The terrifying deaths of nine Boy’s Brigade youths in Gombe is a devilish premeditated road rage and murder by a Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) member-recently armed by government, murdered in turn by an outraged mob. We demand that Nigeria’s uniformed personnel must, like in other countries have regular psychological lectures and assessments annually by employing 1,000s of Nigerian psychologists in the armed forces, police, customs and immigration, FRSC, LASTMA, and banks. The uniform makes them mad, power drunk, uncontrollable, murderers!
President’s legacy: Our president is entitled to leave even if he is the most senior employee of the ‘Nigerian government and people’. Let the president go and rest, be repaired or rejuvenated. No one is indispensable or irreplaceable but we are all exhaustible. Come back with good governance ideas and change almost all or all ministers. Nigerians want ‘change’. Four years is enough. Look at Ngige spouting that our poor doctor – patient ratio is okay! There are enough good Nigerians to provide new ministers. Even exceptional ministers can be ex-ministers as new breed exceptional ones will be found. The president should evaluate the tri-Ministry of Power, Works and Housing set up for quick policy-practice transition times and reduction in inter-ministerial friction. Did the Oronsaye model work? Should we go back to three cooperating, not competing, ministries? And now Nigeria through AMCON may owe one single contractor, a benefactor of government, N132b, $500,000+ following a Supreme Court judgement which, unlike Lord Denning’s, failed to order compensation for victims of all contract failures, the downtrodden citizen. Tax breaks for example, for the years of disappointment, development failure no matter who is responsible -Ministry or Man!!
This is presidential legacy time. Enough of political pandering and plodding along!! It would have been nice to have medical check-up in a Nigerian hospital but remember the corruption even in the Aso Rock House Clinic??
The pinnacle of Nigeria’s political greed is the blatant indifference to poverty. The politicians pass by Nigeria’s numerous rubbish dumps then dare to allocate inflammatory pensions and greed-driven retirement perks? Are they mad? The politicians see adults and even Nigeria’s children, bent, barefoot, no gloves or goggles inhaling the dangerous chemical fumes and stink of Nigeria’s waste to pick sellable bits and food remains – almost a death sentence. Fellow Nigerians, no one was born to eat scraps and half eaten akara while politicians and others misallocate or even steal the billions given by God to feed, employ and empowerNigerians! No true Nigerian would drive past such widespread despair and debasement only to recklessly create self-serving pension schemes. The Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission is empowered to fix these figures taking mass poverty and the pension pattern in politics worldwide into account. To misquote English language aficionados; are they not bombastic egocentric kleptomaniacs who should be incarcerated in the darkest recesses of our penal gulags for abuse of public trust and assault on the treasury?
Is this not a betrayal of trust when pensions and salaries are owed millions? Do they not see Nigerians living abroad and dying in abysmal climate conditions as illegal migrants due to neglect of governance at home? Is this any different from the teacher raping the student he is supposed to protect? Or the ‘uniform’ killing the Boys Brigade children or Dele Giwa or the Apo 6 or 9? All these complicating intimidation from annoyance, drunkenness or ‘deliberately on purpose’ through ‘accidentally on purpose’ discharge.
So now the pensions are official even if morally corrupt and illegally legal. Yet they put the girl ‘Success’ and 10million like her in rubbish schools to somehow get educated. Shame. Politics is the highest paid, 419, gig in Nigeria, so much spent with so little positive return, compounded by a pension for life and houses and cars for 4 years of some for sometimes disservice to Nigeria. Look at the budget delays and trivial, low intellect contributions to debates utterances and questionable performance, including dance steps and character flaws of many politicians.
Is this a political pension scheme or a Ponzi scheme or a yahoo-yahoo scheme as the rules are being changed every day? Meanwhile in contrast what is the actual pay-out for Nigeria’s real heroes -our soldiers dying in the undeclared war against Boko Haram and the police dying as escorts to kidnap victims and at bank robberies and the fellow Nigerians murdered by herders, Boko Haram or uniforms every single day? Add to that Nigeria at 5-7,000Mw is still the darkest country in the continent of Africa having been failed by a greed-driven politics and systematic sabotage of our oil refineries now supposedly needing $900m. While we the voters sleep in darkness, the politician commands 24hours power from burning our money in our generators in their houses. Politics appears to be a self-serving anti-development curse, an expensive unproductive, ugly curse and a blight on Nigeria forbidding progress on the world stage and even at the ward and LGA level. The current politics is kleptomaniacbehaviour exemplified by the ‘Political Pension Scam’. Yes, there are pensions for politicians worldwide but no houses, cars, servants, medical expenses abroad. Nigeria has a long history of this care of seniors particularly in the North -Perm Secs, Generals and equivalent in other arms, judges. The legislators must know their own secret payment schedules continue to insult our intelligence. We see it as theft from Nigeria. Will 2019-2023 politicians be different and seriously anticorruption???
