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EmiDon11:
but you understand where i am going to?

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Lol. SDM! Big boy.

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We are waiting.

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Continue to rest in peace chief.

Oluwa Burner, that's so irresponsible.

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Hit LIKE for Tinubu. Hit SHARE for Peter Obi.

Taiggarr:
My Papa dey go brothel go meet my olosho mother.

Why do you speak so ill of your parents ?!

May their souls continue to rest in peace. Amen!

It is good to show strength in this trying times.

BluntTheApostle:
It is obviously a mistake because 50 million is certainly too much to draft into the military

Good. At least we can agree on one thing.

BluntTheApostle:
The 50 million was a mistake, and Tinubu admitted that it was a mistake as that was not what he meant.

Where's the link to him owing up? Because we still have the video of him saying what he said. So why didn't you start your defence by pointing out that Tinubu admitted that he made a mistake? You first glorified it.

Well, methinks he didn't make a mistake. He knew the youth are unemployed and he felt that the best way to employ them was by recruiting them into the Army. He saying that he made a mistake was just damage control.

But then, I will give him the benefit of doubt, since he said he made a mistake.

May the best candidate win.

Taiggarr:
Make my papa go brothel!

Wow! Your Papa? Why do you speak so ill of your parents?

BluntTheApostle:
So, China is a benchmark?

Does China have the same reality as us?

Are they battling local terrorism?

Are they losing unemployed youths to radicalisation?

I referenced China to give you a grip of how unreasonably excessive a 50million man army in a population of 200million people is.

Have you even stopped for a moment to wonder what would happen to other sectors of the economy if 50million youths that should be evenly spread out to other facets of the economy are mopped up by the Army alone?

Even the most terrorised countries of the world (which Nigeria proudly seats at number 3), such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia etc do not have such a manpower. Running an Army that big doesn't end at feeding them with Cassava and Agbado, there are other things including armament, Uniforms, Housing, Medical supplies, Salaries, Logistics etc. Where would the government get that kind of money? The United States with an annual defence budget of $700billion (which is by far the biggest in the world), has just 1.3 million personnel. But you want Nigeria, with a measly annual defence budget of about $1.8 billion, to have a 50million man army? How? To run such an Army efficiently for just a year, you need over 5 trillion, not naira, but dollars. Where do we get that? Let me guess, selling our Cassava and Agbado to ourselves due to the demand and consumption we created through of 50million man military?

I ask again, where do you get the money to run such a humongous army? Chinese loans?

Sir, no matter what the Nigerian reality is, a 50million man Army is not exactly a bright idea. At best, it is a recipe for chaos. When soldiers get angry, that's coup brewing .

If that's the smartest solution your principal can think of, then he certainly has no business gunning for the top office.

Taiggarr:
If i continue to Bleep my whóring mother, na who my drunk scum of a father go Bleep?

If you ask me, Na who I go ask?

BluntTheApostle:
I don't know why Tinubu has been so widely misunderstood.

If you listen to the whole speech, you will see that Tinubu was not addressing unemployment in isolation, but rather with regards to banditry and terrorism.

To paraphrase what he said: Tinubu said that we are underpoliced (this is a major problem), and yet bandits and terrorists are competing with the federal government for youth. This is a reality. Imagine the number of unemployed people daily being recruited into Boko Haram, ISWAP, and other such criminal organizations. These people should rather be in the employment of the federal government. And if you ask what they should be fed with? Food, of course. We should grow our own food, patronize our own farmers. That way, you tackle many things at the same time. You tackle unemployment.

If demand for our local foods rise, the farmers will be forced to produce more, and this will in turn cause a rise in supply to meet demand, and erase scarcity. With an increase in supply to meet demand, food prices will fall, and that way, we can reduce inflation.

I don't want to engage you on the other watery defences you canvassed, but I couldn't just ignore the last one. Why? Because I you seem to be the 2nd person (Tinubu is the 1st of course) that sees the brilliance in recruiting 50 million youths into the army and feed them with Cassava and Agbado. I don't want to conclude that you don't understand the issues facing the economy and our national security. I promise to do my best to school you a little.

Nigeria is not "under-policed" as you claimed. Nigeria is the 4th biggest military in Africa. The number one is Egypt, with an estimated population of 1.3 million personnel. No country in the would has a 50million strong force.

The biggest Army is China's (the world's most populous country), at a combined strength of 4million personnel. China's population is about 1.4 billion, and its military strength is just 4million. But you want Nigeria, with a population of 200million to have a 50million strong army. Does that make sense to you and your principal?

The problem of the Nigerian security architecture is not in the numbers, which is more than sufficient, but in the widespread corruption in the system.

Where would the government get the funds to manage a 50million men strong military? Let me guess, more Chinese loans?

Contrary to your assumptions or as your principal would have you believe, the terrorist organisations are not competing with the Nigerian army for youth. The terrorists are outnumbered by a comfortable ratio.

How about your principal towing a different policy instead. Fix the porous borders, create employment to keep idle minds and willing hands gainfully engaged, ban the Amajiri system that exposes kids to recruitment and conscription by the terrorist groups, address over population, investigate the kind of indoctrination inculcated in kids of Islamiya schools by the mallams, compulsory free education from primary to secondary, Setup skills acquisition centres, suspension of the Sharia system etc. The above reforms are targeted at the root causes, not the symptoms.

You said we would grow our own foods. The farmers right? Call the Fulani herdsmen to order and watch farmers return to the fields. Solve the bandits menace so that farmers can safely go to their farms. Without that, there won't be enough Agbado and Cassava to feed your principal's 50 million youth army. The cost of food items were relatively lower pre-2015, before the Herdsmen and Bandits decided to dispossess the middle-belt (a crucial area as far as our national food security is concerned) farmers of their lands through wanton killings. If there is no security, farmers can't return to fields and there won't be supply, no matter how high the demand gets. Except your principal would solve that by importing the Cassava and Agbado from other safer countries, and more death to the naira.

And by the way, what makes you and your principal think that recruiting 50million Youth into the army would create demand for cassava and Agbado? Does it mean that the 50million youth are currently not eating? How is their joining the army going to suddenly increase demand for foods they were already eating before joining the military? How? They are going to grow extra stomach or more appetite for food? How?

Finally Sir, you can't generate FOREX by just selling your own food to your own people. You need to sell your products to foreign countries to generate FOREX, does that click for you now? Without FOREX, all the Cassava and Agbado is useless to the naira/ecomomy. We need to export those Cassava and Agbado, not feed them to 50million youth in the army. The improved export and FOREX will balance the stress on the naira occasioned by importation and the economy would do just fine. If you still don't get the drift, consult an Economist to do further justice to what I am driving at and why 50million youth Cassava and Agbado feeding is not going to save the economy nor ameliorate unemployment.

All these in place, now put the icing on the cake by fixing the power sector. Allow the 50 million youths to decide their destiny then. Some would go into tech, some manufacturing etc. Some would even join the army out of patriotism/passion, and those few would do more damage against the terrorist groups than a 50million man strong army who are only in the army, not out of passion, but because the government left them no other choices.

These things are not rocket science Sir. The Cassava and Agbado idea was an ill thought-out one, and the fact that I am here, writing a long thesis to convince a fellow citizen makes me cringe.

Thank you.

Taiggarr:
HOW CAN MY WHỌ̀RE OF A MOTHER BE SO SELFISHLY STUPID

If you ask me, na who I go ask?

Taiggarr:
The World Bank came out with a report and gave reasons as to why they think there'll be more poor Nigerians in the days to come,with the Russian/Ukraine conflict topping the issues,yet you had to still expose your PUTRID HATE by fingering this present FG...

With all due respect, fùck you Sir.

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