₦airaland Forum

Another failed state. . . .

Abeg o, we no want Taliban for Naija. Make una carry go.

debosky:
There is no such power - once appointed, the ministers often 'interfere' in state affairs and become rivals/competitors with their governors. Most of the time, the governors don't appoint as such, the appointees just claim a state of origin and that's all there is to it - remember Alaibe vs Alams and the other battles.

Nah. . . . Alaibe got too big for his britches and set his eyes on the Governorship. . . .if Alams was in a strong position himself, he could have demanded Alaibe's recall with enough local support. . . . besides NDDC no be ministry. . . .  BTW, Alaibes pikins are here with me in London, spending that cash freely

debosky:
So Dokubo is also in MEND? He's always made a distinction to separate himself from MEND's violent means, saying that he reduced oil exports massively without damaging infrastructure.

Again, these groups are nebulous and don't speak with much unity as JRC wants us to believe. This 'faction' may simply be trying to get it's voice heard before the money gets shared.

Let them attack Afren that is doing it's bit for the communities involved in it's operations and leave the true enemies robbing them blind alone.

Dokubo has stated categorically that he is a member of MEND in an interview on AIT.

Cynthia White is also Jomo Gbomo.

WTF are you talking about? 

JRC is combrised of MEND, NDPFV (Asari-Dokubo) and Martyrs Brigade. All of them are card-carrying members of MEND so I dont see the need for another umbrella group.

As to JRC not doing their research properly, whilst it is true that the PTI at Efurun caters for a more voluminous spread of workers, the affront is at the relocation of the University to Kaduna. Is there something wrong with Akwa-Ibom, Edo, Ondo, Imo, Rivers etc that they have to relocate to Kaduna?

I am correct in saying that the university will produce Management-level employees, am I not?. . . .  and who will those "managers" from the North employ? Well the evidence so far suggests that it will be another WaZoBia whitewash of the oil industry with more emphasis on the Zo.

debosky:
They are federal ministers and are only nominated (in some cases the governor just has to agree with whom the president chose) by governors and then confirmed by the Senate.

Sharrap. . . . you know how the system works. . . . stop feigning ignorance. . . . each state branch of PDP sends their reps to go and collect a piece of the national pie. . . . its not because Yar'Adua likes their work that he chose Abiye Sekibo, Odili and Udenwa as Ministers. . . . its because PDP branches in Rivers and Imo State selected them . . . . therefore JRC is right, because their respective State Governors have de-jure power to recall them.

debosky:
I'm not convinced - there are lots of groups out there who will be posturing to show they have a voice so they can get their hands on some loot. There are genuine groups out there, but I'm not convinced by the JRC - they are obviously not well informed. So many people claim to be MEND or part of MEND these days and we will soon see some unraveling once loot sharing begins.

JRC is MEND. . . . . take it from me. . . . this is classified info.

Besides, JRC will not send Okah and Dokubo to go and represent them if they are not MEND . . . . you seem to forget that MEND is observing a ceasefire for the next 60 days, so they have to post threats under their other pseudonym - JRC!

debosky:
Respective peoples yes, but not governors who are alleged to be as illegitimate in terms of rigged elections as the much maligned Yar'adua is.

Those 4 ministers didn't take the decision in isolation and no one knows the actual goings on in the FEC when the decision was made.

Again I ask. . . . are the 4 of them ministers?. . . . I honestly have never heard of them. . . .and if they are ministers, you should know that their appointment comes from state level, as is the way with PDP, and not according to the constitution.

debosky:
Everyone is jostling and posturing  for a shot at getting their hands on a chunk of the purported 50bn 'amnesty' package. The more inflammatory statements you make, the more of a 'threat' you appear and thus increase your chances of being settled. In my view, this 'statement' by the JRC is just another example of such posturing.

nah, this is codswallop. . . JRC is basically MEND and MEND have outrightly rejected the Amnesty. . . . I expect you to know better than to chat like this. . .

Malt is wack/ I been around the world and back/
so he couldn’t trace my steps. . .  without drawing maps/
My pocket got fresh breath . . cos money is good mint/
He follows my lead. . . and gets drowned in my footprint!/
My karate kicks and shadow moves/ splatter wounds/
He could do a roundhouse sweep. . . only if he had a broom!/
Flowers bloom/ when I sprout lyrics/
Blame it on the alcohol. . .when I turn Malt’. . . to stout guinness!/
He’s now finished/ I killed him with no warning/
so this isn’t a post. . . this is a post-mortem/
closed coffin/ so those mourning/ can’t see him/
cos I stampede him. . . with the force of a grand legion/
He drank semen/ as men carress his rump/
and at night, he shows his buddy love. . . like Professor Klump!!/
while I give ho’s fever/ in In-do-nesia/
cos Im a Real Player. . . and he’s Windows Media!/
My charisma’s like a Negro preacher/ or Nero Ceasar/
His raps border on wack. . . and he needs no visa!/
George is Georgina/ and Paul is Paulina/
and I see the bitch in him. . . cos Malt is Maltina!/
This false teacher/ gets scorched by raw ether/
with enough force to pull the doors off 4-seaters/
I implore readers/ to vote for the best verse/
My net worth/ overgross his whole social network/
Im an expert/ He’s just a lowly desk clerk/
He might be running shit. . . but only when his legs hurt!/

Im ready. . . . waiting for your drop. . .

Peoples Destruction Party is at it again!

debosky:
The militants are confused - did Amaechi appoint/elect minsters to the FEDERAL government simply because they came from Rivers that they now feel he has the powers to 'recall' them? 

Again they are chasing shadows - instead on focusing on how the allocations for June were spent, they are blowing hot air as usual. The ND states (minus Ondo and CR) received 31% of state allocations (~35bn) in June and we hear nothing about ensuring that is properly used.

The sheer amount of misinformation about this PTI issue is amazing - some folk out there are trying to gain popularity or credence from appearing to 'fight' the FG. . .

Are the aforementioned ministers? . . . .  I dont know whose jurisdiction they are under (federal or state), but whatever the case, in a Nigerian Government characterised by federal character and ethnic representation, their respective peoples have the political clout to call them back as they were probably appointed by FG just to appease their people in the first place. . . .

Zik and the rest of them must be blamed for literally begging the North to join Nigeria. The North declared their intention to pull out of Nigeria in 1954, after which Zic and em begged the North to return. The North then gave a 10 point agenda upon which their union with Nigeria was dependent, at which the East and West caved in.

We wish to condemn with great vehemence, the southern elements in the so-called Federal Executive Council who sat still while Rilwanu Lukman and his evil cabal read out the riot act for the reversal of the planned upgrade of the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) in Effurun, Warri even after the Delta State government had authorised a contribution of about two hundred and fifty million naira (N250m) for the quick take off of the upgrade project.

In particular, we condemn the likes of Godsday Orubebe (Delta State), Diezani Allison-Madueke (Bayelsa State), Grace Ekpiweren (Delta State) and Odein Ajumogobia (Rivers State) who have turned out to be rubberstamps and a disgrace to the people whose interests they ought to protect by any means possible.

These people are a disgrace!

Therefore, with immediate effect, we demand the immediate recall of this bunch of incompetent stooges and rubberstamps ( Ajumogobia, Diezani Madueke, Godsday Orubebe) by the Governors of Rivers State- Rt Hon Rotimi Amaechi, Delta State - Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan and Timi Sylva of Bayelsa State to immediately recall these incompetent bunch of stooges and rubber-stamps. They are not fit to serve their people.

hehehehehehe. . . . . . Good governance, militia style!

JRC, I gbadun this una move.

[quote author=Negro_Ntns link=topic=298478.msg4254769#msg4254769 date=1248683274]Everyone is talking about intellect. I guess that's the new buzz word for Nigerians. I will tell you like this. . .

Negro is not intelligent, he lacks intellect. . . but he is darn politically savvy and in all matters of politics and civics he has the mastery to influence mind and s.crew over opponents. Between intelligence and shrewdness, Negro picks to be shrewd. [/quote]Whats all this self-aggrandizing codswallop? 

In summary, Negro has had his ass handed to him for daring to challenge the ubiquitous Dede1 on technical details surrounding the civil war. Negro has skirted around; and criminally avoided the points raised by Dede1 in rebuttal to his falacious and ethnically-tinted arguments. Negro is no historian and his self-proclaimed mission to "educate us" on matters around the civil war has only served to expose his own sciolism. 

Obviously, the hawkish Yaradull thought that military might was the way to quench Niger-Delta agitation, but as a consequence, the economy gets hit even harder.



[center][size=14pt]Dividends of N440bn Security Vote for Niger Delta [/size][/center]
[center]By Les Leba[/center]

The priorities of government in the short and medium term maybe discerned from the size of sectoral revenue allocations in its annual budget. We observed in our article titled: “Yar’Adua’s Embattled Presidency” that the Niger Delta security allocation of N440bn was the largest single sectoral vote in President Yar’Adua’s debut 2008 budget.

The projected expenses for the critical areas of health, education, transportation, water, agriculture, etc, were modest fractions of the huge vote for security in the Delta. Obviously, government’s hope was that the deployment of such a huge direct expenditure for heavy and articulated security weapons for use in the Niger Delta would produce the essential atmosphere of peace that would justify the huge investment.

In turn, the exploitation of the oil resources of the area by the Nigerian government and oil corporations would yield tens of billions of dollars which would redeem the ‘paltry’ sum of about $3bn (N440bn) necessary to keep peace within the region. This was the game plan sold to Yar’Adua by his political and strategic advisers and Mr. President quickly committed to the plan by allocating N440bn for implementation.

The views of well-intentioned critics that Nigeria is not in a state of war and that Nigeria should not wage a war against itself were considered to be the rantings of anti government agents! The government was unwilling to recognize that direct annual allocations to such interventionist agencies such as NDDC had never approached a tenth of the 2008 vote for keeping militancy against perceived federal oppression at bay!

It was unnecessary distraction to draw government’s attention to the accrued ecological fund of over N300bn which remained undisbursed in spite of the ardent pleas of the region and the ‘charitable’ posturing of the ruling class! Needless to say that the N440bn from 2008 budget and N300bn ecological fund would have gone a long way in building vital infrastructure, regenerating despoiled lands and rivers and putting hundreds of thousands of the idle youth force into gainful employment, and consequently redeeming the nation from the evil machinations of idle minds and social deprivations. Surely, such a strategy of youth engagement and infrastructural capacity building would have provided a more enduring platform for sustained peace and the facilitation of crude exploitation in the region!

But no, the ‘patriotic’ advisers and ethnic hawks in government preferred the option of an investment of N440bn on the instruments of violence against fellow Nigerians, with body language which as much as said, “militants are criminals, who must be taught a lesson; by the time the communities in the region are cowered by superior weapons of war, it will be business unlimited for crude oil exploitation”!

The weapons funded with the 2008 budget votes had largely been consolidated by the first quarter of 2009 and about mid May this year, the Military Joint Task Force (JTF) was sufficiently emboldened to embark on a major resurgence of its operations in the area; villages and erstwhile sleepy communities were ravaged, innocent men, women and children were slaughtered, community leaders and chiefs were arrested while others fled into the bush; the mansions of local beneficiaries of the proceeds of oil bunkerings were razed and these erstwhile government political collaborators were declared wanted and remained at large! Government reported the recovery of diaries, accounting records and other documents which listed the affiliates of the hunted ‘militants’.

Government’s reluctance to release the content of the seized documents has give rise to doubts about government’s sincerity in these escapades! Two months or so into the renewed JTF surge, it is clear to all that government’s expectation of early success has become largely misplaced!

In spite of the increased and extensive bombardment, militant activities in the Niger Delta remain unquelled and instead have become more strategic and destructive of oil installations and by extension inflicted serious leakages in our nation’s treasury! The 2009 budget expectation of daily export of about 2.5m barrels has become largely unattainable, and at best, may be less than 50% of this target! It now seems that government may have chosen the wrong option of spending N440bn for securing liberal access to the oil of the Niger Delta.

The government’s spontaneous extension of amnesty to militants and miscreants in the Niger Delta can only be seen as an admission of failure of JTF resurgence and the recognition of the reality of negative returns from the huge 2008 budget investment for security in the Niger Delta.

Perhaps, the obvious success that can be attributed to the JTF push is the separation of the men from the boys in the Niger Delta struggle.

The ostentatious illegal oil merchants parading as militants and other criminal affiliates in the supply chain have readily come forth to disarm while N40bn has been earmarked to implement amnesty. However, the real Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has demonstrated that in spite of the unconditional release of the MEND leader Henry Orka and the discontinuation of treason charges against him they are not particularly enamoured by the hastily contrived government amnesty.

From their perspective, the issue of amnesty is misplaced! They maintain that amnesty is appropriate as a lifeline for criminals, but not for militants whose motivation is the emancipation and survival of their lands and people. They maintain that it is inapplicable to grant amnesty to victims of oppression and they insist rather that the oppressors who have committed crimes against their people all these years should rather atone for their sins by immediately removing the JTF from their communities and providing a comprehensive agenda for the regeneration of the despoiled lands, rivers and other waterways that have always served as the lifeblood of their people.

They further insist that Nigeria must return to the adoption of true fiscal federalism since this was the only social contract willingly endorsed by their people at the time of independence in 1960.

Other citizens of the Niger Delta who may not display the same aggression or have media access as MEND, however, also feel the pain from the series of injustices they have endured and have consequently become suspicious of government’s sincerity with regard to their welfare. They are quick to identify the consistent postponement of gas-flare-outdates by government over the last two decades, in spite of the life-threatening environmental and health hazards to their people.

They also wonder why the government has refused to disburse the over N300bn ecological fund for ameliorating the sufferings of their people, some of whom no longer know the difference between night and day, and have no farms for food or clean drinking water! These hapless citizens also wonder why their children are required to score much higher cutoff marks than other kids before they can be admitted to colleges and universities which are predominantly funded from revenues derived from their own backyards!

Those Deltans who have visited Abuja and major urban areas in Nigeria are amazed at the construction of highways, mansions and other infrastructure from the funds derived from the Niger Delta while they are deprived of their livelihood by the activities of oil companies which generate Nigeria’s wealth from the Delta region. Those who cannot travel read and see exotic pictures of Dubai, Qatar and the Emirate states which are also oil producing regions but were less preferred destinations to life in the Niger Delta 50 years ago before the discovery of crude in Oloibiri.

Ordinary Niger Deltans also see something wrong in government’s acquiescence to the oil companies’ practice of locating their head offices and providing jobs far away from the Niger Delta where they operate and derive their profits and these Deltans are even more confused when a petroleum University is taken to far away Kaduna when the already existing petroleum institute in Warri is left to decay!

The majority of the victims of oppression in the Niger Delta have lost their voices, but they wait endlessly for beneficent change that refuses to come before they are completely quietly decimated in fulfillment of the wishes of some fellow Nigerians whose fortunes are tied to the elimination of communities in the Niger Delta!

To those Niger Deltans, MEND will be seen as saviour and its recent attack on Atlas Cove, one of Nigeria’s major oil depots outside the Niger Delta may be a wakeup call to recognize the difficulties for a regular army to triumph in a guerilla war spurred by self preservation. It is now time to talk with justice and fiscal federalism as the agenda.


SAVE THE NAIRA, SAVE NIGERIANS!

Should Di Santo be a winger?

The boy is silky

Di Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanto

Whats the point of bringing Sheva on?

How many times must we see the guy before we know he is not Chelsea material?

Kalou needs to be shipped to Emirates.

nateevs:
Carvalho. .

Damn. . . . thats why its not good to watch shit on Justin.tv


Mancienne needs to be sent back out on loan. . .

nateevs:
Sam Hutchinson. .

So whos playing CB with Alex?

Whos playing LB for us?

hehehehe. . . . SS feeling like Maradona

Sup boys. . . . Sam Hutchinson looks like one for the future. . . . Mancienne quite shaky

Yara is a dissapointment. I can see the idiot is gearing up for 2011 instead of focusing on more pertininent issues.

I just hope this country will not implode in 2011.

White elephant alert!

Dede1:
I recalled that Europeans in general and British in particular had applauded the village Kings and Empires erected all over Africa. The morons even further insinuated that Ndigbo had not developed a structural system. The reason that informed this thought was the fact that Ndigbo ran a complex system called democracy while the European ran a monarchical system. Any system that did not have semblance to the system obtained in their domain, the European termed it undeveloped.

Today, it is funny that the same Europeans have abandoned their monarchical system of government and embraced the complex democratic system Ndigbo adopted 1000 years before the coming of Europeans to coast of Africa. Go figure!!!!

Whoever thought that democracy could thrive in the jungle?

The problem we have in Naija is the propagation of the Fulani power structure onto the whole of Naija.

More worrying is the fact that he asks us to pray for Kim Jung Ils health despite the fact he is an anti-Christ - this is a man who has banned Christianity in North Korea and where peeps are routinely executed for distributing bibles.

TB Joshua is a charlatan. Warrabloody idiot. Which kain illiterate baboons go to these peoples churches?

Whats up guys. . . . shebi we are playing tonight at 12.00am?

hehehehe. . . . so this Boko Haram group want Sharia across the whole Naija. . . . wonders shall never cease. . .

[center][size=25pt]RIDE ON MEND![/size][/center]

Goaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!

Our midfield is overworked

lalaboi:
reminds me off mr iniesta. . . .just lik that innit? lol

lol

Man, I fell asleep and missed the first 25 mins. Update me. . . whos running this?