Xscape1993:
They will never ooo.

marveangel:
Nigeria leaders cannot relate

RuudVanNisteroy:
One can never overestimate the fact that Thomas Sankara was one of Africa’s greatest ever revolutionaries and thinkers. Though his time in power as President of Burkina Faso was senselessly cut short, his ideals and legacy will forever be etched in African political history.

It was very evident Sankara was not a show-off and did not live lavishly. As president, he tried as much as possible to cut off unnecessary spending in his regime.


In one of his initiatives, he disposed of the government’s expensive and luxurious fleet of Mercedes Benz cars for a rather cheap and economical Renault 5 cars which were used as official government vehicles. The Renault 5 was the cheapest car in Burkina Faso at that time.



Take a look at a video of cabinet ministers arriving for a 1984 meeting in Renault 5 cars which he also used as his official vehicle.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS8MmO7gjU8

https://face2faceafrica.com/article/how-thomas-sankara-forced-his-government-to-use-cheap-cars-to-cut-cost-video

fuckingAyaya:
First of all Nigeria don't have leader's put that at the back of ur mind

Rossiminku:


Nigeria and Africa had those types of leaders at independence and shortly afterwards.

Nigeria for instance had General Murtala Muhammed, her greatest ever president. Under him, corruption ENDED in Nigeria. Not 'reduced', or 'drastically reduced'. ENDED.

Others were Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso, etc etc.

Most of them were assassinated, deposed, or frustrated out of power directly or indirectly by western intelligence agencies.

This discouraged such progressive-minded patriots from contesting for office in Africa, to the point we are today where most leaders are compromised.

RuudVanNisteroy:

Insteady of retrenching the civil servants in the state. Why don't the sell the multi-billion luxury cars in their convoys, stop hiring private jets to fly locally and internationally,stop staying in presidential suites in hotels both in the country and around the world,stop using state resources to fund elections and party activities and repeal the multi-billion naira life pensions for former governors.

flokii:
Thomas Sankara, strong man of Burkina Faso..

There are still visionary leaders amongst Africans but they never get the opportunity to lead. The few ones that manage to get there get betrayed by the visionless corrupt ones who eventually hijack governance

Lamasta:
Those we have here are not leaders but rulers and are also not ready to sacrifice for the betterment of the country but their lives

Rossiminku:


Nigeria and Africa had those types of leaders at independence and shortly afterwards.

Nigeria for instance had General Murtala Ramat Muhammed, her greatest ever president. Under him, corruption ENDED in Nigeria. Not 'reduced', or 'drastically reduced'. ENDED.

Gen Murtala Muhammed refused to travel with a convoy, saying it was too costly and wasteful, and that he was not a thief, and so had nothing to fear from Nigerians.

He was assassinated while driving to work in his office in Dodan Barracks, Lagos. (Feb 13 1976)

The entire Nigeria - Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Ijaw, Itsekiri, Efik, men, women and children, broke down in tears, the day Murtala Muhammed was assassinated.

Others were Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso, etc etc.

Most of them were assassinated, deposed, or frustrated out of power directly or indirectly by western intelligence agencies.

This discouraged such progressive-minded patriots from contesting for office in Africa, to the point we are today where most leaders are compromised.

joyandfaith:


West saw them as communists and get rid of them. That was at peak of cold war between US and Soviet union.

RuudVanNisteroy:

They should have aligned with the West, instead of the communists.

FarahAideed:
At that time Nigerian Governors were also using 504 it's these evil politician that brought luxury cars into the mix

Rossiminku:


Aligning with the west meant corruption.

The west replaced Patrice Lumumba with Mobutu Sese Seko!

The west favour African leaders who allow Capital Flight from their nations to the west, in whatever form, so long as it's done.

12rev:
E.g short man devil...his p.a has a p.a who has a p.a too...greedy power drunk useless bunch.

RuudVanNisteroy:

They should have aligned with the West, instead of the communists.

RuudVanNisteroy:

Insteady of retrenching the civil servants in the state. Why don't they sell the multi-billion luxury cars in their convoys, stop hiring private jets to fly locally and internationally,stop staying in presidential suites in hotels both in the country and around the world,stop using state resources to fund elections and party activities and repeal the multi-billion naira life pensions for former governors.

Xscape1993:
I need great minds like you to with you sir.

owobokiri:
You can never emulate Thomas Sankara...
You can only be born as Thomas Sankara..
People don't perfectly learn to be great... People are born great or otherwise..
Empathy in governance, patriotism to country and service to humanity can not be all learned to build the character of an administrator... A large quotent of those come naturally to "The Benevolent Dictators"..
And if Nigeria will ever survive, what she needs is a "Benevolent Dictator"..
A Sankara..
A Mahathir Mohammed...
A Lee Kuan Yew..
Even a Jerry Rawlings will help exceedingly...
What you don't want to be saddled with is an avalanche of moribund emergency nationalist bereft of ideas on how to lift the country out of her worsening misery..

RuudVanNisteroy:

I believe we can achieve the same result with a democratic President outside PDP,APC and APGA. There are many Nigerians youths within the country and diaspora that have made waves that can bring about this turn around.

owobokiri:


I understand where you are coming from, YET, Democracy, to me is the end product we should be driving towards. With our precarious situation, it should mark our arrival not the beginning of our struggle..
It should be the icing on the cake. Folks forget that this country has a whole lot of centrifugal pulls that can easily be ignited to cause chaos under the weak democratic environment. The vulnerabilities are immense! Whether ethnic, religious or class...

What Nigeria actually needs is a strong Benevolent Dictator masquerading as a democrat. A good natured human being willing to bend the rules to DO GOOD FOR COUNTRY AND NOT FOR SELF. You can have good leaders under our amarphous democratic set up, but there will always be the corrupt bunch either within the judiciary or the legislature or the Army ready to armtwist him into kowtowing to their dictates. But a strong-willed leader will start the sanitization process with these people... You can't do so under a 4 year term within a fledging democracy with all the beautiful checks and balances...

RuudVanNisteroy:

Who do you propose as the Benevolent Dictator?We were all deceived through propaganda from the Lagos-Ibadan press that man was the fantastically corrupt Buhari.