₦airaland Forum

Thor:
Because what else do Northerners have?

They only have sand and nothing of value

Don't know what Britain has to answer for? The whole mess is Nigerian created

Kx:
because its hausas,u submit that they shud be given what they want.
Its its MEND,MASSOB and OPC,u suggest,massacre.

[b]A thinking that is devoid of equality and transparent dealing with the interest of all agitating groups.
Its a pity. [/b]

LadyT:
Why do you all bother with Aloy Emeka who is also Hotfunmi who doesnt know what sex it is or what tribe. Yoruba today Igbo tomorrow senseless goat.

Ibime:
I've always thought you were an idiot and now you've confirmed. . . . if na Niger-Delta now, you would say "Crush those cockroaches". . . . but if its Boko Haram, you say "Give them what they want!". . . . e be like say you be Hausa man wey dey pose for Bini sef.

biina:
and mexico is in Europe?
Shame on your geography teacher

Abuzola:
Asha, do you know the meaning of almajiri ? If you do you won't be saying this. The almajiris are the beggar you see in the street of lagos, they are dependant. In the north we hire them to labour for us and we feed them, this is why i like being in the north when i go there i display indolency, i do not wash my cloth and all kind of labour, it is done by the almajirai, hope you get the scope am sketching, moreover many of this almajirai are crossing from Niger republic and chad, incase you do not know chad and Niger republic speak hausa as their language and have hausa tribe as well, not to talk of cameroon, Ghana, benin republic, congo, libya, mali and many other west african countries, this is why you see VOA HAUSA SERVICE, BBC HAUSA SERVICE, IRAN HAUSA SERVICE, DEUTCHE (Germany) HAUSA SERVICE, RADIO FRANCE INTERNATIONAL HAUSA SERVICE, VOA (America) hausa service, SING (CHINA) HAUSA SERVICE. I do listen to them frequently and aired daily. You can as well confirm from a northerner

OPCman:
Yaradua will cause his own downfall if he dare try to stop Lagos state wheels of progress. If PDP and Yaradua make OPC join MEND on emancipation of Nigerians, the country will not last a day.

Mr President should let the sleeping dogs lie.

Dear Mr President, If (as a chemistry lecturer, who doesn't know about law) you can not understand Gov. Fashola reply letter make sure you let your legal advisers read it to you properly in Hausa language because if you try to do anything to punish Lagos state- like witholding its allocation funds, OPC will see this as an attack on Yoruba and fight back. Obasanjo got away with it because he is a Yoruba (or mixed race Yoruba/Igbo), but we will not let you get away with it, unles you want Nigeria to break.

BE WARNED!

Abuzola:
Am not in anyway in support of the Tatsine sect they are herectic, i just finish listening to their leader on Bbc hausa service with his evidences and reason for waging war on police. But the way you guy are taking it as if it is whole north that is behind this is what is aching me, heavens know that majority of you and your pastors are fornicators, early marriage is the only solutiö to this, no wonder we have many bastards in the south. Incase you do not know Kali kato or Tatsine group do not watch Tv, board car or any kind of technology innovation, they walk around with their staffs in a tradition of past prophets, they do not have wrist watch, they curse anybody who sell cigar and hemp, bla bla bla and many more, we have clashed with them here in my domain 6 years ago, it was a bloody encounter but with the support of soldiers we succeeded, there are speculation that they use charm during fight

Abuzola:
God have mercy on all of you. You people just pin point a worst zone in the north what of Akwa ibom, Enugu and cross river ravaged with puberty and plundered with kidnapping just to earn a living. Keep boasting of your temporary reserves i.e oil, one day it will finish and you will then know that northerners are good samaritan

Badagry road expansion: Task Force demolishes buildings at Orile-Igamu
Headlines Jul 27, 2009 By Olasunkanmi Akoni
LAGOS — THE Lagos State Government Joint Special Task Force yesterday, pulled down several structures along Orile Igamu-Badagry Expressway as part of the ongoing demolition exercise to pave the way for the reconstruction the Lagos Badagry Expressway metro line project into 10 lanes.



ROAD EXPANSION: Demolition of buildings along Orile-Mile 2-Badagry expressway, yesterday. Photo: Diran Oshe.
The exercise which started last Saturday saw many traders whose shops were affected hurriedly packing their wares amidst tight security.

As early as 8 a.m, men of the Joint Special Task Force stormed the area and after allowing the traders to pack their wares out of the shops, moved in the bulldozer to pull down the structures which also affected the popular Eleganza Ultra Modern complex.

One of the officials who spoke to Vanguard on anonymity said the traders were duly served abatement notice but would not budge.

According to him, the demolition was to allow for construction proper of the Lagos Badagry Expressway into 10 lanes.
Those traders whose structures were affected and having genuine title document have been identified and will be adequately compensated by the state government.

One of the affected traders, Mr Ake James, who spoke with Vanguard said they received the letter on short notice.


Demolished Eleganza building at Orile
They accused Lagos State government of not providing alternative markets to them before embarking on the demolition exercise.

The multi billion naira project being awarded to three contractors is expected to be carried out in phases.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/27/badagry-road-expansion-task-force-demolishes-buildings-at-orile-igamu/

larez:
It is quite obvious that you are the epitome of the Igbo man Ozodi Thomas describes. I think it is time that I seek that article again and post it here. Your tone is typical of your self perceived superiority with leaves you clearly deluded. You have a bunch of twists and turns without references to your sources, which I guess makes you the indisputable source itself. Ozodi Thomas article coming up. Here on Nairaland!!

The Igbos And I
« on: May 29, 2009, 09:36 PM » 

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The Igbos and I     
Written by Ozodi Thomas Osuji, PhD   
Saturday, 18 October 2008
THE IGBOS AND I

Ozodi Thomas Osuji

In retrospect, what I said about the Igbos amounts to the view that they are not victims of other Nigerians attack, and that they generated attacks on them by being arrogant and insulting. I, in effect, would seem to blame them for their dreadful fate.

I see many of them as paranoid, narcissistic and antisocial personalities; I see their society as pathological, a society that accepts people conditionally hence produces neurotic persons.

My write up on their icon, Chinua Achebe, sees the man as immature, simplistic, a man who sees himself as a victim when, in fact, he is not. 

In other writings, I saw Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Igbos civil war leader, as a bloody coward who ran away from the battlefield.

All these apparent negative views of Igbos would seem to suggest that I hate Igbos. Therefore, Igbos justifiably feel angry at me. They see me as their enemy and blame me. This is an understandable reaction to me. When people feel attacked they tend to be angry; angry persons have been known to kill those who made them angry. (Though I am Igbo, I emotionally distance myself from them hence talk about them as if I am talking about other persons, not about my people. I do so to be able to be objective and dispassionate in talking about their issues. Of course, I identify with Igbos otherwise I would not be so obsessed with their apparent untoward character traits. I am motivated to help, not crucify.)

But am I negative towards Igbos or am I stating the truth about them? I am stating the truth about them, a truth that they do not want to hear, and a truth that hurts them deeply.  My role is akin to the role of ancient prophets. Prophets speak the truth, as they see it, and their truth makes people who do not want to hear that truth angry. Prophets are often killed because what they say is not what mankind wants to hear. The Christian Bible is replete with stories about murdered teachers of truth, including Jesus Christ.

If these people were not angry at me I would not have been speaking the truth about their warped personalities. Therefore, I must accept their anger at me as part of the price I have to pay for being a prophet of the truth. In the long run, I am their savior; I save them from their arrogant egoism. (This statement may seem grandiose but there is no other way of putting it; however, what is being said is that the truth would save them; that truth is spoken through certain persons, including me, and in as much as one is part of the bearers of the truth one is part of their savior; in the final analysis only God…the immanent God, the Holy Spirit… is our savior; God is made more manifest in those of us who speak the truth than those who choose to live the lie; the truth is that all human beings, man and woman, black and white, Igbo and Hausa etc are the same and equal; the lie is belief in inequality.)

Like all saviors of mankind, my work may not be appreciated by the generation that it is addressed to; indeed, if they could they would kill me as they killed ancient prophets, except that I am safely away from the reach of their rusted swords. Human beings kill those who speak the truth but later generations eventually pretend to worship their names.

Igbos, like folk every where, see themselves as innocent victims and see others as their victimizers and therefore see me as a person who sees them as responsible for their situation as an enemy; they want me to go away so that they would continue in their merry ways. The devil wants the Christ to go away; darkness wants light to go away so that it continues to prevail.

But light, represented by the teachers of love, the teachers of union and the teachers of God, does not go away, for it must perform its function. One must have the fortitude and tough skin to deal with the persons who howl like dogs at the truth.

My function is to heal Igbos of their delusion disorder, a mental disorder that makes them feel arrogant and look down on their neighbors hence generate conflict between them. If I call their attention to their malady and they learn to behave differently they would generate peace and happiness for them and their neighbors.

But their egos want to continue in their merry ways so they oppose me. However, eventually they would accept the truth.  I am here to heal them of their delusion disorder paranoid, narcissistic and anti social personality disorders. I say antisocial personality disorders because many of them do not show remorse or guilt from engaging in antisocial behaviors; these folk engage in 419 advance fee scams and other criminal activities; to them, all that matters is to steal and become rich and be seen as very important persons in their denizen; pro-social behavior go to the dogs!

Like little children they currently resent me and call me derogatory names. Indeed, some old, wretched Igbos called me old! They have not even seen me in their entire lives!  Any thing to put someone down is their approach to life, Imanjakiri, Eko okwu, it is called.

They call me insulting names because their culture disposes them to do so. Their pathological culture celebrates success hence produces thieves who steal to become rich so as to be accepted by their people. They see those of us who are motivated by pursuit of knowledge, not material things, as poor and since in their warped minds poverty is bad they have no respect for us. Patience must be exercised as one deal with these people.

Why is it any of their god damned, freaking business if some one is poor? Why are they busybodies who mind other peoples business, any way? God, these people are infantile beyond comprehension. Hasn’t any one told them that thinkers, philosophers and artists etc are not motivated by money but by the truth and beauty and are often poor. Was Plato rich?

They are really children, not adults. They are an extremely childish people. At the slightest drop of the hat they resort to calling folk put down names. They call you negative names as if doing so would make you stop speaking the truth, as you see it.

What is the truth? The truth is love yourself and love all people as you love yourself; see all people as the same and equal and as members of God’s one family. 

Their childish vituperation says, in effect, if they do not get what they want that they are going to harass you and make you feel shamed so that out of shame you do as they want you to do, which is to ignore the truth and say what they want said.  Actually, their behavior is terroristic for they are trying to use public shaming to intimidate you into changing your mind and doing what they want you to do. The poor devils do not realize that the truth cannot be made to go away; we can mask and veil the truth but it is always there.

Name calling does not change the truth. Name calling actually reflects more about the name callers than those called such names; it reflects the callers’ emotional immaturity rather than those they called such names.

Incidentally, often those they called negative names slap them around (Hausas slap them around, rule them in Nigeria). They then see themselves as victims and forget their role in generating their fate.

Apparently, what we have here are a childish people. One must have patience and help them to grow up rather than feel angry at them. One does not feel angry at children; one patiently helps them to grow up. I should never feel angry at them as they call me silly put down names. They are like the devil who calls Christ names hoping to silence him, make the truth go away and leave them to live in their darkness.

We must remember that these people sold their brothers and sisters into slavery just so that they would get some money to buy paraphernalia that in their primitive eyes made them seem important.

These people do not recognize that the only thing that makes a human being important is love. Love for ones self and for other people is the only variable that makes one dignified, not having silly material wealth.

Their childish culture values material wealth; it is as if the people are not aware that you do not take wealth with you when you die. What you take with you when you die is love. When you meet your maker he asks you whether you loved his children or not, not; whether you stole from them and used the money to buy stupid chieftaincy titles in your village to make your ego and its body seem special.

It is for me, an adult, to help re-socialize these children and help them grow up and become emotional adults; at present what we have are children in adult bodies.

I accept my task cheerfully and will help these children to grow up and disregard their verbal abuses; I can live with children’s petulance. (I now understand why enlightened men, those who have experienced our unity and teach it, tend to see other persons as children; even when they are young they see humanity as children. They see people as children because people refuse to live the truth. It is those who live the truth, regardless of their chronological ages, that are mental adults.)

No one else has ever called them out on their childishness; in fact, some other Nigerians have bought their delusion of superiority and humor them with that belief; the cumulative effect is that they do not know how foolish they really are!  Even their literary hero, Chinua Achebe, is unsophisticated.

Chinua Achebe’s novels are, more or less, like J.Z. Rawlings of Harry Porter fame; he wrote stuff that appeal to the minds of adolescents, not adults. If Achebe had taken the time to read a bit of philosophy and psychology his writing would have addressed what Huxley called the perennial issues that exercise adult human beings minds rather than the trite he wrote. I recommend that he begin his re-education by systematically studying philosophy and psychology, beginning with reading the masters in the field, such as Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hume, Hobbes, Berkeley, Rousseau, Pascal, Leibnitz, James, Sartre, Camus, Heidegger, Jasper, Freud, Adler, Jung, Horney, Skinner, Maslow, Confucius, Shankara, and Ramanuja etc. If he does such reading it would be reflected in his writing. At present his writing reflects childish level of thinking.

Achebe definitely is not Nobel Prize material. The poor devil probably feels that he deserves it, especially since Wole Soyinka received it. It does not take a rocket scientist to see that Soyinka is an adult writer and, moreover, is more courageous than Achebe. Upon the slightest perceived threat to his life, Achebe, like the other coward, Emeka Ojukwu (that man is a disgrace to the military uniform and should not even be called a private in the army; defeated generals are supposed to dorn their generals' uniforms, sword in hand, head up, chin out and march to their conquerors and hand in their sword, the symbol of their commands, and like courageous men accept what fate awaits them; General Robert Lee of the Confederate Army did this;  but this lilly livered coward fled to the Ivory Coast and abandoned other Igbos to be killed by the Nigerians he had told them was out to kill him; I say that he ought to be court martialled and shot), runs away to go save his skin. The Nobel in literature is given with an eye to the recipient’s courage, as well as literary excellence.

I can just see some Igbos fuming in their mouths, asking: who is this Ozodiobi Osuji, and where does he get off criticizing the great Achebe? What has he written? Is he not deluded to imagine himself in the ranks of Achebe?

Poor souls; each of us is operating at his wavelength; I am not Achebe and Achebe is not me. I do not have false modesty, for humility is not humiliation, as the ego teaches us, and will say it as it is: in the world of philosophy and psychology, I am second to none.

I dropped out of academia to give myself time to think through my ideas. They are now ready to bless the world. I have completed twenty books, each, at least, four hundred pages long. Soon, folk would be reading my works on philosophy, theology and psychology and learn from an unusual, superior  mind, the type that comes through this world once in several thousand years.I am the return of the ancient Igbo dibia, as folks said when I was born in the 1950s Lagos, Massy Maternity Hospital; I was made the "Onye Ishi Muo" of Amadioha at age eight.

Achebe is obviously a useful writer but it is time that more thoughtful writers replaced his simple story telling prose. Africa now needs writers of superior intelligence, writers with excellent grasp of philosophy, psychology and the sciences. It is time Africans wrote like adults not secondary school boys.

When one says something that many Igbos do not agree with, instead of trying to understand what one said some of them would ask one to go kill ones self, to go commit suicide and or call one sundry other put down names. Psychoanalytically, what is going on here is that if one does not agree with their childish ego tripping, their deluded sense of specialness, they feel attacked by one; they feel deflated and feel like they are nothing. They feel like one has attacked to destroy their swollen ego self concepts, their imaginary sense of importance and superiority, and they wish that one went away; indeed, that one died and left them alone to pretend to be grandiose persons.

As they see it, no one should tell them that they are merely engaged in ego defenses that mask their sense of inferiority with false superiority hence are neurotic. They want one to collude with them and tell them that they are God’s special children. Well, they are not; they are ordinary men and women like the rest of us.

What do we tell white folks who feel superior to black folks? We tell them that they are sick because we know that all human beings, black and white, are the same and equal.

But here comes an African tribe who did not even invent writing or the wheel and whose sociopolitical development is at the most rudimentary level, in short, primitive persons, and they want us to hide that fact and tell them that they are superior to other people.

These people want you to collude with them and accept their fictive, imaginary superiority feeling, their delusion of grandeur (this grandiosity takes a psychotic turn in those of them that now deny their Africanness and imagine that they are Jews; apparently, to them Jews are special and if they are Jews then they are special).

These people are sick and need to be healed. If you are trained in the mental health fields, psychology and psychiatry, have PhD or MD in them, and have had, at least, ten years of clinical practice thus thoroughly understand the nature of mental disorders, please join me in healing these terribly confused people.

I have two manuscripts that I am about to submit for publication and would gladly send them to you to read and proffer your opinion on them before they are published. They are: The Igbos and I; this is a four hundred pages book of essays on the Igbos that I wrote over the past two years; the other is:  Healing Igbo Delusion Disorder, a three hundred pages manuscript I just completed.

Please join me and let us help these talented but terribly confused people before their misguided arrogance and tendency to put other people down (in pursuit of what Alfred Adler calls fictive superiority) generate another round of pogrom for them. Their abusive nature would cause other Nigerians to kill them, and when killed they would, as before, see themselves as innocent victims. They are not victims; they sleep on the beds they made with their derogatory motor mouths.

We need to give these people some psychological insight into why they falsely feel superior to other persons, before they harm themselves, again.

Jarus:
Just remembering MC Usman

Abuzola:
You guys keep talking shit, without the south nigeria will survive, when i went for pilgrimage in saudi arabia i was shown treasures that the then nigerian administration provided to saudi arabia and the date was pre petroleum discovery, Agriculture is a profitable loom that feed nations. If not for the dependant on oil We would have been the greatest, malaysia will tell you a whole lot

Abuzola:
@hauwa, a forceful marriage is illegitimate in Islam, you can compare the rate of fornicators in the north to that of the south, and you will agree with me that early marriage has merit.

mikeansy:
nobody wants to talk about the fact that naija has discovered URANIUM in commercial quantity.

the majority of naija uranium are not in the south

naijaking1:
So where the did the fund used to build the refinary come from? Please don't tell me it came from the north, otherwise I'll send you back to Boko Haram University to learn the truth.

mccloud224:
The likes of Zik and Awo had a good vision for a "unified" Nigeria and it could have worked except for the greed of a few.The way i see things, Nigeria has a better chance of surviving ethnic problems than any other country because we have so many tribes and if they all stand resolute on were this country is headed, this country has a chance.It's not like Rwanda were it's just Hutus and Tutsi pitting against each other.Nigeria has so many tribes and hundreds of language variants.

It's greed and wickedness that has kept us in this state.The Hausa man would rather have his person there ruining the country than allow an Efik man to rule them.The Yoruba would rather have their person sucking the country dry than have an Ibo man come in there to fix things.This is why we are the way we are.

davidylan:
what is even funnier is that such a grave occurence was not deemed serious enough to merit the frontpage of this forum. The MEND attacks however hit the front page.

monstah:
Insanity! If MEND have vacancies,i'll apply,

Lagos AC blasts Yar'adua on Lagos councils
Written by Joe Igbokwe
Sunday, 26 July 2009 14:49
The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress has condemned President Umaru Yar’Adua’s letter to the Lagos State government to revert to the former 20 local government councils within fourteen days as another way the underachieving president wants to divert attention from his woeful performance and the sordid state of Nigeria at present. The party advises Yar’Adua to direct the unnecessary attention he is wasting on a long-settled issue to the disastrous floundering of the ship of the Nigerian state under his watch.

In a release in Lagos, signed by the party’s Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the AC, Joe Igbokwe, Lagos AC says it is pleasantly surprised that President Yar’Adua still finds ample room to play very cheap politics when Nigeria is sinking and has become the butt of the ribaldry of the entire world under his incompetent watch. The party advices that he finds more room for his petty partisanship than dissipate energy on an issue that had been satisfactorily settled by the highest court in Nigeria because he would fail woefully in his new partisan adventure.

“While Nigeria has been plunged into the pith of darkness, while the roads have become permanent death traps, while armed robbery, kidnapping and sundry crimes assail Nigerian people without let, while our hospitals have converted to huge mortuaries, while our educational institutions have become wastelands, while hunger, want and despair afflict Nigerians like never before, while the poverty gloom encircles Nigeria at its worst state, while the Niger Delta has become an intractable enclave, while corruption and official stealing have become norms, while electoral fraud and chicanery have been promoted to state creeds, Yar’Adua still finds time to mischievously try to coerce Lagos into witling down its strength to appease his narrow and warped political interests. We find it annoying that while Nigerians groan under Yar’Adua’s clearly incompetent watch, he still finds enough space to embark on the mission of making a sophisticated state like Lagos his vassal enclave when the last PDP government of his predecessor sought in vain to do that impossible task.

“We are even surprised that in his desire to aid the corrupt and artificial growth of the PDP, Yar’Adua is not worried of the fact that Nigeria has been drastically dwindled by his directionless and incompetent leadership. We are worried that Yar’Adua and his PDP, in celebrating their emptiness and vanity are impervious to the scorn that Nigeria drew from its black-out by the recent visit of President Barack Obama to the Ghana and the strong tirade the American leadership launched on them in Ghana. We are worried that Yar’Adua and his rampaging party are busy nurturing their notorious penchant to cart away corrupt and fraudulent victories against Nigerians, as shown by his ill-advised letter to Lagos to revert to 20 local councils, a demand which is grossly an over-reach of his constitutional powers.

“Lagos AC believes that the cheap resort to tepid political maneuvers by President Yar’Adua is the reason why he had abandoned the ship of the Nigerian state under his watch to become a grand receiver of immoral and unprincipled political turncoats who illegally divert the mandates of their parties to the PDP. This naïve resort to cheap political manipulation is the reason why Yar’Adua has abandoned governance to lure cheap politicians to his PDP in his dream that Nigeria will become a one-party state under his watch. We assure him that that will be a pipe dream, together with his wild hallucination that he would browbeat Lagos to conform his cheap political interests and that of his PDP. He should have another thing coming.

“We are surprised that a Yar’Adua from whom Nigerians stridently demand a complete reform of the corrupt, smelly and acrid electoral process through which he emerged, has been playing games with that central demand but has rather been mischievously supporting the territorial wishes of his party men. We are galled that Yar’Adua is content with a selective manipulation of the laws of the land to favour his narrow political interests and his political party. Luckily the law is clear and very cadent on the issue of the Lagos councils and for Yar’Adua to dream he will successfully force Lagos to conform to his political desires and abandon the interests of Lagosians is a joke that will end in smokes, as it had so far.

“We are not under any illusion of the intent of Yar’Adua and his PDP on Lagos and we assure them that Lagos remains that bastion that will certainly not be conquered by the neo-colonialist. Even as Yar’Adua would sustain the law that allows Kano, which realistically has less population than the old Alimosho Local council in Lagos to have 44 local councils and Lagos to have only 20 local councils, we want to let him know that he is embarking in a political exercise in futility and should better direct his attention to the simmering ship of state, which Nigeria has become under his perilous leadership.”


Joe Igbokwe.

Publicity Secretary,

Lagos AC.

mikeansy:
O yes!!!!

Yar'adua is President and he appoints the INEC chairman

Goodluck Jonathan is a loyal Vice President

Iwuanyanwu is a strong PDP man in Imo State and a pragmatist, if Godfatherism would thrive in IMO Iwuanyanwu would have been a Godfather.

The President and Yar'adua are currently part of the establishment in Nigeria, while Iwuanyanwu is a strong establishment guy in IMO with political connections outside the state. The trio of these guys you mentioned plus an incumbent Governor are more powerful and influential and have more influence in IMO state in the run up to 2011 than Orji Kalu.

I am not a great fan of how these things work but this is what obtains in Nigeria.

Ohakim emerged because his candidacy was a confluence of interest. The State guber rotation fell on Okigwe at this time, Ararume who would have inherited that fell out with his party, got frustrated by his party, there was also an incumbent President who did not want to see Ararume become a Governor, plus other interests I will not mention for security and political reasons.

So it had nothing to do with Orji or his clout, even untill one week to election folks did not know about the existence of PPA in IMO.

But at the end of the day the Governor, Ikedi Godson Ohakim is not a bad choice.

olabukola:
Did you create this forum to sound stupid? I have never read a reasonable post from you b4 why?

debosky:
Alright asha - move the institute to the ND and we will have peace.

This is a distraction like I've said - you can whip up as much sentiment as you like but it doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

The manpower issue in the delta is primarily middle/low level - removing focus from this will ensure that majority of youths remain unemployed and focused on militancy. Keep the PTI with its current focus and it will make an impact. That remains the reality whether you choose to accept it or not.

Even if you paid taxes to the centre - strategic policy making can still be done by the FG - who says they wouldn't do the same thing then? Sometimes I wonder if you think through some of your comments.

People are chasing shadows by making a big deal out of a 14bn institute when the drive should be for seeking ways to optimise the PTI's output and not get it muddled up with further bureaucracy.

The timing is insensitive, the motives could be read as being domineering, the management of the whole issue leaves a lot to be desired, but even with all this, we cannot afford to make emotional judgments on issues like these.