Tag: D’Tigress

Congratulations to all involved in the women’s basketball success of D’Tigress beating Senegal in the finals of the women’s Afrobasketball Championships despite of all the sports horror stories of deprivation, disappointment and devilish tricks from deliberate administrative lapses, incompetence and greed inflicted on most if not all flag-flying Nigerian athletes.

Mr Governor: Create Job opportunities.  Nigerians demand that every Nigerian Government Organisation recreates the long-abandoned ‘Office of Ombudsperson’ for arbitration when Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) motivated outrageous circulars/demonic bills/illegal actions cause citizens to collapse in shock.

Mr Governor: Where did your family park before you became governor? ‘Free flow of traffic’ is not achieved by ‘No Parking Anywhere’. ‘Regulating traffic’ is not ‘No Parking Anywhere’. Will you wrongly introduce ‘No Parking’ strategies before rightly 1] giving ‘Warnings Notices’ tickets for offending vehicles and 2] properly signboard-ing/marking  areas and 3] setting up Parking zones? Too many No Parking zones choke the ‘Ease of Doing Business’ ruining IGR.  ‘No Parking Anywhere = No Business Everywhere’!

Mr Governor: Are citizens’ opinions irrelevant? When, in governance meetings, do citizens become ‘Enemy Number One’ and fall from being ‘semi-respected’ voters to ‘reviled victims’, from being the ‘do focus’ to be treated like ‘dirt’ and exploitable and targeted as ‘IGR sources’! This is not ‘Good Governance’ but an authoritarian occupation strategy! Our political office holders often fail from Day One to service the 1000 simple things needed by people seeking survival through the ‘Ease of Doing Business’.

Mr Governor: Please enforce the rule of law and human decency and do not allow staff to break the law to entrap and entangle voting citizens just to increase IGR. Such illegality will explain gangs of traffic authority staff seizing vehicles for ‘illegal parking’ on roads, including roads wide enough to have never had a traffic jam and have no ‘No Parking’ sign and no parking facilities. That would be governance corruption. Disgracefully there are exemptions to the unwritten ‘No Parking Law’ for political party meetings and party social gatherings. Their discriminatory action does not allow others to park for genuine state developing, IGR increasing, business purposes thus making nonsense of the ‘Ease of doing Business’.

Mr Governor: Do your traffic staff discriminate against locals by exempting certain ethnic groups living among them from ‘No Parking’ Laws. In Ibadan, indiscriminate parking on Sabo Road is notorious for being ignored by traffic authorities which insults other citizens who are targeted daily. Mr Governor: Why one law to oppress the citizens and another law for others. That is criminal discrimination and blatant illegality! How can you ensure that decisions and actions taken at state and LGA Executive Council and state agency meetings are properly guided from day one towards the growth of the citizenry through increasing the ‘Ease of Doing Business’ on our streets?

Mr Governor: In most communities Nigeria-wide often no single good activity can be pointed at to ameliorate the citizens’ daily suffering. So with No Parking’ arrests, the impact of governance is actually negative. This is because the authorities like governors etcetera  surround themselves with an unbridled unsupervised extortionist gang or group with the sole aim of ‘increasing IGR’ and they are prepared to use force. The road fines are too high.  In Oxford Street London, fines are one day’s minimum wage. In Nigeria fines are 1-2 months minimum wage- stupid.

Mr Governor: You, commissioners and ministers are business persons and professionals who may have been victims of the government orchestrated crime of creating deliberately opaque traffic parking restrictions ruining access to business premises from hairdressers, pharmacists, clinics and hospitals. Empty, no traffic streets, strangulating business by inability to park is bad politics and bad for state business growth. Why allow traffic staff to attack the citizenry claiming wrong parking when there is no single ‘No Parking’ sign, no ‘Government Parking’ in the entire state. Is this what is taught in governor’s retreat and in business schools? Plan together, please.

Mr Governor: Please let your conscience lead. Unmonitored uniformed authorities like traffic authorities are dangerous without serious supervision.

EFCC investigates $16b power sector fund. Please add the $12.4b ‘First Gulf War Windfall’ under Babangida. Good, but how many 2019 frauds has EFCC prevented by proactively monitoring politicians, pension and other funds? Is ‘Obasanjo advocates lower interest rates’ diversionary or patriotic? Press, please ignore! Nigerians know the benefit of single digit loans. Obasanjo’s aburo, Babangida, increased loan rates from 4%. Why did Obasanjo and PDP not reverse them when we had serious money by saving $100m in foreign reserves? To improve the ‘Ease of Doing Business’ Nigerians deserve single digit interest rates. The interest rate is made up of [1] 13.5% MPR Monetary Policy Rate of CBN and [2] 12-15% commercial bank rate added on, totally 25-30+%.

Finally we have an international costing for one event in Nigeria’s chronic political and administrative CINS- Corruption, Incompetence, Negligence and Selfishness -N9b. NISER and social and political science departments nationwide can now add the researched computations for the quantum wasted cost/losses of other instances including the cost of failure to maintain the ‘former expressways’.

Nigeria smilingly recently received many billions corporate in fines. What happened to the money? Well, Nigeria was counter-fined $6b in 2015 under Jonathan’s PDP for ‘loss of income’ through failure to provide gas power to the suing company and in 2019 cumulative interest making it a $9b blunder under Buhari’s APC requiring resignations and prosecutions and punishments.

• [To be continued].