₦airaland Forum

Ibime:
Hahahaha. I said at the time that Gandollar must be a good Governor from the way he was stuffing that dollar in his babariga.

If you have a Governor that still practice 1960s style of corruption like Ganduje, you should be thankful.

Only a Governor interested in engaging in projects will be taking 10-20% kickback in that manner. The fact the kickback even fit inside his babariga impressed me. Even Buhari had to laugh at him that he is still practicing kickback style of corruption in this day and age.

Other Governor's have already graduated to owning by proxy the companies they give hyperinflated white elephant projects to, or they just eat the money without declaring budget.

If you look at Ganduje infrastructure development drive in Kano and some of his policies, you will feel pity for him that what he will be most remembered for is that dollar stuffing video.

raumdeuter:
Larride

That was a wall of text but incase you have any contact with the govt, abeg help us beg them that they can steal but leave some things we can point to after their tenure.

Not all these playing to gallery pointing pointing and shakushaku in front of camera. We cannot continue to play like this with shambolic infrastructure. Cos we all pay for it at the end, Poor healthcare, poor education , bad roads, etc we all pay for it

BTW That Lagos rail that was started by Tinubu/Fashola can it be ready in our lifetime? Make we even leave the 4th mainland bridge for now. Shebi na APC get Lagos for over 20yrs

Hope say dem fit epp us small just complete that rail, After completing that rail, I give them permission to steal the entire budget for 2yrs

Ambode was a disaster in Lagos, he set the state backward from where Fashola left it. If not for Ambode, the blue line would have been completed by now. Sanwoolu says it will be completed by 2022. Hopefully it finally comes to reality. Even the proposed Lekki seaport is just turninoninown

I don’t know what’s wrong with Buhari that he hasn’t sent back the Special Corruption Court Bill back to NASS. The bill was rejected by the Saraki led senate. hopefully with the Lawan led senate, the bill will be passed and we can have fast trail of corruption cases.

@ raumdueter

Thank you for that post.

I remember the discussion I had here with Nihilist and I was trying to explain to him that if Nigeria will develop, state government will play the major role since they are the one closer to the masses than Abuja. Just go and Ebonyi and see the wonderful work the Governor is doing. I remember telling diggz 2 years ago that Umahi is doing is tremendous job in Ebonyi because I could see what he was doing while serving there.

We have squandered our oil boom and now is the time we will pay for those resources our political elite wasted. The truth is that we cannot continue to do things they way they are.

To get to where we want to, we need massive investment in infrastructure and a departure from how we behave and think as a nation.

Look at the attached pics, look at the economic growth since we returned to democracy. From 2010 - 2015 oil was selling for $100 and above per barrel, oil benchmark was $70 per barrel, what happened to the excess crude funds? Did this oil boom translate to unprecedented infrastructure investment? Even when we were enjoying oil boom, the economy was stagnant and even dropping. As at Nov 2014, Nigeria started borrowing money to pay salaries of worker.

There’s no need lamenting about what is wrong, let’s talk about what this present admin has been doing to resolve some of this underlying issues.

Let’s start with railway. The Lagos to Ibadan railline track is completed. Test running is currently on going and hopefully the main stations will be completed ASAP also. The rail is suppose to stop at Iddo but the government changes the design to connect Apapa port to the rail line and a dry sea port at the other end in Ibadan to decongest Lagos port. After the commissioning of Lagos-Ibadan for full operation, The Ibadan to Kano rail line will start. That’s affectively connecting Lagos to Kano.

Itakpe - Warri narrow gauge line is also completed. The rail line will serve as a way to get iron ore to Ajaokuta plant. It will also carry passengers.

In the $22.7bn loan, there’s provision for the Lagos - Calabar railine. There’s also Port Harcourt to Maiduguri. The plan is to have a central line and a coastal line. The coastal line will run from Calabar to Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt will then connect with the Warri - Itakpe line which will connect to thto central line to Abuja.

I remember the controversy that trail the sukuk bonds and the shouts of Islamization, this bond was used for several road projects in the 6 geographical location.

North Central: The construction of Lokoja-Benin road, Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja road section one, three and section four and Construction of Oju-Loko-Oweto Bridge over River Benue.

North East: Dualization of Kano to Maiduguri road section two, three, four and five.

North West: Dualisation of Kano to Katsina road phase one, dualisation of Suleja to Minna roads in Niger state, Phase two, Construction of Kano Western bypass and the construction of Kaduna Eastern by-pass road.

South East: Rehabilitation of Enugu-Port Harcourt dual carriage way section two, Onitsha to Enugu expressway, Enugu to Port Harcourt dual carriageway section one, and three.

South South: Dualization of Yenegwe to Kolo to Otuoke to Bayelsa palm road. Rehabilitation of Enugu to Port Harcourt road section four and the dualisation of Lokoja to Benin road section two, three and four and five.

South West: Reconstruction and asphalt overlay of Benin to Ofosu to Ore to Ajebandele to Shagamu dual carriageway phase three and four. Dualisation of Ibadan to Ilorin road section two.

The Second Niger bridge is finally becoming a reality while the Lagos - Ibadan expressway is finally nearing completion. These projects are being funded by Presidential Infrastructure Development Funds. The Govt also gave Dangote tax break to construct the Apapa - Badagry expressway.

Buhari signs the NFIU bill which mandates that Local Government Funds will be paid directly to local government account instead of paying it into the state government account as it was done before. The question is, how many people are holding their elected LG officials to account?

Jan this year, Buhari signs the Finance bill 2020, while the bill has many objective and talking points, what the media amplify was the VAT increase from 5% to 7.5%
Let’s take a look at the finance bill and the changes:
VAT increase from 5% - 7.5%
There will be no VAT on food and dairy products
Companies with turnover of less than N25 million a year will not pay Company Income Tax
Companies that earn between N25 million – N100 million annually will pay 20 per cent of their profit as CIT.
Companies with annual income in excess of N100 million annually will pay 30per cent of their profit as CIT
Tax on dividends is no longer applicable.

GEJ admin set up NCDC in 2011 yet it was Buhari that sent an executive bill to the senate in 2018. The NCDC Act was signed into law in Nov 2018, 7 years after GEJ create the agency. Prior to the bill, NCDC has no legal backing from the government.

There’s so much I can talk about ranging from security, healthcare, economy, infrastructure or even agriculture that the Buhari admin is working on but the rot is deep that anyone that thinks Buhari admin will solve this issue overnight is joking.

The question then is, what exactly are the state government doing with their allocations?

Greatihex:
God bless you. Look at all the energy he is using say all what he is saying, but if it were to be about Apc, you would have seen him on the other side.

Victornezzar:
Good evening boss oo

Not disputing the Fact that SM hasn't done anything For Oyo state even if the Media is projecting him as one of the best

I just want to ask if You'd have said all these things If SM is in the Apc

Lol. There are lots of things I criticized Ambode for and even the beginning of Sanwoolu tenure, I equally criticize Ajimobi in Ibadan and Amosun in Ogun. You can ask anybody in Ogun State why they call Amosun Abeokuta Governor.

I criticize Garba Shehu when he did that useless conference at the beginning of this corona virus. Heck, I have even criticized Buhari himself. That I belong to a party doesn’t mean I don’t disagree sometimes with the elected leaders from the party.

I don’t think I’ve criticize any PDP Governor on this platform sef.

The joke however is on you guys who claim to be non partisan but turn a blind eyes whenever it doesn’t have to do with Buhari and APC.

eph12:
I thought you were mocking his action in your post. We have seen so many SAs from both divides do this on SM and nothing is done about it.

I don’t think so.

SA to a governor will use equipment bought by another state govt which they shared on Twitter and use it the next day claiming his own governor just bought them?

eph12:
A good or bad thing?

A very good response from Makinde.

It was an unacceptable mistake from an SA.

Meanwhile NIMR is still conducting drive through testing at Yaba in Lagos. Because of the lock down and social distancing, you have to fill a form to request for one. Below is the link.

http://nimr.covid.com.ng

You can share it around to people in Lagos. Testing is absolutely free.

afrodoc2:
Kai. So nobody can enumerate Seyi Makinde's achievements as governor? Just that he is doing well.........when he is not freaky freaky.

In 2016, Ajimobi introduced 1k per term (3k yearly) fee for students in secondary schools in the state and he reintroduced mock waec for SS3 students in the state. The plan is that govt will only pay WAEC fees for student who are serious and show effort in the mock exams. With about 400k student in the state, that’s about 1.2bn every year added to the state IGR.

2019 when Seyi Makinde was sworn in, he immediately declared free education in the state (he stopped the 1k fee per term) and everyone went into jubilation. Few months later, reality dawn on them when’s Makinde declared that WAEC fee is not in his Free Education policy. That it’s the sole responsibility of parents or guidance. WAEC fee is 16,500.

So basically, he stopped them from paying 3k so they could pay 16,500. Let’s not even talk about the loss in IGR.

The same Seyi Makinde claimed Ajimobi did ceremonial commissioning of The Abiola Ajimobi Maternal and Paediatric Centre in Olodo. Fast forward to last week, the same center is the state isolation center in Ibadan. Seyi Makinde then remove the signage of the center and says Ajimobi has no right to name the center after himself because he built it with public funds. Lol

Eruditor:
What are your brother's political leanings? I know PDP members see him as their poster child and the APC members see him as an audio governor. Who talks the talk but has no results.

I know his media assistant recently uploaded a picture of some items and praised him for purchasing it against COVID-19. Only problem is, those items were purchased by Sanwo-Olu in Lagos.

He sacked the SA on media the following day.

raumdeuter:
Pls what are these good performing and action beyond hiring social media hypemen to spit rubbish all the time

You will wait tire.

Bville02:
Alaye jor jor jor!
Coming from you that has been defending the shortcomings of our myopic and disillusionnal gorvernment with all your energy. Abegggg!

The more you look the less you see korrrrr!

Lol. OK.

Greatihex:
present federal government.

The present federal government has not done what?

obainojazz:
Ask a PDP member what Seyi Makinde has done.. You go see achievements
Same way Larride1..an APC member would list Buhari's achievements... But we all know na lie..
Naija politics na packaging.. Two parties don pay people and media to lie for them

Lol.

You can never wake up someone who’s pretending to be asleep.

ToyinDipo:
I am from Ibadan, and presently in Ibadan due to lockdown, I can confirm to you that Seyi Makinde is generally appreciated in Oyo state, especially by workers. Any APC card carrier may state other wise, it's to their pockets.

Oya list the things Seyi Makinde has done as Executive Gov. don’t worry about what others say, just list his achievement in office thus far.

Greatihex:
how has this present government done anything different from what you just stated? Abegi.

??

And if you are talking about government, specify the government you are talking about. As far as Nigeria is concerned, government includes every leader starting from the President to councilor in LG.

afrodoc2:
LOL. Nothing can shock me about Naija politians. They are very good at blowing their own trumpet.

Someone that a market was razed down by fire in Ibadan, he visited the scene 4 days later, took some pictures where he was hugging one of the victims of the fire outbreak and his handlers posted the picture on Twitter and everywhere erupts with praises on how he’s a never seen before politician showing empathy.

afrodoc2:
Hehehe. Because he is not an APC governor , abi?

What’s happening in Oyo is the more you look, the less you see.

You can ask them the things he has done in Oyo State that gives him the active and performing governor tag.

Bville02:
Yeah yeah. He's foolish to risk thousands of lives. He is most definitely regretting his actions now. I just hope he's the only one infected, so that he'd pay fully for his negligence.

That will teach him a lesson one way or another and I'm sure when he survives this, he'd be a better person altogether.

The rally situation isnt disputing the fact that's he has been a good, performing and active gorvenor so far.

LOL

UCH CMD has now tested negative to Covid-19 just 7 days after testing positive.

A40:
I'm saying random begging from Elon Musk on social media cannot be classified as effort like you're claiming

Secondly, Nigerians are also well within their rights to drag this administration for begging for the ventilators they never thought to acquire in the past.

Ok.

A40:
Again you're missing the whole point.

Lack of ventilators are just symptoms to the real issue. We have not even been hit by anything. This is not a crisis yet but that's either due to sluggish testing or just pure dumb luck because we do not even know the degree to which this virus has spread

Begging for free ventilators cannot be classed as making effort my guy. That's a Hail Mary, cross and inshallah move.

Let’s take a step back, what’s your point gan gan? Pls kindly explain maybe I’m not understanding you, let me see from your point of view.

Ibime:
Do you think Nigeria did not lack ventilators before Covid?

Is there anything such as Intensive Care in Nigeria?

If UK population of 70million had 6,000 Ventilators in its' public health service before Covid and full to capacity, how many ventilators do you expect Nigeria of 200m population to have?

Of course, there are ICU in Nigeria but I dont know their capacity. afrodoc2 and Unlimited22 are in the best position to answer that.

We have shortage of ventilators in viz a vis our population, no one is denying that. The crux of the matter is that, is govt wrong trying to get more ventilators now? Should the fact that they didn’t get it before stop them from getting now?

Me I don’t understand this one again.

A40:
You people always find a way to defend every reactive and terrible lack of planning and resource management by this administration

You can choose to ask but don't expect not to be dragged by the wrapper for your previous indiscretions. Why is this so hard to understand?

People did not start dying today due to lack of ventilators or other essential health equipment, so I don't know if you expect us to start doing cartwheels just because we begged an individual to help us with ventilators, ventilators that 50 other countries are likely vying for

Calm down bros.

I don’t think we have ever been in this situation before in our entire history as a country. I don’t think we have ever been in a situation where we lack ventilators in the country. afrodoc2 & Unlimited22 can shed more light on that.

This is not even about defending the govt, shouldn’t the govt be making efforts to get ventilators anywhere they can get? Is it until we have a spike in cases before they start looking for ventilators?

A40:
It's not about conflating anything.

Like I said we are merely fortunate this disease has not spread badly enough to make our healthcare system look even worse than it is now.

We have a long history of squandering resources and prioritizing horribly.

Corona or no Corona. How does a country like Nigeria have so few ventilators.

So because we have a long history of squandering resources, we shouldn’t ask for ventilators when someone has enough to give out? Because I’m not understanding your point gan gan.

The current reality is that we don’t have up to 500 ventilators in the whole country, maybe we should wait till people starts dieing before we start looking for where to get ventilators.

A40:
Why does ministry of information and culture need $500m in a country that has less than 300 ventilators. This is what people should be asking not whataboutism

The problem with critics is that you people conflate issues together.

It’s not like the $27bn loan was just considered today. When that loan package was drawn up, there was no covid-19 pandemic.

Go and read up the history of the loan. The initial loan FG sought approval for was $30bn from the Saraki led senate and only $7.3bn was approved from the loan. The rest were just reintroduced last year ending for consideration by the new senate.

hardeycute:
My position is that we don't have any right to start begging anyone to donate ventilators for us. How many number of confirmed cases do we have? Have 1000 people been hospitalized to suggest that the country do not have the ability to manage the situation?

What then is the difference between you and the leaders they are castigating?

So it’s until we have lots of cases in critical condition before we start sourcing for more ventilators?

Wonderful.

hardeycute:
I think before we can say "let's beg", we need to have been in a situation where we have exhausted all our resources. How many number of confirmed cases do we have compared to other nations?

What’s the difference between you and the leaders now?

A40:
We have merely been fortunate with the relatively low spread. Don't make it sound like what we have is actually adequate or down to our competence.

Is it not better to beg now that a company making them says they have some free to give out? Should we wait until we have a lot of cases in critical condition before we start looking for more?

Isn’t that what you are blaming govt for before?

A40:
This is where we get it wrong. Our not asking why is why we are always in this mess.

We had Doctors being threatened with sack despite being owed months of salary.

It's not about 60 years of mismanagement being solved in two weeks, it's that a country that wanted to borrow $500m for NTA less than 3 weeks ago is online begging for free ventilators.

Whatever happens there is zero incentive for Tesla to give us ventilators ahead of responsible countries with more pressing needs for them

At bolded, Govt is not borrowing $500m for NTA. $500m is for the whole ministry of information and culture.

NTA digitalization is actually $11m.

elrony:
I don't think it's a lie tho, especially on the Ikotun part Odizeey mentioned.

Just saw some video now, with them confirming the bagco sac of rice and bread was what Lagos State allocated to Ikotun LCDA to hand to some of the residents.


Omo that thing no go reach me for two weeks

Even my landlord got even though I’m at my grandparents place at the moment.

A40:
Leadership is extremely irresponsible in this country. The nagging question should be why do we have so few ventilators to begin with? but all over social media I'm seeing people making faulty comparisons as if our own efforts at fighting the virus is at their scale at all.

If we had a thriving industry we would be able to produce enough for the relatively low cases we have now.

Begging Elon Musk for ventilators is a weak move for a country that didn't prioritize it's healthcare as it should have

We have Ventilators to treat those we currently have, is it until we have a spike that we should start scrambling for ventilators? Is that not what we were blaming govt for before?

gensteejay:
The government has databases of Nigerians, such as BVNs, national identification numbers, account numbers of market women used in the Tradermonie scheme. These can assist them if they're really serious.

While campaigning for posts, these politicians know ways to reach citizens in every nook and cranny of the country. They could adopt the same approach to ensure as many Nigerians as possible get relief packages.

@ bolded, majority of Nigerians do not have these. Those with BVN are said to be 40m+. That’s 1/5 of our population.