Gaborone:
So, here we go...

Yesterday at the office, my boss walked up to us -his employees- and gave an impassioned talk about President Buhari's style of governance. He said, while he thought Buhari's attempt at recovering stolen funds were not out of place in itself, he was giving way too much attention to it. According to him, the President's lack of priority in this regard had become counter-productive and had started to prove detrimental to other areas that are in dire need his attention.

To drive home his point, he gave us a parable of an employer who kept N20,000 in his office somewhere, and on coming back to take it, he discovered that one of his Clerks had run off with it. After the discovery, the employer took the keys to the office, locked it up. He ran out with as much fury as he could muster, shouting to the hearing of all who would listen, "Who saw my boy?!!!", "Please, help me find him and get my money!!" All the while this employer was out looking for the stolen money, his shop remained under lock and key, no monies coming out, no monies going in. No customer, no profits in sight; he was making losses with every turn. Yet, ALL that mattered to him remained getting the thief of a boy, and recovering the stolen money.

My boss likened the employer in the above parable to President Buhari. He says our President has practically closed shop -Nigeria- and has decided to channel all his energy into getting stolen funds, forgetting that there is a bigger picture -an economy- that needs urgent attention; forgetting that the country might be going into a recession; forgetting that people are losing their jobs, forgetting that foreign investors are leaving, and more are 'plotting' to close shop and leave Nigeria; forgetting that an economy is not run by stolen funds which are recovered, but that if anything, they are to be regarded as "extras".

The above is how my boss sees things right now, and I agree with him.

I have to agree because, since coming into office, the activities of President Buhari's government has centered around just two things: 1. Foreign trips; and 2. Instigating the prosecution of looters of the past (who I must mention are not pro his government or pro-Apc). While the relevance of the above two can really not be downplayed, the fact remains that attention need to be given to the economy of Nigeria. As my boss said, no country has ever been run on recovered funds. Me thinks he needs to stay home a bit more, and pay attention to the alarms being raised by the World Bank and other bodies about Nigeria's economy. He need to share that attention he is giving the boy who stole the money.

mrvitalis:
Ok
I don't know how to explain to Nigerian youths again.. . Theses government so far has being truthful and In most cases are quoted out of context by the Nigerian media just to sale and get traffic..

Over 9 billion dollars have been recovered.. but the one we can access is 78bn and 3 Million dollars.. The rest still have cases in court.. .. . What is deficult about this statement to understand??

Buhari keep doing ur best... If there is a God.. Then only him will judge u.. but if there is non.. History will remember your works

sarrki:
Gospel truth

Gaborone:



Between 1960 - 1999, about $400Billion has been stolen from Nigeria. I don't know about 2000 - 2015, but I know its going to be a small fraction of that. Now, lets be realistic: supposing our President is able to recover a part of this at the end of the day (let's say $50Billion), how far will that take Nigeria, if by then, all investors have gone, and the economy has finally crumbled. How many years' budget will that take care of, since we now place the budget and drive the economy through recovered funds?

And I don't want to even talk about revenue drives, or presentations, or meetings, or committees, what I want to talk about is RESULTS. We've seen too much cheese dangling in the past, so much so that we are not moved till these 'drives' that churning out results.

mrvitalis:
Ok
I don't know how to explain to Nigerian youths again.. . Theses government so far has being truthful and In most cases are quoted out of context by the Nigerian media just to sale and get traffic..

Over 9 billion dollars have been recovered.. but the one we can access is 78bn and 3 Million dollars.. The rest still have cases in court.. .. . What is deficult about this statement to understand??

Buhari keep doing ur best... If there is a God.. Then only him will judge u.. but if there is non.. History will remember your works

truthspeaks:
Hahahaha. See mumu de struggle wit peanuts he z bn paid preaching to us. Am sure dats d amount they ll use to fund our budget of 6trillion naira. Wait, so dat means that the 3trillion naira in d TSA neva existed. Pls if u r deceiving, do it wit wisdom. The more u deceive, d more it needs additional deceits to cover it up. Mumu zombie. Go n eat wit d peanuts u v bn paid

damon222:
Coconut and empty Nigerian let out of cage. To you every direction especially from Buhari is ok. You are indeed a yes man.

mrvitalis:

Ooh my God have ever read how the TSA work??

uboma:
Was the recovered loot part of the plan to revive the economy in the first place?
What happened to the 2016 budget for Nigeria?
The recovered loot was supposed to have been a surplus to the 2016 budget.
What a clueless government we have!

truthspeaks:
tot u were talkin as if only the 78billion naira n $3million alone will be used to revive d economy meanwhile d amount in d TSA is for wat, buhari's travels right? Bro, stop defending failure. Buhari is a failure even aftr bn given a 2nd chance @ governance.

mrvitalis:


What can a man do when he is broke, indebted and has no saving??

Cos that's the position Nigeria is in now.. . Hope u understand

rapistomenka:
Thank God none of my family members voted for this incompetent animal from Daura.


Otherwise I would have been engulfed by pang of guilty conscience

mrvitalis:

Please that was not what neither me nor lai was saying

We only have 78bn and 3 Million dollars from recovered found so it can be used to turn the economy around. .. That's it hope u understand? ?

Then I went futhere to explain why there is no quick fix to our problem and why it will take years to get out of this...

If only u listened in those economics classes