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PoliticsRe: 2019: Election Will Not Hold In 26 States – Biafra Zionists by JAMESOJAY: 11:50am On Jul 23, 2018
MemeKing:
Basketmouth is now writing scripts for IPOB , lmao
Cowards always scared
Cause they are slaves that can't fight their masters lol

They are losing their culture..their front runner are all Muslim lol stupid cowards are always scared lol

We did it in Nigeria civil war and will do it again

We are not cowards we are brave men
PoliticsRe: 2019: Election Will Not Hold In 26 States – Biafra Zionists by JAMESOJAY: 11:50am On Jul 23, 2018
bigdot1759:
Useless Biafra & cooperate idiot
Cowards always scared
Cause they are slaves that can't fight their masters lol

They are losing their culture..their front runner are all Muslim lol stupid cowards are always scared lol

We did it in Nigeria civil war and will do it again

We are not cowards we are brave men
PoliticsRe: 2019: Election Will Not Hold In 26 States – Biafra Zionists by JAMESOJAY: 11:49am On Jul 23, 2018
PUSSYBBQGRILLS:
"election would not hold in 26 out of 36 states in Nigeria"



mtchew. Clowns everywhere...
Cowards always scared
Cause they are slaves that can't fight their masters lol

They are losing their culture..their front runner are all Muslim lol stupid cowards are always scared lol

We did it in Nigeria civil war and will do it again

We are not cowards we are brave men
PoliticsRe: 2019: Election Will Not Hold In 26 States – Biafra Zionists by JAMESOJAY: 11:49am On Jul 23, 2018
Laple0541:
Who be this new gesoro again ooo, all this jobless IPIGS seeking cheap popularity everywhere, Biafra covers 26 out of 36 states in the federation! Make them kuku declare the whole Nigeria Biafra land now.
Cowards always scared
Cause they are slaves that can't fight their masters lol

They are losing their culture..their front runner are all Muslim lol stupid cowards are always scared lol

We did it in Nigeria civil war and will do it again

We are not cowards we are brave men
PoliticsRe: 35 Achievements Of Governor Ambode In Lagos! by JAMESOJAY: 10:30am On Jul 23, 2018
Lagos is still the dirtiest State in Nigeria
PoliticsRe: Alex Otti Declares For Abia Governorship Seat (Photos) by JAMESOJAY: 10:22am On Jul 23, 2018
Your write up is on point
Nice one
PoliticsRe: Alex Otti Declares For Abia Governorship Seat (Photos) by JAMESOJAY: 9:36pm On Jul 22, 2018
Xander85:
That's politics naija style for you! Worst part is that it's still going on today!

Hopefully now Metuh and Ochendo-Global have no power over security like they had when PDP was in power, we can see the true will of Abians reflected in the ballot! Ikpeazu has been governing on a stolen mandate all this while, and that the useless Supreme Court didn't find this out is part of the problem we face as a country!
Now the truth is out and you think same thing will happen again? You know it will never happen

Ikpeazu didn't win that election and deep down you,you know the truth..so why support evil when you don't gain anything from him..you just support him cause his nwga right

I asked you if your parents are civil servants and they are been owed for 10 months how will you feel?

He used abia states money to bribe the Supreme Court that's why salaries are be owed for 10 months now and the road are not fixed
PoliticsRe: Alex Otti Declares For Abia Governorship Seat (Photos) by JAMESOJAY: 8:50pm On Jul 22, 2018
ABA- Governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in the 2015 election in Abia State, Dr.Alex Otti , said he had forgiven the former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party , Chief Olisa Metuh for the role he played during the collation of the results of the election at the INEC collation centre , Umuahia , in 2015. Otti who stated this while declaring his interest in the 2019 governorship election, in Aba, Abia state, alleged that Metuh and and former governor, Theodore Orji, had stormed the collation centre and forced the INEC returning officer to reverse the result of the governorship election in favour of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of the PDP. He, however, disclosed that Metuh had regretted his role and apologized to him when they met at an event in Lagos and urged Abia people to forgive the former PDP spokesman. Otti further stated that Orji was yet to apologize to him and promised to forgive him and urged Abia people to consider extending same treatment to the former governor when he seeks their forgiveness. As Otti threw a question to the mammoth crowd at the event whether they would forgive the former governor, shouts of ‘no , no, no’ , rent the air. The APGA chieftain said, “There’s one man who now wears collar on his neck. His name is Olisa Metuh. It was Olisa Metuh and Theodore Orji that led the other thieves in PDP to break into the collation centre took the returning officer and intimidated him and threatened him at gun point, and the man reversed himself. “If Olisa Metuh is listening to me, he’ll be surprised that I’m calling his name, but I’m doing it for history sake because he has apologized to me. Olisa Metuh saw me in a burial ceremony in Lagos and told me that it looks as if he’s suffering because of what he did to me in 2015 election in Abia. He said it is like he was cursed for that singular act. He begged me to forgive him that he has done everything to end his suffering yet all have failed. I’ve have forgiven him and I beg you my people to forgive him. It is remaining T. A. Orji. If he comes, we’ll consider if we can forgive him. In his own, you own me and if you want us to forgive him, we’ll do so.”

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/07/abia-govship-i-have-forgiven-olisa-metuh-otti/
PoliticsRe: Alex Otti Declares For Abia Governorship Seat (Photos) by JAMESOJAY:
Please I want you to show me prove that shows that OVI was really the man that fixed this roads you are naming here

Listen faulks road is getting bad..how can a governor use 4year to fix a road that is not up to 5 kilometres?please can you explain that?

Ayo Fayose lost the last elections because he's owning the state 6months salary

I want to ask you one simple question
If your parents are civil servants and they are been owed for 9months how will you feel?


I hope you read what Olisa Metu said about Abia state election...asking otti to forgive him for making him lose the last election...

You can read it yourself if you are not informed


Abia Gov'ship: I have forgiven Olisa Metuh - Otti
PoliticsRe: Former AMCON CEO's Tweet About $300m Nigeria Air Is Misleading And Mischievous by JAMESOJAY: 3:06pm On Jul 22, 2018
I hope you know how many Nigerian citizens that lost their lives since Buhari became president

Nigerian has never been good I will give you facts.

Patriotic citizens that wants this country to succeed are not allowed to rule

Patriotic citizens wants resource control
PoliticsRe: Alex Otti Declares For Abia Governorship Seat (Photos) by JAMESOJAY: 4:48am On Jul 22, 2018
eduj:
oga lemme start by correcting some misassumptions.yes secondary school teachers are owed 7 months salary (ovis greatest failling not considering the fact he inherited a backlog of 8 months),the other non-revenue generating state orgs should be up to date.In terms of infrastructure he is the best aba has ever had.The fact we are deep into the rainy season and the media isn't awash with gory pics from faulks road and ph road is proof of that.I can mention numerous roads,factories,schools etc that he has done or attracted-the fact still remains that aba was left abandoned for long that he has just begun the surface.Am highly dissapointed in the way you just disparaged my whole tribe to score petty points
the osisioma fly over and those of awka are of the same construction cost at 6 billion.
at the end of the day,his performace would be his victory or downfall-he has my vote because of his numerous aba projects like faulks road /ifedobara project ,let those whom don't see any positive in his administration vote otherwise,that's what democracy is all about.
There are states in the south east that abia state collects more money from allocation but the are far far better than abia state

I will list them for you

Abia state gets     N4.3 billion
Ebonyi state gets  N3.5 billion
Imo state gets      N3.9 billion
Cross River  . N2.7 billion

This states are 100%better than Abia state
They don't owe works
They have good road

So what is your governor doing?
Why start projects he can't complete?
The roads you said fixed are all bad now..
PoliticsRe: Alex Otti Declares For Abia Governorship Seat (Photos) by JAMESOJAY: 8:43pm On Jul 21, 2018
If you know me, you would know that I have no interest in your political parties.

I spent years In Aba, and a part of me is stuck in that city.
I went there recently, and nothing had changed.
Compared to Umahi, OVI has been a failure.

Abia civil servants are owed backlog of salaries, yet no infrastructural development to point at.
The Osisioma flyover he started had stalled and the price of the project is highly inflated when compared to those of Awka and Abakaliki.

If Abia is allowed to continue like this, then she is surely going to be a source of disgrace, rather than Pride to Ndiigbo.

Naturally, I try as much to avoid politics. Knowing fully well that nothing divides a people and attracts enemies, more than politics.
But what had been happening in Abia since 1999 is no longer ordinary, and since Abians don't want to do anything about it, I think it's about time every Igbo man puts pressure on Abia to get it right.
Maka na anya bewe, Imi ebewe.
PoliticsRe: Alex Otti Declares For Abia Governorship Seat (Photos) by JAMESOJAY: 8:40pm On Jul 21, 2018
Illiterates

Mad people

Dust bin state

Lol

Big shame
CrimeRe: Armed Attackers Storm Zamfara Market. 2 Killed, Others Injured. Graphic Photos by JAMESOJAY: 8:25pm On Jul 21, 2018
Islam is the religion of the devil himself

They kill, rape and do drug

Big shame
PoliticsRe: Alex Otti Declares For Abia Governorship Seat (Photos) by JAMESOJAY: 8:16pm On Jul 21, 2018
You are mad and your stupid ngwa people are stark illiterates th why you state is made for mad people

Why is it that you pigs and your sister mad people don't like to leave your state to a clean one? Cause you all are pigs

I know you are mad as well lol...because of how stupid and foolish you are you won't check the Dirtiest states in Nigeria cause you are mad

Idiot let me teach you and your home of mad people



Top 10 Dirtiest States In Nigeria
There are states in Nigeria that are very dirty. Even if some of these states set Thursdays and the last Saturday of the month as environmental sanitation’s day, the demon of uncleanliness still lurks around these states.


Lagos: Dirtiest City in Nigeria 2018
In a bid to sensitize inhabitants and citizens in a country on the need to keep the environment clean by getting rid of dirts and trash, the UN set up the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and also proscribed the 5th of June every year as World’s Environment Day.

Most inhabitants don’t even know the implications of what a dirty, polluted and unclean environment does the health, the various diseases like Malaria, Typhoid and other unknown health hazards known to man it can cause, plus environmental disasters such as erosion and blockage of drainage systems.



Although, the efforts of the government of the guilty states by providing wastebins, dustbins and baskets all over the areas of the state have not yeilded positive results as heaps of waste are still seen littering and beautifying the various streets.



Without further ado, below are the dirtiest states in the country with a record of always being unclean this 2018:



Lagos state
Lagos has been dubbed the dirtiest place in Nigeria this year. Aside from the fact that Lagos state is the most populated state in the country and one of the most developed, it has failed to lead in that regard.



A drive or walk around the many areas within Nigeria’s commercial hub shows that heaps of waste are dropped on road sides, even passersby and car owners/ occpants throw things on the roadside which sometimes goes beond the control of waste management official.

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Lagos recorded some level of cleanliness during the era of former governor Raji Fashola especially when he introduced KAI, but can’t say the same for the present regime.

An example of a dirty places in Lagos is the popular Dustbin Estate located in Awodiora, Ajeromi Ifelodun Area which has a heap of refuse located beside a canal, which drains waste, and floodwater out of Ajegunle.

Anambra state
Anambra is another dirty state in Nigeria that really need to be kept clean. A visit to one of the main city in Anambra state, Onitsha will shock you as you would be greeted with lumps of waste on the road sides and various streets in the town.

The inhabitants of Mkpor & Nnewi another town in the state are known for throwing dirts at the popular park in the area thereby causing pollution which has health effects on passersby.

The government is yet to act on this as the agency in charge of seeing to the prosecution of offenders are not functional in the state.

Abia state
During the time of the past governor of Abia state, Theodore Orji, Aba became the dirtiest city in Nigeria and even found a place among the list of worst places to live in the world.



Even though it is a popular city in the country where virtually local goods are produced, Abia indigenes still suffers from uncleanliness.

To add to their woes, cases of erosion, flooding and other hazards are known to occur in the state which has led to the loss of properties worth millions of Naira.

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Kaduna State
Kaduna state might boast of its economic strong base in the north, but that does not exempt her from being one of the cities in the country that is extremely dirty.

One thing that most of the government of these states do is that they focus on keeping the capital cities clean and neglect the remaining towns.

Ogun state
You might be wondering why Ogun state is on this list of unclean states in the country, but this state is lacking a proper waste management system which makes it hard for indigenes to dispose of their dirts and refuse.

Kano state
Another dirty city in NIgeria is Kano state. Even though Kano is one of the richest northern states in the country with a large population, the environment is nothing to write home about.

When you pay a visit to some parts of the state, you will see why it is among the dirtiest states in Nigeria today.

Oyo state
This state has some polluted areas that is an eye saw and a major risk to the health. Just like Ogun state, some areas have really poor waste management systems.

Ekiti state
Ekiti state was ranked among the dirtiest cities in Africa in 2017. It will shock you to know that Ekiti is blessed with the highest number of persons who openly defecate as you would find heaps of waste along the New Ilawe Road, Bank road, Oja Oba and other rural locations in the state.

Ekiti state was added to the list after a recent survey conducted by the Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS).


Benue
Even if Benue is home to one of popular rivers in the country, its inhabitants still suffer from water borne diseases due to polluted water from dirts and feaces thrown into the river.

Benue state is one of the states with the poorest environmental condition in the country. If you stay in Wurukum or you are a resident of Wadata, you will agree that people dump waste in drainages, roads and even uncompleted buildings.
PoliticsRe: Alex Otti Declares For Abia Governorship Seat (Photos) by JAMESOJAY: 8:03pm On Jul 21, 2018
centoke30:
you re really a shameless lunatic. first and foremost you are a wasted sperm otherwise you would have made some research about Abia State because your definitely not from my State better face your zombie state and leave Abia State alone.
You are mad and your stupid ngwa people are stark illiterates th why you state is made for mad people

I know you are mad as well lol...because of how stupid and foolish you are you won't check the Dirtiest states in Nigeria cause you are mad

Idiot let me teach you and your home of mad people



Top 10 Dirtiest States In Nigeria
There are states in Nigeria that are very dirty. Even if some of these states set Thursdays and the last Saturday of the month as environmental sanitation’s day, the demon of uncleanliness still lurks around these states.


Lagos: Dirtiest City in Nigeria 2018
In a bid to sensitize inhabitants and citizens in a country on the need to keep the environment clean by getting rid of dirts and trash, the UN set up the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and also proscribed the 5th of June every year as World’s Environment Day.

Most inhabitants don’t even know the implications of what a dirty, polluted and unclean environment does the health, the various diseases like Malaria, Typhoid and other unknown health hazards known to man it can cause, plus environmental disasters such as erosion and blockage of drainage systems.



Although, the efforts of the government of the guilty states by providing wastebins, dustbins and baskets all over the areas of the state have not yeilded positive results as heaps of waste are still seen littering and beautifying the various streets.



Without further ado, below are the dirtiest states in the country with a record of always being unclean this 2018:



Lagos state
Lagos has been dubbed the dirtiest place in Nigeria this year. Aside from the fact that Lagos state is the most populated state in the country and one of the most developed, it has failed to lead in that regard.



A drive or walk around the many areas within Nigeria’s commercial hub shows that heaps of waste are dropped on road sides, even passersby and car owners/ occpants throw things on the roadside which sometimes goes beond the control of waste management official.

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Lagos recorded some level of cleanliness during the era of former governor Raji Fashola especially when he introduced KAI, but can’t say the same for the present regime.

An example of a dirty places in Lagos is the popular Dustbin Estate located in Awodiora, Ajeromi Ifelodun Area which has a heap of refuse located beside a canal, which drains waste, and floodwater out of Ajegunle.

Anambra state
Anambra is another dirty state in Nigeria that really need to be kept clean. A visit to one of the main city in Anambra state, Onitsha will shock you as you would be greeted with lumps of waste on the road sides and various streets in the town.

The inhabitants of Mkpor & Nnewi another town in the state are known for throwing dirts at the popular park in the area thereby causing pollution which has health effects on passersby.

The government is yet to act on this as the agency in charge of seeing to the prosecution of offenders are not functional in the state.

Abia state
During the time of the past governor of Abia state, Theodore Orji, Aba became the dirtiest city in Nigeria and even found a place among the list of worst places to live in the world.



Even though it is a popular city in the country where virtually local goods are produced, Abia indigenes still suffers from uncleanliness.

To add to their woes, cases of erosion, flooding and other hazards are known to occur in the state which has led to the loss of properties worth millions of Naira.

ALSO READ  Biography of Lt. Col. Buka Suka Dimka
Kaduna State
Kaduna state might boast of its economic strong base in the north, but that does not exempt her from being one of the cities in the country that is extremely dirty.

One thing that most of the government of these states do is that they focus on keeping the capital cities clean and neglect the remaining towns.

Ogun state
You might be wondering why Ogun state is on this list of unclean states in the country, but this state is lacking a proper waste management system which makes it hard for indigenes to dispose of their dirts and refuse.

Kano state
Another dirty city in NIgeria is Kano state. Even though Kano is one of the richest northern states in the country with a large population, the environment is nothing to write home about.

When you pay a visit to some parts of the state, you will see why it is among the dirtiest states in Nigeria today.

Oyo state
This state has some polluted areas that is an eye saw and a major risk to the health. Just like Ogun state, some areas have really poor waste management systems.

Ekiti state
Ekiti state was ranked among the dirtiest cities in Africa in 2017. It will shock you to know that Ekiti is blessed with the highest number of persons who openly defecate as you would find heaps of waste along the New Ilawe Road, Bank road, Oja Oba and other rural locations in the state.

Ekiti state was added to the list after a recent survey conducted by the Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS).


Benue
Even if Benue is home to one of popular rivers in the country, its inhabitants still suffer from water borne diseases due to polluted water from dirts and feaces thrown into the river.

Benue state is one of the states with the poorest environmental condition in the country. If you stay in Wurukum or you are a resident of Wadata, you will agree that people dump waste in drainages, roads and even uncompleted buildings.
PoliticsRe: Alex Otti Declares For Abia Governorship Seat (Photos) by JAMESOJAY: 6:27pm On Jul 21, 2018
Am sorry for your parents for bring you into this world cause you are a stupid and foolish child

After all your parents taught you how to say the truth and you chose to lie and sell your hopeless soul because of money

You see how stupid you are..How has your stupid OVI changed your life?you still drive your bad car on all the bad roads your hopeless OVI claimed he worked..i know you are poor...your stupid OVI will share hundred thousand to all your foolish,stupid and useless youths

What are your people known for..
Kidnapping,selling one piece of land to five different people

You idiots are very greedy and wick
Jobs/VacanciesRe: FG To Recruit 6,000 Prisons Officers – Dambazau by JAMESOJAY: 12:53pm On Jul 21, 2018
Mad pig spotted
Jobs/VacanciesRe: FG To Recruit 6,000 Prisons Officers – Dambazau by JAMESOJAY: 12:49pm On Jul 21, 2018
Gamesmart:
Then stop making noise online and go to church to make noise to Jesus.

It is now the full responsibility of Jesus and Angels to free her. The other girls are home and getting on with their lives, she is sex slave to multiple Islamists. Jesus must do something.
Islam is the religion of the devil
All they do is to kill, rape and do drugs
Jobs/VacanciesRe: FG To Recruit 6,000 Prisons Officers – Dambazau by JAMESOJAY: 12:46pm On Jul 21, 2018
You see how stupid and foolish you are

Am sorry for your parent cause you are a useless child

People are been killed like animals an you are here supporting an illiterate shame on you fool

You have named the project your useless father claimed he did right

Is the project for the living or for the dead?$

Islam is the religion of the devil

All they do is to kill,rape an do drugs
PoliticsRe: Alex Otti Declares For Abia Governorship Seat (Photos) by JAMESOJAY: 7:23pm On Jul 20, 2018
You are mad and your stupid ngwa people are hopeless

You bastards have sold all your lands and you are here talking nonsense ..tell hard working men that developed your state that they should leave

You see how stupid you are fool?

Your stupid OVI sleeps with girls that are old enough to be his daughter

I hope you know he drinks and vomit on himself

Abia state is the home of mad people hope you know cause I see mad people every where

Abia state is the dirtiest State in Nigeria hope you know

Which project has your stupid OVI completed?
PoliticsRe: IPOB Insists On Boycott Of 2019 General Election by JAMESOJAY: 5:26pm On Jul 20, 2018
That's why you are stupid
IslamRe: Atheists, Allah is Your Creator. Repent, Bow And Stop Being Like Shaitan by JAMESOJAY: 4:48pm On Jul 20, 2018
If am ignorant...Mr sense talker
Prove me wrong

Boko Harma are Muslims right.

How many people have they killed?

How many women have they raped?

While killing you don't do that with your clear eyes..you must be intoxicated right?

How many pills did they take before killing?

Who is ignorant Now?
IslamRe: My Dear Shameless Brother In Islam! by JAMESOJAY: 4:44pm On Jul 20, 2018
If am talking rubbish...Mr sense talker
Prove me wrong

Boko Harma are Muslims right..
How many people have they killed?
How many women have they raped?
While killing you don't do that with your clear eyes..you must be intoxicated right?

How many pills did they take before killing?

If you don't prove me wrong you are the biggest fool in the world
PoliticsRe: IPOB Insists On Boycott Of 2019 General Election by JAMESOJAY: 2:00pm On Jul 20, 2018
Lipscomb:
Lol ipob nuisance they don't know what they are fighting for. Useless people.
You are very stupid,foolish and useless...if you don't know what they are fighting let me tell you cause I know you are an illiterate

Nigeria is a failed state that why we the biafrans want to pull out of this Zoo called Nigeria

I want you to read this with those fools that like your useless statement you made..You are an illiterate find someone to help you read ok

e more than 1000 entry points. What this means is that the country has a porous border which makes it open to infiltration or incursion by outsiders. Inability to police its borders effectively to prevent such incursions by outsiders is one of the accepted indices or indicators of state failure. PRESIDENT BUHARI MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE HE PUSHES NIGERIA FURTHER DOWN TO THE RANK OF “THE WORST” FAILED STATES TO WHICH ZAIRE UNDER MOBUTU HAD BEEN REDUCED Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC) under Mobutu is my classic example of a failed state – now ranked 5th  among the failed states in the world. It seems that a description of the condition of things in that country at that time will be a fitting way to end this piece. The description will also serve as a warning to ourselves about the prospects staring us in the face if President Buhari is given a second term in office. The privatisation of the state, as in Ghana under Kwame Nkrumah and Malawi under Kamuzu Banda, inevitably results in the society decaying intellectually, ideologically, morally and politically, but, with a ruler like Mobutu who is not endowed, as Nkrumah and Banda were, with outstanding capabilities to an extent enabling him to attempt, with a measure of success, the near impossible tasks of governing a country alone, the decay accompanying the privatization of the state goes beyond intellectual, ideological, moral and political decay and becomes general, permeating the state and the entire fabric of society, in the sense, not just of its malfunction, or deterioration in its ability to discharge its functions effectively, but of its atrophy through an inability to maintain its existence in a recognizable form necessary to fulfill its essential purposes, namely, maximal utilisation of national resources for the welfare of the people, provision of adequate security for life and property, securing its territory against armed incursion from outside and effective execution of its policies, so as to thereby command public confidence in its guardianship of the overall interests of the citizenry. For, though weakened and diminished by the malfunctioning of its instrumentalities – the government and its institutions – the state in the hands of a capable sole personal ruler still continues to exist and to function tolerably well; with a ruler not so outstandingly endowed or a kleptomaniac, it still continues to exist but only more or less as a mere verbal expression; it continues to exist only in name or on the map as a mere geographical entity, or what John Ayoade aptly calls a “state without citizens”. What this means, in more explicit terms, is that, of the three component elements of the state – people, government and territory – the first two are largely denuded of all practical meaning as functional entities. Divorced and alienated from the state, the people exist, not as citizens with a claim against the state for protection and to be catered for, matched by reciprocal duties to it, but simply as individuals struggling for survival on their own. A state without citizens is like a disembowelled person hanging precariously to life or, to borrow John Ayoade’s other metaphors, a “bed-ridden state” functioning by “fits and starts” on the way to becoming an “expired state” or a “morbid state”. Government too ceases to exist as an organisation whose activities are “systematised, co-ordinated, predictable, machinelike and impersonal”, and is absorbed in the person of the ruler and subjected to all his personal whims and caprices, his misperceptions and miscalculations. “State agencies become involuted mechanisms, mainly preoccupied with their own reproduction. Their formal activity tends to become symbolic and ritualistic” and so arises the tragic phenomenon of a state existing only as “an idea without an existential content”. Even territory is not effectively policed and controlled, making possible incursions by exiled insurgents operating from neighbouring countries as well as mass movement of refugees across the porous borders from or into the state and its boundaries are often disputed. Yet, as an idea, the state remains very much part of the social order in Africa. “So deeply rooted is this notion that the state is taken for granted both as empirical fact and normative expectation. The idea of state is ritualised in innumerable ceremonies, small and large…..The banal artifacts of everyday life – coins, banknotes, stamps, party buttons worn by officials – still image the state”, but they are all that remains as physical emblems symbolising the existence of the state. It has thoroughly been denuded of its existential contents. Its principal existential content is of course its citizens who, at some point in Mobutu’s 32-year rule, consisted of “a kinship or extended-family network” and a small band of a politico-commercial bourgeois class, “predators upon civil society”, reckoned to number just about 300,000, who fed themselves fat upon the wealth of the nation and the spoils of the Zaireanisation measure. Such was the state to which the Zairean state was reduced by its privatisation under President Mobutu’s absolutist one-man rule. It was bled to near-death by his unbridled kleptomania, his repressions and oppressions, and by the sheer ineptitude of his one-man rule in the management of public affairs. From all accounts, Mobutu was a clever, intelligent man, with an “unusual combination of psychic energy and personal resources.” Yet he did not belong in the same class with Nkrumah or Banda either in terms of ability to govern a complex modern state or integrity and probity. His conception of the state seemed to have derived from the early beginnings of the colonial state when the Congo was a personal fiefdom of the Belgian king and his notion of government was entirely in terms of patrimonialism, a primitive system in which public office is bestowed in return for personal service to the ruler, and is held on condition of continued personal loyalty to him in a patron-client relationship determinable at the pleasure of the ruler. Patrimonialism went hand-in-hand with the cult of personality – “Mobutism” – which was elevated to a height that stifled rationality, initiative, creativity and the exercise of critical faculty by the people. Yet, the infallibility with which Mobutu was invested in popular belief and by his active prompting and unremitting urging was a complete farce totally unrelated to his actual intellectual capability. In the result, most government policies and decisions were based on Mobutu’s misperceptions, miscalculations, whims and caprices, and his personal political and economic interests, giving rise to incessant errors of judgment – such as his Zaireanisation, “authenticity” and radicalization measures – and to disastrous failures. All Mobutu could offer Zaire by way of ideological leadership was the vague, superficial concept of “authenticity” in the name of which Zaireans were compelled by law in 1972 to discard their Christian names in favour of Zairean ones, and the ban on Western-style suits with tie in favour of collarless safari suits without ties called abacus; when both measures were later abrogated in 1990, Zaireans quickly and joyfully reverted to their Christian forenames and to Western-style suits, which demonstrates the silliness of the measures. (Mobutu’s wife had defiantly refused to drop her Christian forename, and no action was taken against her). But worse still was Mobutu’s utter lack of public probity, of a sense of rectitude in public life. He was simply a charming rogue, a downright kleptomaniac, whose formal education stopped at the level of junior secondary in a mission school from which he was expelled for burglary of the mission library. His piratical misappropriations of public money were so colossal as to be mind-boggling and unbelievable. After 32 years of his one-man rule, Mobutu was finally chased out by invading exiled insurgents led by Laurent Kabila, and died of cancer shortly after. The new regime refused to allow his body to be brought home for burial. CLOSING REMARKS By all internationally relevant and accepted indices and indicators, and judged by the reality on the ground, as analysed above, Nigeria is justifiably categorised as a failed state, now ranked 15th  among the “worst failed” states in the world. I believe, however, that the country can be made to work again, as it was doing before, and to become a great Nation it is destined to be, and a leading star in the affairs of the African Continent and indeed the world. But for that to happen, there has to be a change of leadership.
IslamRe: Atheists, Allah is Your Creator. Repent, Bow And Stop Being Like Shaitan by JAMESOJAY: 10:44am On Jul 20, 2018
Islam is the religion of devil

All they do is to kill rape And do drugs
PoliticsRe: Buhari Meets Osinbajo, Saraki, Fayemi & APC Governors (Photos) by JAMESOJAY: 6:54pm On Jul 19, 2018
The foolanis and their slaves the Yourbas are the problem of this country

The truth is bitter

Homosexual will block me for saying the truth
CrimeRe: Fulani People Killed In Demsa, Adamawa (Graphic Photos) by JAMESOJAY: 10:11am On Jul 19, 2018
You and your tribe are Illiterates

Another mistake spotted...shame on you

What's cit? Fool you can't write correct English

Am sorry for your parents for wasting their money sending you to school cause you are a big disgrace fool

Well your parents are also Illiterates
Lol
CrimeRe: Fulani People Killed In Demsa, Adamawa (Graphic Photos) by JAMESOJAY: 10:06am On Jul 19, 2018
You and your tribe are Illiterates

Another mistake

What's cit? Fool

Shame on you drop out
PoliticsRe: Punch Cartoon About Ekiti Governorship Election 2018 by JAMESOJAY: 9:48am On Jul 19, 2018
The Yourbas are now losing their culture

Now check from awolowo to tinuba are all Muslims

Time will tell

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