Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. Pray and work for their release.
The 2016 Over-profits in tens of billions of naira by some banks, fail the citizen, contrasting disgracefully with North-east and national suffering and starving citizens. Worldwide traditionally, banks prosper from recession largely because they have a bank bubble i.e recyclable government funds and exorbitant interest rates. Banks and corporations should decentralise to towns all Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to let development impact the hospitals, schools, sports facilities and markets in their local ‘Square Mile’ of influence instead of costly T-shirt CSR in state, federal and corporate headquaters. Decentalise CSR to the branch, distributor, vendor and kiosk selling your products.
Census 2018? Hope or hoax? No bribed census officials with N3 billion o! Census Corruption is wrong form filling, ‘counting down’ and ‘counting up’. Are we ready for a transparent, verifiable, corruption-free ‘Change Census’? If not, why waste N272billion which should solarise Nigeria and save every Nigerian more than N1,813 in power substitution? Population census counting is vital for statistics and planning. Should we spend one kobo on counting instead of feeding and financially empowering our 8,500,000 North-east compatriots, starving and needing support? We shamelessly beg UN and foreigners to feed them even as we struggle to recover from economic depression and financial rape. As usual Nigeria’s ruthless priority is in a corruption-prone miscount census, not feeding the dying and funding the living.
Nigeria’s censuses have been a crime against Nigerian Humanity, fraught with government deceit – the highest form deceit-moral corruption! What has changed? Will we be deliberately miscounted again and conjure new False Figures to perpetrate False Federalism – the key disease causing Nigeria’s failure under-development?
The corrupt policies in place are the deliberately criminally lopsided creation of LGAs each getting a handout of an average of N1b/annum, census manipulation, Value Added Tax and other revenue formula distribution, lopsided political and financial policies and appointments to name a few stumbling blocks to real equity and unity. In spite of these huge ‘illegal’ revenues diverted over 30 years from other parts of the country by a strange revenue sharing formula, the lack of development is glaring. It is so bad that UNICEF etc spend billions to replace ‘Lost Trillions’ stolen by the leadership! Is this reward for stealing- someone else will cry for your deprived children and replace the stolen funds?
UN agencies regularly use the excuse of poor development indices to pump money in to substitute for the poor funding. Our leaders have never been honest enough or strong enough to count us honestly. Festus Odimegwu tried to reveal facts while he was chairman National Population Commission but was unceremoniously dismissed. Is the census count still too sensitive and financially rewarding to be an honest count? Why will Census 2018 be any different? What will make even an honest count not be manipulated at NPC HQ as usual since 1956 figures? What is in favour of a sudden infection of Honesty Counting and Accurate Arithmetic in Census 2018? Nothing! Is there the political will while corrupt allocation of funds distributed based on a false federalism and false census figures giving permanent advantage to some and cheats others?
Foreign embassies use satellites to project our true census figure. Immunisation statistics are easily manipulated for vaccinators to keep relevant, keep their jobs or under threat. Population and counting are huge money. Can Nigeria afford another census fraud spending N272,000,000,000 for a ‘census doomed to fail’ while counting an overestimated population nearer 150m than 180m with 50m added chicken and goats? At 150,000,000, this is N1,813,3/Nigerian.
When will politicians distinguish between ‘The People’s Money’ and ‘Free Money Available To Steal?’ In normal countries there should be ‘NO Free Money Available To Steal From’ as every kobo stolen from the budget is actually crippling families across the country and is stealing food, education and a future from the mouths of children in rubbish bookless graveyard schools and steals medicine from needy mothers in filthy ill-equipped death-delivering delivery wards.
Politicians need reorientation away from ‘the Free Money’ mind-set to one of ‘Achievement through development’. We must urgently change our politics to alleviate the needles generational suffering precipitated by 50 years of needless theft of our needed budgets by politicians driven by greed beyond their needs should have been allocated to alleviate the needless. The ‘Steal Budgets To Steal Elections To Steal Government’ mind-set must be changed now before the 2019 election kick-off! Imagine if no budget or contractor funds were stolen or diverted. This would guarantee budget execution and development activities to the fullest even up to the election and appointment days of the elected 2019 government. Imagine an election without stolen budget or contractor funds. Much cheaper elections will bring more honest politicians to the election. Also having spent this stolen money on elections, these parties and politicians seek to ‘recover’ their costs as soon as they get to power as if it was their own, and not the money stolen from citizens. Cheap elections mean less need to steal to create huge ‘Election War Chests’ usually claimed to be N10,000,000,000 or N5000-10,000 for each of 1,000,000 citizens. Imagine what N10b could do in your state instead of dissipating it on ‘corruptly electing a governor’ with nothing else to show!
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Our Girls; Bank overprofits; Change Census 2018?
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Our Girls; Criminalise budget diversion for politics
Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. Pray and work for their release.
We must ban and criminalise corruption driven political party funding and political election funding from budget theft or manipulation through contract inflation and percentages. Nigerians need massive reorientation before Election 2019 including Nollywood and Nigasong stars films and songs to ridicule theft in politics. This will require close pre-emptive EFCC, ICPC monitoring of political party activities before and during and not after the election. Shameless senators are still daring to distribute our funds as ‘their dividends of democracy.
Since Nigeria’s birth, citizens have employed politicians who mostly impose themselves on us as conquerors through massively corrupted elections. We pay, clothe, house, transport, feed and them but they take more. As development indices decay, politicians prosper beyond comprehension -stupendous Salaries and Pensions and Perks, SAPP, retirement mansions, frequent car changes, magnificent medical cover. Then, greedy beyond need, they steal our resources to perpetuate themselves in the arrogant style they have become accustomed in pursuit of a grandiose delusion exemplified by prefixes of Excellency, Distinguished and Honourable. Nigeria must abolish such titles.
Get it into your head and teach your children! The transfer of government revenues to political party activities or individual politicians is called ’Theft’!! The receiving political parties and politicians are ‘Receivers of Stolen Goods’– common criminals -a Criminal Offence! Period! This nightmare of fiscal malfeasance is revealed through the federal government Whistle-blower Policy. Extend whistleblowing to states and LGAs. It shows zero respect and disgust and disdain by politicians and their parties for the citizens- ‘I don’t care! Go, riot and die, my first demands as elected politician are 24/7 free electricity, security, multiple pensions, mega salary, home and transport all paid for by you koboless ‘mumu’ voters voting for principle, party, personality, ethnicity, rice or naira. Then I will laugh all the way to bags of your money in my safe house, soakaway and water-tank. Yesterday’s and today’s stolen money quickly becomes my today’s and tomorrow’s legitimate great family fortune to rule you till beyond Kingdom Come – if Heavens’ Gatekeeper will take a bribe! Hahaha’.
Nigerians be fully aware that as you go to work, many politicians go to the office to steal! Imagine recordings from the 100 political party meetings from LGA to federal planning to steal budget funds. Chief, Alhaji, Otunba, chairman says ‘Take N10m or $10,000,000 from the budget of health or education and give it to chief’s personal assistant to fix the elections. Oh, and, give N3b to INEC’. Is that not treasonable felony ‘punishable by death or imprisonment’? Whistle-blow about ‘who said what, when, where’. Who are the despicable political people that planned and executed this treason causing our underdevelopment by fixing elections and fraud, corruption and citizen killing, violent coup plots to put a wrong government in power or perpetuate a fraudulently elected government in power? Coup plotting remains a capital crime- political or military – even in our much rubbished undemocratic constitution! We must ‘whistle-blow’ ‘How All Parties Defraud the Citizen by Funding Elections from stolen government budgets.
The cross-party unquenchable ‘policy of massive diversion of public government funds’ and its implementation across Nigeria by the political leadership furnished their every need, legal and illegal, like election fraud. This is not a comedy because it is killing citizens. It is not ‘laughable’ or ‘laudable’ because it is not a Robin Hood crime where the poor benefit from crime proceeds carefully misnamed DOD- dividends of democracy. The theft and diversion of multibillions is ‘Heartless and Political Man’s Inhumanity to Suffering Citizen Man’.
It is what the Americans call ‘Grand Larceny’ – a despicable theft of the nation’s patrimony by a large gang or breed of common criminals. Worse, it is a brazenly arrogant rubbishing of the citizenry by never delivering ‘social services’ from the abundant gifts from God. Without all the political theft, just like in non-thieving countries, Nigeria would have had $100-200b in foreign reserves, keeping the naira strong and infrastructure to be proud of. To date we have lost 50-70% of our gross income to fraud, fraudulently run projects and fraudulent policies. Only those inside the political theft circle clap but even they complain as they squabble over sharing of such humongous loot, looted from the mouths and futures of babes of Nigerian families. There is no honour among thieves. The repetitive political fraud repeatedly insults us screaming that ‘we the people’ are irrelevant. Politicians have become monsters giving crumbs to Nigeria.
Most politicians blatantly lie during elections with never-to-be-fulfilled promises and distribute a few of the stolen naira for ‘stomach infrastructure’ lasting one meal or one day in order for the politicians to secure 4 -8 years of luxury pay and lifetime undeserved electricity supply, transport and pension! A very good ‘exchange rate’ for politicians, not for Nigerians! There must be a limit to political and all fraud and corruption. No country can survive more than 10% corruption.
Come Election 2019, Nigeria cannot survive another election fraud culminating whether the money used is stolen, allocated illegally, stored or re-stolen for later re- and re-stealing.
Solution: BAN CRIMINAL DIVERSION GOVERNMENT FUNDS FOR POLITICAL PARTY ACTIVITIES AND ELECTION CAMPAIGNS, ON PAIN OF IMPRISONMENT AND PROSCRIPTION OF PARTY. ENFORCE monthly PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF PARTY DONATIONS.
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Our Girls; $43M; Oil wells; INEC; Braids
Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. THREE long, hard, painfully traumatic YEARS.
Below we discuss MegaMoneywhistleblowing, oil well ownership, INEC N3b bribe, and FRSCfemale haircuts.
We had no power for Easter 2017! The WHISTLEBLOWN money $38m, N23m, £27,000, $43m hidden and not in circulation explain why Nigeria remains undeveloped with 2,500Mw power. Are such MegaMoney caches not too big for one person’s greed or excessive need? Are they [1] NIS safe house funds or [2] secret stolen political party funds, stashed, awaiting [a] forgetfulness to allow ‘disappearance’ or [ b] to be used for bribery to encourage [c] party defections and [d] Election2019 fraud? Wike [ W-likes, W-leaks, W-pedia], Amaechi and NIS, maybe all three, but certainly one or two are blatant liars who will be revealed by tracing the currency serial numbers from the USA to CBN to the issuing bank[s] and tellers. What security, spying, surveillance, Nigerian detective Lance Spearman or UK’S 007 James Bond-ic activities require $43m ‘ON CALL’ in one safe house? How many others? The $43,000,000 is FULL INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 860-1720 PERSONNEL to INTERPOL, @$25-50,000/annum OR ONE 2017 SUPER-FORENSIC CRIME LABORATORY in each geopolitical zones or every state and 2017 SPY TRAINING FACILITIES for ‘NIGASPIES.COM’. Why do we bury biblical ‘talent’ while the ‘SUFFERING’ police go begging states for logistics-a surveillance necessity? If it is Federal money why is it not in TSA? Money in the safe is financially unproductive and useless but easily ‘disappear-able’ from Superspy ‘Handing-Over Notes’. Is it just unused 2016 money to be chopped at year end? Such money in anti-democracy political hands can overthrow governments. Such ‘Safe houses’ are unsafe for Nigeria’s democracy. Remember it was ‘just’ N3,000,000,000 that corrupt INEC officials received from a single source??? Solution: Return ALL money to the FG Single Account or Rivers State if it is honest money as the serial number log dictates!
INEC, which political party offered staff those bribes? Such corruption is usually multiparty! The other sources of INEC bribes, nko? Such bribing political PARTIES AND THEIR PROXIES have committed ‘treason’ –the attempted overthrow of the state by vote manipulation. Such PARTIES and those involved MUST BE FINED AND BANNED for 10 years! Meanwhile citizens who in 2015 gullibly lining up thinking ‘My Vote Counts’ will now vote ‘INEC- Zero Credibility. This is verified criminal ANTI-DEMOCRACY ACTIVITIES BY KNOWN POLITICAL PARTIES and evil political machinations of many politicians. So INEC is like a fake party with the deciding secret vote proportionate to the bribe. So INEC’s televised ceremony of sham/shame ‘INEC Certification’ to ‘and the winner is’ is often a crime scene.
Guilty INEC officials and Political ‘beneficiaries of INEC bribes’ have violated their ‘Oath of Office’ and must be sacked outright, not suspended from office, prosecuted, jailed and forced to return monies taken as salaries under false pretences! THE PARTY ‘SUBVERTING THE PEOPLE’ IS guilty of ‘MEGATERRORISM’ and punishable by PROSCRIPTION and jail-time for the authorising leaders and foot-soldiers? These ‘politician’ terrorists are worse than Boko Haram because they pretend to be servants of the masses but they disenfranchise millions, causing untold hardship, death and destruction of livelihoods by depriving the economy of the bribery money and the citizens of their democratic election right. Some of Nigeria’s finest soldiers have been executed for lesser offences.
The painful saga of $1.1Billion Bribe involving of the Malabu Oil and OPL 245 should force an OIL Block Policy Rethink. President Goodluck Jonathan denies knowledge but how many aides make demands and chop ‘on oga’s behalf’ but without ‘oga’s knowledge’, receive and forget to deliver ‘all or none’ to ‘oga at the top’ or the person in ‘the other room’? How can we explain to our children that yet another round of ‘oil well dashing out to cronies and connections’ is looming???
ANOTHER WRONG OIL WELL STEP: When will NIGERIA REVERSE ITS trillion dollar losses from a stupidly DISASTROUS DECISION TO ‘GIVE’ NIGER DELTA OIL WELLS TO INDIVIDUALS ‘forever’ who are largely not even from Niger Delta? Even if the allocations had been for a finite time like five or 10 years and then returned, it is beyond belief that the malicious decisions in the 70s and 80s to maliciously SELL OF OUR PATRIMONY SECRETLY to SOLIDERS, RULERS AND EVEN HAIRDRESSER/TAILORS TO BECOME multibillionaires, silent or known. NOW THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS HAVE MADE BILLIONS for themselves and perhaps their benefactors, WILL THEY PLEASE RETURN THEWELLS TO NIGERIA AND THE HOST COMMUNITIES so the oil remnant will save us? A ‘RETURN OIL WELL REFERENDUM’ could force INDIVIDUALS to give up 50-100% of their stake to the currently suffering local community in which an oil well exists. ALL PERSONALISED OIL WELL LICENCES SHOULD BE REVOKED/RETURNED. NO NEW ONES MUST BE GIVEN TO INDIVIDUALS. Nigeria cannot survive another major bleed of its oil-blood given by God to communities NOW MIRED IN POLLUTION. When will Nigerian Presidents learn they have more responsibility for the common above making a few billionaires -‘$1b for one person’ which is $100,000 for 10,000 families!
FRSC female staff did not sign up for ‘ASSAULT AND BARBER-Y’ haircut or braids-cut. Only qualified barbers can cut hair on invitation only. FRSC should CUT DESPICABLE CORRUPTION AMONG STAFF, not hair. What next –TUMMY TUCK? Corruption is bringing FRSC into disrepute, not hairdos.
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Our Girls; IMF; NASS
Our Girls are still missing since April 14th 2015
IMF Prescription: Medicine or Machiavellian Mischief?
We have had relations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) before and been left with our youth devastated, raped and robbed of a future. Africa, Nigeria and the youth in the 70-80s, lost a chunk of their future achievement and income potential to IMF conditionalities and mis-advice. IMF makes you feel small. Such funds and banks have few morals, just secret missions to enslave societies to IMF financiers. To them, MONEY MATTERS MORE THAN MORALS OR MANKIND. Though apparently reformed, it is still trying to further discredit our currency, recovering from a multi-pronged attack which decimated it and the earning power of every citizen. Many countries fight the IMFs call to devalue. Why should we stand by while our currency is ambushed by IMF advice? Everyone in IMF earns dollars and cares little for our Naira. Is the IMF the World Economic God and trustworthy? Is the IMF so uncomfortable with the Africa’s cheaper loans from China that it seeks to weaken us making the loans more difficult and expensive to repay. Every Nigerian nationalist must ‘fight the naira fight’ – our only pride and power. Why do we give it up so easily?
Tragically for me and millions of my generation, and I am very annoyed that in my working lifetime bad governance has reduced Naira value from N1:$1.5 to N500:$1. Yet strangely we still seek advice from our Presidents who supervised the underdevelopment of Nigeria and destruction of our naira. No bank manager wants you to buy official dollars. They always use an intermediary to jack up the price. Among our leaders, only Buhari has defended the naira value. He does not own a foreign account and seeks to leave the currency where he ‘met it’ when it was N150 to $1 or when he was last President at N8:$1? A strong naira makes loans cheaper and life more abundant with fewer below the poverty line.
IMF got it maliciously wrong dragging Africa back in education and health adding to the effect of corruption. IMF’s bad reputation made me call the IMF the International Morticians Fund because it buried millions of youth dreams and call the World Bank its wicked sister body, the Woe Bank because it brought woe to many millions. They are both their funding master’s voice. Is the IMF wrong again? Can this government prove the IMF/WB twins wrong by increasing foreign reserves to $50+billion ASAP? If not, is our currency again destined for the dustbin to further enrich those with foreign accounts, Nigerian banks who take our remitted dollars and deliver naira to Nigerians and foreigners with assets in Nigeria who benefit from a weak naira? The IMF prescription is poisonous medicine and Machiavellian Mischief in intent. The cure will kill the patient- again!
Senate or Circus continued
NASS members should not sit easy in NASS. Nigerians see blood when they see Red Senate in sitting on TV. Firstly the Red of Senate seats is not signifying ‘Royalty’ or ‘Refugee Status’ for wayward governors and businessmen seeking ‘Immunity for and from their crimes’. Each NASS seat represents at least ‘100 DIED IN DEMOCRACY & ELECTION ACTION’. EVERY SENATE AND REPS SEAT SHOULD RESPECTFULLY BE NAMED AFTER A HERO OR HEROINE OF DEMOCRACY. SENATE RED IS THE HIGHEST NATIONAL MEMORIAL TO THE BLOOD SHED BY NIGERIA’S ‘DEMOCRACY DEAD AND DEPRIVED’. Senate Red is a flag waved arrogantly before the Nigerian Bull. The REPS GREEN REPRESENTS THE GREEN BILE VOMITED BY THE THOUSANDS OF INCARCERATED DEMOCRACY AND ELECTION VIOLENCE VICTIMS. The democracy struggle is in two parts –struggle against the MILITARY COUP plotters and struggle against non-democratic forces seeking to pervert the course of democracy –the election of civilian coup plotters. So the red and green seats drip with real memories. Are NASS members too self-centred for the job of using NASS for the care of the people? If in our opinion this is not done, we the people do not have to watch our words when castigating NASS members. NASS members are obviously under the illusion that obtaining a certificate from sometimes criminal INEC officials gives its members the right to bite the citizens’ hand. NASS likes congratulations and unearned prefixes of ‘Distinguished this’ and ‘Honourable that’. NIGERIANS SHOULD WITHDRAW SUCH POMPOUS TITLES for disgracing NASS, the institution in the eyes of many. We the people are supreme and will speak and judge it how we feel. Neither Senate nor Representatives is above the citizens ‘Call to Order’. It is time to start a tradition of midterm recall to account for stewardship and to pass the people’s verdict on each NASS member.
NASS is our proxy, our servant in this democracy; our representative which has forgotten ‘true representation’ and never asks our opinion outside public hearings, and is too expensive@N120-150b/annum and resistant to change. Servants must be put in their place. As a voter, has any politician sought your opinion? Our mistake since the inception of Nigeria was to allow politicians to become God-like and insulate themselves. While we need 150,000Mw but collapse to a disgraceful 2,500Mw, politicians empower and enrich themselves. Are Oyo State’s new LGA caretaker chairmen taking chunks of funds as fully fuelled 24/7 generator power and other perks? The cycle continues! Happy Easter!!
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Our Girls; Senate or Circus?
Our Girls are missing since April 15 2014. Work for their release and Pray.
I apologise that the powerful words ‘Our Girls’ was missing from the Title in the article of 29/3/2017, the first time since the Chibok Girls tragedy of April 15, 2014. I committed to using ‘Our Girls’ as first heading and the first comment in all my articles to keep public awareness high until all are returned or accounted for.
Now, like Macbeth, NIGHTCLUBS IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS like Bodija Ibadan, and Admiralty Way, Lekki, HAVE MURDERED SLEEP and families shut windows and suffocate in the heat. The Environmental Laws must RESTRAIN OR CLOSE CLUBS after NOISE LEVEL INVESTIGATIONS AT NIGHT and HEAVY FINES which should be distributed as ‘NOISE COMPENSATION’ to nearby residents. The clubs must be shut down until SOUNDPROOFED with SOUND REMAINING WITHIN THE CLUBHOUSE.
NATIONALISTIC MEDIA ALERT: Every Nigerian media organisation, journalist, editor, publisher, should be very concerned with the current blackmail and stonewalling in politics. They must leave their desks and food, science, aviation and branded specialties to engage the Nigerian political web. Without a growing positive politics, their work will become useless. Sport is useless if the country is burning or collapsing. In particular, they should strategise to engage NASS critically in thought, word and deed, in eye contact, debate, dialogue, discussion, disagreement and detailed interrogation. In short, they require Forensic Investigation and Reporting to protect our moribund democracy. If the media does not take on this role 24/7 in its pages, on the air, on TV, there will soon be nothing, NASS or the nation. We must save the nation and NASS from a severe people’s backlash. NASS members should read history and note Oliver Cromwell’s speech on April 20, 1653, justifying his sack of the British Parliament. If you forget Cromwell, everyone remembers fireworks commemorating Guy Fawkes’ misguided efforts. Indeed, NASS members should look at the ‘Why we struck’ and ‘Take Over’ speeches giving the excuses of every Nigerian military leaders since 1966, and most of them are still alive and on the Army Reserve List, along with thousands of fit retired officers and men. Is there any difference in the tide and times especially in NASS? NASS waves the Red Flag in the face of the suicidal nation reeling in poverty induced by politics. Defence may become offense. Right now, ‘NASS, ‘cost-effectiveness’ is the problem it has with Nigeria’. NASS tries to deflect the focus to the Presidency, but increasingly NASS gives the overwhelming impression that it is the real problem, diluting, watering down and obstructing the VERY REASON WHY THE PRESIDENT WAS ELECTED. Increasingly, Nigerians ask: Is Nigeria better off with or without NASS at a cost of N125-150b/year and for what?
Is this NASS what we fought, cried, were incarcerated and many died for, or dreamed of? Do we so easily forget the bloodshed and the DD-‘Democracy Dead’ while freeing us from all military rulers? Of course, the military are still so entrenched, being recycled as democracy heads of state –for worse or for better? Many of Nigeria’s democracy dead have their families living in poverty. No one comes to their aid in appreciation of the sacrifice, and even murder, of their relations and breadwinners during anti-military demonstrations and election violence and mayhem. What do they, ‘Descendants or Survivors of the Democracy Struggle,’ think of the real or apparent opulence and nauseating arrogance, the as-yet secret super-salary structure, hyper-pensions and apparent historical shallowness of debate and forgetfulness of NASS? Do they not see and hear that foreigners, who manage their own resources well and earn less than they do, are so moved to tears by the plight of thousands of starving Fellow Nigerian Children that their governments cannot bear to neglect the dying anymore and offer financial aid to feed them and replace the Nigerian state, steeped in corruption and hyper-salaries at all levels? The foreign embassies should remind NASS that one month of their super salaries, one car of one senator could be sold, or this new armoured jeep of no ownership could save the lives of all those children. But ‘no’! It appears that NASS members like nothing better than to dance on the graves of the democracy dead in insulting videos, adorn themselves in stupendous amounts of the nation’s money as self-styled salaries and perks, and even hyper-pensioned opulence, and some perform wizardry with green scarves and academic de-‘feats’ in academic regalia perhaps above their cranial degree grade, and perhaps act the imaginary funny person in the imaginary but expensive Senate or Circus.
Let NASS members know that ‘we the people,’ we do not have to justify the citizens’ query and criticism because ‘we the people’ are the employer. NASS membership, so arrogantly happy to castigate others at almost vengeful public hearings with follow-up retaliation, must know that NASS is not their playground or exclusive preserve to do what they like inside. In our eyes is now a ‘VERY UNHALLOWED CHAMBER’. NASS is public property in a public space owned wholly by Nigeria and Nigerians. We the people voted to lend our NASS complex to NASS members for 4 years to work out of, nurture, care for, return after 4 years. Are NASS members too self-centred for the job! To be continued
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Our Girls; Oil blocks; CAF; FILL POTHOLES; ROAD SIGNS; INEC PLAN
Our Girls are missing since April 15 2014. Pray.
A paradoxically happy and shamefully late FG announcement of plans to ‘resettle’ Bakassi returnees who have suffered like ‘scum of Nigeria’s earth’ living in unconverted Nigerian school rooms for how many years?
The Malabu Oil Deal, the infamous OPL 245, again shows how Nigeria and Nigerians have been rubbished by robber governments who have routinely sold or rented our birthright for nothing, not even a mess of pottage-just a few taxes when we should NEVER HAVE SOLD ANY OIL BLOCKS. Truly a study of all oil block allocations since the 1960s to Nigerian individuals, beggars and favourites of Presidents is clear evidence that Nigerians have had their inheritance misappropriated, marginalised and decimated, reduced to mere ‘taxes’. When will we get our oil blocks back and ban individual ownership in favour of community ownership?
Paradoxically, Nigerians and even NGOs have to pay for airtime but Boko Haram’s Shekau gets free and full coverage with reading of his lies. Na waya OOO!! The media should distinguish between News and Propaganda.
UP NAIRA, UP FOREIGN RESERVES!! You see now, Ha HA!! Better sell hoarded dollars now before 1$=N88 or 1$=N1.
Sir Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize for Literature winner in 1992, has died, 87 years old. Not one of Nigeria’s 38 Ministries of Education put his books in the brains of Nigeria’s students. They preferred ‘Core Subjects’. Indeed, does Nigeria put WS, Wole Soyinka Nobel@1986 in the heads of Nigeria’s youth? Shame! When WS passes on @110+, Governments which refused to buy his books will buy 100 cows@N300,000 each from Fulani herdsmen for a state burial.
Those who sit to judge on appointments must come unbiased. Is it just Magu or magomago or Ides of March vengeance? Smug Senate 2: Buhari/Magu/EFCC NIL: Anti-Corruption Fight NIL. Nigerians believe that NASS, with members under EFCC investigation, is not unbiased. Knowing Shakespeare ‘As I do’, he would have frowned at this abuse of a well-known Day in History. Or was it really Buhari being targeted for POLITICAL CHARACTER ASSASINATION? Can Magu act till 2019? If so, will NASSty NASS vengefully ’zero’ the EFCC 2017 budget as it did for SEC? Or should Buhari RETREAT and CHANGE CANDIDATE? Morally, the Senate appears not equipped to appoint the EFCC Chairman, and nor is the President if the anticorruption drive is to be unbiased. In fact, the EFCC job is too important to allow manipulation. THE EFCC CHAIR POSITION SHOULD BE COMPETITIVELY ADVERTISED AND QUALIFIED NIGERIAN CITIZENS SHOULD APPLY AND BE INTERVIEWED BY A PANEL OF Transparency NGOS REPRESENTATIVES AND ‘CLEAN’ NON-POLITICAL ELDER STATESPERSONS.
Hail Governor Ajimobi’s interest in using the 30-year-old example of Shonghai Farms as a template and stimulus for rapid advancement of Agriculture in the state. Nigeria, and Oyo State in particular, are also blessed with IITA, CRIN, FRIN, NISER, UI and these are underutilised to the disadvantage of the farmers and the State.
All hail CAF Membership for turning a routine Hayatou re-coronation event into a real election and ’CHANGE’. Today we have Ahmad Ahmad, alias Ahmad2 [squared] from Madagascar. That is change. Africa’s Football Associations should expect more transparency, less corruption and deliver to their citizens and youth more footballs. More leadership ‘Change’ please.
INEC brilliantly and wisely has announced the CAMPAIGN DIARY FOR ELECTIONS onFebruary 16 and March 2 2019, putting politicians and the electorate on notice for peace not war! INEC is not a Ministry of War. We must work with INEC come 2019 and may the honest man and woman win. Election campaigns and dates are not battles. Publish a 2-year diary for Civil Society and politicians to slot in their itinerary. This government, having slipped during a difficult 2 years, must hasten Nigeria’s development to leap in 24 months.
It is important that Nigerians inform all political parties and politicians in states that we will not allow a SHUT DOWN OF GOVERNANCE IN THE 6-9-12 MONTHS BEFORE THE ELECTIONS. The election is for FOUR YEARS OF SERVICES- not THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
So far ALL GOVERNMENTS HAVE FAILED TO FILL POTHOLES Nationwide –A SIMPLE SAFE, FAST, VISIBLE RESPONSIBLE WAY TO THE HEART of every Nigerian, every day, going to school, work or play. Fix potholes to fix lives and we will vote. Potholes cost lives! Have you noticed that Nigeria has 10 million potholes, spends billions on road safety services but no kobo on PREVENTION – CAUTIONARY ROAD SIGNS like ‘DANGER – POTHOLES-UNEVEN SURFACE 500metres’, signs? Apparently such signs, though life-saving, would embarrass a ‘sister agency’ the negligent Ministry of works. Recently among HUNDREDS OF POTHOLE DEATHS and INJURIES MONTHLY, was a Naval Officer. Road officials MUST put up danger signboards! If there was a N2, 000 sign, his vehicle would not have plunged into the river. PUT UP ROAD WARNING SIGNS AND MAKE ROADS MOTORABLE!
For a clean 2019 election, INEC and Government must CHANGE THE FUNDING OF POLITICS and IMMEDIATELY STOP CORRUPT money being stolen from budgets for political party purposes AND MONETISATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, within parties and in elections using The Electoral Reform Report of CJ Uwais.
NB: There are 5-15million youth aged 14-17 in 2015 becoming 18+ by Feb 2019, new first-time voters. THE YOUNG VOTER REQUIRES STRUCTURED ENLIGHTENED EMPOWERMENT FOR CONSTRUCTIVE ELECTION PARICIPATION.NNB: Nigeria must put forward a new generation of untainted ‘I LOVE NIGERIA’ KNOWLEDGEABLE CANDIDATES for 2019.
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Our Girls; Buhari; OBJ; Adebayo, Ogbemudia; CJN, Penalty
Our Girls are missing since April 15 2014. Pray.
We expect MAXIMUM COOPERATION between the Federal Government and all States, irrespective of party differences, after the development problems suffered by the ‘wrong party’ political excesses of the past. The people demand maximum development especially from same party at FG and State. True federalism would solve this problem.
Herdsmen are still on the rampage. Maybe they should all relocate to Aso Rock.
BBC: Elon Musk offered to fix Australia’s power problems in 100 days. Nigeria should invite him to fight Nigeria’s ‘Extractive Power Industry’. However thousands of generators and fuel for street lighting instead of solar suggest a very backward power sector unable to enter the 21stCentury. Thus our CINS- Corruption, Incompetence, Negligence and Selfishness keep NIGERIA AS PROBABLY THE DARKEST COUNTRY –and our governments have never expressed SHAME at this failure caused by their selfish DEMAND ‘TO POWER THE POWERFUL AT PUBLIC EXPENSE’ with generators and 365-day free fuel. Have we no shame in our LAST PLACE 4,000 Megawatts in a 1,000,000Mw Terawatt, world?
Meanwhile President x 2 Obasanjo@80 made 30 $billionaires according to $19billionaire Dangote, a tariff-waivered beneficiary. If only OBJ had made 30,000 $1millionaires or 3,000 $10millionaires.
Checkpoint bribery and smuggling must be stopped but Customs must be stopped from degrading, intimidating Tokunbo car drivers. Soldiers feel their uniform is superior to Customs uniform. Period!
Long Live our returned President! Pray that his health improves to allow him direct the battle against financial corruption and for the naira. He must examine the anti-corruption fight of his family and kitchen cabinet team to ensure their financial purity. His moral authority is vital. The enemy is strategising to delay ‘legally’ until elections.
The foreign reserves are now $30b and appreciate to $55-60billion by 2019. Government must commit $1.5b/month. This will give the naira the economic protection to recover in keeping with President Buhari’s solo nationalistic campaign to protect the naira to lift citizens out of poverty. Will the naira ever be N1:$1 as it was before monetary misfortune? That will wipe out the naira speculators. Let it be N150:1$ by 2019.
Nigerians must especially thank the Acting President for his honourable and steady-hand energetic promotion of peace, the policies of the Buhari Government and the implementation and initiation of projects. His unpolitical honesty assuaged troubled minds. Nigerians are appreciative that Professor Osinbajo is ‘a safe pair of hands’. Unbelieved by many, Nigeria is lucky to have Buhari/Osibajo team now. They, their wives and most aides are, hopefully, not stealing, thus saving up to 50% of the budget judging by past leadership antics.
The country may be saved by house cleaning MDAs and ‘UNIFORM EXTRACTIVE CORRUPTION INDUSTRY. Read the riot act to the ‘Uniforms’ IGP, Customs, FRSC and their Commissioners and actually suspending them if in one week surveys still identify ‘checkpoint’, police station ‘bail’, Port and Border corruption and ‘delayed files’. It is not nuclear physics-just EFFICIENCY AND HONESTY -the BUHARI EFFECT. Of course every situation has its Judases and power corrupts.
General Adeyinka Adebayo dies at 89; General Samuel Ogbemudia dies at 84. General Adebayo will be remembered for holding the Western Region together against the Biafrans at Ore. General Ogbemudia is the father of the now Lost ‘Golden Age’ of Edo State when Edo boys and girls excelled in education and structured sports. Unfortunately, Edo youth which were effectively emasculated by the introduction of JAMB and ‘Cut Off Points’ for university admissions, effectively eliminating many Edos from university and Edo girls sadly found themselves insalubrious work in Nigeria and Italy.
Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, our New Chief Justice, must deliver speedy just justice and punish corruption appropriately. INEC officials are being punished, and hopefully dismissed and prosecuted for BBB- BRIBERY, BRINGING THE ELECTION INTO DISREPUTE AND BREACH OF CONTRACT WITH NIGERIA. The sentencing of policemen to death over the ‘EXTRAJUDICIAL’ killing of 2 out of 6 is just that ’2/6’, a police, prosecution and judicial ‘failure to find’ the killers of the other 4. Are they among the accused being freed for ‘lack of evidence or diligent prosecution’?
These events and the 5-year jailing of a Governor for corruption are signposts to stopping HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES BY AUTHORITIES and success of the ANTI-CORRUPTION DRIVE. I do not agree with the death penalty on humanitarian grounds, though I waver at the callous criminality, especially of uniformed personnel. However, jail sentences for corruption and ‘executive criminality and impunity’ must be increased PROPORTIONAL TO THE ENORMITY OF THE CRIMES and amounts stolen and pre-designed to encourage corrupt persons. This encourages crimes.
Nigerians must learn that every naira stolen is death, deprivation or under-development of a child or her mother at home or in school. Prison terms must be applied equally to rich and poor. A person stealing a goat must not be sentenced to 7 years while someone who steals N70m gets a tiny fine or a tiny jail term. Using N15,000 minimum wage/month or N180,000/annum, let the judiciary benchmark – CITIZENS DEPRIVATION INDEX- how many citizens were deprived of Minimum Wage by this theft – NAIRA STOLEN DIVIDED BY MINIMUM WAGE PER ANNUM = NUMBER OF YEARS IN JAIL. Corrupt persons must be jailed for one year for every N180, 000. This is 10 years jail for stealing N1.8m.
NB: Nigeria must expose 25-50-year-old ‘I LOVE NIGERIA’ KNOWLEDGEABLE CANDIDATES for public scrutiny for 2018 primaries. -
Our Girls; No burning tyres; Nigeria’s Anti-Apartheid History for Nollywood
Our Girls are missing since April 15 2014. Pray.
Is it true that the APC leadership has asked APC ‘governors’ for funds to run the party? Have we not ‘change’-d? If the money is to be corruptly EXTRACTED FROM STATE as a percent of BUDGETED FUNDS and CONTRACTS, it is a breach of the SEPARATION OF GOVERNMENT BUDGET FROM PARTY FUNDING – an essential anticorruption step! Nigeria needs a ‘change’ ‘RETREAT ON ETHICAL AND ECONOMIC ELECTIONS : INDIVIDUAL AND POLITICAL PARTY FUNDING, AND CUTTING COSTS OF ELECTIONS IN 2019’ led by INEC, Transparency International, EFCC and ICPC. To get honest elections Nigeria has just 2 years to move ‘away from stealing IN ORDER to fill MULTIBILLION NAIRA WAR CHESTS for ELECTIONS AND PARTY FUNDING. Nigeria cannot survive MORE POLITICAL THEFT FROM THE BUDGET! Politics and elections will only get CHEAPER if STATE MONEY IS NOT AVAILABLE to be DIVERTED.
THE GLO ADVERT involving a MAN WIELDING A KNIFE against another is disgracefully insensitive, dangerous, mimicking real historic death situations and must be withdrawn. It is no joke! Withdraw it!
So the N7-8,000,000,000 ‘loving donation funded’ Obasanjo Presidential Library, largest worldwide [?], is here. It is a SUPERSTRUCTURE. Past Presidents and Governments cannot be absolved of paradoxical criminal failure to build INFRASTRUCTURE like SCHOOL LIBRARIES UPDATED BY ANNUAL BOOK PURCHASE GRANTS in Nigeria’s educational desert of library-less 80,000 schools which BEGGED THESE SAME PRESIDENTS DURING OFFICE for just N100,000 each x 80,000 = N8,000,000,000 for 100-200 books/school!
FG must instruct Customs to ‘change’, and also not burn, the N2bn of seized ‘substandard’ tyres. Are they a ‘failed deal’ like the past Customs boss with 46 exotic cars – a ‘Custom’ for Customs Chiefs?? The toxic smoke choking the environment from vulcanisers and rioters tyre-burning should encourage the FG/NASS to BAN TYRE-BURNING. Challenge universities and polytechnics to RECYCLE with ALTERNATIVE TYRE USES as competitive entrepreneur projects in Arts, Culture Technology, Science -ACTS. Imagine a 100-feet crazy artwork in 40 universities.
Yes by all means NASS should take away the much abused and multibillion dollar Presidential POWER TO ALLOCATE NIGERIA’S FEW MULTIBILLION NAIRA OIL BLOCKS often allocated after tearful begging without even a 20-25% to the local community. But what right, apart from a proclivity to acquire wealth and hyper-pensions, does NASS claim to undertake leadership in this? Learning from history OIL BLOCKS should be out of bounds to citizens with the Presidency and NASS together allowed to ONLY LEASE FOR 5-10 YEARS TO COMMUNITIES OR ALLOTTEES OR PAYING 10-20-100% TO A SPECIALLY CREATED LOCAL COMMUNITY SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND.
Moved by the evil of apartheid, found by Mandela to be less evil than Nigeria’s political governments, I wrote a story published by SPECTRUM BOOKS IN 1986ish called DEADLY CARGO -the story of the South African Apartheid Government attempt to blow up Lagos Apapa Port with a bomb in a ship and how the attempt was foiled by Nigerians.
Now, we protest XENOPHOBIA OF SOUTH AFRICANS. Nigerians have a modified xenophobia at home! But the Federal Government, NASS and the press hardly protest or provide compensation when 20 or 300 farmers are killed and houses are razed!!! Is it ‘okay’ to kill each other but no foreigners must kill us OOOOO?
But we mistakenly blame the Xenophobia on South Africa’s lack of history. We think they should have learnt of their ‘debt’ to Nigeria and ‘respect Nigerians’ for Nigeria’s multifaceted role as safe-haven for hunted activists, sponsored-by-Nigeria unpaying school and university students, funder of the ANC and an armed, aggressive bastion against apartheid in their anti-apartheid protest at the UN and OAU. Who cares today? It is a new post-apartheid generation of South Africans born in the last 30-35 years – without history. The new post-apartheid generation of Nigerians struggling for survival abroad because we have forced them to flee Nigeria is equally ignorant of history. Maybe they should visit Obasanjo’s Presidential Library? Foolishly Nigeria has erected no monument or museum for youth to study the Nigerian Anti-Apartheid struggle. So the South Africans are ignorant simply because Nigeria or no-one has gotten media attention about Nigeria’s role.
Colonial countries were made into nations by doctored historical documentation. Unfortunately, Nigeria buried its history in the Congo, elsewhere and ECOMOG in West Africa where 3,000 to 12,000 Nigerian soldiers died, remembered only by their families. Where is the DOCUMENTARY ‘NIGERIA: FRONTLINE STATE AGAINST APARTHEID’? We watch Nollywood historical films like ‘76’ and ‘93 Days’, the story of Dr Adadevoh, Dr Oheiri and other medical colleagues’ heroism against Ebola in Lagos. Who has funded or produced a Nollywood film or interviewed the aging participants in Nigeria, the UN and South Africa about the diary of events, travel routes, diplomatic manoeuvring, spy tactics, dangers and deaths? Who has accessed the Apartheid South Africa Government’s covert ‘Nigeria counterterrorism’ files? Thandi and then to-be President Mbeki were among South Africans passing through Ibadan meeting Mr Ogie Alakija, Dr R Zard and late Mr ED Alalade–ask them. Interview them. This should be the next Nollywood blockbuster!!
We must not allow all Nigerians to be mislabelled as criminals but must not criminalise all South Africa which incidentally has 45,000Mw from their evil apartheid Government while we struggle with 2-4,000Mw from our Past RUBBISH CRIMINAL GOVERNMENTS!
NB: Identify and expose ‘I LOVE NIGERIA’ KNOWLEDGEABLE CANDIDATES for the next election. -
Our Girls; A. Mohammed; Airports; Africa’s Suicidal Armada
Our Girls are still missing since April 15th 2014.
The barbaric cutting off of the hand of an INEC official and kidnap of others must lead to political parties members and their parties being punished. Violence and death are not features of civilised elections. Ensuring peace is the sole responsibility of security agents, not INEC, the people’s umpire agency. INEC is innocent!
Watch James Bond’s 007 ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ to help understand Trump’s need to manipulate the press!
Congratulations again, Mrs Amina Mohammed@SDGUN. Today UN Deputy Secretary General, tomorrow UNSG?
The National Council of State should postpone receiving new cars. Most businesses spend enough on fuel to buy a new car annually – the GENERATOR GENERATION. National Assembly (NASS) should ‘change’ the constitution and close one House, the Senate, for two years and introduce part-time 180 days sitting with allowances. NASS should be sacrifice not a gold mine! Nigerian politicians must be paid by home states. Nigerians are sick of what appear like fake constitutional projects and NASS members’ fake ‘petty media-hyped empowerment scams, I mean schemes’. Contrast NASS ‘legal’ personal enrichment with ‘Fellow Nigerian’ poverty – and vomit! How do NASS members sleep?
President Buhari is in our prayers. Acting President Osinbajo visiting the MM International Airport Lagos promised FRIENDLY AIRPORTS, perhaps recalling pre-VIP Room nightmare traffic and NOT FIT-FOR-PURPOSE DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL RAMPS and the ‘Entrepreneurial’ BLACK-MARKET BUSINESS IN PARKING. In January, I spent 1 ½ hours in stationary traffic within sight of the MMIAirport building. With my luggage, I walked past 1km of traffic jam, the checkpoint and up the departure ramp. Flying should be a pleasure not a nightmare. Just like the expressway, this is an UNACCEPTABLE NATIONAL PASSENGER GRIDLOCK and a FAAN-tolerated lucrative million naira+ ‘Airport parking black-market’ run by uniforms. Our international airports are a NATIONAL NIGERIAN DISGRACE correctable by our ignored but brilliant engineers and architects. The airports testify to our political ineptitude beyond just CORRUPTION. They signify a GOVERNMENT AGENCY CONSPIRACY or PROFESSIONAL AND POLITICAL INCOMPETENCE OF MONUMENTAL PROPORTIONS –Nigeria is an international aviation joke! A Nigerian owns Gatwick. Ask him for advice.
Must Nigerians come to the airport with N25-50,000 cash in case their vehicles are towed!!! Remember the old car parks in front of the airport and underground? Nigeria requires A NEW INDEPENDENT OMBUDSMAN COMMITTEE OF TRASPORT EXPERTS, ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS AND FREQUENT FLYERS- THE VICTIMS OF FUNNY FAAN REGULATIONS. Have FAAN insiders fed too fat, like NNPC? Airport officials embarrass Nigeria by EXCESSIVE ‘SEASON’S GREETINGS’ as if expecting a gift. They need ‘Change’ and national pride. There are NEAR-ZERO SEATING for thousands. The MMAI airport is an ‘AIRPORT EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY’ and for early morning arriving passengers ‘just before dawn’-[appreciation to Kole Omotoso] is an insult to paying passengers with no seats. Why do some uniform checkpoints specialise in fleecing passengers. An excursion to Lagos Airport was a children’s treat in the 1960s. Retrogression! As usual in Nigeria we upgrade VIP sections and toilets for political and executive bottoms, ignoring the legitimate needs of Fellow Nigerians who are 50 years overdue for the ‘Nigerian Dream’ development upgrade by a LEADERSHIP THAT LOVES NIGERIA which is blessed by God with weather and resources. Until now Nigeria has lacked the TRUELY THOUGHTFUL AND NIGERIAN ‘ACTION’ LEADERSHIP to propel a Development Agenda into the 21st Century dedicated to KEEPING CORRUPTION BELOW TEN PERCENT –THE MAXIMUM CORRUPTION THRESHOLD FOR ANY COUNTRY TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY. Has ‘our time come’ under this current government.
A ‘FILL 10MILLION POTHOLES’ OPERATION to ELIMINATE POTHOLES to ease travel woes of 100million travellers by employing 10,000 pothole fillers [like PWD of old], is cheaper than re-building an airport for one million passengers. Of course, a good purposeful leadership will do both together, exemplified we pray, by this government.
Dead bodies of 87 Africans, the unnamed ‘undead’ to hopeful families, are among 50,000+ dead to the eternal damnation and disgrace of Africa’s leaders, who have THEIR BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS, while corruptly depositing the development future of Africa’s 21st Century generations in cesspools, banks, fridges and even Fortress Europe and in corporations to ‘steal’ perpetually. We often hear placations like – ‘He/she, stole our money but invested it in companies employing our people’. Can corruption ever lead to development? How much of THOSE FAILED AFRICAN LEADERS’ stolen money is in lost ‘fixed’ deposits and forgotten safe houses? MUMU!! Failure to develop their countries has led Africa to witness the GREAT SUICIDAL ARMADA Of AFRICANS SAILING FOR SURVIVAL, and death, ACROSS THE SAHARA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA to breach Fortress Europe. This was an invasion preventable by development. The ARMADA OF DEATH is not in old great ships but in pirate-run little leaky boats UNFIT FOR PURPOSE leading to Africa’s youth drowning just like in ‘good-old’ slavery times, as a reward for a $3,000 suicide boat seat without even a lifejacket made of empty plastic bottles. Development will make Africans stay home. Nobody flees to Africa until perhaps a new Ice Age Cometh and winter freeze Europe and North America.
NASS should reconsider suspending daily proceedings when one unfortunate member dies. A costly custom considering that NASS scarcely offers ONE MOMENT, NOT UP TO ONE MINUTE, OF SILENCE WHEN Nigeria suffers multiple deaths of non NASS members. Does the crocodile have tears?
NB: Whistle-blow corruption. Expose to the public ‘I LOVE NIGERIA’ KNOWLEDGEABLE CANDIDATES for coming elections.
NNB: Nigerian journalists search bbc.com/KomlaDumor by 15/3/2017 for Komla Dumor Award. www.tonymarinho.com -
Our Girls; IDPs jobs; PMB silence; UBN– Grassroots CSR?
Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. The terrible figures 100,000+ dead and 3-5million IDPs, many migrated across Nigeria, show the enormous emotional, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, P-TSS and economic cost of Boko Haram and its evil ‘sister’ proxy wars –Fulani herdsman-farmers and Southern Kaduna wars. According to UN, $1,000,000,000+ $1+billion is required for developmental recovery. It must guarantee ‘maximum local human IDP content’ and not use out-of-state contractors. NGOs like Red Cross must recruit local staff. Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp feeding must be monetised for family empowerment to buy from IDP-run shops and IDPs must earn salaries working in camps, for morale, morals and money to grow IDP families and the local economy. National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)’s method of dumping/distributing blankets and buckets in an IDP camp turns IDPs into beggars. IDPs must get recovery jobs. Qualified and trainable IDPs must be recruited, trained and employed. This dictum ‘THIS PROJECT MUST EMPOWER, EMPLOY, DIGNIFY IDPs’ must be for IDP unskilled, highly skilled and board room members. Beware of greedy elders and traditional rulers. Capacity building requires an IDP ‘SKILLS/DESIRED JOB AND LOCATION CENSUS’ and ‘What would YOU like to do/train as?’ Projected project job needs must be researched and publicised for IDPs to develop needed skills to avoid recruiting out-of-state ‘Fellow Nigerians’.
Also an EFCC/ICPC driven ANTICORRUPTION MECHANISM must be set up NOW to prevent and detect over-invoicing, theft and ‘UNFULFILLED FAKE CONTRACTS’ -check NDDC. Note that the plight of IDPs is replicated ‘under every bridge’ nationwide.
Desmond Nunugwo’s death in EFCC’s custody requires NHRC investigation as no one should die in custody from disease, medical, fear or violence.
Nigeria’s ‘Presidential Silence’ was ill-advised and has cost Nigeria dear. The emotional cost to 150m citizens bombarded with fake ‘death-wish’ rumours was preventable. Many Nigerians stand with Buhari, though he is slow, and Nigeria’s stolen money is trickling back in billions. The financial cost of forex £5,000-50,000/head for those visiting London as an ‘Emergency Destination’, costing ‘Official Duty’ flight ticket, ESTACODE, hotels and Oxford Street visits was preventable. The cost of media, ‘How is Buhari?’ and ‘1+billion ‘comments’, were preventable. Our Presidential Silence has not been ‘Golden’ but has cost Nigeria ‘gold’, millions. Pray he lives to fight more. Www=‘A Word is Wisdom from the Wise’.
National Assembly (NASS) should stop insulting Nigerians invited before them. Instruct MDAs on what documents it requires in this budget defence round. Public hearings are vital, but public disgrace is not. NASS’s record gives it no moral right, authority or immunity to castigate officials when its own N125b budget and stupendous SAPP, Salaries and Perks and Pensions are sequestered in deep secrecy and the stench of corrupt lingers and ‘hyper-pensions’ nauseate us. The 20+ senior staff of any MDA report to NASS and with, 100 observers, the meetings cost Nigeria millions. Stop wasting Nigeria’s time and money and agree on the vetting formula and documents. Genuine issues are welcome but civility should prevail and not a rant by NASS-ty committee chairmen. Thank God Pay-Before- Budget-Approval is not possible as all the money is in TSA- HaHa! Valentine was dry this year, abi??? No NASS member should PPP -PRACTICE POLITICAL PROSTITUTION by demanding or receiving a Yakubu-like ‘Unsolicited Valentine Gift’ or a ‘Show Me Your Love’ Valentine card stuffed with money ‘under-the-cap’ ‘currency’ or GMGs, Ghana Must Go bags to guarantee ‘rancour-free budget approval’. NASS committees, treat Nigeria’s children’s parents with the respect, dignity and decorum you demand for your election to NASS by whatever means you and your God and whistle-blowers know. SERVICON says it is a human right not to be insulted in the workplace. As a doctor I can tell you, having dissected and operated on thousands of Fellow Nigerian and foreign bodies, political and pauper, that your body and your brain are no different from the kobo-less beggar and her starving children begging around traffic lights nationwide and in your village regardless of your government bought A5 AAAAA- ATTIRE, APPELLATION, ABODE, ACCOUNTS and ARMOURED/ARMOUR-LESS JEEP and All other Perks. As leaders of ‘NIGERIA’S POLITICAL EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY’, NASS should take the ‘LIKE/INDIFFERENT/HATE TEMPERATURE’ of Nigerians and try to reverse the sickening hurt it inflicts when its members pontificate on their ‘sacrifice’ on NTA, if Nigerians are fortunate enough to have electricity to waste watching NASS in their perpetually dark country. Pray for Buhari, pray and shout for a ‘Changed NASS’.
Union Bank@100 is good. Nigeria’s Private Sector ‘funders’ of CSR, used to ‘HQ CSR’ should count the 100 year missed opportunity to constructively, systematically and collectively transform Nigeria’s baseline – grassroots schools near their individual customer base, branches, distributorships and kiosks. Imagine the contribution to youth education of 10,000 Union Bank 100 Book School Libraries, 500,000 Zenith Bank Football, 100 MTN Science Centres, one Ecobank Aquarium, 1,000 Unilever Boy Scouts Excursion and a P&G Girl Guides Annual Camp. Need I say more?
Tayo Aluko’s stage portrayal of first generation lawyer, British Judge Tunji Sowande, was recognised by BBC, Focus on Africa. Use Google to teach your children about Africans in the UK from slaves, Paul Robson, the West African Students Union, Crown Agents, the African clubs and the West African Route ships Elder Dempster Line MV Apapa, Accra, and Aureole.
NB: Whistle-blow corruption and identify and expose to the public ‘I LOVE NIGERIA’ KNOWLEDGEABLE CANDIDATES for coming elections.
NNB: Nigerian journalists search bbc.com/KomlaDumor to compete for Komla Dumor Award closing 15/3/2017.blog- www.tonymarinho.com