superior1:

Insult you ke?, ema binu sir . Serious, no offence meant

Ati forinjin yin

This article is a must read for all most especially the political office holders.I must give kudos to Bob Dee for a job welldone.Sanusi really needs to be called to order before he goes astray.Most of the policies SLS introduced are ill-timed and when introduced not well managed.The lackadassical attitude of the sitting president has not really help him.He capitalised on the weakness of GEJ to executes his own agenda.

Welder: @Jarus,
Mightily disappointed in your conducts/utterances so far. Anyways, since you are so close to SLS; pray ask him about the authenticity of his involvement in the killing of Gideon Akaluka and his subsequent detention in some Sokoto prison.
Please revert with your findings.
Many thanks

Just another fabrication from Eghes Eyieyen. When I took Eghes(the guy that accused, without any evidence,SLS of involvement in Akaluka saga) on on it, he unfriended and blocked me from his FB wall. Very intolerant.

SLS had brush with Abacha, but it was due to his outspoken nature against him. SLS was part of Radio Kudirat, the guerilla radio fighting Abacha that time. Not in any way related to Akaluka.

Reading through Dele Momodu's piece, I couldn't but make the following conclusions:
1. From, the title through to the last letter of the said piece, his mission was to slime Sanusi.
2. If this were not so, why did he not counter sanusi's economic policies with well thought thru and researched alternatives?
3. Is this not the same Dele Momodu who has in the past (even until now?) publicly identified with and even celebrated figures who have sucessfully molested the Nigerian state, her people and her treasury?
4. Even if I take Momodu's piece at its face value. SLS is a bully. OK. So what?
5. He also accused Sanusi of having a Presidential ambition. An absolutely unsubstantiated and irrelevant point unworthy of mention.

As for Oga Jarus.

1.You mentioned in the sixth paragraph of your piece, 'The currency redenomination proposal for all it's benefits......' Please note that sanusi's aborted introduction of the 5,000 single not is not redenomination of our currency as you put it.
2. How sure are you that if sanusi were to contest the Presidential elections, he would poll hundred times the figure dele polled at the last elections? That's mere speculation. He may and he mayn't.
3. I agree with you that Sanusi has recorded some remarkable achievements since he assumed office. worthy of note was his sacking of the 8 corrupt former bank CEOs. Corruption is the public enemy number one of the Nigerian state. The earlier we all realised that the better for us all.

fork adict: Reading through Dele Momodu's piece, I couldn't but make the following conclusions:
1. From, the title through to the last letter of the said piece, his mission was to slime Sanusi.
2. If this were not so, why did he not counter sanusi's economic policies with well thought thru and researched alternatives?
3. Is this not the same Dele Momodu who has in the past (even until now?) publicly identified with and even celebrated figures who have sucessfully molested the Nigerian state, her people and her treasury?
4. Even if I take Momodu's piece at its face value. SLS is a bully. OK. So what?
5. He also accused Sanusi of having a Presidential ambition. An absolutely unsubstantiated and irrelevant point unworthy of mention.

As for Oga Jarus.

1.You mentioned in the sixth paragraph of your piece, 'The currency redenomination proposal for all it's benefits......' Please note that sanusi's aborted introduction of the 5,000 single not is not redenomination of our currency as you put it.
2. How sure are you that if sanusi were to contest the Presidential elections, he would poll hundred times the figure dele polled at the last elections? That's mere speculation. He may and he mayn't.
3. I agree with you that Sanusi has recorded some remarkable achievements since he assumed office. worthy of note was his sacking of the 8 corrupt former bank CEOs. Corruption is the public enemy number one of the Nigerian state. The earlier we all realised that the better for us all.

Balanced and objective. No be only 'fork' you sabi

This is surely one of the most intelligent posts I've read on NL!

Jarus:
There are economists that 'know better than me' that also supported it anyway. Ayo Teriba, Basil Emegwara etc

Well, you can see I ignored all your comments on 'attention seeking'. I don't need your attention actually, I get attention where it matters and from people that matter, not from nonentities.

WELL YOU CAN SEE I IGNORED ALL YOUR COMMENTS ON "ATTENTION SEEKING"
You really did!

I hope some people will not burst veins on the personae of SLS. The man is not a saint and is not perfect-no one is. He has his shortcomings. So has everyone else. But let's not forget that he rescued the banking industry and the economy from the hands of a privileged, unscrupulous few who were doing unimaginable things with depositors' money with impunity. And we really should learn to de-emphasize personalities and concentrate on institutions.

MAYOWAAK:
Moreover, his incompetence, profligacy (he now wants CBN to be sponsoring the Super Eagles!! LOL!!)

How does the CBN sponsorship of the Super Eagles profligacy? Is the Super Eagles not that of Nigeria?

Or are you refering to the Super Eagles of another country.

But the NNPC sponsors Nigeria's National Teams and even sponsors the live telecast of their matches. So, what's wrong in the CBN sponsoring the Super Eagles?

From all what you have said, it is this that caught my fancy, and you know what? It rubbishes every other thing, as far as I'm concerned

fork adict: Reading through Dele Momodu's piece, I couldn't but make the following conclusions:
1. From, the title through to the last letter of the said piece, his mission was to slime Sanusi.
2. If this were not so, why did he not counter sanusi's economic policies with well thought thru and researched alternatives?
3. Is this not the same Dele Momodu who has in the past (even until now?) publicly identified with and even celebrated figures who have sucessfully molested the Nigerian state, her people and her treasury?
4. Even if I take Momodu's piece at its face value. SLS is a bully. OK. So what?
5. He also accused Sanusi of having a Presidential ambition. An absolutely unsubstantiated and irrelevant point unworthy of mention.

As for Oga Jarus.

1.You mentioned in the sixth paragraph of your piece, 'The currency redenomination proposal for all it's benefits......' Please note that sanusi's aborted introduction of the 5,000 single not is not redenomination of our currency as you put it.
2. How sure are you that if sanusi were to contest the Presidential elections, he would poll hundred times the figure dele polled at the last elections? That's mere speculation. He may and he mayn't.
3. I agree with you that Sanusi has recorded some remarkable achievements since he assumed office. worthy of note was his sacking of the 8 corrupt former bank CEOs. Corruption is the public enemy number one of the Nigerian state. The earlier we all realised that the better for us all.

You make sense

sojjy: This article is a must read for all most especially the political office holders.I must give kudos to Bob Dee for a job welldone.Sanusi really needs to be called to order before he goes astray.Most of the policies SLS introduced are ill-timed and when introduced not well managed.The lackadassical attitude of the sitting president has not really help him.He capitalised on the weakness of GEJ to executes his own agenda.

This one don miss road. Bod Dee Ass Licker. Can not think on his own

Jarus, good article. Dele Momodu is surely a clown.

Nigerians won't know a good leader even if it hits them in the face. It is obvious SLS has no presidential ambitions otherwise he won't be introducing unpopular policies. He is not dumb.

It is also obvious El Rufai has no presidential ambitions in 2015 otherwise he won't be on twitter levying all sorts of unpresidential criticisms.

But, to the impartial observers, these two will do a much better job that 99.9% of our current politicians.

I see SLS and his 5000 naira issue as " a manager who said members of his his staff are spending too much on fueling their Toyota corolla official cars and went forward to introduce the use of V8 engine for official cars".

He came out to preach CASHLESS ECONOMY - remove too much money from circulation - and goes home to print higher denomination of currency.

Na waooo!

who sincerely read that long epistle??

This Space is for sale Joor

Aha, Finally a deadbeat 'no-good' has risen to the defense of the 'good-will'wasting 'Baba' the poetic father of the degenerate thieves in our father land. l've always known someone would be paid as a hireling to do this job and l was never mistaken as to who the said hireling was going to be. Cheers Dele Momodu.

MAYOWAAK: President Jonathan Should Sack Sanusi Now! By Eghes Eyieyien

After reading Dele Momodu's article which he aptly titled " The Bully Called Sanusi" published in his back page column in the Saturday, 22nd September, 2012, edition of Thisday newspaper, the urgency to sack Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the CBN Governor dawned on me.

Sanusi has outlived his usefulness in that hallowed office! His arrogance, infantile flippancy, ineptitude and incompetence should no longer be countenanced. Why he has stayed in office this long despite his folly and foibles is a mystery.

/\ /\ /\ /\
There is nothing Mysterious about the Man! He is seriously 'Jazzed Up" by his Marabouts and Mr GOODLuck's Spiritual Barometer is weak to Subdue the man's Influence. No wonder dem no respect GEJ At aLL. Im think say na just to dey open teeth smile for Govt House. As the Man[SLS] Jam a Higher Rock in the Person of OBASANJO....see as im juju wey im take cover GOODLUCK just dey tear to shreds!!!!

very gr8 article, although somewhat vengeful..
*Maj007* i must commend you also, i admire your personality, a good example of what is called a good MUSLIM

By Godwin Okpene Right-Of-Reply: Whose Bully is Dele Momodu?


Usually for me, the surest way to avoid reading a sad piece of writing or watch a poor quality film is to not start because then, I carry on reading or watching, hoping to find something at some point to justify the initial investment in time and mental resources. Most times, I am unlucky, but a few times, I chance upon pay dirt, and these rarities produce the incentives to try my luck the next time. It turns out that my latest experience belonged to the first category of totally worthless efforts, and my tormentor this time was Dele Momodu’s very depressing piece of fiction on Sanusi Lamido Sanusi on the back page of the September 22nd edition of ThisDay newspapers. But, in this case, the sense of worthlessness went even more depressingly beyond the value of my time and efforts in reading a piece, to the pain that I felt from the gratuitous insults Momodu heaped on hapless Nigerians like me, whose only sin at the time of Sanusi’s reforms was that we were honestly praising God for intervening in the banking sector to secure the assets of those who toil day and night to have enough to put something away for when we would really need the inevitable shield against the rain.


For feeling the way I did, Mr Momodu practically diagnosed people like me of suffering from a disease called dementia. But he also had more degrading characterisation: He called us “frogs”, that we are “confused” about our choices, and that Nigerians are all products of “acute psychological impairment”. Except Dele Momodu. I will surely come back to this, but I must first finish what I was saying about the quality of Momodu’s article.


It wasn’t just that it was so glaringly beneath the quality he is known for, so transparently shambolic – almost like a piece rushed to press for no other reason than to achieve a deadline imposed by the usual pressure for dialogical currency. It was more than the glaring and totally avoidable literary errors. It was entirely lacking in essence and meaningful content. The article was one half a history of presidential succession in Nigeria, and another half from Wikipedia. By the end of the article, it was a surprise that there was a nonfictional reference to current issues and the Central Bank governor. Even where he managed to extricate the topic from its multiple tangents, his account of the most recent history was way, way off the mark: That Sanusi took advantage of a purported “weakness of the Jonathan administration”? I was confused because he had also mentioned in the article that he “warned many Nigerians jumping up like frogs” about Sanusi in August 2009. Is he talking about the same president before August 2009? And, was the insult to Nigerians necessary?


Now, I do not have to speak for Sanusi, as I believe that the CBN governor can find enough reason, if he has the time, to respond to the writer. But the logical inconsistencies, such as the one I pointed out above, ran all through so much of the ‘analysis’ that it would be totally uncharitable to not let him see how much work he still needs to do. Besides, if you need to hang a man, should you rather not hang him fairly?


As it is, Dele Momodu did not seem to be able to make up his mind about the character of the man he claimed that he knew so well to have warned all of us about back in 2009. Was (is) Mr Sanusi a man who “lacked the tolerance to persuade others” and “bullied everybody into submission” or is he a “charming man” who “attracts attention effortlessly”? Which one is it, Mr Momodu? According to the columnist, Sanusi “could almost raise the dead” but then, according to Momodu again, that “was his major weakness”. He left me even more confused about the character of Mr Sanusi’s ‘enemies’. To be sure, are they the same people he referred to as “rogue bankers” and “a few rats” or are they his beloved “brilliant bankers” and “innocent people”? I am also wondering how Dele Momodu determined the ideal character profile of a profession he probably never tried to sign up to; where he borrowed the line that the banking profession “was traditionally reserved for taciturn and conservative characters”. The result of whose research? Wikipedia’s, again? So what character trait might Dele Momodu prescribe for bankers in Nigeria and everywhere else? That of reckless individuals who think nothing of the potential disaster their risky behaviour was preparing for all of us? Those who gave practical expression to Schuermann’s point about the privatisation of bankers’ profits but the socialisation of their losses? That we should all be sitting ducks, watching these people engage in practices that would inevitably bring the roof down on all of us?


I know I started out complaining about the quality of Mr Momodu’s article, but then I must stick to the issues and their underlying logic, even if the columnist would not do the same. He would have done more to explain Sanusi’s “vengeful mission” against his “enemies”. Yes, because the implication here is that these are people who had caused him grave personal injury before he became governor. If not this, then what was Mr Sanusi’s “real intentions”?


He also made reference to Sanusi’s “unbridled radicalism” side by side with “his academic brilliance”. While, again, I believe that Sanusi’s has the intellectual capacity (as admitted by Momodu himself) to constructively address such charge, and while I believe that the man has his faults (who doesn’t?) I think I would pitch for a radical with a mind to challenge the old order than a wimp who people like Momodu would not hesitate to turn into an object of eternal ridicule.


I am temped however, to excuse Dele Momodu’s ‘treatise’ as little more than a hasty piece of literature which, inevitably, cannot stand the test of literary scrutiny. For instance (and this is purely a matter between Momodu and Wikipedia), he observed that “bullies always have their terminal dates because, according to Wikipedia, a bully is” a bully. (i.e., “constant harasser of the weak”). Since I failed to see the logic in the inference, I decided to consult the source, from where the columnist lifted his assertions. I traced the definition (in parenthesis) to the only paragraph of the article, which simply established the etymology of the term. There was no such inference, “according to Wikipedia”, in the online article. So, it turns out, Mr Momodu’s inference is neither consistent with the structure of commonsensical validity nor of attributional regularity. It is obvious therefore that this was just a model in the literature desperately seeking personification in Momodu’s real world.


And, alas, such desperation shone even brighter, when Momodu attempted fruitlessly to make capital out of what I considered at the time, no more than a light-hearted reference by Sanusi to former President Obansanjo’s position on the CBN’s currency restructuring proposal. Pray, when did Dele Momodu develop any kind of respect for Baba? And when he unnecessarily brought up a certain presidential ambition of Sanusi (I hear this for the first time, but believe nevertheless that a banker has as much right to such aspirations as a columnist), I was left to wonder what was the point of this in the bully story? To entertain? To further “mesmerise” the same Nigerians he described as “hypnotised”?


Frankly, for all my frustration with having to endure the article, it would have been reasonably rewarding for me to isolate a single topical issue to reflect on, and maybe use as an object of my humble contribution – like the subject of central bank autonomy. Yes, it was mentioned, but again, the author chose to personalise the issues rather than elevate the discourse. It would have been interesting, for instance to hear what the writer thinks about the fact that, over the last two decades, more and more countries in the developed and developing world have created more autonomous central bank; I would have loved to read his perspective on research results which have shown that foreign investment has tended towards jurisdictions with institutionally guaranteed price stability; that autonomous central banks serve as a veritable insurance against the negative incentives of ‘the political business cycle’. But, no, the former presidential aspirant would rather reproduce what Wikipedia says about bullies than address economic policy.


If he reflects more seriously on it, even Mr Momodu himself would agree that he would have made his point more constructively by sticking to the issues and avoiding the insults. Describing us as “a neurotic society and vindictive population”? For me, it was demeaning, and a brazen show of ingratitude to the same Nigerians who religiously ‘file into the gallery’ every week to ‘listen’ to him abuse, harass and terrorise people who cannot afford the time, forum or are too scared to abuse him back.


If the columnist has any regard for the millions of Nigerians in his article, if he is not the bully he so self-righteously see in others, he would use his next column to apologise to everybody, including the 26,000 or so that lined up in the sun (rain) to vote for him last year.

bittyend: The Op-ed (WTF is OP-ED?? its either an opinion or editorial shortened OP-ED by most newspapers) by the Dele Momodu guy (guy??) raised many points that need to be discussed. The rebuttal by the other Mallam(Jarus) is ridden (riddled) with personal attacks, grammatical errors, and poor grammatical structure. I don't know why most Nigerians don't proof-read (proofread - no hyphen)the articles they post in cyberspace. But hey, it's Nigeria and English isn't our first language; perhaps, that's why most articles on (in, not on - its not about Nigerian newspapers) Nigerian Newspapers are not appealing to the average English speaker.

I would think the practice of 'proofreading ones article before posting in cyberspace' should start with those giving the timely advice, don't you think?


@topic,

Jarus: http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/opinion/48092--momodu-abuse-of-columnism


Momodu: Abuse of columnism



Written by Suraj Oyewale Tuesday, 25 September 2012

I can’t stand men that don’t stand for anything and will easily fall for anything.

The popularisation of the Social Media has given rise to a number of emergency activists in recent time. From Facebook to twitter, these pretenders are there, taking advantage of the public mood, pretending to be on the side of the masses. If Dino ‘Mike Tyson’ Melaye thought we had forgotten how he was captured on live TV shamelessly punching a woman co-member of the lower chamber just two years ago, then we can forgive Femi Fani-Kayode for suddenly finding his voice as a freelance activist. After all, it’s been more than five years that he has lost his national relevance and eagerly needs attention again. Malam Nasir el-Rufai, even if ahead of these fellows in terms of performance while in office, also needs to watch his twitter activities as his needless attacks on the current administration is becoming boring and worn out, and even in unmoderated cyberspace, decency calls for moderation.

But while the above mentioned emergency activists’ activities are more on the social media, Momodu, in addition to his thoughtless twitter postings, also has a formal medium, his Saturday column in Thisday, to himself to lecture us on governance and people. Until recently, Momodu hardly wrote on politics. His turf is entertainment and I have no business with that – that is his choice. Week in, week out, if Momodu is not praising Ghana, he is entertaining us with how he sat in the fourth row in Michael Jackson’s burial service, how he spoke with Mike Adenuga the night before, how he visited MKO Abiola in London, how he visited Siberia or Djibouti, how he fought during the Liberia war, or how he owned a Limousine. But the few times Momodu’s pendulum swings to politics and political economy, one wonders whether he would not have done better staying in his entertainment and photography turf[b].....blah blah blah...[/b]



Oyewale, a blogger and public commentator, lives in Lagos.

Why can't people write rebuttals without being insulting/derogatory to the author? He wrote his article telling us the way he feels about the Lamido guy, you write your article telling us the way you feel about the fellow without throwing punches at the previous author ... Stick to the subject matter , in this case Samido Lanusi or whatever he is called Makes for much better reading