IMAGINE ONDO’s MIMIKO WITH LAGOS MONEY


Some of you may remember one of Fagunwa’s books about an Oba that had a human head implanted around his wrist. Every okele (morsel) he took when eating, the head gobbled it. What is surprising in Lagos State is that with Tinubu implanted on the wrist of Fashola, Lagos has money left to develop. It was so sad to be aware that Lagos may soon join Oil Curse producers that must have been cornered by you know who?

Those of us that know a thing or two about the people of Ondo, will tell you that the relationship between Fashola and Tinubu could never survive in Ondo State. In Ondo, Baba means something else and if you do not want Baba to strike you down, do not fool around with them. These people are so stubborn on principle, please do not dare them or bet your life once they have made up their minds.

My only problem with Mimiko is that he did not go to Ondo Boys High School. But then, most of the schools in Ondo Province in those days including St. Joseph gave due respect to the School respect was due. Getting that personal bias out of the way, Tinubu may want to ask Alex Akinyele about what he encountered when he tried to remove Rev. Cannon Iluyomade as the Principal of Ondo Boys High School.

Well, those are kids. But when Chief S. L Akintola came to visit Ondo, school children lined up the streets to greet him. He was surprised that that unlike their days, these school children did not wave to him cheerily as they had done. So he told the people of Ondo that he would not open their new water pipe system. Sorry young people, in those days we had something called water pipe system for the public, at least on each corner.

Akintola also let the people of Ondo know that he had heard about the candy called Akintola’s balls, but they are not his balls. They are the balls of their grandfather! There was the sad story of one of my classmate whose father belonged to Akintola’s party. He was ordered to get out of his house before setting it on fire. He refused. The politics of Ondo people are based on principle not on opportunistic diseases that infected Lagos.

Many of us have changed our minds about Chief S. L Akintola. He was only trying to convince his people not to put all their eggs in one basket. Labor Party has yet to be so infected. We have so many parties these days, they all stand for – you chop and I chop!

Sometimes we have to tell ugly stories as a warning to others to stop fooling around with Mimiko. This writer does not know Mimiko personally and need not to. He is also not a fan of Tinubu’s avarice in Lagos State. When we were growing up in Lagos, there was a popular song that “Eko O Gba Bere Rara O!” Lagos has mellowed and Tinubu took his chances. But do not compare Lagos to Ondo, if you do not want the wrath of Baba.

No matter how you dislike someone for whatever reason, never wish them dead. Ask God to preserve their lives for redemption on earth. Pray for a long life for Tinubu, so that most of the money he has stolen can be recovered. The death of a looter is a blow to those he looted because they would lose most of the resources stolen mysteriously.

Mimiko has warned Tinubu many time that “Owo Ondo, Ondo lo ngbe”. Wait a minute that was another Lagos slogan. During the last gubernatorial campaign, Dosumu complained that it cost about a billion to build one kilometer of road in Lagos, the highest in the whole wide world. Again, it is the head of Tinubu planted on Fashola’s wrist that is gulping the money. Hard currency can’t be exchanged for freedom in hell!

So imagine a Mimiko as the Governor of Lagos that could tell Tinubu where to go. It could have been an inspiration for other state governors in Nigeria. The problem with money is that we cannot take it with us. The best we can do with it is shape our legacy. Whatever Fashola does in Lagos today will be remembered but when they take into consideration: at what cost and how much was wasted, history may not be so kind.

Lateef Jakande will never be forgotten by the downtrodden and working class of Lagos State. Say what you want about him, no governor has so far measured up. Sam Mbakwe in Imo State tried with the little he had, but without Lagos money. Jakande made house helps graduates to the annoyance of child labor employers and turned working class into homeowners though condemned by those that could build theirs. Recently a couple of those houses fell and they blamed Jakande. But who did they blame when their billion mega buildings collapsed?

Fashola will not escape blame even when everyone knows that Tinubu has him in his pocket. Legacy will point to Mimiko as an example of a man with principle. But Nigerians have been beaten so badly, they ask why complain about Fashola in view of his progress in the State. Lagosians have never been so flatly taken advantage of – rivals thought Tinubu would be easier to defeat than Funsho Williams. Tinubu is stuck in our throat.

Those that made Tinubu by an act of omission, commission, neglect and selfishness cannot touch him today. Respectable Lagosians have to bow to Tinubu if they want anything substantial or forget it. Nigeria is the only Country in the world where you can loot until money start dropping out of your noise and one side of your mouth but nobody could prove it by our self-styled standard of due process.

Let us face it; it is easier to catch a looter in the Northern states of Nigeria than it is in the Southern states. It has nothing to do with EFCC but more to do with the fear of the people they rule. Accountability in the form of Boko Haram hijacked by religious extremists in the North, kidnappers that started in the Niger Delta hijacked by billionaire illiterate freedom fighters are symptoms of man indifference to man’s suffering.

If we do not spend the money in Ondo, Lagos, Imo, Kano or Bornu where do we spend it? In foreign countries; where our looters and their couriers are disgraced at the airports for money laundering. When we spend it at home, most of it has to be in foreign or hard currencies so that it can be easily transferred out by foreign partners.

Farouk Martins Aresa

thenigerianvoice.com

I read this entire article hoping to find something useful by the end - hope dashed.
The title itself is worthless - it should also include "... AND NEEDS".
Then you will realize that Ondo does have Lagos money on a per person basis:
...Lagos (2013): Budget - about N500 billion; Population - 15 to 20 million ==> per person budget = N25K to N33K
...Ondo (2013): Budget - about N150 billion; Population - about 4 million ==> per person budget = N37K

What's the point, apart from the stereotyping of Ondo people as violent?
Was this was supposed to present Ondo people in good light?

banku: IMAGINE ONDO’s MIMIKO WITH LAGOS MONEY
Farouk Martins Aresa
thenigerianvoice.com

Kuruji,

I honestly have to ask you if you have a conscience glowing in red ink as Lagos bleed while a few laugh all the way to the bank, just because you get crumbs from masters' table.

koruji: I read this entire article hoping to find something useful by the end - hope dashed.
The title itself is worthless - it should also include "... AND NEEDS".
Then you will realize that Ondo does have Lagos money on a per person basis:
...Lagos (2013): Budget - about N500 billion; Population - 15 to 20 million ==> per person budget = N25K to N33K
...Ondo (2013): Budget - about N150 billion; Population - about 4 million ==> per person budget = N37K

What's the point, apart from the stereotyping of Ondo people as violent?
Was this was supposed to present Ondo people in good light?

....You forgot to add "Lagos problems"

banku: Kuruji,

I honestly have to ask you if you have a conscience glowing in red ink as Lagos bleed while a few laugh all the way to the bank, just because you get crumbs from masters' table.

gbammmmmm

Why don't u show me what is untrue in my post instead of throwing another unfounded accussation. The article is worthless. Why don't u show us how Lagos is bleeding!!!

banku: Kuruji,

I honestly have to ask you if you have a conscience glowing in red ink as Lagos bleed while a few laugh all the way to the bank, just because you get crumbs from masters' table.

Kuroji,

I am not going to trade insults and convenient stats with you, there is enough out there and you are closer and paid to trade them. After all is done and said, you guys must ask yourselves. How much time do you have in this world, how much money is enough and how much can you buy with it while at your very doorsteps you cannot drive or walk without falling into human misery. You need to think deeper than money. We all live in lions' dens.

What insult? The article is worthless - that is not an insult but truth?
There was no real point to the article except to stereotype Ondo people.

I have no idea what money you are talking about - if you know please share.
You said you won't trade stats but then go on to suggest you know some stats about money.

If you don't know my position about governance in Nigeria please visit my recent post on here: Re: If You Were President, How Much Would You Steal?

It is funny that the same people that would like to lambast the best governor in Nigeria and his mentor see no reason to lambast PDP, OBJ, GEJ and all the other goons that have been milking Nigeria dry since 1999 - let's not forget that Obasanjo was caught in broad daylight with $45k cash transported from Nigeria to USA in contravention of the latter's law. We have glaring cases of corruption that "cannot" be prosecuted because it is Nigeria - even less concerned nations have made those involved pay for their crimes.

There is one governor in Nigeria today that publishes budgets and projects online - that would be Fashola. There is only one governor that through his actions, building on Tinubu's initial successes, has shown the international community that Nigeria can be better than the general political class makes it out to be - Fashola. There is one governor that successfully implemented mass transit, had West Africa's first suspension bridge built, is changing a Federal road into a 10-lane international expressway, is bringing a $6 billion investment through the Eko Atlantic project to live before our very eyes, among 100s more projects - that would be Fashola. They forget that Tinubu administered Lagos with great results as OBJ illegally held on to LG allocations for the state.

Certainly Lagos is far from El-Dorado, but Fashola is blazing trails that the permanently-redundant FG, even with its N5 trillion annual budget, cannot dream of. We should join hands to encourage even better performance rather than returning to a race to the bottom, bring-him-down-because-he-is-more-perfect-than-the-rest-but-not-perfect, attitude. If what Fashola is doing could be accomplished by anybody and another party, Lagos would be better than Dubai today because we always knew Lagos needed these things and plans that came to naught were made for decades.

Charlattans who see the results of hard work are thinking let us take it over so we can get the glory - after all it is privately funded, world bank funded and such crap!!! They forget that the confidence in Lagos is due to the attitude, intelligence, vision and hard work of the current leaders. Attributes that these charlatans are lacking - they will destroy Fashola's and Tinubu's good works and we would be the losers for it.

Even OBJ, bad as an administrator as he was, left Nigeria slightly better than he met it. But what did Yar'adua and GEJ do afterwards - they tore OBJ's fledgling projects down and then proceeded to build nothing to make our lives better. Compare that to how Fashola has cooperated with his mentor, carried on from where the latter left off and is currently surpassing his achievements - as it should be.

Enough said.

banku: Kuroji,
I am not going to trade insults and convenient stats with you, there is enough out there and you are closer and paid to trade them. After all is done and said, you guys must ask yourselves. How much time do you have in this world, how much money is enough and how much can you buy with it while at your very doorsteps you cannot drive or walk without falling into human misery. You need to think deeper than money. We all live in lions' dens.

Perhaps it is not clear why I said the article is worthless.
The reason is that an article with this title would be expected to tell us in glowing terms the great works Mimiko is doing in Ondo State - perhaps accounting for 1/2 to 3/4 of the entire article. A part of the article would then compare that to what Fashola is doing, and then show that proportionately Mimiko is doing more with less.
I don't see any iota of these in the article - do you?

banku: Kuroji,

I am not going to trade insults and convenient stats with you, there is enough out there and you are closer and paid to trade them. After all is done and said, you guys must ask yourselves. How much time do you have in this world, how much money is enough and how much can you buy with it while at your very doorsteps you cannot drive or walk without falling into human misery. You need to think deeper than money. We all live in lions' dens.

koruji: What insult? The article is worthless - that is not an insult but truth?
There was no real point to the article except to stereotype Ondo people.

I have no idea what money you are talking about - if you know please share.
You said you won't trade stats but then go on to suggest you know some stats about money.

If you don't know my position about governance in Nigeria please visit my recent post on here: Re: If You Were President, How Much Would You Steal?

It is funny that the same people that would like to lambast the best governor in Nigeria and his mentor see no reason to lambast PDP, OBJ, GEJ and all the other goons that have been milking Nigeria dry since 1999 - let's not forget that Obasanjo was caught in broad daylight with $45k cash transported from Nigeria to USA in contravention of the latter's law. We have glaring cases of corruption that "cannot" be prosecuted because it is Nigeria - even less concerned nations have made those involved pay for their crimes.

There is one governor in Nigeria today that publishes budgets and projects online - that would be Fashola. There is only one governor that through his actions, building on Tinubu's initial successes, has shown the international community that Nigeria can be better than the general political class makes it out to be - Fashola. There is one governor that successfully implemented mass transit, had West Africa's first suspension bridge built, is changing a Federal road into a 10-lane international expressway, is bringing a $6 billion investment through the Eko Atlantic project to live before our very eyes, among 100s more projects - that would be Fashola. They forget that Tinubu administered Lagos with great results as OBJ illegally held on to LG allocations for the state.

Certainly Lagos is far from El-Dorado, but Fashola is blazing trails that the permanently-redundant FG, even with its N5 trillion annual budget, cannot dream of. We should join hands to encourage even better performance rather than returning to a race to the bottom, bring-him-down-because-he-is-more-perfect-than-the-rest-but-not-perfect, attitude. If what Fashola is doing could be accomplished by anybody and another party, Lagos would be better than Dubai today because we always knew Lagos needed these things and plans that came to naught were made for decades.

Charlattans who see the results of hard work are thinking let us take it over so we can get the glory - after all it is privately funded, world bank funded and such crap!!! They forget that the confidence in Lagos is due to the attitude, intelligence, vision and hard work of the current leaders. Attributes that these charlatans are lacking - they will destroy Fashola's and Tinubu's good works and we would be the losers for it.

Even OBJ, bad as an administrator as he was, left Nigeria slightly better than he met it. But what did Yar'adua and GEJ do afterwards - they tore OBJ's fledgling projects down and then proceeded to build nothing to make our lives better. Compare that to how Fashola has cooperated with his mentor, carried on from where the latter left off and is currently surpassing his achievements - as it should be.

Enough said.

GBAM!!! My brother, you understand the issues. The day PDP enters Lagos, I will buy a casket for Lagos. They have no plan other than to grab power and loot.

A rambling and incoherent article.

What has Mimiko really done with the money he is getting. Ondo State gets some derivatives too.

The article is worthless and poorly thought.

Whats the income per head in Ondo and Income per head in Lagos?

If a family with 20 members has 100 Naira and another with 5 members has 50 which one is better off?

The OP should be ashamed of himself

Ondo people are known to be intelligent and not spewing trash

If Mimiko had Lagos money and also has Lagos Population and peculiar Lagos problems like Ocean surge. Mimiko would run mad in one week

No wonder a lot of people gave up, with friends like you, neither Lagos nor Nigeria needs enemies. The same crowd arguing there are no dumps in Lagos until foreigners expose your backyard. What a sorry state.

Those that know how to manage a city as mayor, a state is given, those that manage a state well, a country is given. Dullards think if they mess up a small assignment, they deserve a bigger one. A fool and his money will soon part. For those looking for Mimiko's accomplishments do some research or google.

How much brain does it take to loot?

banku: No wonder a lot of people gave up, with friends like you, neither Lagos nor Nigeria needs enemies. The same crowd arguing there are no dumps in Lagos until foreigners expose your backyard. What a sorry state.

Sorry to say you sound very empty.

Can you articulate your points well and list them out?

This is internet and not your local palmwine joint

[Dayokanu]

If Mimiko had Lagos money and also has Lagos Population and peculiar Lagos problems like Ocean surge. Mimiko would run mad in one week

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oh boy,this one na hand oh!!

Check out the population of those European countries you look up to and compare them to the population of Nigeria or Lagos, do they have bigger brains than yours?

KnowAll: [Dayokanu]

oh boy,this one na hand oh!!

banku: Check out the population of those European countries you look up to and compare them to the population of Nigeria or Lagos, do they have bigger brains than yours?

So its now European countries no longer Mimiko and Ondo again?

or is Mimiko European?

Wetin concern Europe for Mimiko and lagos matter.

Like I said earlier and others have said. You dont have any single point

You have posted almost 10 times on this thread aside from the hogwash initial copy and paste nothing concrete has been said by you to support your point and post

What has Mimiko done in Ondo state or has he turned Ondo State to Europe?

At this point I must stop answering people that cannot think, may be because of limited brain capacity blinded by greed. Instead of you people traveling in droves to countries smaller in population and arable land than yours, travel to Ondo. You will learn and gain more. If money is everything, you will not be sending your kids to school in tiny African countries. Go to Ondo and see what Mimiko has done for shcool children.

dayokanu:

So its now European countries no longer Mimiko and Ondo again?

or is Mimiko European?

Wetin concern Europe for Mimiko and lagos matter.

Like I said earlier and others have said. You dont have any single point

You have posted almost 10 times on this thread aside from the hogwash initial copy and paste nothing concrete has been said by you to support your point and post

What has Mimiko done in Ondo state or has he turned Ondo State to Europe?