- Abdulrasaq Yusuff

When you happen upon an online article by an unknown author who is trying to take a shot at his 15 minutes of fame, courtesy demands that you give it a good read. The literary gems one expected to unearth in an essay that started out with inferences to an old English poem, seems to disintegrate into long ramblings that end up telling the reader nothing new.

The author chooses to frame his words with clear but subtle mischievous intent as can be seen from his use of English. I actually did a Google search for these words “Osinbajo there is little to show for it” and as you can guess it was only in the long essay of misinformation and misinterpretations by Banji, that we find those exact words attributed to the VP online.
One would expect an elder from Yorubaland would be a bit more honorable than this, given the much educated eloquence he tries to display.

Every pessimist would see a candid project update as a negative verdict. No government on this earth has infinite resources, so you cannot reasonably expect all funds to go into welfare while other pressing areas of concern get neglected.
A report giving details of the work in progress is not a damning verdict by any standards. Hence one wonders what grouse the writer has with this administration, concerning the same Social Investments Programmes that have consistently won awards and accolades from across the world, for the Buhari-Osinbajo administration.

Nobody ever became rich or wealthy by living on welfare anywhere in this world. The erroneous and fallacious narrative the author tries so hard to sell is that the beneficiaries of Conditional Cash Transfer should become rich after all the “naira showers”. This is a disgruntled educated man trying to be clever by half, hoping that his audience will not scratch beyond the surface to see his distortion of facts.

Banji comes across as a relic of years gone by, when the only yardstick of tangible government impact on the lives of the citizens was based on how much free money was in circulation, for practically doing nothing. The lowest income segment of the society are the beneficiaries of these social investments, so it is quite bewildering to see someone sitting on his cushy sofa at home, castigating programmes for which he is not eligible. Talk about sour grapes of the highest order.

He has clearly never taken his time to read a word of the straightforward description given on the State House website, and free for public consumption, albeit for those who want to know the true details. The NSIP focuses on ensuring a more equitable distribution of resources to vulnerable populations, including children, youth and women. Since 2016, these programmes combined have supported more than 4 million beneficiaries country-wide through a fair and transparent process supported by the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, and other notable MDAs with aligned goals.

For a programme that has remained as largely electronic, in terms of onsite mobile registration, data collation, cashless disbursement via registered bank accounts only, that is for the site targeted at the petty traders, one would be amazed at the degree of extreme extrapolation that would make him label social investments as an “archaic notion of raw money being the answer to the needs of the poor” like he puts it.

This exposes his underlying intent, as a disciple of the infamous “share the money” refrain. It is a sad day for intellectual discourse when the one who is meant to enlighten the readers, decides to deliberately obfuscate the simple facts, all for the sake of playing to the gallery. This play is however heavily bereft of an audience, as a cursory search of his online articles posted as a columnist with a national daily, shows up 75 posts with zero comments. This goes to show how toxic a writer/journalist can be, for his works not to evince any response, we are not even asking for meaningful responses.

The same justice and equitable redistribution of communal wealth and opportunities, that he claims to champion as what the underprivileged require, are what we find at the heart of all the programmes initiated by Yemi Osinbajo as VP since 2016. Having been steered these to a solid footing, they are now institutionalized in the new ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, which was recently created to ensure continuity beyond the tenure of this administration.

It is quite foolhardy for him to cheekily hide behind Davos 2020 to castigate the government and labour for working towards better minimum wages as a start. You cannot expect countries that got it right with social welfare almost a century ago, to be at par with those who have only started less than 5 years ago. This is why their citizens can rightly look beyond good salaries.

No government is expected to enforce on its citizens how they should live their personal lives beyond matters of the law, so why should citizens wait for the government to give them a mission and meaningful activity before they will set out to make their personal lives productive. This is a thinly veiled attempt at encouraging laziness and an entitlement mindset.

I am just wondering where he places the importance of entrepreneurial activity. Banji seems to not understand that these skin-level interventions as he calls them were altogether absent before 2016. Are we expected to suddenly go from zero to a million without building the requisite social institutions that can withstand the test of time? Nigeria remains a work in progress, within the diverse confines of our national yearnings and shared identity.

Alrty

Nobody can blackmail the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo because he is a man under divine mission in Nigeria

The starting of this write up is Wack....

May God continue to disappoint all the enemies of progress trying to distract Professor Yemi Osinbajo

Kakaakinews:
- Abdulrasaq Yusuff

When you happen upon an online article by an unknown author who is trying to take a shot at his 15 minutes of fame, courtesy demands that you give it a good read. The literary gems one expected to unearth in an essay that started out with inferences to an old English poem, seems to disintegrate into long ramblings that end up telling the reader nothing new.

The author chooses to frame his words with clear but subtle mischievous intent as can be seen from his use of English. I actually did a Google search for these words “Osinbajo there is little to show for it” and as you can guess it was only in the long essay of misinformation and misinterpretations by Banji, that we find those exact words attributed to the VP online.
One would expect an elder from Yorubaland would be a bit more honorable than this, given the much educated eloquence he tries to display.

Every pessimist would see a candid project update as a negative verdict. No government on this earth has infinite resources, so you cannot reasonably expect all funds to go into welfare while other pressing areas of concern get neglected.
A report giving details of the work in progress is not a damning verdict by any standards. Hence one wonders what grouse the writer has with this administration, concerning the same Social Investments Programmes that have consistently won awards and accolades from across the world, for the Buhari-Osinbajo administration.

Nobody ever became rich or wealthy by living on welfare anywhere in this world. The erroneous and fallacious narrative the author tries so hard to sell is that the beneficiaries of Conditional Cash Transfer should become rich after all the “naira showers”. This is a disgruntled educated man trying to be clever by half, hoping that his audience will not scratch beyond the surface to see his distortion of facts.

Banji comes across as a relic of years gone by, when the only yardstick of tangible government impact on the lives of the citizens was based on how much free money was in circulation, for practically doing nothing. The lowest income segment of the society are the beneficiaries of these social investments, so it is quite bewildering to see someone sitting on his cushy sofa at home, castigating programmes for which he is not eligible. Talk about sour grapes of the highest order.

He has clearly never taken his time to read a word of the straightforward description given on the State House website, and free for public consumption, albeit for those who want to know the true details. The NSIP focuses on ensuring a more equitable distribution of resources to vulnerable populations, including children, youth and women. Since 2016, these programmes combined have supported more than 4 million beneficiaries country-wide through a fair and transparent process supported by the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, and other notable MDAs with aligned goals.

For a programme that has remained as largely electronic, in terms of onsite mobile registration, data collation, cashless disbursement via registered bank accounts only, that is for the site targeted at the petty traders, one would be amazed at the degree of extreme extrapolation that would make him label social investments as an “archaic notion of raw money being the answer to the needs of the poor” like he puts it.

This exposes his underlying intent, as a disciple of the infamous “share the money” refrain. It is a sad day for intellectual discourse when the one who is meant to enlighten the readers, decides to deliberately obfuscate the simple facts, all for the sake of playing to the gallery. This play is however heavily bereft of an audience, as a cursory search of his online articles posted as a columnist with a national daily, shows up 75 posts with zero comments. This goes to show how toxic a writer/journalist can be, for his works not to evince any response, we are not even asking for meaningful responses.

The same justice and equitable redistribution of communal wealth and opportunities, that he claims to champion as what the underprivileged require, are what we find at the heart of all the programmes initiated by Yemi Osinbajo as VP since 2016. Having been steered these to a solid footing, they are now institutionalized in the new ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, which was recently created to ensure continuity beyond the tenure of this administration.

It is quite foolhardy for him to cheekily hide behind Davos 2020 to castigate the government and labour for working towards better minimum wages as a start. You cannot expect countries that got it right with social welfare almost a century ago, to be at par with those who have only started less than 5 years ago. This is why their citizens can rightly look beyond good salaries.

No government is expected to enforce on its citizens how they should live their personal lives beyond matters of the law, so why should citizens wait for the government to give them a mission and meaningful activity before they will set out to make their personal lives productive. This is a thinly veiled attempt at encouraging laziness and an entitlement mindset.

I am just wondering where he places the importance of entrepreneurial activity. Banji seems to not understand that these skin-level interventions as he calls them were altogether absent before 2016. Are we expected to suddenly go from zero to a million without building the requisite social institutions that can withstand the test of time? Nigeria remains a work in progress, within the diverse confines of our national yearnings and shared identity.

Impeccable reply... Gbasgbos

The enemies of this country shall fail woefully and we shall overcome with this progressive plans

Wonderful response

All The enemies of Prof Yemi Osinbajo will continue to be disappointed Amen

I pray all the wailers of osinbajo have insight and understand full that he meant so much for Nigeria both young and old

I am impressed and enlightened. We need to upgrade our thinking capacity instead of blackmailing people to achieve worthless aims

You can go and write your own nah? Is it by force to be forming literary critic on nairaland?

helinues:
The starting of this write up is Wack....

A lot of Nigerians appreciate the Vice president for designing NSIP, a fantastic initiative- May Almighty reward him for all he has been doing.

NSIP restored a lot of lives BUT its only enemy of progress that won't appreciate this wonderful scheme and they will all be put to shame

What a wonderful reply.I have noticed that a lot people are just saying evil of Osinbajo not because he is not working but for blackmailing purpose. Osinbajo is a true leader.