nagoma:

The more often my President opens his mouth to address me the more certain I am that he is becoming despondent, muddle-headed and lonely. This is pathetic and cannot be the fresh air we were promised.

I want to reassure all Nigerians that the pledges which we had made to improve the socio-economic situation which we face through improved access to electricity, water, education, health facilities and other social amenities would continue to be given the needed emphasis. The welfare of our teeming workers and the unemployed youths would also be accorded a new impetus

ndu_chucks:

Very few of Nigeria’s former military leaders are spoken of with any great affection.  There is on notable exception: General Murtala Muhammed, a man who was recently vilified by NL youths who are ignorant .  The time of his regime is recalled with nostalgia by Nigerians of both civilian and military persuasions as a golden age.   Murtala gave Nigeria a glimpse of the principled and dynamic leadership that its citizens crave. He would appear at ministries unannounced and sack employees including ministers who were not on sit at 8am.  After sacking a couple of Ministers, the rest of them sat up and actually began workint.

GEJ may want to set an example by sacking a few DGs and ministers found to be lacking as GEJ himself admits. The Presidency is powerful enough to cause a dramatic change in the attitudes of these DGs and ministers who only know how to steal from their ministries year in year out!  

Beaf:

The military messed Nigeria up and Murtala will always be remembered more for the massacre of all males above 10 in Asaba, Delta state during the civil war than for sacking DG's.
Murtala ran a dictatorship. In any event, the ministries are not the fundamental problem with Nigeria. Our problems are societal and structural.

The societal problems are to do with breakdown of communal relations, morality, responsibility, patriotism and out of despondency a tendency toward crime and extreme religion (Christian, Muslim and Okija / Jankara brands). These things can only be addressed by the strengthening of our institutions as GEJ has correctly concluded, they cannot be beaten into people or helped by the sacking of DG's. In fact, it is because we have been a militarised and deeply abused people used to the degrading shock tactics of past military dictators that we instinctively reach back to them, because thats all we know. Well, that is wrong, no developed country is run with brute force (not even China), it is always soft power. A nations success is built on the quality of its people and dictated by the strength of its institutions.

Our other problem is structural, again it cannot be solved by applying mere plasters with the sacking of DG's. It can only be solved with a National Conference and GEJ has got Anyim working on that.

ndu_chucks:

Very few of Nigeria’s former military leaders are spoken of with any great affection.  There is on notable exception: General Murtala Muhammed, a man who was recently vilified by NL youths who are ignorant .  The time of his regime is recalled with nostalgia by Nigerians of both civilian and military persuasions as a golden age.   Murtala gave Nigeria a glimpse of the principled and dynamic leadership that its citizens crave. He would appear at ministries unannounced and sack employees including ministers who were not on sit at 8am.  After sacking a couple of Ministers, the rest of them sat up and actually began workint.

GEJ may want to set an example by sacking a few DGs and ministers found to be lacking as GEJ himself admits. The Presidency is powerful enough to cause a dramatic change in the attitudes of these DGs and ministers who only know how to steal from their ministries year in year out!  

ndu_chucks:

I will ignore your attempt to rewrite history with your Asaba reference and misinformation. I hope you are right about the national conference bit, time will tell sha.

GEJ: “Yes, of course, I support that Nigerians must discuss and Nigerians have been discussing. I have asked the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) to collate the reports of past national conferences. The ones that are not conclusive are few. We are going to set up a committee. We are discussing to package the reports and take them to the National Assembly. But areas that seemed controversial, we will look at them.”

ndu_chucks:

Very few of Nigeria’s former military leaders are spoken of with any great affection.  There is on notable exception: General Murtala Muhammed, a man who was recently vilified by NL youths who are ignorant .  The time of his regime is recalled with nostalgia by Nigerians of both civilian and military persuasions as a golden age.   Murtala gave Nigeria a glimpse of the principled and dynamic leadership that its citizens crave. He would appear at ministries unannounced and sack employees including ministers who were not on sit at 8am.  After sacking a couple of Ministers, the rest of them sat up and actually began workint.

GEJ may want to set an example by sacking a few DGs and ministers found to be lacking as GEJ himself admits. The Presidency is powerful enough to cause a dramatic change in the attitudes of these DGs and ministers who only know how to steal from their ministries year in year out! 

Beaf:

Pity is all you can do, but intelligence and morals are what you lack. Go on calling for the "strong leaders" that wrecked the country and tell us your head is screwed on right. Rubbish.

okunboy:

You pple dnt understand. [size=13pt]This man wants an auto-piloted nation, where everything works automatically.[/size] He will jst sit @ aso-rock, cross-legged, with glass of wine in his right hand, and a cuban cigar in his mouth puffing and relaxing, answering Mr. President and C in C doing nothing n yet expecting lot of things! Mr. Jonah! Mr. Jonah!!, Mr. Jonah!!!, how many times did I called u? Any nation that will work dat way will require no president!