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From a Whatsapp post:

Disturbing but not unexpected news in the article attached.

It looks like there's another Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) coming Nigeria's way in the near future.... Any economists out there, what if Nigeria went to BRICS for a bail out LOAN, would that be better than IMF?

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NIGERIA’S IMPENDING DEBT DEFAULT: A LOOMING AFRICAN DISASTER

August 15, 2019

In 2018, a BusinessDay editorial sounded the alarm about the prodigious growth of Nigeria’s debt profile at a time when government revenues were either flat or shrinking. In a response very typical of the present administration, the Debt Management Office fired off a dismissive rejoinder questioning BusinessDay’s financial knowledge and insisting that all is well because Nigeria’s 19 percent debt-to-GDP ratio is significantly lower than that of countries like the USA, which owes 104 percent of its GDP.

What the shallow window dressing attempt failed to account for was that in a country like Nigeria whose economy is largely divorced from government revenues courtesy of oil receipts, it makes little sense to base any borrowing decision on the debt-to-GDP ratio. According to data from Heritage Foundation, Nigeria’s tax-to-GDP ratio in 2012 was 6.1 percent, compared to an OECD average of 34.2 percent.

This clearly indicates that in the absence of a tax compliance miracle in Nigeria’s largely informal and cash-based economy, no sincere government can claim to raise revenue for debt servicing through taxation. A much better measure would be the debt-to-revenue ratio, and this is where the bad news really begins.

Stagnant revenues, rising debts
A couple of weeks ago, I had a long conversation with the inaugural CEO of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), Mustafa Chike-Obi. Among the many insights he provided into the precarious state of Nigeria’s public finances, what caught my attention was the revelation that the government and the supposedly independent CBN are colluding to provide a distorted picture of Nigeria’s fiscal situation.

While the widely accepted idea is that Nigeria’s debt-to-revenue ratio is about 70 percent – an already shocking figure for a government with no revenue expansion in sight – this figure is in fact significantly understated. According to the ex-AMCON boss, the government arbitrarily refuses to add some categories of debt to its overall computation. Such debts include AMCON’s debt stock, the backlog of subsidy payments owed to petroleum marketers, debts owed to electricity GENCOs and DISCOs and debts owed to contractors at various government levels.

If these figures are included in Nigeria’s overall indebtedness as they should, Nigeria’s debt-to-revenue ratio right now he says is touching 90 percent. What is more, the debt stock keeps on growing and he predicts that BY 2023, NIGERIA’S ENTIRE GOVERNMENT REVENUE WILL BE SWALLOWED UP BY DEBT REPAYMENTS. At this point, the government will be forced to default, which comes with catastrophic implications.

In the event of a debt default and the inevitable IMF bailout, Nigerians would be forced to relive the Structural Adjustment Policy era of the 1980s all over again, complete with loss of currency value, crippling austerity cuts, steep tax hikes and ultimately the third and most devastating economic recession yet in Nigeria’s history.

(As an aside, Muhammadu Buhari could end up becoming the first world leader to plunge his country into a recession three times in three different terms as Head of State. He would also become the first ever Head of State to leave an austerity mess for two different successors to deal with, but I digress.)

In the interim, rather than do all in their power to stave off the impending default scenario, the government and the CBN only seem invested in prolonging the ongoing charade for as long as possible. For instance, as pointed out by Chike-Obi, the CBN is currently breaking the law by extending about N7 trillion worth of financing to the federal government. It is actually permitted to advance the government only 5 percent of the previous year’s revenue, which should be about N350 billion – 20 times less than what it is currently doing.

Being that this is Nigeria, such ‘creative accounting’ on the part of an institution that is supposed to be a regulator barely raises an eyebrow. The government thus uses a mix of bond issuances, illegal CBN advances and dwindling oil receipts to keep its pretense of normalcy going, using new borrowed funds to service old debts in the time-honoured fashion of a country that is quarter to default. It also banks on the fact that it can get away with indefinitely postponing payment of its huge backlog of domestic contractor debt, AMCON liabilities, and DISCO/GENCO debt.

This means that if you are a contractor waiting for a due payment from the government or a power sector investor waiting for the relevant ministry, department or agency to pay you what it owes, you will more likely than not be owed indefinitely. Only the most important debts (read ‘Eurobonds’) are treated with any sort of priority. All the while, said government keeps on multiplying itself and getting bigger and more expensive to operate, while the inevitable demise of this state-sanctioned Ponzi scheme draws closer.

Misdirecting the conversation: A Buhari masterclass
For anyone who has followed the Nigerian news cycle since May 2015, it comes as no surprise that the response of the current administration to these and other incontrovertible facts illustrating its stark fiscal failure is either a pointed silence or an attempt to insult our collective intelligence by manipulating statistics and insisting that it is pursuing some sort of genius economic vision that we are too stupid to see. For anyone with a functioning pair of eyes and an IQ above 80, it is painfully obvious that the Emperor in Abuja is strutting around stark naked, but for a variety of reasons, only a few people stick their heads out to state the obvious.
At a time when the national economic conversation should be about rapidly improving our competitiveness in a non-oil field to boost productivity, exports and government revenue via reasonable tax policies, the president’s team has successfully misdirected the discourse into an endless debate about whether banning food imports will help local production. Despite being repeatedly and comprehensively showed up by superior arguments showing that comparative advantage and not jingoistic national pride should be the basis for macroeconomic decisions, the message out of Abuja continues to flog the dead horse of agricultural protectionism because it is a highly emotive theme that gets our blood pulsing if nothing else.
Whether it is the CBN effectively banning milk imports or the president issuing something that sounds suspiciously close to an order (that he has no legal authority to give) to the CBN on the same tired topic of agricultural autarky, this is the current administration’s substitute for actual economic policy.

It is the same tired preference for form over substance that one will recognise from the flurry of loud media trials and “UNDER INVESTIGATION BY EFCC” signs scrawled in red paint across properties in Ikoyi that inevitably led to the grand total of zero high profile corruption convictions after four years of rigmarole. Nigeria is objectively worse than four years ago and fast deteriorating, but at least some people got a day out in the sun.

This is also the game that was played recently with the public announcement of certain AMCON debtors, ostensibly for being major contributors to Nigeria’s indebtedness. In reality, these people that the government alleged were responsible for 67 percent of AMCON’s N5 trillion debt burden (N3.35 trillion) were actually responsible for about N600 billion cumulatively – just over 12 percent of the said amount. Not for the first time in the current administration, the government put out a blatant lie specifically designed to misdirect public attention, insult our collective intelligence and derail an important conversation about Nigeria’s debt crisis.

Recognising the severity of our situation and understanding that our government now apparently has the same ethical standards as a team of pubescent Internet trolls, it is more important now than ever before that those of us who can see through the smoke and mirrors continue to speak out about Nigeria’s fiscal situation. It is the single most important economic issue facing us now – everything else is a distraction. How bad are things in layman’s terms? I will let Mustafa Chike-Obi answer that himself:
“With the situation of things right now, if they gave me a job, I wouldn’t take it.”

As published by BusinessDay


Source:
http://www.africannewstoday.com/politics/nigerias-impending-debt-default-a-looming-african-disaster/

John Locke of 17th century UK, a philosopher talked of "Right to Revolution" where citizens have a duty to overthrow a government that destroys them and their future. Nigeria is over-ripe for an UPRISING.

It is not only SE that want to leave Nigeria. SS does too. SS wants to escape together with our SE brethren. SW wants to leave. MB wants to leave too. So SW, SE, SS and MB are forming alliances to leave together. Hausa are waking up, and some of them are telling their Fula slave masters to fvck off back to Futa Jalon.

Nigeria's constitution is unfriendly especially to SS & SE and none of us would ever have agreed to such a shit constitution that is against us.

An uprising is needed but we need to be clear what we want:
1) Each ethnic nationality has resource control.
2) Each ethnic nationality has borders control.
3) Each ethnic nationality has self-determination.
4) Each ethnic nationality has its own Constitution.
5) The indigenous people will decide if they want to be in a union. If so, with who? Then how?

Partition of Nigeria into 2 (Southern Nigeria & Arewa), or split into 4 (Oduduwa, Central Nigeria [MB], Lower Niger [SE & SS], & Arewa).

UPRISING!

budaatum:
Sounds like you'd rather support these yahoos trying to swindle Nigeria out of about $10b.

Well, we Nigerians are not that dumb. We need our money to fix our schools, fix our roads and clean up dirty Aba!

Problem is that politicians and civil servants will steal the money anyway, and none of it will go for the people's welfare. We need to change the SYSTEMS in this third world sh*thole.

And Restructure it into two different countries: Southern Nigeria & Arewa.

All our political class and top civil servants will always go as Migrants to White man's country because their own corruption has destroyed Nigeria.
Also, Buhari's grandchild by his daughter Zara was born in Spain because none of these shit leaders believe in One Nigeria but are making sure their future is in White mn's land.
Who knows but Mrs Buhari is in Europe to meet up with the rules for her to get residency.

One nigeeria that our leaders don't believe in and escape as often as possible. But when MB, SS, SE and SW talk of breaking away, we are called traitors. But the real traitors are the leaders who loot Nigeria dry then stay as rich Migrants in White man's land.

THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME “BIAFRA” AND WHY SOUTH-SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST MUST UNITE
By Russell Bluejack

I write as an Ijaw son from Bonny and Nkoro in Rivers State. Ijaw is my tribe, but Biafra remains my national consciousness. I have noticed an inexplicable and unnecessary division in the South-East and South-South in analogy to the reinvigorated quest to restore the Sovereign States of Biafra.

I think our people in these sister regions should reflect on these political and divisive ascriptions and rediscover themselves.

We are neither South-South nor South-East. We are the people of the Eastern Region, a people politically and economically impugned by our enemy in their bid to break our solid SOLIDARITY. We were too formidable for our enemies.

Some of our people think Biafra is an Igbo thing because they are ignorant of the origin of the name. Let me do justice to the origin of Biafra.

THE ORIGIN OF BIAFRA
Biafra is not aboriginal to Biafrans, since it was birthed out of the need to work together and escape the pogromists, rapists, land invaders, and religious fundamentalists called Fulani.

The leader of the Eastern Region, Dim Ojukwu, an educated military officer, assembled stakeholders from Ijaw, Obibio, Efik, and other tribes that constituted the region in his bid to come up with a name that would reflect the heterogeneous ambience of the region.

Chief Frank Opigo, an Ijaw traditional ruler that hails from today’s Bayelsa, suggested BIAFRA, and this went down well with everyone in attendance, for it referred to the water body that covers the entire region. What Ojukwu sought after was a name that would not be exclusionary to any of the tribes (Ijaw, Ibibio, Itsekiri, Urhobo, Annioma etc) in the region. Biafra became the baby of that quest.

Biafra, having come from a non-Igbo stakeholder, became the national consciousness of both the Igbo and non-Igbo constituents of the Eastern Region. Thenceforth, the need to actualise the nation of their dreams, the Land of the Rising Sun, became the aspiration of every easterner.

The failure of Nigeria to heed the Aburi Accord reached in Ghana for restructuring stoked the fire of the agitation for freedom. The Sovereign States of Biafra was declared, but it was short-lived because of avoidable internal wranglings that spiralled into the loss of the Civil War.

The incongruity in the Eastern Region was the result of the feud between Ojukwu and Dr. Kenule Benson Saro-Wiwa, an illustrious Ogoni son and Ojukwu’s military mentality and disposition.


WHY THE STRUGGLE FAILED IN THE 60S
Popular perception has it that the struggle for emancipation from perceived and obvious oppression by Nigeria was scuttled by the Civil War. That is part of the truth, not the whole. Biafra was rocked by internal wranglings.

Two prominent figures in the region, Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa, became estranged friends over an issue that should have remained personal. In one of our serious meetings, I was made to understand this side of the story. Legborsi, Emmanuel, a very prominent Ogoni son who doubles as a formidable member of my team, THE SOUTH-EAST/SOUTH-SOUTH COALITION FOR BIAFRA, opened up the Pandora Box concerning the real cause of their feud.

Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa were caught in a love triangle, with Princess Amina, the daughter of the then Sultan as the magnetic force. As scions (sons of very wealthy parents), they had the needed charisma to steer the imagination of the Sultan. Gowon, a senior military officer, joined the fray, but found himself as an underdog, financially and academically, for the duo of Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa were of both fabulous financial and transformative academic standing.

Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa, once friends, now rivals, had to slug it out. The laurel at stake was Amina’s affection. Saro-Wiwa, dishonestly struck a cord in Amina’s emotion and carried the day.

The Sultan, according to the veracious story, could not find his daughter and had the innocent Gowon, the suitor he abhorred, to blame for it. A triangle of hate became the result of this misdeed by Saro-Wiwa: Gowon hated both Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa; Ojukwu hated Saro-Wiwa for edging him out in the most dishonest manner; and Saro-Wiwa burned in annoyance over the contest.

An Ikwerre elder, nonagenarian, corroborated this story when I met him. He told me that the struggle hit the rock then because of two reasons:
(1) the feud between Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa
(2) the militarised mentality of Ojukwu’s.


The elder thinks that if Ojukwu, though well educated and exposed, were a civilian, he would have appreciated the need to dialogue with other stakeholders before going to war.

If the stakeholders had been told what each constituent would benefit from the emerging nation, the leaders would have had what to say to their people to excite them to take the struggle seriously. Ojukwu, on the other hand, wanted these stakeholders to convince their people to fight first and discuss later.

This did not go down well with them. Some, however, saw the need to fight. The festering relationship between Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa led to a huge sabotage.

The bottom line of the accounts of Legborsi and the elder is that our people were not united. Our disunity caused by personal grouse and lack of tact cost us that war. It is incontrovertible that we would have won the war had our house not been in disarray.

THE URGENT NEED FOR OUR UNITY NOW
Several years have gone by, yet the socio-economic and political inconcinnities that gave rise to the agitation then still stare us in the face. As a matter of fact, there is no gainsaying that if our fathers had reasons to fight then, there are more reasons to fight now.

The situation today is worse than it was then. Oppression, socio-economic exclusion, and glaring prejudice meted out to the South-South and South-East, the real economic mainstay of this contraption called Nigeria, have reached unbelievable and unimaginable proportions.

Even Ojukwu could not have conceived the precarious level of hate shown to us by the sons and daughters of Uthman Dan Fodio. The unfair treatment we are shown should make our unity imperative. Our personality issues and lack of tact gave them the happenstance to divide us and make us conquerable. We, the South-East and South-South people, are the victims of their jihadist rituals. Our women get raped, our lands invaded, our crops killed, and our men butchered.

The Igbo, Ijaw, Urhobo, Itsekiri, Annioma, Ibibio, Efik etc have always lived together in love and conviviality. A critical observation of our values and culture reveals our common ancestry. We dress alike, eat alike, behave alike, and worship alike. How different are we, brothers and sisters? Let us come together and fight this monster.

They have sent their soldiers to occupy our two regions out of fear of our imminent reunion. Exasperated by their inability to stop us from uniting, they have taken to poisoning our children under the pretense of immunization devoid of the viva of the health departments. In their bid to hold on to power at all cost, they flouted the constitutional proviso concerning absence of the President.

Their hatred for us led to the embargo placed on our Igbo brothers and sisters, which makes it difficult for any of them to become President of Nigeria. We and our Igbo brothers and sisters are the real victims here. We have to come together, sit together, discuss together, reach documented agreement, and escape together.


Our unity is the only leeway out of this fortress called Nigeria. Is it not shameful that whereas we have all the resources the Gambari are the ones exercising power over them all? Our Igbo brothers and sisters own both oil and the business environment that sustain this oppressive dungeon called Nigeria, but travel to the East and you will weep. They killed the Bill seeking the relocation of company headquarters to regions where the raw material is fetched. They killed the Bill seeking compensation to develop the Eastern Region. Whatever comes from the South-East and South-South dies on arrival.

If bills that seek better welfare packages for our regions always die, who is that mad person that is telling you that we can restructure this dangerous citadel that they claim belongs to them? Was it not the failure of Nigeria to heed restructuring agreement that sparked off the Civil War? The only way out of this quagmire is the unity of South-East and South-South. Let us unite and live in peace and harmony. Our sister regions need respite from rape, massacre, genocide, pogrom, alienation, discrimination, and prejudice.

Let us keep our unreal differences aside and face the enemy together. They will continue to defeat us as long as we remain divided. Our division is their strength, but our unity is their weakness. Jasper Adaka Boro, Dr. Ken Saro-Wiwa, and Sen. (Dr.) Obi Wali are some of the great men this fake nation has killed gruesomely. We have not found Mazi Nnamdi Kanu even as I write. Do you see how they hate us? The python that danced in the East has become a crocodile smiling in the South-South.

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Brothers and sisters, Saro-Wiwa was guillotined by Nigeria after a kangaroo judgment. Boro was used and shot. Obi Wali was butchered like a condemned chicken. Our beloved leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is nowhere to be found because of his liberating activities. Nigeria is a place where it is a heinous crime to speak up against oppression and neo-slavery.

Nigeria has become too dangerous for Christians. Nigeria has become too stuffy for anything that breathes. We have to go, brothers and sisters. We have overstayed in this prison.

We do not even know who signed the 1914 amalgamation, since all our nationalists were either adolescents, toddlers, or unborn at the time. Nigeria is the property of Britain’s under the management of the Fulani. Let the South-South and South-East come together and rebirth Biafra. They hate us and we hate ourselves.

Let love and understanding lead the way this time. Let us dialogue and end our differences once and for all. The enemy has become vicious. We should become more tactical now. May God bless us all as we heed this clarion call. May God bless the entire constituents of the Old Eastern Region.

Russell Idatoru Bluejack is a thinker, revolutionary writer, university tutor, and socio-economic and political analyst that writes from the creeks in the coastal part of Biafra.


Source:
https://odinceblog.com/the-origin-of-the-name-biafra-and-why-south-south-and-south-east-must-unite/

African presidents are not sincere and are liars so no need to listen to what their speech writer wrote for them.

African presidents are just migrants in the West, using public money to pay for their medical treatment and their shopping. Who wants to waste time looking at such mumu.

ewigmee:
There are millions of out of school Hausa kids, begging for means of livelihoods in the north( neighbours/friends). There is no plan for them, but they are importing foreigners and planning big for them all in the name of race.

Fulani don't like Hausa. They just use Hausa and have conquered the Hausa lands for Fulani. Hausa will forever be Almajiri in their own lands if they don't NOW rise up against these Fulani invaders. Hausa are a lot more numerous than Fulani and can send the Fulani with their sultans and emirs back to their ancestral home of Futa Jalon and Arabia (they are a half breed).

There is unity between the indigenous people of SE and SS. We have our Orient Harmony vision.

The needed divide is separation of the rest of Nigeria from Arewa.

SE, SS, SW and MB are in unity and alliance.


Orient Harmony website
https://web.facebook.com/Orient-Harmony-490676718354748/

Racoon:
$200M what? Perhaps the Irish firm have also learnt the trick from the present fraudulent govt whose cabal are just milking Nigeria mercilessly.

It is the money of Southern Nigeria: the oil producing areas and Lagos taxes.

One Nigeria needs to partition into 2. With MB and South together, then Sharia-Arewa a separate country.

Am not an Urhobo man, I am Ogoja. but I support EVERYTHING that will make the indigenous people of the entire South and Middle Belt prosper and progress.

Do consider copying and sending this message on via your Whatsapp (I have) and other social media. It tells us how crazy we are in actions that help destroy ourselves and our own people.

From a Whatsapp post:

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SOUTHERNERS NEED RUGA - BECAUSE WE LOVE FULANI CATTLE MEAT

For some 3 years Fulani herdsmen have been destroying farms in the South and Middle Belt, grabbing lands, and slaughtering indigenous Nigerians. Yet we are still buying their cattle, trading in its meat, and eating their beef.

What are the consequences of our actions? With our mouths we decry the murderous terrorism of Fulani herdsmen. Yet, we crave their cattle as our food, and give them our money for it. Is this sensible? Is this RIGHT?

We say that we don't want Fulani herdsmen destroying our people's farms, yet by craving to eat their cattle we are showing that we are a willing and good market for Fulani herdsmen, and that we will keep them in business, and even set them on their way to being wealthy, because we buy and eat their cattle. Completely unconcerned for our people who have been killed by Fulani herdsmen and our people who have lost their farm business to Fulani herdsmen destruction and land grabbing.

It is those of us mainly Southerners and Middle Belters who are encouraging Fulani herdsmen to stay in our midst by craving their cattle meat.
By now we know that Fulani herdsmen are part of the Fulanization agenda and that their land grabbing is dispossessing our children and their children who will then be landless and end up in IDP camps. We love to eat beef and trade in cattle meat, which strengthens Fulani presence in our midst. If that means our people losing their farms to land grabbing, so what? We love beef. It's ok to sell / exchange our birthright for Fulani beef. For us older ones, when Fulanization hits our children's generation it's ok - we have lived our own lives, so what does it personally concern me?

Our birthright which we inherited from our forefathers is our ancestral lands. But we are giving away our birthright in exchange for Fulani beef.

Our desire to sell and eat Fulani beef is greater than our desire for our children's good future. Parents and grandparents tell your children that the taste of beef, or the money you make NOW NOW from selling beef and its products, is more important to you than anything that may happen tomorrow. And that having this is beef is your concern, not any Fulanization of Nigeria. TELL YOUR CHILDREN! THEY DESERVE TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING TOWARDS THEIR FUTURE!

We especially of the South and Middle Belt are a strange people. We pray that God will stop Fulanization. But we assist and encourage Fulanization by being a big market for Fulani cattle and beef. We are a big market for them so why will they leave our lands and farms?

It is us mainly of the South and Middle Belt, we who are Fulani beef eaters who are bringing RUGA upon ourselves and our children because Fulani say we love their beef so much SO THEY WILL BRING THEMSELVES AND THEIR CATTLE IN OUR MIDST! So it is the love of Fulani cattle meat that gives government a reason and an excuse to impose RUGA on us.

To carry on eating Fulani beef and trading in Fulani cattle means helping and supporting the Fulanization agenda and it provides reason for Southern money to be used to set up RUGA on our ancestral lands, which will then belong to Fulani, as we hand over our land birthright in exchange for their beef. Plus change the demographics of Nigeria to favour Fulani and condemn our children, and their children to Fulanization.

It is not just trading in Fulani cattle meat, and eating Fulani beef. We know that cattle has special meaning to Fulani. And that they are using our craving for their beef to conquer the indigenous people.

Now that you know the consequences of your action, choose what effect your life will have on the future of indigenous people. It is YOUR choice. It is YOUR money. It is YOUR mouth. You can buy and eat and trade in whatever you like, without thinking or caring about the consequences... Even the consequences to YOUR children. The consequences be damned!


Share this important information with all Southerners and Middle Belters so that we fully understand the consequences that trading and eating Fulani cattle meat is having on our children's future.

(adapted from M.K.K.'s original message posted on social media)

Ilamina:


The contrast is too much

When Black man begins to think like white man, Africa go beta. But with juju and ritual killing, God won't allow. The self curse from juju will remain.

collinsfhk:
Yes it is. This piciture was taken on Monday. It rained heavily that day. That road is gone already. When I went to peace park at Enugu to board a bus to onitsha, I was wondering why there was no bus to onitsha and some of the drivers refused to go until I saw reason myself. The one I boarded while going to Enugu to the old road.

Earnestly I wondered if there is still government or representatives in the east.

Like in SS, they are all enjoying life as rich migrants in Europe and America with their pikin. They only come here when it's time to steal the federal allocation.

Nigeria2040:
And Buhari is busy building only northern roeds and constructing ruga

Buhari is busy using money of the South to develop Arewa. You see, Fulani are frightened of being thrown out of Nigeria because:

"...Uthman Dan Fodio was reported to have had a scary dream about his Sultanate empire that he had just built. This dream was said to have saddened him that the empire he had spilled so much blood to build would only lasted 200 years..."
(article: http://saharareporters.com/2010/03/27/fulani%E2%80%99s-fear-uthman-dan-fodio%E2%80%99s-dream)

So like King Herod killed all the infants to prevent Jesus growing up, Fulani are scared shitless and spending the money of indigenous people in the vain hope of staying in this land that is not their ancestral home. This is why in the 1980s they spent our money to grow Fulani White Cattle at the expense of our native Muturu breed, to make us dependent on their beef so that they will have what they deceive themselves to be a reason to be in Nigeria. But we are bringing back our Muturu. Pictured below.

Well, our leaders know we are too cowardly to go out on protests at the way corruption in all places is making our lives a misery.

The world will be laughing at the foolish Nigerian who daily eats shit and drinks stale urine.

CHRONOLOGY OF CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA
Tope Fasua Facebook post, 16th September 2019


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Corruption in Nigeria: A Historical Perspective (1947-2002)
Intellectual Property of Rina Okonkwo based on the work of George Ayittey, presented by Emeka Okafor.

THE GENESIS OF CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA

When did corruption in Nigeria begin? In the words of a colonial government report of 1947, “The African’s background and outlook on public morality is very different from the present day Briton. The African in the public service seeks to further his own financial interest.” The colonial report concluded that only public opinion could deal with corruption. The problem was that there was no responsible public opinion to check corruption in Nigeria.1

From as early as 1947, commissions of inquiry were held to investigate cases of corruption. The purpose of the inquiries was to expose wrong -doing and to punish the culprits.

Today, we hear much of the rampant corruption at the local government level. As early as 1955, just seventeen months after the inception of Igbo-Etiti District Council in May 1954, the colonial government held an inquiry into the affairs of the Council. The inquiry judged that the “conduct of the Council’s affairs had become a public scandal.” The colonial officer who conducted the inquiry, FP Cobb, noted, “public indignation was widespread and strong.” 2 The public was outraged at the corrupt behaviour of their representatives.

The report on Igbo-Etiti District Council revealed that there was ‘systematic corruption” in the appointment and promotion of staff and in the awarding of contracts. Bribes of L80 to L100 were demanded for unnecessary appointments. The brother of the Secretary to the District Council was hired above a more qualified applicant. In one case, a man paid a L400 bribe to secure a post and was never refunded his money when he did not get the job.

Contractors routinely paid ten percent of the value of the contract as bribe. The contracts were not awarded to the lowest bidder or to the most experienced or competent persons. At the end of its first seventeen months of existence, the Igbo-Etiti District Council was L6000 in debt. There was great wasting of public money due to “gross dishonesty in handling council affairs.”3

The local government councils have continued to be notorious for corruption. Why do such grassroots organizations attract such widespread graft? The people are often not prepared to undertake public office. They have no training in the procedures and ethics of public service. They have minimal education. There is poor supervision of the affairs 9of the Local Government Councils. The history of corruption in local government councils can show no change for the better.

In 1956, the Foster-Sutton Tribunal investigated the Premier of the Eastern Region, Nnamdi Azikiwe for his involvement in the affairs of African Continental Bank (ACB). Under the code of conduct for ministers, a government officer was required to relinquish his holdings in private business when he assumed public office. The Foster-Sutton Tribunal felt that Zik did not severe his connections to the bank when he became a Minister. The Tribunal believed that Zik continued to use his influence to further the interests of ACB.

Zik, his family, and the Zik Group of Companies were the principal shareholders of the African Continental Bank. ACB loaned over L163, 000 to the Zik Group of Companies at low interest. The Zik group did not have to repay the loans until 1971. ACB was a distressed bank. The new registrar of banks in 1952 refused to grant ACB a license. Attempts to find partners for the bank in Britain failed because of the insolvency of the bank.

In the words of a colonial government official, “Were a UK minister to be involved in a series of transactions the result of which public funds were used to support an otherwise shaky institution in which he was directly interested, he would be forced to leave public life.”4 Why did not the colonial government prosecute Zik for his failure to observe the code of conduct for government officers? The colonial correspondence revealed that the government supported the NCNC as the only party to embrace national unity. Without Zik, the NCNC would collapse. The national interest of the country demanded that Zik continue as leader of the party.5

The Governor of the Eastern Region Sir Clement Pleass further observed, “The exercise of public power for private profit is established in the East.” “The aim of the colonial government was not to establish a standard of honesty in public life. Only time and education can do that.” “A number of sensible people realized that Zik had done harm in the East in the last two years, but the mass of the people, ignorant and uneducated, voted him back to power.”6

When Zik called for a general election in 1957, as an alternative to resigning in the face of the findings of the Foster-Sutton Tribunal, the people gave him their support. The Economist observed that Nigerians had a “sunny and tolerant mentality” towards corruption.7 The colonial officer hoped that “Eventually sufficiently honest and enlightened people will be thrown up to rebuild the prosperity and good government of the region.”8

Obafemi Awolowo, the first premier of the Western Region, was found guilty of corruption by the Coker Commission in 1962. In 1954, the Western Region Marketing Board had L6.2 million. By May 1962, it had to exist on overdrafts amounting to over L2.5 million. A loan of L6.7 million was made to the National Investment and Properties Co., Ltd. for building projects out of which only L500, 000 was ever re-paid. The Western Region Finance Corporation and the West Nigeria Development Corporation also received loans of millions of pounds, which were never re-paid. The Coker Commission found Awolowo responsible for the all the ills of the Western Region Marketing Board, and Awolowo “without a doubt has failed to adhere to the standards of conduct which are required for persons holding such a post.”9

The First Republic, with Zik as the President, was marked by widespread corruption. Government officials looted public funds with impunity. Federal Representative and Minister of Aviation, KO Mbadiwe, flaunted his wealth by building a palace in his hometown. When asked where he had gotten the money to build such a mansion, KO replied, ”From sources known and unknown.” Minister of Finance Chief FS Okotie- Eboh responded to charges of accumulation of wealth by government officers by quoting from the Bible, “To those that have, more shall be given. From those that do not have, shall be taken even the little they have.”10

Azikiwe did not surround himself with men of good character. Chinua Achebe maintained that the political thought of both Awolowo and Azikiwe was based on politics for material gain. Achebe quoted from the autobiographies of the two men to show that making money and living well were primary goals in life for both our nationalist leaders. “If we were a more discerning people, we should not have trusted them with our lives even in the fifties and sixties.”11

The popular acceptance and even admiration for corruption was highlighted in Chinua Achebe’s novel about the politicians of the First Republic, A Man of the People. “The people had become even more cynical than their leaders and were apathetic into the bargain. “Let them eat,’ was the people’s opinion . . . It may be your turn to eat tomorrow.” 12

The military coup of January 15, 1966 was a direct response to the corruption of the First Republic. The popular support for the coup showed that people rejected corruption. Despite the brutality of killings of First Republic politicians, there was widespread rejoicing in the country for the acts. The assassinations of the Minister of Finance Chief FS Okotie-Eboh, who was notorious for flaunting his ill-gotten wealth, Premier of the Western Region, Samuel Akintola, nicknamed “rigging” and Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto, the Premier of the Northern Region, “whose wardrobe was the most elaborate in the world,” were applauded.13 The coup eliminated “the old brigade of politicians who were destitute of public spirit.” 14

The Ironsi government instituted a series of commissions of inquiry into affairs of the Nigeria Railway Corporation, the Electricity Corporation of Nigeria, Nigeria Airways, and the Nigeria Ports Authority. The report on the Ports Authority revealed that a number of ministers, including Okotie-Eboh, Ribadu, and R.Njoku had formed companies and used their influence to secure contracts.15 In Nigeria Airways, the minister, K. O. Mbadiwe had interfered with award of contracts to a company not registered in the register of companies. K.O. had gone against the board to send “Operation Fantastic,” the maiden flight of Nigeria Airways to New York. Friends and relations of the minister travelled free to New York. Many stayed on in the United States. Chief Dafe, the chairman of the board, was found guilty of hiring many unnecessary party workers in the airline. “Chief Dafe did not know the difference between Nigeria Airways and the party headquarters of the NCNC.” 16

Dr. Ikejiani, Chairman of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, was found guilty of misallocation of funds and disregarding the Board and recognized procedures of the NRC. When Ikejiani became the Chairman, he was in debt. Ikejiani left the NRC with a fleet of cars and buildings. The building of the Railway medical centre, which was estimated cost L75, 000, was inflated to L440, 000. The inquiry thought Ikejiani had diverted railway funds to build his private hospital. The architect for the medical center designed a building for Ikejiani in Lagos free of charge. The panel recommended that Ikejiani never again hold public office. 17

The zeal to punish the wrong doers of the First Republic died with the Gowon coup of July 1966. The politicians in detention were freed. Corruption increased. “Youths knew no other life than corruption.” “One could steal if he shared with those in the right places.”18

The coup of 1975 was an attempt to end corruption. Murtala Mohammed began by declaring his assets and asking all government officials to follow his example. Murtala instituted a series of probes of past leaders. The Federal Assets Investigation Panel of 1975 found ten of the twelve state governors in the Gowon regime guilty of corruption.
One of the exonerated military governors, Rotimi, was later appointed to head a commission of inquiry in 2000. The guilty persons were dismissed with ignominy and forced to give up property in excess of earnings.

The Belgore Inquiry investigated the “Cement Armada.” The Gowon government had imported sixteen million metric tons of cement at a cost of N557 million. Millions of Naira was lost in demurrage charges, as the cement rotted in the seas outside of Lagos. The ports were too congested to enable ships off-load their cargoes. The inquiry noted that the Ministry of Defence needed only 2.9 million tons of cement at a cost of N52million. The orders were inflated for private profit at great cost to the government.19

State governments held similar commissions of inquiry. Corrupt officials were dismissed with immediate effect and asked to refund the money they had stolen. Murtala was assassinated after only two hundred days in office. The Obasanjo regime did not show the same zeal in its prosecution of wrongdoers.

The Second Republic, under President Shehu Shagari, saw a resurgence of corruption. Shagari was ineffective in stopping the looting of public funds by the democratically elected officials. On December 31st, 1983, General Buhari led a popular coup with the aim of halting corruption. Buhari arrested the state governors and commissioners and brought them before tribunals of inquiry. All accounts of politicians were frozen.

In less than two years, Babangida replaced the reformist Buhari regime. The next fourteen years saw no serious attempt to stop corruption. Leaders found guilty in tribunals under Mohammed and Buhari found their way back to public life and recovered seized property. Wole Soyinka observed that for Abacha to launch a war against corruption was a “huge joke.”

The Third Republic has instituted numerous commissions of inquiry. The Oputa panel and the Akanbi Commission have investigated corruption. Yet all the commissions of inquiry and reports have not stopped corruption. The Transparency Index rated Nigeria the number two corrupt country in the world in 2001.

An historical look at corruption in Nigeria demonstrates that rhetoric against corruption does not end corruption. All the inspiring words of our leaders and journalists have not changed anyone. We have heard the most eloquent appeals and strongest language castigating wrongdoers to no avail. Azikiwe and Shagari were two excellent writers who did not act to stop corruption of their party members and colleagues.
From our survey of corruption in Nigeria, it would appear that change in Nigeria must come from the grass roots and not from the leaders. The British realized, as far back as 1947, that an educated, enlightened citizenry was the key to stopping corruption. Government could not legislate an end to corruption. Punishment of wrongdoers, while necessary, was not sufficient to stop corruption.

In his comparison of corruption in Nigeria and Britain, Ronald Wraith pointed to the need for education in good character and the importance of diffusion of wealth, power, and education in the society. There was need to build a tradition of disinterested public service. In Britain, responsible government began with the emergence of people who entered government service after they had amassed substantial wealth. They joined government, not to increase their fortunes, but to contribute to the country. When the people of Nigeria reject corruption, they will demand and receive good behavior from their leaders.


Source:
https://web.facebook.com/tope.fasua/posts/2801632576521742

Oyo-Ita is a typical top Nigerian civil servant. When she found out that Buhari was behind Maina, she should have resigned, stating that such grand corruption was treason against Nigeria and her loyalty is to God and to Nigerians. But foolish pride to be a big madam, have plenty money, made her bend her head and put away morality for Buhari.

AntiBalaka:
1. Adams Oshiomole

2. Rotimi Amaechi

3. El Rufai

4. Ambode

4. Kyari √

5. Aregberascal

Buh-ari LOVES Ky-ari

OPINION: CAN’T WE JUST BE NORMAL?
by N. Uwechue, African News Network, 13 September 2019

I regularly hear words such as, “Our great country” or “We can be great again” in reference to Nigeria. Such words make me wonder what the speaker means by “great”. Plus, for us to be “great again”, it implies that Nigeria was once great, and if so, when in our history of 105 years was Nigeria ever great?

From amalgamation to form Nigeria in 1914, and up to 1960, Nigeria was colonised by Britain but is it not strange for a people to say that when their land was occupied by a foreign power, their country was “great”? Today, “great” countries are those with enviable engineering technologies and they are able to manufacture all sorts of high precision and technically complex objects such as airplanes, ships, space rockets, trains and high speed railway systems, factory machinery, medical equipment, armaments, skyscraper buildings etc. Clearly Nigeria is not in that category, so it would instead be more correct to hope that one day Nigeria could become a “great” country.

If we are honest, Nigeria has been left so far behind that it is not possible to be among the great nations, not yet anyway, but we can aim to be among the NORMAL nations. A baby first has to walk before it can run. So too, Nigeria should first become a normal country, and when that has been achieved, we can then attempt to run with the great nations of the world. It is good to aim high, but it is even better to aim true. Young people are yearning for a normal country so on a daily basis you find them seeking visas to go abroad, or using unsafe and illegal methods to escape Nigeria. A normal country is one where things work as they should, and not where chaos, confusion, crises and disorder rule.

There are principles which affect individuals and nations. One very important principle is that “you reap what you sow”. Since Independence Nigerian society has been extremely careless in what it sowed, it sowed the seeds of corruption, and now the entire nation is reaping the fruits of corruption, which are a dysfunctional and delinquent nation. So, in order to become a normal country, Nigerians ought to sow good seeds, and pull out the weeds of corruption. It all starts with the mind, with the thinking. Up till now Nigerians thought that it was clever to grab a piece of the “national cake”. That orientation created a corrupt and uncaring society. We now need to uproot the weeds of “national cake” taking, and plant the right seeds that will build a normal nation. We now need to reject those attitudes that destroy a nation and replace them with community mindedness, valuing honesty, valuing hard work, valuing discipline and restraint, and valuing humility. In essence, to create a normal country we need to have citizens with character.

Let us visualize a normal country. In a normal country citizens would be able to have constant, good quality electricity at an affordable price. (When that is achieved Nigeria can be truly said to have entered the modern era). In a normal country citizens would have toilets in their own homes, schools, and places of work, plus there would be adequate public toilet facilities. In a normal country schools would have decent science laboratories and libraries, and environments that would be conducive to learning. In a normal country hospitals would be well-equipped and fit for purpose. In a normal country roads would have pavements and traffic lights so people would be able to cross the streets without anxiety and the risk of being mown down by uncaring motorists. In a normal country trains would be commonplace and boats would ply our rivers with passengers and with cargo. In a normal country the environment would be clean and beautified by trees, shrubs and flowers, and waste would be safely managed.

Cumulative neglect puts Nigeria at a low starting base. Thus, for Nigeria to become a normal country we could start off making most of our money from Low Technology Manufacturing such as the production of food, beverages, textiles, clothing, leather products, sustainable wood products, paper products, printing, and furniture. This would impart the ability to work unsupervised, to be good timekeepers, to pay attention to detail and understand the necessity for precision, it would boost confidence in our abilities, and rebrand Nigeria as a serious country, ready and able to do business and to produce high quality dependable products. “Made in Nigeria” would begin to have a positive impact, which we will need if later we want to work towards being a “great” nation, for scaling up into Medium-low Technology Manufacturing, Medium-high-Technology Manufacturing and High Technology Manufacturing.

In 1960 at Independence Nigeria held a lot of promise and had a lot of potential. However, nearly sixty years of damaging and systemic corruption, plus, sadly, what Nigeria’s founding father, Lord Luggard said of us, ie lack of foresight, and inability to visualize the future have destroyed much of the potential we once had. So we now have a lot of work to do to become a normal nation. Those who have much at stake because they have most of their lives ahead of them are young people, those 35 years old and below who make up 77% of Africa’s population. Although young people are not personally responsible for sowing the wind because they were not born then, they are the ones reaping the whirlwind. However, they should not fear, they can use this whirlwind as the wind to blow the sails of their ship to a new land, a new Nigeria, a normal country. Normal is good. Great can come later.


Source:
http://www.africannewstoday.com/politics/opinion-cant-we-just-be-normal/

Arda1000:
apart from say no rubbish write up.
point of correction is Ethnic groups not tribes,tHausa,Igbos,Erika e.t.c are Ethinic groups not Tribes.

12 TRIBES of Israel is how it's in the Holy Book. There's nothing wrong with the word "tribe". Some Europeans may have used it in a bad way but it only bothers us because Africa is a failure. If Africans had been able to live without depending on importing from Whites, without having to go to White man's country for education, jobs, opportunity, medical treatment etc, we would not mind the word tribe. But it bothers us because clearly Africans as we are today can't do anything on our own. So we have inferiority complex about everything because we have nothing truly all-African to bring to the international community.

I DON'T BELIEVE ANYBODY FROM NIGER DELTA, OR ANYBODY FROM AN INDIGENOUS TRIBE WILL EVER SAY WRITE THIS>

NIGERIA WITH ALL THE TRIBES IS ALREADY NOT WORKING!

SEPARATION FROM AREWA IS THE ONLY GOOD SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION.

coolcharm:
This... Is backstabbing

Imagine who was once addressed as 'lord' colluding with foreigners to rape and loot her mother land for personal financial gains.


Traitor!

Nothing new. Our chiefs (and kings) have always sold their people to a horrible slavery to Arabs and to Europeans. It's our culture: make gain on the suffering or death of your fellow African and feel nothing at all.

WHY NIGERIA CANNOT AFFORD A STAND-OFF WITH SOUTH AFRICA - by Gimba Kakanda
Al-Jazeera, Opinion
9 Sept 2019


Today Abuja addresses Pretoria from a position of weakness.

Since the images and videos of the maiming and killing of black foreigners in South Africa began to emerge on various social media platforms last week, Nigeria has been an emotionally frayed place. Tens of thousands of Nigerians live in South African cities and in recent years, they have become frequent targets of xenophobic attacks.

This time, anger in Nigeria boiled over and young Nigerians took to the streets protesting South African aggression and unleashing some of their own on South African-owned businesses.

The Nigerian government felt pressured to act and subsequently recalled its ambassador from Pretoria and announced it was pulling out of the World Economic Forum meeting on Africa which was held in Cape Town. While some Nigerians welcomed the move, others thought it was not enough and called on their government to intervene and rescue its citizens.

Examples abound of powerful countries going to great lengths to protect and repatriate their citizens who have faced danger abroad.

But Nigeria is not one of them. Indeed, in the past, the country has stood its ground on a number of occasions when defending its national interests. In the 1960s, for example, Nigeria had a face-off with France over the latter's continuous tests of nuclear weapons in the Sahara desert. The government of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa acted decisively, breaking diplomatic relations with Paris, expelling the French ambassador and imposing a full embargo on French goods.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Nigeria led the international effort to isolate and pressure the apartheid regime in South Africa. It threatened economic action against Western powers for refusing to sanction the regime and supported the national liberation movements in Southern Africa, including the African Nation Congress (ANC), with millions of dollars annually.

In the 1990s, the country, under the leadership of military ruler Sani Abacha, defied international sanctions and welcomed a visit by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. It also directly intervened in the Liberian civil war, dispatching Nigerian troops to fight.

Most of the reactions to the violent attacks on Nigerians and other Africans in South Africa reflect a yearning for Abacha-style diplomacy. But as recent developments in its relations with the United States demonstrated, Nigeria can no longer wield such diplomatic power. Last month, the Nigerian government was spectacularly quick to react to the US's reciprocal rise in visa fees by reducing the charge for Americans applying for a visa to enter the country. And last year President Muhammadu Buhari decided to "keep quiet" on President Donald Trump's alleged "s***hole" remark about African nations.

At present, it is clear Nigeria does not have the military, the intelligence capability or the diplomatic clout to pursue a serious escalation against even a regional power, such as South Africa.

This diplomatic "standoff" with Pretoria has exposed the weakness Abuja has masked in parading itself as a self-styled "Giant of Africa". South Africa used to be a bully that Nigeria could restrain through its support for proxies inside the country and its neighbourhood. But since the end apartheid, this relationship has evolved into a regional competition, which Pretoria is winning.

After the sanctions and international isolation were lifted, South Africa quickly became the continent's more favoured ally of developed economies and foreign investors. Pretoria emerged as the recipient of the largest share of foreign direct investment in sub-Saharan Africa and in 2011 joined the BRIC countries in an economic pact formed to challenge the domination of Western economic policy.

It is also an important trading partner that Nigeria cannot afford to lose. South African businesses have major investments in the country, including the DSTV cable service, MTN telecom, the Shoprite supermarket chain and others. Nigeria exports $3.83bn worth of goods, mostly oil and oil products, to South Africa. By contrast, it imports just $514.3m of South African products, which accounts for less than one percent of total South African exports.

The more contrasting feature of the two economies, and which again highlights Nigeria's weakness is that while Abuja levers around a commodity-dependent economy, Pretoria has built a highly-diversified economy with a superior industrial structure. In other words, Nigeria needs South Africa economically, much more than South Africa needs Nigeria.

Nigeria's geopolitical power has also waned in recent years, while South Africa has remained a major regional power. Abuja has been battling with a rebellion in the north for years and has struggled to put a stop to flares of tribal violence regularly killing dozens of people. In its neighbourhood, Nigeria continues to feel largely insecure, surrounded by Francophone countries whose allegiances to France threaten the commitment of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to stability and non-aggression in the region.

The Nigerian government has also been unable to muster enough influence in the West to become a trusted partner. In 2014, the Obama administration, for example, blocked the sale of arms to the Nigerian military. The Trump administration decided to proceed with it but under heavy conditions which Nigerian officials have deemed "unacceptable". Western reluctance to sell weapons to Abuja has pressed it to seek arms on the black market. South Africa has embarrassed it twice in recent years by intercepting large arms shipment bound for Nigeria.

In this sense, the Nigerian government cannot do anything about the violence against its citizens in South Africa beyond making a few symbolic diplomatic moves and bringing up once again the Nigerian role in liberating South Africans from its white oppressors. It is clear that in doing so it is addressing Pretoria from the position of weakness.

Indeed, using persistent references to sub-Saharan African commonality and solidarity as a result of shared history, race and geography is not an effective foreign policy tool.

The idea of One Africa is a farce taken too far, and successive Nigerian elites have pandered to this fantasy to the detriment of national interests. The legacy of this pan-African misadventure is a geopolitically weak Nigeria which cannot stand up to for itself and for its citizens

This very much has to do with mismanagement of the economy. The redemption Nigeria needs is one that moves the country away from dependence on oil exports, foreign imports and interventions and towards diversification and industrialisation. We cannot afford to glorify the idea of producing pencils in the age of artificial intelligence any more.

Only if the country becomes materially secure and industrially productive will it be able to regain its soft power and international clout and stand up to the old bullies in its neighbourhood.


Source:
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/nigeria-nigerians-xenophobic-attacks-south-africa-190908200649204.html

Eteka1:
So its Buhari that makes the Europeans see Nigerians and drug pushers, fraudsters etc? How do people like you even reason set?

Yes. Because Buhari is himself a thief who uses public money to pay for his lawyers. Then his cabinet is a gang of known thieves. Then he adds to corruption so instead of citizens doing right because police and courts work properly, lawlessness and wrong thinking abounds. Then it's because of the decay from corruption that too many Nigerians are in Europe. If Nigeria had been a good place, and Nigerians behaving well, the president would be taking the honour. But he's a corrupt poorly educated man and the dishonour for Nigerians sticks to him.

Italians, Spanish and Greeks don't want Nigerians because of drug trafficking and prostitution. French, German and British don't trust Nigerians because of dishonesty. Now we have a Nigerian rapper with so much hate for Whites he sounds like a Boko Haram terrorist. Nigerians under Buhari are gaining dishonour everywhere! Europeans on social media are of course angry with this man and are rejecting Nigerians.

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SWEDEN: NIGERIAN MIGRANT RAPPER WITH 280,000 YOUTUBE SUBS URGES BLACKS TO SHOOT, ENSLAVE, AND KILL WHITE PEOPLE


Jesse Ekene Nweke Conable, a Nigerian-born rapper who goes by the handle JCBUZ, has openly called for his fellow blacks to commit violence against white people during a hate-filled rant in a social media group.


In the rant, Conable propagates racism and urges fellow Africans living in Europe to kill whites, Samhällsnytt reports.


“If any white guy or white girl is trying to talk shit about you, shoot them!” Conable said in a closed group on social media.

In their report, Samhällsnytt writes that the Instagram account Barasvarta (“Blacks only”) is open only to blacks and enjoys several hundred followers. The account is run by Conable and has slogans like “Black Power in Sweden” and “Bleep White People”.


In one of the videos posted to the page, the Nigerian rapper says, “My brothers and sisters, my black brothers and sisters I have an important message for you. I just want to tell you all my black brothers and sisters out there – you are special and nobody is like you. Continue the war. We blacks will take over – we will become number one – one beautiful day we will become number one – we will take over these whites. So as these whites took us as slaves we should take these as slaves and treat them even worse.”


“Like these whites took us as slaves we should take them as slaves and treat them even worse,” Conable says during his rant.

“We’ll take their bitches and we’ll take their money. To be perfectly honest, we will be the best race ever,” Conable went on. “We are African warriors, they are not on our level. This is just the beginning, black power.”


“This is just the beginning, it starts small but believe me we will grow and become bigger. We will be the strongest group in Sweden – nobody will dare to mess with us. Just wait, it will be a beautiful day.”


Astoundingly, Jesse Ekene Nweke Conable or JCBUZ currently enjoys nearly 280,000 subscribers to his YouTube accounts.


The military-aged Nigerian migrant first came to Sweden in 2008. He now enjoys Swedish citizenship and maintains a residence in Lund.

Source:
https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/09/sweden-nigerian-migrant-rapper-with-280000-youtube-subs-urges-blacks-to-shoot-enslave-and-kill-white-people/

Jay5mie:
Lol...we run from thieves, we run from police too

What's the difference.... Police and thieves (song by Junior Murvin)