₦airaland Forum

timbuk two:
you can always tell when beaf is upset because he starts to spam the board  

The repeated imprisonment, trials and tribulations heaped on the UPN governors hastened the untimely demise of Chief Olabisi Onabanjo and Professor Ambrose Alli. Buhari lacked the conscience to care; he was least interested in the fairness of his action. All the ministers of the National Party of Nigeria and their party chieftains such as the former president Alhaji Shehu Shagari, Suleman Takuma, Adamu Ciroma, Yahaya Dikko and many others were left untouched; they were too pious and of a special Northern breed to be touched. Buhari settled for scapegoats and 'infidels' from the South to justify that he was cleaning the nation of corruption when in fact he wore a garment of greed and excesses. He showed very little respect for the law of the land. He even went a step further to backdate laws in order to ensure that three suspected drug pushers, Bartholomew Owoh, Bernard Ogedengbe and Lawal Ojuolape were found guilty by retroactive law, but then that was a drug trade that prominent Northern Nigerian businessmen were well noted for. In doing this, he insulted the civil society and drew the anger and criticism of the Nigerian media, labour unions, the Nigerian Bar Association, the National Association of Resident Doctors, and many other unions and organizations. Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti and his brother, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti suffered greatly from the inhuman actions and detentions of Buhari and his band of plunders. The three drug suspects were found guilty and murdered by retroactive law. Decree No. 20 of 1984 was not only inhuman and illegal in its composition, it was draconian and a law made by fools, because suddenly action that we acceptable and normal when taken were strangely turned into criminal actions. The Public Officers (Protection Against False Accusation) Decree 4 of 1984 was Buhari's gift to the Nigerian Press and its first victims were The Guardian's Tunde Thompson and Nduka Iraboh.

this intervention has been provoked, not so much by the ambitions of General Buhari to return to power at the head of a democratic Nigeria, as by declarations of support from directions that leave one totally dumbfounded. It would appear that some, myself among them, had been overcomplacent about the magnitude of an ambition that seemed as preposterous as the late effort of General Ibrahim Babangida to aspire yet again to the honour of presiding over a society that truly seeks a democratic future.

What one had dismissed was a rash of illusions, brought about by other political improbabilities that surround us, however, is being given an air of plausibility by individuals and groupings to which one had earlier attributed a sense of relevance of historic actualities. Recently, I published an article in the media, invoking the possible recourse to psychiatric explanation for some of the incongruities in conduct within national leadership.

Now, to tell the truth, I have begun to seriously address the issue of which section of society requires the services of a psychiatrist. The contest for a seizure of rationality is now so polarized that I am quite reconciled to the fact it could be those of us on this side, not the opposing school of thought that ought to declare ourselves candidates for a lunatic asylum. So be it. While that decision hangs in the balance however, the forum is open. Let both sides continue to address our cases to the electorate, but also prepare to submit ourselves for psychiatric examination.

-Prof. Wole Soyinka (Nobel Laureate)

“In 1984, Buhari allowed 53 suitcases belonging to his ADC’s father, to enter Nigeria unchecked, at a time the country was exchanging old currency for new. Against all canons of legal decency, he used retroactive laws to execute three young men for drug-peddling after they were convicted by a military tribunal, and not regular courts of law.

“Buhari was so high handed that he gave himself and his officials immunity, even from truthful reporting. That obnoxious Decree 4, against which truth was no defence, was used to jail journalists and attempt to cow the media as a whole. That tyrannical legislation shows the essence of his intolerance.

These are facts of recent history,”

-Nasr El-Rufai

Buhari accepted the Abacha contraption and was one of the first few who embraced Abacha quite early and saw nothing wrong in the annulment of MKO Abiola's freely given mandate. Buhari was therefore rewarded with the chairmanship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) by his friend, General Sani Abacha. The PTF had annual budgets that were far more than what most states of the federation received from the federal purse. The Fund began in 1996 with an initial capital of almost 60 billion naira. It was a duplication of social services and it became the bottomless pit that allowed the Northern Oligarchy to loot the national treasury once again. It was like the return of the Nigerian National Supply Company (NNSC) and contracts were flowing and doing so in abundance, but available only to the Oligarchy who will then turn around to sell the contract papers to a Southerner at huge profit. It all became a joke in Lagos about how some people procured the paper and made billions and some bought the paper and do all the work for little or nothing! Buhari's PTF built roads at federal, state and local government levels at a time when the Federal Ministry of Work lacked the funds to repair roads. PTF also procured drugs at a time when the Federal Ministry of Heath did not have the budget to provide drugs for federal hospitals. It was said that the PTF had 115.6 billion naira available to it as at December 31, 1997, funds that were never audited or properly accounted for. Like Abacha and the rest of his government, the PTF was set up to provide an opportunity to loot without any need for accountability; and corruption and indiscipline were never fought at that level. A wise former head of state would have seen that PTF was an alternative government and he would have rejected the offer to be part of it, but not Mr. Buhari. PTF brought untold opportunities and allowed him to practically rebuild Katsina, Kaduna and the rest of the north while a few projects were thrown at the Southern States.

More roads were built in each of Funtua, Gusau, Kaduna, and Sokoto than in Lagos or Oyo State. Over 70% of the Fund's allocation went into modernizing the roads in the North.

The Emir of Gwandu was too pious and as such was at liberty to bring in his 53 suitcases. While the people importing contrabands were predominantly from the North, only the few from the South were arrested and prosecuted. [size=14pt]Alhaji Jokolo, the current Emir of Gwandu and son of the then Emir recently said his father only brought back 12 suitcases and not 53[/size]. Jokolo, a former colonel in the Nigeria Army said it was General Buhari who instructed him to go to the airport to receive his father, the then Emir. Mustapha Jokolo acknowledged that several suitcases were taken straight from the aircraft to the State House. He said those were for the Chief of Protocol, Dahiru Waziri. They were all in the government of Mohammudu Buhari but Buhari did not put them on trial for bringing contraband goods into the country or for disobeying the law by not taking their luggage through the normal process of inspection. Even Buhari's brother was on that same entourage of the Emir of Gwandu, but all of them are neck and shoulder above the law, and the war against indiscipline does not affect them; they are above such petty laws that were made for commoners and Southerners.

General Buhari has very little education

CyberG:
^^^ Thank you people! Beiafer, see I do not even have to move a finger to show you how stooooopidly silly and dense like your "job security" master the PinHead Dull brain (Ph. D) Odechukwu is because almost everyone is doing an excellent job of that already. Shame that your could sell your entire kith and kin for a few kobos and absent your already umbleleara" coconut any kind of reason?? What a phat-faced joke this B(h)eifer is. . .LOL

Akainzo:
Beaf, you are joking right? Or are you smoking some igbo? Please, please and please, go and read the PIB! Abeg you, go and read the PIB. Once again, go and READ the PIB.

Akainzo:
Eku_bear, this Diezani is the same Minister that wept on seeing the Lagos-Benin expressway. She was Minister for 2 years and by the time she left, the Laos-Benin expressway was still the same!  
Now here she is at a campaign rally talking of an MOU with oil companies to build petrocheicals and fertilizer plants. It all crap and just words. Nothing like that would happen.

Beaf, first it says, the government will sign, not has signed. So it is still a poposal, so don't spread any rumours or add to what was not said.

When I saw your bolded parts, I broke out into laughter. The entire oil industry in this nation does not currently employ 300,000 people, so how would a petrochemical plant now create such an amount of job? I aint one of those to be fooled by big numbers you know.
And you obviously don't know much about the oil industry either and how crude oil shipments are handled. Come to think of it, you do not know much about the Petroleum Industry Bill either. Nigeria cannot and will not make $687Billion annually from oil.
Let me explain it in simple mathematics:  If we assume that Nigeria currently makes $102B from oil, to make $687B it has to increase by 600% its annual oil production. Now our OPEC quota is 2 Million barrels per day, a 600% increase would translate to what per day? The pertinent questions are: Do we even have that nstalled capacity, what would happen to other OPEC countries, what would happen to price of oil if suddenly there is surplus of supply?

You guys like throwing numbers to deceive, but a critical examination always shows how shallow the thoughts behind these numbers are.

CyberG:
Yes, and that is YOU! No, one was ever in doubt but NOW, you have confirmed it. Luckily, you still have "Job Security" from your odechukwu, mumutunde non-president Jonaboyboy.

Onlytruth:
Posted by: Beaf
Bros Beaf

Abeg can you explain the bolded for me. I've heard about this bill but I've not really researched it yet. What and what does it do for Nigeria?
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CyberG:
Just reading the first page of comments on this page and the commentaries, one thing is clear:

The character called Beafe is a dull-brained air-headed goof whose tribalistic and blind support for the pinhead Jonaboy will make him sell his entire family and his poor soul, much less an entire country!

Otherwise, there are a lot of very good points made by posters on this spouting off promises over promises of which he has no clue what it means or how to fulfill them.

Aigbofa:
Let me remind you once again. You made an assertion that Midwesters are not pro Yorubas and I reminded you that a lot of them have Yoruba names. The question is; If they are not pro Yoruba, why the hell do they have Yoruba names!

Aigbofa:
It is inevitable, the whole Midwest will speak Yoruba someday. If you live long enough, you will see it.

Aigbofa:
Duh! The Itsekiris are in the Midwest. There is nothing wrong in hanging out with people in your geograhic area. The Yorubas in Kwara are still Yorubas despite being classified as northerners.

Aigbofa:
They are definitely Yoruba. It is not by coincidence that we share so much linguistic and cultural similarities.

koruji:
@Beaf
I have recently become worried about your willingness to attack Yoruba people, history and culture after GEJ oversteped his bounds by calling SW governors radicals -and was adequately replied. The fact is nobody put the words in his mouth, except perhaps his godfather OBJ, who cannot speak more than a couple of sentences before generating a controversy. GEJ and his supporters ought to know that OBJ has no real following in the SW. His military background and pseudo-uniter of Nigeria role are his main backbones. Personally, I do not begrudge the man as he has done important things on Nigeria's behalf, but he did most of it by selling out his region. GEJ is not an OBJ type person, and for him to allow himself to be led that way for the sake of power is really unbecoming. In one sentence GEJ is praising Awolowo's vision, and then in the other he is calling those who seek to project his vision in a visionless system "radicals" in whose hands the SW must not be left. Nobody in the SW is scared to confront OBJ, talkless of GEJ.

You say Itsekiri is older than Yoruba, but is a mixture of proto-Yoruba (which is not Yoruba) and Igala. Then you say Itsekiri is closer to Igala. However, the Igala's closest relatives are the Yoruba and by extension the Itsekiris. As his listerners said to Paul 1000s of years ago, "Eko ako ju n ba e lo ri je" - too much learning is tying you up in a knot.

Look, all you are saying is that we were the same people with a long history together - the rest is arrant nonsense. Interestingly, you have joined people making incredible assumptions and major alterations to "re-write ancient history by the internet".

I am scared of what politics can do to otherwise rational minds!!!

ode remo:
now tell me that the same petrochemical companies that have been in nigeria since day dot are eager to create 300k jobs over night.
for them to even try to achieve that amount of job creation it is obvious that the FED . GOVT. will bear the cost.