₦airaland Forum

NAJALYN: @Jarus, & @Demdem,must you insult your colleauges in the forum when correcting them? It doest show maturity. Please let us correct ourselves in the best interest of this forum.

NAJALYN: @ Jarus "Political ignoramus. It was one of the pdp rivals to GEJ that said that not Buhari." Hear yourself. You are not even making sence. You are twisting the story because you are a fan of Buhari. You definitly are the political ignoramus. Please get your facts right in future, its in your own interest. @Demdem, how old are you? You should run along and go read your books since all you know how to do best is to insult others.

NAJALYN: Utter rubbish. Buhari threatened to make Nigeria ungovernable if pdp won the election. [/b]All the while boko haram has been killing innocent Nigerians, where was he? Asking Northern Governors to tackle boko haram insecurity is certainly an after-thought. He should go hide himself in shame.

drnoel: u mean state police run by the governor of the state. That would not be good at all.

CyberG: But why Akpan? He is one of the performing governors, why do you say that?

sambos994: And how do you know?

OAM4J: Pls avoid posting any offensive/sexual picture on Nairaland. We have zero-tolerance for such now.

Thanks.

OAM4J: Well said El-Rufai. Sad that one very competent man with a clue to our power problems has left this administration.

No, GEJ handling power himself will not be as good as Nnaji IMO. Really, this should have been avoided.

torkaka: On Barth Nnaji's Resignation

I think the issue boils down to poor judgment on the part of Barth. Since the days of TCPC, there exists a Code of Ethics prohibiting members of the Board of TCPC and staff from acquiring assets being privatized.

In 2000, the National Council on Privatization approved stricter Code of Ethics prohibiting staff of BPE and members of NCP from participating in any way in privatization transaction. As DG of BPE between 1999 and 2003, I went further and stopped buying any shares on the NSE to prevent any signalling to the market.

Barth Nnaji ought to be aware of this, and withdrew his firm or its associates from further participation in any consortium participating as consultants or bidders to any privatization transaction, electricity related or not, the moment he was appointed minister of power, and therefore a co-opted member of the NCP. Perhaps he was unaware of this Code which BPE as the secretariat of NCP is obliged to draw attention to for the guidance of all council members.

His resignation is a set-back for the power sector reforms. He is one of the few ministers in GEJ's cabinet that knows what need doing in his area of ministerial responsbility. The whole thing was clearly avoidable.

There are many ministers far less competent than Barth and under whose watch massive fraud, corruption and more serious crimes have been committed. Yet, they continue to sit pretty and not asked to resign.

[/b]Perhaps, there is more than this ethical infraction. I do not know, but if what we read is all there is, both the ex-minister and his employer could have handled it better and in a more orderly manner.

Nasir


[b]I SEE DIEZANI

Billyonaire: This is silly. Why would a Trade Union be exchanging words with a Political Party when it members are also members of diverse Political parties even in PDP. Are we now saying that NUPENG is now an arm of ACN ?

Billyonaire: Am no hypocrite. I say it the way it is. When I was singing praises of GEJ, you were not using my political telescope. I was singing the praises because I could see tomorrow and by reason of tomorrow. Now, you have started applying into the GEJ 40 Laptop crew as you call it. GEJ will put State Police in place before leaving office in 2019. State police, is excellent. If politicians like, make dem use am kill themselves. Who loves Politicians anyone. The lesser their number the better for Nigeria. Apart from GEJ, I careless about Politics. He remains my hero, and remains the only President I have ever voted for.

ebamma: according to the oxford dictionary A freedom fighter is a
person engaged in a
resistance movement
against what they believe
to be an oppressive and
illegitimate government. To me Asari Dokubo and his cohorts were never freedom fighters,the were just mercenaries who wanted to get paid,the only freedom fighters to have emerged from the niger delta were Isaac Boro and Ken saro wiwa,who were not afraid to die for what the believed in and were not after any pecuniary gains

Lucy001: Nigeria as a country is not ripe for a state police yet, reasons are that most governors will miss use it, expecially during elections, citizens who go against their wishes, eg civil society organisations, human right activitst etc, I believe the FG should continue with d mode of deployment of police to various parts of the country.

walton1: Speaking further on his mission to the state, Buhari said, “I am in Kano to open our party office and put an end to the intra and inter- party squabbles culminating in electoral loss that ended up in the tribunal up to the Supreme Court but I want to tell you we are already settling down to face you guys squarely, your Excellency.”