During the last presidential elections, the South East geopolitical zone vigorously campaigned against Buhari. The zone collectively voted against him in that election. The overriding sentiment in the zone were that Buhari;

1. Is tribalistic
2. Is a terrorist
3. Hates the tribes in the SouthEast
4. His Party is a Hausa + Yoruba party
5. Will marginalize the region

Buhari is heading to his second year in power. Based on current allocation of appointments, projects and resources, WAS THE SOUTH EAST GEOPOLITICAL REGION RIGHT TO HAVE VOTED AGAINST BUHARI?

Note: Please, try not to be tribalistic in this thread as we are not talking about a tribe here, but a geopolitical region. The difference is that there are many Nigerians that were originally from other regions, diverse tribes, religions, and even non-Nigerians that reside in a geopolitical region.

hammerT:
justcash it appears that both SS/SE prefer Trump.

I'm not an American, so I didn't vote. Many of my friends (not all) from SE/SS in the US voted for Trump. I'm outlining some of the reasons that they gave. It reflects the overriding sentiments back home.

Obama led government drastically decreased the importation of oil from Nigeria and diverted same to other countries

The democratic president refused to visit Nigeria, but visited other African countries e.g. Ghana and Kenya

The democrats led government ignored the human right abuses against protesting Pro-Biafrans

Trump is pro-Isreal

Democratic Party led government led a vigorous push for gay rights and military bases in Africa and Nigeria instead of development

The bias and fondness of the democrats for APC over PDP

The growing bromance between the Democrat led American government and Northern Nigeria

agabusta:





Receiving bribe to pervert course of justice can lead to those cheated to seek self-help. Which can cause national security problem.

How come you guys are not seeing the danger inherent in our judiciary from the high court all the way to the supreme court to become cash and carry.

If judgement was procured against you at the High court, and you proceeded to the Appeal court and you were still deprived of judgment just because of a cheap dirty judge. And you further went to the supreme court and judgement was still procured against you. How will you feel?

Do u know how much it cost to run a case from the lower courts all the way to the supreme court?? And then someone will now bribe the supreme court leading to your deprivation.

I can assure you, if you were cheated and was still unable to get favourable judgement at the supreme court, you'll consider causing some civil unrest.

You got it wrong. Nobody is against Buhari fighting corruption! I hope you get that in your head. However, he must do it through due process, and with respect to other arms of government. Why didn't Buhari send DSS to kidnap Saraki and Ekweremadu of the Legislative arm? Saraki was treated with respect during his corruption trial, is he more special than these judges? How come he adhered to the rule of law in that case and ignored same in the case of these judges? Why didn't he subject the process to the National Judicial Council? Why is he trying to intimidate the judges?

By the way, this is a case for EFCC and the Police, not DSS. Bribery does not lead to national threat except there is an element in the context to lead to such a conclusion. These judges are being accused of bribery, and it is in the context of political judgments delivered, how is that connected to national threat?

knightsTempler:


1) Search Warrants are executed between 6:00 AM and 6:00 PM except on weekends.
2) Search Warrants are valid only if issued by a court of competent jurisdiction.
3) Search Warrants obtained in one State of Nigeria cannot be executed in another State excepted it is endorsed by a Magistrate or Judge equal in rank to the one that issued the Warrant.
4) Only two or three agencies in Nigeria are charged with the investigation of corruption cases namely the EFCC, the ICPC and the Nigeria Police.
5) Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and VIPs who do not constitute a flight risk are usually invited to appear before investigation Agencies.
6) The National Judicial Commission (NJC) is the only body empowered to sanction Judges and Justices found wanting in the discharge of their duties.
7) A current Governor is the Chief Security Officer of his State.
A current Governor enjoys immunity in terms of prosecution and the inviolability of his person.
9) The Judges in question have issued unfavourable judgements against the arresting Agency in the past, thus casting aspersions on the motive for their arrest.

ISSUES FOR DETERMINATION
1) Did the arresting Agency actually procure an Arrest Warrant from a Court of competent jurisdiction?
2) Did the arresting Agency adhere to the rules governing the procurement and execution of a Search Warrant?
3) Did the arresting Agency exhaust the option of extending an invitation to the suspects before procuring the Arrest Warrant?
4) Did the arrested suspects at any time pose the risk of taking to flight?
5) Does the arresting Agency not have people at all the land, sea and air borders to prevent an escape of the suspects?
6) Did the arresting Agency at any time write a letter to the National Judicial Commission (NJC) highlighting the offences committed by the suspects and demanding their release for an interview?

This Court reserves judgement in this matter. I will rise.

- Nonny Kelly

Abeg educate all these people that has psychologically concluded that Nigeria is a jungle where the biggest monkey dominates. They are indirectly painting a picture of Nigeria as being a Zoo where anything can happen.

baby124:

Is this crap up there what they deluded you with in law school that you are untouchable as a judge? Is DSS not a legally created security department in this country? Did they not have a search warrant? Do what to Buhari? The majority of the country's will that he be president cannot be threatened in anyway or it gives room to ultimate chaos that will eventually be the end for the judges. So be careful before you make silly threats. I hope you have not forgotten Turkey too soon. The judiciary will have no choice but to sit up

I'll repeat, Buhari will release those Judges or it will signal the end of his confused leadership. Nigeria cannot return to autocracy and despotism. Tell him to face poverty alleviation, national development and job creation instead of going around chasing perceived opponents while denigrating the sacred laws of the nation. If he must fight corruption, he needs to do so in a lawful way without trying to trample on other arms of government.

Progressive01:
You dey mind iDaft yoots. They are born for one mission only- support and protect the criminals no matter where they are from.

I'm sure the act empowers judges to be criminals and stash huge amounts of hard currencies in their toilets and bedrooms.

They've been arrested, let Ugandans do their worst!

They will be released, or your Buhari will be in deep poo.

arresa:






Many former service chiefs were arrested for corruption, looting of arms funds budgeted for our military, weapons and welfare, but the services chiefs did nit buy weapons and the little they bought were substandard and not enough for our military to combat Boko Haram which allowed Boko Haram to commandeer Nigerian territory, local governments and almost entire states..


When corrupt people like the service chiefs loot public funds which threaten national security, we rely on the judiciary to adjudicate their cases and stipulate deterrence, but looters with billions have more than enough money to buy judges who in turn let the looting service chiefs go free to continue looting and keep denying our military men effective capacity to defend us and preserve our national security.

And what the the service chiefs did with the looted funds? They did exactly what the corrupt judges did, stash the money, buy mansions and live like big boys while the men and women protecting Nigeria go unpaid and left on the battlefield without weapons to defend Nigeria with.



With corruption, you can bribe custom men to let you drive into Nigeria, fly into Nigeria or import into Nigeria harmful and destructive materials to threaten our National security with.


It's very easy to keep going on and on with so many examples how corruption threaten our national security.

The judiciary is the last institution standing to protect us from corrupt people, criminals and unsavory elements so with corrupt judiciary taking bribes and refusing to issue deterrence, we are doomed, we are wide open and defenseless.

So, based what you've written up there, the Judges are terrorists and potential threats to national security. Do you really believe that? So, in this case, the DSS is the right agency to employ in investigating and arresting the Judicial chiefs for bribery?

What happened to liaising with the judicial regulatory body? What happened to EFCC doing their job? What happened to due process and rule of law?

Thank you for trying to explain, but do you really believe your explanation?

You guys are ignorantly entrenching despotism in Nigeria.

aminho:
Hmm Nigerians read book una no gree

(c) such other responsibilities affecting internal security within
Nigeria as the National Assembly or the President, as the case may be, may
deem necessary

The president has deemed it necessary so piss off

Did you just omit the "affecting internal security" part or was it out of shortsight from you? So, the judges were bribed, and DSS was employed to ensure internal security through breaking into the homes of the Judges and whisking them away?

What happened to inviting them in a civil and respectable way, suing them to court or even using the Police or EFCC to do the job? Why DSS?

As you feel say you sabi book, oya explain.

arresa:



Corruption is a threat to national security everywhere.

Interesting. How so? Please, explain.

saintmark88:
Were did d law say the DSS can't arrest judges....f.oool

Where did the law say that they can? I'll excuse your utter illiteracy.

The law stipulates operational boundaries. Your DSS is operating beyond their boundaries. They cannot arrest citizens on the basis of suspicion of financial inducement and corrupt enrichment.

By the way, why haven't they arrested Buratai? So Buratai can save more than the Judges abi?

PaulIdu:


They will be charged to court on Monday and disgraced ..where was the rule of law when they were selling Judgements for billions of naira even though they were being paid by taxpayers ..Nigerians judges have been the greatest threat to free and fair elections so far

You are making flagrant accusations that has got no basis. Those cases are dead on arrival, except Buhari himself induces or influences the judges to his favor.

PaulIdu:
Any reasonable Nigerian will endorse the arrest of those conmen masking as Judges ..Nice one Buhari

What a shame. Of what use is the law then?

omonnakoda:
Can DSS arrest any person?

They are to tackle issues of national security, not embark on acts of impunity against constituted civil authority, like arresting Judges on suspicion of bribery. They should be busy with Boko Haram, Niger Delta Avengers and other internal threats to national security.

NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCIES ACT

1. Establishment of National Security Agencies
There shall, for the effective conduct of national security, be established
the following National Security Agencies, that is to say-
(a) the Defence Intelligence Agency;
(b) the National Intelligence Agency; and
(c) the State Security Service.

2. General duties of the National Security Agencies
(1) The Defence Intelligence Agency shall be charged with responsibility
for-
(a) the prevention and detection of crime of a military nature against
the security of Nigeria;
(b) the protection and preservation of all military classified matters
concerning the security of Nigeria, both within and outside Nigeria;
(c) such other responsibilities affecting defence intelligence of a
military nature, both within and outside Nigeria, as the President, or the
Chief of Defence Staff, as the case may be, may deem necessary.
(2) The National Intelligence Agency shall be charged with
responsibility for-
(a) the general maintenance of the security of Nigeria outside Nigeria,
concerning matters that are not related to military issues; and
(b) such other responsibilities affecting national intelligence outside
Nigeria as the National Defence Councilor the President, as the case may
be, may deem necessary.

(3) The State Security Service shall be charged with responsibility for-
(a) the prevention and detection within Nigeria of any crime against the
internal security of Nigeria;
(b) the protection and preservation of all non-military classified
matters concerning the internal security of Nigeria; and
(c) such other responsibilities affecting internal security within
Nigeria as the National Assembly or the President, as the case may be, may
deem necessary.

(4) The provisions of subsections (I), (2) and (3) of this section shall
have effect notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the
contrary, or any matter therein mentioned.

(5) In this section, “classified matter” has the same meaning assigned
thereto in section 9 of the Official Secrets Act.

Source: http://lawsofnigeria.placng.org/print.php?sn=336[quote]

Dictatorship is unfolding in Nigeria.
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Reno Omokri Posted on Twitter:

So sad seeing the tribal based criticism against Peter Obi on Social Media. Please let us appreciate a man who achieved this. If we had this at the federal level we wouldn't have to lie about 'investors falling over themselves' to invest in Nigeria!

https://mobile.twitter.com/renoomokri/status/782693098811854848

Fear is a natural response to terrorism. But we cannot allow it to inform policy

Written by

Anton du Plessis, Executive Director, Institute for Security Studies

Tuesday 27 September 2016


Fear leads to bad policy and practice, because it prompts basic human instincts of fight or flight. These may bring short-term relief, but are counterproductive in the long run.

Too many current responses to terrorism are based on fight or flight instincts driven by populist politics. These reactions will eventually make the threat worse. Resisting them requires political courage and a willingness to embrace the evidence.

Fight includes the unfettered use of force, waging an asymmetrical war, illegal intelligence gathering, and the torture and unlawful detention of terror suspects. Flight instincts might lead to closed borders, high walls, isolationism and cultural exclusion. Fight or flight are natural responses to a perceived attack or threat to survival. Our fears of terrorism are justified; but only real safety can put an end to fear. That kind of safety comes through long-term counterterrorism policy that prevents future attacks by addressing the conditions that drive people to terrorism in the first place.

Resisting knee-jerk instincts and political pressures would open a better toolbox of responses, and an approach based on evidence more than fear.

Short-term approaches based on the use of force allow terrorists to present themselves as soldiers and martyrs. And by violating human rights through over-zealous military and extra-judicial responses, we compound resentment and risk exacerbating the conditions which give rise to terror and extremism in the first place.

Regional and global bodies like the African Union, European Union and United Nations (UN) have developed effective theoretical approaches to countering violent extremism and often say the right things, but there remains a gap between the policy and the reality of counterterrorism. We are still trying to shoot and fight ourselves out of the problem.

We haven’t sufficiently learnt from the mistakes of the post-9/11 global war on terror and the extra-legal responses that did little more than fan the flames of the extremists’ war.

Research by the Institute for Security Studies on al-Shabaab recruitment in East Africa shows that inappropriate counterterrorism actions that trample on human rights and due process actually make it worse.

Killing or unlawfully detaining terrorists rather than putting them on trial deals with the threat in the short term, but it creates a more intractable challenge in the long term. We may feel better now, but it gives our children and grandchildren a lot more to be afraid of.

Fear-driven responses are led in part by the short-term nature of politics; and in part by a mistaken belief that these approaches actually work. Whatever the bluster from right-wing populists, you can’t kill all the terrorists, or lock them all out with a high wall.

Retributive and vengeful responses provide a satisfying fix and the illusion of effective action, and let politicians show that something is being done. Although understandable, it's misguided and counterproductive.

Terrorism can never be justified, but we do need to understand the real reasons people blow themselves and innocent people up in public spaces, both in stable democracies and in conflict zones.

Many factors create the feelings of exclusion, anger and contempt that drive violent extremism. We need to understand the sources from which terror groups claim their legitimacy.

Strategies must focus on these factors, in the context within which they occur in different regions. Responses will need to take into account weak governance aided by corruption, inequality, deprivation, exclusion and the institutional injustice of failed states. This requires a far more nuanced and multifaceted response than drone strikes – including investing in the social, structural and institutional conditions that breed terror, and accountability from the governments receiving these investments.

There are welcome signs that a better response is taking hold. United States Secretary of State John Kerry recently said that extremism can’t be defeated through repression or fear. Speaking in Nigeria on 23 August, after that country’s air force killed a number of senior Boko Haram fighters, he said the struggle would only succeed if it tackled the reasons why people join militant groups.

As early as 2002, the late UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, said the best and only strategy to isolate and defeat terrorism was by respecting human rights, fostering social justice, enhancing democracy and upholding the primacy of the rule of law.

A year later, Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General, said that responses to terrorism should uphold the human rights that terrorists aim to destroy.

Fear of terrorism is justified. But thinking and acting on a war footing seldom allows for the kind of long-term planning that’s needed. This has been learnt in the botched experience of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Now faced with the new threat of Islamic State and other insurgent terror groups, let’s not repeat these mistakes.

Source: (World Economic Froum, 2016) Link: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/fear-is-a-natural-response-to-terrorism-but-we-cannot-allow-it-to-inform-policy?utm_content=buffer3eff4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Rotimi Amaechi

In the Nigerian press he has been dubbed ‘ATM’ – the American term for cash machine – because of his ability to produce vast sums of money at short notice.

He remains in his post despite being accused of misappropriating £338million by a commission investigating the sale of state assets. Separately, Amaechi is accused of diverting £140million of state funds into Buhari’s presidential campaign, with reports he paid for media, consultants and private jets.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3590934/Is-Nigerian-leader-s-pal-fantastically-corrupt-Friend-African-president-accused-stealing-500million.html
Amaechi was also accused of illegal disbursement of Two Billion Naira Agricultural Loan, non-execution of the contract for the construction of the Justice Adolphus Karibi-Whyte Specialist Hospital, after the payment of the sum of Thirty-Nine Million and Two Hundred Thousand Dollars, illegal withdrawal of Ninety-Six Billion Naira from the Rivers State Reserve Fund, illegal sale of Omuku, Afam, Eleme and Trans-Amadi Gas Turbines, as well as the sale of Olympia Hotel.

Till date, no one has explained what happened to billions of naira Operation Zero Potholes, a conduit Pipe used to siphon government money, under his watch as Commissioner for Works, during the Rotimi Amaechi’s administration. This is also true about the fraudulent practices surrounding the Mono-rail and other phony projects abandoned in Rivers State, after billions of naira were reportedly paid to ghost contractors by Mr. Amaechi.

Babatunde Fashola

Analytic firm, BudgIT, revealed that Mr. Fashola approved, before he left office, N78.3 million from the state’s treasury for an upgrade of his personal website. In addition, Fashola spent N1.2 billion on the construction of pedestrian bridges along Eti-Osa – Lekki – Epe expressway “which did not specify the number of bridges.” Under him, N17 million was awarded for the provision of wall signage in three magistrate courts; N3.46 billion spent for the construction of a beach resort in Ilase; and N61 million disbursed for a Range Rover SUV and two Toyota Hilux trucks as the official vehicle of Chief Judge of State.

Fashola’s spent N85 million for the repair and replacement of street signs; N330 million on the development of the residence of Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, the immediate past deputy governor; and N94 million on printer consumables.

During an interview, Debo Adeniran, CACOL’s Executive Director, stated that his organisation’s independent investigation showed that the 1.36 kilometre Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge cost N6 billion, and not the N25 billion stated by Mr. Fashola’s administration.

Kayode Fayemi

There was an alleged misappropriation of over N25 billion by Fayemi’s government. These funds came in the form of projects claimed to have been executed with the N25 billion bond obtained from the capital market by the Fayemi administration. The projects includes the construction of earthwork for the New Governor’s Office was awarded to PONTI-ITALWARE Nig Ltd on March 3, 2012 at the sum of N383, 900,911.06. The N852, 936,713.92 State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) counterpart fund, which was withdrawn from the Access Bank account of SUBEB on October 8, 2014, eight days to the end of Fayemi’s tenure. The N852, 936,713.92 was SUBEB Counterpart Fund paid to enable the Board access fund from the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and the alleged fraudulent withdrawal of the fund from SUBEB account eight days to the end of Fayemi’s government was the reason Ekiti State Government was blacklisted by UBEC.

ICPC had expressed interest in the rationale behind the transfer of the N852,936,713.92 into what was called Ekiti State Government Capital Project account and not used to pay SUBEB contractors.

The emergence of Biafran had justifiable antecedents. It was more of a response to a threat of brutal annihilation and subordination than an act of rebellion.

MadCow1:



I am talking about the price of fabrication..

Bomb whoever you please but that's all I was addressing.. Now whether this is something that a state government should blow 120million Naira on is a different matter all together.

Chai, See pattern of thought! What a shame!

The FG unleashed blood thirsty military men on civilian protesters. This is 2016, there is evidence of this everywhere. The military killed aggrieved Nigerians under the direct watch of Buhari's Government. What is Lai Muhammed saying?

Let the truth be told.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7nmzc10ZyA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVR8vNfz2g0

[quote author=lastpage post=49064198]

So, you are telling us that Banks colluding with Civil Servants to steal Govt earnings and Buhari putting a halt to it (even though the TSA policy was initiated under Jonathan but he did not have the honesty and balls to implement it), is what threw Banking and Financial sector into turmoil?
If that is true the they were never a bank but thieving outfits. They need to die in that turmoil.

Your view mirrored the exact pattern of thought of Buhari. His intention was to quickly kill corruption in the banking sector, meanwhile, the impact of the actions were not considered. Well, he has implemented the TSA suddenly and we have seen how it has thrown the banking and financial sector into turmoil. One expects him to boldly own up to the outcome that has been generated so far, including its impact on Nigeria's slide into recession.

Remember, the topic was aimed at outlining how Buhari caused the ongoing recession, not to debate if the TSA was good or bad.



First, you dont make foreign exchange, you EARN IT.
The major way Nigeria EARNS forex is through sale of Crude oil.
Under GEJ it was as much as $130/Barrel.
Just when Buhari took power, it went down to as low as $28, through no fault of Buhari. it was a global problem.

So, Nigeria was not earning forex but Nigerians want to import everything from tooth-pick, to Biscuits, to shoes.
But when we were earning loads of forex, Jonathan and his gang of thieves were looting it into foreign banks. They did not save for the rainy day nor invest in local production of those basic things we are importing.
Those people whose business is mere importation (not real production of goods) are the ones crying because they are there only to waste our scarce forex.
How can a country grow when its economy is based on mere importation? I know my Biafra brothers are guilty of that but they like to shift the blame on Buhari

One thing that I will advise you is to stop blaming past governments. Buhari is in charge now. He has to bear responsibility for every outcome generated. Nigeria did not only earn FOREX from petroleum. We earned from FDI inflow and Agric export to mention a few. Moreover, manufacturers depended on importation to kickstart and sustain their activities (requires forex).

Like I said, Buhari's command economic approach to forex was one of the causes of this recession. He should have rolled out stimulus packages to retain and sustain FDI, which will strengthen employment and reduce hunger in the land. Everything is going down now because of your pattern of thought, which this government has adopted.


[b]There is nothing Buhari has said about Nigeria, that people abroad dont already know.
Is it in Asia where they arrest and sentence Nigerian to death on a daily basis that Buhari wants to tell them about the Drug pushing of some Nigerians?
Is it the foreign banks abroad, were they see the stash of looted money, that Buhari wants to tell them anything new, about the stealing, looting and corruption of Nigerians (not all)?

Is it the Internet were you have hundreds of thousands of stories making the rounds about kidnapping, Boko Haram, violent robberies, e.t.c, that foreigners are already reading, that Buhari can tell them something they have not read online before or do you think these "investors" are as dull as some of you that only read Tontoh Dike and Tiwa Savage CLEAVAGE on the internet?

Buhari is just showing them that these administration will be honest and not pretend everything was fine, unlike the previous one of Jonathan and they are sure convenient with the truth, more than obvious LIES[/b]

Well, in the US, we have cases of civil mass shooting and police brutality. Obama does not go around telling the whole world about it. South Africa is the crime capital of Africa, yet, you don't see their government going around to tell people about it. You know why? To sell yourself to investors, you need to reflect only on how good you are and why they should choose you. This is the same reason why you have resumes when you seek for jobs. It's just commonsense.

These is a very funny reason!
So, in your brain, you think the Niger Delta is equal to the whole of Nigeria?
So, assuming projects are halted in the ND but not in the remaining parts of Nigeria, that should lead to recession, huh?
Abeg, wake-up. the ND is just less than 15% of Nigeria so its effect (assuming it is true, but we know that Buhari has initiated new projects and even restarted abandoned ones in the ND) will be minimal on the country.
Pipeline protection is a SCAM that created riches for plain CRIMINALS.
Our Military are paid huge sums to protect the country, we will not sub-contract their work to militants. End of story.
The recession is as a result of dwindling revenue and sabotage (Pipeline vandalization especially) by the same people blaming Buhari. We know them

The problem in the Niger Delta has been on for decades, and the people has the right to agitate as their way of life (fishing, farming etc) has been greatly distorted by the existence of multi-national oil companies. So, when they seek for benefits from their oil, you must try to show some social responsibility.

Having said that, those projects were strategically meant to keep them at peace in order to ensure optimal generation of income from petroleum. Now, it has been disrupted, and oil production has dwindled, the current approach by Buhari will bury the petroleum sector and drive Nigeria into an inevitable depression.

Investors in the sector prefer peace over war. They wish to make money, not die for the money. If you can't make the situation conducive for them, they'll leave to other countries. I am sure that you are aware that even GHANA is producing oil now.

The facts in this assertion are mostly true but then, if the WHOLE country mostly depends on Oil and some greedy tribes think they should arrogate a National property to themselves ONLY, just because it gushes out from their Region, do oyu not think it is smart of the President to also look for the same thing in his own region, incase we really need to "break-up"? Or do you want his region to be shortchanged and then forced to go to war to share in the oil?
Finding Oil in the North will make Nigeria's break-up easier, less bloody and faster.
It will also make the ND less important and we can tell them to go to blazes, which is what l think they are calling for.

If this is the case, Buhari is not fit to be a president. He should be a Northern monarch, or a regional leader.



[b]Look, even a blind person can see that PDP, especially under Jonathan, were just busy looting the resources of this country and they led us to where we are today.
Jonathan single-handedly supervised the destruction of this country.
From corruption, to violent crimes like kidnapping and armed robbery, to ritual killings, e.t.c, Jonathan's administration under his PDP party encouraged glorification of MONEY, debasing of our moral values and the 'get Money at all cost' mentality which leads to violent crimes without any form of compassion for fellow humans.
Under Jonathan, it was all just about getting Money at all or ANY COST.
So, any serious Govt cannot build its legacy on that history and house of corruption. Jonathan is just lucky that we are not under a military agenda otherwise, like Lt. Jerry Rawlings did in Ghana, all those PDP and some APC looters would just have been lined-up and shot by the miliatry, for economic subversion/sabotage.
if that happened, we wont be saddled with the likes of Saraki and Dogara and their band of budget-padding syndrome[/b]

PDP did not destroy Nigeria. They were corrupt, but they did not destroy Nigeria. PDP was responsible for the rise in the Telecom sector, revitalization of the Banking sector, Agricultural revolution, rise in Auto manufacturing, clearing of Nigeria's debt, revitalization of railways, entrenchment of Freedom of Speech, rise of petroleum production among many others.

Buhari needed to clean up the progress, not destroy all the progress. He has destroyed the banking sector, overseen the closure of manufacturing firms among others. You don't throw the baby away with the water in the bath. The destructive approach of Buhari led us into this recession as we had to start afresh after 16 long years of gains.


[b]There are some problems that dialogue cannot solve.
There are some people that dont understand dialogue except they are pressured into it or dont have an alternative.

Some of the problems we have are like Hostage-taking and blackmailing, those kind of problems understand ONLY FORCE.
for example, a kidnapper will blackmail you for money and keep doing so, if he is sure he can get away with it. You need force to put a stop to it.
Same goes for Militants (we have dialogued with them, sent them abroad for re-training in the last ten years, gave them jobs, e.t.c but it is obvious that they just want to be milking other hard-working Nigerians, till eternity).
Look at Boko haram as well/ if they want to dialogue with Govt, they have all the opportunity but they are Religious fanatics who want to create a caliphate within Nigeria. They are rapist and kidnappers, murderers of the innocent.
So, the Govt has a right and duty to protect its citizens from such criminal organisations, using all means necessary.

The strategy is that to deal with criminals is that they wont negotiate until they are certain the other option they have is total annihilation.
So, like the Americans will do, you pound the enemy (soften them) to the point were they have no other choice than to negotiate.
That makes negotiation easier.
That is what Buhari is doing.
Now that the various criminal gangs saw that Buhari is investing seriously in 'serious weapons' and the Military is being re-positioned to fulfill its role to the nation, some of them are beginning to see the wisdom in negotiation.

I have decided to break it down for you so that misguided people like you dont think you are saying something meaning full, when you write such gibberish online.
Go back to school please.[/b]

Dialogue can solve all the problems that Buhari is trying to use force to solve. The deployment of military to the Niger-Delta would have been unnecessary if he allowed the Niger Deltans to get the projects that they were promised in the first place.

When hands start to get dirty and the militants see no choice but to fight, Nigeria will be lucky if a single pipeline is left intact. Everything will go up in flames. What that will mean is that the income from petroleum will be almost wiped out. I'm sure you'll be looking for the oil production in Lagos and the East to sustain Nigeria. Anyway, the ones in the East and Ondo will also be up in flames, and the ones in Lagos will be under steady threat. The worst the military will do is to kill civilians, rape girls, steal and plunder, which Niger Deltans are used to. The damage to Nigeria will be better left untold.

Why pass through the above when all you should do is to sit and talk these guys into submission. The money that they get from oil is nothing compared to the overall income from production.

Anyway, my point is that Buhari's posture in the Niger Delta drove us into this recession. He ensured that we have not derived much benefits from the recent progress made in the price of petroleum products.

TheGoodJoe:


How can we be doing well then?

Selling over a hundred dollars a barrel, and still depleting our reserves and increasing our debt.

Look at it again, does that look like doing well to you? That was calamity and destruction waiting to happen.

Emir Sanusi cried this repeatedly within 2012-2013.

We are talking of now. How come we are not maximizing our earning from petroleum? If we were generating income from petroleum at an optimal level, would we have fallen into a recession? If FDI was still high and the banks still seemed healthy, would investors have pulled out trillions overnight?

We are talking about now. How did it get so bad? If care is not taken, we are heading for a depression.