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johnmark1234:go and scam your biafra brother not me. I should shut up? Seems you don't have manners. And is "Shut" not "shot". No more response from me to you. #bye |
[quote author=INTROVERT post=42014425][/quote]H = Haram. |
Some people will not be happy that I comment 1st on my own topic. May Almighty God give my bro luck tomorrow on LG elections. #MyHonorableCouncilor |
My point is, our advocacy for a
new Nigeria shouldn’t be a call for
a nation built on a personality cult.
For Nigeria to be rescued, what’s
needed is civic vigilance of both
patriotic individuals and the civil
society organisations to “dictate”
to the president what’s required
and desired for a viable nation.
These are strong institutions.
As the hunt for those who took part in the festival
of thievery organised by President Goodluck
Jonathan between 2011 and 2015 continues, what
haunts the mind of many observers is the
perception that everybody who was loyal to the
past government and had either offered a service
or asked to “perform” one – even if a mere
expression of moral solidarity with the
government – benefitted from its gifts of Yam sent
through the embattled former National Security
Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki. Statistically, that’s scary! Sadly, some of the people who participated in that brazen sharing of the N1 trillion security budget and other extra-budgetary “allocations” proposed for our country’s counterterrorism efforts had ended their allegiance to the GEJ-led administration a few days to, and after, the presidential election. And, they’ve built a new nest in the new ruling party. This week, I saw a list of firms that had dealings with the Office of the National Security Adviser during the infamous festival, and it’s easy to tell that, if fairly investigated, the scandal may consume a sizable population of our political elite across all the political parties in the country, including the APC. Buhari, like GEJ, is just a personality who… will only exist on the pages of newspapers 100 years from now. He’s not an institution, not immortal, and neither is his leadership meant to be forever. He’s a man who also thrives on personal reasons, emotions and sentiments. He’s not infallible, that is. I know this son of a former National Security Adviser who’s notorious in Abuja for drag racing in an exotic Italian sports car that even his father couldn’t have afforded if Nigeria were an institutionally strong place. A boy much younger than I am could only afford that if, one, he experienced the “Mark Zuckerberg luck factor” or he’s a sports personality who’s secured endorsement deals with Automobili Lamborghini. No, he’s not Dasuki’s son. This is why we must shift the date backward to see the evils of all the wolves who defected to the APC when the music of that Abuja Yam Festival stopped. The reason for the financial recklessness wasn’t because GEJ was weak; it was because our institutions are weak, because it would’ve been impossible for even the president to have such amount of money withdrawn for dubious purposes with the complicity of the Minister of Finance and the CBN Governor, if our institutions were strong and designed to resist fraud and graft. Buhari, like GEJ, is just a personality who, like all of us reading this, will only exist on the pages of newspapers 100 years from now. He’s not an institution, not immortal, and neither is his leadership meant to be forever. He’s a man who also thrives on personal reasons, emotions and sentiments. He’s not infallible, that is. Aside from our dysfunctional institutions, the other culprit in the ruin of this nation is a compliant society. Our people, instead of frowning at obvious acts of corruption, celebrate the existence of the evidently corrupt. My point is, our advocacy for a new Nigeria shouldn’t be a call for a nation built on a personality cult. For Nigeria to be rescued, what’s needed is civic vigilance of both patriotic individuals and the civil society organisations to “dictate” to the president what’s required and desired for a viable nation. These are strong institutions. If our institutions were strong, President Buhari wouldn’t have considered it wise to frown at the judgment of the judiciary in the cases of Dasuki and Kanu. It’s not a personality cult that builds a sane nation, it’s the wisdom of its leaders to give up their illegitimate rights and selfish interests for all institutions to uphold the values on which they are built. Aside from our dysfunctional institutions, the other culprit in the ruin of this nation is a compliant society. Our people, instead of frowning at obvious acts of corruption, celebrate the existence of the evidently corrupt. And those who have escaped media trial are praised by their community as heroes of an unjust and bigoted system. “gofment money na our money; if you no steal am, another pesin go steal am. If you no gree take am, another pesin go take am!” The last time I was in Minna, a relative declared, “You should be thinking of building your own place.” And even though she was only being candidly concerned, it’s not her ignorance of my ability that made her say so. It was her endorsement of the path of dishonour on which many before me have made fortunes. We both know one “successful” neighbour who, occupying the middle-management cadre in the federal civil service, has acquired houses in Utako, Gwarinpa, and Katampe, alongside four in Minna. He is a role model in this material society. He won’t be judged, because it’s already established that the pathway to financial glory is the presentation of a fat proposal on the desk of a compliant principal or friend. I won’t be shocked to see that he’s a director on the board of one of the firms publicised as recipients of the presidential Yam delivered by Dasuki. This is so because it’s already a tradition for the heads of ministries, departments or agencies to form alliances and rush to the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) to register companies and bid for the contracts advertised by their offices. At the end, they invite nosy juniors, who are likely raise brows about the dubious procedures, to take shares of the blood money. Because “gofment money na our money; if you no steal am, another pesin go steal am. If you no gree take am, another pesin go take am!” May God save us from us! Cc lalasticlala Source: http://blogs.premiumtimesng.com/?p=170484 |
Ok continue |
johnmark1234:scam Alert! |
ajebuter:hahahaha funny! |
Funny nation. |
zendy:your brother of course. |
herbie27:some of them not me. I knew APC stands no chance in bayelsa |
1. The Last Don 2. Prison Break 3. Everybody Hates Chris. 4. Maria de los Angeles 5. The Dictator 6. American pie 7. Poetic justice 8. Jungle fever 9. Desparado 10. Godfather |
One thing I know for sure is that, APC will win Rivers! Like it or not, I rest my case. |
I feel sorry for us in this country! This judges are not helping at all. People who have looted the treasury of this country, their right should be taken away, they don't deserve to claim any right. |
zendy:but you trusted GEJ without any reason? Smh |
AnnaKareninaFan:that @Doyakubu is parody. That @NASS is not National assembly handle, it belongs to an Arab man from Dubai. |
ThugNor Wike is Evil. |
The Rivers state government has been dragged by 8 permanent secretaries in the state to the National Industrial Court (NIC), over their compulsory retirement from the state civil service, The Nation reports. Governor Nyesom Wike The hearing on the suit commenced on Monday, January 11, at the Yenagoa Division of the NIC in Bayelsa state. Tuduru Ede, the lawyer to the plaintiffs, told the court that the reported compulsory retirement of the permanent secretaries was in contravention of the civil service rules and is therefore unlawful, urging the court to declare the exercise null and void. The permanent secretaries include: Sam Woka, Kadilo Brown, Augustine Orlu-Orlu, Muka Nwikosi, Minabelema Michael-West, Ngozi Abu, Kingsley Hart and Justina Jumbo. The Attorney-General of the state, the head of service of the state, the Rivers State Civil Service Commission, and the accountant general of Rivers, were also joined in the suit. Ede further urged the court to restrain the Rivers state government from further threat and harassment of the permanent secretaries with eviction from their official residential accommodation and seizure of their official vehicles. Justice James Agbadu-Fishim, who ruled on the application for interlocutory injunction to restrain the government from harassing the permanent secretaries, noted that the lawyer to the defendants was absent. The case was however adjourned to Thursday, January 21, to hear the motion for interlocutory injunction. Meanwhile, a former commissioner for Land and Survey in Rivers state, Ezemonye Ezekiel Amadi dragged the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Daisy Okocha to the Supreme Court over the constitutionality of her appointment and swearing in as substantive Chief Judge of the state. Ezemonye, a lawyer and staunch member of All Progressive Congress (APC) and critic of the administration of Governor Nyesom Wike, served as the commissioner for Land and Survey under the administration of the immediate past governor, Chibuike Amaechi. Cc seun lalasticlala Source: https://www.naij.com/693909-8-permanent-secretaries-drag-wike-court-compulsory-retirement.html |
Am not Gay! So I don't know. |
Okaka27:pained? What for? Funny kid. |
Daplux4:1. I aint a saint! 2. Judge others? Where in my statement did I judge? 3. Do you comprehend my statement at all? |
alcmene:I wanted to insult you so badly, but then again I remember my New Year resolution was to be a better me, and not to insult or answer to any Bs. Please let's. Join hands and support our president in fighting this monster called corruption. GOD bless us all. #peace |
This people from the otherside of the country are just Gullible and Jobless....smh. |
Spoilt brat. |
vindisick:it's 2016, I do not respond to insult. Stay blessed bro. #BetterMe2016 |
Messi wife be like.......damn I should have married CR7 he's cute, handsome. Unlike my dwarf husband who's shy and doesn't socialise at all, always hiding at home. #LittlePrick |
Mutuwa:this is the type my dad had then. |
Idontbilivi this crap. |
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