Omooba77:


https://punchng.com/a-president-and-his-tired-service-chiefs

richmanrichard:
finally, the coneheads has joined the flat heads in wailing. Mind u am a flat head& the op is a conehead.

solmus:


changing service chiefs is more than changinf tactics, many would get sumarily retired, comand structure would change, and new policies would have to be newly developed

samsard:
Nigga, what are you even saying?
They need to change those tired service chiefs.
Buhari and his crop overthrew their boss, no moral ground. But the topic is different. Change the old hands, you can't tell us that the army has no other capable minds!

BreconHills:
The writer falls into the same pit most Nigerians do. The idea that changing men causes a change in a system. No matter how many men are changed, the Nigerian system will remain unchanged. Until we attack the core of the system nothing will change. This is a country that lives for and worships money. Once a new source of money springs up, a system grows around it to protect it. It could be kidnapping, one chance, yahoo, rituals - immediately it appears to be a valid system that works, it will attract and become a self sustaining node in the system.

Changing Presidents or governors or service chiefs changes nothing. It's just musical chairs.

The only way of changing the country is to create consumer rights that allow even the poor enjoy decent services. This will represent an implied tax on ostentation. If a landlord builds a house the design and features must be fit for use irrespective of where it is. Once we improve functionality at the base of society we place an implied tax on those who want to live large and this creates disincentive for killers, robbers etc
Create a functional society at the base and watch crime and insecurity shrink.

But we love the drama of shiny new things - even shiny new appointments until those things too become old.

solmus:


changing service chiefs is more than changinf tactics, many would get sumarily retired, comand structure would change, and new policies would have to be newly developed

StaffofOrayan:
Think of it this way
You have a beautiful hotel and you hire a manager, if he/she runs it down, you should change managers or management structure

Nigeria needs to break up in my humble opinion,

ChoCho54:
What are you talking about?

The people to replace them are people already in the system and in the inner security caucus.

BreconHills:


And if the underlying circumstances remain unchanged eg poor pricing, rapacious owner and wrong location, demptivated staff the same thing happens again and you keep changing managers. Life is not like PS4 Football manager.

solmus:


doesnt work that way, for instance using Police for an example, if you pick a comissioner as an IG , DIG and AIG would be fired as in the case of IG transmission, a service chief change would seriously upset the system

Tonyspecial:
Vision 2020

StaffofOrayan:
The underlying circumstance is Nigeria as an entity. It was not made to be productive and would never be productive, especially with this wack constitution.
From a region being one of the first to have radio stations and skyscrapers to a whole country not being able to tackle electricity.

If Nigeria breaks up, in less than 5 years each region would fix electricity and so many ills,

BreconHills:


And if the underlying circumstances remain unchanged eg poor pricing, rapacious owner and wrong location, demptivated staff the same thing happens again and you keep changing managers. Life is not like PS4 Football manager.

DexterousOne:


I actually disagree

Nigeria is the way it is because of our collective value system has been eroded

It has nothing to do with division or togetherness

Whether we disintegrated or not
If we don't correct the value system

Nothing will change
And there will be no development


Once upon a time, northern Nigeria generated its own revenue
Same with the South


Now what happened?


Once upon a time we believed honesty was the best policy

What happened?

Nigeria does not have electricity because ENTRENCHED interests across the country does not want it to happen

Breaking the country will not remove those interest

We need to get rid of them first


Nigeria need serious restructuring

And reorientation


Canada system just might fit us

Or Switzerland

StaffofOrayan:
I think you are agreeing with me
From the beginning everybody knew Nigeria would fail, but the British wanted it, so the founding fathers at least asked to control their own destinies to a large extent.

Nigeria would end up like Central African Republic, set up by France to fail and it has failed, yet it is one of the richest piece of real estate.

You can't put 2 very different people together, especially a people like Fulani's

DexterousOne:


The north and the south made their money within NIGERIA

Nigeria has one of the biggest prospects to succeed

But bad leadership ruined it



And yes
Different people can live and form a country (United kingdom, Canada, Belgium, the USA and Swiss is proof) as long as there is an understanding

StaffofOrayan:
BREXIT!
While Britain is trying to limit the entry of Eastern Europeans, they are convincing us to be one country and then mock us that we are "fantastically corrupt"

spafu:
The president is surprised by the activities of those whom he had failed to deal with. It's over four years, since Buhari became president, everything thing he made has gotten worse and has improved nothing, except in the eyes of those zombies like the suya seller here, who is now a full-time jobless herdman relying on #30,000 to defend the indefensible.
For heaven sake, why should a man with Buhari's military experience wait for people to demand for a change of service chiefs? The man is such a daft president.
Thank God I no longer rely on the Nigerian government to feed. You can confirm that in my signature.

solmus:



Buhari was once a service chief and he knows the implication of changing service chiefs during a battle

Jonathan foolishly listened to pressure of changing service chiefs and Nigeria recorded major death toll and territory capture, what did Jonthan benefit from cowardly sacking ihejirike


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StaffofOrayan:
The underlying circumstance is Nigeria as an entity. It was not made to be productive and would never be productive, especially with this wack constitution.
From a region being one of the first to have radio stations and skyscrapers to a whole country not being able to tackle electricity.

If Nigeria breaks up, in less than 5 years each region would fix electricity and so many ills,

BreconHills:


This is an assumption. No matter how many ways you divide a diseased body, the body remains diseased. As someone who was young but had memories of the regions and who looks forward to what I consider to be their inevitable restoration let me add a caveat. None of the old regions has the towering personalities that led it until the ill fated Unification decree. Leadership is fragmented. There are no Awolowos, Ziks, Ahmadu Bellos or issac Boros. What have we have are a gang of tainted personalities with enough money to stymie any electoral process. The likelihood is a repetition of the same situation at the current Federal level.

Do I want the present situation to continue ad infinitum? No. Do I think we should return to regions tomorrow? No. If we do we make the same mistakes that frustrated the first republic. First is economic integration. The SW DAWN commission is doing very well with this. Next transportation and infrastructure. Once these three things are in place we have the building blocks for the type of society we want. I give it 2 -3 more election cycles. The North unknown to many, has seen the writing on the wall and they are trying to prepare as well. The SE may end up being the worst prepared because of their insistence on a complete break which is romantic but unrealistic. I do not even believe that SE leaders are preparing for a federation I rather thing they are using secession as a bargaining tool. But we shall see.

DexterousOne:


The same British that did brexit does not want Scotland to secede from Britain

So what are we saying

Many Scots are in favour of remaining in Britain
That is why Britain has won every referendum

So your comparison is wrong

Leaving an economic union is not the same as dividing a country

solmus:



Buhari was once a service chief and he knows the implication of changing service chiefs during a battle

Jonathan foolishly listened to pressure of changing service chiefs and Nigeria recorded major death toll and territory capture, what did Jonthan benefit from cowardly sacking ihejirike

So you’re in support of not changing service chiefs even in front of glaring incompetence
.

Racoon:

-"I am surprised bandits (armed terrorists) are still killing people"- President Buhari.

-"Bombing Has Reduced, Nigerians Should Be Thankful"-Femi Adeshina.

chriskosherbal:
I swear op that topic is laughable ;Dthat word tired does the final nailing.

Omooba77:


https://punchng.com/a-president-and-his-tired-service-chiefs