₦airaland Forum

honeric01:
my friend is currently stuck in delta state right now, he said the strike is fully on ground, yet some people said nothing of such? lol

So Delta people are striking at this time of the day? LOLLLLLLLLZZZZZZZZ!!!
Your "friend" na wa!

You guys give it up, first a fake photo and now "friends!"

The junk articles title should read; "Pro-subsidy Removal Rally in Anambra."

The Senate is only asking that it be postponed to April. They have not asked that it should be restored (which is beyond their power in this instance).

Panadol?

If Lagos is the latest addition to states attacking Northerners? Then its sad, however the OP's claims that it is the Hausa's on a vicious mission themselves need to be checked out.

nuclearboy:
This "story" is simply that - a story! Sadly, its neither bright nor sensible. The only good thing about it is that we don't know the turds that originally wrote it.

But if such "damage control" is coming out, I guess GEJ is about to throw in the towel and needed a way to retain some of his credibility thus the "story"

Fact - this makes him look even worse

1. NOI said publicly that neither she nor GEJ said April - this directly contradicts that assertion
2. GEJ is made out as Koruji said - an unpresidential president using dirty tricks to win against "smugglers" and "cabal(s)"rather than weilding the legitimate power he has access to.
3. A terrible stinking story was the best all the paid mouths in government could find as defense - shows how the dregs of society have taken over this govt.

Luckily, Beaf states he is not Omokri - praise God! I would have been totally disappointed if he were!

There is no part of the story that sounds half as much as you've divined from it. Dude, digest the story and stop seeing meanings that no one else see's.
It is a story about a whopping N50billion bribe. The story might be true or it might be false, lots of things are getting said these days.
To me, it is very likely based on facts, especially when the behaviour of the Reps is considered; they quickly brushed aside a motion to track down and arrest the cabal in an unprecedented Sunday meeting. That sort of thing is very difficult to overlook.

diluminati:
Guys try for once and ignore this worthless fool.

I wonder why you always sound so bitter?
No husband or boyfriend? Why?

koruji:
Impaired Baboon? That's all you can do. I am disappointed in you.

Yeah, the drugs that fill your deep noses.That might explain all of these nonsense. You guys are behaving like drug addicts for whom no amount of money is enough because you cannot have enough highs. That is why you are willing to kill Nigerians in the name of far-flung ridiculous unworkable lies called SURE (more like SURE?).

How many buses are you guys buying again? 0 or 1600 or -1600? You people can't even get your lies straight.

Go push drugs for your arse that looks like an unfortune frog.
What does your state produce that you are so bothered about free money from Abuja? Is that not what should be your main concern?
Lazy, air-headed phuck.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/550057_TinubuDrugsIndictment_gifae809e8a0cdcb8b96a43c2b06813cdcb

This is how it should be, we cannot continue feeding other countries when we are yet to develop.
Right on, GEJ!

koruji:
@Beaf
We'll see who the true fools are if GEJ doesn't heed good advice. I am sure his fellow executive robbers are already feeling the heat, and putting pressure on him.

But of course hanger-ons like you will not let go because that is like taking lice off its blood supply. When you "animal" is dead you would migrate like the AGIP that you are to new deals.

If you think this is how a nation develops you must really be swallowing your own dung - go ask what happened to IBB's SAP.

Maybe Tinubu pays you to chat id!ocy on NL, or you run drugs for him (and sniff some too) that is why you think others must be paid like you.
Tell me, what do you do for Tinubu, are you his heroine runner? Do you sell his drugs or help him forge "Toronto" certificates?

Your state produces fuckall, yet you wish to cry more than the bereaved.

Impaired baboon.

BlackPikiN:
Una dey craze.
When Obasanjo ordered soldiers to kill everybody in Odi Village. I mean everybody in ODI. WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU IDIOTS? None of you f00ls said nothing about ICC!
So tey Timaya use una sing self.
You guys are so selfish, irresponsible and pen thieves!


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Don't mind that hypocrite and uncultured buffoon.
When Odi was levelled, where were they? They have been calling themselves "owners of Nigeria" for the past few days. Owners of who?
They are just mentally and physically lazy ethnic bigots.

koruji:
This is stuff of Squealer in Animal Farm - and boy you never disappoint - fallacious reasoning of the highest order.

I wonder what brains machine behind this rubbish are using - it is certainly not very smart.

You mean that rather than set a trap for people that were giving & receiving a bribes the PRESIDENT OF A 150 million strong nation took the option of an elementary kid fighting with the other for the last candy.

Wonders shall never end with this Aso Rock.

Keep discrediting GEJ. You are doing a hell of a job too.

Phuck off back to the zoo you rushed out off.
Imagine talking about discrediting GEJ to you. Wonders!
Does any sane person think GEJ can be discredited to a hate filled madman like you?

@Koruji

I pity fools.
If the so-called "civil society" (read smugglers, marketers and importers) had won the battle by some far fetched miracle, what do you think would have happened to Nigeria?

Insular fools like you can never measure the temperature outside their villages and regions. Keep vomitting and swallowing bile, it will only affect your health.
You put people on the streets to die fighting the battle of their enemies. Dude, if you like. cry blood, its your phucking problem.

Nigeria MUST develop, regardless what you are or what you think.

[size=14pt]How N50bn intended bribe forced Jonathan to ignore the advice by PDP[/size]
FRESH facts emerged yesterday that the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan to remove fuel subsidy on January 1 was to forestall bribe plans by some petroleum products marketers and smugglers to bribe the National Assembly members to the tune of N50 billion naira ($312.5 million).

Posted at 11/01/2012 01:07 AM | Updated at 11/01/2012 01:07 AM
By Simon Imobo-Tswam, Henry Omunu, Emma Johnson, Abuja

FRESH facts emerged yesterday that the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan to remove fuel subsidy on January 1 was to forestall plans by some petroleum products marketers and smugglers to bribe the National Assembly members to the tune of N50 billion naira ($312.5 million).

An authoritative source told The Moment in an exclusive interview last night that the president broke his promise so as to pre-empt the National Assembly from forcing his hand to retain the subsidy in the 2012 budget after excluding it from the Appropriation Bill.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and member of its Board of Trustees (BoT) disclosed that some selected PDP elders, comprising some members of the BoT and the National Working Committee (NWC) had met with the president at the Presidential Villa on November 20, and advised him to phase the subsidy removal in four installments of 25 per cent spanning his remaining tenure.

According to the PDP’s chieftain, who pleaded anonymity, the president, however, learnt, at the last minute, of a plan by petroleum marketers and smugglers to bribe federal lawmakers with N50 billion to include allocation for subsidy in the budget.

Said he: ‘At some point towards the close of 2011, the president got information about a gang up by petroleum importers and cross-border smugglers against his planned subsidy removal, which is the kernel of the deregulation project in the downstream sector.

‘He learnt that they had voted a whooping $312 million which is about N50 billion to lobby or bribe the National Assembly members, and thus, make them to insist on the retention of subsidy in the budget by making a provision for it.

‘Once this was done, the president would have been helpless as expunging the clause or provision would have triggered an executive-legislative fight. And mind you, even if he refused to assent to it, the House and the Senate would easily pass it with an overwhelming majority; thus, making themselves champions of the masses’.

He went on: ‘So to pre-empt the scenario, especially with his memory of how the National Assembly killed the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) after alleged inducement from the major oil companies, including sponsored foreign junkets, Jonathan had to act fast.

‘This is why he broke his promise to labour and seemingly rejected the advice of his party and representations from well-meaning statesmen like Chief Obasanjo, Gen. Babangida and Gen. Yakubu Gowon’.

The Moment recalls that at the heat of the tension generated by the president’s plan to remove fuel subsidy late last year, he had assured labour and Nigerians that the take-off date for deregulation will wait till April when the Federal Government would have held extensive consultations with the relevant stakeholders.

The Moment gathered that the PDP’s elders had recommended that the president remove 25 per cent subsidy in the first instance, and use the proceeds to execute one major road project in each of the six geo-political zones this year, and show-case them by year-end and build public support for subsequent phased removal.

By their reasoning, another 25 per cent would have, thus, been removed in the first quarter of 2013, with the proceeds used to improve power while proceeds from the third and fourth removals would have been committed to improving education and health-care respectively.

It was also gathered that the president’s unilateral action has angered the PDP’s hierarchy, with some vocal members, saying ‘by not carrying them along, the president has succeeded in casting the party in bad light, especially with governorship elections coming up in Adamawa, Bayelsa, Cross River and Sokoto states.

When contacted, the Chairman Senate Committee on Information and Media, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, said there is no iota of truth in the bribery allegation.

Similarly, a member of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Saviour Udoh, representing Ikot-Ekpene/Essien Udim/Obot Akara Federal Constituency, said lawmakers had no pre-knowledge of the subsidy removal by the president, denying any allegation of financial inducement from either the presidency or oil marketers.

Another lawmaker, Emmanuel Ekpenyong, representing Uyo/Uruan/Nsit Attai/Ibesikpo Asutan Federal Constituency, said ‘l strongly condemn this vicious allegation against members of the House. It is not true.’

http://www.momentng.com/en/news/5936/how-n50bn-intended-bribe-forced-jonathan-to-ignore-the-advice-by.html

ficoram:
@Beaf
I ve been reading most of your comments here on this forum and 1 thing is clear to me,you are a BAS-TARD.

But we share a mother, so go home and weep.

Tinubu's paper, una don tire?
It is wrong to start ethnically bigotted protests in the face of a determined FG. Now, you guys are blinking?

[size=14pt]Time to break the stalemate on subsidy removal[/size]
By Bolade Omonijo, 10 minutes ago

FOR the two days that the general strike which Organised Labour declared has lasted, things have been very difficult for the people of Nigeria. Many depend on daily earnings to fend for their families even as prices of goods and commodities have shot through the roof. It is an indefinite strike, thus, no one knows how long the hardship occasioned by the protest against the unilateral deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry would last. The times are difficult; the moment dangerous.

A hungry person, it is said, is an angry person. So far, the protests have been largely peaceful. This cannot be guaranteed for too long, if the conflict is not resolved within the week.

Following the announcement of deregulation of the price of petrol on January 1, the Federal Government insisted that the old regime had become untenable and unsustainable. President Goodluck Jonathan, besides addressing the nation last Saturday, inaugurated 1,600 buses meant to cushion the harsh effects of the astronomical rise in transportation cost and the consequent soaring price of food items.

But, the labour leaders shunned invitation to dialogue, with the president of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Mr. Peter Esele, contending that the government had not kept faith in the negotiations. He said debates and discussions were on when the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) announced removal of the N65 cap on petrol.

Many analysts are now calling for a pull back from the brink. The senior workers of the petroleum industry, under the aegis of PENGASSAN, has served notice that production in the oil fields and wells will be shut down if the increase is not reversed before today.

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has also served notice that it would order doctors to drop their stethoscopes and shun patients if the strike lingers beyond this week.

Moves by the two chambers of the National Assembly to mediate deserve commendation. On Sunday, about the same time that President Jonathan was launching a mass transit initiative, the House of Representatives met and passed a resolution calling for suspension of the deregulation policy to allow for wider consultation. The motion was promptly denounced by the president’s spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, who described it as merely advisory.

Senate President David Mark held a meeting with the labour leadership with a view to finding a middle ground. It failed as Organised Labour insisted that there would be no negotiation with a government that had breached faith.

What then is the way forward? First, the Federal Government must drop the arrogant and dismissive way it has handled the matter so far. It must acknowledge that power belongs to the people in a democracy, learning from what has happened in other countries in recent times. Perhaps out of exasperation, some of the protesters, especially those from the civil society organisations, are calling for the resignation of the government.

This may be an extreme position to take in the circumstances. But, the longer the protests linger, the more extreme the positions participants may take. Chasing away the government that was popularly elected seven months ago may not be a viable way of resolving the logjam. If Jonathan steps aside, who steps in? Vice President Namadi Sambo in accordance with the constitution? If both are forced out, would power be handed to the Senate President? All these have implications and could lead to a total breakdown of law and order in the country.

All wars end on the roundtable. But, as some members of the National Assembly, senior politicians and patriots have argued, it is time to bring both parties together again. It will help if the deregulation is suspended in the interim to allow for thorough consultation.

It might also help if the structures solely erected by the government ostensibly to cushion the effects of the pangs, including the Kolade and Belgore panel, are dismantled.

Extreme actions could push a country buffeted by sectarian strife off the precipice and the end result is unpredictable. A process has started, the national interest, as patriots have argued, should prevail.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/32835-time-to-break-the-stalemate-on-subsidy-removal.html

Ezie Okwu!
All hail SE, no slacking! Na una we de look o!

South South no send una wit una protest o! Lol!
Aluta!

When you guys want to carry out an ideologically driven protest driven by an enduring philosophical base, then call us. Until that day, goodnight, we be watching you's all on we TV's.

Poor Tunde Bakare, the false prophet.
Next!

Fail.

Jonathan na quiet dude. Di man don talk im own since Saturday, bobo no send.

igbonla:
And you think GEJ is interested in any of these? It will make more sense to have the SS folks join in the crusade on those issues you listed above, they will be addressed as a matter of urgency if Tom Polo and co would shut down all the crude oil production areas rather than working for their pockets. It was shocking to hear GEJ talked about tenure in office when the issue of Federalism and PIB has been on ground for a while!

Some of us will keep drumming it into your ears that the oil has pulled back the entire country especially the SW. Human brains are not put to good use when everybody is dependent on oil. I am not a fan of Tinubu but he did stood up to OBJ and ran the Lagos LGs without the useless monthly oil handouts. Some of us will give up 50% of our salary as tax if we wont have to run our own local government.

I will tell you very firmly that GEJ is. In fact he pushed the governors very hard the numerous times they came demanding more money from the FG. GEJ told them the only way was to decrease the FG and states share of the money in favour of the LG's. Not only that, he proposed to banish joint state and LG accounts and pay directly to the LG's in furtherance of true federalism. The governors went up in arms and refused. There has been a vigorous back and dorth and the matter is still ungoing.

I also mentioned the anti-people land use decree, well guess what? GEJ has that as part of his constitution review amendments. The man is quiet, but things are happening quietly as well. I believe it is Nigerians unusual need for outward displays of aggression that has driven some to think GEJ is a walkover; that in turn fuelled the unfortunate shallow protests and we are now where we are with many shocked that the end result of their walk in the park protest is far from what they envisaged.

If the protests organisers really mean well for the country, they would be demanding a sovereign national conference. Now, such a protest I would willingly join.

NB: You might find the stuff at the end of this link to be quite informative of some behind the scene events: http://www.economicconfidential.net/new/news/national-news/850-rationality-of-joint-state-and-local-government-accounts

nku5:
@ Beaf- first of all, ppl don't need ulterior motives to demand fiscal sanity. You haven't said whether or not the wage and recurrent expense bill should come down but I'm sure u know it should.

I'm happy you are talking about the coma our local govts are in. Since u are passionate about it, u should work on encapsulating your ideas and pushing them through appropriate channels. This is a good time. You can't tell ppl not to demand accountablity and not tell then why they shouldnt

Dude, when the system has been corrected, wages and expenses will take care of themselves as part of a natural evolution. It is only a sick system that can have the NASS taking more home than Obama. Cure the root of the illness and the symptoms will go away.

cdoffx:
nobody claims oil is his birth right but as long as we have it we should not suffer for it,why do we needs subsidy on oil in the first place? because we are not refining our oil hence we export it and import finished produce at higher cost, its obvious if we refine our oil we will pay less for it even without subsidy. let GEJ do that

Thank God you realise that. Your birthright is to get your state and LG developing, so that they don't have to rely on the FG. Go abroad and tell people that without the FG, your state and LG will crumble into dust and see the way they would laugh you off as a lazy phucker.

efisher:
Occupy your job!

Witty!

nku5:
@ Beaf - you call a leaner wage and expense bill a foolish agenda? I dey fear you o! Let me ask u a question - does the lau-lau spending of this regime honestly reflect the state of the nation, economically at least?

Yes, it is a foolish agenda. If you can call the people out on the streets only to set such a weak tone, then the whole thing begins to stink of ulterior motives.
Nigeria is not phucked up because of a fat wage or expenses bill. If you travel abroad, you will find that LG's finance almost all services, from police to fire brigade and they still have excess to send to the central govt to keep it funded.
We have a lot of Nigerians in the UK and US here, let them tell you what their LG's (or municipalities) provide. I wish you would ask the question why your LG and mine too are mere Abuja alms receivers. That is sure not due to high wage and expense bills, is it?

Is it because of wages and expenses that in Nigeria, our LG's cannot provide jobs and development or is it because of a chaotic system that lacks direction and a constitution handed down by ex-generals that would better suit animals in the zoo? I could go on asking you questions and praying that you get it; I hope you will one day.

This is a golden opportunity for the young and the old to question the workability of the present constitution and how it sets out our system of chaos and entropy that the misguided have termed, federalism. It is a chaotic system that breeds loopholes that feed corruption, high wage and expence bills. It is the system that needs taking down, not mere bandages on the manifestations of the system, not taking panadol for cancer.

[quote author=x-fire link=topic=843242.msg9937635#msg9937635 date=1326228808]You are the greatest clown in Nairaland. Do you sometimes read your comments before you post them? Please always do. We are burdened with a redundant and parasitic government that is adding no value to the nation, yet refused to make needed sacrificies. Those parasites in power instead ask us to pay for their inefficiency and corruption in the name of subsidy removal. Every reasonable and enlightened Nigerian knows this. I wonder why you have chosen to remain a jester for this clueless government. It's never too late to change your ways, that is, if you have not gone beyond redemption. Cheers[/quote]You are sounding as shallow as the protest organisers. I bet you do not understand the grave importance of the items I listed, and I bet you don't care either; thats the shallowness I'm talking about.

When you have a cancer, the symptoms include various pains and deformations. To treat that cancer, people like you have failed to look deeper and can only see the symptoms like headaches and fevers, so you start taking panadol and drinking agbo. What do you think the end result would be?

The problem with Nigeria is chaos. It is not corruption, it is the whole system. The corrupt only take advantage of our chaotic system, therefore it is the system that needs tackling and anybody risking life and limb in the protests for such a superficial and stup!d 10 points, needs a brain transplant. Until shallow minded people begin to appreciate that the entire Nigerian system is the problem and that it is an emergency that needs attention, you will continue screaming for nothing and hitting the streets like lazy phuckers in search of awuf.

Read what I wrote in my previous post very carefully before you respond. I don't wish to engage in shallow discussion or battles that are only geared to save pockets for today and burn the future of generations tomorrow.

What if Nigeria did not have oil, would you be ready to kill yourself for a stone subsidy rather than tackle the fundamental problems that make our country sick?
The protest organisers are happy with the system, IMHO, it is because they are part of it.

Again:

Beaf:
It is quite a foolish agenda that only shows how shallow the protest organisers are. Nigeria's problems are much deeper than that shallow list.
No mention any of the following:

True federalism.
Citizen-state contract to give a sense of belonging to every Nigerian.
Functions of LG and state in the country's match to development. Is their sole task to divide money from Abuja?
The abrogation of the anti-people land use decree.
Resource control.
The passing of the PIB.
etc etc

Its like a gathering of directionless people who have unleashed crowds, but don't know what to do with them. They will get swallowed up, in fact it is high time more intellectually inclined people took over the protest movement.

@OP
Well said.

talknafree:
@beaf, funny enough me and you go be country men.

But then na me go finally drown you.

Traitors and regional sellots like you will be the first batch to go. We own the ND.

It is quite a foolish agenda that only shows how shallow the protest organisers are. Nigeria's problems are much deeper than that shallow list.
No mention any of the following:

True federalism.
Citizen-state contract to give a sense of belonging to every Nigerian.
Functions of LG and state in the country's match to development. Is their sole task to divide money from Abuja?
The abrogation of the anti-people land use decree.
Resource control.
The passing of the PIB.
etc etc

Its like a gathering of directionless people who have unleashed crowds, but don't know what to do with them. They will get swallowed up, in fact it is high time more intellectually inclined people took over the protest movement.

^
The choice the Niger Delta and SE are making is pretty clear even to the blind. Keep fooling yourself with silly posts like the above.

talknafree:
To proof we have won the war, I need Beaf's Head.

For being amongst the hypocrites, sycophants, liars and greedy ba-st*ards that kept lying to GEJ everything was well in the country and that the people protesting on tv were mere rented hoodlums from his opposition party.

Fools like you always continue to be fools. One thing I am certain about if a war pans out is; you will not be a citizen in my country, you will have your own where fools reign supreme and dunces are kings.