Obasanjo's Library Launch: Do You Support it?

I support the idea of a library.  In Nigeria today it's very hard to get the latest books on Technology or Business if you don't have a hefty budget.  Wite the millions that the President has been able to raise for this library, they will be able to get so many books.

And you know what?  I live in the President's town, so the library is very welcome!

The Obasanjo's Library is a good idea, but the timing of the launching is bad.

To me, and to some other, OBJ is just using his executive position to gather support for his pet projects. Why can't he wait till when re retired. What's the hurry about?

This is another instance of abuse of office and position. I am sure if OBJ had waited till July 2007, he couldn't have gathered as much support or raised half as much funds as he had done.

Seun you're assuming that the library will actually get built and function properly. But still he should have waited till when he is out of office. American presidents he is trying to immitate don't build library or source funds for it until they are out of office.

I will not be surprise if future presidents use this Obasanjo example as precedent to graft and to quote Soyinka "extortion."

Gani has decided that we are not the only one who feels the idea is wrong.He has sued President Obasanjo for misuse of office

http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/headline/f124052005.html

Why Obasanjo farm Seun? I just like the fact that the library is very close to my office  .  But really, this is rubbish.  The rich are getting richer everyday while the poor man mourns.  The idea of the library is not a bad one but I think things are not being done the right way.  What do we call this - Show of Money?

The OBJ library is just what the Prof has called it. It is the highest of all fraud by the executive.
Imagine if all the funds raised at the launch is going to our public schools, imagine how helpful it will be to the students and the individual institutions. Imagine if Dangote donates the amount he donated to Unilag for the hostle problem or any other school facing accomodation problems. Imagine our Globalcom/Conoil man donating that type of money to Osu(OOU), imgine him taking tractors and other equipments to upgrade the bad (only), tiny and dengerious road that leads to the institution.
I see this as corruption, which our dear OBJ is campaigning against. Na wa for Niger ooo.May God help us in this country    

The library project in itself is good but that launching shows that even Obasanjo is corrupt despite his anti-corruption campaign. Dangote donated 200million naira Femi Otedola 200million naira    Mike Adenuga 250 million naira A consortium of Banks 622 million naira and many other whopping donations like that. Governors donated their states' money to the project. Obasanjo holdings also donated 100 million naira. This launching has been highly criticised by the international community as simply "corruption". All the donors know, for sure, that the money donated would yield fast returns from the President in contracts. That is the corruption cycle. Even Gani Fawehinmi has taken the case to court to challenge the corrupt players.

wonders shall never end

government in nigeria be it political or military type is synonymous with corrupt practices so am not surprised. With more time it will become more coded as it exists in United States, Great Britain, the Far and Middle East countries.

list of books inhis library

1 . How to ridge elections

2 . stealing money with no trac 1 and 2

3.  How to witchhunt ur enemies

4. Spread the money and the hate

5,  It wasnt me

6. U can always have it your way

whether in his farm or in Egba (Abeokuta) the project has failed because for one;
most Presidential Libaries are located within Academic eniviroment (Universities),
were the student that need the space,books and probally internet service, get it,
so my question is this why locate the project close to a mega station (not as if its bad).

so i ask myself, was the project a personal project for Oga OBJ or the public stand to
benefit from the place and will the libary be will run.   

@MP007

Your last post is incorrect. There is a University in Abeokuta, UNAAB with (recently established Crescent University by OBJ bossom friend- Bola Ajibola)a Polytechnic MAPOLY one college of education FCE.

To me, I don't really know the purpose the library will serve apart from Corruption. There are many Universities with no adequate books, poly and colleges of education. I remember when I was in the secondary school my school had one of the best libraries in Nigeria, well equiped laboratories I doubt if I can say same for my former school not even to talk of many schools with no books and librabries. Here is a President whose innate being is greed and corruption built most expensive library for himself, most expensive university for himself and his cronies and etc. A visit to the Library will reveal to most of you the real picture of corruption, the building must have been designed at ota farm, so ugly a structure, this also depicts corruption.