₦airaland Forum

And who says barcanista is no more useful/relevant in the scheme of things?

Dafan:
Amechi seems to be one of Nigeria bigest problem now,

Only next to OBJ!

omonnakoda:
I disagree with the exercise but now I have taken time to read the reports.The court has not made any pronouncement on constitutionality. The issues are as follows
A person was arrested and challenged his arrest,he claimed it was unconstitutional. The LASG disagreed claiming that they had the power to make laws to restrict movement enshrined in the constitution.They cited the Environmental Sanitation Act as such a law.
The court disagreed ; The stated act had no such provisions for restriction of movement or arrests as a result.As such the restriction and arrests were ruled UNLAWFUL. That is the effect of the judgment.So in theory LASG can still go and make a law or amendment to the existing law or a regulation based on the law restricting movement for the sanitation exercise.
It would then require another challenge to pronounce on the CONSTITUTIONALITY of such a law depending on how it is worded etc.
It is important to note that in no place does the court repeal or abrogate the law or indeed pronounce on its constitutionality.All the court is saying is THAT LAW does not authorize restriction.It does not say anything about whether such a law would be constitutional or not

Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come. I understand your submission, and I believe it's a question of time before a more recent and updated environmental law will be put in place to replace the current outdated one.

Actually, I wasn't hitherto looking at it from the constitutional point of view, but from the angle of its largely ineffective administration in maintaining a sane and clean environment; that violated our Constitution is a new twist to the best of my knowledge.

maestroferddi:
Madam it goes beyond sounding off online.

Wike is probably the strongest grassroots politician in the current dispensation. Like Wike like Fayose.

I am not saying what I don't know. Make your findings from people on ground in Rivers. Amaechi and his man Friday are disasters waiting to happen. Almost all the political leaders in Rivers are with Wike.

Bookmark this call...

I'm typing from Woji this moment, and I can safely confirm ur submission. Wike is a core grassroots man; his pull is so strong at the grassroot.

gbengaoa:
"in modern age" we need to look into our society to make legislation because a law is not just made, its a has to be made be because of the people. we are in a society where people care less about the environment, restricting movement may not be the solution but people having a new attitude to their environment, you can make the survey, most people will only see a reason to clean their environment only because it sanitation day, but i will also want to say the sanitary inspection units of the local and state govt are not also helping matters. i am not an autoritarian, but this is Africa, Nigeria, where somethings have to be forced on people for the betterment of all.

My position is this: after the current one is scrapped, another more rigorous and daily exercise MUST be enacted to enforce environmental impact. It's supposed to be a daily affair. No nation handles environmental matters on a monthly basis. It doesn't work that way.

Granted, we are a people only willing to do the needful when coerced or forced, it's still bbackward to narrow a crucial exercise like the environmental sanitation to a once in a month basis.

WisdomFlakes:
Lol. Na frustration go kill you. NewsFlash: I didn't ask for your validation coz I don't need it. My WisdomFlakes are obviously giving you migraines

Haba! E don reach like that? I'm not a do or die supporter. Whoever wins, Nigeria moves on...

tittop4:
Good work bro. I wonder how the old fool is intending to fight corruption when he has the most corrupted people in his campaign team. It's obvious that this not the change that we need now. They can try another time maybe by 2019.

Any averagely smart person knows that Buhari CANNOT tackle kwaruption like he's making the gullible folks to believe. Not when he's surrounded by thieving politics hyenas.

pacifique:
Remove the wisdom from your name and PLEASE, remind me your early morning PILL's name again. I want to get it for you free of charge till election is done.

U took the words outta my mouth. I was about to bemoan the his view on this matter.

CounsellorWise:
Expository piece. Change chanters should read this carefully. Change can't be brought through this questionable alliance. Until worthy changers hit the stage, let's sail on with what we've got.

They will never read. And if they ever do, they are more ready and willing to give a denial rather than try to understand the contents of the article.

There's no change anywhere with these broom folks. Some of us have refused to be deceived!

Some societies can exist without money, but NO society exists without JUSTICE. These structures were carefully and tactically placed to give some kind of selfish advantage to the North. There's no denying it! The faulty structure is responsible for almost all our ills as a nation.

Whoever drags GEJ into this thread is either stupid, foolish, mischievous and treacherous.

Egift, take your time this afternoon. You're gradually becoming an epidemic!

oluspencer:
You've produced senators and legislators for the past 16 years, ewerem, okadigbo, anyim, Adolphus wabara. All have been senate president in this country. Ike ekeremandu and ohakim are both prinicipal legislators in this country. Did they move any motion of such that was thrown away.
Despite yar Adua he was quick to award contract for the dredging of river Niger to boost the economy of the north. Pls what was Jonathan,s economic important to the south apart from a awarding contracts to miscreant and tout.

Pls, stay on track!

adenuga33:
Too long man...dnt u thin we need a summary?

Bro, read. It's not too long. Besides, since we won't live long enough to know ALL we ought, let's learn from others. It's faster.

BTW, address the salient issues raised my the author!

Source: scannews


Buhari and the Lion of Bourdillon

By Femi Aribisala

ONE month ago, the APC had whipped its supporters into frenzy in believing it is bound to win an election it really has no chance of winning. In truth, if the election had been conducted then for chairman of the EFCC, Muhammadu Buhari would have been declared winner by a landslide. However, with postponement of the election, a lot of water has passed under the bridge. Even Buhari’s self-styled credential as Mr. Integrity has unraveled.

Buhari’s entire campaign posture for the 2015 presidential election stands on two shaky grounds. He fashions himself as Mr. Integrity; the implacable enemy of corruption in Nigeria. He is the one who reportedly is going to ensure that corruption is a thing of the past in Nigeria. He is also the one who is going to destroy the Boko Haram in the twinkling of an eye; even though a number of months ago, he was negotiating for amnesty and golden handshakes for the insurgents, and they nominated him as their preferred middleman in any truce negotiation with Nigeria.

Buhari’s disappearance

Things have not gone too well for the Buhari campaign since the postponement of the election. He did not help things by disappearing off the political radar for virtually two weeks. By the time he re-surfaced, Boko Haram was toast. We no longer needed Buhari’s vain promissory notes to deal with the insurgency. One after another, town after town were recovered from the Boko Haram. In many respects, they have been routed as the Nigerian army came into its own after having received its new consignment of weapons.
As a result, we are no longer hearing anything from Buhari about whipping Boko Haram. All he had left was his anti-corruption mantra. But that one also came to grief with the airing of AIT’s tripartite documentary entitled: “The Lion of Bourdillon.” This alleged that Bola Tinubu, the self-styled national leader of the APC, is steeped in corruption. It claims Tinubu is the biggest landlord in Lagos, and maintains he has acquired so much property through very sharp practices.
While the veracity of these allegations is yet to be ascertained beyond reasonable doubt, the documentary has brought to the fore the flies in the anti-corruption ointment of Buhari. The truth is that corruption in Nigeria is not the exclusive preserve of the PDP. It is also the chronic ailment of the APC. Neither is corruption only the malaise of the Federal Government; it is equally the malaise of state governments, including those ruled by the APC. Indeed, Murtala Nyako of the APC was impeached and removed as governor of Adamawa State partly because it was alleged that he had corruptly enriched himself with government funds.

The question then is this: Does Buhari’s so-called zero-tolerance for corruption extend to his APC colleagues? Will Buhari, in the unlikely event that he becomes president, go after APC thieves as well as PDP thieves? Or will he turn a blind eye to APC thieves and molly-cuddle them? Suddenly, the anti-corruption searchlight turned on to Buhari and his friends, and just as suddenly, we discovered what some of us have always known: that Buhari, the Emperor of Anti-Corruption, has no clothes.
Buhari’s response to the issue of corruption in APC ranks reeked with sheer hypocrisy and double-standards. Like charity, Buhari’s anti-corruption must begin at home in the APC if it is to be credible. However, Buhari is not inclined to prosecute his friends. Instead, he came up with a pronouncement that virtually rubbished his anti-corruption posture. He said: “Whoever that is indicted of corruption between 1999 to the time of swearing-in, would be pardoned. I am going to draw a line, anybody who involved himself in corruption after I assume office, will face the music.”

Insurance for corrupt supporters

This means as long as you steal money between 1999 and 2011, you have nothing to fear under a Buhari presidency. This is, of course, an insurance policy for his corrupt supporters, assuring them that they would have nothing to fear by giving him their vote. Buhari did not come out in strident support of Bola Tinubu. He did not come out to tell the world that, contrary to the AIT documentary, the Bola Tinubu he knows is a man of unimpeachable integrity. Instead, he told the world that if there are thieves among his friends, they can rest assured that he would pardon their thievery.
When President Jonathan pardoned the former governor of Bayelsa, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, a man who had been convicted of corruption and was a refugee from justice from Britain, Nigerians were incensed. This was rightly seen as the president condoning corruption. One would have thought this kind of thing would not occur with a man who talks anti-corruption day and night. However, in the case of Buhari, he would not only pardon one corrupt associate, he would pardon them all.
When asked how he was going to get funds to revitalise the economy, Buhari stated that he was going to get all corrupt past leaders and officials cough out their stolen money. This was nothing but a nonsensical policy. It is bizarre and odd for Buhari to think he can run Nigeria, revamp the educational system for example, by recovering stolen money. Where will he get this money from? Who will give it to him? Would such recovered money not amount to a storm in the teacup?
But now that he has dumped this anti-corruption charade in favour of a blanket pardon for the corrupt, it is clear that political reality is beginning to erode Buhari’s highfalutin campaign grandstanding. It is equally significant that Buhari’s new stance on corruption comes coincidentally after AIT documentary on “The Lion of Bourdillon,” where one of his most important allies was accused of corruption. Clearly, it is high time Buhari stopped deluding Nigerians that he is genuinely anti-corruption and that he can eradicate corruption in Nigeria by sending corrupt politicians to jail.
Buhari was Nigeria’s head-of-state for a period of 18 months in the 1980s. At the time, he ran so rough-shod over the Nigerian judicial system that the Nigerian Bar Association proscribed Nigerian lawyers from appearing in any of Buhari’s kangaroo courts. Buhari sent both corrupt and non-corrupt politicians to jail, sometimes for up to 300 years. Nevertheless, corruption was not eradicated. It continued unabated because it was not addressed structurally. Even the practice under Obasanjo of shooting armed robbers by firing squad in Bar Beach failed to stop armed robbery. All it did was to brutalise the Nigerian public.

Jonathan’s effective approach

Surely, the more reasonable and effective method is to remove the avenues for corruption. This is what Goodluck Jonathan has been doing. He has sanitized the payroll system by removing some 50,000 ghost-workers, saving the country a whopping N200 billion in the first instance. He has removed the fertilizer middlemen; saving Nigeria hundreds of billions of naira. He has sanitized the electoral register. Over three million ghost voters have been removed; one million in Zamfara State alone. He is going after corruption in the oil sector with the Petroleum Industry Bill.
In the vainglorious case of Buhari, it did not help matters that he fought corruption with corruption. He interfered blatantly in the judicial process. The judge who sent Fela to jail later went to apologise to him in hospital afterwards that he did it under government duress. Nevertheless, some members of the Nigerian public, baying for the blood of corrupt politicians, hanker back to the high-handed days of the Buhari era, when the human rights of innocent Nigerians were violated on the altar of anti-corruption, and some Nigerians were even judicially murdered under heinous retroactive decrees.
What Buhari is not telling them is that he has no power to do this under today’s democratic dispensation. Buhari goes on the stomp and says: “When we come into power, anyone who steals Nigerian money will end up in Kirikiri Maximum Prisons. We are going to make sure that Nigeria’s wealth belongs only to Nigerians.” But the truth of the matter is that, in a democracy, the president does not have the judicial power to send anybody to Kirikiri. If the EFCC does not prosecute, the president cannot become the chairman of the EFCC. If the judges do not convict, Buhari cannot transform himself into a judge.

Deceived electorate

All those who have been deceived into believing that Buhari will just become president and begin to lock up corrupt politicians left, right and centre are dreaming. In the unlikely event that Buhari becomes president, he will neither have the power to do so, nor the inclination to do so. The reason is simple: many of the thieves are his friends and allies in the APC. Buhari talks change, but he is running around with the old breed of politicians. You can always tell a lot about a man by the composition and character of his friends.
Buhari fashions himself as Mr. Integrity, nevertheless, he was not averse to serve under Sani Abacha, one of the most corrupt heads-of-state in the history of Nigeria. Even more significant, Buhari insisted that Abacha was not corrupt at all. On the 10th anniversary of Abacha’s death, Buhari told incredulous Nigerians that all the allegations of looting the treasury leveled against Abacha were “baseless.” He said: “ten years after Abacha, those allegations remain unproven because of lack of facts.”
Buhari held this position in spite of the millions of dollars of Abacha’s loot recovered from banks around the world, and in spite of the fact that the Abacha’s family signed a formal agreement to return over $1 billion of such monies to the Nigerian government. We can see therefore that, from the point of view of Buhari, only the PDP has the copyright on corruption. Every allegation of corruption leveled against his friends and financiers must surely be “baseless.”
It is this kind of double standard that prompted Buhari to jail Vice-president Ekwueme while only putting President Shagari under house arrest. Fela Anikulapo-Kuti poked fun at this in one of his songs. He said: “Driver commit accident Buhari lock conductor.” Given the many corrupt drivers that abound in Buhari’s APC’s, we can anticipate that he will only be interested in locking up conductors in the unlikely event that he ever becomes president.

Bro, it is as irresponsible as it is depart ate and treacherous to have an opposition party spew weighty allegations without material/physical evidence to substantive their claims.

I don't want to even address Rev. Mbaka's matter. I now understand better why our topmost men of God detests being dragged into these murky waters of Nigeria politics. It's really saddening and sickening.

I see a conspiracy. I see a situation where the media has been well hijacked and seriously deples to undermine the government and armtwist the gullible folks into dancing and waving brooms. That's the game.

Nigeria isn't Ivory Coast, and whatever that happened there CANNOT happen here. But the signs are ominous, and Nigeria may be looking at the edge of a monumental disaster, if this propaganda politics isn't tamed.

I sue for peace, but the desperation of the broom wavers shouldn't be dismissed with a hand wave.

oodubanjo:
BUHARI HAS NEVER BEEN ACCUSED OF A STOLEN WEALTH, HE RECEIVES ONLY HIS PENSION. PLS TELL ME ANY OF THE PEOPLE, POLITICIAN
BUILDING SCHOOLS, BOREHOLE AND EVEN DONATING BIG MONEY TO THEIR MOSQUES/ CHURCHES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN ACCUSSED OF
STEALING GOVT. FUND. EVEN GEJ DONATING DOLLARS TO OBAS IN THE SOUTH WEST CANNOT TELL US THAT IS FROM HIS SALARY.

And you think corruption doesn't go beyond financial misappropriation? What of certificate forgery, nepotism? Overthrowing a legitimate civil, Democratic government?

Buhari's NOT A SAINT!

Buhari IS going nowhere other than Daura! Those who destroyed our democracy and consequently and drove the nation backwards into the hands of those military folks, will never be allowed to enjoy the same democracy he destroyed.

That will be sending a wrong signal to the Khaki guys and rewarding official military indiscipline. No way!

In saner climes, Buhari won't have even dared!

No place in our modern Nigeria for a former dictator.

APC has started again. Just recently it claimed the PDP was planning to assassinate Buhari! These guys are creating more tension in the lane, and it's unfortunate it's the innocent masses that will suffer from it.

On a second thought, I believe the APC are using lies to distract the PDP!

None can point to ONE political murder since GEJ came on board.

Kill them all!

More Kudos to our brace and resilient army folks.

This is really good news- at least to all well meaning Nigerians.

God bless Nairaland.

God bless Ijawland.

God bless Nigeria.

ba7man:
You might call it "Humility" but to me.......I see all the classic signs of "Lack of Confidence".


I mean, its so bad GEJ doesn't mind emptying the Federation account in his bid to buy approval.

Lack of confidence? Does that give enough grounds to your myopic view that all the ssupporters of GEJ are unintelligent?

We have our reasons for supporting. U don't expect everyone to clap for you when you make such childish comments about millions of people on a Tuesday morning!

ba7man:
meanwhile, the nation is in the midst of hardship.

GEJ is not intelligent at all. Its now an open fact.

I look at his supporters in reality and see that they're all like him, hence, the support.

What an unfortunate sweeping comment coming from supposedly susuper - intelligent Albert Einstein! Till death, I will favour humility over intelligence.

The zenith of knowledge and intelligence is modesty in one's assessment of their abilities and limitations.

So, next time, do not try to present yourself as someone that's smarter than all the millions of people supporting GEJ.

Good morning.

Even criminals do have plans. It's always easier to copiously dole out beautiful words of heaven on earth till it finally dawns on you that governance isn't moi moi.

It will be very interesting to see how he achieves these feats in 4 or 5 years.

Meanwhile, I'm still resolutely with the umbrella. No shaking!

egift:
OP how many did Jonathan build after 5yrs plus? What did he do to clean up Pollution in Niger Delta?

When we kick out the corrupt administration of Jonathan and elect a competent Leader in Buhari, we all can ask the government for the things we need in out communities. But with Jonathan, everything will be looted and Oga Jo will tell us it is not corruption.

Bro, abeg cut GEJ some slacks. How many things can he do in 5 years? Can you undo in 5 years what's been done over 3 decades? Let's be sincere and fair in our judgement!

And you expect me to believe GMB will make a case for equal army institutions to be built in the South? Give me a break!

sincerenigerian:
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Go and assemble your fellow miscreants and take over government buildings.

Funny you! Hahahhahaha. Una go burst person belle one day. See reply!

Well, that doesn't take away the veracity in the claims of the OP. Unfortunately, the average Nigerian, especially the Southern, seems disinterested in these truths.

gbengaoa:
the restriction of movement is just to make sure people are within their residence to clean. how many of us have made an attempt to even clean our surroundings on days other than sanitation days. this is Africa and Nigeria where people don't care about their environment, so 3hrs in just a day out of the 30days will not kill.

Gbenga, you're not seeing the big picture. I have already submitted a more detailed comment on this thread yesterday. Amongst a series of reasons, the restriction of movement constitutes a violation of our fundamental human rights. If any law is inconsistent with our Constitution, that law is NULL and VOID! Environmental sanitation na daily exercise in modern age!

If only nations are built with WORDS! However, I'm a bit encouraged with his manifesto, but it's always easier said than done. Till you sit on that tthrone, you have no idea what it means to try to salvage a complex nation that has been systemically destroyed and left in ruins by successive governments over the years!

From the sidelines, every football fan is a better player than Messi and CR7.

Still have to give some Kudos to the APC for being a formidable opposition party. It's a welcomed development.

Isn't he a politician? We know them! They always have good plans till they are given mantle of leadership and then suddenly realise it's always easier from the outside.

Meanwhile, GEJ till 2019!

Innocence is peace and confidence; guilt erodes both! See the trepidation on her face as she was doing it!

DeviIhimself:
Tinubu is the corruption in Chief

And then some broom wavers would have me believe GMB will unilaterally throw him in jail! Epic delusion!

GBAM! ! I couldn't agree more with all the points that were raised by him. APC is the assemblage of the strangest of bedfellows!

It shall not win; it shall not prosper.

egift:
More:

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Irrelevant NOW! Not only APC changes; people also do. Life's goes on!

I will like to vote for GMB so as to see how he magically addresses our myriads of problems in JUST FOUR years!

From the sidelines, every supporter is a better football player!

Change is coming, but transformation is ALREADY here. A bird in hand us worth two in the bush.

GEJ till 2019!

Obviously, in the real scheme of politics, I'm a learner. Following barcanista and everyone keenly.

Most times its safer and faster to learn from the sidelines.

Kudos my Bro, barcanista! Let the comments pour in.

NO insults. No aggression. Just plain mature debates.

Barcanista and his umbrella brand VS the magical broom wavers!