peelovee:

GEJ ahead ahead

passyjango:

How is the regime of Abacha different from the past 12 years? Why do we always prefer to dwell in the past, while the same evils we focus on in the past are still taking place today? We have bought this idea that men like IBB, Abacha, OBJ, etc are evil, but this men are only decoys used to distract us from seeing the fact that all the atrocities that we accuse them of is still taking place today. While we focus on atrocities of the past, today's leaders are busy committing the same crimes without any checkmates.

Are public office holders (including GEJ) still not looting?
Are journalists still not being killed?
Are people still not being assassinated?
Are corrupt people still not being protected by the state?
Is the First Lady's office (Federal, States, and LGAs) still not used for money laundering?

So, what is the difference between IBB and the average Nigerian politician of today (GEJ inclusive)? For example, GEJ was a governor for 2 years, yet as part of his presidential campaign he cannot point to anything he achieved. All we are hearing is that he did not wear shoes to school.

So, why do we see the endorsement of GEJ by the governors as okay, but an endorsement from IBB as bad? Is IBB more dangerous to Nigeria than an average Nigerian governor? We really need to check our heads as we are allowing our biases to affect our thinking. IBB is no saint, but he is a lot better than some of the people in government today, even some of the ones we adore. So, let’s open our eyes and fight corruption of today. Yesterday is gone, today and tomorrow is what counts.

[b]Am surprised that people in this age believe our democratic experience is a huge mistake and we should have remained in the Military era of wanton assassination of progressives that sent the likes of Wole Soyinka, Late pa Pa Enahoro of blessed memory to escape the shores of this country .

A period when the standard of living of the populace was very low . . a period when Firewood at a particular period in time (1997 or there about) was the source of domestic fuel due to the skyrocketing fuel prices and severe scarcity that subjected the lives of Nigeria to pre 60's days . .

A period where sites like nairaland.com would dare not exist cos people like you with a knack of insulting the president before you make your views won't have that chance. Nairaland.com would have being extinct and probably seun would have escaped the shores of Nigeria to avoid arrest and persecution   . .

A period where a  lance corporal in the army had absolute power to come into your house to violate and harass you, your wife and kids and all you can do is keep quiet and nurse your pain unless you want your entire family to be wiped off . .

A time when Human rights activist were hounded and someone like Late Ken Sarowiwa was hanged for seeking better treatment of his kinsmen who were suffering the pain of nourishing the health of the Nation through unprecedented environmental degradation . .

How much was in our foreign reserve then . . .

A period when the likes of Lamido Sanusi,  Tunde Fashola, Rotimi Amaechi , Donald Duke and a host of others who brought changes to their immediate environment would have been suppressed . .

A period when the Dons of Universities lived like Paupers.

A period when the judiciary were gagged and were just monumental offices.

A period when cultism in our campus overshot it's threshhold level becoming so endemic in our tertiary institution.

A period where infrastructural growth as currently being experienced in Places Like Lagos and Cross River state where i resided mostly would have only being a mirage even with the so called PTDF money . .

A period that warranted and armed the men in Uniforms with immense wealth, who are now running the show in a democratic dispensation thereby infusing the military autocratic style in a democratic setting.

i can list  a whole lots of things that the masses suffered , but it appears you suffered non of this, or your family in one way or the other was connected to the Military top brass that milked this country dry . . .

Crimes are part of the society . . journalist being killed is a sour taste, if only our security outfit were better equipped to handle security matters . . That would only get better as we correct our infantile mistakes in our current democratic processes . .

imagine those days of Nitel where having phones was seen as a huge Luxury, but now even a gateman, an Okada man and even street beggers   proudly own cell phones . . . how about the internet . . .don't even go there    . .

have always been a supporter of buhari. And could always defend his intergrity against anyone who claims to say he his an extremist and a religion fanatic, but his recent moves after the NASS elections has shrouded my view against him and his anti corruption stance he has decided to meet with IBB, ATIKU and other northern leaders it was even confirmed by his spokeman(yinka) who said buhari was not alone that he his with IBB, ATIKU. To change nigeria. What an ABBERATION!!!

Donlittle:

lol u feel me?? this ppl are sum bunch of adult who dnt knw poo about economy, oh well sebi they are talkin bout dangote na, haha they will talk bout donlittle in 2015.the 21 year old boy ruling lagos, haha i laugh them, just that sum innocent ppl like you will suffer a lil from there foolishness,
oh well nun of my biz

jmaine:


Am surprised that people in this age believe our democratic experience is a huge mistake and we should have remained in the Military era of wanton assassination of progressives that sent the likes of Wole Soyinka, Late pa Pa Enahoro of blessed memory to escape the shores of this country .

When he brags about his much vaunted prowess in “jailing corrupt public officials,” Buhari only exposes his lack of full understanding of what corruption is. Corruption is not all just about embezzled money. Corruption is also about power, and even more so, one can argue. By that yardstick, Buhari is the most corrupt himself: he usurped and misused power in Nigeria to perform dreadful and even criminal actions.

A symptom of power-corruption is using illegally obtained power with utter disregard for constituted law and order and elected government. When Buhari carried out a military coup to sack an elected government, he indicted himself as power-corrupt. In bragging about it, he makes the second point about power-corruption—arrogance. Years after essentially despoiling and destroying an elected government, Buhari insists to the hapless peoples residing in Nigeria that he will continue to try to seek the office of the president of Nigeria, no matter how many times he has to try! The "subtexted" message is that if military coups were still possible in Nigeria, he would have used that avenue once again to achieve his goal.

Military decrees are not laws: they are in fact military orders that must be carried out by civilian-citizenry, on penalty of death. Buhari set about issuing decrees and ensuring their enforcement In Nigeria between 1983 and 1985. During that period, due process, proper legal representation and process, presumption of innocence until formal trial and conviction, were trashed and would never be practiced as Buhari wielded the power of life and death over each single person and all living in Nigeria then.

The most unimaginable occurrence is when Buhari issued his Military decrees and then made them retroactive. Based on such cruel and unconscionable act and display of abuse of power, Buhari ordered the execution of persons who had earlier been convicted of drug offences well before his “regime terrible” locked down Nigeria.*The death of such prisoners as such is in fact an act of murder by a psychopath, Buhari. Corruption with power does not get much worse than that.

Buhari registered Nigeria as an Islamic nation with the OIC—the Organization of Islamic Conference, reserved for Muslim countries. There was no discussion with the rest of non-Muslim Nigeria who constitute over half of the population and who would have bluntly said “No” to that. But, Buhari “had the power” and exercised it, without qualms. How else would one define “power-drunk” and corruption with power?

Buhari had a chance to show remorse or at least render some accounting and accountability for his inimical activities as a Military ruler of Nigeria at the Oputa Commission, an event reminiscent of the much successful Truth and Reconciliation commission post-Apartheid South Africa. But in sheer arrogance and contempt, Buhari refused to show up. Not quite satisfied, he went to court after intimidating the judge(s) and won an injunction successfully prohibiting the government of Nigeria from ever making the Oputa findings public.

A society is always threatened by corruption in any form, but power-corruption is invariably more frightening, devastating and lethal than money-corruption. Yet, there is even more danger when a society fails to recognize that power-usurpation and abuse is a form of corruption—and deadly at that. This failure results in the unthinkable: that given their records, persons like Buhari would actually show their faces to contest for public office, and that society would tolerate that.

Today, the peoples living in Nigeria will be tempted to vote for any candidate who claims that he is an “anti-corruption agent.” Characteristically gullible or otherwise influenced by other criteria, many will actually vote for such a candidate without even checking out the candidate’s past (and without learning from previous votes for such candidates). When corruption is narrowly defined around money, the peoples are lulled into accepting such blinders and fail to realize that power-corruption is a more lethal form of corruption. Buhari is probably correct by claiming that he did not touch any public funds; that does not make him any less corrupt, however, considering how he acquired power and how he used it in Nigeria. All it proves is that money corruption and power-corruption can exist independently.

But, the greatest failing of the peoples living in Nigeria is the inability to realize that the main problem of Nigeria is not corruption. When a society has “meaningful options,” the incidence of corruption is low, and the chances of getting caught and convicted are high. Nigeria does not offer such meaningful options; it has actually worked very hard to restrict them, and Buhari represents one class of those who have made it so.

Predictably—and unfortunately—there is nothing coming out of the current elections that is going to change this picture. Unless, of course, the peoples living in Nigeria demand and get a restructuring of Nigeria along the lines of Self Determination: that’s when their options will open up and their potential, collectively and individually, will be fulfilled and even surpassed.

passyjango:

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Did you deduce this and the rest of the rubbish you posted from my post or are you just on crack? Instead of answering the critical questions you are busy spinning and beating about the bush. Did I support military rule in my post or you are just intellectually challenged? To refresh your memory I will repeat the question here.

Are public office holders (including GEJ) still not looting?
Are journalists still not being killed?
Are people still not being assassinated?
Are corrupt people still not being protected by the state?
Is the First Lady's office (Federal, States, and LGAs) still not used for money laundering?

So, what is the difference between IBB and the average Nigerian politician of today (GEJ inclusive)? For example, GEJ was a governor for 2 years, yet as part of his presidential campaign he cannot point to anything he achieved. All we are hearing is that he did not wear shoes to school.

So, why do we see the endorsement of GEJ by the governors as okay, but an endorsement from IBB as bad? Is IBB more dangerous to Nigeria than an average Nigerian governor? We really need to check our heads as we are allowing our biases to affect our thinking. IBB is no saint, but he is a lot better than some of the people in government today, even some of the ones we adore. So, let’s open our eyes and fight corruption of today. Yesterday is gone, today and tomorrow is what counts.

How is the regime of Abacha different from the past 12 years?

A period that warranted and armed the men in Uniforms with immense wealth, who are now running the show in a democratic dispensation thereby infusing the military autocratic style in a democratic setting.