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WHEN I LISTEN TO BAD JOE I FEEL SAD FOR OUR COUNTRY



My brother, when I listen to Bad Joe I feel sad for Nigeria."

"You are not the only one who is sad, even Joe himself is sad when he listens to some people he said call themselves leaders."

"Joe is only sad because we have not all signed up with TAN, his band of court jesters and hired hands. He is sad because Professor Tam David-West has not signed up to lead TAN. Ah, Bad Joe, your days are sadness are not here yet."

"But the man was talking sense - that we must believe that we do not have any other country."

"Even Joe does not believe in Nigeria. He believes in the German health care system, he does not believe in Nigeria's banking sector, rather he trusted in Ghana-must-go to courier his $9.3 million to South Africa."

"It is because our health care system is broken and needs to be fixed."

"And who will fix it, the Germans?"

"Joe's transformation agenda will fix it and they are working on it as we speak."

Are they working on it? Even SURE-P is working to reposition our health care."

"SURE-P is there to facilitate looting and they are spending billions every month on mirage projects."

"But Joe meant well."

"He meant well for himself and his family. As they go fat and swell like Michelin tyres the masses go lean and poor."

"That is why Joe is always praying and always at the Aso Rock Chapel every Sunday morning."

"That after bottles of gin and other assorted wines! Who is fooling who?"

"You don't understand. Last Sunday it was Oristejafor who preached at the Chapel on the Rock."

"Ah, Oristejafor, the co-conspirator in the movement of $9.3 million state funds! Surely, that is not the rock upon which Christ will build his church; only thieves and looters build their future upon such that will perish."

"But the man touched on corruption during his sermon."

"And corruption also touched the man, private jet and all. Shame has deserted our nation, and what with red cassock, is that the choice of the Ogboni or the cult?"

"You cannot speak ill of the messenger of God."

"A messenger of God who is in close proximity to the messenger of Lucifer and archangel of Greed? These are best pals in a mutually beneficial dollar-play."

"The man of God was not even aware that his private jet will be used to ferry cash to South Africa, so you cannot put any blame on him. He even preached against corruption and terrorism and prophesied that Nigeria, like a boat, will never sink."

"Is that so? Even when the rear of the boat has already been overwhelmed by the flood? The boat will capsize if the pastor and his friends are not fed to the sea immediately. The boat should stabilize once all the looters and their colluders - in and out of cassock - are thrown into the sea. I am not sure the pastor still remembers how Pharaoh and his men went down in defeat at the Red Sea. I am beginning to doubt if the pastor actually preached what the Lord asked him to, or the glory of the Lord has departed from him - Ichabod."

"But what has the Lord got to do with all these?"

"The Lord is very angry with Bad Joe and this pastor for aiding and abetting looting; Joe with his hands in the cookie jar, the pastor standing by and collecting crumbs from the thief's table, and supporting lies and looting. What do you think Prophet Isaiah would have done to Bad Joe?"

"Isaiah would probably have asked Joe to leave his presence."

"Just that, are you kidding? I think you need to go and read the book of Isaiah - you, Bad Joe and the pastor. But what CAN the Christians do now to restore the good name of their association?"

"The Christians should continue to pray for the nation and Joe, its leader."

"So Joe is a leader in your own reckoning eh? If Joe is a leader what is Obama? The clueless, bland Joe, the very one whose humanity is permanently set at a sub-zero level? He is the butt of all kinds of joke and jeers around the world, and he is the same one who wants to TAN himself at our expense? What a foolery."

"He just wants to serve a second time."

"He probably does not know the words many around the world now use to describe him."

"What words do they use to describe him?"

"Words like insensitive, irresponsible, reckless, selfish, plunderer, philanderer, greedy and that word that has stuck and dances on his forehead these days - the word clueless."

"He is not clueless; he is just taking things one day at a time."

"The man has lost the capacity to think straight; corruption is beclouding his reasoning capacity, if indeed he has any capacity to think outside of dollar and pounds sterling."

"But you heard him talked about how they curtailed Ebola?"

"How who curtailed Ebola? Bad Joe curtailed Ebola? Who did the WHO and the International Community thanked for curtailing Ebola in Nigeria?"

"Who did they thank?"

"They all thanked Raji Babatunde Fashola, the man who showed exemplary leadership and whose Lagos State government responded immediately and acted swiftly to deal with the aftermath of the thoughtless action of Patrick Sawyer."

"But Joe worked with the opposition party states of Lagos and Rivers to ensure Ebola was curtailed."

"Bad Luck referred to Lagos and Rivers States 'opposition party states.' Do you see what I mean? Yet those are easily the most progressive states in the nation. What terrific and presidential words to use to describe progressive states in our land, a divisive approach rather than an inclusive attitude. We sure have a naïve man at the helm."

"He does not mean to …."

"Do you see why people say he does not think before talking? The other time it was Patrick Sawyer that Bad Joe used very un-presidential words to describe. I am very sad every time I hear Joe talk or read his statements. Is he drinking too much?"

"I don't know; you have to ask the people at Aso Rock."

"You want me to ask the people at Aso Rock?"

"Every reasonable person must avoid the people at Aso Rock."

"Why is that?"

"That is the home of demons and the residence of the devil. Just look at the list of those who have lived there and those who have worked there - all of them served mammon and lived to please mammon, and those who are there today are even worse, worse because they pretend to know the Lord while they actively serve mammon, loot and lie. They will be miserable for the rest of their lives."

"But there are some honest workers there, like the cook who got nominated for national honour."

"There was also the driver in Ottawa, Canada who was nominated for national award. I still wonder what special service this driver at the Nigerian High Commission in Ottawa rendered that earned him that award."

"He must have done something very special."

"He must be a diplomatic driver with special skills. It will be nice to know what that special something was."

"Only time will tell, my friend."

"I am eager to know. The honours list itself is so dubious and dishonourable as always."

"Why did you say that?"

"The list is made of politicians, serving military, security services, police, and other members of the armed forces who have failed the nations and done poorly in their service to the nation. The awards are being dispensed by a man whose performance is way below 20 percent, a man who lack credibility and reputation."

"Why not name names."

"How about the four chiefs of defence, army, navy, air and the IGP? Is that award for anyone occupier of those positions at the time of sharing of the award? Those five failed to tackle Boko Haram and ensure peace, stability, security and safety in the nation. You see how Bad Joe rewards failure and give recognition to the undeserving?"

"He must have seen something in them."

"Could that be something that you and I cannot see eh? Probably something to do with gross disservice to the nation and its people, some past or future favours from some of the state chief judges being dashed awards. I have said it many times that these awards are worthless, not even worth the value of the paper it was written on."

"I am sure those people getting the awards are happy to receive them."

"That is Nigeria for you. Most in our society are awards-crazy, titles-obsessed, and commendations-fixated, but this particular award list took the cake as it succeeded in pitching thieves, criminals, oil bunkering czars, looters, political jobbers, former coup plotters, failed military men, bank double-dippers, and a few good souls."

"Awards are to motivate people."

"Not in Nigeria. Be very careful when you receive an award from a failed regime like Bad Joe's. Except you know you have been doing as Joe pleases much like someone from the finance and accounts department of a scattered, ill managed, heavily looted corporation like the NNPC, whose accounts have not been updated nor audited in more than a decade, was given an OON award."

"But what can we do?"

"We can cancel the hopeless award thing altogether and safe the nation the shame, disdain and dishonour that goes with the national honours. I truly feel sad when Bad Joe do things this way, this corrupt and crooked way. Remember also: Nigeria cannot be transformed overnight, but it can be looted overnight."

Ikengawo:
Every yoruba blogger has adopted an igbo psuedonym.

sniyi1: It's a pity many so called political exponents on this forum don't understand that Buhari can't deliver any longer even in the north. In many parts of d north, politicians use buhari to campaign n get into office. these same politicians don't encourage people to vote for buhari, It's y GEJ will split votes with him in d core north n sweep d middle belt. Atleast now I understand d idiosyncrasies of d average APC followeeeee

ISpiksDaTroof: Look at the question I asked your brother above and give me an answer too if you will.

neenar: You will, but would the others? Nigeria as a country has been really divided along reigious lines. So much so that Fashola wouldn't win even 50 percent of Southern votes. BTW, I am tired of the "if there is no other candidate, I'll vote GEJ" phrase. If you think neither candidate is good, then don't vote! Simple!

sniyi1: @Gwabe I hope his so called political calculations doesn't land him in PDP when he is finally ready to contest. I still think now is the best time for him, before Nigerians forget n before APC disintegrates

Ayed44: in other words, what you are saying is that APC must present a northerner as its presidential candidate in order to appease the "powerful north", right?

fkaz: And what is PDP?

InyinyaAgbaOku: That means APC is an ethnic party.

adamooye5: Even though i'm from the north, i have asked my self this same question severaly. Fashola to me is a true democrate.

sniyi1: I am not a fan of APC but watching Fashola in the last few months gives me a feeling he could truly be d greatest asset in d arsenal of APC against d PDP and Jonathan in 2015.
What's stopping him? If APC is truly sincere, why not present him?

arsetalks: Where is the call for revolution here? Plus I find it weird that just the other day Asari Dokunbo made very silly statements but it never made the front page but this made it.

Nairaland has turned to a PDP tool.

expert101: [size=18pt]Fayose is a crook. He is coming out for unfinished business. Watch out for his Part 2[/size]

My deputy won’t succeed me -Fayose

JUNE 22, 2014 BY KAMARUDEEN OGUNDELE AND ENIOLA AKINKUOTU, ADO-EKITI
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The Ekiti State Governor-elect, Mr. Ayo Fayose, of the Peoples Democratic Party has said his deputy, Dr. Olusola Eleka, will not succeed him in 2018.

He also said he had no plans to embark on industrialisation of the state because there was no adequate power supply to support that, adding that he will empower the people through contract award to indigenes.

Addressing journalists in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday, Fayose, who admitted that the Constitution did not permit him to take the oath of office more than twice said, “I have taken one and I will take another one in October. After that, I will find my way to my house.

“Again, I have chosen a deputy governor and I have told him from the beginning that the two of us will pack our load and leave the Government House because I don’t want a deputy that will start playing politics behind me when we are in government and will be distracting me, I don’t want that again.

“So, he is practically here for me to look after certain things for me and ensure that we succeed. When I am going, I will hold his hand and say bye to Ekiti people.”

patrickmuf: Why not sieve out the aspect of the message that speak sense and stop your senseless attack of the source...

Jonathan, other PDP governments encourage corruption in Nigeria’s oil industry- government report
May 20, 2013Bassey Udo

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative says government hardly implements its recommendations on accountability in the extractive industry.


The deliberate inactions of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration and those of other Peoples Democratic Party governments since 1999 have encouraged corruption and obfuscation in the Nigerian oil industry, an agency has stated.
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, on Monday, expressed frustration in its efforts to boost the level of transparency and accountability in the oil and gas industry.
The agency blamed the federal government for Nigeria’s recent poor ranking in the global Resource Governance Index, RGI, report of the Revenue Watch Institute, RWI.

RWI, in the report, which measured the quality of the extractive industries governance in 58 resource-rich countries across the world, ranked Nigeria 40th, with a score that showed the country’s extractive industries governance as ‘very weak’.
The assessment conducted on the quality of four key governance components, namely Institutional and Legal Setting; Reporting Practices; Safeguards and Quality Controls, and Enabling Environment, showed that Nigeria fared better in institutional and legal setting, as a result of the existence of several legislation on openness and transparency, including NEITI Act, 2007 and Freedom of Information Act, while being rated poorly on the enabling environment.
Failure since 1999

Frowning at the rating, NEITI said, as an agency set up with a mandate to enthrone transparency, accountability and good governance in the country’s extractive sector, it is concerned that its efforts are not yielding desired results as a result of “the slow pace of implementation of findings and recommendations contained in series of its audit reports since 1999.”
“Although an Inter-Ministerial Task Team was set up to address the findings and recommendations of NEITI audit reports under a remediation plan developed by the team, implementation by affected government agencies have recorded little progress,” the agency lamented in a statement by its Director of Communications, Ogbonnaya Orji.

“For instance, NEITI audit reports have consistently recommended inter-agency collaboration to recover an outstanding sum of $9.6 billion from companies (indicted in the audit reports, including the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, for refusing to pay to government various revenues). This fund was uncovered by NEITI as underpayment, under-assessment and variance in royalties, signature bonuses, levies and taxes owed to the Federation.”

According to Mr. Orji, NEITI audit reports also highlighted the need for openness and competition in the conduct of bids round for allocation of oil blocks, review of existing contracts with companies, efficient and reliable metering regime for measurement of crude.

President Jonathan and the petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, have been accused in previous investigations by journalists including the now rested NEXT Newspapers of serial violations of Nigerian laws in the allocation of oil blocks and oil export licenses.
Other recommendations that NEITI has made but which have been ignored by the successive federal governments include automation of data gathering and records keeping process, and transparency and accountability in management of revenue flows from companies to the Federation account. Mr. Orji pointed out that Nigeria could have fared better if these identified remedial issues were promptly addressed by government.

FG must commence implementation
While welcoming global assessment like that of the RWI, NEITI said it “strongly believes that for Nigeria to record significant improvement in such global ranking in future, there is need for prompt implementation of findings and recommendations contained in its audit reports.”
It reiterated the demand for swift passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, now before the National Assembly for approval, adding that when passed into law, the Bill would address substantial issues raised in its reports.

patrickmuf: Again haters are attacking the "Man" Tinubu and ignoring the message which I think contains every iota of truth...We can keep making same mistakes all because some persons here want us to believe PDP = APC, I'd rather have us taste the other side of the divide and make choices based on experience rather than draw up conclusions already...
We really need a " common sense revolution"

Special Report By NEITI Indicts FG, Says Multi-Billion Naira Special Funds Bungled - Premium Times
27 Jun 2014 02:03 Written by Agency Reporter Category: Business & Economy Hits: 380 Print Email

About N931.419 billion payments for fuel subsidy by PPPRA and NNPC for 2007 to 2010 not reconciled.

Ghana and the government of the oil-rich island of Sao Tome & Principe are yet to fully repay a $45 million (about N7.2 billion) loan advanced to them from the Stabilization Fund by the Obasanjo administration in 2007, a report by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI has said.

In the report, which detailed how the Nigerian government mismanaged its special funds, NEITI also said that six oil producing states given another N34 billion loan from the Special Fund are yet to pay back more than N28 billion as at December 2011.

The agency stated these during the public presentation of two independent reports – the Fiscal Allocation and Statutory Disbursement Report, and the Solid Minerals Audit Report.

The Chairman, NEITI Board, Ledum Mitee, who made these disclosures while presenting highlights of the Fiscal Allocation and Statutory Disbursement Audit Report, said Ghana and Sao Tome & Principe still owed Nigeria more than N827 million as at December 2011.

Mr. Mitee, who did not state the conditions and purpose for which the two countries were given the loan by Nigeria, said the loans highlighted the level of abuses by the government of some special funds established to serve some special purposes. He did not also name the benefiting oil producing states.

The Stabilisation Fund was a special fund established by the Federal Government for transfers from excess oil revenues to be saved for the future to insulate the domestic economy from the shocks from unpredictable price movements at the international oil market.

However, NEITI said the Fund, like most other special funds, such as the Excess Crude Account, ECA, was deployed as a pool of sludge funds to satisfy objectives other than what they were intended.

Mr. Mitee said contrary to the objectives of the Fund, government used it as a pool to grant loans to take care of various expenditures, such as car loans to ministries, departments and agencies, MDAs, for which N13 billion was advanced.

Other disbursements from the fund included about N87.72 billion to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC for registration of voters.

The report also reviewed all direct allocations from government to covered agencies, including the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and the Petroleum Trust Development Fund, PTDF, as well as the ecological fund allocation with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the administration and application of ECA.

Some startling findings from the report showed that the NDDC, which was established to manage the three per cent contributions of annual budgets of the oil producing companies for the development of the Niger Delta region, had not prepared audited accounts for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 as at July 2013, despite receiving a total allocation of N593.96 billion between 2007 and 2011.

The report also noted the duplication of about 22 projects with a total contract sum of N1.18 billion, after the payment of about N370.7 million as mobilisation fees, and the disbursement of about N156.81 million for interim payment certificates, IPCs, out of which only N93.09 million were recovered.

The report also observed that substantial work was not carried on significant number of projects valued at about N284.884 billion, despite payment of about N63.558 billion in mobilisation fees.

Similarly, the report noted the general allocation of about N7.442 billion to the nine state offices of the Commission for completion of small ticket projects, which could not be traced.

For the PPPRA, the report revealed that between 2007 and 2010, the petroleum products pricing agency received a revenue inflow of N655.245 billion from the Federation Account for its operations. This excluded its income for 2011, which was not captured by the report, as subsidy payment for the year was by the Debt Management Office, DMO.

Records of subsidy payments, according to the report, showed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, had deducted for that purpose about N1.997 trillion between 2007 and 2011 from its payments to the Federation Account in respect of domestic crude allocations.

The report also showed that about N1.1296 trillion was spent on subsidy payments through the Petroleum Support Fund, PSF for the five years.

On the payment of subsidy for controversial household kerosene scheme, the report showed that except for 2010 and 2011, about N129.025 billion was spent on the supply of 1.6 billion litres of the commodity consumed between 2007 and 2009.

The report revealed that out of about N3.9trillion spent by the Federal Government on payment of subsidy between 2007 and 2011, the PPPRA claimed it spent about N1.927 trillion on marketers, while the NNPC said it also spent about N1.997 trillion, or 51 per cent for the same purpose.

The report pointed out that the reconciliation of the various payments captured by the CBN statements and the audited Financial Statements of the PPPRA showed significant variation of about N931.419 billion for the period between 2007 and 2010.

The report also found out that total transfers to excess crude account, ECA, for the period was about N8.53 trillion, with the highest transfer of N3.15 trillion also recorded in 2011. The figure however dropped below N1trillion in 2009, with only N339.5 billion recorded in the whole year

omenka: You should speak for yourself. Jagaban calls for "common sense revolution", and anyone who thinks it is "impossible" must be someone who has no sense at all.

lanrexdo: Let the truth be told, he said allot of meaningful things. BAT is a man and a politician. He knows allot about this country. You should know that allot of things has been happening on the federal level because the government has yet to tell how how the said $9.3 million got to SA? Those PDP can loot this our money ehn!

pentagonal: tribalism will never allow a revolution happen in Nigeria. the fuel subsidy removal protest comes to mind.

He described the 16 years of PDP rule at the federal level as a period of steady decline into disaster. He said, “The longer they rule, the less benefit the people derive.
Nigeria now needs a ‘common sense revolution,’ a revolution that calls forth a return to decency, probity, transparency of process and fairness in outcome.“

This is done not by subterfuge, divide and rule and turning Nigeria in a field of discord or a street of broken institutions.
It is accomplished by honouring the principles of democratic good governance and economic justice.

It is done by persuading the people they are better off as one instead of better off tearing at one another’s throats.“Nigerians should be prepared for change.

omenka: Op is a big fool!!

And you desperately need the type of revolution he called for; a common sense revolution!

fitzmayowa: I guess the common sense revolution is to vote out PDP and voting APC...Talking of passing the bulk

PDP is as much as guilty as APC, putting this country where it is today, it really saddens me when our so called politicians "irrespective of their political party" play on the intelligence of gullible nigerians....SMH

idumuose: think you are a slave . Where's your master? who pays you to type all the rubbish you post ?
I don't discuss with slaves . Your master should speak with me directly not send failed analyst like you to talk to me .

idumuose: Gbawe the failed political analyst.I lost my respect for you the day Fayose won Ekiti governorship election.
All your analysis came crashing on your bald head.Thank your god that i was serving a ban when you wrote those nonesense.
I have just served out my 3 day ban this night.Since you have decided to join the fray of jobless e-roaches and tou.ts here in
Politics section which by all standard has lost it's flavour,i will always remember you whenever i'm throwing some jabs here.
Agadi nwoke so umuaka agwo ofe

Bodunde1now: you can call Soyinka stupid cos your reasoning has been corrupted by the REAL stupid people in Abuja.

mogentle: Chaeee!!! Chaeee!!!!!
Gbawe de vex......Epooooo. Oluwa mi ero....ROFLMAO.

arresa: That was just yesterday..

You people can not even keep up with your lies and insults...

That one? undecided he is a bloody hypocrite of the deepest dye, you will never see him arguing convincingly all he is fond of is to sit on his 'Royal Throne of Idiocy' and start spamming every thread with 'I can teach you all attitude' onatisi seems to know Gbawe too well. @topic, Fayose is a power broker and friend of the masses as far as Ekiti politics is concerned, APC want him out.