Posted by Editor on June 19, 2015 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Finally Vindicated 2015-06-19T11:24:31+00:00 under EDITORIALS No Comment

By IYKE DURUMBA

"I don’t know why a lot of us Nigerians suffer from a pitiable form of amnesia. Were we not in this country when the then Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala kept harping on the need to save funds in the Excess Crude Account but the state governors insisted on sharing same claiming they had ‘people-oriented’ (more like pocket-oriented) projects to spend on?

Were we not in this country when the FG at a time instituted a Sovereign Wealth Fund which was bitterly opposed by the same governors to the extent that some went to court all in a bid to share whatever accrues to such a fund?

Were we not in this country when Rotimi Amaechi accused the FG of looting the Excess Crude Account but the Ministry of Finance published figures showing that Rivers state among other states had collected billions and billions from the same funds he claimed was looted?
Why don’t we recall basic facts like and tell those governors to do either of these:

1) Produce those funds from wherever they kept them and pay their workers
2) Resign if they’re so helpless or
3) Go to hell and quit irritating our ears with their infantile ejaculations of helplessness.

All this hue and cry about states besieging the FG for bailout simply reinforces the desperate need for the true fiscal federalism some of us have been shouting about for years now’’.

Buhari is brain dead

Nigeria is a federal extension of yaba left, where hunger and joblessness have clouded the reasoning of the people and they can not see reality again... GEJ was labbeled the clueless because he had wanted to do the right by Nigerians in a judicious way and now BabaOnce is already being crucified for just enjoying a world tour as the president... when are we going to awake? These men parading as politicians means no good for the common people like us, we got to take our destiny in our own hands by holding them to accountability or we will watch them loot us dry to the bones.

Nigeria is a country where history never counts. We, especially, the political class and the media had inclinations on all matters: if it concerns us, it is right but if others, it is wrong.

It is because the Govs, especially of the APC stock that are most affected by the saga that we have seen the matter dying and nobody is even asking the 'God of Probe' Buhari to look into that.

NOI and her image launders should spare us the sermon. After years squandering and weakness to do what is right, they now want to blame it on Nigerian masses that have suffered under their rule.

When she was she trillions between FG and State Governors, she did not raise any alarm nor had the political will to insist that the right thing be done or she resign. Now she is telling us some lousy stories.

She better keep quiet or we may reconsider the decision to leave them out of jail.

How can madam puff puff be vindicated when all the corruption and financial inpunity happened right under her watch. Please tell us some thing new!!!SMH

Upon all the over trillions NOI and GEJ kept for themselves at the FG, did it stop Jonathan from leaving behind heap of dept (locally and Internationally), including the Staff in Aso Rock?

Spear us the chrocodile tears, abeg. Both the Governors and Presidency failed. Blaming one another will never exonerate the failures that was left behind.

They are all the same ojare.