scam schemes with disappearance of mind-bogging 10 or 11 figure amounts. Knowing the high risk of such nefarious thefts, why not monitor such organisations pre-emptively with bank alarm bells and monthly forensic audits to nip fraud in the bud? EFCC and ICPC ignore such organisations but they must be forced to perform common sense annual General Orders-compliant internal auditing, external auditing and normal thief-catching accounting procedure. The NSITF scam is said to involve cataclysmic corruption involving N42b out of N62b taken/stolen from all Nigeria’s employers between 2012 and 2015. The Nigerian business community deserves and unreserved apology from the supervising ministry and government for this loss of funds due to supervisory incompetence or neglect.
What is NSITF’s financial position between 2015 and 2019? At least another N62,000,000,000, nearly N800/adult Nigerian. Is the fight to be on the board a fight to serve? Why do these things happen in every single case? Why? Worse is that no effort is made by government to even make such bodies barely honest or accountable. It is only after multiple billions have been syphoned that one or two heads may roll. Every public organization requires alarm systems to detect when the first one million disappears. Which organisation is next?
President Buhari has renewed the tenure of Emefiele CBN governor to signal stability, a slow improvement in naira value, and more riches for ‘treasury bill banks’ for no lending work done. Banking is good ‘bad’ business O!
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