₦airaland Forum

TrebleChamp:
I absolutely agree with this post, our polithiefcians are so wicked and heartless. Nigeria is poor, yet this heartless people want to buy cars worth ₦150m+ each for over 500 lawmakers...

[color=royalblue]OasisX, what's your opinion on this?

Especially when he related it with how we spend?[/color]

BlueRayDick:
Is the ID card a police ID or what? I'm trying to understand what the guy is saying in the tweet, Is he saying the army are lying or what?

[color=royalblue]The Army is saying they did a raid and killed 3 Bandits

The guy is saying the name on the ID card of the supposedly killed Bandit is a name of a Plateau indigene.

The guy is hoping it is not the local vigilantes that were killed and labelled BANDITS.

It's just like the Army raided a forest in Epe for Fulani herdsmen, and one of the names of the killed herdsmen is a Yoruba name.[/color]

GloriousGbola:
And giving a bus to govt officials the bus will either die from poor management or be rendered inoperable on paper and auctioned as scrap for ogas at the top

[color=royalblue]The ones GEJ bought during SURE-P ended up in the hands of The Young Shall Grow Motors



The 8k for 6 months was just Tinubu's way of washing off his hands from wahala like Pontius Pilate

Will there be massive looting? Absolutely yes.

But the budget would be 500 billion and that's it.

Any other buy-buy go let the thing reach 1 trillion before 1 year [/color]

Melvyn11:
Those figures are not accurate. Let's even leave it at 65million per bus for 50 will be 3.1billion multiply that by 36 and you get 110billion out of the approved 500billion. State government can handle the maintenance for cheap. The point is they are better alternative than the so called sharing of 8thousand per household.

[color=royalblue]Those figures are highly accurate. They are even under valued if you ask me

A Coaster bus is about 55 million now; Just 30 passengers

Let me even agree with your 65 million, calculate how much it takes to fuel those buses everyday for 6 months. And i don't know how maintenance can be cheap when Dollar is rising everyday.

Tinubu just chose an easier way out. Sharing 8k for 6 months is nonsense, but he knows there would be more trouble and spending if he decides to buy this and that.[/color]

OasisX:


.....though it may seem expensive but its affordable. FG has removed Subsidies on Fuel, Dollars and maybe Electricity.

If indeed PBAT wants poors to breathe, then that shouldn't be a problem. If Civil Servants are well paid, its for the good of Artisans, Traders, Marketers, Suppliers and so on.

Its when you earn enough that you can afford to build house(s) and buy things. Kudos to PBAT for his policies on food security but he needs to do more. I don't buy that 8k ish! He should do better.

[color=royalblue]Should he do better? Absolutely yes!

But what you typed is almost unrealistic, compared to what we have, and how greedy our politicians are.

Multiply 120k for all civil servants monthly, and let's see how much it costs

Then Multiply 80 million by 100 buses (as you suggested), then 36 states.

I am not defending the 8k oh.

I am simply telling you that your suggestion will gulp 500 billion before two months sef[/color]

Melvyn11:
Shey the palliative approved by Tinubu na 500bilion. 1.8billion for 50 big buses per state at 37million each is enough.

[color=royalblue]Which big bus is 37 million?

Toyota Hiace (12 Seater) is what you can get for that amount

This article gives you an idea of how much it costs. Just hold between 80 - 100 million for 1 bus

Multiply by 50, then Multiply by 36 states.

Then we can come back and discuss maintenance costs for them weekly/monthly
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https://www.carmart.ng/public/blog/price-of-marcopolo-bus-in-nigeria/

OasisX:


I don't wanna believe that 8k news is real. I don't believe in sharing funds as palliatives, this is Nigeria, no system can stop corruption once money is involved.

PBAT should rather inncrese minimum wage to ₦150k per month, then donate atleast 100 big buses to each state except Lagos, cos it deserves like 200 to 300 big Buses.

[color=royalblue]Abeg this your suggestion ehn

Kindly do a rough estimate, then calculate that of Tinubu and let us know which one is cheaper.[/color]

Spy360:
You do lack sense unfortunately.

Sit at home, like any other protest is called civil disobedience.

[color=royalblue]Who is protesting, in this case?

The people sitting at home, or the people forced to sit at home?

You and sense are two parallel lines...Can never meet[/color]

Spy360:
It's your type Asari Dokubo sells as slaves because of lack of sense. If you weren't seeking for love you could have shut up and not bother me with your guilty stricken conscience.

[color=royalblue]We saw the level of your sense when you categorised the "Sit-at-home" and its effects as CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.

I'd rather lack sense, than have what you have.
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Spy360:
I thought by using special fonts there should be some sense somewhere.

I wasn't asking for love or do you lack comprehension too?

[color=royalblue]Everybody drops their opinion, but somehow you have to think others are typing because they want love.

If that isn't low self esteem, you probably never had any.

And if you think special fonts translate to a sensible post, it means you never even had sense.[/color]

Spy360:
My Yoruba friends calling for military takeover of SE are disappointed to find out that their own region is even more insecure and should also require military takeover based on their own suggestions.

While my Igbo friends call me wicked. Ndo nu.

You think you are loved. Ndi iberibe.

[color=royalblue]Your esteem must be very low for you to seek love from online monikers.

Ndi Iberibe, because they don't support the stupid nonsense you typed as a solution?

We know you love us more. SMH[/color]

Jodera:
in order words, your source is www.na-only-me-sabi-am.com?

Isnt it funny (even to you) that you brought up your opinions as facts and when asked to back it up or prove it, you started telling the person to prove that your facts(abi opinions) are wrong?


Well, I just deh gallop by as I dey always do for here sha🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇

[color=royalblue]You no see say i kuku leave am.
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larride:
Them suppose don bundle the spokesperson wey issue the demand this morning and track them every single one of their sponsors.

[color=royalblue]Insecurity is the new cash cow in town.

The risks are minimal

Purchase AKs and use it to terrorize, rob and kidnap - You'll make profits

In times when business is dull, surrender to the government, and they'll offer cash and other rewards - Still making profits.

The process can be rinsed and repeated many times and any time[/color]

afrodoc2:
I think I have asked this question before. At what point do we start punishing terrorists and criminals?

Or do we keep offering amnesty to each new generation and type of terrorist?

Nigerians themselves don’t love or care about Nigeria.

[color=royalblue]The country is doomed.

Let everybody just hustle for what they can take out of it.

I won't be surprised if amnesty for BK is considered. Shettima, as a governor, fought for it.[/color]

[color=royalblue]E be like say na Amnesty this administration go tackle for 4 years.

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https://www.nairaland.com/7764186/group-writes-tinubu-demands-amnesty

chrisooblog:
Kanayo O Kanayo or Nkem Owoh?

[color=royalblue]I don't think they are from the same state

We might be looking at Pete and Yul Edochie here.

State actors, remember?[/color]

Spy360:
Is poverty the reason why FG wants to send military?

If you have any report that proves that federal government invest in SE like other regions please I'll like to see it.

[color=royalblue]What kind of stick are you using for your amala?

Since yesterday, you told us Neglect and Poverty is what is causing the insecurity in SE. Your words, not mine.

So, show us how you came to that conclusion, knowing you as a man of facts/reports.
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GloriousGbola:
Schrödinger's region.

able to exist in two states at pnce

today it is a region with more billionaires per square inch that does not need the money or intervention of FG
tomorrow it is a neglected region with grinding poverty

our SE bros need to pick a struggle.




forget that thing . during close meeting dem dey brag that nnewi has more billionaires per square inch than anywhere else in Nigeria/Africa/the world

[color=royalblue]We are still saying the same thing naa.

Coscharis na Nnewi man. Him na billionaire, but how he got his billions may not start from Nnewi. He may not be based there.

He is still a billionaire from Nnewi. [/color]

GrammarNazi1:
The South East is ravaged by poverty?!

Is it the same South East that on most other days, people from the South East say that most of the people in the South East are billionaires?

[color=royalblue]In their defence, they could be billionaires in Lagos, Abuja, Guangzhou, Cambodia, India, etc

But they aren't in the SE.

Wait for the report. Your blood too dey hot[/color]

Spy360:
I have used security reports to show that there's no need for military takeover. The SE is not more dangerous than the most secured regions in the country. This is basic fact.

The only thing government needs to do is to fish out those that enforce the sit at home. If people must join the civil disobedience it should be voluntarily. We have DSS, police and civil defense. Some state even have state vigilante groups like Imo and Anambra. These are enough to deal with any miscreants unless they are not serious.

Convince the SE that they should not listen to Simon Ekpa by bringing economic development and inclusiveness to their region.

I bet you they will assist in catching the ESN people.

I don't see how hard this is or how unattainable it is. Anyone against this is not a friend to SE and does not wish them well. They probably enjoy the situation.

[color=royalblue]Use reports to show us the SE is ravaged with poverty, and that is why youths are listening to Ekpa/Kanu

Use reports to show us, please[/color]

Ibime:
So sitting at home on Mondays is not cause for army?

This thing done pass Monday sef cos I'm seeing people getting killed for not sitting at home from Tuesday to Friday sef.

Keep burying your head in in the sand, you will soon be singing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday like Nines


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnTRLCqNhrk

GloriousGbola:
Well, how many of us maintain the same stances on everything 7 years later?

[color=royalblue]I am not even a governor, but i know that negotiations with terrorists moves the situation from bad to worse.

So if a governor is advocating for a dialogue with terrorists, he has to be either benefitting from the chaos, or he has a hand in it.

The same way Soludo is silent about the killings in the SE, writing open letters for Kanu's release and even exonerating IPOB. It clearly shows that he needs to win a second term so he wants to remain in their good books.

Shettima could either be a sponsor of BK, or he needed the unrest to win his election/reelection.[/color]

raumdeuter:
Ramsey Noah and Genevieve Nnaji have been quiet lately

[color=royalblue]Quite speechless, bro.[/color]

[color=royalblue]State actors...Hmmmm
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Spy360:
SE is secured compared to most other regions. One of the ways of fighting insecurity by the way is by fighting poverty.

Open the Sea ports. Remove multiple taxation. Provide interest free loans. Build roads and markets. Etc. Let People of SE feel as part of Nigeria. People will forget Simon Ekpa. They will even catch him alive for government.

[color=royalblue]Your comment left me speechless.

Thank you for the explanation[/color]

BlueRayDick:
Most times I find DonJ's positions on matters simply amusing and hard to understand what actually drives him..

DonJ after the election wanted Peter Obi to go out gun blazing , order his supporters to go on protest and shut down the country.

Today DonJ does not want Peter Obi to go out gun Blazing against IPOB that has been killing their own people, burning properties and beheading security operatives.

[color=royalblue]These people are slaughtering innocent people, yet I am seeing comments here on why FG should be blamed, and not them.

Isssokay

When dem carry another person dead body, e dey be like firewood to a bystander
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Spy360:
Despite all these ramblings, SE has been largely less insecure.

Which makes IPOB less of a terrorist group compared to herdsmen and bandits yet to be proscribed.

What the SE needs is federal presence not army. Those obeying Simon Ekpa are doing so because of the dream of a better life in an imaginary Biafra. With more federal presence in terms of economic development, no body will listen to Simon or even Kanu.

Bring economic development to SE. Send the army to the north instead if they need combat.

[color=royalblue]So how do you bring economic development to a place that is not secured?

Care to explain?[/color]

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
People need to be reminded how the violence started. Kids visit nairaland, very important they have d accurate information.

Dialogue is the way forward.

[color=royalblue]Dialogue with Simon Ekpa?

This is your way forward for peace?[/color]

[color=royalblue]This was a no brainer right from when Adam gave Eve her first orgasm

Never negotiate with a terrorist.

The Government only made the trade lucrative with all these amnesty and rehabilitation[/color]

https://www.nairaland.com/7762712/lagbaja-granting-amnesty-bandits-created

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
During GEJ era, there was IP0B. man never gave a flying fvck about their activities cox IPoB was a peaceful organisation. Buhari came & escalated sh!t ASAP. proscribed them. military killed unarmed youths & armless Biafran protesters. The pictures are littered everywhere in the cyberspace. Even pictures of youths forced by the military to roll/swim in dirty mud water.


While the military were having fun in the East, PmB & Brutai were offering scholarships & enterpreneural skills to BokoHaram Terrorists...Fulani herdsmen went on rampage in north central & even in some SE bordering states like Enugu & Ebonyi they wrecked havoc while the military looked away.

[color=royalblue]There is really no need for the history of how IPOB was birthed.

Is it Fulanis that are beheading lawmakers, or flogging teachers and students? Is it Fulani that is declaring sit at home for 2 weeks?

The issue now is that insecurity in the SE cannot be checkmated as long as that IPOB is allowed. Everybody and anybody is doing whatever the like under that name

Kanu is IPOB, Ekpa is IPOB; so at what point do you draw the line between them?
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