The former minister questioned the
competence of President Goodluck
Jonathan.
A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-
Kayode, said President Goodluck Jonathan
by his misrule is leaving a legacy of
“destruction and disaster” in Nigeria.
Speaking at a book launch in Lagos on
Wednesday, Mr. Fani-Kayode, in a speech
titled ”A Date with Destiny,” said the
administration of Mr. Jonathan has plunged
the country into financial recklessness,
bloodbath (apart from during the civil war)
and total misrule never before experienced
in the country.
On the planned amnesty for the violent
insurgent group, Boko Haram, the former
minister said it is an “inglorious endeavour”
and an “exercise in futility” that will “set a
dangerous precedent.”
“4, 400 precious souls cut short and
slaughtered like chicken by Boko Haram in
the last two years. How can our
government sleep well at night with all that
innocent blood that has flowed whilst they
are at the helm of affairs of our nation?”
the former minister said.
“More innocent souls have been killed in
the last 2 years by terrorists than at any
other time in the history of Nigeria outside
the civil war. How does President Jonathan
and his”today’s men” feel about winning
such a dubious and dishonourable title?
Does he still regard Boko Haram as “his
siblings” who he “cannot hurt”?
“Why did the President refuse to visit the
good people of the northeast for so long
despite the fact that hundreds of people are
still being slaughtered there by Boko Haram
every day?” he added.
He said the government has proved it does
not “give a damn” to the suffering of the
people and the loss of lives by not visiting
the troubled region until politicians from the
opposition All Progressives Congress (APC)
did; and the president’s lukewarm and
delayed response to the recent massacre of
185 people in Baga.
“He did not visit the place until the APC
governors took the initiative, did the right
thing, went there boldly and paved the
way? It was only after that initiative was
taken by the opposition that our President
woke up from his deep slumber,
remembered that he was the Commander in
Chief of our Armed Forces and saw fit to go
to the north-east. Why did he take so long
before doing so?”
“Does the fact that it took our Government
two days to even acknowledge that the
Baga massacres ever took place and that
when they finally did all they said was that
they would ”investigate it” not seem rather
insensitive? This was after the Sec. Gen. of
the U.N. and numerous other world leaders
had not only condemned the massacre but
had also expressed their condolences to our
President, to the Nigerian people and to
those that lost their loved ones. Yet to the
best of my knowledge not one word of
condolence or regret was offered by our
President or our Government. Since when
have we degenerated to such a point that
when our people are killed in such a brazen
manner and in such large numbers we
don’t even seem to ”give a damn”? Since
when have we become a nation of
sociopaths that have no feeling and that do
not value human life?” he said.
Mr. Fani-Kayode said the Jonathan
administration has refused to tackle
corruption and therefore has plunged the
economy into deeper mire by its wanton
display of financial impudence.
“When will our President and his ”today’s
men” answer David Cameron, the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom’s, question
and tell him what they did with the 100
billion USD that they made from oil sales in
the last two years? When will they answer
Obi Ezekwesili’s question about how they
squandered 67 billion USD of our foreign
reserves? When will they answer the
question that Nasir El Rufai asked
sometime back about how they spent over
350 billion naira on security vote in one
year alone? When will they answer the
many questions that Pat Utomi and many
other distinguished and courageous leaders
and ”yesterday’s men” have raised about
the trillions of naira that have been
supposedly spent on oil subsidy payments
in the last two years?” he asked.
“When will they implement the findings and
recommendations of the Nuhu Ribadu
report on the thievery that has gone on in
the oil sector? When will they cultivate the
guts and find the courage to respond to a
call for a public debate to defend their
abysmal record? When will these ”today’s
men” stop being so reckless with our
money? Why would our ”today’s man” FCT
Minister budget 5 billion for the
”rehabilitation of prostitutes in the Abuja”?
Why would he budget 7.5 billion naira for a
new ”FCT city gate”? Why would he budget
4 billion naira for some kind of building or
centre for the First Lady? Why would the
Federal Government of ”todays men” budget
1 billion naira for food in the Villa? Are
these the priorities of ”today’s men”? And
all this when Nigeria is back in foreign debt
to the tune of 9 billion USD and is still
borrowing, when local debt has hit almost
50 billion USD, when 40 per cent of
Nigerians are unemployed, when graduate
unemployment has hit 80 per cent, when 40
per cent of Nigerians do not have access to
good food and are described by the
U.N.D.P as being ”hungry” and when 70
per cent of Nigerians are living below the
poverty line? Is this the vision of ”today’s
men?”
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In dont believe that but if its true then he is an idiot

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