Tag: Our girls

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.

Our Girls are still missing since April 15 2014. What hope as another video emerges?

A selfish 419-driven political history of maximum greed and minimum service has made politics the number one Extractive Industry in Nigeria above even oil. There has been enough in this country to make everyone a millionaire in dollars. Greed has overrun need. There is another history of failure –a government perpetually failing its currency and economy also 419-related. We would not be in this penniless position if we had no theft by political parasites, political leeches or political locusts sucking our lifeblood particularly since probably from 1979. This economic history is an unfortunate trajectory of ‘Government 419’, breach of trust, treasury looting, each dollar stolen representing developmental failure to deliver on pre-paid promises i.e. 419, ‘death by deprivation and diversion -a dead Nigerian child, salaries and pensions unpaid and a ‘powerless grid’ costing business owners the price of a new car annually. The current spiral downward journey by Nigerians to professional and personal insolvency, penury and people pauper-y following lifetimes of productive but poorly paid work with ‘end-time’ denial of pensions is caused by all parties perfecting 419 political mismanagement, and epidemically escalating broken promises and 419 theft crowned with nonsensical media frenzy AWARD CEREMONIES for no growth.

Government needs to monitor its men who deliberately lured vehicles leaving the expressway onto an UNMARKED, UN-SIGNBOARDED BRT LANE on the  Ojota Maryland Bridge, Lagos, last Saturday , arrested them and numbering many tens. Is that not Government 419? Will the Third Mainland Bridge be next point of BRT corruption?

Politicians have ‘successfully’ subsumed their 419 avarice under many pseudonyms blamed as necessary 419 ‘strategies to support the party’. Such strategies include ‘outright theft’, ‘padding’, ‘party percentage 10-70%’, ‘party funding deductions 10-40%’, ‘election levy’, ‘campaign contributions’, ‘welfare in the forces’. All these 419 scams forced the ‘country’ to be devalued in development as with the currency, the naira building fewer roads, and the ‘419’ scam of constantly re-tarring of the same 5km of road instead of advancing additional roads going everywhere. Add to these the ultimate 419 administrative corruption which consumed pension funds for political gain and in many cases up to 50% of the budget and you can explain the devastation to development- failed promises, money obtained by false promises – 419.

Only politicians escape this blatant 419 ‘rape of the budget and citizens’ by declaring for themselves ‘legally illegal’ ever-bloating 419 Salaries Allowances Perks, SAP, and multiple-sourced pensions for just 4-8 years in office leaving office with multiple mansions, bank accounts and cars worldwide. The benchmark of Nigeria’s corruption is best assessed by examining the fate of naira. When I started work in 1974, the one year old naira, DOB 31st March 1973, was stronger than the dollar. I, like millions have proudly worked hard for our Nigeria and our naira. Strangely our 419 governments, except Buhari’s, have no ‘NAIRA PRIDE and it is pitiable N400+ to the dollar, soiled toilet paper, in blind pursuit of the cedi, due to the political 419 profligacy 1999-2015 by all 419 politicians of all 419 parties, promising much but delivering little development for maximum cost, but especially the 419 ruling party of the time which must take full responsibility even as the members hide 419 stolen billions.

We scream when Boko haram blows us up and when Niger Delta Avengers blow away our collective inheritance and when the North-North railways are fully refurbished even before South-North railways though the northern elite destroyed the railways to promote the trailer traffic which kills our roads. And remember the murderous Fulani herdsmen’s onslaught across Nigeria? However our 419 POLITICIANS HAVE COLLECTIVELY DONE FAR WORSE to each and every one of us by many 419 actions including 419 decisions to give away our oil blocks to individuals. Our blood is on the ground for every stolen naira or a discriminatory corrupt decision.

Strangely our ‘survival’ economic tools are a weak naira, ‘stability’ with high interest rates, and a few favoured scheming ‘mega-billion loan’ customers with millions denied small loan banking assistance but who really run the people’s economy.

Why is Nigeria’s response to economic crisis always opposite of what major foreign powers do: GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND CHEAP LOANS? We always introduce austerity, belt tightening and maximise poverty. We increase interest rates, make borrowing prohibitive, make businesses impossible to fund and run especially with NO POWER. Add THE GOVERNMENT RUN SCAM OF MONETARY POLICY RATE, MPR. In the USA and UK, Central Bank interest rates equivalent of our MPR here- the rate charged by government on all loans – have hovered around zero to 0.5% and the UK has just cut its interest rate by 0.25% to further encourage business borrowing to stimulate growth.

The CBN holds these MPR funds for it and government to use or abuse or divert. Shame! Citizens and businesses needing loans should not have a high MPR. MPR IS ANOTHER GOVERNMENT 419 SCAM AGAINST NIGERIA and this government should cancel or severely cut the MPR towards 1% to stimulate the economy. The HIGH MPR IS PART OF A MASSIVE MALIGNANT GOVERNMENT 419 AGAINST THE NATION, SO LOANS IN NIGERIA ARE ACTUALLY BANK LOAN CHARGES 5-11% + MPR [14%] = 19-25%. We demand 1) Cancelation of MPR; 2) SINGLE DIGIT INTEREST RATES; 3) LONG REPAYMENT LOANS for all; 4) 20,000Mw and 5) Monthly Payments for accommodations and goods.

Our Girls are still missing since April 15 2014. What hope have the families?

Beyond a selfish 419-driven political history, there is another history of failure –the graphic history of a failed currency and economy also 419 related. This economic history is an unfortunate trajectory of 419, breach of trust, treasury looting, each dollar stolen representing developmental failure to deliver on paid for promises i.e. 419, ‘death by deprivation and diversion -a dead Nigerian child, a dead labouring woman, a dead parent in a pothole, businesses gone bust, salaries and pensions unpaid and a ‘powerless grid’ costing business owners the price of a new car every year. The current spiral downward journey by Nigerians to professional and personal insolvency, penury and people pauper-y following lifetimes of productive but poorly paid work with ‘end-time’ denial of pensions is caused by all parties by 50 years of serial 419 political mismanagement, misunderstanding of development and epidemically escalating broken promises and 419 theft characterised by undeserved media frenzy AWARD CEREMONIES for no growth.

Politicians have ‘successfully’ subsumed their 419 avarice under many pseudonyms blamed as necessary 419 ‘strategies to support the party’ while enriching themselves massively. Such strategies include ‘outright theft’, ‘padding for party sustainability’, ‘party percentage 10-70%’, ‘the need for party funding deductions 10-40%’, ‘election levy’, ‘campaign contributions’, ‘welfare in the forces’. All these 419 scams forced the ‘country’ to be devalued in development with the currency, the naira building fewer roads, costing more, and the ‘419’ scam of constantly re-tarring of the same 5km of road instead of advancing additional roads going everywhere. Add to these the ultimate serial presidential and governor and top civil servant-driven 419 administrative corruptions which consumed pension funds for political gain and in many cases up to 50% of the budget and you can explain the devastation to development-failed promises with money obtained by false pretences – 419.

Only politicians escape this blatant 419 ‘rape of the budget and citizens’ by declaring for themselves ‘legally illegal’ ever-bloating 419 Salaries Allowances Perks, SAP, and multiple-sourced pensions for just 4-8 years in office leaving office with multiple mansions, bank accounts and cars worldwide. The benchmark of Nigeria’s corruption is best assessed by examining the fate of naira. When I started work in 1974, the one year old naira, DOB 31st March 1973, was stronger than the dollar and equivalent to 10 shillings. I, like millions have proudly worked hard for our Nigeria and our naira all our life. Strangely our 419 governments, except Buhari’s have never shared our pride in the naira. Now the naira is a pitiable N400+ to the dollar, soiled toilet paper, apparently in blind pursuit of the cedi, due to the 419 profligacy of the past especially 1999-2015 by all 419 politicians of all 419 parties, promising much but delivering little for maximum cost, but especially the 419 ruling party of the time which must take full responsibility even as the members hide 419 stolen billions.

We scream when Boko haram blows us up and when NDAvengers blow away our collective inheritance and when the North-North railways are fully refurbished even before South-North and South-South railways though the Northern elite destroyed the railways nationally for 50 years to promote trailer traffic unfortunately killing our roads. We are right to protest but our 419 POLITICIANS HAVE COLLECTIVELY DONE FAR WORSE to each and every one of us by many 419 actions including giving away our oil blocks to individual Nigerians. Our blood is soaked into the ground every time they steal a naira or make a discriminatory corrupt decision.

Can Nigeria never learn the lessons of the world and from its own past terrible economic mistakes? For years our economy has been run by CBN bankers who favour a weak naira, ‘stability’ with high interest rates, and a few favoured scheming ‘mega-billion loan’ customers to the detriment of the massed millions of potential customers who cannot get small loan banking assistance but who really keep the country going through the independent business activities of their personal lives which run the nationwide real non-oil economy.

Why is Nigeria’s response to economic crisis always the same failed methodology, saving and stability, and the opposite of what major foreign powers do to fight recession with GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND CHEAP LOANS? We always introduce austerity, belt tightening and maximise poverty. We increase interest rates, make borrowing catastrophic, make businesses more difficult to start, fund and run. Added to this is THE GOVERNMENT RUN SCAM OF MONETARY POLICY RATE, MPR. In the USA and UK, Central Bank interest rates equivalent of our MPR here- the rate charged by government on all loans – have hovered around zero to 0.5% and the UK has just cut its interest rate by 0.25% to further encourage borrowing to stimulate business growth.

The CBN holds these MPR funds for it and government to use or abuse or divert. Shame! Citizens and businesses needing loans should not have an MPR of this size. MPR IS ANOTHER GOVERNMENT 419 AGAINST NIGERIA and this government should correct past economic mistakes and cancel or severely cut the MPR towards 1% to stimulate the economy. The HIGH MPR IS PART OF A MASSIVE MALIGNANT GOVERNMENT 419 AGAINST THE NATION, SO LOANS IN NIGERIA ARE ACTUALLY BANK LOAN CHARGES 5-11% + MPR [14%] = 19-25%. We demand cancelation of MPR and SINGLE DIGIT INTEREST RATES for all. tonymarinho.com

Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. We pray.

Avocado pears, grown freely and discarded here in Nigeria, are in high demand in UK/Europe and expensive high yield following a poor harvest in Australia where any good harvests are actually being stolen, 40 thefts already, just like our farmers have their crops and fish stolen the night before cropping. Nigerians could export avocado as we are nearer to the EU than Australia.

Nigeria needs a POWER POLICY to ‘GET AS MANY OFF THE GRID AND ONTO SOLAR to reduce pressure on the grid.

Nigeria needs a POTHOLE POLICY to GET AS MANY POTHOLES OFF OUR ROADS IN ORDER TO REDUCE DEATHS, TODAY, NOT WHEN SOME CONTRACT IS FINISHED IN 2020.

Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro declares State of Emergency’ before the Olympics, a Pre-Olympic headache- a ‘Financial Emergency’ requiring $550M. Greece suffers a ‘Post- Olympic hangover’ with unused event centres. This is a warning to Nigerian officials anxious to ‘Host’ to make profit and misappropriate the conference tents and protocol cars. From FIFA’s troubled NFF to others, officials fail to supply tools for development. Nigeria should ban itself from international hosting until it builds grassroots-up sports development pyramids with computerised databases to groom a new generation of sports gladiators.

NEITI and others announce that NNPC, NIMASA, NAPIMS owe government $13+billion dollars – half our $26b foreign reserves. We question the moral credentials of National Assembly (NASS) to set up self-appointed anti-corruption committees to ‘further investigate’. Will more dollars be stuffed into headgear? NASS is seen as an opulent ‘immunity safe haven’ for questionable political officials. The self-acquired ‘Distinguished’ and ‘Honourable’ appellations contrast with the poor NASS performance compromised by greed, corruption, gifts, with the insultingly excessive Salaries Allowances and Perks. These drain Nigeria dry even as their home states cannot/refuse to pay or have stolen 6-9 months salaries. NASS members dare to visit destitute home-states to distribute ‘our money’ as ‘their dividends of democracy projects’. Insult upon thievery – legally-illegal thievery! CLOSE ONE HOUSE, THE SENATE, NOW IN THE ECONOMIC INTEREST OF NIGERIA!  POLITICAL RESTRUCTURING!

NASS members’ salary should be paid from their home states! Why has no NASS member lead the REJECTION of their over-pampered life, livelihood and SAP excesses ‘legally-illegally’ extracted from the country by the GREEDY POLITICAL EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY when times were good? Late UK MP Jo Cox, much lamented, murdered for her beliefs by a ‘deranged’ racist right winger at 41, lived on a River Thames houseboat!!! And now a Right Winger is up for election to take her place???

The perpetuation of NASS SAP is detrimental to economic recovery while citizens ‘earn nothingx six months’. Strangely, Governors invoke a ‘No Work, No Pay’ rule on striking workers who operated ‘Work, No Pay’ guidelines for six months. In America the entire workforce practices ‘No Pay, No Work’ the next day.

Yes Minister of Finance, Nigeria as a country can ‘borrow at the most cost effective rates’ lowest, best, longest repayment terms. BUT YOUR CITIZENS CAN NOT’ BUT NEED LOANS ALSO. Nigerians borrow at 25-30% with 13% going straight back to CBN as MPR.  Minister of Finance: Please introduce SINGLE DIGIT INTEREST RATEs FOR ALL CITIZEN LOANS by scrapping/cutting Monetary Policy Rate and discuss with greedy banks to stimulate the economy by universal 5-9% loans, not just for ‘preferred’ SME businesses. LET EVERY NIGERIAN’S BUSINESS BECOME A PREFERRED BUSINESS, REQUIRING SINGLE DIGIT LOANS -a bail-out philosophy in the UK and USA! Excessive interest rates have made Nigeria A COUNTRY Of BOGUSLY GRANDIOSE BANK BUILDINGS in a country where there are almost no YOUTH CENTRES or Science and Tech Museums and Exhibitions to build and inspire the Youth. In Educare Trust we say: BUILD BRAINS, NOT BANKS

The naira is floating. Remember the decades 1999-2015 and serial Presidential failure to ‘recover the naira’ especially in the last decade of profligacy. Can we fulfil Buhari’s dream of a powerful naira tomorrow. AS NAIRA FELL, SO COULD IT RISE!

States, LGAs fail all anti-corruption development yardsticks. But wonderfully, the Federal Government is using the ‘Cash Carrot And Accountability Stick’, to get the states on board ‘anti-corruption budget and accounting programmes’ by forcing The STATE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY’ to have ‘anticorruption’ hands. The cesspool of corruption pollutes FG, States and grassroots LGAs. Check any state financial allocations for the last 25 years to judge the lack of development standards. Every LGA got N1billion+/annum on paper. LGA free elections must be the prerequisite for any further loan.

THIS IS ONE BAIL WHERE THE BAIL CONDITIONS WILL REDUCE CORRUPTION NATIONWIDE IMMEDIATELY. This ‘BUHARI STATE EFFECT’ masterstroke is like the ‘BUDGET BUHARI EFFECT’, which cut budget fraud and where ‘Budget Padding’, a routine of 50 odd years, entered the Nigerian political Lexicon. LONG TERM, THE SOLUTION IS TRUE FEDERALISM not bailouts, with stronger states and weaker federal centre giving states more power over electric power, solid minerals, waterways and a larger share of VAT. States employ political hangers-on by outgoing governments bloating workers and ghost workers numbers. This ‘WORKER PADDING’ was common in 1999-2015 time of plenty but now we face a 2015-2019 FINANCIAL AND FAMILY FAMINE. We must encourage retirements without filling vacancies for a leaner budgeted workforce accommodated by the 40-60% budget collapse. Pensions, gratuities and even senior civil service perks negotiated during the times of plenty, are crippling now. Do governors still get N50-100m/month security vote-a hangover from the military? This must stop!

Our Girls are missing since April 15, 2014. Two of ‘Our Girls’ return alive. Amen. Amina and Sarah, ‘Welcome Home’. We mourn the dead and pray for others. Video recorded interviewing will provide evidence of conspiracy and names. Protect them from stress but get information on the kidnap, insiders, destinations, collaborators, locations and evidence against killers of six known dead girls. They must be protected from assassination and suicide bombers.

Pray and help civilians and soldiers, victims of Boko haram and the Fulani herdsmen/Farmers War.

Eyes, striking or not, are on Nigeria’s rocketed fuel price. The Vice President was asked to announce a high price; leaving room for the President to ‘magnanimously’ compromise with a halfway price before the May 29 Democracy Day corruption exposé. Nigeria must pass the Petroleum Industry Bill and privatise. Cheap fuel is the only God-given ‘palliative’ Nigerians ‘enjoy’, now misappropriated in the corruption of cabals, military and political classes. Generators take 40-50% of fuel purchases. Electricity, under 2,000Mw, is a DISGRACEFUL CITIZENS’ BURDEN IN 2016 and an unacceptable socio-economic, noise and air pollution environmental disaster crippling Nigeria’s quality and quantity of life.

Is there a fuel ‘subsidy’? A banana, ‘indigenous’ to Nigeria cannot sell at the same price in Nigeria as in the UK where it is as an ‘import’. Our refinery incompetence fed by a massive corruption condemned Nigeria to a viciously expensive corrupt cycle of ‘export of oil- foreign refineries- import petrol, diesel and kerosene -PDK’. A Saudi Arabian oil barrel is produced at $10. Nigeria’s nko? The price change should have been after Nigeria’s fuel needs are met from local refineries and a reasonable electricity power supply, say 10,000Mw out of the needed 160,000Mw. These would cancel generator-use, every business’s nightmare, costing Nigerians too much ‘Time and Trouble’ and rubbishing profits.

To misquote: ‘But I know there is another subsidy in Nigeria’. Yes there is a far bigger subsidy – unwilling subsidising of the political and milito-political class since forever. The greed and impunity grew and politicians including presidents dipped their greedy party-protected hands into every budget taking ‘subsidised’ 10-50% FOR THE PARTY AND FAITHFUL -the money thus stolen was meant to save children, educate youth, deliver pregnant women, fill the national pothole and provide electricity and produce honest Nigerians.

If it is true that ‘The Fear of Buhari’ and the SANITISED CLEAN AND LEAN BUHARI BUDGET has cut their apparently corrupt subsidy access then even a CLEAN AND LEAN BUHARI BUDGET will grow more kilometres, drugs and books than the past budgets steeped in corrupt padding, diversion and 30-50% ‘forced subsidy’ to the ruling party.

What is the cost-benefit to us of our expensive and corrupt political class? Do we need so many? Can Buhari lead Nigeria to recover from the odour of systemic corruption in the nose of Cameron and the world? Can we force the political, military, civil servant and contractor –PCC- classes to stop taking this ‘forced subsidy’ and become changed so Nigeria can recover its patrimony before 2019 elections?

Our Nigeria in May 2016 cannot afford the past debilitating corruption or the MOTHER OF ALL ‘FORCED SUBSIDIES’-THE ‘LUXURY LIFE-STYLE POLITICS’ of 1999-2015. Nigeria cannot afford American political lifestyles. ‘The Nigerian professional politician’ must stop taking ‘forced subsidies’ by misappropriating budgets perpetrating moral and financial corruption. We were a rich people made poor by corrupt subsidised politics. Compare the colossal amounts ‘illegally legally’ acquired and mentioned in court to the poor ‘quality of leadership’ and ‘governance’ and poor ‘services’.

Paradoxically the ‘Nigerian professional politician’ lives a luxurious lifestyle too high ‘above the people’. It is funded by an unwilling Nigeria through ‘legalised’ stolen subsidies which destroy Nigeria’s reputation and has brought Nigeria to international disgrace with political violence, SAP, profligacy and self-protectionist laws. These laws, at variance with the  will of the peoples, were made by the Sinate and House of Mis-Representatives, confirming the pariah Nigerian political class as greedy and self-serving and out of touch with the Nigerian economic reality.

Sinators, there is no longer a ‘fattened Nigeria cow to milk dry’ or pontificate to. Nigeria cow don nearly die! Reduce your appetite for our tiny national cake.

Citizens, please work and pray, text, tweet Sinators to have a cathartic conversion to non-greedy ‘Volunteer Nigerian Nationalist Politicians’ taking a sabbatical from their ‘FORCED SUBSIDY’ LIFESTYLE of SAP, Salaries Allowances Perks, and introduce legislation for PART TIME and TINY SITTING ALLOWANCES. If not, for national economic survival, Nigerian civil and all society must organise a REFERENDUM AND MOBILISE SOCIAL MEDIA VOTES AGAINST FORCED SUBSIDY IN POLITICS [Political Parties taking/stealing from the budget] and to get constitutional restructuring of National Assembly (NASS), closure of Sinate, making the House of Representatives  the single UNICAMERAL HOUSE – PART TIME WITH SITTING ALLOWANCES. The current ‘FORCED SUBSIDY/STEALING FROM THE BUDGET POLITICS’ has cheated Nigeria of 50 years development. The economic and political reality is ONE HOUSE IS CHEAPER THAN TWO. Ideally states should pay its members in NASS absolving the Federal Government of that burden. SAY NO TO FORCED SUBSIDY GREEDY POLITICS WITH MANIPULATED/STOLEN FUNDS FROM BUDGETS. REMOVE THE MOTHER OF ALL FORCED SUBSIDY – POLITICAL SUBSIDY- BEFORE IT KILLS NIGERIA! POLITICIANS & POLITICAL PARTIES: STOP STEALING FROM THE BUDGET! ‘Commot Your Eye’. POLITICIANS – GET A DAY JOB! Nigerian Political Parties must behave like political parties abroad, effectively Non-Governmental Organisations, NGOs, funded by members whose sole return is a political appointment or good governance, NEVER BUDGET ACCESS.