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International Media keep pointing fingers at Babangida as Key Bokoharam sponsor


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This photo explains best, the type men we have entrusted with the serious tasked of ensuring our security and the reason why Bokoharam is defeating them. our police institutions sure needs a revamp.

Pastor, Pastor, Pastor, your words are sometimes too difficult to consume by some religious folks, but I have this to say: That to the holy brethren and sisthren, the sanctimonious and self righteous that has never done any wrong, or the Biblical and spiritual professors in the class of the Pharisees and Sadducee s; they will never accept this, the same class of people did not accept the teachings of Jesus, but saw Him as controversial and even went ahead to crucify Him.
But to the one that has been struggling with this addiction all his life and unable to come out of it. and even starts condemning Himself or herself and doesn't want to go to church or have anything to do with God anymore because of his or her shortcomings; You have just set those kind of people free from there guilt and religious bondage, and they are the once the message is for and not for the self righteous, tongue talking Nigerian spirikokos of today.

This picture depicts what IBB and his cohorts destroyed in the north and replaced with greed, corruption and bokoharam

I used to love this pictures, can we go back to these days, instead this bokoharam philosophy that is ravaging everywere

this is were the madness is, everybody now thinks you have to be a politicians to be important in the society

@Lasinoh, how is not yr business, is Nigeria not yr country or are u an outcast, if some politicians in the north are making a mess of their region and causing trouble for the nation, and you are a position to do something about it would you fold yr hands

Editor: This article depicts how the norther leaders have made their people poor, and how they are doing nothing right now to salvage the region either through propaganda or outright efforts

GENERAL BABANGIDA’S BRAVADO
General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida made maximum use of a recent opportunities for exposure to re-state his claim as a deserving elder statesman in Nigeria. He used the Daily Trust Annual Dialogue which he chaired to warn that those questioning the unity of the nation will have to fight people like him, the same way they fought him when he was in the military during the Nigerian civil war. He insisted that Nigeria’s unity is a settled issue, and cannot be revisited by forces which have recently emerged around the fiasco over the subsidy removal. Other issues he said are settled as far as the nation is concerned are its federal structure, its republican character and its capitalist economy. General Babangida specifically took on the groups who have emerged in defence of President Jonathan and his policy on subsidy, and who are alluding to the possibility of a break-up of the nation in the event that the President himself, or his administration is harmed. He said he is willing to fight again to preserve the unity of the nation if need be, in spite of the fact that he is 71 years old, and still carries a bullet in his body from the last civil war.
Ordinarily, former President Babangida’s bravado will amuse the nation and many would have seen his comments as typical of a man who has built a life-long career of remaining politically relevant. But these are not ordinary times, and General Babangida’s comments will only serve to remind the nation of its fundamental weaknesses which are rooted in its poor leadership. Even more worrying is the fact that the elderly General has since lost his national elder statesman toga, owing to his disastrous misadventure in the PDP Northern Consensus candidate saga. He is today largely seen as a northerner with a very tenuous claim even to its leadership. His comments in defence of Nigeria's unity are likely to be interpreted as a defence of northern interests only, and far from serving as a clarion call to patriots to defend the nation, it will be seen in the tradition of a north defending its interests under the cover of national unity.
For the north, it is indeed a cause for serious concerns, that it requires political pensioners like former President Babangida to speak for it. From the moment the ethnic flags began to be raised in and around key sections of the south arising from the failure to deal with the Boko Haram threat and the mismanagement of the decision to remove fuel subsidy by President Jonathan, not a single credible and relevant voice has been raised from the north to defend its position, or counter damaging propaganda and threats which portrays it as the threat, not the victim. The overwhelming outpouring of anger across the land from ordinary Nigerians over the President’s decision to remove subsidy was in the end, reduced to a threat by northerners and the Yoruba to achieve regime change. The strategy worked. The imperatives of the survival of democracy and national security were invoked by the Jonathan administration to scuttle the resistance against the decision on fuel subsidy removal. The West successfully fought back, and ultimately succeeded in reversing the occupation of Lagos, and exposing the administration as lacking in political finesse, and rich in its capacity to use force. But the north suffered one more humiliating defeat, in spite of the fact that it stood to suffer the most, because of its relative poverty, in the implementation of the subsidy removal decision. It was being accused of plotting for regime change because it was unhappy with Goodluck Jonathan as president, and its leaders accepted this damaging accusation by their loud silence.
The frightening escalation of the threat and damage from the Boko Haram insurgency is also being used by groups in the south to demand a radical review of the nation’s structures, or even a future. The crude arguments which inform this position is basically that Boko Haram represents a violent resistance of the North against Jonathan’s presidency. Since the North is unhappy with President Jonathan, to a point where it will unleash a religious insurgency against it, then other groups from the south have a right to question their continued stay in a country where the north will either rule in perpetuity or ruin the nation if they lose control over it. The north can be left with its demand for an Islamic state, its poverty and its millions of northern Christians to sort out its problems, while other parts of Nigeria move on.
The north lost the propaganda war even before the first shots were fired; and its aging Generals such as Babangida have little control over the terrain, and they lack the resources to fight its wars. The north appears to be fighting when it is weakest, and has no strategy to reduce this weakness. It should demand a genuine effort to re-examine the Nigerian federal system in the light of trends which make it progressively poorer, while other regions take away the lion share of the nation’s resources. Instead, it appearing to fight for the preservation of an entity in a manner which will create the impression that it is the only beneficiary of a united Nigeria with its present federal structure.
The north is bleeding from multiple wounds inflicted by its weakness, and the most serious to its political economy is the Boko Haram insurgency. The north is by far the biggest victim of this insurgency, and it is being made to pay the political price for it. People like General Banagida do not speak with the type of noise or effectiveness Boko Haram makes about the north. Northern leaders like Babangida can say that Nigeria’s unity is a settled issue; but they are not engaging Boko Haram which says they will fight the Nigerian state until it accepts to operate only on the basis of an Islamic system, whatever all citizens, muslims and Christians alike, feel about it.
The comments by General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida regarding the unity and survival of Nigeria can at best be summed up as an attempt by the elderly general to remain politically relevant. If the north had an effective and courageous leadership, there will be little room for people like General Babangida to speak for Nigeria or the north. If the north had leaders, they would have resisted every effort to punish the north for the incompetence of President Jonathan or the frightening damage being wrecked on the nation by the Boko Haram insurgency. The north is weak because it cannot engage Boko Haram and take away the political centre stage from it. It cannot demand a radical review in the manner national resources are being distributed because it appears to have accepted that it has no right to do so. It cannot engage other parts of Nigeria in the debate on current challenges and future of the Nigerian federal state, because it lacks the quality of the leadership to do. Because it lacks good leaders who can take up its current challenges and deal with them, it makes room for elderly politicians like General Babanagida to assume roles for which they are currently ill-suited.

This article was writen by a northern lady Zainab Usman, and I appreciate the level of truth in it;
http://zainabusman./2012/02/17/a-people-in-terminal-decline/#comment-1577

For a while now, I’ve had reason to believe that the people of Northern Nigeria, especially the (in)famous “dominant” group, the Hausa-Fulanis seem to be in terminal decline. Could this conviction have stemmed out of the aftermath of the 2011 Nigerian general elections and the rampage of the Northern youths against the so-called Northern leaders or the recent spate of Boko Haram attacks in the northern cities of Kano and Kaduna? Perhaps it is the intensification of the unfair media bias and the recent vitriolic, virulent and hateful diatribes against the mostly Muslim Hausa-Fulani Northerners in the mainstream and social media or the serial decline and retardation of the economy in the north and/or the region’s growing political irrelevance in the scheme of things in Nigeria. This conviction is coupled with a growing realization that little or nothing is being done by us, the victims, of our mostly self inflicted problems to salvage our future which is in dire jeopardy.

The most obvious problem is the serious leadership deficit in the North which became magnified before and after the 2011 general elections. There is almost a general consensus that Northerners who were at the helms of affairs in the country for several decades did little to better the life of ordinary people in the region in terms of provision of healthcare, education and other infrastructure, direction of useful investments and creation of economic opportunities for the population. The leaders are seen to have enriched themselves and their cronies while using an adept mixture of religion and ethnicity to keep people subjugated in the shackles of illiteracy, ignorance, poverty, and misery. Few leaders have utilized accumulated wealth towards establishing profitable enterprises that employ people, philanthropic organizations that empower others or other productive ends. Rather accumulated wealth is squandered in consumerist behaviour, in opulence in the midst of absolute and abject poverty. Interesting exposés on the leadership deficit have been written by analysts such as Dr. Hakeem Baba Ahmed and the columnist Adamu Adamu amongst several others.

While the deficit of transformational leadership is not exclusively a Northern phenomenon, it is more magnified in the North. It is these leaders who are perceived by many to have “sold out” the north during the 2011 elections hence the rampage of the youths against various emirs, a former speaker of the House of Representatives amongst others. Consequently traditional, religious and political leaders who used to command tremendous respect from people have lost their credibility, and to an extent legitimacy to speak on behalf of the people. Certain enigmatic “geniuses” have been de-robed of their toga of mystique. The people in turn are plagued by frustration, helplessness and hopelessness in the wake of un-inspiring leadership. The newbreeds like Nuhu Ribadu and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi who are viewed with suspicion or seem more interested in embroiling themselves in political controversy provide virtually little solace.

Closely following the heels of the leadership deficit is the economic decline and retardation of the region. This economic decline has been accelerated by the Boko Haram insurgency, thanks to which the holy grail of foreign investments will now become ever so elusive. Once the basket of the nation on account of its agricultural productivity – the legendary, towering groundnut pyramids of Kano come to mind – and its budding industrial activity, the north is now plagued by rapid de-industrialization.

Buildings housing hitherto bustling factories lay derelict and abandoned in ominous gloom in Kano, Kaduna and Zaria. Poor incentives to farmers, lack of storage facilities and access to credit has led to a decline in agricultural productivity as state governments are embroiled in one fertilizer corruption scandal or the other. With the exception of Kano and to a lesser extent Kaduna, few businesses, and enterprises especially SMEs are owned and managed by Northerners. In many state capitals, the bulk of the labour force engaged in the formal sector are civil servants. The neglect of agriculture, manufacturing and other economic activity for easy oil money coming from the federal government by the state governments has aggravated this situation as the allocation is hardly directed towards reviving infrastructure, capital projects, empowering the populace or investment in non-oil sectors of the economy. The CBN governor recently stated that many states, especially in the North are economically unviable without such allocations. Instead, monthly allocations which run into billions of naira each month are expended towards recurrent expenditure and unproductive ventures such as subsidies on annual Hajj and Umrah pilgrimage trips mainly to reward cronyism. This dependence on oil revenues which has done little to benefit the ordinary Northerner has created an impression of the North as an unproductive region, a “liability” which contributes virtually nothing to the nation’s kitty but consumes so much because of its population and its size. Though a cursory look at history deflates this impression since the proceeds from agricultural produce of the North virtually sustained the nation before the discovery of oil.

A socio-cultural aspect of our numerous problems and which lies at the heart of it is our mind set as a people, especially amongst the Hausa-Fulanis . We have developed a mind-set that paradoxically makes us feel culturally superior when infact we are progressively retrogressing in many aspects. We look down on fellow Northerners of a different religion and ethnicity, we feel our own brand of Islam is better than the Islam practiced by a Yoruba man, an Igala or a Tiv such that you’d forgive anyone for thinking the Holy Qur’an was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Hausa language somewhere in Kano. We feel many career choices especially those which involve working our way to the top are demeaning; our educated youths have been brought up with the mind set to only aim for the ultimate “secure government job” or bust, and as a result many an enterprising and creative youth’s dreams have died at stillbirth by the patriarch’s final fiat.

This paradoxical superiority complex has pitched us against other “minority” groups in the north who used to be our brothers but now regard us with contempt and derision and has been played upon by mischievous people to ferment ethno-religious tensions. Many are quick to blame Islam or the mixture of religion and politics, but a comparison of predominantly Muslim societies who are doing relatively well-off such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Malaysia and Indonesia for instance shows Islam is not the problem, rather a crude cocktail of ignorance, and the perversion of religious teachings and cultural prescriptions. While in Iran, women outnumber men in Universities as many are highly educated and articulate, female literacy in Northern Nigeria by contrast remains abysmally low, one of the lowest in the world and ditto women empowerment though attitudes are positively changing at snail pace. The problem appears as a friend once stated that we haven’t found the right interface between culture and religion in the North.

Lastly is the all-out media war and propaganda against the North. From the mainstream media to social networks, online forums to blogs, it is hunting season for anything Northern (in this context, synonymous with the Northerner of Hausa-Fulani extraction but also any of the predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in the north: Kanuri, Nupe etc). At most you need an advertorial on the pages of the numerous dailies, at the very least, you need an internet connected mobile phone and you are set to begin unleashing your full arsenal against “Northerners”. The activities of Boko Haram which have claimed more Muslim lives, wreaked more havoc to Northern cities than anywhere else are attributed to desperate Northern politicians who lost out in the political chess game, a view peddled around even by erstwhile respected intellectuals; sectarian crises and conflict which abound in every part of the country, but more frequently in the North are mostly attributed to the Hausa-Fulani Muslims who are seen to be the culprits even in situations where they are victims; even the lacklustre performance of the Jonathan administration is attributed to the “evil Northerners”. The problems highlighted above: leadership, economic decline and socio-cultural challenges have rendered us a voiceless people in this media war and propaganda, we are unable to tell our stories strongly from our own perspective while others do it for us, and they paint their version of the truth in whatever colour hue they deem fit.

We are a people bedevilled by so many challenges which of course, this writer has barely scratched the surface of. The leadership deficit has aggravated our economic decline and retardation, and threatens not only our social cohesion but our very identity as a people. In times like these, a strong and transformational leadership is what is required to mobilize our abundant human and natural resources for us to realize our full potentials, but this deficit forms the bane of our problems. Paradoxically, while we acknowledge the failure of leadership, and the incapacity or inability of the present crop of leaders to do much to salvage our pathetic situation, we are still waiting on them. Obviously our leaders cannot do much because they are constrained, because they are not interested or because it is a Frankestein’s monster has turned on Dr. Frankestein situation. While we “wait”, Boko Haram seems to be the only force filling this leadership vacuum in a very destructive and warped sense by co-opting the vast number of idle, unemployed and frustrated youths as willing recruits to its campaign of death and terror. Gradually, Boko Haram could become the only thing that defines us as a people, if this leadership vacuum persists and by then we WOULD BE DOOMED!

To further buttress my point, when I googled “Northern Nigeria” and “Arewa Nigeria”, at least 50% of the images that came up in the search results were of Boko Haram, scenes of its attacks or images of its victims. That speaks volumes.

Whatever the case, it is our generation which will suffer most because the present crop of leaders have little to lose; we will live with the consequences of their actions while our children’s future becomes increasingly uncertain. Perhaps the tone here is a tad too pessimistic when this writer concludes that the numerous problems we face in the North crowned no less by Boko Haram’s deadly insurgency gives a gloomy premonition of a bleak future . We are in a terminal decline, the question is are we doing enough to address this? What can we or should we do to reverse this certain reality?

PROFESSOR AYITTEY SPEAKS ON SNC IN NIGERIA

Straight Talk to my Nigerian Brethren. When a crisis erupts in traditional Africa, the chief convenes a village meeting, puts the issue before the people to debate until a consensus is reached. Once reached, all, including the chief must abide by it. In 1990, this institution was modernized into a “sovereign national conference” (SNC) and used to democratize and resolve issues in many African countries. It began in Benin in 1990 and ended in South Africa (1991). Benin’s nine-day “sovereign national conference” began on 19 February 1990, with 488 delegates, representing various political, religious, trade union, and other groups encompassing the broad spectrum of Beninois society. South Africa employed the same vehicle – Convention for a Democratic South Africa or CODESA – in July 1991, with 228 delegates drawn from about 25 political parties and various anti-apartheid groups. It culminated in the election of Nelson Mandela in March 1994 – a two-year transition period.

Decisions taken by SNC are “sovereign,” meaning they are binding on all, including the head of state and cannot be abrogated by anyone, unlike the 1995 Constitutional conference, whose decisions were subject to the approval by the late General Sani Abacha – “The Butcher of Abuja.”
No need for elections; groups chose their own delegates. The political elite did not dominate SNCs in Benin, Cape Verde, South Africa or Zambia. Civic and interest groups such as teachers, students, farmers, etc. were represented. The operating ruling principle was CONSENSUS.

The SNC is the vehicle for Nigerians to take back their country. The SNC could set up an interim administration; a commission to re-write the 1999 Constitution to re-define Nigeria; sack the Police Chief, the Chief Justice and State Governors; clean up the administrative structure to ensure provision of basic social services like electricity, clean water, health care, etc; disband the military or cut it in half (the military has caused most of Nigeria’s problems); cut the salaries of MPs who take home a cool $2 million in salary and emoluments each; set up an anti-corruption commission with teeth; ease ethnic and religious tensions in the country, etc. etc. How long it takes is immaterial; it took Benin 9 days, South Africa 3 months.

You can’t leave Nigeria’s problems to the political elite l they won’t solve them. And Nigerians cannot run away from their problems. The influx of Nigerians into neighboring countries has reached a breaking point and creating disaffection among locals in host counries. Most West Africans would like to see Nigerians solve their own problems so that they can stay in their own country. Cameroon is reeling from a huge influx of Nigerians as Ghana does too. In fact, Ghana also has to contend with refugees from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast. All West Africans dread the possibility of a violent break-up of Nigeria. The population of Ghana, for example, is 25 million; the country cannot absorb an influx of 30 million Nigerian refugees in the event of a break-up.

A break-up of Nigeria will NOT be supported by any West African country; nor the rest of Africa. And if the political elite won’t solve the country’s problems, a sovereign national conference is the only alternative left. Follow the Benin’s model (next door) or South Africa’s. South Africa did not break up and descend into racial war because of SNC. This is straight talk.


Editor: Yesterday I posted an article on the much touted Sovereign National Conference. While taking it from the point of the fact that most people clamouring for one are doing so for selfish reasons, Professor George a renowned globally recognised Economist of Ghanaian origin above offers the best argument for one that shows a better and clearer path to one. If those who clamour for SNC in Nigeria would come out as Professor has done below, we might begin to appreciate the arguments for a Sovereign National Conference, other than the same elite politicians who are raping the country still looking for a platform to establish personal agendas clothed in ethnic garments.

this guy should get out of that biafran party and start thinking of how to take the whole country to the promise land, he has a good heart and can deliver on good governance

It’s in my view that some groups of people are planning on disintegrating Nigeria for their personal  and selfish agendas.
Some are going the violent while some are hiding their motives behind a sovereign national conference. Though we need to talk, but it’s in my opinion that this generation of Nigerian politicians are not patriotic enough to call for such a conference.  There is so much personal, selfish and ethnic motives behind this call, and these are my reasons;
First they claim we need a new constitution because our present constitution was given to us by the military: and my answer to that is who are the people going to write it, are we going to import politicians from the U.S or from the skies to write it, is it not this same politicians. They organized a national summit in Lagos of which almost half of the politicians on the high table helped the military to right this present constitution. And if we decide to hold the sovereign national conference we surely will be expecting the likes of Obasanjo, IBB, Buhari, and not forgetting David Mark our senate president who pays himself more that the president of the most powerful nation on earth the U.S.A.  How can David Mark be paying himself N88M per month in a country where millions of people in all tribes and geopolitical zones are dying of poverty are he claims to be representing the North or Nigerians; wake up he is representing his belly. These retired generals would still be the politicians to come up and write a new constitution for you and I, and most them will sponsor their stooges. And we will end up in the same circle.
The national summit that just ended in Lagos can give us a clue to what will happen at a sovereign national conference. It was tumultuous with some elder statesmen walking out on others who simply spoke their minds. And remember  the northerner conservatives where not represented.  Bokoharam as it is today has nothing to do with Al Qaeda , those elements are sponsored by some unscrupulous politicians who claim to be representing the north, but they are only fighting for their pockets,  If  we decide to have a sovereign national conference these people will show up and also sponsor more people to show up, and by the time they start converting  the monstrous animosity with which they have been using to commit these terrorist attacks precipitate genocide  into words  on the table of negotiation Nigeria will implode.
What are the legacies of this generation of Nigerian politicians, from IBB, Obasanjo to Goodluck and those that served them. Every institution that was bequeathed to them by our founding fathers, they have destroyed with greed, selfishness and ethnicity. Our unity schools and other public schools have been violated. I was listening to Professor Pat Utomi on television and I thought to myself, the quality of education that was given to him at University of Nigeria Nsukka and  several other Nigerians of his generation from other universities, can we still go these institutions and get that same quality of education and welfare. No way, they have destroyed everything and sent their kids abroad.
Now they are requesting for an anti climax to all their destructions,  which is eventually destroying Nigeria, they have bequeathed all the wrong things to us: ethnicity, a corrupt government, week police force, crippled economy, collapsed educational institutions, decayed infrastructures etc.
It is the same generation and cabal of politicians that are responsible for Desecrating the entire people of the north that are also responsible for the decay  and poverty in the south and the Niger Delta. People like James Ibori,  Alamieyeseigha, Igbinedion or Peter Odili  did not drop from the skies. So if these same sets of people are clamoring for or sponsoring people to agitate for resource control,  they are not fighting for you and I but for their selfish bellies like they have always been doing. They go as far as calling our Northern brothers who are responsible for almost all the food we eat in this country parasites, this is how desperate they can be.
I have looked at all the political parties in this country and there is no rallying point and no message of hope to the Nigerian people. The CPC is an Almajiri party,  APGA is a Biafran party, AC belongs to the OPC boys, the only true national party we have is the PDP but that is the embodiment of wickedness and corruption, where the devil and his cohorts live.
A new breed of Nigerians educated and exposed would have to show up at this critical point, to save our country from these generation of vipers and brood of snakes.
A wise man once said that only a fool makes the same mistakes over and over again, wise men learn from their own mistakes. But we don’t need to learn from any of our mistakes anymore,  other developed and pluralistic countries can be a model, why can we just follow.
Take the U.S.A for instance, the most prosperous nation on earth.  You will never  see the U.S government drilling and selling oil, why because they have Exxon Mobil , but in Nigeria we have NNPC aiding corruption while doing business {buying and selling crude}, NNPC is supposed to be a regulatory body only just like NCC in the telecoms sector, but today that’s the organization that is impoverishing Nigerians and making our politicians stupendous rich without commensurate work.   The American government cannot go into farming, they empower their people to become world class farmers and entrepreneurs. But here in Nigeria we have this big and rich government but very poor citizens.
We don’t need any Sovereign National Conference now, because this generation of politicians are unfit, they have proven it over and over again. What we need is a policy that will send all Nigerians back to work and make the our state governments responsible. Because of state governors irresponsibility there are no jobs anywhere except Lagos. I am from Delta State but I had to migrate to Lagos to get a job, the same thing happens  everywhere in Nigeria every year, youth Corpers pass out only to migrate to Lagos in search of jobs, because all our state governors are nothing but political monarchs that we elect every four years.
In every developed society the government makes its money from taxes that it gets from its people only, be it government at state, local government or federal level.  We don’t need states to manage any resources and we don’t need the federal government to manage any resources. Let all the governments focus on taxes and that way the federal government won’t have to be putting money in the hands of criminal politicians every month.
When all our governments focuses on tax only as a means of revenue, every governor will wake up to his responsibility of encouraging investors and protecting businesses in his state, ensuring and sustaining the security of his state which will further enhance development and modernization, job creation, effective state policing and eradicate corruption because now the businessmen would know you don’t make money from state allocations anymore and you have to account for their taxes else they wouldn’t want to pay the next month. Contents that are drilled and sold to OPEC for instance, can have 50% to the federal government, 30% to states and 20% to local governments, then state governments would be charged with protecting businesses in their states.
At the most  the federal government can set aside a trust fund after scrapping NDDC (which is just duplicating the responsibilities of the state governments) managed by the central bank, so that they can grant loans to states that require funds in other to help  entrepreneurs establish businesses in their state, and then the federal government can hand over most of the unnecessary responsibilities its carrying and allow the states which are the nations foundations to look after and protect businesses in their states , collect the taxes  and do everything to make business  succeed including protection from militants  and copyright pirates,  and the federal government just gets its tax from the state and all these unnecessary agitations and tensions and fight  against the federal government to destabilize it will be settled at a family meeting.
If this happens kogi state though the poorest state will work out ways by any means necessary to make Ajaokuta steel industries work, Ondo state government will start looking for investors to mine all It’s numerous resources, and those other states that agriculture is their strength will start looking at investors in  industrialized farming; and Nigeria will be the better for it.
The vision is summarily “Nigerian Emancipation and state responsibility”. With no government managing  any business or trade of any goods or resources,  government should only focus on organizing societies, protecting and defending its citizens.  And make their money only on tax while leaving businesses to the businessmen.
I need  opinions and ideas from Nigerians 45 years old downwards. If you support this move you can follow me on twitter (twitter.com/calljonas).  By the time we are up to a thousand people that buy this idea, we would push this message through newspapers, television adverts, and ultimately we will present our request to the national assembly, and then start going to occupy them.
I look forward to a day when we will have a political party that is not about  sharing dirty money during elections but will use that period to educate and intellectualize Nigerians of a dream, a vision, a mission and a plan for a glorious future bringing out that patriotic spirit that we all have not found a reason to show off all these years.
Thank you.

GEJ has started adopting OBJ tactic's, which means no ex-minister or political officer holder would say anything again else the EFCC would bring bogus charges against you, to disturb your peace and unsettle your motives, and at the end nothing will come out of it.

@badesco , ofcourse not everyone will allign, but we can form a movement of people that instead of sharing money during election would see it as a period of educating and intellectuallizing nigerians of our vision and mission just like the americans do, and i am sure that way light will prevail over darkness, and we can reclaim our country from the hands of these vampires and cabals, expect nothing from this generation of politicians

CPC, Almajiri party, PPA, Ibo traders union party, AC, OPC/Afenifere, APGA, Biafran party, PDP, the only national party but a colony of criminals and cabals

I suggest we form our own party from here in NairaLand, group of educated, exposed and patriot young Nigerians, who want to see Nigeria look like the United States in terms of governance and results, lets make the move

@Reference, several ways, we can sponsor a bill to the National Assembly, and our next uprising would be for state in-dependency, this will definately enhance mutual cooperation and promote mutual respect

The irrelevance of a Sovereign National Conference in this generation and the vision of State responsibility.

With call for a sovereign national conference, I think some senior citizens are just looking for a forum were old compatriots can rant their anger and bring back arguments of the 1960’s that took us nowhere . I am not convinced that we need a forum to discuss how to coexist, Nigerians of the 21st century love their country and are not carrying grudges about the civil war.
I don’t have any problem with Northerners, and they too don’t have a problem with Nigerians from other parts of the country. The uprising in some parts of the country is as a result of the irresponsibility and visionlessness of the federal government. Investing in the wrong people the wrong way.
MEND and other militant groups in the Niger delta are quiet today because they are getting free money from the federal government, the day it stops flowing they will go back to their arms in the creeks, same thing in the north, whenever some northern elites stop getting free money from oil bunkering (which they carry out through the military stationed in the Niger Delta creeks lifting tones of crude oil unaccounted for), they start riling up passions to make the country ungovernable . These senseless killings have been happening in the North, these killings characterized the first tenure of Obasanjo, but now they just have a name “BokoHarm” but as usual with no clear and sane reasons for their attacks as has always been the case.
Someone said in an interview on T.V lately that some groups of people are planning on breaking up Nigeria, either through violence or through the call for a sovereign national conference. This is happening at a time when some other sets of people are praying for peace and prosperity and others are working hard to transform Nigeria. The nation Nigeria is the umbrella of protection to over 200 ethnic nationalities, and God forbid if it breaks, it can’t breakup into North and South only, but into over 20 different countries.
The fact that some Nigerian’s want the Nation to split is not the problem to me, because even in the United States of America, they are still some dissenting voices who still think the states should not be united. What is important are the reasons behind the Idea. Unlike in the United States the reasons for a breakup are not strong enough because everybody is cared for; in education, medicare, welfare etc.
Can we say the same about Nigeria: about the millions of children in the north without education, a clue to civilization and without hope of breaking the cycle of poverty in their lives; can we say so about the millions of farmers in the south-south that can’t go to their farms anymore because their lands have lost its fertility as a result of oil spillages, can we say so about our young people who work so hard to start up and sustain a business but the harsh realities of the situation of this country keeps undermining their efforts hence they fail, but they still keep nursing their dreams and trying harder and harder.
Someone once said that we need a philanthropist as the president, so that he can share the wealth equally so it gets to everyone, but I think our current situation has little to do with an individual in office, but so much to do with just one line in our constitution; “ Revenue allocation to states”.
Because of this line politics in Nigeria has become one that makes the brilliant dull, the wise foolish, the honest corrupt, the healthy sick, the loud quiet and unfortunately, the "poor" rich.
How can a nation of over 150 million people in 36 states be solely dependent on revenue from crude oil drilled from about 6 states ,
How can all the elites and politicians in the north down their tools and fold their arms waiting for federal allocation every month. How can the federal government stop states like ondo and others from harnesses their resources and developing their people. The GDP of every state in Nigeria is principally the money given to it by the federal government every month.
So instead of our federal government to promote creativity and production, it is sustaining a system of distribution and consumption. And this is the catalyst for lazy leadership, lazy followership and thuggery in our societies.
Some few months ago Apple overtook Exxon Mobil as the richest company on earth, but some of our political leaders still think that no other state in Nigeria can be richer than states in the Niger Delta; only because they have closed their minds to everything else, even to the treasures in mineral resources and arable lands all over Nigeria.
A certain professor from the North at the last national conference organized by the Obasanjo’s regime argued against state resource control, saying that states from the Niger Delta will become super rich and northern states would become dead poor; the question I would have loved to ask him if I was there is “would it have been better off if all the states in Nigeria are dead poor. This is the typical retrogressive thinking of the 20th century African, pulling their neighbors down. 21st century Africans think differently, The fact that some states would be rich would be an advantage to other states, if Bauchi state for instance wants to refine and export oil, it can build a refinery and exchange its locally produced crops with crude from some state in the Niger Delta thereby creating business partnerships.
Kogi state is about the poorest in the country, but If only Ajaokuta steel can start production, the Nigerian economy will get the attention of America, Europe and Asia. But governors not charged and pushed with the responsibility to grow their state economies has been the bane of our country.
If we stop allocating money to the states every month, The government of kogi state will do what has to be done to bring the steel company to production, the Kaduna state government will start thinking of increasing the capacity of its refinery for export purposes. Every state governor will start working with entrepreneur and wooing investors to sustain the economy of the state. We will start seeing states forming coalitions, co operations and building business relationships.
California the home of Hollywood is about the richest state in the U.S, with a population of over 41million people, if it were a country, it would be the 8th riches country in the world, few years ago its governor went to China to form a coalition with the Chinese government in other to enforce copyright laws and stop the people of china from pirating Hollywood products. This is what our governors will be doing if we stop this monthly allocation debacle, protecting and fighting for the businesses in their states, instead of buying up hotels and houses in Europe and America with the monthly allocation meant for his people, that is political monarchy precipitate lazy leadership.
I recommend that the parliament amends the constitution and stop allocating money to the states. This is the only way Nigerians in every state and every geopolitical zone can get back to work and our leadership and followership can once again become responsible. The federal government can give a period of six months or one year before it stops sharing money to the states. During this period of six months or a year every state can partner with entrepreneurs to plan on what to setup and how to build its own economy , and entrepreneurs through state governors can take a loan from the Central Bank to help businesses get off the ground, whether building of refineries, Dams, agriculture, steel companies etc. while the federal government strengthens it tax collection and investigation procedures, and EFCC to go after tax evaders.
The most prosperous nations in the world today, their federal governments live on taxes from its citizens. You will never hear that the American government is building farms or poultries, they empower their citizens to build farms and poultries, The American government will not go into drilling oil because they have Exxon Mobil, neither will the British government because they have British Petroleum. So why is NNPC buying and selling petroleum for us, these are structures that fan the ambers of fraud in the country. It’s time to allow our Oando, Con oil and other oil companies to do the drilling to meet our OPEC quota and meet our local needs, while the state governments do everything to make them succeed including protection from militants, and the federal government just gets its tax from the state and all these unnecessary agitations and tensions and fight against the federal government to destabilize it will be settled at a family meeting level.
When we stop allocating money to the states and every state manages itself, it will give room for competition and coalition which will further enhance development and modernization, job creation, effective state policing and eradicate corruption. Lazy Governors would then learn how to sustain peace in their states and go out to source for investors.
At the most the federal government can set aside a trust fund after scrapping NDDC (which is just duplicating the responsibilities of the state governments) managed by the central bank, so that they can grant loans to states that require funds in other to help entrepreneurs establish businesses in their state, and then the federal government can hand over most of the luggage responsibilities its carrying and allow the states which are the nations foundations to hold the building called Nigeria.
Some class of people will never agree to a progressive idea like this. we know them and we know what they stand for (The rotten status quo), but we should not give much attention to some retrogressive selfish individuals, we should spread the net, talk to more intelligent people in the north, and get them to understand the vision of state responsibility, if we keep depending on just the few notable northern leaders that have succeeded over the years in impoverishing their people and producing elements like Boko Haram to be a part of state responsibility, then we are making a mistake because they are indeed the problem of this country and the ones perpetually drawing us backwards as a nation.
So let’s stand as brothers, with everyone’s hands on the plough and lets build the Nigeria that the whole world is waiting for, and out of this long political darkness, we can starting hoping for better days ahead. Thank You
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The irrelevance of a Sovereign National Conference in this generation and the vision of State responsibility.

With call for a sovereign national conference, I think some senior citizens are just looking for a forum were old  compatriots can rant their anger and bring back arguments  of the 1960’s that took us nowhere . I am not convinced that we need a forum to discuss how to coexist, Nigerians of the 21st century love their country and are not carrying grudges about the civil war.
I don’t have any problem with Northerners, and they too don’t have a problem  with Nigerians from other parts of the country. The uprising in some parts of the country is as a result of the irresponsibility and visionlessness of the federal government. Investing in the wrong people the wrong way.
MEND and other militant groups in the Niger delta are quiet today because they are getting free money from the federal government, the day it stops flowing they will go back to their arms in the creeks, same thing in the north, whenever some northern elites stop getting free money from oil bunkering (which they carry out through the military stationed in the Niger Delta creeks lifting tones of crude oil unaccounted for), they start riling up passions to make the country ungovernable . These senseless killings have been happening in the North, these killings characterized the first tenure of Obasanjo,  but now they just have a name “BokoHarm” but as usual with no clear and sane reasons for their attacks as has always been the case.
Someone said in an interview on T.V lately that some groups of people are planning on breaking up Nigeria, either through violence or through the call for a sovereign national conference. This is happening at a time when some other sets of people are praying for peace and prosperity and others are working hard to transform Nigeria. The nation Nigeria is the umbrella of protection to over 200 ethnic nationalities, and God forbid if it breaks, it can’t breakup into North and South only, but into over 20 different countries.
The fact that some Nigerian’s want the Nation to split is not the problem to me, because even in the United States of America, they are still some dissenting voices who still think the states should not be united. What is important are the reasons  behind the Idea. Unlike in the United States the reasons for a breakup are not strong enough because everybody is cared for; in education, medicare, welfare etc.
Can we say the same about Nigeria: about the millions of children in the north without education,  a clue to civilization and without hope of breaking  the cycle of poverty in their lives; can we say so about the millions of farmers in the south-south that can’t go to their farms anymore because their  lands have lost its fertility as a result of oil spillages, can we say so about our young people who work so hard to start up and sustain a business but the harsh realities of the situation of this country keeps undermining their efforts hence they fail, but they still keep nursing their dreams and trying harder and harder.
Someone once said that we need a philanthropist as the president, so that he can share the wealth equally so it gets to everyone, but I think our current situation has little to do with an individual in office, but so much to do with just one line in our constitution; “ Revenue allocation to states”.
Because of this line politics in Nigeria has become one that makes the brilliant dull, the wise foolish, the honest corrupt, the healthy sick, the loud quiet and unfortunately, the "poor" rich.
How can a nation of over 150 million people in 36 states be solely dependent on revenue from crude oil drilled from about 6 states ,
How can all the elites and politicians in the north down their tools and fold their arms waiting for federal allocation every month. How can the federal government stop states like ondo and others from harnesses their resources and developing their people. The GDP of every state in Nigeria is principally the money given to it by the federal government every month.
So instead of our federal government to promote creativity and production, it is sustaining a system of distribution and consumption. And this is the catalyst for lazy leadership, lazy followership and thuggery in our societies.
Some few months ago Apple overtook Exxon Mobil as the richest company on earth, but some of our political leaders still think that no other state in Nigeria can be richer than states in the Niger Delta;  only because they have closed their minds to everything else,  even to the treasures in mineral resources and arable lands all over Nigeria.
A certain professor  from the North at the last national conference organized by the Obasanjo’s regime argued  against state resource control, saying that states from the Niger Delta will become super rich and northern states would become dead poor; the question I would have loved to ask him if I was there is “would it have been better off if all the states in Nigeria are dead poor. This is the typical retrogressive thinking of the 20th century African, pulling their neighbors down. 21st century Africans think differently, The fact that some states would be rich would be an advantage to other states, if Bauchi state for instance wants to refine and export oil, it can build a refinery and exchange its locally produced crops with crude from some state in the Niger Delta thereby creating business partnerships.
Kogi state is about the poorest in the country, but If only Ajaokuta steel can start production, the Nigerian economy will get the attention of America, Europe and Asia. But governors not charged and pushed with the responsibility to grow their state economies has been the bane of our country.
If we stop allocating money to the states every month,  The government of kogi state will do what has to be done to bring the steel company to production, the Kaduna state government will start thinking of increasing the capacity of its refinery for export purposes. Every state governor will start working with entrepreneur and wooing investors to sustain the economy of the state. We will start seeing states forming coalitions, co operations  and building business relationships.
California the home of Hollywood is about the richest state in the U.S, with a population of over 41million people, if it were a country, it would be the 8th riches country in the world, few years ago its  governor  went to China to form a coalition with the Chinese government in other to enforce copyright laws and stop the people of china from pirating Hollywood products. This is what our governors will be doing if we stop this monthly allocation debacle, protecting and fighting for the businesses in their states, instead of buying up hotels and houses in Europe and America with the monthly allocation meant for his people, that is political monarchy precipitate lazy leadership.
I recommend that the parliament amends the constitution and stop allocating money to the states. This is the only way Nigerians in every state and every geopolitical zone can get back to work and our leadership and followership can once again become responsible. The federal government can give a period of six months or one year before it stops sharing money to the states. During this period of six months or a year every state can partner with entrepreneurs to plan on what to setup and how to build its own economy , and entrepreneurs through state governors  can take a loan from the Central Bank to help businesses get off the ground, whether building of refineries, Dams, agriculture, steel companies etc.  while the federal government strengthens it tax collection and investigation procedures, and EFCC to go after tax evaders.
The most prosperous nations in the world today, their federal governments live on taxes from its citizens. You will never hear that the American government is building farms or poultries, they empower their citizens to build farms and poultries, The American government will not go into drilling oil because they have Exxon Mobil, neither will the British government because they have British Petroleum. So why is NNPC buying and selling petroleum for us, these are structures that fan the ambers of fraud in the country. It’s time to allow our Oando,  Con oil and other oil companies  to do the drilling to meet our OPEC quota and meet our local needs, while the state governments do everything to make them succeed including protection from militants, and the federal government just gets its tax from the state and all these unnecessary agitations and tensions and fight  against the federal government to destabilize it will be settled at a family meeting level.
When we stop allocating money to the states and  every state manages itself, it will give room for competition and coalition which will further enhance development and modernization, job creation, effective state policing and eradicate corruption. Lazy Governors would then learn how to sustain peace in their states and go out to source for investors.
At the most  the federal government can set aside a trust fund after scrapping NDDC (which is just duplicating the responsibilities of the state governments) managed by the central bank, so that they can grant loans to states that require funds in other to help  entrepreneurs establish businesses in their state, and then the federal government can hand over most of the luggage responsibilities its carrying and allow the states which are the nations foundations to hold the building called Nigeria.
Some class of people will never agree to a progressive idea like this. we know them and we know what they stand for (The rotten status quo), but we should not give much attention to some retrogressive selfish individuals, we should spread the net, talk to more intelligent people in the north, and get them to understand the vision of state responsibility, if we keep depending on just the few notable northern leaders that have succeeded over the years in impoverishing their people and producing elements like Boko Haram to be a part of state responsibility, then we are making a mistake because they are indeed the problem of this country and the ones perpetually drawing us backwards as a nation.
So let’s stand as brothers, with everyone’s hands on the plough and lets build the Nigeria that the whole world is waiting for, and out of this long political darkness, we can starting hoping for better days ahead. Thank You
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I am moved to tears, imo state doesn't earn 1/3rd of Akwa ibom, rivers, bayelsa or delta, i read a story that when he got into office one of his security advises came to show him some loopholes on where he can get over N9billion for himself without accounting to for it, and he answered that he doesn't need it, when the righteous are enthroned the people rejoice, at last Nigerians are seeing a true role model in office. the north will not do something now, they are busy embezzling and producing more illiterates to serve as bokoharam

This IBB's spokesman is funny, it would have been better if he had kept quiet, all the crimes that IBB has committed which government has been able to hold him accountable, you now come to give us the impression that IBB is a stainless saint. don't ask this defenseless interview/interview to come out, or answer your questions, IBB should come out boldly as a statesman that he claims and stand against bokoharam because he has the influence to stop it if he wants to, and give nigerians a reason to see that he is not on the side of BH.

Another bomb has gone out again in kaduna this morning claiming victims, Bokoharam is a serious issue and every hand should be on deck to stop this menace in our country. If you are not against Bokoharam then you are among them, and IBB has not come out openly to condemn their activities, let him come out and defend himself instead of using stooges to talk for him on NL, a lot of people are praying for this country and those that dig a pit to hurt his fellow man and put their families in distress will not go down in peace.

@Me_Aboki, No reasonable person would be happy over the killings going on in the north, and the proponents and sponsors of bokoharam are elements from the north, just like elements of the Niger Delta are responsible for sponsoring MEND and Niger Delta Volunteer Force. Bokoharam is been funded from an inexhaustible source, every smart investigator would looking in the direction of the wealthiest people in the north especially those with the capacity, ability and tendency of mischief.

Dear all, please go through and, , it was sent to me through bulk email, your analysis will really help,

Ex BOKO HARAM Leader, now converted to the Christian, Fingers IBB and others,

Question: Who are you and where are you from?
Answer: My name is Sheik Sani Haliru. I am from Niger Republic, but my mother is from Bornu State of Nigeria and I grew up in Wulari, Maiduguri, (Northern Nigeria) where I was trained.
Q: Trained as what and under whose tutelage?
A: I was trained as an Almajiri, after four years, at the age of 14, I was sent to Kano City, Kano State where I was trained in the Sheik Abubakar Gummi School of Arabic studies.
Q: So you know Sheik Abubakar Gummi?
A: Yes, and I also know his children and obeyed all the teachings he laid down before he died. Q: So who tutored you and who is your mentor? A: Sheik Abubakar Gummi tutored me. My mentor was Osama bin Laden, and until my conversion from Islam to the Christian faith, my dreams and aspirations in life was to do more than Osama bin Laden did before he died on Sunday, May 1, 2011.
Q: You said that your mentor was Osama bin Laden. Is he still your mentor?
A: I am now a changed person. The Sheik Sani Haliru is now a new creature, old things have passed away because I now have Jesus Christ that I hated and persecuted for 44 years.
Q: Tell me about your past and how many countries of the World you have been to?
A: I cannot tell all about my past because it will take several days to tell my story and about my conversion experience to Christianity. I have been to eight countries.
Q: Can you please name them?
A: I have been to Sudan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Egypt and of course to my own country Niger Republic.
Q: Where did you receive your training and as what?
A: I received my training in Libya and Pakistan as an Attack Strategist. I was trained along side with some highly placed Nigerians and other foreign Nationals who were marked (he showed me the proof of his mark with a sign) in the form of a sword in the hand to fight and kill for Allah.
Q: Can you give me some of the names of your colleagues with whom you received training in Libya and Pakistan? A: They are scattered all over the country and we were not too many then. Q: Just mention but a few names.
A: Ali Baba Nur, Asari Dokubo, Jasper Akinbo, Mohammed Yusuf, Salisu Maigari, Danlami Abubakar, Cletus Okar, Ali Qaqa, Maigari Haliru and Asabe Dantala to mention but a few.
Q: Which of the Asari’s do you mean?
A: The Niger Delta war king. He was a year ahead of me in Benghazi training camp in Libya. Q: Who financed your training in Libya and Pakistan? A: You will not believe me and only God will judge the Chief sponsor of terrorism in Nigeria whose name I will not mention because he is so powerful and even the president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, is so much afraid of the man.
Q: If you really know the Christ in you, why are you afraid to tell me the name of the man who sponsored you and the date or approximate period he sponsored you.
A: I am not afraid because he knows me and he cannot deny it if he sees me face to face.Q: Then tell me, who is this powerful man? A: The man is no other person than the man they call IBB now as I am talking to you, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has more than 600 men and women Jihadists who are under his pay role. They are scattered all over the Country and he (IBB) can use them to destroy Nigeria.
Q: Did you say six hundred?
A: Yes 600 + IBB’s agents of destruction are in the Nigeria Army (NA), Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Navy, Air Force, Oil and Gas sectors, even in the finance home such as in top level positions of CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria) and other banks. You find them in politics, in the Senate, National Assembly, in the media both print and electronic and even in Aso Rock, Abuja (Nigeria’s capital).
Q: How do you mean by this statement “and even in the finance…”?
A: Yes, I mean every word I say; even the Islamic bank champion was planted by IBB to help in Islamizing Nigeria.
Q: So how can you describe IBB?
A: IBB is a “green snake” in green grass. He is the main problem of Nigeria along with members of the Cabal.
Q: Have you forwarded any of these evidence(s) to Aso Rock or to SSS (State Security Services)?
A: I attempted to do so a few weeks ago and I was arrested and detained for two days because IBB’S men are so many in SSS (State Security Services) as well. After I was released by the grace of God, they (the Police) warned me never to blow up the polity or provoke violence and I should keep my so-called-born-again with me or else I will go to jail.
Q: So you were a key member and a registered jihadist hardliner.
A: Yes, I was.
Q: Under what group?
A: I was a Boko Haramist. But Boko Haram is just a cover name to give it a name. I have my identity as a founding member of the dreaded jama’aful Ahlul sunna wal Liddawati wal Jihad, aka Boko Haram.
Q: Apart from IBB, who are the other top sponsors of terrorism in this country?
A: They are many, but IBB is the major financier. He introduced the suicide bombing that started wI have the names of six traditional rulers and seven present & ex-Governors as well as several top military and security officers who are co-sponsoring the so called Boko Haram. That apart, I have documented evidences to prove that General Mohammadu Buhari, Alhaji Abubaka Atiku and other top politicians and traditional rulers are some of the people behind Boko Haram. Very soon, nemesis will catch up with them.
Q: What if I use my influence to guarantee you safety, can you brief the press to expose IBB (General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida) with all these documents that I am seeing with you right now.
A: Only God can guarantee my safety. He did so on that fateful day when the SSS and police wanted to secretly kill me because of what I unveiled. I would have been a dead man by now if not for a man of God who came as an “Angel” to quietly free me. Right now, I am wanted dead or alive by IBB and his agents of destruction in high places. The SSS are busy hunting for me up & down and arresting and torturing innocent people because of me.
Q: What if I connect you to a man of God by the name of Brother Mike Ejiofor, who is a lawyer, a professional negotiator and a mediator who was the Director of SSS until October 2010?
A: I only wish to be connected to God.
Q: So how can you describe this country?
A: Nigeria is sifting under an Islamic barbaric bomb (IBB). Only God can rescue this nation because 75% of Christians are prayer less. Why? Because they are in their own comfort zone. They do not know what the Christians in Northern Nigeria are passing through and they ignorantly are thinking that the Allah of the Muslims is the same as the God of Christians in the Holy Bible who says: “Thou shalt not kill”.
Q: What does the Qur’an say about Islam being referred to as a religion of peace by numerous Muslim scholars?
A: Let me tell you in a very clear language that Islam is not a religion of peace, but it is of violence, of killers and fighters as already stated in their so called “Holy” Qur’an which I ignorantly followed all these years when I was spiritually blinded as a Muslim.
Q: Can you prove these statements from the Qur’an?
A: [Sani Haliru, who is now known as Solomon Haliru (Paul Haliru’s brother)] brought out two copies of the original Qur’an in the Arabic & English translation. He gave me one, and told me to open the book to Surah Al- baqarah chapter 2 vs 216. It says, “Holy fighting is ordained (prescribed) for all muslims, whether they like it or not, as far as it is good and approved by Allah through his prophet Mohammed.”
Q: Where is it in the Qur’an that killing is also permitted by Allah?
A: Look at Surah Al-baqarah chapter 2 vs 191 “And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. An Al-Fitnah is worse than killing. And fight not with them at Al-Masjid-Al-Haram (the sanctuary at Makkah), unless they (first) fight you there. But if they attack you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.” Muslims are told to kill and fight in the cause of Allah.
Q: Does it mean that IBB and all these Muslim traditional rulers and Governors that are sponsoring Boko Haram to kill Christians and burn our churches in the North are not aware of the passage in the Qur’an that says there must not be compulsion in Islam as Mohammadu Buhari asserted in a widely publicized interview on Saturday, the 21st of April, 2011?
A: I have worked so closely with Mohammadu Buahri for five years, and I can prove it that General Buhari is the most notable outspoken jihadist hardliner in Nigeria who is also strategically sponsoring Boko Haram.
Q: General Buhari told a group of pressmen in April 2011 that there is no compulsion in Islam and it is a religion of peace. He quoted Surah Al-Baqarah Chapter 2:225. What can you say to that?:
A: What I can say to that is General Buhari, like all other true Muslims, is a hypocrite who is shying away from the fact.
Q: How do you mean by saying that most Muslim millionaires and highly placed Muslims are “pretenders and shying away from the fact”?
A: What I mean is that they (Muslims-both rich and poor) are told to use their position of wealth (or otherwise) to promote Islam or else they will face destruction from Allah.
Q: Where can you find this in the Qu’ran?
A: Open Surah Al-Baqarah Chapter 2:195, it is written here that you must use your wealth to champion Jihad of all kinds or else destruction is waiting for such a person on the last day. “And spend in the Cause of Allah (i.e. Jihad of all kinds) and do not throw yourselves into destruction (by not spending your wealth in the Cause of Allah), and do good. Truly, Allah loves Al-Muhsinun (the good-doers).”
Q: Have you ever been detained or arrested?
A: Nobody could arrest me until the year 2009 soon after my immediate boss Mohammed Yusuf was killed. About 23 of us were arrested in one of our hideouts in Bauchi. But when Governor Isa Yagiuda heard about it, he immediately arranged for me to be free. Even before his official broadcast in 2010 that he was using his position as the executive Governor of Bauchi State (Northern Nigeria) to free 28 prisoners from Bauchi Central Prison, I was already a free man along with several of my colleagues.
Q: Now can you tell me some of the horrible crimes that you committed and how you got born again and became converted.
A: Old things have passed away and I don’t want to talk about the past, because like Apostle Paul said, we need to press forward in Christ Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.
Q: Just mention a few to assist some of us who are making efforts to unravel the mystery of the menace called Boko Haram which you have renounced.
A: I took part in the Kaduna riot of 1992 and in several northern states of Nigeria, but the state I operated more from was Bornu (northern Nigeria) where I was the State Commander/Chief Strategist.
Q: So as Chief Attack Strategist, what crimes have or did you commit before you renounced the deadly sect?
A: In the early months of May 1986, I was among the 36 Jihadist hardliners, who went on a rampage to attack Christian students of the University of Sokoto (Sokoto State in northern Nigeria). In that same week, the Federal Government of Nigeria under the brutal leadership of IBB mobilized us and provided some military vans and Army uniforms which our men used and started killing innocent and defenseless Christians all over the Northern states. I and the son of the Emir of Kano, who is now a Christian by name Rev. Paul Ado Bayero, were among the Muslim fanatics who razed down the sculpture of Jesus at the University of Ibadan (Oyo State in western Nigeria). The following year, March 5, 1987 to be very precise, the “Evil Genius” General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida secretly armed us through one of his close aids by the name of Captain Hassan Abubakar (now a Pastor with a fast growing church in Lagos). We went to go and kill some targeted Christians including Rev. Nuhu Kure (Throne room founder) after the destruction we committed at the College of Education in Kafanchan, Kaduna State (North Central Nigeria). And of recent, I was the leader of the team of soldiers of Allah that destroyed Church buildings and properties in Bornu State (northern Nigeria).
Q: Can you name some of the buildings and Churches you and your Boko Haramists destroyed?
A: There are many, but our main targets which we succeeded in destroying included: Goodnews & ECWA Church, Damboa Road, Maiduguri E.Y.N.L.C.C. Wulari, National Evangelical Mission Inc. Divisional Headquarters Wulari, Elijah Apostolic Christ Church, Oke Ayo Celestial Church of Christ, Deeper Life Bible Church, the Lord’s Chosen and six others in Railway Area and all over Wulari in Maiduguri, Borno State. Other church buildings we destroyed and looted include the Aposotic Church, COCIN Church, Evangelical Church/Mission Headquarters, Anglican Church, Baptist Church/Mission, Redeemed Christian Church of God, El-Shaddai Parish, Watchman Charismatic and several others.
Q: Where were the security officers when you were destroying all these church buildings and killing Christians?
A: Since 1985 when General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) started using us to persecute Christians, the Nigerian Army has been an extension or shall I say an arm of the Muslims agenda to Islamize Nigeria. Wherever they go to attack Christians, the Muslims in the top military positions give the cover by providing the logistics. Since the day of Babangida (1985) Christians suffer violence. This is the time that we must attack them and take what belongs to us by force.
Q: You don’t seem to like IBB and you talk so much of his evil deeds. Are you the only one he used or is there more revelation we can investigate or ascertain further?
A: Babangida is the most wicked and heartless man I have ever seen or worked with. He used many Muslim fanatics (Most of who are now Christians) to commit a lot of atrocities. For example, he used Alhaji Sannusi Dasuki (now Solomon Dasuki), Alhaji Ahmed Ado Bayero (now Rev. Paul Ado Bayero), Alhaji Mohammed Usman (now Evangelist Blessed Usman), Alhaji Sani Jegga (now Isaac Jegga) to attack the following men of God: Late Papa Idahosa, Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, Rev. Uma Ukpai
Q: With all these revelations, can’t IBB be arrested and charged to court?
A: Who will arrest him? Is it Goodluck or who? Even when we provided the proofs to them that IBB killed Dele Giwa and that he sponsored the burning and looting of the Jos main market (Terminus) and also planted the seed of the present crises in Plateau State in 1991, they refused to arrest him because he is very cunning in his evil ways. He leaves no trace of his evil deeds, but nemesis will soon catch up with him because the sardonic spirit in him will soon expire.
Q: In a simple language, how can you describe IBB?
A: Ibrahim Babangida is a wicked and heartless man. As a military officer he was very brutal and as a politician he is very selfish and tricky. He better repent and confess his numerous sins and wickedness before it will be too late.
Q: Can you prove to the readers that fighting and killing in the name of Allah is justified in the Holy Qur’an?
A: I can site more than 28 passages from the Holy Qur’an where fighting and killing is justified as approved in the cause and for the sake of Allah. Please turn to the Qur’an (it goes from the back to the front) and see the book Surah At-Taubah Chapter 9:29 “Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad), and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” In this passage, every true Muslim(s) is specifically instructed to fight against four (4) groups of people especially the Jews and Christians.
Q: So what is the meaning of Jizyah and how was the name coined?
A: From the footnote as you can see in the Qur’an, Jizyah is a tax levied against the people of the scriptures (i.e. the Christians) who are under the Islamic government. Jizyah was coined out after the Jaiz bank that the Muslims are wanting to use to take over the financial world via Islamic Banking.
Q: Are you saying indirectly that Islam is not a religion of peace as most Muslims will want us to believe?
A: I am saying it directly not indirectly that Islam is a religion of violence It is a religion of force. More than 95% of Nigerian journalists and people of the world are ignorant of what the Qur’an teaches and/or says about Islam and violence.
Q: How do you mean?
A: Open the Qur’an to Surah Muhammad Chapter 47:4. In this very passage, Muslims are commanded by Allah to kill and smite the neck of anyone who does not accept the teaching of Islam, and according to the satanic verses they (Muslims) would be helping Allah by so doing. I quote exactly as it is written in the Muslims Holy Qur’an: “So, when you meet (in fight-Jihad in Allah’s Cause) those who disbelieve, smite (their) necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them, then bind a bond firmly (on them, i.e. take them as captives). Thereafter (is the time) either for generosity (i.e. free from them without ransom), or ransom (according to what benefits Islam), until the war lays down its burden. Thus [you are ordered by Allah to continue in carrying out Jihad against the disbelievers till they embrace Islam and are saved from the punishment in the Hell-fire or at least come under your protection], but if it had been Allah’s Will, He Himself could certainly have punished them (without you). But (He lets you fight) in order to test some of you with others. But those who are killed in the Way of Allah, He will never let their deeds be lost.”
Q: So is that why all Muslims are indirectly supporting Boko Haram?
A: Yes, Boko Haram is just a name coined by satan to Islamize the world. That is why every true Muslim is directly and indirectly supporting Boko Haram.
Q: Can you explain further?
A: In Surah Al-Baqarah 2:195, the wealthy Muslims and all those in high position of authority such as IBB, Buhari, Atiku, Isa Yaguda, etc. are told to use their wealth and any position they find themselves in to promote Islam and the cause of jihad of all kinds or else they will face destruction from Allah.
Q: Is that how the suicide bombers come into the picture?
A: Yes,
Q: My readers will like to know from the Qur’an if Islam is the zenith of wickedness as you earlier said.
A: In the Qur’an Allah commanded thus “(Remember) when your Lord revealed to the angels, Verily, I am with you, so keep firm those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved, so strike them over the necks, and smite over all their fingers and toes.” (See the Qur’an of Surah Al-Anfal 8:12)
Q: So you did accordingly?
A: Yes! Satan used Buhari and Tunde Bakare, the false prophet, to smite the necks and chop off the fingers and toes of several Christians in Zaira, Maiduguri, Bauchi and several other places.
Q: Which passages say that the Christians are enemies of the Muslims? Some ignorant Christian leaders and pressmen are of the opinion that both Christians and Muslims worship the same God.
A: Christians and journalists (about 95%) are very ignorant. Let them search the original Qur’an (The Noble Qur’an). The more the Muslim leaders try to block the original Qur’an from circulation, the more the lie spreads that we’re serving the same God. That is why the Lord says “I will build my church; and the gates of (hades) hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18
Q: Mention another satanic verse that makes every true Muslim(s) to hate Christians.
A: In addition to the several passages and mentioned
Q: What is the solution to this problem of the Boko Haram menace?
A: The problem is not Boko Haram. The problem is the Spirit

Nice move, this is surely the beginning of something new. and we shouldn't give so much attention to some northern retrogressives, I suggest a website be opened for this forum so that all Enlightened and Educated Nigerians from every part of the country (North and South) can make there contributions and be a part of the discussion for a better future. if we keep depending on just the few notable northern leaders that have succeeded over the years in impoverishing their people and producing elements like bokoharam to be a part of this countries progress, then we are making a mistake because they are indeed the problem of this country and the ones perpetually drawing us backwards as a nation

@ jason123, you are a very paranoid and silly person, what kind of ridiculous and unsubstantiated allegations are these, imagine your conclusions? what are your sources? how can you be so myopic? is the Ijaw nation bigger than Nigeria. The navy that you are praising have they been able to stop oil bunkering in our water ways or they are part of it. have you forgotten that during OBJ's tenure a whole ship loaded with raw crude oil got missing under the custody of this same navy that you are praising, you are just a corrupt paranoid individual losing money from your oil bunkering business as such you are spreading false news. so just leave GEJ alone I believe God put him there and God is with him, if he builds any house on false grounds when the next government comes they will over turn it.

some one should pls tell this guy to shut up, let him first reduce his salary then we know that he is serious

I think GEJ is only going with people he can trust, I need those that will be loyal to his agenda, believe it or not the navy and military have not been doing a good job, they have been so infiltrated and unprofessional that they are now the once aiding oil bunkering in the Niger Delta. Remember during OBJ's tenure how a whole ship load with crude oil got missing and the nation never got it back. and over the years oil bunkering is the other of the day, retired generals and chinese/russian mafians lifting and exporting raw crude from our creeks that are not accounted for. If our military all these years have not been able to curb this trend, I think GEJ is right to go with those he trusts to do the job.

Guys wake up, the military guys securing all those oil rigs in the creeks were simply protecting the interest of the real oil bunkers (Retired Military Generals). they kill anybody that stands as an obstacle and connive with chinese and russian pirates to drill oil that is unaccounted for, this is the real oil bunkering, and that is why the north is not happy, and that is why there is a bokoharam today trying to destabilize the country. All the mess going on the country today is just oil bunkering power tussle.