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Roughly a year ago when this madness started in Jos - you mentioned GEJ was amassing 1000 army and police personnel to combat issues in Jos - What happened? - I hope this is not another misadventure. Effort should be diverted into gathering intelligence rather than fight fire for fire.

Not a good showing of Educational establishments in Nigeria-

na wa ooo - playing ball with towel -

Definitely a man on a mission - rather than making ridiculous claims such as " I will build airports in every state"

THE civil society groups and individuals have passed a disparaging judgment on President Goodluck Jonathan’s 100 days in office, alleging lack of drive and commitment to make the anti-corruption war effective.

In a press conference in Lagos co-ordinated by the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL), speakers, in unmistakeable terms condemned the president’s seeming tolerance of corrupt practices and individuals in his government and the country at large.

The co-ordinating chairman of the group, Debo Adeniran, said that while subsisting advertisements, news features and editorials in the media may have painted a picture of commitment to fight corruption[b], ‘the president has not gained appreciable mileage in the nation’s unrelenting war against corruption.’[/b]

He said that despite the disapproving report on anti-corruption effort of the nation by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) recently, the president ‘has not deemed it fit to do anything significant to remedy the deteriorating situation.’

Since the report was made, Adeniran added that it was unbecoming of a leader to simply keep mum over it while appearing to condone corrupt acts and impunity of his aides and ministers.

Jonathan, he said, must remove the shrouds of mystery used to mask government operation from public scrutiny that became even more appalling with the passage of Freedom of Information (FoI) bill into law.

Citing media reports, he accused Jonathan, some critical public agencies and officers ‘such as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, and their CEOs, Lamido Sanusi and Diezani Allison- Madueke of lacking in “transparency and full disclosure” and being “opaque and inaccessible”.’

CACOL expressed worries that this increased lack of transparency in government business and trans- action has adversely affected the nation’s security and the achievement of the objectives of amnesty programme initiated in the Niger Delta.

It accused the president of not doing much to ameliorate the plight of Niger Delta, the region where incidentally he comes from.

Comrade Ayodele Akele described Nigeria as a country of paradoxes, saying that Goodluck Jonathan’s repeated assurances to tackle corruption squarely has never been complemented with action since his 100 days in office.

‘There are no results on corruption cases. There are carnages on our roads because of corruption. Corruption is worse than bombing in comparison to the menace the Boko Haram religious sect constitutes.

Children cannot go to school, the hospitals are in shambles as a result of corruption and we hold the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria responsible for the slow pace in the fight against corruption,’ he said.

In his speech at the event, Rev. Austin Nnorom, the Secretary of Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) chided the president for failing to chart a serious course to take Nigeria to the trans- formational level.

‘It is disheartening that after 100 days in office, the president has no clear-cut agenda to ensure that corruption in this country is brought to a halt.

We want to see more transparency and a president who shows more commitment to fight corruption. Nigerians and the entire world are watching him.’

He added that Nigeria needs to get the issue of corruption right at the top from where it will cascade down to other spheres.

Adeniran, however, pointed out that though EFCC and ICPC have themselves stepped up fight against corruption and had achieved more convictions in recent time. He added that if the presidency had not been bearing down on them they could have achieved about “four hundred per cent” more than what they have done so far.


CACOL sounds a note of warn- ing that if the president fails to buckle up, civil society groups would engage him in an exhaust- ing war.
‘Should the president fail to tackle corruption, he should be pre- pared to face us eyeball to eyeball,’ it warned.

The attitude of some of the president’s ministers and aides received round condemnation for exhibiting lack of transparency in conduct and body language.


The CACOL chairman condemned their snobbish and arrogant treatment of the media and civil society groups. It demanded ‘that Lamido Sanusi and Diezani Allison-Madueke, especially, be ordered to be more transparent and accountable to the Nigerian people they are meant to serve.’

CACOL asked the Federal Government to immediately release the report of Oronsaye Panel ‘that
probed the allegations of impropriety against Chibuzor Ugwoha et al, of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC),’ saying that ‘urgent justice be done in bringing any individual indicted in the report to book.’

Commenting on the matter, Abiodum Sowumi, Executive Director, African Centre for Labour Research (ACLR), said Jonathan should not contemplate dissolving NDDC because Oronsaye Panel may have exposed the inherent sleaze.

‘It is quite important for the president to send a clear signal that coruption will not be tolerated in his tenure. The refusal to release the report of Oronsaye Panel is send- ing the wrong signal to the public,’ he stated.

Concurring, the secretary-general of United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy (UNDESS) also said the fight against corruption needs to be seen and not just whispered.

Tony Uranta who also is a member of CACOL said ‘corruption has not been fought visibly in the last one hundred days.

President Jonathan may have very good intensions. In fact, I know that he has very good intensions but his helmsmen in charge of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) are bedevilling us with mass ineptitude, inefficiency and gross corruption.

‘A case in question is that of the NDDC. We are all worried about Boko Haram but let us be mindful of two things: none of the issues that led to the agitation in the Niger Delta region has been resolved to date.

That is because the Ministry of Niger Delta and the NDDC have not been working as expected.

http://www.momentng.com/en/news/3928/-civil-society-groups-knock-jonathan-on-anti-corruption-war.html

Abagworo:
@bolded.If majority actually voted for him,why was Salami removed?Nigerians are not that foolish or ignorant.We all know the truth

aBi 0000 -

And the most important factor - Android supports FLASH - iphone os what a joke

Absolute useless ruling party - Ok now - WTF are the citizens suppose to do.

So it wasnt live.  What a fraud.  .only God knows how many takes they had to do, to get it right. anyway talk is cheap.

;d

ok

It is a shame people will open threads such as this to mock the steadfastness of Nigerians. Abeg leave us alone - we are waiting on the Lord

If it is a one man media chat - i aint interested.

The only thing i can think off is pooo - although some times poo can used as manure - ,. Nigerian government ja gaa ja gggaaa

Me i will stay inside ooooo - Gej doesn't ooze any confidence at all - Unfortunately it is the truth

nagoma:
@Blacklista

You mean fate.
No problem , it's the accent.

Lol _ What accent are you talking about - abi u don craze finish

PointB:
Those are seeds he was talking about. He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax”. Abraham Lincoln

Lol - Unfortunately this does not apply to Nigeria - concept of sharpening the tool is totally absent. Infrastructure promises here and there yet no plans on how to achieve such plans.

Nigerians please accept your faith  - Don't fight Destiny

GEJ  - i believe in you  - you can do it  - In a country of weaklings  GEJ might have the strength of cockroach but he is the strongest

apoti:
I want to believe he said 40,000 kW, which equals 40MW  

Lol  - It is was MW and KW  - as confirmed by other posters.   Maybe Channels will show it again.    

Unfortunately your leaders dont see corruption as an issue - Hence back to square one.

Created employment for at least 10 people in Lagos - But the staff were to corrupt and was forced to close down the business before those thieves bankrupt me.

tunde300us:
I also heard the thing myself and i tut that man bust be a drunken palmwine tapper I tut before such press conference u cross check all your presentations before calling for the press

LoL - Funny enough not a single member of the audience even flinched one bit on hearing this madness - I suspect the average Nigerian has been bamboozled by all this MEGAWATTS talk. Everyday we keep hearing MW This and that - When all we simply want is stable electricity.

wEREPE - what a name

Bode George is a saint -

Omooba77:
The workers are on strike,Polytechnic lecturers and the state is almost grounded. Yet live is becoming more unbearable for the citizens.

lol

so phucking what - as long as he delivers - The one that forever resident 24hours in Abuja - what has he achieved in 18months as president.


Abeg look for another gist - This one is boring to hell.

Just heard on Channels tV - 

While Assessing the Last 100 days of Rochas as a Governor.  The Information commissioner stated in a press conference that IMO state enjoyed 20,000 MW of electricity and Now that Rochas is governor, Imo state is now getting 40,000  MW of electricity. 

I am confused  - I thought the maximum capacity of  electricity generated in Nigeria hovers around 4000 MW  - Where is Imo State getting its own electricity

Or Is the Information Commissioner clueless.

Come on Arsenal  -
You can do it  - I believe in you. 

Please Bring back the glory days

These people are so predictable.

Calm down people - Every Nation whether rich or poor sets aside a gift aid fund - and it is mostly known as international development fund. Nobody denies the fact Nigeria has over whelming issues but you most understand that, poorer countries than Nigeria still requires assistance.

Yar Adua had a lot of potentials but unfortunately his bad health was a major hindrance. One could see the difference with the way he handled the Amnesty program and the Banking Bad Loans saga. The man simply gave Lamido a free hand to deal with issues. As for GEJ - Only God will deliver Nigeria.

Interesting