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  • Our Girls; Selfless ministers: RETREAT over, let the ADVANCE begin

    Our Girls; Selfless ministers: RETREAT over, let the ADVANCE begin

    Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. May God comfort their families.

    Nigeria’s inability to pay ministers and ‘jobs for the gang’ Personal Assistants (Pas) and Special Assistants (SAs), is a signal for President Buhari to restore ‘The Honour Of Selfless Ministerial Service’. But Ministerial corruption is chronic, endemic – since 1960, when it was 10%; the most telling corruption skit was the 1960s minister’s office with a contractor offering a wallet ‘Minister, I found your wallet on the floor with £5,000’. The offended minister responded ‘No, my wallet has £10,000 in it’. The contractor bent down, stuffed in more notes and sat up. ‘My mistake! It has £10,000.’ The minister replied. ‘Aha, Good arithmetic, that is MY wallet, thanks’. Unfounded ‘malicious’ rumour is that the family 50 years later is still fighting over the late minister’s estate. Then ministers read West Africa and Time magazine adverts tempting them to open ‘Secret Bank Accounts’ in Switzerland and elsewhere which I remember from my General Paper ‘A’ Level days in St Gregory’s College. The invitation led them to put ‘our stolen money’ in those banks and ‘that our money’ is today lost and it has enriched foreign bankers who received the Daily Times obituary pages to identify any newly dead Nigerian clients to reduce or cancel secret accounts before family, fronts, friends or contacts came for the funds. We are told to be grateful to thieving ministers who ‘kindly’ kept and spent our stolen money in Nigeria. They are more patriotic. No! Are we mad? A thief is a thief regardless of ‘local content’ or international deposits.

    Then minister and contractor corruption was 10% and excuse for an epidemic of coups by successively worse corrupt military regimes. That new corruption driven by ministers, contractors and ruling political parties has been estimated at 40-70% per contract, reaching 100% with zero contract executed i.e. no bridge built, no road refurbished, no drugs, no potholes filled or anti-crime equipment not bought for the empty forensic laboratory. ‘Corruption, Incompetence, Negligence, Selfishness’, (CINS), are the leading cause of Millennium Development Goals (MDG) development delays leading, for example, to the growth of millions of potholes, easily filled by government, as witnessed by the Ogun State pothole-filling intervention on jinxed Lagos-Ibadan road.

    Nigerians seeking ‘CHANGE’ must ask why states, not federal, do not pay for their political proxies like ministers, senators and representatives to go and stay in Abuja. The Federal Government may offer a small additional stipend. That would change the criminally abused ‘State-Federal Equation’. Yes, government has cheated, robbed, misled, and been abusive with criminal behaviour towards governance and citizens. Paradoxically we and the media flock to take and report advice from the ‘dark reputation’ actors from those disgraced governments.

    To recover, we require President Buhari to ‘liberate states from issues from the ‘unitary military regimes’ like Federal Revenue Allocation Formula and the Federal vs. State/LGA inter-party war. This war includes conflicting policies, laws and taxes crippling state development of roads, waterways and railways. Nigeria don suffer O’ from malevolent rulers, military and political! ‘Federal’ might was deployed by ‘federal’ ministers (sent from states) to frustrate and destroy development projects in non-ruling party states. That is a heinous crime of a minister against his own state. How else do we explain the mental and physical poverty from 50 years of minister-led misapplied policies resulted in a shame-faced Nigeria with 3-4,000 not 100,000Mw electricity, 14-17million housing deficit, 70milion without water, 90+m without toilets or sanitation, hardly 50million with usable education and many millions of easily-filled potholes and an Okada epidemic, unrecognized by most governments which is still bringing daily danger and distress, death and emotional and financial disaster to 100+ millions under the disguise of ‘poverty alleviation’.

    The Okada epidemic is an unacceptable Nigerian and inter-ministerial disaster. Look at the statistics. It is a major criminal act of governance. The deaths would have been averted if government had a Public Enquiry, Stakeholders’ Forum and ‘Impact Assessment’ and FRSC and Health Ministry input before the motorcycle murder and mayhem. Every Nigerian has witnessed one Okada crash; half of the population knows an Okada victim story. Every clinic has received at least one Okada crash victim. Every cemetery has Okada victims. We justifiably fear Ebola but worse is facilitated by government daily with no sanitation- typhoid. The OKADA IS ALSO A VIRUS, a pollution menace to the environment, to the economy as a ridiculous mono-transport system when mass-transit is the economical norm worldwide and to the emotional and financial fabric of families torn by medical care costs and loss of millions of breadwinners. Over 80% of long term beds and entire wards are overflowing with spinal, head/brain and limb injuries and amputations of Okada victims and still no ‘cure’ apart from a few bans, crash helmet checks and tri-wheel-motorcycle.

     ‘My people die for lack of Life skill/Health knowledge’.  Nigeria ignores the expensive Epidemic ‘Life skill/ Health Ignorance’ and the cheap answer ‘Media Life skill/Health Education’. President Buhari’s ‘CHANGE’ must demand synergy from ministers and not conflict and rivalry. For example the ministers of health, education and information should link with state ministries to saturate the media with 21st century advertising LIFE SKILL/HEALTH MESSAGES as a strategy to improve lives.

    Congratulations, ministers. ‘The RETREAT is over. Let the ADVANCE begin. Pray and work that you will still be worthy of our congratulations when you leave office! Listen to and learn from everyone.

  • Our Girls; Stop ‘Politics as Machiavellian Evil’: No Rerun! Empower Election Tribunals to Ban, Fine Politicians and Party

    Our Girls; Stop ‘Politics as Machiavellian Evil’: No Rerun! Empower Election Tribunals to Ban, Fine Politicians and Party

    Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. We pray for their safe return.

    It is obvious that the electoral tribunal system has no power to punish guilty parties. It is cruel irony on the victims, the citizens. Nigeria needs one more summit to be convened by civil society and held under the banner ‘Summit To Prescribe ‘Penalty’ Amendments to the Election Tribunal Act: This would empower the tribunal with powers of punishment: To set fines, bans and prison terms for fraud against each citizen deprived and all other election crimes against democracy and the will of the people’.

    The River State election saga raises many questions needing new answers.

    The first questions are for the revered Professor Attahiru Jega, who I recommended for GCON or even GCFR and still do as 80-90% is worthy of a medal of honour or GCFR any day. Remember that all the past heads of state, responsible for our current travails in world development indices are GCFR. Jega should however explain the Rivers State results. Was INEC overrun, like during the regimes of former heads of state? In those frustrating days too, the tribunals ‘liberated’ several states from the clutches of federally-directed evil election fraud. After the tribunal results, there were no apologies from the ‘stealing party’ then, and remarkably no punishment for the perpetrators –individuals or party. Were Jega’s hands tied by the federal government, the police and security authorities or by a desire to prevent further murderous violence, or a ‘win some – lose some’ sense of ‘overall good elections’? Whatever, too many Nigerians in high places keep too quiet for too long and wittingly or unwillingly assist in perpetrating the ‘Politics as Machiavellian Evil’ in Nigeria.

    Yes, politics is important but so is sweeping the street, clearing rubbish, investigating crime, releasing budget funds to services, salaries for civil servants and pensions. These must not stop for even one month let alone the reported 6-12 months because of politics. No! Where do politicians get their money? How do they have such easy illegal non-accountable access to the funds of the LGA, state and NNPC, NPA, and CBN?

    What is the funding mechanism of the political party system? It cannot continue as theft from government funds. Is it ‘donations’ from those who have stolen from the government coffers? Is it from ‘deliberately inflated’ contracts for the purpose of illegally funding the political party at subsequent legal ‘fundraisers’?

    Nigerians demand ‘New 2015 Guidelines of Individual and Political Party Fundraising’ from members and supporters following transparent international standards during the next three years in time for a better election in 2019 or we will destroy the ‘Change Gains of Buhari’.

    Beware of complacency to the ongoing democracy struggle which is not over! Even with the ‘Change Gains of Buhari’, Nigeria is not of age as a democracy and will not survive unless crimes committed under the dark cloak of politics are identified in law, as ‘common crimes’ requiring the full force of punishment so freely inflicted on other erring Nigerians. The politician must in no way be ‘discriminated against’ by being given lesser punishments but face accusation, interrogation, defence, judgement, freedom, apology, or guilt followed by an appropriately heavy fine and commitment to prison and a ban for from 10 years to life ban from further participation in politics.

    An election rerun is a crime against Nigeria. This ban threat is perhaps the most important requirement of the Electoral Tribunal as it is an obvious unwanted consequence of an unlawful action. If the rerun occurs, the guilty individual and party must be banned from the rerun. It is better that the second place winner take over immediately. That loss will ensure that fewer politicians will embark on fraud. It is only when Nigeria’s politicians and ‘party faithful’ face exposure, disgrace, incarceration, restrictions and other serious consequences tht they will stop unleashing mayhem and heinous machinations from the ‘Machiavellian Text Book Guideline Of How To Destroy Democracy and Still Look Innocent’.

    The law must not distinguish between political crime and common crimes –politician and criminal. In fact politicians should be held to the highest moral and financial standard as custodians of the people’s democracy. Politicians and criminals kill, maim and injure equally. Politics is ‘a paid profession’ and like professionals who contravene the law, they must pay the price. Politicians must receive full punishments not a ‘slap on the wrist’ for crimes. ‘Murder is murder’, not ‘political murder’. ‘Presenting falsified vote numbers is fraud’ not ‘electoral fraud’. ‘Impersonating a doctor for eight years’ and ‘Impersonating a governor for four years’ are similar offences of impersonation and ‘Obtaining funds for salaries by impersonation and false pretences’. Both must make full refund and receive fines and jail time. The punishment set by politicians for Nigeria’s youth committing ‘Exam Fraud’ must be meted out to politicians committing ‘electoral fraud’. Nigerian students are banned from resit exams and face jail for 2 -21 years when ‘Found Guilty’ by WAEC of ‘Exam Fraud’. So it should be for Nigerian politicians AND THEIR POLITICAL PARTY when ‘Found Guilty’ of ‘Electoral Fraud’. Fines should be punitive, N2-10million for politicians and N10-30million for the party- just what they collectively pay lawyers. This fine money would go to cover the administrative costs of the tribunal sittings and truncate the 50 year ‘Epidemic of Election Fraud and Frivolous Prosecution’.

  • Our Girls; ‘Wike leaks’; A Ban/Fine to Fit the political fraud crime?; New Lagos Photo Exhibition

    Our Girls; ‘Wike leaks’; A Ban/Fine to Fit the political fraud crime?; New Lagos Photo Exhibition

    Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. We pray for their urgent safe return.

    So Nyesom Wike has lost out at the tribunal as governor. ‘Wike leaks’ legally! Should there be an election rerun? Such a rerun is an exercise of institutionalised fraud and a perpetuation of fraud. A person or party found guilty of fraud should do the honourable ‘WAEC thing and go to jail for 21 years’ and certainly be banned, barred or otherwise restrained from any purported rerun of same, said election. In fact without a rerun, the election victory should automatically be handed to the candidate with the next highest votes. If that candidate and party are found fraudulent, then the next candidate and party should take over. Only this will sanitise the system.

    To effect political electoral change, the guilty party in court, must be identified as such in the political domain. He or she must be disqualified as unfit for public office in any rerun. The law is indeed an ass if it continues to allow the guilty person to participate in the rerun election, as in the past, anyone or any political party found guilty of election fraud. Such action is ‘defrauding the citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and its constituent states of democratic representation’.

    What the politicians in the National Assembly (NASS) have approved as good punishment for the cheating youth of Nigeria must also be good for the cheating politician. Political corruption is worse than financial corruption. This is because it allows the corruptly ‘elected’ politician to have illegal access to the budget, illegal salary and perks for self and appointees who are illegally appointed. Indeed any project executed is illegal and contaminated by the corruption of the fraudulent person, or was he not aware of the illegalities and is he not criminally liable?

    Any thief who enters a home and masquerades as the rightful owner is guilty of impersonation and defrauding the rightful owner of anything stolen or diverted for personal use of the thief. ‘Financial Restitution’ must be made of all money falsely utilised and imprisonment is in order for any fraudulent individual, political or career thief. High or low, such a person is a thief and an impostor obtaining things under false pretences. We as a nation have trivialised election fraud punishments as ‘wrist slapping’. When not caught the political perpetrator continues in office for four years, defrauding citizens and state throughout the rest of illegal term.

    However, all of us must rise up and demand that an election founded on fraud in any part of the country and at any level will not stand, and equally importantly, will result in cancellation of the election, cancellation of the right of the guilty party to hold that or other political offices, and, cancellation of the right of the disqualified candidates party to field a candidate in the forthcoming rerun and any such election for 4-8 years. Indeed, I recommend that the NASS add two additional sanctions. One is that the guilty candidate must pay the cost of the tribunal case or at least pay a commensurate heavy personal and party fine. Secondly the political party must be fined sufficiently to finance the rerun election. Money will ‘pain the party’ and discourage others from such nefarious activities. Politics is the only activity for which contravention of rules is taken as a joke when someone gets caught. Our prisons are full of simple citizens who have run foul of the law but empty of politicians who have masterminded ‘perdition on earth’ for the citizens. Can anyone explain why we have schools without chairs and desks and libraries and toilets and running water? I cannot. Can anyone explain why we have clinics and hospitals without water and sanitation and clean walls?

    In a matter affecting most people, can anyone explain why we have a national ‘Nigerian Epidemic of Potholes’ in their millions, killing and maiming citizens nationwide, slowing down traffic, and making life a misery? Can Nigeria not overcome its potholes? Can anyone explain why we have not got 100,000Mw of electricity nationwide but still take development advice from past leaders who presided over Nigeria’s Dark Ages? Who actually owns Nigeria? Who do the people work for, buy from, pay to? Dangote, we identify for naming everything after himself. MTN we can trace to Nigerians and South Africa, but who else owns Nigeria? Who owns our electric soul- the DISCOs and GENCOS as fronts and backbenchers and which ‘god’ do they serve? Apparently we Nigerians are on a chess or draughts board, pushed around, won or lost, bought or sold, by the same chess masters who played with our lives 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago. They must be having fun. Nigerians are like slaves in an arena to be set loose temporarily to run free across the arena to some ‘freedom’ somewhere, only to be captured and returned and sold to another player for another few years. Does Buhari know that power is king?

    Beyond politics, visit the delightfully visually stimulating and artistically inspiring ‘Harmony in Diversity’ photography exhibition at Foreshore Harbour Boat Club, Osborne 2 Estate Dolphin Area, Lagos featuring Dipo Adebo, Yinka Akinkugbe, Ivana Osagie and Seni Williams’  featuring photographs of models, skylines, oilrigs and birds-actual not the other kind, water townships and stunning landscapes. Don’t be told. Open Oct 25-Nov 7th, Go, bo!

     

  • Our Girls;  Minister means Servant, not God!; curb Ministerial Arrogance;  Gamaliel Onosode

    Our Girls;  Minister means Servant, not God!; curb Ministerial Arrogance;  Gamaliel Onosode

    Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. There is talk of paying for their freedom. Will that work? The messenger usually inflates the price and takes half – more corruption.

    Nigerians have laughed, said ‘wow’ at the Senate bow and asked ‘Is that true?’ and will continue to do so over the next few days as the second batch of ministerial nominees go to pass the senate sitting examinations. Certainly the expected stalemate and savagery of inter-party attacks did not materialise. But all attention has now concentrated on ‘The Amaechi question –To Be or Not To Be A Minister?’ By today the Amaechi question would probably have been settled. Many in the PDP blame him and Tinubu and their machinery and money for the PDP’s fall. The PDP forgets that it was the architect of its own downfall first because of a systemic failure to deliver democracy and good governance that alienated most of the honest voting public. So having shot itself in the foot and chest, only then was the PDP given the push over the precipice by APC. Angered by their loss and armed with accusations of financial mismanagement, true or false, the PDP seek to ensure he, Amaechi, pays the price by being barred from every office Senate has a veto over. Of course there will be horse-trading going on.

    What will a stand-down on Amaechi by PDP and ‘PDP in APC garments’ cost the Buhari government in actual negotiation ‘giving in’, prestige, purpose and public trust? Will the cost to Buhari be an agreement to temper down the anti-corruption war with the offer of a much-abused ‘soft landing’ for governors now in Senate? Perhaps it will be the creation of a new secret list of ‘sacred cows’ on both sides, PDP and APC, sent to EFCC and ICPC who will not be investigated during the current anti-corruption tsunami? Will this reduce our hoped-for anti-corruption tsunami to a trickle? If the PDP ‘spoilers’ seeking to truncate the ‘Buhari Change’ actually succeed with the connivance of the usual suspects- the former PDP but now and I quote a recent enlightened comment ‘APC in name but still PDP at heart and mind’ and pocket of course, Nigeria would yet again have been sacrificed on the altar of political and personal expediency. Compromise will kill the ‘Buhari Change Anti-corruption War’. If Amaechi cannot be minister AND IS FOUND CLEAN BY EFCC, and Buhari feels so strongly that he needs Amaechi’s brainpower or clout on his team, the President has the power to make him something else. So let him be made something else. He does not need the money, only the position. Find a position beyond the power of the Senate to stop him working for the Buhari government.

    The word ‘MINISTER’ means SERVANT – not God; Get used to it. Say it, repeat it. A ‘minister’ is not entitled to any percentage of any contract be it the ministry calendars to building the fourth Lagos Bridge or the Second Niger.  Nigeria needs serious servants now. We have had a generation of ministers who pointed the nation in one direction while their deeds led us to perdition. There were of course several exceptions.  Such exceptions have been used by bad Presidents as camouflage to distract the people from seeing the looting. One accepted example is the quality and quantity of the work done by Mrs Mobola Johnson in steering the IT Revolution in Nigeria. With one or two others, she stands out also as she accompanied her flair with an uncommon humanity, natural grace, easy approachability, lack of customary pomposity and over-security, and total lack of the disease I call ‘Ministerial Arrogance and Delusions of Grandiosity’. And now she is back at her old job, hopefully with a promotion.

    New ministers should give her a ring to take short notes on proper minister-ing as a servant of the people. Buhari has suggested that ministers are mostly noise-makers and this should be taken on board by the successful nominees. Less noise, more humility and more work and no stealing by them or their civil servants and army of criminal conduits – contractors. Ministers would do well to keep their arrogant fingers on the pulse of the nation by also keeping in telephone and meeting touch with their old trusted friends as sounding boards and for advice.

    The EFCC/ Akpabio saga and the investigation into expenditures is just one out of many strings of investigation being pursued under President Buhari and probably energised by reports and whistleblowing. It, along with the Saraki saga and several others, should remind incumbents in governance to walk the narrow path. Such invitations recover  funds from the invited party or some criminal contractor or contact. For too long we have heard of family or friends as ‘fronts’ for greedy governors, ministers and presidents.

    Nigeria is rich in underutilised good people of brilliance and honesty. I met and we lament late Excellent Gamaliel Onosode, Mr Integrity Role Model who was never a minister. May he Rest In Perfect Peace. Architect Mrs PNF Fola Olumide, first Nigerian woman architect, golden voiced, Mrs ‘Straight and Narrow’ in the murky world of government civil servant driven corrupt construction contracts, was never a minister. Abandoning architecture, she took to the care of the needy in the charity Pro Labore Dei. There are others like them in Nigeria.

  • Our Girls; Apete; Nominees- breath of stale air; ‘CHANGE’ ‘Trek’ to ‘Trailer’; Mooo not Murder; Alams!

    Our Girls; Apete; Nominees- breath of stale air; ‘CHANGE’ ‘Trek’ to ‘Trailer’; Mooo not Murder; Alams!

    Our Girls are still missing since April 15th 2014. They will not be forgotten, but found. Amen.

    The Oyo State House of Assembly’s list of the worst roads for government attention should add the treacherous ‘Road of 10,000 Craters’ Apete Road as ‘first’ among equals.

    The Ministerial List is a breath of stale air. Buhari’s hands were more ‘tied’ than we thought. Must he reward party and friends who have an average age 60-ish, which is well beyond Nigeria’s life expectancy of 54 years? Nigeria hoped for 35-40-ish, new blood on the block. Age is not all ‘honesty or wisdom’ and youth is not all ‘stupidity or greed’. Yes, too few women who are 50% of vote and 50%+ of population. Politics is a ‘Man’s World’ and the bad Women-In-Power in petroleum, aviation and banking do not help their cause. Women like ABCD- ‘A Bag of Cut Diamonds’. For CHANGE credibility, Buhari should bring on board new blood. ‘The right women’, like ‘the right men’ are everywhere, but party machinery is against them. Now Senate complicates matters, demanding two state senators to recommend ministerial nominees- new jobs for the old boys. Saraki is going for the President’s jugular. If the senate has not purified itself of old tricks, what might that cost in Ghana Must Go money bags, promises, leverage or a pound of flesh especially with disparity in party affiliations? This is a recipe for ‘unsavoury political pepper soup’,’ deliberate delays and cunning corruption disguised as ‘high moral ground’. God forbid demands for ‘payback jobs’. Remember ‘send me your wife or daughter’ treachery? Nigeria just got worse, politically and morally.

    And now senate elements demand immunity. WE THE PEOPLE SAY ‘NO,’ TO IMMUNITY. Phone, text, e-mail, tweet, instagram senators. Embarrass them into stopping this. Strategise for signatures to RECALL YOUR SENATORS. What have they done wrong that they are afraid will be exposed? Only senators with proof of ‘Declaration of Assets’ should sit over the nominees who should declare their assets. Then imagine having to bow. Many serious Nigerians will never take up ministerial appointment for this reason alone. Or else they will first visit the doctor for ‘EXCUSED FROM SENATE BOWING SICK CERTIFICATE’ because of a ‘stiff neck’, or Babangida’s radiculopathy.

    Falae could have been killed. Many kidnap victims have died, unsung, un-avenged and un-investigated. Are the kidnappers arrested by Sunday on the North-South Cattle Trek a criminal gang roaming with reluctant intimidated cattle herdsmen bands? The gang reinvaded his farm, so ‘no’ to that. Any farmer with more than a dane gun is ‘arrest-able’ while some herdsmen and most attackers have AK47s as garments and are un-arrestable. Of course these attackers are not ‘terrorists’, but ‘errorists’ who ‘mistakenly’ kill people, abi? How are they different from anyone who kills at will and terrorises states? ‘WHEN IS A TERRORIST NOT A TERRORIST? WHEN HE IS DESCRIBING HIMSELF OR IS DESCRIBED BY HIS PEOPLE.’ When is a person a terrorist? WHEN HE IS CALLED A ‘TERRORIST’ BY HIS VICTIMS. The ferocity, quantum and deadliness of the arms used in Plateau, Nassarawa and Benue states and 10 other states do not suggest spontaneous actions. I did my NYSC in 1975/6 in Joyful Jos, Beautiful Bukuru and Laughing Lafia and travelled around Barkin Ladi, Shendam, Akwanga to Makurdi, places of tranquillity now ‘Terrorist’ bloodbath scenes. Where is ‘One Nigeria’ or even ‘One North’?

    The cattle war bloodshed with 20,000 victims losing 100,000 litres of blood, three tanker-loads at 33,000 litres/tanker demands an International UN and NHRC Enquiry and solutions. Without such an enquiry, we cannot read ‘righteous indignation against cattle rustling’ or ‘altruistic protection of free movement’ in the war. ‘WE ARE FIGHTING AGAINST RUSTLERS AND FOR OUR 1999 CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO COW TREK’ is not a 2015 answer. A cow is not worth a Nigerian life. In less developed African countries this would encourage accusations of a plan with an agenda to attempt economic and territorial subjugation, if not ethnic cleansing. That should not happen here. It is therefore up to the arrested ‘suspects, who should be shown publicly for victims to come forward to prove their innocence of kidnappings.

    ‘Mr President: Curb this cattle crisis before the War consumes Nigeria. Nigeria- Simply ‘CHANGE’ Cattle ‘Trek’ to a 1-3 day ‘Trailer’/‘Train’ Ride after ‘growing’ the cows from ‘birth to execution week’ on irrigated, year round Northern Reservations/Ranches. If the killings are cattle-related, they will stop. If the killings continue they must be a political or ethnic agenda requiring a response and Federal Government war reparations for victims.

    A cattle crisis question: Do herdsmen pay for grass or grain or the destruction of farms and crops on the Cattle Trek? Do the cattle owners equip their employees with funds for the trek? The herdsmen live off the land- grass and other people’s hard earned grain. Rural Nigerians live in fear of a cow’s moooo! In Nigeria Mooo must no longer signify Murder.

    Alams RIP? ‘Is this report a ‘death or disguise’ for Alams who was also maliciously rumoured to have died during the Hajj stampede when the UK for wanted him extradited? What will happen to that reported stolen money?’ – ask doubtful Nigerians. The UK must witness the Post Mortem to confirm DNA specimens come from the body. Middlemen will ‘disappear’ any stolen money in Nigeria. If true, let Alams’ death caution others who are laws unto themselves. God de O!

  • Our Girls; Stop the Fulani/Farmers War; ‘Nigeria has Buhari’: Join; Watch ‘THE SUPREME PRICE’

    Our Girls; Stop the Fulani/Farmers War; ‘Nigeria has Buhari’: Join; Watch ‘THE SUPREME PRICE’

    Our Girls are still missing since April 15,, 2014. In our 55th Independence week, as we pray and the military works, and bombs explode in Abuja, please end another war – The Fulani herdsmen/ farmers war, causing massacres and murders in all states where cows trek- denying Nigerian ‘rights to life under the 1909 constitution’. The Chief Falae kidnap has forced this ‘ignored’ war to centre stage though it has ‘silently’ claimed over 20,000 lives, and terrorised homes, farms and villages on the North-South Cattle Trek, (NSCT). The Nigerian Human Rights Commission should protect this war’s victims and not the cows.

    Proper police and military intelligence debriefing will reveal the Falae kidnappers’ description, identifying marks, walk, talk, dress, weapons, food, mannerisms, names or pseudonyms, relations, contacts, conversations, hometown and laugh/psychological characteristics. The criminality inflicted on Falae is similar to that inflicted on other victims who deserve as much protection and investigation as Falae got. We are all equal before God.

    President Buhari, Grand Patron of the Fulani Herdsmen Association can stop this ‘dirty’ war. In 1900s Nigerians and cows walked from Kano to Lagos, then ‘someone’ invented roads, buses and cars. We no longer walk, nor should cows. Are we facing another ‘Northern anti- polio’ argument? It is 2015 and destroying farmers’ fields is not ‘a right under the 1999 constitution’ or acceptable.

    The 2015 solution to this ‘mass murder’ is to fatten cows on year-round irrigated Northern reserves. On a daily basis, fattened cattle would be carried on trailers or trains with grass and water for the three day journey countywide with no economic loss or life lost by herdsmen or farmers. As road and power improve, the cattle should be slaughtered in the North -extra jobs. Refrigerated trailers and train wagons would then deliver meat in daily convoys. No long trek, conflict, confrontation or criminality. Aiki, Kudi, Lafia for all. Shikena!

    Otherwise only a ‘Cow Meat Boycott’ will stop the war. IS A COW MORE VALUABLE THAN A NIGERIAN HUMAN? Will you eat ‘blood cow’ knowing it was provided by the massacre of farmers in ‘peaceful’ Plateau, Benue, Nassarawa– ‘Blood cow’ like ‘blood diamonds’? If no one eats cow, the uneaten cattle will force a peace by politicians, chiefs and emirs. Enough of cow murders!

    Here is part of my poem to mark October 1 read at Trenchard Hall, UI, Independence Concert:

    Congrats Nigeria @55

    Anticorruption Paparazzi ready steady goooooo / In the Nigerian nightmare many have cried/ and many have died/ Even children’s Polio plus / Has its murdered martyrs – polio minus./ Evil citizens stole the children’s inheritance – wealth/ In power, education and health/ Children without power and books to build the brain/ Because of that pension fraud or corruption pain / They offered us leaders to set us free/ Of them we chose Buhari / Buhari has at once three Wars/ Anti-corruption War/ Boko Haram War/ Fulani herdsmen-farmers War/ The lifestyle and fear of Buhari has saved billions/ Now he needs an Anti-Corruption Army of millions/ To clean up the septic tank/ And the cesspool from NPA to Central Bank/  Boko Haram may be in disarray/ But 3million IDPs and 30,000 dead, a heavy price to pay / We pray the Chibok Girls are found /And returned safe and sound/  Fulani Herdsmen need defeat / Before farmers cause a famine by retreat/ Nigeria may have to boycott cow meat/ To bring the herdsmen to the Peace seat / We must become Buhari’s Anti-Corruption Force/ To keep the war on course/Announce and Start ‘Corruption Watch’ /In your Ministry, Office, Hospital and Hostel/ Put your phone on in zones of corruption/ Upload to public media for Buhari’s attention/ Buhari-led, together let us vanquish corruption/ Or we face ridicule and destruction/ Become a soldier in the Buhari Anticorruption War/ Buhari and Nigeria need you.

    President Buhari’s October 1 speech calls you to the trenches to stand with him and fight, using forces of change, against real forces of dark corruption. Buhari has called the passive to join the active, and calls ‘you’ and ‘me‘. He calls the army of talkers, watchers, complainers and siddon lookers to ‘come to our aid’.

    Never before in the history of Nigeria have all Nigerians, rich and poor, known and unknown, criminal and crime-buster, had the tremendous opportunity to be heard and collectively stand shoulder to shoulder ABC –‘Against Bribery Corruption’ at the ANTICORRUPTION BARRICADES with their President, Buhari, a Distinguished Officer and Fine Gentleman, to join him in creating an formidable 100 million Anti-Corruption Army.

    Already we are saner, led by a frugal president, cutting waste and theft and recovering stolen funds. Nigerians are reducing demands on politicians. Politicians and civil servants are in the eye of the storm. YOU AND I MUST SUPERVISE, watch and report them when they fall, demand bribes and corrupt gains. Buhari is great but leading an Army of Buhari-ites, we are greater. England has Churchill, America has Lincoln, South Africa has Mandela and now we boast ‘Nigeria has Buhari’. Embrace Buhari, follow where Buhari leads. You should join up!

    But if you are unsure of the ‘Buhari Cure’ for ‘Nigeria’s Corruption Disease’, should watch ‘THE SUPREME PRICE’ a 2013 film by Joanna Lipper, narrated by Hafsat Abiola-Costello of KIND, a history of ‘why we are here’ and Nigeria’s bloodstained journey emphasising MKO’s and Kudirat’s sacrifice. Cry for Nigeria, past and present!  What is your sacrifice?

     

  • Our Girls; Fuel: Govt. Inaction; Fulani Herdsmen/Farmers War kills soldiers, civilians; 1460days for dev –run!  

    Our Girls; Fuel: Govt. Inaction; Fulani Herdsmen/Farmers War kills soldiers, civilians; 1460days for dev –run!  

    Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014 with 300+ others freed by the military. Six soldiers and then 20-?200+ Plateau civilians murdered in retaliation in the ‘Other War’-the Fulani herdsmen/Farmers War. Will President Buhari end this justly?

    Nigeria was paralysed by an avoidable traumatic fuel scarcity- Irresponsible parting ‘Government Inaction’ gift, as billions go on 2015 politicians severance pay-a politicians’ ‘dividend of democracy’. If only government had competence to pay two weeks ago!

    Four years is a very short time, 1460 days. Government must fast-track recovery and distinguish the citizens’ ‘right to decent life’ from non-existent citizens’ ‘dividends of democracy’. If Buhari wants to build 100 bridges nationwide he must start now. In addition:

    Use ‘Mr President’, ‘Senator’, ‘Representative’  and  ‘Assembly Member’ .

    READ THE NEWSPAPERS. Press Aides can file: Good, Bad, Ugly Press. In politics Euphoria becomes Paranoia. Comments become Criticism within three months.

    Use the Presidential Address to recruit Nigerians – Day 1 or Day Zero of the ‘No Corruption  Campaign’ .

    ‘Wife of the President’ is Grand Patroness/fundraiser for volunteer female causes nationwide. She must be exemplary. The Boko Haram Internally Displaced Persons, Victims of the Fulani Herdsmen/Farmers War, the female victims of oil spills and erosion need her presence, prayers and OUR donations made ‘on behalf of Nigerians’ and not herself.  We pray for ‘50% Women In Politics And Board Rooms’.

    Ministerial & Agency List: Buhari must trawl the NIGERIAN DIASPORA for YOUNG DYNAMIC WOMEN and MEN. States lists must contain 50% women.

    In the Civil Service: International MEASURABLE standards, Goals, Targets, efficiency, competence, Monitoring & Evaluation,  CLOSE SUPERVISION, ‘Monthly Progress Reporting On All File Movements’- MPR – AF, Verdicts and Consequences for failure.

    Action on the Constitutional Review Report

    The Nigerian Diaspora: Ideas, exchanges, homecoming and rewards for remitting foreign exchange. Initiate NIGERIAN DIASPORA ELECTRONIC VOTING by 2019.  Let the BUHARI GRILLING INTERVIEW be a hallmark AND A REPEAT INTERVIEW 6 MONTHLY. No rubber stamp appointments.

    No Second Term For Ministries Agencies And Departments: There are many wonderful Nigerians. Use them.

    Corruption Prevention Systems introduced FROM TOP DOWN to get ‘FOUR YEARS OF MODEST HONESTY’.   EFCC, ICPC MUST PREMPT in every Ministry and Department with SUPERVISION. Forensic audit of Police, CID, EFCC and ICPC. THE UNIFORM IN NIGERIA is a weapon of corruption.

    Curbing Waste: STOP inflated contracts.

    Recouping The Cost Of The 2015 Campaign: Tell Nigeria how it will recoup election expenses.

    SPREAD THE ‘IDEAS ARE GOOD’ NET WORLDWIDE: Dawn is the time of good ideas using the internet to detect TED, New MIT, UN, WHO, FAO, Energy and other technologies. A BRAINIAC ROOM with 100 high tech people should explore the internet. Nigerians with ideas must tell government. Projects need starting early. The Second Niger Bridge should include a Third Niger Bridge Plan. Europeans are executing a SAHARA SOLAR FARM REVOLUTION. SOLARISE NIGERIA with a CBN single digit $2-5billion Solar Loan Scheme to capture the sun.

    EMERGENCY POWER’ : When the Fujiyama Nuclear Reactor in Japan was destroyed the Government in three months delivered replacement ‘EMERGENCY POWER’. Nigeria’s Government can introduce an ‘EMERGENCY COMPONENT’ to supply 20-40,000MW in three months. The internet has 25 Emergency Power companies.

    Stop the ANIMOSITY BETWEEN STATES AND FEDERAL.  WORK TOGETHER, GROW TOGETHER.

    TRUE FEDERLISM is a long overdue dream. Federal needs to shrink so states can grow.

    Education: The 20% public school pass can be tripled by coaching current SS2 students in July to Sept and December 2015 holiday coaching with Extra Classes. Come September, give 15 TEXT BOOKS/STUDENT. School Posters are as good for students as political posters were for politicians who printed 50-100m. 10 POSTERS PER CLASS x 1.5million classrooms needed. A BOX LIBRARY of 100-200 books/school.  The Education Funds must buy Books. ’BOOKS BUILD BRAINS ’.    Medicine: Use the media for a Massive Health Education plan. Put cancer therapy in every state capital.         

    SECURITY MUST BE PROVIDED FOR ALL: Redeploy police around politicians to community security.

    NASS RETURNEES: New NASS must be wary of Old NASS ‘returnees’ used to ‘NASTY NASS’ envelopes to facilitate oversight approvals.

    NASS Changes: Nigeria expects cuts in Salaries And Perks, SAPing Nigeria dry, remove Constitutional Projects, move towards a ‘SITTING ALLOWANCE’ NASS and a ‘PART TIME’ NASS AND STATE ASSEMBLY.

    Fulani Herdmen -Farmers war: Lasting solution before the citizens boycott meat in a ‘Blood Meat Boycott’

    Economics: Nigeria expects an appreciation of the naira at maybe N1/month.

    FINANCIAL STIMULUS: Recognise citizen’s entrepreneurship and work with CBN/ private sector to cancel the MPR of 13% and get single digit interest rate for all.

    Sports-MASSIVE MULTISPORTS DEVELOPMENT: Football-just one of 100 neglected sports. Budgetary line items for each sport. Reintroduce ‘PE’ PHYSICAL EXERCISE.

    YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: THE WARD IS THE SMALLEST POLITICAL UNIT. Each of the 16,400 wards needs a YOUTH INSPIRATION CENTRE.

    BUDGETARY COMPARISONS: Compare Budget Line Items with UK, USA, SA to expand job, opportunity and accountability.

    The Housing Deficit of 14-17million AFFORDABLE Housing is a growth opportunity. This is 14 million/48 months or 290,000 homes nationwide/month or 8,000 homes/state/month or 96,000/year/state.

    Politicians vs Professionals:   Many political programmes are gimmicks where professionals are ‘Yes Sir’ people. This must stop.

    The new government must Run, Run, Run or Nigeria will become one huge third-world refugee camp heading abroad!

     

  • Chibok parents to Buhari: you can rescue our girls

    Chibok parents to Buhari: you can rescue our girls

    Kids, others march on Education ministry in Abuja

    It was a moving spectacle yesterday in Abuja.

    Kids in red shirts, holding numbered placards on which the names of the Chibok schoolgirls are boldly written, marching on the Ministry of Education.

    With them were some of the girls who escaped in the night of horror on April 14, last year when Boko Haram insurgents hussled the over 200 pupils off their dormitories into trucks and drove them away into captivity.

    The world was horrified; it still is —one year after.

    Parents of the Chibok Girls Secondary School, Borno State, girls yesterday said they were hoping President-elect Muhamadu Buhari would find their daughters.

    Gen Buhari will take office on May 29 and one of the burning issues he will inherit from the outgoing Dr. Goodluck Jonathan administration is the abduction.

    Yesterday, there were activities in Abuja, Lagos and in some other major capitals across the world to mark the anniversary of the abduction which attracted worldwide outrage, especially when Boko Haram claimed responsibility and showed a video of the girls in captivity with sect leader Abubakar Shekau saying he would sell them off.

    In Abuja, there were news conferences. In Lagos, Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka attended an event, where foremost economist Prof. Pat Utomi spoke.

    A representative of the girls’ parents, Rev. Mark Enoch, declared yesterday their faith in Gen. Buhari and his ability to rescue the 219 girls alive.

    He said things would be better because Gen. Buhari has the ability to destroy the Boko Haram sect like he destroyed the Maitasine Movement in 1984.

    Rev. Enoch spoke on behalf of Kibaku Area Development Association (KADA), the umbrella body of the Chibok community in Abuja. His address was titled: “One year commemoration of the abduction of #Chibokgirls: the unending agony of a community.”

    He said: “I know that as General Buhari is now the president-elect, things will be better. He can rescue our daughters, he can bring our daughters back home. He can end all the atrocities of the Boko Haram sect like he addressed the Maitasine movement in 1984 and our girls will return, so we the Chibok girls’ parents are excited.

    “I will like to appreciate Madam Oby Ezekwesilli and members of the #BringBackOurGirls advocacy. They are the Mandelas of our time.”

    KADA, in a statement signed by its National Secretary Battah Ndirpaya; National Publicity Secretary Dr. Manasseh Allen and Chairman KADA Abuja, Tsambido Hosea, said despite the gloomy picture of what is happening in their community before and after the abduction, they are still hopeful that the girls will come back home alive.

    They said: “After the abduction, Chibok area was attacked six times with resultant high causalities, including 11 of the parents and guardians of the abducted girls. The people of Chibok are today haunted, displaced, traumatised and living in agony as refugees or internally displaced persons all over Nigeria and refugees beyond. There is also a looming famine in the Chibok (Kibaku) community and environs as a result of the terrorism that has virtually crippled farming activities. Wanton destruction of food stuff, granaries and livestock was perpetrated by the insurgents. There was also poisoning or destruction of water wells, the primary source of water for the community.

    “Despite the gloomy picture of what is happening in the community, we are still hopeful that our girls will come back alive. We are hoping that Mr. President will keep his word by brining the girls back alive before leaving office on 29 May.. Even if he fails to achieve it, we are hopeful that the president-elect will bring back our girls alive.

    “In the abduction saga, it is true that the girls are the victims, the parents and guardians are suffering the agony, trauma and pains, but the embarrassment is that of the government and the people of Nigeria, while the military suffered humiliation. We urge all to come together and find a lasting solution to this saga so as to save our face as a country.”

    Members of the #BringBackOurGirls advocacy also said they appreciated Gen. Buhari for “his kind and soothing words” on the occasion of the one year commemoration and his promise to do everything to bring back the girls.

    The group demanded the safe return of the girls as a major engagement during the transition between the Jonathan and the Buhari administrations.

    The #BBOG described the Chibok girls as global symbols for the defence of the dignity and sanctity of human life, of the girl child, women, for those oppressed, repressed, disadvantaged, hurting and unsafe persons everywhere and they will continue to advocate for their return until everyone of the girl is accounted for.

    The group spoke at a news conference in Abuja to commemorate the one year anniversary of the abduction. The statement signed by Dr. Oby Ezekwesilli and Ms Hadiza Bala-Usman on behalf of the group, said:

    “Today, 14  April, 2015 is that dreadful day we never imagined will come without having  back our missing precious 219 Chibok schoolgirls, abducted exactly one year ago today.

    “Our #ChibokGirls are the global symbol for the defence of the dignity and sanctity of human life; of the girl a child, women, for all those oppressed, repressed, disadvantaged, hurting, unsafe persons everywhere. As long as they stay missing, it means nothing is as yet working. We must all prioritise their safe return.

    “We thank Nigeria’s president-elect for his kind and soothing words on the occasion of this one-year commemoration; wherein he promises, among other things, to do everything he can to #BringBackOurGirls when he becomes the president, if they are still alive. However, this does not address our concerns. We demand that the safe return of our girls be the top agenda of the transition between the present and the incoming one.

    “We have just concluded a march by #ChibokGirlsAmbassadors (part of the global schoolgirl march). We express our immense gratitude to our #ChibokGirlsAmbassadors for being the right voices to carry the message of their generational peers on a day like this.

    “We have been demanding for the last nearly one year but nothing is more remarkable than having peers of our missing schoolgirls carry out an exclusive activity for their cause. This is a generation that will grow with a well-developed sense of humanity, of standing for others, and also demanding accountability from their leaders. We also thank their parents and guardians for not only allowing, but encouraging them to participate. Your efforts in raising kind, caring as well as responsible girls shall never be in vain.”

    The group also reiterated and renewed their year-long demand to the United Nations, which states:

    “That the UN should, through its relevant agencies, deploy relevant instruments in ensuring the prompt rescue of our Chibok girls and other abductees, as well as improve the security situation in the country.

    “Escalate and process the request of the Chibok nation for the help of independent private investigators. Call on world leaders and other members of the international community to reactivate their support for the #BringBackOurGirls cause and push it back as a prioritised discourse because the only logical closure to this issue would be when our girls have been brought back and insurgency becomes a thing of the past.

    “We are a non-partisan civic movement and therefore shall continue to advocate and demand for justice for our 219 Chibok girls. Until our girls are rescued, our Movement will not stop. .”

    Members of the Chibok girls ambassadors and members of the #BBOG advocacy staged a peaceful protest to the Ministry of Education to demand for the release of the girls and demand to know what the ministry was doing to assist with the rescue efforts.

    Although the ministry locked them out for almost an hour, the children were later allowed into the premises. The ministry’s Director, Human Resources Management, Mohammed Umar, met with the group. The girls gave an ultimatum of May 29 to rescue the girls.

     

  • April 1st Our Girls; One INEC team + One Card Reader/50-100 voters pls; Single day elections in 2019

    April 1st Our Girls; One INEC team + One Card Reader/50-100 voters pls; Single day elections in 2019

    Our Girls are still missing since April 15th 2014. Soon it will be one tragic year. Congratulations to our troops and the supreme sacrifice some have had to make against Boko Haram. We wish they had acted one year ago.

    No results are announced by INEC at my press time Monday Am. Nigeria is still afraid of exit polls, which are part of the international political anticorruption arsenal. Why did INEC not quickly collate and announce ‘INEC authorized results’ at local collation centres immediately?  We pray that INEC will not be oppressed by the traditional demons against democracy as in the recent past. The election was not ‘pure’. There were unacceptable incidents of calculated and callous violence, stolen report sheets, bombs, attacks, gunfire, deaths and injuries, violence against the media and a fatal boat incident.

    However it ‘appears’ largely free and fair except for some very difficult orchestrated elections in violence-prone states. Voting should be a pleasant experience and not a dangerous punishment. Patience, perseverance and pragmatism are necessities in Nigerian elections and punishment for violence perpetrators. Voters will not swallow false results of a sham election rigged in their state.

    Exposure to scorching sun or tropical rain, no seats, no shade, no toilet facilities, was the order of the voting day. Worldwide we see elections where voters spend seconds or minutes for accreditation with driving licence or passport or voter’s ID and immediately vote with a choice of several curtained-off polling booths for secret voting. In this last election on the March 28 in my polling booth, INEC arrived at 8.45pm and we spend from 9.15am to 3pm being accredited as one card reader died on us and this was not replaced until the second one died at 1.06pm. Even then, it took the pressure of the citizens and a citizen’s vehicle to take INEC officials to HQ for replacements, which arrived at 2pm to accredit the remaining 100 out of about 280 voters. As usual in Nigeria, it was exhausting, time consuming and economically costly.

    I personally wiped my thumb and the card reader spent just 2 or 3 seconds to accredit me. However the person ahead of me was accredited on his ninth digit attempt. But even that took just about one minute. Of the nearly 300 voters only three or so had to be done manually. What are the lessons and corrections that can be offered? The card reader was a ‘qualified’ success preventing duplication, multiple voting, fake cards and post-voting stuffing of ballot boxes. The difficulty was when the card readers failed but card readers are multi-purpose anti-corruption device. In some cases where it failed the card reader was maliciously or politically crippled. Below are my conclusions or Post Mortem Findings.

    Post Mortem finding 1: The spending of four hours lining up for one three person INEC team to accredit over 150-500 people is too long and wrong. We in our station were ‘lucky’ as only 300 turned up out of 800 expected. Many voters had registered but only worked there and could not come to vote from home-lost votes. Surely in order to ‘Speed up the process,’ Nigeria have one INEC card reader/50 cards to speed up the accreditation process. The card reader is to be hailed as it severely limited vote rigging and voter number fixing.

    Post Mortem finding 2: A planned three INEC staff for 200-500 voters are unimaginably poor management. We eventually had two sets of three INEC staff. INEC needs to treat Nigerians better and plan ‘three INEC staff /100 voters’ in each polling station.

    POST Mortem finding 3:  Nigeria must have a single INEC election with one accreditation and same afternoon election of all offices: President, National Assembly, Governors and State Assembly. Nigerians and Nigeria cannot afford to shut down twice for elections at the cost and loss of many billions to businesses and government. Nigerians should not be forced to go through the mental, physical and financial stress of an 8-12 hour election, more than one day every 4 years. This will halve the INEC budget for police security, travel and vehicle transport hire, and voter register reproduction for the second election day and also save parties 50% of party agent hire fees and other monitoring expenses. INEC can apply some of the billions in ‘saved’ funds to hiring more INEC staff for a ‘one day election’, which will maximise the value of accreditation and queuing. It will cut wastage of time and energy and financial business losses and reduce security risks.

    If allowed to function, The permanent voter card and the card reader remain the best things that have happened to ‘honest elections’ in Nigeria. Of course, no Card reader revolution can totally prevent the massed forces of evil political elements misusing their position and power to intimidate voters, buy voters’ thumbs or steal ballot boxes. These manifestations of maniacal acts of demonic anti-democracy vandalism often characterise struggling democracies where ‘one man-one vote’ democracy is subverted by ‘party and personal perpetuation’ at any evil price.

    Serving politicians who have lost elections by legitimate means or had to use illegal means to ‘win’ the elections must ask themselves why they got it wrong? In four years’ time, 2019, when the electorate decides again, we do not want to be challenged by the same political arrogance, insulting electioneering behaviour and prolonged massive financial wrongdoing.

  • Our Girls; Fulani Herdsmen: Farmer War, Boycott Blood Meat: Be a political journalist. Count Your Vote 

    Our Girls; Fulani Herdsmen: Farmer War, Boycott Blood Meat: Be a political journalist. Count Your Vote 

    Our Girls’ are still missing since April 15 2014. To them, and 15,000+ murdered, add 90 executed in Damasak and those wives murdered directly by Boko Haram to keep them ‘pure’ till a heavenly reunion. Did someone say ‘Negotiate with Boko Haram’?

    As Boko Haram reduces under the offensive, we face the Fulani Herdsmen Vs Farmers War claiming 5,000+ lives, and another 90 Fellow Nigerians cruelly massacred last week. Election win or not, statesman, Fulani leader and General, Buhari, must resolve this festering Fulani Herdsmen-Nigerian Farmers leprosy sore before it causes an ECONOMIC BACKLASH BOYCOTT OF ‘BLOOD MEAT’ defined as ‘Meat transported and eaten at the cost of lives & livelihoods of fellow farming Nigerians’.

    I disturbingly see cow meat on my plate as the flesh of those murdered children and parents.  This senseless War should stop if Nigerians at the end of the cow transport chain, ‘EAT NO MEAT’ for three months. Speaking medically, no one will die from not eating meat, so why should people die BECAUSE WE EAT MEAT? Why can you eat meat delivered by the death of a child? You are an accessory and receiver of stolen goods- farm grass and crops eaten by the cows. You have blood on your hands.

    This is how it was in the 18th C Wild West of America. The war will continue after a boycott if, as suggested by some, it is a cover for a territorial Fulani war disguised as a cow-farmland war. A seeming senseless war or a cunning expansionist strategy?    The wickedness of unleashing weaponised OPC on Lagos citizens shows no difference between that group, its leaders and Boko Haram.

    Death and terror are just that. No ‘political’ excuses. Boko Haram members murder their wives. We know what OPC does to victims.Enough of the personalisation or ‘partyisation’ of Nigeria’s governance and public institutions by all parties in power at federal, state and LGA level and the traditional institutions.

    Governance, the private sector and traditional responsibilities are timeless and transcend political tenures. They should not be partisan. Politicians are hired and fired at elections and are 4-8 year employees of the citizens. They must not extort endorsements from the landlord, the institution of governance.

    Holding teachers, handicapped, civil servants and unions etc., to ransom to ‘declare for us’ is abuse.  ELECTION ALERT: INEC says we must not leave the polling booth after voting. The IGP must retract any wrong information. Leaving the polling booth unprotected by citizens is an invitation to fraud. In this election, INEC must make more statements that CITIZENS must OBSERVE & ‘COUNT YOUR VOTE’. Remember to take WATER AND SNACKS in a transparent bag for security for yourself and others including the election staff, neglected for 10 hours, with shops closed.

    I worry for young NYSC staff, so much is expected of them, for so little. Have you seen the squalor, poor sanitation and facilities of NYSC camps? Since 1973 or so, Nigeria has stolen billions from the NYSC Scheme. I served NYSC in Jos and Lafia in 1975/6 and am sickened by the debasing hovels given NYSC as accommodation today.

    With indifference to any lethal consequences, we again risk their nationalistic NYSC lives for Nigeria. Let no drop of NYSC members’, or anyone else’s blood, be spilt by murderers in the false name of politics. Too many NYSC heroes have died for other people’s greed. NYSC members, we salute you. Nigerian politicians should protect their NYSC ‘children’.

    No one should be allowed to make inoperable the PVC Card Readers with the protective role of an impartial Police and the Armed Forces uncompromised by criminal governors. Any ruling party agents cannot be allowed to repeat Ekitigate election revealed by the patriotic military whistleblower who deserved promotion and induction into the ‘Hall of Fame for Whistleblowers’. Recall the whistle blowing Police officer ‘O’.

    He should be the Foundation Hall of Fame whistleblower. All political parties should participate at ‘Political Security Meetings’.World expectations are high for the triumph of democracy in Nigeria. Rigging and Violence are a CIVILIAN COUP ATTEMPT, treason, and prosecutable. Do not forget the newly elected ‘Democracy Saint’ Obasanjo’s role in the recent election ‘victories’.

    On Sat March 28th, let no one say ‘no’ to voting. Every voter who ‘siddon look’ and refuses to vote is a vote against his candidate. Let no one be intimidated. We are all ELECTION MONITORS AS RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS. TURN ON YOUR CELL PHONE, RECORD SECRETLY ANY iniquity, UPLOAD TO PREPLANNED INTERNET AND MEDIA’. I suggest you download Meerkat through Twitter and use it to expose political wrong-doing. We are all POLITICAL WAR JOURNALISTS-say Kunle   and Kolade M. Let the good outnumber the bad, let honest voters outnumber riggers, let truthful lawyers outnumber lying lawyers, let honest judges outnumber corrupt judges, let police and courts accept electronic evidence of violence- a criminal code crime, let the court injunctions stop, let good overcome evil. NO ONE’S POLITICAL LIFE IS WORTH THE DEATH OF EVEN ONE NIGERIAN. Stay alive to tell the 2015 election story. Long Live Nigeria! VOTE FOR YOUR CANDIDATE, FREELY AND FAIRLY ON SATURDAY MARCH 28TH2015.PS NERC again totally failed to protect Nigerians by not preventing the recently reversed hike in electricity tariff. The NERC board should resign or be sacked for incompetence. And why don’t American police disable people by shooting the people in the arms and leg instead of dead?