₦airaland Forum

This is freaking hilarious, especially the "Human Rights Violation" part.
Whatever that's supposed to mean, it clearly does not include countries like Saudi Arabia who, even with all the open beheadings, the continiously repressive laws and 50-koboko-lashes-per-week programs designed for people who demean their "holy book" USA and Barack Obama still consider them close besties.
It also clearly does not include Egypt which receives a billion from the USA despite overthrowing a democratically elected government and jailing every member of the opposition without trial.

Buhari and his pack of butt-kissers went cap-in-hand to the USA to take selfies with the president. Their praise singers updated us with photos of handshakes and their "making history" as the first Nigerians to be hosted at the Pennsylvania guest house. But Barack Obama didn't even spend an extra second with them before jetting off to Kenya (a country further from the USA in distance than Nigeria is oh!) while the dullarrds remained in America, taking selfies.
Now, dem don take am finish, America still no gree sell them weapons, after spending millions to make the trip.

This is funny because during Jonathan's tenure, the irredeemable liars known as APC members tried to rationalize America's refusal to sell weapons to Nigeria as a sign of the lack of trust in Jonathan "because he was kwarrapt and incamfitent".
How far for una General naa? Is he also kwarrapt and incamfitent, or just a gaad-damned dullaarrd?

APC is "mobilizing"?
Wow! That must mean some odourless fufu is on the way!
Wonderful development from the best performing governor in the South-West!
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Enoch Adeboye
Honorable Najeem, and the 35kg civil servants in their most enthralling performance yet.

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This is interesting.
The politicians loot public funds, neglect lecturers and destroy Nigerian universities, rendering them under-staffed and ill-equipped, only to eventually meet bloggers to help publish pictures of their own children graduating from foreign universities.
Cool.

Keneking:
Great

Since the new government resumed office, Nigerians have been graduating tops in their various departments.

Sai Buhari

Miserable sycophant.

omowolewa:
Just one of the implication of non appointment of Ministers.

Finance Minister directs the Fiscal policies of a government along side the CBN who controls the Monetary policies. PermSec has limitation to what they can do.

Dollar falls, inflation rises, AllShare Index nose dives and poverty continues

You should allow the 'Sai Baba' sycophants to keep deceiving themselves with their new narrative that "Perm Secs are all we need" and "Ministers are just figureheads".
Mind you, the new standpoint only came to light when Buhari failed to develop his cabinet. Their morals change to fit and compensate for Buhari's administrative inadequacies.

Buhari moves command center to Maiduguri, they chant "Sai Baba!". Ifeduba Tochukwu points out the goof, they call him "TANoid!"
Buhari removes military checkpoints, they rationalize it. Terrorism skyrockets and he reverts, they call him hero.
Electricity supply increases due to hydroelectric water levels, they claim the glory. Inflation rips the economy, they blame Jonathan.

Sycophancy. For the benefit of your hero, to the detriment of your future.

All these years I finally see. The leaders are not the ones with issues. The people are.
The people elect the criminals; the people defend the criminals; and after the criminals are done looting the commonwealth and are in retirement, the people IDOLIZE the criminals.
If not, how else do you explain the fact that Obasanjo - with all the rot in his administration, Halliburton, Siemens, Econet, Odi, Zaki Biam, National Library, National ID Card, Sharia, appointing himself Petroleum Minister and looting petrodollars unquestioned - is seen as a hero in the eyes of these APC rats simply because he came out on television and tore his PDP membership card?

It is time for some serious introspection on this matter. Your society will never develop until YOU DEVELOP YOUR MENTALITY!

The people get the leaders they deserve.
The leaders reflect the people they 'serve'.

cc: Lalasticlala, Ishilove, Obinoscopy.

MzJackBaueress:
It's good Olisa Metuh acknowledged that the country has teething economic problems which PDP is responsible for and left it for PMB to clean up.

Olisa Metuh really needs an emergency tutorials on how to play opposition from Lai Mohammed

And you need an emergency lesson on the basic concept of tenses in the English Language.

vedaxcool:
Sometimes gagging a media would have been a preferable option like in Rwandan where the media played a negative role, if the media seems to perpetually promote tribalism and violence driven sentiments then using the appropriate sections of law would be in order. The more reason Nigeria needs a hate speech law. Rumors, hate and dissension are totally a different from the media.

This post of yours is just as hilarious as it is hypocritical.
Now you support gagging the media as well as proscribing "hate speech"?

If my memory serves me correctly, just last year, Seun Osewa attempted to outlaw hate speech against ex-president Jonathan's personality (Retardeeeen! Sheppopotammus, Clueless Odeechukwu, etc), but many APC backers rose up in arms, hurling insults at him and accusing him of trampling on their fundamental rights. I remember Ilugunboy, Eko Ile, Omenka, Donphilopus, Cramjones, Berem, Pataki and Ba7man were among the people who viciously opposed the idea.

Seun also attempted to limit the number of "Boko-Haram-Is-In-Control-Of-27-LGAs" threads hitting the frontpage from SaharaReporters, and the same set of people opposed it by saying that "TRUE PATRIOTISM" was about broadcasting the issues that bedevil your country to the whole world.

Before you start talking about "hate speech", you first have to define it; and make sure you include Retardeeeen and Odechukwwu as examples.

texazzpete:
See TANoids coming here to complain... As if it's not the policies of the lame duck CBN Governor GEJ appointed that is causing this issue

But when the policies of that same lame duck CBN Governor led to an increase in our foreign reserves, you malnourished sycophants and economic illiterates came in here screaming "Sai Baba" like the pack of ignoramuses you are?
The economy is on auto-pilot, our currency is volatile, business owners and service providers are locked in uncertainty while Buhari foolishly plays party politics at the senate, and this is the best you can come up with?
Prior to the elections, we were inundated with useless updates on Naira-Dollar exchange rates by APC cows in their bid to denigrate Jonathan. Where are they now? The Naira has continued to slide in such shocking rates, but they are nowhere to be found today.

APC was only ready for the power but not the responsibilities that came with it. There is a time limit to how much longer you can blame Jonathan for your administrative inadequacies, and it is fast elapsing.
Better wake up and smell that coffee.

So, this afternoon, President Buhari announced his new replacement service chiefs. Well and good.
However, of all the names, a certain Babagana Monguno, the current National Security Adviser, caught my attention. This is because I read something about him in the past which I found quite interesting.
So, I went googling again, and this is what I found, from the oddest of places... Tinubu's The Nation Newspaper, indicting the same Babagana Monguno in 2012 for destroying the Defense Intelligence Agency as well as treating Boko Haram suspects as his paddies!

Read it yourselves:

[size=14pt]DIA and national security[/size]
By Dele Agekameh 25/01/2012 00:00:00


The orgy of bomb blasts and gun fire that rocked the ancient city of Kano last Friday and also reared its ugly head in the wee hour of Sunday in Bauchi State has again brought to the fore the noticeable failure of intelligence pervading the nation’s security network. Unfortunately, for quite some time now, attention seems to have been concentrated only on the inability of the police to rise up to the internal security challenges confronting the nation.

With the recent ‘escape’ of a high-prized Boko Haram agent from police custody, nobody should be in doubt that the police has finally lost grip of the nation’s security, if it had any before. But we all know that the police alone cannot provide adequate security for the nation. That is why there are other sister agencies with clear-cut mandates. One of these agencies which have escaped public binoculars is the Defence Intelligence Agency, DIA. It is, perhaps, one of the agencies that are in a better position to neutralise the current scourge of Boko Haram’s insurgency.

[size=13pt]Regrettably today, the DIA is a shadow of itself. But how did it get to this sorry pass? With the redeployment of Major General Babagana Monguno from the agency to the Defence Headquarters a few months ago, many of its staff breathe the air of respite. Why was it so? Monguno was appointed Chief of Defence Intelligence, CDI, in July 2009 but throughout his tenure, the agency retrogressed in terms of manpower development and relevance to national security. Monguno closed down all the offices of the agency in the states with the exception of Abuja and Lagos. Even at that, the agency’s office in Lagos operates with skeletal staff, most of whom are artisans.[/size]

One of the problems confronting the agency is a sort of military oligarchy that exists in the system. It is a kind of enthroned dictatorship that has been ravaging the place. DIA was established along with the State Security Service, SSS, and the Nigerian Intelligence Agency, NIA, in 1986. The agency was supposed to be modelled after the American Defence Intelligence Agency, comprising 30 percent of serving military personnel and 70 percent civilians. A fundamental crisis erupted when the military started seeing the agency as a “welfare ground”. Those at the helm of affairs, therefore, started their own restructuring by posting military personnel to the agency indiscriminately without any recourse to the act establishing it. In no time, the agency became flooded with military personnel while the number of civilians there took a sharp nosedive. The CDI and deputy CDI have consistently been military officers.

What is happening at the agency is the promotion of military supremacy, as it has long become a custom for the military personnel posted to the agency to rub it on their civilian colleagues that they are “bloody civilians”. The irony of the whole scenario is that the military personnel are visibly idle even though they enjoy the luxury and privileges of being there, including training programmes abroad which have become their exclusive preserve while the “bloody civilians” are denied this opportunity. The foreign training is like “settlement” as they never come back to put their newly acquired knowledge to work, thus leaving vital security assignments that naturally fall within DIA’s orbit for other sister agencies to perform. No wonder the agency has literally been relegated to irrelevance in security matters in the country.

Not only this. Monguno’s era witnessed a gradual decapitation of the agency as the total staff strength fell from about 100,000 to a miserable 10,000. Mostly affected were civilian staff, many of whom were compulsorily retired without any gratuity. As a result of this, many of the victims have dragged the agency to court. Currently, the agency operates about 11 departments. Out of these, only two departments that are less consequential are allocated to civilians. This is breeding a lot of suspicion and animosity between the military and civilian staff of the agency.

Monguno’s tenure was an era of terror itself for an agency that could have easily fought the current wave of terrorism to a standstill. His professional background as an architect and someone who had no previous intelligence training must have robbed the agency of the required direction it needed during his tenure. In many instances, instead of a properly coordinated security duties, he usually resorted to ad hoc arrangements which exposed his naivety. During the inauguration of President Goodluck Jonathan on May 29, 2011, it was a fidgety Monguno who ordered the network providers to shut down Abuja networks for the duration of the ceremony out of fear of terrorists’ strike. He also ordered the closure of the entry routes into the city. The only respite was to allow those who wanted to leave the city to do so.

Imagine the security agencies in say United States closing down Washington for a President’s inauguration even after 9/11 episode. What you have there is total covert operations that have often yielded good results. Such covert operations are alien to the security agency like DIA, which is saddled with internal security network.

Monguno had the exclusive past time of putting fears in the minds of the staff, particularly the civilians, threatening and sacking them at the slightest opportunity. In addition to this, field officers were starved of funds while money was allocated for events that had no bearing with the job of the agency. For instance, during the wedding ceremony of the daughter of AVM Faloyin, his deputy, in 2011, the vault of the agency was thrown open as military officers allegedly flew Business Class to the occasion in the United States with estacodes while ordinary bulbs could not be replaced as money was not released for operations.

If we are to fight the current resurgence of terrorists activities in the country, the Presidency should take more than a passing look at the DIA as a whole so as to enable it to function as it ought to be. One way to do this is to make sure that professionalism is enthroned in the agency. It is good news that the new CDI, Major General S.Y Audu, is an intelligence officer who understands the terrain.

[size=13pt]The tyrannical tenure of Monguno, an indigene of Borno State, may have compromised national security. This is because at the inception of Boko Haram insurgency, those who were apprehended were handled with kid gloves, as they were left in the agency’s visitors’ room instead of cells. This enabled them to move freely and even got to know that the agency had internal problems. It sounds unbelievable that the Boko Haram suspects were being served special meals from Mr. Biggs and others, while Monguno kept referring to them as “friends of the agency”.[/size]

What is needed at this stage is a total overhaul, re-organisation and restructuring of the agency to enable it to meet the exigency of the moment. The DIA should revert to the good old days when its operatives were everywhere. The greatest problem in the security network of the country at the moment seems to be inter and intra-agency rivalry. This may have been responsible for the constant failure of intelligence in the country’s security system.

The security apparatuses need to come together and work for the common good of the country. This can only be achieved through concerted efforts in the area of inter-agencies’ cooperation. The plethora of security agencies too must put their house in order by engaging in confidence building, training in modern crime prevention and detection as well as provision of good working conditions for their operatives so as to encourage them to offer their best for the country.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/wednesday/dele-agekameh/34414-dia-and-national-security.html

Well, I'll be damned...

cc: Ishilove Lalasticlala, Obinoscopy, Anonimi, Ecoterrors, Firefire, Tonylyte, AgabaI23, BlackPikiN, Sunnybobo3, Sunnyb0b0, TemiTemi1

omongbatim:
Lol! What others call brain drain is brain mine for America.

Plus, Nigeria is well aware of the concept of catching them young, but like everything else, she is yet to harness it to achieve maximum effect.

Yerima is already catching them young, bro.

The difference between Jonathan and Obasanjo?

One, after serving his tenure, has simply returned to his quiet life, accepting the will of the masses and understanding that politics is not worth the blood of the masses. He may have his shortcomings (which he never denied), but he understands the reality on ground that taking cheap shots at your successor's flaws is not a sign of superiority. He has simply wished the country success and moved on with his life.

...And the other?
Despite the numerous big fraud scandals that can be traced DIRECTLY to his name (Halliburton, Siemens, missing oil vessels, Econet scam, National Library scam) this old but immature gorilla has still refused to leave the podium and act like a decent statesman. The same fool behind the blatant electoral frauds in 2003 and 2007 never missed a chance to take cheap shots at his successor like he could ever hold a candle against him.
The same creature under whose administration Sharia was legalized in a secular country, had the audacity to come in front of a camera and rip his party membership card apart, all to the morronic applause from the ever gullible simpletons known as masses.
The same "do or die" politician has refused to respect the wrinkles on his fat, ugly, saggy body and go take a rest for good.
Whispers from the grapevine even suggest he's fielding some personal candidates for appointment under the new government.
Agadi nwoke n'enweghi ihere. Shameless old man who couldn't even handle his scattered household but could draft an 18-page letter to the president, trying to sound like a saint.
Alas... He is but a hypocritical attention-seeking agbaya.

WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS OF BUHARI SO FAR:

1. He showed us pictures of himself fastening his shoelace and stepping into his cow farm.

2. He showed us pictures of himself standing like a gateman and waiting for David Cameron in London.

3. He showed us pictures of himself sitting next to Obama at the G7 Summit, wearing headphones and secretly listening to "Baa Turenchi".

4. He showed pictures of himself alighting a golf cart and shaking hands with a man at the G7 summit.

5. He invited pro-Lawan senators to the ICC for a bowl of gworo while national assembly elections were in session.

6. He showed us pictures of himself and his son at his cow farm while Boko Haram was slitting the throats of his citizens in Maiduguri.

7. The same day suicide bombers were detonating at Maiduguri markets, Buhari was receiving a chieftancy title in Daura.

8. He ordered the construction of a helipad in his hometown of Daura. His very FIRST capital project as president.

9. He granted independence to the Republic of West Germany and elected Michelle (from Destiny's Child) as the president.

10. He showed us pictures of himself breaking his Ramadan fast at Aso Rock, holding a microphone at his 10-seater dining table.

Wonderful!
Chai Buhari!

WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS OF BUHARI SO FAR:

1. He showed us pictures of himself fastening his shoelace and stepping into his cow farm.

2. He showed us pictures of himself standing like a gateman and waiting for David Cameron in London.

3. He showed us pictures of himself sitting next to Obama at the G7 Summit, wearing headphones and secretly listening to "Baa Turenchi".

4. He showed pictures of himself alighting a golf cart and shaking hands with a man at the G7 summit.

5. He invited pro-Lawan senators to the ICC for a bowl of gworo while national assembly elections were in session.

6. He showed us pictures of himself and his son at his cow farm while Boko Haram was slitting the throats of his citizens in Maiduguri.

7. The same day suicide bombers were detonating at Maiduguri markets, Buhari was receiving a chieftancy title in Daura.

8. He ordered the construction of a helipad in his hometown of Daura. His very FIRST capital project as president.

9. He granted independence to the Republic of West Germany and elected Michelle (from Destiny's Child) as the president.

10. He showed us pictures of himself breaking his Ramadan fast at Aso Rock, holding a microphone at 10-seater dining table.

Wonderful!
Chai Buhari!

Read the news.
LMAO! He's just paying a fraction of November and December salaries...
Also, Aregbesola, to the best of my knowledge, did not appoint commissioners or aides, so whose salary is he slashing exactly?

This man STILL doesn't want to leave propaganda alone, it seems.

Your excuse for Buhari's indecision is pitiful at best.
I have seen numerous APC defenders draw up this line to deflect attention, but it's important that we set the records straight.

Many of you seem to conveniently forget that Goodluck Jonathan, unlike Buhari, was ALREADY a member of the Yar'Adua administration, hence wasn't under pressure to appoint ministers since his predecessor's appointees were already occupying those spots. When he did eventually 'appoint' his ministers, the majority of them were already in the cabinet. So, in the more honest sense, it was mostly a cabinet reshuffle with a few modifications of his own.
This is TOTALLY different in Buhari's case where all the previous appointees vacated their offices along with Jonathan, leaving their spaces empty.
I had half expected the APC and its defenders to have some modicum of common sense (even if miniscule) enough to refrain from towing that line of flawed reasoning.
Please, give us the 'Change', not the excuses!

Macelliot:
Osun Defender, the propaganda media

Where is though art?

Their last update on the website was on April. Since then, there hasn't been any more posts there.
It looks like the chronic hunger has caught up with the site maintenance team too, so I guess they're now on STRIKE.

Yes... The Osun Defenders are now the OSUN STRIKERS.

Akande laments effect of disagreement on party’s unity

Chief John Odigie-Oyegun’s political future is hanging in the balance.

TheAll Progressives Congress (APC) chairman should step down, some forces within the party are pushing, ahead of tomorrow’s meeting of the National Caucus Committee.

Odigie-Oyegun’s offence, sources said at the weekend, is his perceived failure to nip in the bud the National Assembly crisis that has shaken the party so much.

Most of the APC governors, some members of the National Working Committee (NWC) and party elders are unhappy that Odigie-Oyegun allowed the “crisis to fester”.

They alleged that his “slow pace” attitude emboldened Senate President Bukola Saraki and House Speaker Yakubu Dogara to “negotiate” with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members.

The delay in sending the list of APC nominees for principal offices in the Senate and the House of Representatives has fuelled the anger against Odigie-Oyegun.

Party leaders are divided on whether to retain Odigie-Oyegun or dump him.

A source, who briefed some reporters in Abuja on the situation in the party and the backlash of the crisis in the National Assembly, said there was apprehension in APC that if the chairman remained in office, it might collapse.

The source cited two instances where Odigie-Oyegun failed to be “decisive” on the choice of principal officers in the National Assembly.

The source alleged that the chairman was virtually forced to hold the mock elections that elected Senator Ahmed Lawan and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila as the party’s choices for Senate President and House Speaker.

It also took the intervention of the APC governors before he could send the list of party nominees for some principal posts to Saraki and Dogara.

The source added: “There is much anger in the party against Oyegun. Many leaders have accused him of being indecisive or afraid to take the right decision.

“It is as if the man has no backbone or self-respect. When he should move, he sits down. When he should talk, he is mute. When he should make a decision, he sleeps and after finally making a decision, he takes days to implement something that could be done in minutes.

“After Saraki and Dogara rebelled by aligning with PDP National Assembly members, Oyegun remained strangely mum and unmoved to the harm being done to his and the party’s authority. ‘He took the rebuff too lightly and quickly as if he almost welcomed it.’

“It was only after APC governors intervened and applied heavy pressure that he wrote a letter to the Senate President and House Speaker naming the party’s choices for majority leader and the other posts.

“Even then, the letter was half-hearted, oddly brief and strangely passive in tone. It was as if he wrote it under compulsion because he had been boxed into a corner by the governors and not by conviction. Once again, Saraki and Dogara rebuffed him and once again Oyegun took the insult as if he asked for it.”

Also, a member of NEC said: “What happened in the National Assembly was a pure case of failure of leadership by the National Chairman.

“Certainly, his lapse is one of the major issues we will discuss at the National Caucus meeting in Abuja and later at our NEC session.

“We are all disappointed and feel betrayed by Oyegun because he refused to take action at the right time even when President Muhammadu Buhari said he would leave the party to resolve the logjam in the National Assembly.”

Analysing the APC and the National Assembly crisis in an article published on page 3 of this newspaper, former Interim National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, warned of the danger ahead for the party if nothing urgent is done to remedy the crisis arising from the election of Saraki and House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara.

He said: “Now that the whole conspiracy has blown open, it is doubtful if the present institutions of party leadership can muster the required capacity to arrest the drift.

“It is my opinion that President Buhari, and the APC governors should now see APC as a recking platform that may not be strong enough again to carry them to political victory in 2019 and they should quickly begin a joint damage control effort to reconstruct the party in its claim to bring about the promised change before the party’s shortcomings begin to aggravate the challenges of governance in their hands.”

The former Osun State Governor added: “Before the party knew it, the process had been hijacked by polluted interests who saw the inordinate contests as a loop-hole for stifling APC governments’ efforts in its desire to fight corruption.

“Most Northern elites, the Nigerian oil subsidy barons and other business cartels who never liked Buhari’s anti-corruption political stance are quickly backing-up the rebellion against APC with strong support.

“While other position seekers are waiting in the wings until Buhari’s ministers are announced, a large section of the South-West see the rebellion as a conspiracy of the North against the Yoruba.”

Odigie-Oyegun himself has said that he cannot be stampeded out of office, saying efforts will be made to resolve all issues.

The party’s state chairmen also last week after a meeting in Abuja, expressed support for the party chairman.

In a communique signed by Chairman of the Kano chapter Alhaji Umar Haruna Mohammed, the party chiefs expressed concern over the crises rocking the party over the emergence of the leadership of the National Assembly.

“As state party chairmen and direct grassroots leaders, we are all concerned about the development and therefore re-affirm our belief and loyalty to our party, the APC, its supremacy as contained in the party’s constitution and the decision of its leadership.

“We are also not happy with recent development in the National Assembly, especially the lower chamber, and call on the party leadership to put in place proper machineries to checkmate further occurrences.

“We also call on the party leaders to use the long break with the view of resolving the matter so that the much needed change will be seen and enjoyed by everybody.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/senate-crisis-oyeguns-fate-shaky-as-apc-caucus-meets/

I dey laugh oooo!

A party that dubiously proclaims itself progressive, but is already in shambles because its members dared to oppose imposition.
Shouldn't it already dawn on the ACN faction of APC that they're not as popular or relevant as they would so badly want to believe?

cc: Ishilove, Lalasticlala, Obinoscopy...

People who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

But wait... Isn't Saraki Yoruba anymore? Or has it finally dawned on some people that, as much as he may bear a Yoruba name, he still is a Fulani at heart?

Kai! These 4 years go sweet oh.
See as people just carry something wey go kill them, take hang for their body.

“Promise is a debt.” – Common Aphorism

“One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

The conventional latter day wisdom is that President Muhammadu Buhari is not corrupt. It is generally believed that he is a man of integrity. It is believed that he is a straight forward man who would help cleanse the Augean stable of corruption in Nigeria. He is supposed to be the harbinger of CHANGE. Change from financial recklessness to financial prudence. Change from mismanagement to efficiency. Change from prodigality to frugality. Most importantly, change from corruption to accountability.

Some of us believe that this is a false image of President Buhari. It is an image largely built through media propaganda which does not align with the facts of history as we have lived through and witnessed. This is not the history we studied in school. It is not the history of General Buhari we lived through and witnessed as it unfolded from August 1975 to March 1976 as the governor of Northeastern state, from March 1976 to June 1978 as the federal commissioner of petroleum and natural resources and from December 31, 1983 to August 27, 1985 as a military dictator. This is because it was under General Buhari as the federal commissioner of petroleum and natural resources that the country’s petroleum money first got lost.

Yes, the $2.8 billion saga. Up till today, no one has been able to say exactly what happened to that money. We are still wondering how such a huge amount of money disappeared without trace from the surface of the earth. Buhari has never been able to offer any satisfactory explanation to this effect. One thing is however clear, President Buhari may not be the one who stole the money, but he was incompetent enough to allow such a huge amount of money to be stolen under him without a trace!

The propaganda about the incorruptibility and competence of General Buhari has been massive. It is comprehensive and extensive, without respect or regard for the facts of history. In many cases, history has been revised to suit the campaign to make over General Buhari in a new image of incorruptibility. He’s been dressed in borrowed robes of integrity, and its persuaded a lot of impressionable young men and women who are unable to differentiate between facts, fiction and faction. The propaganda filled the hole of misery of our youth with what appeared to be real hope for change. Those impressionable young men and women, untutored by and in history, desperate for salvation and a saviour bought hook, line and sinker all the deodorised version of Buhari’s chapters in the inglorious story book of Nigeria.

In trying to live up to this false image of “an incorruptible man” during the campaign, Buhari, in February this year, promised Nigerians that if elected as the president of Nigeria, he would publicly declare his assets. Some of the doubting Thomases even decided to give Buhari the benefit of doubt. They assumed that as a man of integrity, his words would be his bond. Well, they had no choice because the alternative to Buhari was even worse. His fans and supporters were excited by the promise that he is above board and would not only fight corruption, but would do so via an exemplary personal example. They used that promise to compare him with a clueless and hapless President Goodluck Jonathan who did not know the difference between “stealing” and “corruption.”

In the February 2015 document that Buhari made available, he had emphasised the public declaration of his assets as one of the things he would do as soon as he was sworn in as president. He also promised that he would encourage anyone who would serve with him to do the same. The time for the fulfillment of the promise is here. The expectations of Nigerians have not been met four weeks into the new administration, and they are already scratching their heads and asking themselves “Why so soon?”

Thank goodness, this is a democracy. It is not a military dictatorship. This is not 1984 when Buhari was closing down media houses. This is not 1984 when he was jailing journalists. This is not 1984 when he made it clear that whether we wrote the truth or not, if he did not like it, we were all heading to jail. This is a different era. We are at liberty to ask questions. It is part of our freedom under the 1999 Constitution. And ask, we must.

So, we are not accusing General Buhari of lying to us during the campaign. No, not yet. But we are asking him why he has not publicly declared his assets as promised us. Did he deceive us during the campaign? Is there any reason why he would not tell us his true intentions, as far as the public declaration of his assets are concerned? Is it possible that Buhari is hiding something or anything? Is there something in his assets that Nigerians must not know about? Is “Mr. Incorruptible” really “incorruptible”? Why the change of gear? Does “Mr. Incorruptible” have skeletons in his wardrobe? Or is the chicken coming home to roost on this image of “incorruptibility?”

Or is General Buhari trying to deploy the tactics of Olusegun Obasanjo-Onyejekwe’s fight against corruption? Is he going to chase around some small, dispensable corrupt elements selectively why he secretly enriches himself? Obasanjo-Onyejekwe chased all the illicitly accumulated wealth of General Sani Abacha to all the nooks and crannies of the world, while he stole us blind to become a billionaire many times over. Obasanjo-Onyejekwe was rich enough to build a private university by and for himself, unlike Reverend David Oyedepo who had to depend on the weekly generosity of his sheep (yes, they call them “sheep” for a reason), despite being named by the US based Forbes Magazine as being the richest pastor in Nigeria.

If this is not the case, then Buhari has to come out now and declare his assets and liabilities. Nigerians would like to know if he declared the 25 million naira loan he took to obtain the forms for his candidacy as the APC’s flag bearer. Nigerians would like to know what he used as collateral. Is that the only liability that Buhari has? If not, what are the other liabilities? What are his assets? We will like to know how many landed properties he truly possess. How much he is worth in liquid cash. What is the interest on the 25 million naira loan he took for the candidacy forms of APC, for example? How has he been paying it?

Is President Buhari really a true agent of CHANGE or a pretentious one? Is this era going to be “business as usual” or things would be different? Is he going to lead by personal example or are we going to live in George Orwell’s Animal Farm once again? Are we going to have real change or just cosmetics? Will criminals continue to have a field day or they would be checkmated? With the way and manner baptised criminals are taking the reins of power under his nose, what are we to expect going forward? Are we going to continue to have excuses or allow corruption and its apostles fester?

Before too much damage is done to the little good remaining of the Buhari brand, he has to publicly declare his assets and liabilities. It was a promise he made to Nigerians. It was a promise to be different. It was a promise of change. It was a promise of a new dawn. It was a promise that gave hope to millions of Nigerians. It was a promise that Nigeria, in spite of all the socio-economic cum religio-political vicissitudes, would yet make it. The earlier he declares his assets publicly the better.

President Muhammadu Buhari has an obligation to prove people like me wrong that he is truly “Mr. Incorruptible.” He has an obligation to prove that he could be trusted; that he is worthy of our confidence; that his words are his bond; that he is a man of honour; that our faith in him is not misplaced; that he is not a hypocrite; that he is not a fake dealer in hope and that he is not a fake messiah of CHANGE. We are eagerly waiting for the fulfillment of Buhari’s PROMISE to publicly declare his assets and liabilities.

http://blogs.premiumtimesng.com/?p=167972

Please, have some patience.
Buhari's assets list has been published, but they are with the military. But in place of that, an affidavit has been sworn by our great leader, Buhari, at a high court presided over by one Justice Osunbade.
The said affidavit is with his Igbo son-in-law in West Germany.

Chai Buhari.

Slowly but surely, this is how the people unwittingly support totalitarianism without even knowing it.
By the time they wake up from their slumber to the full-blown dictatorship, it would have been too late.

The same Kwankwaso idiiot was hoping to become president.
What a progressive classroom!

Karma.
APC lapdogs were rejoicing when the Aregbesola-backed lawmakers in Ekiti were working on their plan to impeach Fayose, not knowing a day like this would come.
The hunter has become the hunted.

APC Change agents be like...

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What goes around comes around.
When Saraki decamped to APC, the warlords hailed him as a 'progressive' notwithstanding his unenviable antecedents as Governor of Kwara. To them, all that mattered was winning an election. So, right now, they need to do the world a favour, shut the ffuxkk up and live with that mess.
Many more of the strange bedfellows and defectors are going to show their true colors in the coming months.
Better buckle up.

This reminds me of that Drake music video, "Find Your Love".
Nigga died over a piece of asss.

Meanwhile, choir master Buhari van President Buhari is busy controlling his singing orchestra of internet cows while Nigeria burns...

https://static.pulse.ng/img/incoming/origs3890681/3011851681-w640-h640/Buhari-cows-2.jpg

So far, no visit has been paid to the affected areas. No official press statements, no nothing.
No official cabinet has been announced, but he was quick to announce his media aides. He's quick to take photographs but can't make decisions.
Government of the gworo, by the photos and for the olodos.

They probably trooped out to check if he brought some odourless fufu.

Troubled Governors And The Peter Principle

As most governors in Nigeria run from pillar to post in search of funds to meet such basic obligation as salaries and pension arrears, this column wagers that all the petro-dollars in Arabia will not help a poor governor. Even as they collectively resolved to recover expenditure allegedly made on behalf of the Federal Government, a better option may well be to tell each other the harsh truth. Unless most of our governors purge themselves of spiritual and mental poverty, they will always be plagued by this manner fiscal poverty.

The newly-elected governors in particular must carry out a deep introspection over the activities of their immediate predecessors and determine to choose a fresh path because the road ahead is destined to be tough. It will be interesting to note the amount spent by some of the governors at the Abuja meeting last Wednesday in search of bailout. It will be even more interesting to note that some of the governors travelled to and from Abuja in chartered jets at highly wasteful rates.

Just last month, even as workers suffer the pangs of hunger, a governor from the Southeast was on a junket with a chartered jet. As he touched down in his state, he kept the jet on standby for so long and at such huge cost that even the owners of the craft were worried at such wastefulness by a state’s chief executive.

Early in this month, four vessels berthed at the Apapa Ports bearing 34,450 tons of imported crude palm oil worth over N3 billion. In the last five years, Nigeria has imported about 2.4 million metric tons of this commodity valued at about N314 billion (about $1.6 billion).

We must point it out for the umpteenth time that between Adapalm in Imo State and Risonpalm in Rivers State all the palm products needs of Nigeria’s manufacturing industries can be met with extra to export to Europe. In other words, these states could have easily earned a chunk of this multi-billion dollars palm oil trade. But a visit to any of these sprawling palm estates would only make you weep. It would also afford you an idea of the kind of people managing our affairs.

Apart from funds from the federation account, which has virtually vanished with the crude oil debacle, most governors never mustered the initiative to build alternative economic bases in their states. As we said here last week, has cocoa stopped growing in the Southwest of Nigeria or has it stopped being a major world commodity? Any thinking governor can make any state in the Southwest the hub of cocoa production and processing in Africa.

Regardless that most states lacked any economic base and do not earn enough revenue, yet they all live large and embark on vanity programmes and projects that are not only way above their means, but have little economic value. Imo for instance was handing cash to pupils and also claimed to be building two universities at the same time. It was also building a fancy skyscraper and three massive hotels in the three senatorial zones. There are 27 general hospitals going on simultaneously in the 27 LGAs. There is no iota of financial planning in all of these.

In Osun State, an unsustainable N3.6 billion free school meal programme is on, as well as free uniforms; free tablets and free tuition. What then are parents for? In the thick of all these is an airport project.



Where on earth is this impoverished State supposed to get the fund for all these? Where is financial planning and projections in all this? Another state in the southwest is building so many posh public schools in towns while many students still learn under trees in the rural areas. There is also a plan to build a sky-scrapper like the Cocoa House in Ibadan, an ego-induced edifice, not minding that the Ibadan monolith is barely occupied and of little economic value apart from gracing the horizon.

Why would a governor dare to purchase jets, helicopters and fly in chartered jets yet expect that cash is inexhaustible? Why are local government council workers also owed for months in many states? The federal allocation to LGAs ought to be enough to pay that level of staff five times over since hardly anything else happen in the LGAs.

The point being made essentially here is that money or the lack thereof, is not the problem with these states that cannot pay their workers. This may be hard to comprehend but the point is that no state is in reality richer than the other. A state is only as good as its manager. This is buttressed by the fact that while some oil-rich state are in trouble, some that are deemed to be poor states have managed their finances so well that they have enough to bailout rich states.

This is where the Peter Principle above comes in. This principle, espoused by a certain Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull states that people are usually promoted to positions quite above their competence. Are most governors in Nigeria truly competent. Are they willing to learn?

This leads to the other Peter Principle: the Peter Obi Principle. This column will recommend him especially to the new governors. They must quietly seek out the erstwhile governor of Anambra State, Governor Peter Obi and tap his mind on the art of running a state in an emerging economy like Nigeria’s. It is not only that Anambra is not owing workers, it has enough in its kitty to lend money to some overly trouble states.

Obi did not only leave about N80 billion in cash for his successor Chief Willie Obiano, he put millions of dollars of the state’s funds in bonds that will mature in a few years time at some profit. As if he saw tomorrow, he executed a policy of putting aside at least N100million monthly for his eight years in office. Apart from a glaring fiscal discipline, he never embarked on any vanity projects of policies but enacted numerous decisions that would continue to redound on the economic well being of the state for a very long time.

There are investments in modern shopping malls in Awka, Nnewi, Onitsha; Onitsha Business Parks one and two and a N500 million investment with the Bank of Industry to support SMEs in Anambra State. Perhaps most remarkable is the SAB Miller’s breweries in Onitsha, which recently expanded to Nnewi. SAB Miller, one of the biggest brewers in the world has invested about $170 million in its Nigeria subsidiary based in Anambra and will provide about 50,000 jobs at full capacity. This is the way to build a state’s economy.

Peter Obi exemplified prudent leadership while delivering value to the people. At the time he left in March 2014, he had restored the people’s trust in public schools and Anambra candidates topped in all national exams for many years. While some states are so indebted that they are no longer credit worthy, Peter Obi did not borrow a dime in eight years. His time in Anambra (2006- 2014) ought to be a case study on how to run a state. He left the state far better than he met it and proved that it is not the quantum of funds available to a state but the quality of mind managing it.

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/troubled-governors-and-peter-principle/

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I'm sick to my stomach. I mean it when I say it.
I'm tired of the lies, misinformation and halftruths.
I'm fed up with the journalistic laziness of the Nigerian Press.
When will this cacophony of propaganda come to an end?

My attention was drawn to an article published yesterday on The Cable about the US arm of defence donating 5 billion dollars to Nigeria to help battle Boko Haram. It didn't take time for our ever ready Nairalanders to jump in on the thread, showering praise on Buhari for reasons best known to them.

Well, two things were wrong about that:

Number 1 is that it is currently impossible for the USA to donate such an outrageous amount of cash to Nigeria just to battle Boko Haram. The total budget for all the US African Command military outposts stationed in Africa is little above $280million so where is the 5 Billion Dollars coming from?

Number 2 is that the funding was already accounted for in their budget for the fiscal year of 2015, and the budget was submitted in 2014! Way before Buhari won the election. The budget was approved during GEJ's tenure, so attributing it to Buhari just makes him look desperate. I'm sorry to let you know.

This is the official audio from the US Defence during that AU Summit.
http://m.soundcloud.com/africa-regional-media-hub/media-briefing-with-us-government-delegation-to-the-au-summit
Fast-forward to 17:30 and you'll hear her talk to the Punch correspondent.
You'll also hear her say "5 MILLION".

UPDATE:
The US Embassy has also come out to clarify it on their Twitter handle:
https://s18.postimg.org/dyji1trmh/Screenshot_2015_06_16_19_34_29.png

Shame on these lazy Nigerian journalists and their lack of fact-checking skills!

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Isn't it funny how APC lapdogs constantly insulted Ekiti people for rejecting them, saying they sold their future for "stomach infrastructure"?
Honestly, if you ask me anyday, I would pick stomach infrastructure (Ekiti - Fayose) over THE HUNGER GAMES (Osun - Aregbe).


By the way, this is a screenshot of a tweet by Omojuwa just after Aregbesola won his re-election bid.
If anybody ever had any doubts on Omojuwa's "APC LAPDOG" status, this should lay them to rest...