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the choice of "OAM4J" aint bad so long as it is not Beaf !!!!

;d ;d ;d ;d

crap!!!!!

jmaine:
That wont solve the tribal hate issues on a sustainable manner and those tribal posts will persist . . .imagine me, poster A opening an ethnic bashing thread where i will only permit those who fall in line to my sadistic quest while the opposing posters B, who maybe reprimanded my views sternly would be brutally deleted . . . that would force the posters B to go ahead and open up a thread mainly to assassinate the image of the ethnicity of proponents and fans of poster A . . and the wild circle would continue  . . . and that might even leave the mods with a whole lotta work to do to keep everyone in line . . . And also the beauty of the diversity of an opposing view would be severely threatened

I know, but right now that is always happening.With the poster/MOD role,If i know poster antecedence and inclination,you could decide to stay clear or join the thread.Even if its offensive.
Lastly if lesser people hit you up on a topic.It simply means we don't like it!!!! If you get more hits,then minority would simply read and buzz off or better still become topic addicts.There by giving us more topics and more stiff regulations.Well aligned to woo like minds.I would hate to see a cool topic turn to a hate thread.

I like your reasoning.

DrummaBoy:
Maybe it was better Buhari neva won. That man is way to pure for d evil politics we practise in this nation.

DrummaBoy:
No matter how long falsehood has walkd, truth will catch up in no time.
I dared any1 arrest Buhari: they're yet to.

DrummaBoy:
True, Beaf didn't read the article. He is so blinded wit hate 4 Buhari that he cannot counter d article intelligibly.

Yes the truth shall prevail!If not on earth on the final day of judgement.When PDP and all worldly manipulations would prove futile.When Buhari and all humanity will stand to answer for there deeds while on earth.
Lastly beaf will never read or see sense in anything that has Buhari.It started since the day Buhari was left to run against GEJ. After the PDP primaries.
He is so like bias if the truth felt sweet in his mouth he would not sense it !!!!!

Not withstanding i would have preferred the likes of Odunnu and ekt_bear

@JARUS!!!!
How about empowering the poster of a topic the right to manage/MOD the events and trends of his/her discussion period.Atleast it would cub the issue of people derailing critical issues and ensure the real reason the poster get the discussion maintained.Such that you get the freedom to visit forums based on the poster and topic!!!!
BEAF can modulate his PDP topics and others can do same to there topic!!!

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=671612.msg8432694#msg8432694 date=1306924854]@Odunnu: Please don't suggest me, for a variety of reasons I'd be a bad choice.

Anyway, if (A) Odunnu doesn't want to mod, (B) KoboJ is seen as biased in a particular direction, (C) the idea is to have relatively unbiased mods, then probably a good idea to widen your search a bit.[/quote]GBAM!!!!!

[quote ]author=olyivy link=topic=671612.msg8432763#msg8432763 date=1306925475]
That response was soooo dry.
Hey mister, shouldnt you be hanging your pathetic self by now?!!

Just bid NL farewell and see how peaceful it will become, ewu awusa!  
[quote][/quote]Reason we need the MODs ASAP!!!!

@Jarus
If you already know both(BEAF & KOBOJUNKIE) are not fair without the other why bother?You need a neutral person,then get one rather than make a situation, which is avoidable!I tell you they, especially BEAF can not throw away his heavy hardcore bias tendency!At the end,instead of policing they would be fighting before they make amends.Instead of that, with the situation at hand get a team ready to hit the ground running!
Why hope when you could just get a working team!


BEAF and KOBOJUNKIE are both very much available accepted.Fairness in policing i doubt.If your goal is to manage the current choas.

Beaf:
LOLZZ!!! What do you think the outcome will be? You're one hell of a funny guy!
Don't let pain generated by bigotry kill you sha.

That is why you should understand the sentence! It simply means wait for the out come and conclusive findings.If we know just like you do,then we would be like you,sentiments driven!
He is GEJ opponent in the election and you Beaf can't stop the mind state you've develop to hate at Buhari,while you make an angel of GEJ! So your opinion would always remain daft and bias.

Beaf:
Iwu would conducted the elections, Yar Adua (or his ghost) would have "won" and nobody would be blasting innocent Nigerians with bombs, because they think a "kaffir" is in power.
Yes, Yar Adua would have "won" and our currently loud and "brave" Nigerians would have been as quiet as corpses.

Thank God the opposite has happened.

Is that an anthem thing thought to you in school? Were you made to memorize that while going through school or at a point in your community?

fair enough for me.I doubt what your critics will make of this piece sha

haka_nai -- Bornu Bura

@Jarus
Order needs to be restored because people here have turn this place into a breeding haven for would be supporters/master minds in hate,criminality,national disintegration and genocidal tendency.

Beaf:
That was Rhino.5dm and playmode (Rhino even threatened to kill me on that thread). God knows I and others have complained no end about the likes of Rhino and zstranger. Its impossible to understand why types like that are allowed membership.

While you are doing that ,calling names! Given a chance to rate,you are the most instigating and abusive fellow i have seen on the forum.Who is born bred and built to hate Northerners to core and also ensure others join you at it.Sometimes in your own ways feel they all deserve any bad,even death!Where is you sense of considerations and fairness to good people found everywhere regardless."In every 12 there is always a judas"

oiseworld:
they should be tried legally in the sharia court, and be dully amputated according to islamic rite

Guy its not amputation in this case its an eye for an eye! such that if he has killed somebody then he would be killed same way!

funny enough does suggesting under cover,dont know our security operatives as being compromised by sentiments that are ethno-religious.
You can't imagine that security operatives in Nigeria go to a place of worship to inform the worshipers about government secrets.
We will or can recount several instances,Real-time!such an individual has being compromised as far as SECRET and FG security policy for national interest is concerned.
If someone, meant to keep quiet or manage security challenges happen to go instigating or disclosing FG secrets what else?Where such a personal feels he/she is doing his church,pastor,imam,mosque,tribe or family a favor.So when does he begin to look at others,who are not among his favored?So the question is how many undercover agents will resist the temptation of blowing there covers and that of others for the sake of selfish belongings rather than national interest.
Do you know to spy in a church,the best candidate would be a fellow christian with national interest at heart.Possibly a member of same church!But i tell you if you were to that,the agent would quietly go to the pastor and say you are being watched.The option of putting someone to pose as someone he is not is typically rare.because from a distance you could sense the difference in most cases.It's possible but far more difficult in Nigeria.
Nigeria National security needs serious overhaul.More than 80 percent needs to change.A serious need for orientation,training and equipping.Having a large number that is grossly ineffective is useless.You can cut the numbers but they must be efficient.such that once tasked you know its as good as done period.

Pennywise:
Buhari now sooooo irrelevant

So irrelevant mhhhhhh! but GEJ did'nt skip extending an invitation to him.while you never got any.cool stuff abi!
Buhari is so irrelevant that he could form a party in 9months and pose so much.even beat his former party and make PDP tremble.
Buhari is irrelevant than GEJ lost over 10 states to him and 12million voters.typical hypocracy from the GEJ clique!!!!!!

[quote author=na_so link=topic=679690.msg8428034#msg8428034 date=1306859085]^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Abeg go hug transformer and make sure it is wet please.[/quote]have you done it before? After you,ladies first.
hope you got soaked enough?

Beaf:
Ol' boy, don't let bitterness kill you. The election is lost and Nigeria will NEVER EVER be ruled by primitive halfwits and red-eyed sharia besotted "ex-Generals." It is the end of the road for almajiri breeders and commanders who think the borders of Nigeria begin at the Northern fringes of Southern Kaduna. Thats why Buhari campaigned in the North only, yet hoped to rule the whole country. You born to rule folk have been stuffed by your own arrogance.

The bush Buhari lost the elections and no amount of bitterness, jealousy or increasingly Al Qaeda tactics will change the fact. In fact, the more core-Northern protest resembles Al Qaeda activity, the closer Nigeria will get to witnessing US drone attacks in the core-North.
I don't understand how anybody can seek sympathy by engaging in the wanton killing that has become a trademark from Benue to Jos, to Bauchi and the last elections. Sometimes you wonder if people have any brains or its just the case of "whom the gods mean to destroy, they first make mad." All the the rest of us witness from the core-North is inexplicable madness.

Its that the way you were thought to make people feel?If report/position doesn't support your baseless hypothesis!!!!

rasputinn:
Proud to be at the eagle square LIVE on Sunday

BTW,who's Buhari again??

Oh,I remember,,,,,,emm Buhari is history.We're moving ahead on the path to sustenable reforms

really ! with all that security to keep Nigerians out. Abi you are just lying again?

^^^^^Rather than throw up such useless photos and panels.How about you insist your boss GEJ dumb ass gets the nations security to post the images of the rioters,as wanted culprits for arson.Atleast they are not faceless and one step would lead to another so we see the connections/sponsors!!!!
Than breed on lies and long term baseless sentiments feed to incite hate and general resentment.

Beaf:
My opinion.

Can you point at Buhari in the picture? before your opinion matters.This is about Buhari and not about the arsonist and rioters you are posting!

PDP and co!

What about Muhammadu Buhari ?
Ikechukwu Amaechi, ikechukwuamaechi@yahoo.com, 08055069065



On Sunday, May 29, those declared winners in the April elections by the Professor Attahiru Jega-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will take their oath of office. There will be celebrations in many state capitals, and of course Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, where Dr. Goodluck Jonathan will be sworn in as President and Commander-in-Chief, the second time in one year.

Almost three weeks after the last ballot was cast in the supplementary elections that were held in Imo State and other places where the April elections were inconclusive, it is, perhaps, time to do a post-mortem.

Already, the two most central figures, Jonathan and Jega, have hailed the elections as credible. Jega had already taken his lap of honour, travelling abroad to tell his story. At home, Jonathan is exuberant. “We are happy that we are evolving as a nation,” he crowed recently. “The culture of ballot box snatching is gradually fading away. I promise that the 2015 elections will even be better than this as we will improve on this success. I assure Nigerians that this is the beginning and we will get there by God’s grace,” he said.

Jonathan and Jega have every reason to swank and blow their own trumpets. The international election observers, including the Commonwealth group led by former Botswana President, Festus Mogae, claim the elections were “free, fair and credible.” In fact, last week INEC issued a statement claiming that the Commonwealth gave Jega the final report by its observer group when the INEC Chairman visited the Marlborough House, London Secretariat of the club of former British empires.

“In the event, notwithstanding the postponement of the April 2 National Assembly elections and persistent logistical and organisational deficiencies, and some serious security incidents during the campaign and on the eve of the elections, the 2011 elections in Nigeria, by and large, met the national, regional and international standards for democratic elections,” the group enthused. “Indeed, they marked a genuine celebration of democracy in Nigeria, helped to redeem the image of Nigeria as a country that was known only for flawed elections and served to restore the faith of the Nigerian people in democracy. In the process, Africa’s most populous nation was able to make a new beginning,” it concluded.

The United States of America, and leading European countries, including Britain, have also stamped a seal of legitimacy on the polls, thereby, or so it seems, taking the sail off the wind of the opposition political parties, especially, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), that is disputing the result of the presidential poll.

These high profile endorsements have made it almost impossible to hear the other side of the story. Those who dare challenge the credibility of the polls are derided as bad losers. But has Nigeria really turned the corner? I doubt. The results declared by INEC do not support the credibility theory.

So, why did the international community endorse the polls if they were flawed? My guess is that having grown wary of the unceasing off-putting stories from Nigeria, they were in a hurry to make the country look decent, at least for once. For the West, the result of the Presidential election served their national interest better. In this era of Islam-phobia in the West, it was obvious even before the elections that the U.S. and other European countries would be more comfortable with a Jonathan Presidency than a Buhari. Besides, a Jonathan Presidency is more likely to engender peace in the Niger Delta region and ensure the free flow of crude oil, the commodity that sustains the interest of the Western world in Nigeria.

Back home, the ability of the PDP apparatchik to respect, this time, the letter and spirit of an agreement with the ACN to cede the Southwest to the party while the ACN in turn would support Jonathan in the Presidential election ensured that the engine of the potent propaganda machine of the Yoruba was switched off. Despite the fact that the Presidential election was conducted before the Governorship and House of Assembly elections, Jonathan must have learnt from the 2003 mistake of President Olusegun Obasanjo. The former President had entered such agreement with his kinsmen but his greed for power and unquenchable thirst for mischief made him to renege. He is still paying the price for the treachery.

Since the Awoist wing of the Yoruba leadership that coalesced in the ACN under the leadership of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was not interested in the Presidency in 2011, and having reclaimed their territory which Obasanjo “stole in 2003,” there was no need to raise the red flag in the media like they did in 2007.

But how free and fair was an election that created the dubious records of being the costliest not only in the history of Nigeria, but arguably in the world? How can an election that is the bloodiest in the country be adjudged the freest and most credible as some people are claiming? The Director General of the National Emergency and Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Muhammed Sani Sidi, said recently that the election violence that erupted after the presidential poll displaced no fewer than 65,000 people, 26,000 of them in Kaduna alone.

I have said here before that if the elections were fzree and fair, if the slogan of ‘one man, one vote,’ was the abiding rule, Jonathan would still have won. Buhari lost the election when Tinubu corralled his ACN brethren into signing a deal with Jonathan and PDP.

But the fact that Jonathan, who was expected to win, actually won, did not make the poll free and fair just like in 2007. Then, there was no way any other part other than the PDP and its Presidential candidate, late Umaru YarÁdua would have won the election. In fact, the parties had a better chance in 2011 than in 2007. At least, this time, they were not unnecessarily harangued by the Presidency. The candidates had time to campaign. In 2007, Obasanjo made sure that the ambition of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, his estranged deputy, who ran on the platform of the opposition Action Congress (AC), was stillborn.

Atiku never became a candidate in the real sense until a week to the polls when the Supreme Court threw him a lifeline. And Buhari never had a platform because the leadership of his party then, the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) was actually working for the PDP. It was Yar’Adua’s election to lose, yet his political party went out of its way to manipulate the result.

The same 2007 scenario played out in the April polls. It was Jonathan’s election to lose, but PDP, not wanting to take prisoners went for the kill, particularly in the South-south and Southeast, producing results that are ridiculous.

It is trite to say that every politics is local. Therefore, people tend to respond more to elections that are closer to them. But the results of the 2011 elections in Nigeria proved otherwise. For instance, Jonathan was said to have won the Presidential election in Abia State with 1,175,954 votes. When the 3, 608 votes said to have been scored by Buhari, 4,156 (Nuhu Ribadu - ACN) and 1,455 (Ibrahim Shekarau – ANPP) are added, a total 1,185, 175 people cast their votes. Yet, in the governorship and House of Assembly elections that were held the same day, which ought to have attracted more voters, Governor Theodore Orji (PDP) won with only 641,158 votes, with Reagan Ufomba (APGA), scoring 49,421 votes to place second. Not more than 750,000 voters cast their ballot in the Governorship/House of Assembly polls, so where did the extra 400,000 people that voted for Jonathan come from?

As expected, the first part of this article published last week elicited very passionate reactions from Nigerians.

There were knocks and kudos as well. Someone called to say that if I love myself, I shouldn’t write the second part. Yet, another sent me a text message saying he is waiting to read the concluding article. The good thing though is that nobody asked me how much I was paid “to sell my conscience,” which is the usual catchphrase when people disagree with your opinion. I guess the reason is because they know Buhari has no money to throw around.

Last week, I used the governorship and presidential election results in Abia to illustrate the point that despite the orchestrated local and international acclaim, the 2011 polls were fundamentally flawed. But Abia is not a peculiar case. In fact, the Imo results are even more instructive. In the presidential poll, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was said to have scored 1,381,357 votes (97.98%). The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) was allocated 14,821 votes (1.05%), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) garnered 7,591 votes (0.54%) and the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) scored 2,520 votes (0.18%). If this is true, it then means that at least 1,406,289 people voted. These exclude the fringe candidates that garnered few votes and those that were voided. Yet, according to INEC, only 1,611, 715 registered to vote in Imo. Even if no vote was voided and the other presidential candidates scored zero, it then means that only 205,426 registered voters were unable to cast their ballot. This is more than 80 percent voter turnout.

Many of those who joined issues with me contend that many people came out on April 16 to vote for Jonathan because they believed he was anointed by God to rule and, thereafter, never bothered to vote again. It may well be true since Nigeria is said to be the most religious country in the world but even if we agree with that claim, Imo State ought to be an exception.

The governorship election in Imo State was very emotive. The result was an unprecedented level of voter mobilisation. Those who wanted the incumbent governor, Ikedi Ohakim, out were as determined as his supporters who wanted to give him a second term.

Even at that, Chief Rochas Okorocha was declared winner having polled 336,859 votes. Ohakim scored 290,496 to place second, while Senator Ifeanyi Araraume placed a distant third position with 107,608 votes. Declaring Okorocha winner, the Returning Officer, Professor Hillary Odo Edeoga, who is the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Umudike, Umuahia, said the valid votes cast for the 19 governorship candidates stood at 750,955. When this is added to the 28,504 ballots that were voided, we have a total of 779,459 votes. Granted, there was no election in Oguta Local Government during the supplementary poll, but even if there was, we would be talking about 1,000,000 votes at most.

So, where did the remaining 381,357 votes allocated to President Jonathan come from? The registered voters in the Southeast were 7,028,560 – (Abia – 1,481,191, Anambra – 1,758,220, Enugu – 1,301,185, Imo – 1,611,715, Ebonyi – 876,249). Almost 5,000,000 of this number purportedly gave the President Landslide victory. Can that be true? The jury is still out.

Suffice it to say that it was the perception, rightly or wrongly, that votes were inflated in the south to the advantage of the President that triggered off the deadly riots in the north. Now, all men of goodwill should frown at the unending orgy of bloodletting in the north. Human life is so sacred that nobody has the right to waste it. It doesn’t matter whose life it is. Killing fellow human beings in cold blood is a crime not only against humanity but against God. Those behind the mayhem must be brought to book. And it behoves the government to fish out the culprits.

And that brings me to the issue of General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). He is perhaps the most vilified politician in the country today. Why? Many southerners, without any proof, hold him liable for the post election violence. Some have called for his arrest and trial, alleging that he instigated the crisis.

A friend of mine who strongly believes that Buhari should be tried and put in a dungeon, with the key thrown into the Lagoon accused him of inciting the mob that wrecked havoc in some states in the north.

Evidence! He said Buhari told his supporters before the elections to vote and not only protect their votes but also lynch those trying to steal them. Buhari himself said before the polls that it was a wrong interpretation of what he told his supporters in Hausa. But even if he told his supporters to lynch vote robbers, how different was it from the “rig and roast” rhetoric in the Southwest? Before the elections, every ACN chieftain I spoke with insisted that anyone who tried to rig the election would only be doing so at his or her own risk. So, why must Buhari be demonised for telling his supporters to guard their own votes?

He was accused, also, of not restraining his supporters immediately the crisis started. But that, again, is untrue. The crisis started in the morning hours of Monday, April 18 and by afternoon of the same day, Buhari was already speaking on Aljazeera, appealing for calm.

It is a pity that those who voted for President Jonathan simply because he is a Christian and southerner are up in arms against those that voted for Buhari because he is a Muslim and a northerner. The tragedy of our leadership recruitment process is that irrelevant issues such as ethnicity and religion ultimately become the critical yardstick.

Buhari, no doubt, has become a fair game. The easiest way to grab the attention of the powers that be today is to insult him. Unfortunately, the man has neither control of the highly partisan media nor money to throw around.

But any unbiased analyst will agree that the post election violence was not targeted against southerners despite the death of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members. It was a revolt by the talakawas in the North against a system that for too long held them in bondage. In our hysteria, we failed to appreciate the significance of the unprecedented revolt of the almajiris against the institutions and personalities that have, over the years, confined them to sub-human existence. For the first time, the palaces of revered traditional rulers, including the Sultan of Sokoto, Emir of Kano, Emir of Zazzau, etc that were literally worshipped, were attacked. The masses revolted against an establishment that had subjugated them for too long.

They revolted against their own leaders who, rightly or wrongly, they perceived as conniving with others to deny their hero victory in the presidential election. Buhari remains the only Nigerian leader today that has genuine disciples, real following. Even in his inflexibility, he connects with the masses. They trust him and can die for him. They see in him a man who can change their lives. That is what leadership is all about. Buhari may be anything else, but definitely not a villain.



comments:

On Sat May, 28 2011 02:50 by joseph labaran
i happen 2 be d presiding officer of a unit in c/river state in d pres. election. ppl casted 181 votes bt some thugs came and stuffed d remaining ballot papers to mek it a total of 416 vots and intimidated me & forced me to accred. the unavailable voters on d register and signed d result in d presence of d police without him making any word. they later gave us #5000 naira each, d policeman inclusive. so wat are you saying? there was notin like credibility in dis election. most of my colliques (corpers) sheared similar stories

On Fri May, 27 2011 03:39 by King andy
Though it seems in some quaters that election was manipulated in favour of GEJ, we should rather waits for the outcome of election tribunal which has given CPC the go ahead to bring forensic. I think it amount to frivolity to start making comment on matter that is under the able and trusted hands of Justice Isa Salami. In less than 180 days, the truth will be revealed.

On Thu May, 26 2011 08:14 by sam
Jokeibunor argued here that in Abia people were more interested in voting for the presidential elections more than the governorship elections. He then used the example of his wife who voted only in the presidential election to support his argument. This is warped argument. So if people were disillusioned in Abia, wouldn't the disillusionment force them out to vote in or out the incumbent governor? So what of Imo where people were really out to change the governor, the governorship elections recorded recorded just over 700,000 votes while the presidential election over 1,300m people voted for PDP.Where did the difference of 600,000 comes from? The fact was that PDP was not able to rig in the gubernatorial elections as they did in the presidential elections and so could not pro vide the fictitious magic figures the manufactured for Jonathan. So we should stop deceiving ourselves that elections were free and fair and that people would more interested in a Presidential elections than an el

On Thu May, 26 2011 05:00 by Raphael Ikyaabo
I'm a devoted christian from the catholic faith. I view honesty and justice as my watch words. I witnessed several elections in this country but my problem with Nigerians is always delving from the facts. Whoever attributed Jonathan's victory to act of God is not spiritually alive going by stages God elevated him to power, must one embarked on a project that will spill blood why can't he wait for the turn of the South? The utterances of Nigerian christian community has made me to draw a conclusion that 95% of them are agents of corruption.
On Thu May, 26 2011 03:15 by suleiman
Why are you people sounding like this? So simply because the one you like was declared to have won, then nobody can say anything again, even the circumstances behind it should not be discussed is that it? This writer is not about PDP rigged or not the idea is about constructive criticism. what this writer is saying is in the record and no matter how you shy away from it, it will be said and it will still remain on record for as long as the world last. So, give room for explanations and exchange of knowledge so that the younger ones may learn the epoch making history of this election 2011. Remember, knowledge is the only commodity that is shared or given out even though it is retained. God bless NIGERIA

On Wed May, 25 2011 03:16 by jokeibunor
I agree with Ifeanyi that you did not follow the elections. You hypothesis is that people would react more to elections closer to them. In other words, more people should turn out for the Governorship and House of Assembly elections than the Presidential Election. And since that was not the case in Abia State, the results for the Presidential election in Abia State, as an example was fraud. That is exactly where you exhibited ignorance. I tell you many Nigerians were only interested in voting for Jonathan and did not care for other elections. In a State like Abia, the people were actual disillusioned with the contestants from their State, irrespective of party. I know for instance that my wife voted only in the presidential election because of Jonathan and did not participate in any other election. YOU HAVE NOT MADE A CASE DUE TO YOUR WEATHER BITTEN LOGIC

Na today! who say GEJ doesn't lie? He is a lier like any other.

It is horrible what the government is doing.The last i checked they said a jamming technology has being introduced to the eagle square which prevents remote devices from being detonated.How come they didn't employ same and limit it to possible areas of interest than shut down the entire state because of an event in a restricted area less than one tenth the FCT.
They also claim that it is meant to keep such attacks from happening.then they should have denied the entire nation.As it didn't stop Bauchi and near by Zuba!
Our security apparatus are so un-intelligent.You could shut/jam some areas that make good targets and allow others enjoy services. which happens to be there right.Rather than put what is happening at eagle square before everyone else.
We abuse power alot in Nigeria.This is similar to the Abacha era where he closed a hotel along his route just to avoid sniper.I mean FG doesn't care so long as the president is okay.
This has to stop there are options that were not clearly exhausted before such denial of service.
We keep fooling ourselves.Even independence day bombing didn't kill any important person.Same as this one.All were the innocent poor Nigeria.Who should have security like the rest of them in power.Today all hits have ended with fatality largely at doors of the weak.Why not jam signals at mammy? as it was targeted before.Extend such to the likes of markets and parks ,based on Intel and past experience.You should know target areas.Have you notice that even the choice targets must share something in common that makes them appealing to the bombers. where the psychic of someone spoiling for trouble may hit.
So rather than do there homework they would prefer to shut down the entire state,while we foolishly just say its security.Like the post.They didn't see the harm or need to manage the situation well since you and i will only take it and keep mute.Its easier to turn the damn whole network off than do proper Intel and assessment of hot spots to protect.
Our security is as dumb as the boko haram!The so called boko haram can't even transport the bombs safely and our silly security can't even understand that if they were unable to handle it well and transport such then someone is behind with the technology that builds it. Somewhere designing packaging and supply them to only deliver.They should target the guys making the bombs not delivering it.Before a proliferation of the know-how becomes excess and people like that deliver with precision .

[quote author=Chyz* link=topic=678500.msg8422021#msg8422021 date=1306782283][size=13pt]Okorocha declares free education in Imo[/size]

Published on 30 May 2011 with 5 comments   

EMMA OGU, Owerri




Education, job creation and security top priority list Governor Rochas Okororcha of Imo state announced yesterday to the cheering of enthusiastic crowd of Imo citizens shortly after being administered the oath of office with his deputy Chief Sir Jude Agbaso at Dan Anyiam stadium Owerri.

Immediate past Governor Ikedi Ohakim, his deputy Ada Okwuonu as well as Speaker of the State House of Assembly were however, conspicuously absent at the occasion graced by former governor Achike Udenwa, governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, Chief Victor Umeh, national chairman of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship candidate of the party for the 2007 election Chief Martin Agbaso and other distinguished personalities.

Okorocha who arrived at the venue with his wife and six children took his oath of office at exactly 12 noon after the deputy governor Chief Agbaso was administered the oath by the Chief Judge, Justice Benjamin Njemanze.

Okorocha who burst into songs of praise after his swearing in declared the day a day of freedom, a day of emancipation and a day of restoration for Imo people saying democracy has really started in the state and never again shall an Iroko decides who governs Imo people but the people themselves.

"The May 5 supplementary election remains a great day in history. I see before me a great thing to happen. I know you expect much from me. You believe in me and you trust me. I will perform and I will not disappoint you. Your peace is my peace; your pain is my pain. Where you are, there I will be.

"Just few days ago the outgoing governor Ikedi Ohakim issued staff of office to over 160 traditional rulers. Appointment letters for his 10,000 thousand jobs were released to the beneficiaries within a week. Just few days ago he signed N18, 000 minimum wage for workers. Imo allocation stands at N2.2billion. Imo is not worthy to borrow from any bank because of over borrowing. Even on that I will perform. I will not give any excuse. I will deliver", he said.

Reeling out his priority areas, Okorocha declared free education and warned that any parents or guardian who refused to send his child or ward to school will face the law. He said he was prompted to declare free education out of his belief that the best that can be given to a child is education as a child without education is a futureless child.

He said Imo has a lot of security challenges and noted that peace has returned to the state since his election because there is a new spirit among the people to move forward. In this regard, he promised to tackle security to the fullest.

"I don’t believe in crime fighting but crime prevention. The criminals are all in our communities and my administration will create a black book for them. No criminal shall go unpunished as far as this administration is concerned", he said.

On the issue of job he said his government will do a lot to keep everybody busy. He said that he would rescue the few remaining industries in comatose position in the state. He warned civil servants in the state to be serious with their jobs noting that the era of truancy and coming late to work is gone with the old order.

He said: "Our civil servants must stand up and face the challenge. For every single worker, there is a corresponding person waiting to take over your seat if you don’t perform".

He advised unemployed young men and women in the state looking for jobs to be close to their God henceforth because his government will go to churches to collect list of such job lookers and this will ensure that those to be employed are spiritually certified.

Governor Okorocha did not ignore the health sector as he said that his government will review the issue of health with serious concern. He said he is worried by the issue of justice and fairness and therefore will appoint a special assistant in charge of that to ensure that innocent persons are not kept in prison custody because they have no big man to bail them.

He said: "No innocent person will be kept in police or prison custody anymore. At the same time, no criminal will go unpunished no matte his connection. I therefore warn the big men who are fond of issuing orders to Divisional Police Officers to release detained criminals stop it henceforth or they will replace such criminals in prison."

Assuring that his government will be grassroots based, Okorocha said his government will create fourth tier of government, Community Government and the seat of power, Douglas House is now in the communities.

He said he was not interested in probing his predecessor, but in auditing the accounts of the state. "This government is not interested in witch hunting anybody. What we are interested in is auditing the account of Imo state. I have no business looking backward".

He said of the immediate past governor: "Ohakim said his name is Ikiri. But since I won the election he is my brother. I have separated my brother from Ikiri. Ikiri has gone to the bush and my brother has gone back to Isiala Mbano. From today, Ohakim is no longer Ikiri but former governor.

http://www.champion.com.ng/displaycontent.asp?pid=7899[/quote]CAN highlights people’s expectations for Kano govt

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Written by Kola Oyelere, Kano Tuesday, 31 May 2011

THE chairman, Christian Association Nigeria (CAN), Kano State branch, Bishop Ransome Bello, has said that  the major expectation of the teeming masses of the state from  governor Dr. Musa Kwankwaso, was for him to champion  peaceful co-existence in the state just as he also called on the new administration in the state to limit implementation of Sharia to the Muslims, while the areas dominated by  Christians should be preserved and excluded from the implementation of Sharia.

According to him, “our expectation is very simple, nobody is in doubt of the legacy of peace that was left behind by the former  governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, but I believe that every government has its own area of strength .
The state CAN’s boss also urged the new  government to always execute friendly programmes.

“I think the former governor was strong in the area of security and peace.

So, the new governor should keep it up and ,make it better , as we all know that peace is always the bedrock for progress, that is the first expectation from  Dr. Kwankwaso.

“Kano being a multi-ethnic state have been experiencing different conflicts in recent times, Gov Kwankwaso  should try to integrate the non-indigenes into his government like  his predecessor.

This he could do by appointing  them into his cabinet so as to give people the confidence that they are part of the government and should be free to contribute their quotas. I think that integration would foster peace between the government and the people,” he advised.

Speaking further, he  said, Sabogari should also be given a face lift because, the area was not in the best shape comparing to other areas in the state.

Bishop Bello also advised the new government to provide good road network, potable water for the people of the state, especially those living in Sabogari.

He also urged the Kwankwaso’s government not to infringe on the fundamental human rights, saying this is  highly important, especially  freedom of worship, because Shari’a can not be applicable to everybody in Kano State, he stated.



One begins to wonder,religious politics at it again.SO if you are not a christian you are out and unemployed be that? While CAN is busy suggesting that Kano Governor should be considerate like the former Shekarau.Such that be all inclusive in his appointments and respect for other faiths.

good one! is called Nigerian style law enforcement!!!!! dem thank God say, Security no even kill them claim government house under invasion.

CAN highlights people’s expectations for Kano govt

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Written by Kola Oyelere, Kano Tuesday, 31 May 2011

THE chairman, Christian Association Nigeria (CAN), Kano State branch, Bishop Ransome Bello, has said that the major expectation of the teeming masses of the state from governor Dr. Musa Kwankwaso, was for him to champion peaceful co-existence in the state just as he also called on the new administration in the state to limit implementation of Sharia to the Muslims, while the areas dominated by Christians should be preserved and excluded from the implementation of Sharia.

According to him, “our expectation is very simple, nobody is in doubt of the legacy of peace that was left behind by the former governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, but I believe that every government has its own area of strength .
The state CAN’s boss also urged the new government to always execute friendly programmes.

“I think the former governor was strong in the area of security and peace.

So, the new governor should keep it up and ,make it better , as we all know that peace is always the bedrock for progress, that is the first expectation from Dr. Kwankwaso.

“Kano being a multi-ethnic state have been experiencing different conflicts in recent times, Gov Kwankwaso should try to integrate the non-indigenes into his government like his predecessor.

This he could do by appointing them into his cabinet so as to give people the confidence that they are part of the government and should be free to contribute their quotas. I think that integration would foster peace between the government and the people,” he advised.

Speaking further, he said, Sabogari should also be given a face lift because, the area was not in the best shape comparing to other areas in the state.

Bishop Bello also advised the new government to provide good road network, potable water for the people of the state, especially those living in Sabogari.

He also urged the Kwankwaso’s government not to infringe on the fundamental human rights, saying this is highly important, especially freedom of worship, because Shari’a can not be applicable to everybody in Kano State, he stated.