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Politics › Re: Ekiti Reps Storm EFCC To Remind Them Of Petition They Wrote Against Fayemi by agitator: 11:27pm On Jan 31, 2017 |
[s] sojiboy: Ekiti Youths Dismiss Assembly's Fraud Charge Against Fayemi
... Says It's Attempt To Protect Fayose From Accountability
Ekiti youths group under the aegis of Ekiti Youth Vanguard has lampooned the leadership of Ekiti State House of Assembly over call on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) to investigate former Governor Kayode Fayemi over an alleged N40billion fraud.
It described the move as a diversionary tactic by Governor Ayodele Fayose and "his men in the House of Assembly" to divert the attention of Ekiti people from the "mindless looting of the state treasury by Fayose's administration while workers remain unpaid for six months".
The House of Assembly had on Monday passed a resolution giving an eight-day ultimatum to the anti-graft agency to investigate allegation of N40b fraud against the former governor.
But in a statement in Ado Ekiti by its Coordinator, Charles Fakunle, the youths group faulted the action, describing the lawmakers as "shameless attention-seekers and busy bodies" who had failed in their duties of providing quality and robust legislature for making good laws and oversight functions for which they were elected by the people.
Regretting that the Assembly men had allegedly chosen to make themselves "partners in crime with the Executive arm of government", the group urged the Assembly members to keep their mouths shut if they could not live up to their responsibility as responsible representatives of Ekiti people.
"The Assembly men headed by Pastor Kola Oluwawole have been a huge disaster over the master-slave relationship they have with Governor Fayose.
"Besides colluding with the governor to destroy the tenets of democracy and governance, they have also been irresponsible in the discharge of their responsibilities, choosing to be more of a rubber-stamp by passing every bill sent to them by the governor without proper scrutiny and acting as Fayose's attack dogs when the governor is asked to be accountable in running the government.
"More annoyingly, they watch helplessly as Fayose diverts Ekiti money illegally to purposes not appropriated in the budget, including doing nothing on the internally generated revenue incomes allegedly kept in private accounts not known to the state's financial system," the statement explained.
The group alleged that because the House of Assembly worked in cahoots with the governor to divert the first bailout package received by the state, members could not say anything when workers protested against failure to use the bailout for the purpose it was approved by the Federal Government.
"The bailout that Fayose diverted was specifically for the payment of salaries, pensions, gratuities and severance packages of former political office holders, but because these questionable characters in the Assembly were accomplices in the illegal funds diversion scheme, they kept quiet only to find their voices now to accuse others of corrupt practices even when they are more guilty of same," the group said.
The statement added: "It is even more disgusting that such accusation of fraud against Fayemi could be coming from Fayose and his men who have got all the opportunities in the world to prove their case against the former governor but refused to do so until now when it has become crystal clear to Ekiti people that Fayose is determined to play smart with them with the reckless diversion of bailout cash resulting in salary payment default and failure to keep campaign promises.
"We wonder why it took the assembly members this long to coincide with the time Ekiti people are asking Fayose to account for the about N20b bailout he took before they suddenly realised that they must ask EFCC to probe Fayemi, all this in an attempt to divert Ekiti people's attention from criminal diversion of their money to the private use of government's leaders.
"While we are not holding brief for Fayemi, who we know as a public official ought to be accountable for everything [/s] zombies supporter of saintly thieves.  |
Politics › Re: Ekiti Reps Storm EFCC To Remind Them Of Petition They Wrote Against Fayemi by agitator: 11:25pm On Jan 31, 2017 |
[s] Newbiee: I just read an article by Tony Okoroji and it makes a lot of sense to me. It reads: SATURDAY BREAKFAST with TONY OKOROJI:
BUHARI IS NOT DEAD BUT THEY ARE KILLING HIM ON SOCIAL MEDIA!
You better believe it, Nigeria is at war. I am not talking about the Boko Haram war in the North. I am also not talking about the never-ending skirmishes in the Niger Delta that threaten to bring to a halt whatever little income we still generate from crude oil. Nigeria is at war over the control of the minds of our young people and the millions of our vulnerable citizens. The war is fierce. There are no rules in this crazy war. The Geneva Convention does not apply. Religion is in play. Tribe has become a major weapon. Genocide soon will be okay. Torture will be allowed. Right now, every crude propaganda tactic is being deployed as tribal, religious and ethnic hatred is being incubated in our land. My biggest worry is whether the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria fully understands that our nation is at war and that if we do not do what we need to do and do it fast, Rwanda may once again be repeated in Africa. I can hear a chorus of ‘God forbid!’. That is part of the problem. Somehow, we Nigerians have convinced ourselves that God loves us so much that we can do very stupid things and there will be no consequences Yea! We believe that what applies to the rest of God’s children do not apply to us. For some reason, we have begun to believe that we are such a special breed that we can consume all our seedlings, sow nothing and yet reap a bountiful harvest. Let me ask: did the Almighty step down from His throne while the horrific tragedy of Rwanda occurred? Was He not there while brothers and sisters butchered themselves in Sudan? Right now, in Syria and Iraq, unspeakable mayhem and suffering are taking place but God is still on His throne. Let someone show me that chapter in the Bible or the Quran that says that God loves His children in Nigeria but hates his children in Rwanda, Sudan, Syria, Iraq and the other places where the incubation of hate has led to indescribable human suffering. Was God not on his thrown when Nigerians slaughtered each other during the Biafra war? Why is today different? Everywhere in Nigeria people are praying from dusk to dawn. Everywhere you look, there are new churches and mosques being built. Pray, how can we love God so much, that we hate our brothers and sisters, children of the same God so much? During the week, I accidentally ran into Femi Adesina, President Buhari’s chief spokesman, in Lagos. Femi probably would tell you that I was very upset with him, his team and their tactics in what has clearly become a war of attrition. I accused his team of leaving our president naked to be shot at and made fun of by all kinds of characters. Femi is clearly one of the finest journalists Nigeria has produced in recent years. He has grilled me in a memorable interview at the Sun. Practically, everyone who knows Femi will tell you that he is also a very decent gentleman. I like him. I am however asking myself whether Femi is not too decent to lead a critical part of the war that President Buhari must wage to prevent Nigeria from going the way of Rwanda or Sudan. The war I speak of is not in Sambisa Forest or the creeks of the Delta. The war is on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat and all over the internet. At this point, millions of Nigerians are being recruited to despise their President, to despise their fellow countrymen and to despise their country. History tells us that the ongoing recruitment has huge consequences for every Nigerian, man woman and child. Times are hard for a lot of Nigerians and that makes it even easier. As has been clear in other places where foot soldiers of hate have been unleashed, a lot of the people being recruited do not even know that they are being recruited. How did Al Qaeda begin? How did the Hutus and Tutsis of Rwanda who had existed together for hundreds of years wake up one morning and start butchering each other? How did Boko Haram grow under our eyes and become the terror machine that has traumatized the Nigerian people? Let’s face it – Buhari has stepped on Big Toes. Big Toes are fighting back with vengeance. Big Toes are incredibly cunning. A hungry man is an angry man and the story being craftily told the millions of hungry Nigerians is that Buhari is responsible for the biting hunger in the land. Big Toes will not tell you that they stole Nigeria’s common wealth, bought mansions across the world with the money budgeted to fight Boko Haram and sent our young men without weapons to go and die in Sambisa Forest. They will not tell you that they are responsible for the hunger in the land. Sadly, while they are telling their story in a very co-ordinated way, no one appears to be telling the true story of Nigeria in a manner that makes sense. While Big Toes have an army deployed on every social media platform tugging on the hearts of our young and vulnerable, the president’s men are sending press releases to NTA and Daily Times. Please, when was the last time you got your news from NTA or Daily Times? If anyone still believes that social media is a joke, he needs to be reminded that Donald Trump just became the most powerful man in the world using a smart phone. Many of those who had supported our president and his determination to eliminate the virus at the heart of our nation’s sickness, have even become too scared to even be associated with him. They are badly outgunned on social media. The many crazy stories that went viral recently about the ‘death’ of our president is a new level of the war. Big Toes want to totally demystify, discredit and destroy Buhari so that they can regain control of the purse strings of Nigeria. They cant wait for 2019. That is why they are killing our democratically elected president on the social media. Where is the guy responsible for clothing the President? Let me state here that I have never met Muhammadu Buhari. I have never spoken with him directly or indirectly. I have not benefited from him in any way. I am not even sure that he has ever heard of me. I do not belong to APC or any political party. But I remember what happened in Nigeria after Buhari was taken out of power the first time. 419 took root in Nigeria and our values collapsed. The War Against Indiscipline died and madness took over the land. Buhari’s medicine might be very bitter but Nigeria’s sickness is that severe. If for any reason we no longer want Buhari, please let us wait for 2019 and not kill him on Facebook. The truth is that our nation is at war. It is time that those who truly love Nigeria and want a tomorrow for our children fought back. See you next week. [/s] |
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Politics › Re: Fulani Herdsmen Attacking Nigerians Are From Senegal & Mali - Northern Governors by agitator: 11:34am On Jan 25, 2017 |
BeeBeeOoh: Fulani Herdsmen Attacking Nigerians Are From Libya- Buhari 2016
Fulani Herdsmen Attacking Nigerians Are From Senegal & Mali- Northern Governors 2017.
Please if I may ask, Since Those Herdsmen Are Not From Nigeria Why Do Nigerian Government(FG) Frowns At Anybody That Talks ill Of These International Herdsmen Or Possibly Sending The DSS To Pick The Person Up?? The President and Northern governors are saying that you people should allow them kill you for sport. Anytime a Fulani is killed he becomes Northerner, but when they kill Nigerians which mostly happens in the southern part, then they are from Libya, Mali and Senegal. Is it not stupidity for the leadership of a country to tell the citizens that people from other countries can come and kill them without any repercussion can Mexicans go and kill people in US without repercussions or even can Malians kill Ghanaian without response from the Ghanaian government. This country is bleeped up and I have been telling my people and keep telling them we should want out with the Biafrans.  |
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minister is really working. Watching is the best form of work.  |
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omohayek: The difference is that
1. The residents of New York actually pay market prices for their electricity, unlike in Nigeria where prices are artificially capped at unrealistically low levels. 2. The vast majority of New Yorkers actually pay their bills, unlike the many Nigerians who either refuse to pay or outright steal from the grid. 3. The American federal, state and local governments don't owe their electricity providers billions of dollars, and don't have to be begged for years to pay up. 4. The American electricity providers buy their fuel in dollars, pay their costs in dollars, and charge their clients in dollars, so for them there is no FX risk to worry about. 5. American electrical grids haven't been starved of investment for decades, and they aren't owned by a cash-strapped government that can't even pay its bills, let alone find tens of billions of dollars to make up the difference. 6. The American government doesn't create unnecessary difficulties for foreign investors, and you don't have to worry about "settling" everybody from the police to the governors to get simple things done.
By the way, people on here keep bringing up the "Fashola is a lawyer" thing again and again, without even bothering to absorb the contents of the articles they're commenting on. What in all of the problems listed requires any special engineering expertise? Nigeria's power sector is failing for economic and political reasons, not a lack of engineering expertise; no special engineering insight is required to understand that companies who can't charge enough to cover their costs, or get their customers to pay their debts, can't keep operating at a loss indefinitely.
Everybody wants to blame Fashola for not performing some sort of miracle, but what would anybody do differently that wouldn't have most Nigerians wailing and screaming? Look how much people complained about the last tariff increase, and even that didn't reflect the true costs at the time, or the subsequent inflation. You want reliable power, but none of you want to pay for it. a country filled with so called intellectual people reasoning crap like this, and people expects the country to progress. Was it not the same with Nitel? Nitel were given free license yet they couldn't compete with companies that bought license and installed fresh infrastructure. In saner climes Nitel would have been banned or restricted to allow others operate for sometime to meet up before allowing Nitel operate. In Britain British Telecom (BT) was not allowed to operate Cable Television for five years, to allow the new entrants gain ground for a level competition. If electricity had been like telecoms (wireless) all these nigerian owned companies would have closed shop since.  |
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