Sterling Towers: This one has descended into the absurd, is lagos also not a multi party state, why couldn't Firs also replicate increment in taxes also. If Lagos only a state can grow its economy to be bigger than that of Kenya a country and your NOI cannot live up to expectation despite her intimidating resume, then it is a shame on your NOI.
Lagos is not a multiparty state as far as Governance is concerned. The political opposition does not control 2% of the executive and legislature in Lagos. I rest my case.
Sterling Towers: Fashola with a pedestrian text book “EConomic for dummies“ augmented Lagos IGR from less that 10 billion naira monthly to 20 billion naira, the dude is not even a professional, what has madam NOI done. Increased saving by 40% your source pls? Only to be stolen by her principal Mr. Shoeless clueless, How has the economy of Nigeria been rejuvenated to make more money call it revenue? She has been blabbing doom of how broke the country is, only adept at diagnosing problem with next to nothing on how to resolve even giving the opportunity to consult her IMF dibias. Her recommendation to the NASS will be what will be eventually approved but that is not even what is in issue - I amtalking of implementation of the budgets or is it the NASS that implement budgets. Increasing capital budget from 22% to 33% assuming that is true and you call that an accomplishment. What of the over 50 % unemployment rate, I am also ignorant of that.she has been around for a while, what spetacular achievement has that made on our economy, you tell me. The 36 governors agreed to her hogwash because of what they stand to gain stop shifting the blame on them, the macroeconomy of nigeria is her oga's turf which he has delegated to her, cos joe is dead scared of numbers, save for when they want to steal it. she is the coordinating minister and her recommendation carried the day. Who approves what goes to the other ministry, me nope, she even refused to send them quid at the appropriate. I have said it for the upteenth time don't use superlative appellation for lilliputian accomplishment. She is a total misfit, she could have done well at the World bank but this time she is totally clueless as her boss. I am that ignorant what other play on word do you want to throw at me. Wiseacre.
You compared NOI, GEJ to Fashola. Any IDIOT can double the tax revenue of a State or Local Government or indeed any motor park. Is that what you compare to increasing capital expenditure of a multiparty country by 10%?
Ijebulogic: A Visionary leader must be able to sift through all the "noise" that comes with Governance and focus on the critical issues that ensure security and social welfare for his citizens. He must then attach priorities to those issues and not allow himself to be distracted by Political games. This should be our Presidents Priority list: 1. Citizen Security & Safety: Eradicate Terrorism, Kidnapping and correct the disastrous road network and airspace. 2. Power 3. Increased Intervention in Non-Oil sectors 3.Tertiary Education (ASUU etc) & Healthcare 4. Unemployment (OBJ's already warned that an ever increasing youth population combined with unemployment is a recipe for disaster) 5. Radical changes to create an enabling environment for FDI (tax breaks, fiscal incentives, less bureaucracy in civil service, customs transformation etc.)
If there is so much as a 25% improvement in the above by 2015, GEJ would be a Hero in my mind. But instead we are forced to hear pronouncements that add absolutely no value to the lives of the common man. What exactly (in simple English please) will a NC achieve? The whole process will be chaotic, ill-timed and pointless. The Tower of Babel comes to mind. Mr. President, the people whispering in your ear in Abuja don't understand the needs of the people.
Your thoughts are well organised to paper, the only problem being that they are shallow.
Ijebulogic: A Visionary leader must be able to sift through all the "noise" that comes with Governance and focus on the critical issues that ensure security and social welfare for his citizens. He must then attach priorities to those issues and not allow himself to be distracted by Political games. This should be our Presidents Priority list: 1. Citizen Security & Safety: Eradicate Terrorism, Kidnapping and correct the disastrous road network and airspace. 2. Power 3. Increased Intervention in Non-Oil sectors 3.Tertiary Education (ASUU etc) & Healthcare 4. Unemployment (OBJ's already warned that an ever increasing youth population combined with unemployment is a recipe for disaster) 5. Radical changes to create an enabling environment for FDI (tax breaks, fiscal incentives, less bureaucracy in civil service, customs transformation etc.)
If there is so much as a 25% improvement in the above by 2015, GEJ would be a Hero in my mind. But instead we are forced to hear pronouncements that add absolutely no value to the lives of the common man. What exactly (in simple English please) will a NC achieve? The whole process will be chaotic, ill-timed and pointless. The Tower of Babel comes to mind. Mr. President, the people whispering in your ear in Abuja don't understand the needs of the people.
Your thoughts are well organised to paper, the only problem being that they are shallow.
Ijebulogic: A Visionary leader must be able to sift through all the "noise" that comes with Governance and focus on the critical issues that ensure security and social welfare for his citizens. He must then attach priorities to those issues and not allow himself to be distracted by Political games. This should be our Presidents Priority list: 1. Citizen Security & Safety: Eradicate Terrorism, Kidnapping and correct the disastrous road network and airspace. 2. Power 3. Increased Intervention in Non-Oil sectors 3.Tertiary Education (ASUU etc) & Healthcare 4. Unemployment (OBJ's already warned that an ever increasing youth population combined with unemployment is a recipe for disaster) 5. Radical changes to create an enabling environment for FDI (tax breaks, fiscal incentives, less bureaucracy in civil service, customs transformation etc.)
If there is so much as a 25% improvement in the above by 2015, GEJ would be a Hero in my mind. But instead we are forced to hear pronouncements that add absolutely no value to the lives of the common man. What exactly (in simple English please) will a NC achieve? The whole process will be chaotic, ill-timed and pointless. The Tower of Babel comes to mind. Mr. President, the people whispering in your ear in Abuja don't understand the needs of the people.
Your thoughts are well organised to paper, the only problem being that they are shallow.
Sincere 9gerian: NONSENSE! The only restructuring that makes sense is RESOURCE CONTROL. Let every state control its human and material resources and pay taxes to the centre. That will automatically remove all the attraction from the centre and the states will become the new centre of attraction. Corruption and struggle for power at the centre will automatically reduce. Healthy competition among states will return. State govts that cannot survive alone will automatically merge. In fact, most of the problems we see today will either disappear or becomes a local issue (restricted to within states). Any other talk apart from resource control is NONSENSE and playing to the gallery.
Any Nigerian that does not know that localized Resource Control is the final solution will eventually feel embarrassed.
You cannot fight corruption except you set up the Institutions. The first is a transparent Constitution which we do not have in Nigeria. The Constitution is CORRUPT. Something like a corrupt operating system in a computer. NOBODY can reduce corruption in Nigeria without FISCAL FEDERALISM. Stop hating JONA for nothing. In the circumstance, GEJ is very good.
eddiebruk: You are right bro, but i must tell you something that is going on in the N-Delta, myself is from a place in the Major city of warri, but i will never aggree with anyone when it comes to backing them up with this Oil ish, because they are all greedy, Let me explain this in a simple manner now. In Delta State, a King is now bein called to serve his people by the
Governor, in the olden days, what power does a Governor have over a King who is the custodian of the old-traditions, Now the reason why they are doing this is because with the Kings being under the Governor he now has Total control over the Voice of the communities,
communities respect their Kings even when the Government are Bad, and now the Kings are now being bossed by the Government, how will the cry of the people be heard...?
The Chiefs are now being paid by the Government making them forget their roles in the communities as Royal fathers, 2007 80% of the Chiefs in
Warri/Effurun were using bike to attend palace meetings and Government events, but today, Not even a single one has Concord Benz anymore, they all now drive in flashy cars that were bought for them by the Government, Rights of the communities have been sold.
Issues like these in the first place are supposed to be handled by the Royal
Fathers and Traditional Rulers, even as it is now, It's been 2-3years since Delta State conducted Local Government Election simply because the state Government said they are not financially strong enough to allocate budget yet to the Local Governments, and you expect people to pay Tax....?
Our rights as citizens has been stolen by our Traditional Rulers and the value of community service and Rural Developments/Empowerment has been stolen, now if the State Government does any little thing they expect the whole state to commend their efforts when Individual communities are actually
suffering, The Air Pollution that is caused alone by Refinery is enough for the Oil companies to Power the whole city with 24/7 Electricity, but no they will not, because there are people who are actually collecting the funds meant for rural development through back door. so it will be better if the People start first with their Traditional Rulers, then step up to those representing them both in the Senate and House of Assembly, that way they will be able to get the message, after which they can face the State and then the Federal Government.
Your post got over 50 likes and interests me. IF YOU ALL KNEW THE MEANING OF CONSTITUTIONS YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THE SOURCE OF ALL THESE COMMUNITY, TRIBE AND RELIGIOUS RELATED SECURITY BREACHES. NIGERIA HAS A WRONG CONSTITUTION THAT CANNOT WORK NO MATTER WHO THE PRESIDENT. OWNERSHIP, CONTROL AND POLICING OF ANY RESOURCE MUST BE LOCAL IN ANY MULTIPLE-ETHNIC COUNTRY FULL STOP. NO PEACE WITHOUT A SOVEREIGN ETHNIC CONFERENCE TO MAKE NEW CONSTITUTIONS FOR NIGERIA.
Pribo: Pls the media shud not be seen as a ready tool in the hands of political jobers. Amaechi has earlier in the day thru his COS opened a parallel PDP office on Forces Avenue about three streets away from the Govt House back gate. The Police had stopped that lawlessness and had sealed off the office (which was Amaechi's former campaign office) and the adjoining streets. The Gov'nor was going to the GH thro this blocked forces avenue and was barred from passing thro that road. He eventually went thro the main gate. Pls the facts shud be put straight. IF YOUBRING ANTS INFESTED FIREWOOD. ....
SIMPLE. A lot of nairalanders are so Jona-phobic that they are as idiotic as the compromised AIT and such media.
Goodluck Jonathan assembled a Nigerian 1st eleven squad that includes Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Shamsudeen Usman, Dr. Akinwunmi Ayo Adesina, Mrs. Hadiza Ibrahim Mailafa, Mrs. Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi ,Olusegun Aganga, Amb. Olugbenga Ashiru, Prof. Chinedu Osita Nebo, Mrs. Deizani Alison-Madueke a a host of smart brains to complement his intellectual insight. Not to forget two quiet wiz-kids at the power privatisation revolution called Atedo Peterside and Bekinbo Dagogo-Jack. You ain't seen nothing yet! Testimony galore!
olatiler: If ur clueless Kindergarten Shoeless Fisherman can be begging this ppl u called "renegade" in order for peace to reign and ready to meet most of their demand, I totally conclude that u are brainless just like ur ingrate shoeless brother are Clueless to we Nigerians
I heard you say " ingrate shoeless brother are clueless to we Nigerians". I guess you mean the "clueless and shoeless GEJ should show gratitude to you and your clan for using the Oil money of your fathers Tinubu and Akande to buy shoes? Nigeria and you owe your education and infrastructure to the Oloibiri Oil of the shoeless man of Otuoke.
THE JOURNALIST: As a die-hard WWE fan, I learnt one thing from Vince Mcmahon himself......''No one man is bigger than this business'' If this notion is anytin to go by here in Nigerian politics, I will like to agree with Vince that NO ONE MAN IS BIGGER THAN PDP, NO ONE MAN IS BIGGER THAN NIGERIA......... All these crises both in PDP and Nigeria as a whole since 2011 is as a result of one man! To be honest this one man has broken no law in his assention to power, the people voted him and the people are still ready to vote him again! This has come wit a steep prize, thousands have lost their lives as a result of this, millions are currently suffering because of this ''ONE MAN'' This man's ''LUCK'' have brought ill-luck to unity in PDP, soon the long predicted extinction of the Nigerian state will happen because of this one man! The question is, is this one man now bigger than PDP or Nigeria? Thanks to Vince Mcmahon I don't agree with that. Instead of us keep sacrificing our lives, peace and unity just to keep this one man in power, I suggest we sacrifice this one man to safe our democracy, to save our great party, to save our great nation! because NO ONE MAN IS BIGGER THAN ALLL OF THESE!
software man: This is one problem I have with you Jonathan supporters. Jonathan obsession with 2015 even when he has not delivered on his promises in 2011 is the root cause of the problem in his party and the country.. Jonathan is the one causing all the distractions for himself because instead of concentrating on governance, he is busy playing dirty politics right from the imposition of an obviously equally incompetent bamanga tukur. to fighting AMAECHI for an imaginary vice presidential ambition.
Jonathan is the most divisive president this country has ever had because he and his supporters like you are constantly throwing up the ethnic and religious card to cover up his obvious incompetence..
GEJ is not divisive. The S/Western Press fed their readers with the junk some of them now believe. GEJ is letting things take their natural path. "no matter how far the lie may travel, the truth will catch up with it in a second". The big problem of the renegades is that they started their rebelion too early. By next year Atiku and Co. will be history.
The only President that will identify with a Rewriting of the constitution based on ethnic representation is one from an Oil-Producing community in Nigeria for now. Today, OBJ or IBB, Atiku, Buhari or even Fashola or Aregbesola will work against either the whole or the part of it that will enforce resource control. I repeat most states will want to work against the SNC when the debate on Resource Control and State of Origin will be addressed. In fact, the Igbo will work against Biafra because they will want to retain their economic expansionist tendencies. Please believe GEJ sincerity. The only Nigerians that have nothing to gain by being part of Nigeria is the South-South. President of SS is more profitable to GEJ than President of Nigeria, the SS budget will be much bigger per head. If you want SNC sooner than later, give GEJ full support (but I doubt if the APC sympathisers can).
simpleseyi: I have been saying this and I will keep saying it, by 2015 presidential elections, there will be less than 10 people left in PDP, these will include presido GEJ, Dame (Dr) Mrs. Sheppopotamus PEJ (Jesus on Earth) , Bamanga Tukur (about 80 years old youth), Tony Anenih (80+ years old adolescent), Junior Education Minister and Senior Protagonist of Rivers State Mr. Wike (fighting about when Universities have remain shut), Jery Gana (any govt in power (AGIP)), Obasanjo (never say die), Petroleum Minister and GEJ bedmate Miss Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, Bayelsa governor Dickkson (the son of dickk) and Peter Obi (she he is in PDP just pretending APGA).
Continue with the house-cleaning, but you know what? There will be no one to stay in the "clean house"
NL has a lot of planted political commentators that seem to be professional "forumers". They are always there to oppose the truth. Nairaland needs to introduce a fact checking system to show members claims on a TRUE or FALSE chart. A TRUE or FALSE thread that analyses profound claims in members and mod post will improve the value of NL.
Eko Atlantic: How far can the president go with his desperate mind of getting re-elected in 2015?
Paying militants(OPC) to cause havoc and disrupt SouthWest's peace by awarding them a N2b contract of securing pipelines. Is this the pipeline they want Nigerians to believe they are securing?
Involving in state(anambra) politics by secretly disqualifying the best candidate and the man of the people(professor Soludo) to guarantee his 2015 support from the state and imposing puppets on the good people of the state.
Fighting one of Nigeria's most competent and hard working governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state, just because he doesn't fall for his(jonathan) dubious antics and wanting to stand alone. Where 5 lawmakers successfully impeached a speaker in a house that has over 30 honorable(s).
Breaking down a forum(Nigeria governor's forum) into factions, a forum that has been existing before he knew anything close to politics. Where 16votes was greater than 19votes.
^^^ All these because of 2015!!!
-Yet, the education sector is crumbling with federal and state universities lecturers on strike. -Health sector is write off, where governors and even the first lady need to fly out of the country to threat even malaria. -Oil theft at its peak. -taking loans allover the world to revive the locomotive rail system, that couldn't successfully move goods from Lagos to Kano/Kaduna(less than a thousand kilometers) And renovating existing airports which was never his idea, claiming to have achieved.
Yet Nigeria is the highest oil exporter in Africa.
Really fresh air!
IS it GEJ that flopped the APC launch in Ogun State and masterminded the decampment of APC members to LP ? We better join GEJ for the real fresh air!
Sincere 9gerian: I learnt this morning that the health workers have called off their 6 days old strike after 2 days negotiations with govt. That is how it ought to be. Negotiations is a give and take thing.
Now that the health workers strike is out of the way, when will the politicised ASUU call off their 2 months old strike? I said politicised strike because the APC leadership have been solidly behind the ASUU strike hundred percent.
Since ASUU is being led by a northerner, and I hate to say it, but one cannot rule out the influence of tribal politics and sentiments in the insistence on continuing with the strike. With the level of HATE towards the govt led by GEJ by SOME people from certain parts of the country, even on NL, anything is possible.
Negotiations cannot be all or NONE, like the current leadership of ASUU have been carrying on. You must give and take. The govt has placed N130billion on the negotiation table. What is ASUU placing on the negotiation table?
If all or none is the way to go, why didnt ASUU continue the strike in 2009 until the Yar Adua govt puts the money he signed with them on the table?
The GEJ govt has also implemented several other parts of that agreement, including increasing the retirement age of some category of lecturers.
The govt position is that some part of the agreement are un-implementable. One would expect a responsible and responsive ASUU to sit with govt and find ways around the difficult parts of the agreement, especially since the govt has shown committment in implementing several parts of the agreement.
In the interest of the students and the education sector, which ASUU claims to be protecting, all parties should bury self-serving interests and primordial sentiments, return to the negotiation table and bring the strike to an end NOW. Otherwise, we will declare WAR on the ASUU president
ASUU will be unreasonable ab initio. The current lecturers are privileged in the Nigerian situation of shortage of supply such that the lecturers take the advantage to be as corrupt as the Legislators. When I was in the University in 1979 most of the lecturers lived true to their near ecclesiastic calling of humble lifestyles and discipline. Professor Ayodele Oluwatuminu Awojobi (March 12, 1937 – September 23, 1984) was said to have donated his Mega pays in Pounds Sterling from consultancy with the BP in the North Sea to UNILAG where he was a Prof teaching my classmates and being hailed as "DEAD EASY", their darling. Prof Chike Obi in my Maths class was just as Pious. They gave, like the proverbial Missionary, their all so that we may see the light. Today, GEJ will be a more humble and devoted lecturer than all those ASUU masqueraders. God help the students.
Only because of his age can this act be considered brave and not despicable. He may end up as good material for the armed forces. He deserves an NDA scholarship consideration. He is Brave.
ASUU need to become more rational. The agreement has been through a regime change and security on Boko had diverted funds. ASUU needs to reaffirm the agreement and give a 9month grace period.
odua boy: You must be a raving lunatic,so retardeen won the presidency by virtue of only the south south votes abi.See warped logic in display
Let us assume you are not from the SS. Then Anenih's suggestion does not impact you. Analogy : "any black person that does not vote for Obama needs to have a head examination" does not mean that he will not need majority non- black votes. I suggest that people should be more tolerant of pro- GEJ sentiment because he is performing very very well.
Nigeria is developing past the hunting stage. The important thing is that institutions should be encouraged to strengthen. Maybe future events like this will not need the presence of the executive thereby reducing time spent in ceremonies. A street naming event in honour of the retiring judge was said to have been cancelled. These are all trivia. There is real work to be done.
adconline: True, but David West is an attention seeker. He was in IBB's govt when ASUU went on strike for several months. He's part of VIP=Vagabond in Power
McLuhan: Judging by the 2013 budget, Nigeria spends about 2.7 million naira every day to feed its President. This figure is only for feeding and excludes any other aspect of the President's upkeep. The Senate President, on his part, earns as much as 88 million naira monthly (Sunday Punch, August 4, 2013, page 16). This is the same government that claims it cannot afford 92 billion naira to pay the entitlements of all lecturers in federal universities whose unpaid allowances have accumulated since 2009, when the same government voluntarily signed an agreement to pay the said wages. Imagine the hypocrisy!
Aso Rock feeding is for hundreds of visitors and guests daily including other Heads of State.
I can only compare the reaction of Yorubas on this forum to the attitude of Germans and the Aryan race to the Jews and worse still, the negros in the days before the Berlin Olympics '38. Yorubas believe they are superior to the Bini, Igbo, Ijaw, Hausa and the like. This is pure fallacy, fueled by political desires of propagandists to keep the Yoruba vote intact. The only Yoruba that got both a Yoruba and National mandate at 1st attempt is MKO. He was not an Awoist. Yorubas like many of us in their midst are Hopelessly Misled. The Yorubas need compassion, if not help, from becoming delusional and trying to frustrate the Nigerian space like Boko Haram did.
dady12: i do not hate patient jonathan as a person but i only make my criticism positively,when okorocha of imo state lock down imo becos of his birthday,i personally criticise him for that,when our undergraduate are sitting at home because of ASUU strike,madam went and rent a crowd for GEJ ambition in 2015,even some of the undergraduate are here in nairaland saying leave patient alone,becos they cannt understand,before nigerians are complaining of the 1st lady,she need to check her self and see why people make so much complain on her
I am sorry for people that are worked up by every action of PEJ and GEJ. I know how frustrating it can be to see your enemy win again and again. GEJ seems to be without guilt no matter the smear campaign by the media. If you cannot beat GEJ let him be, to avoid distress.
[quote author=shejane]Come 2 think of it, where ar igbo senators nd reps? Wots der take on dis since Gej is jus watching as usual waiting 4 his master wife 2 order him 2 say somtin[/quote
What has GEJ got to do with this? Can't you live without calling him and his wife?
talk2valen: Dear Okey Ndibe: Thank you for sounding the alarm in a way that should make us reflect deeper. Mumu is not a condition I proudly proclaim. It was with a heavy heart that I came to this shocking realization that we are indeed a country of mumus. Harsh as it might sound, no other explanation would suffice. It is apparent that the "leaders" know that they would always get away with whatever incredible schemes they concoct because, amongst other reasons,
(a) the mumu people they "lead" are no different from their mumu "leaders" in character
(b) the mumu people are gullible, superstitious and naive
(c) there are no consequences for criminal acts if you belong to the right group
(d) these mumus never demand accountability from their "leaders"
(e) the mumus expect their rulers to loot or would otherwise consider them foolish
Apologies for the seeming overgeneralization but the vast majority runs with this mumu mindset.
There is a limit to how much one can squeeze into a song before sounding less music than sermon. Please permit me to expatiate using your perimeter of "recent events in the past week or two".
For simplicity I would use a numbered list to analyze and highlight a few seemingly disparate but absurd mumurity examples and indicators.
1. 5 members trying to impeach a governor would make you think there are probably only 6 or 7 members of the House of Assembly. According to the assembly's website there are 31 members. For mumus, 5 out 31 constitutes a majority.
2. In the land of mumus you can make your own mace and confer it with automatic authority, elect a "new Speaker" and swear him in.
3. No single hospital in Nigeria to entrust the unfortunately injured member with. He had to be flown to the UK.
4. Flown abroad ... likely on tax payers' account
5. Treated ... likely on tax payers' account
6. Visited by officials... likely on tax payers' account (business or first class tickets?)
7. Nyesom Wike the Minister of State who led the visit was until recently the Governor's (Amaechi's) Chief of Staff. He was allegedly nominated for the Ministerial position by Governor Amaechi.
8. Shouldn't the mumus wonder how Nyesom Wike as Minister of State for Education found the time for this all important trip while abandoning his post in spite of the raging crisis in his ministry with the Academic staff union of Nigerian universities currently on strike? Well the mumu staff and students can rot in hell I guess.
9. Madam Patience would probably have "visited" too, if not for the noise such would generate. So for now, the victim suffers alone.
10. The erstwhile pontificating police boss of the State could not find the patient's prominent attacker for over a week.
11. Madam Patience having first denied any involvement in the crisis while verbally attacking Soyinka, eventually owns up "pouring out her grievances".
12. She owns up to a group of visiting Bishops who came on a peace making mission to find a lasting solution to the crisis in their region. Religion is always an easy scapegoat and tool of deception in mumudom.
13. Why would you even think that the Bishops would go back empty handed? Any "transport fare/thank-you-for-coming", if received, would have likely been financed on tax payers' account.
14. And why are we ranting about "tax payers"? Why are the tax payers not furious over the incessant misappropriation and misapplication of their hard earned contributions? The answer lies in the question... Aside from PAYE, how many are compliant in mumudom?
15. First a set of 5 Governors and 3 Deputy Governors (representing their respective Governors), left their duty posts for a solidarity visit with the embattled Governor of Rivers State... of course to the detriment of tax payers. (a) They were not on leave, but left urgent work and duties behind for the "emergency" solidarity visit. (b) Flight to and fro Port Harcourt of course likely on tax payers' account.
16. They were closely followed by a second set of 4 commiserating sympathetic Governors. Of course, again likely on tax payers' account.
17. Madam Patience's grievance, as she divulged to the visiting Bishops, started when Governor Amaechi refused to be governed by her, as he would not listen to her veiled orders on how to govern the State... which incidentally is her primary territory being her State of origin. Mumus have no problem with that, fully being in harmony with her as she sings as first lady in Abuja while simultaneously dancing in absentia as Permanent Secretary in Bayelsa and conducting the orchestra in home state, Rivers.
18. Madam ends her confession to the Bishops by saying that Amaechi is her son as she is obviously the mother of everyone in mumudom. The question all mumus should ask is, "Would a good mother promote the demise of her child?"
19. Where was her outraged sense of motherhood when Senators were busy voting to turn mumudom into a Nation of pedophiliacs at the expense of her innocent "daughters"?
20. Where was her outraged sense of "mother of the Nation" when the video of 5 gang rapists went viral. Has she used that "mother of the Nation" power to find the culprits? Not a priority in mumudom.
21. Where was her outraged "motherhood of mumudom" when 46 school children were murdered in Yobe? Indeed the whole Nation of mumus have just gone on with their more important mumu lives like nothing happened.
22. Which brings us to the insane mumurity that gives the "leaders" confidence to try pranks such as the attempt at crafting the under age marriage law, knowing that with the mumus... "nothing go happen"
23. In the land of mumus, the rulers know they can always throw in the religious card, so Senator Yerima leads the child slavery onslaught with the religious chant.
24. While all this was going on, 79 year old OPC founder, Dr. Fasheun was, in his own description, "delivering" Mustapha to Kano.
25. Soon after, Gumsu Sani Abacha had the courage to rant on social media about her proud heritage... because with the mumus who his father savagely ruled over... nothing go happen.
26. Gumsu even called Soyinka who was a victim of her beloved dad's misrule, "Mad empty Professor" ... because in mumudom, "nothing go happen".
27. Final scores... Jang 13, Amaechi 19, but in the land of mumus Mathematics has a different interpretation for 13 is greater than 19. Even the President of the mumus ratifies that.
28. By the way, both Governors Jang and Amaechi are from the same imploding political party.
29. Jang says he is old enough to be Amaechi's father... a common escape route that is often quickly bought by the mumu populace. Old enough to be the President's pawn and to upturn justice might be more like it. Only possible when you know for sure that your people are mumus... Nothing go happen.
30. The Governor is supposed to be the chief security officer of his State, but apparently in mumudom, his Police Commissioner is his boss.
31. The Governor's security staff could be so easily withdrawn because nothing is institutionalized in a Nation of mumus. The loyalty of the security personnel is not based on the constitution but on personal or maternal affiliations. The mumus keep watching because "it does not concern me o"... "Big men and women are fighting". Same way the injustice of the Nation's attorney general's assassination does not concern them.
32. Most reports in the Nigerian media kept referring to the self appointed Speaker as if he were truly the substantive Speaker. A mere use of "self-acclaimed" would have been logical, but they were already calling him the Speaker because... ignorance? inducement? resignation to the belief that the 5 vs 26 Assembly coup was already a done deal?
33. While all this drama unfolded, Nigeria, like the proverbial head-burying ostrich felt it had the moral right to insist on democratic processes in Egypt.
34. Sahara Reporters had screamed about the underhand conspiracy to proclaim Mustapha "not guilty". Mumus simply went about their daily mumurity unperturbed because "it doesn't concern them". And when it happened as predicted... no problem. Mumus continue dem jolly as if nothing happened.
35. Meanwhile, Daniel and his political supporters carried their politics into the house of God at Rueben Abati's mother's funeral service... simply because there is no true reverence for God. Religion is a safe hiding cave. The mumus in the congregation would never protest such sacrilege because... "it is not strange" as the houses of God are now also political grounds. Obasanjo built one in Abeokuta. Jonathan got one built in Otuoke.
36. Meanwhile, some other mumus were again busy putting the Nation to international shame. In unprecedented match fixing fiascos, Police Machine beat Bubayaro 67-0 while Plateau United Feeders beat Akurba FC 79-0. Just in case you are confused, the game was soccer, not basketball.
37. The matches were to determine which one of the two tied teams would be promoted into... wait for this... just the 3rd division of the Nigerian soccer league. How many goals would they have to orchestrate when they want promotion to the 1st division?
38. Interesting to note that one of the teams involved in these shows of shame, the Police Machine, represents the Police Force. Now who would investigate this scandal?
39. Mumus involved in the conspiracy had to include players... team management... referees and other match officials... spectators That is quite a large mumu cooperative.
40. Since four teams were involved, multiply the number of conspirators by 4 (except match officials and spectators which should be multiplied by "only" 2). Hence, the scam was done in the open. It was a confident public show of shame. No... two confident simultaneous scams. No problem as corruption is everywhere.
41. Before the matches, Police Machine and Plateau United were level on points, goal difference and goals scored, and each was playing its final match which would determine which team would get elevated into the 3rd division league. Plateau United scored 72 of its 79 goals in the second half, thereby averaging more than one goal per minute. This would necessarily include the time needed to celebrate each goal, retrieve the ball, bring it back to the center, wait for the referee's whistle before kicking off again.... after each goal. 72 times. Or did they just write the preferred figures as we typically do on election day?
42. Is it not curious that neither of the two losing teams could manage a single consolation goal? What else are we if not mumus?
43. Then there was the innocent man who was freed by the high court in Owerri after having been unjustly incarcerated for seven years, "awaiting trial". No compensation... nobody held accountable for his ordeal. He insisted on being taken back to the prison as that was his only guaranty of a roof over his head and a daily meal. It was merely a "small thing" in the daily bizarre news as mumus went about their daily mumurity with their typical mentality of "e no concern me".
44. Remember that this is mostly a snippet of the past two weeks or so. But there is more... 20 year old Chijioke Nwankor allegedly rapes a 9 year old pupil to death in Calabar. Reportedly in his own words, he asked her to bend down in the uncompleted building because it was too dirty to lie down as the place was being used as a public toilet. That is mumudom parlance for faeces shamelessly defecated all over the ground. Could the defecation be by aliens from outer space?
45. Well... thankfully, there is always a little ray of sunlight sneaking through the dark jungle. A Briton who was kidnapped by an armed gang shortly after arrival in Lagos, has been released.
...All in just the past two weeks or so in mumudom.
Excuse me, I have to return to work. I need to earn £3000 for my British visa. Wait a minute, did I tell you I am still a Commonwealth citizen?
A new constitution for Nigeria that assures every region and community their territorial resource and law control will minimise all these problems. I KNOW THAT THIS lAGBAJA WILL OPPOSE RESOURCE CONTROL, WHICH IS THE ONLY REASON HE IS A SELF-CONFESSED MUMU.
The Lagos State Government missed it. 1. The re-integration or relocation or whatever Fashola wants to call it is a purely WELFARE/SOCIAL/MEDICAL function. 2. It is not a LEGAL function and the movement of the people is not justiciable/enforceable. 3. Re-integration of people is a person to person/community thing being a continuation of medico-social treatment. 4. Without a receiving party who is willing to accept continuing rehab of the victim, the Government has no right to move the victim to open space, outside its territory. 4. Where the Government in this case Lagos is unable to find continued rehab for the victim, they may publish as much detail as available of the victim and leave the victim to as minimum a care as the government can afford without deportation. 5. Fashola needs to apologise to Nigerians.
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That is quite a large mumu cooperative.