₦airaland Forum

Blizzy9ja:
Lets keep our fingers crossed anticipating with so much excitement

bejeiodus:
Pius really threw some punches with this write up. His sarcasm was quite pristine. My problem with men like him is they believe governance is a stroll in the park. They stand by the sidelines and blame those sweating it out on the field. He should kindly leave the comfort of America and come home to seek election into an office.
Abati was an armchair critic like Adesanmi until he experienced the heat of being in public office.
Pius should not deny Nigerians is "omniscient" prowess.

shamecurls:
Ugandans will never agree even though there celebrated Hero did nothing for them all through his reign

Well, we finally got a partial list and a partially fulfilled promise from the Buhari administration after the President's compulsory rite of passage in his dealings with the people: the own goal of making promises nobody asked you to make and then having to be dragged kicking and screaming to fulfill your promises after suffering avoidable dents on the integrity front.


We have repeatedly tried to assure the administration that these various categories of enemies of the anti-corruption efforts have nothing to say about the weaknesses of the said efforts that anybody should lose any sleep over. They have zero moral basis from which to make the transition from silent enhancers and facilitators of Goodluck Jonathan's, Dasuki's, and Diezani's years of economic genocide to credible critics of the current anti-corruption war. Hey, they are criticizing the current anti-corruption war because there is an ongoing war to criticize!

There are of course genuine voices to be listened to in terms of how to constantly help the administration and Professor Itse Sagay's committee improve upon their efforts and work on perceived weaknesses in terms of process and procedure and also matters of perception, fairness, and balance. There are also incurable Buhari praise singers to be avoided if the administration is not to allow herself to be convinced that the anti-corruption war is perfect because it is run by a deified and an infallible President.

President Jonathan did recover some funds - especially from the Abacha stash. Depending on which direction her gele was facing and whether she was addressing audiences in Nigeria, Europe, or Washington, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala kept changing her narrative of what was done with the funds until she finally had to admit grudgingly that a healthy chunk of the funds had been funnelled into the Dasuki ATM for the election. She waived some kind of authorization document to absolve herself.

The Buhari administration must learn from this. We shall legitimately want to know what happened to the current funds before 2019. And we shall definitely expect people to have been outed, given a fair trial and sentenced to death if we have the death penalty on our books for economic treason. We don't? Okay, I could live with hefty prison sentences.

There is already talk that the recovered funds could take care of 30% of the deficit in the current budget.

No, I do not support ploughing the recovered loot back into the budget. It should go into a dedicated fund for accelerated development projects all over the country. The challenge will be how to ensure that funded projects are 21st-entury or futuristic infrastructure that do not suffer from contract inflation and corner cutting by contractors.

When you build or refurbish hospitals, roads, classrooms; when you provide water projects (not boreholes) for communities, there should be a plaque commemorating such projects and indicating clearly the source of the funds - this is what was stolen from you, and this is how we have spent it after recovering it.

In President Buhari's shoes, I would spend this money on an Adojutelegan basis. I would start in the hometown of the supervisor of the monumental corruption that is now yielding the recovered funds. He is also the hero of the fiercest enemies of the anti-corruption war who have been polluting our airwaves, heehawing that no funds were recovered, or the figures have been exaggerated, etc.

In President Buhari's shoes, I would embark on a major water project in Otuoke. I understand that a borehole had to be hurriedly built when President Jonathan was on his way out. This should not be the case. A former President's home town deserves a standard water project. There should be a 21st-century water project in Otuoke taking treated pipe-borne water to every home in the town. I would conclude this project in one year and invite Mrs Ngozi Okonjo Iweala to cut the tape and commission it.

Next, I would set up a committee to identify and compile the names of many of the fiercest deniers of the Jonathan/Dasuki/Diezani corruption industrial complex. It is not difficult to identify those who are denying the corruption or brazenly embracing and supporting it. They are all very vocal and visible on Facebook and Twitter. It will not be too difficult to identify their hometowns and villages.

My good guess is that the home towns and villages of these people are likely to be the hardest hit by the corruption of their hero: rickety schools, dilapidated clinics, no roads, nothing. I am also guessing that if you contact the development unions or associations in their home towns and villages, you would find out that many of these pro-corruption town criers on social media would be absent from the list of active participants in town or village development projects and efforts. If the community raised money for a borehole in the last five years because the money to provide water had been looted by the Jonathan corruption industrial complex, it is a safe bet you would not find their names on the list of contributors.

In Buhari's shoes, I would use the recovered funds to construct 21st-century roads, rehabilitate primary and secondary school classrooms, build hospitals and clinics, fund standard water projects, etc., in the towns and villages of such identified enemies of the anti-corruption war.

I would start by renovating every classroom in Reno Omokri's village and have the project commissioned by Tolu Ogunlesi. I would then go to Femi Aribisala's village, build a 21st - century hospital with recovered funds, and have it commissioned by Oby Ezekwesili, the lady in whose presence he was delegitimizing the anti-corruption war recently in a debate.

All over the country, there is no shortage of pro-corruption activists whose home towns and villages took a tragic hit from the corruption industrial complex of their hero. Use money recovered from the corruption supervised by their hero to develop their home towns and villages.

No, it is not pettiness.

 

It is what the Yoruba call Adojutelegan

GenBuhari:
Madam, I hope you not mocking me oo!

Nonetheless I clarify.

Nigeria is like a house on fire with the so called ND militant attacks, Boko Haram, decline in revenue etc and the goverment is the man whose house is burning down.
He is going to be too busy fighting the fire; being advised to rearrange his furniture is equivalent to calls for the restructuring of Nigeria, so obviously fighting the house fire would be his priority and not rearranging the furniture.

Thats it.

GenBuhari:
It is like asking a man whose house is burning down to rearrange the furniture in his house. He would have more pressing priorities than rearranging furniture at that time.

989900:
Mo' .

Eventually, it will happen, but we have so much to contend with, and regularize at this hour . . . it should be a gradual process IMO.

989900:
What would you have said in his shoes?

989900:
Best response from Femi in a long while.

Beremx:

otukpo:
Yea, this is a nation that plans for the future of its citizens.

bejeiodus:
Saraki is well known to be light-fingered while Sahara reporters are notorious for their incredible news. This makes it difficult to believe any of the two parties.

Babacele:
don't waste time with fifthcolumnists , Mo....they are wired to sabotage, even ideas ain't save with them: so how can you ask such persons who n who own houses and businesses in Abuja , not to even ask werent they in Abuja for 16 year of its 20 something years of existence?

FxDuke:


deeply enmeshed in not only ethno-religious battle for supremacy, it is also unfortunate to have citizens who are up for sabotaging the progress,peace and prosperity

Swerve and take your rabble rousing elsewhere!!
another major national malaise spotted!
but USA ironically a country that's thoroughly heterogeneous is thriving.

PRYCE:
Thought I'd find you here..

My very own Modath!

sammyj:
I am suspecting conspiracy theory from the manufacturer of GMD seeds. I hope Nigeria frames willl not regret this action to result tj their seeds in the coming years.

Too late, Nigeria already don enter the one chance since , did research about it and would have created a thread but just got overwhelmed by the sheer wickedness of the west and also didn't want to add to the panic.

That their Agric revolution thing was a giant ponzi scheme...The kain CANCER & other deadly diseases wey dey lurk ehn!!!

Fifthcolumnist:
The Idea of Abuja being the geographical centre was just an excuse to move development to the north. Is Washington DC at the centre of USA? Or is Beijing at the centre of China? I wonder if you're paid by the north to defend them on nairaland

Rose2014:
At the bold, The region feeds 170million people, I don't see how citing the capital of Nigeria over there is something for u to make fun of
Some of you Yorubas never fail to amaze me

blueto:
This movement by the NDA should not be appraised as a mere group prevailing because of an exiguous quantum of affluence individuals. their ideology seems logical, and as a result of this, people are buying their “justified” mutiny and it is aggrandising by the day.

FG should tactle this amicably now before it deteriorates.

Armaggedon:
How will the shuting of their website stop them from carrying out more attacks?

They will soon launch another site, announce it via their twitter handle and start their attacks with renewed vigor

The NLC also accused the government of refusing to disclose the actual monthly sum of internally generated revenues.

PassingShot:
Why not add this:
Resignation of President Buhari from office for his offence of Defeating your hero.

Expensivewarrio:
Whether the picture in circulation is true or false is inconsequential, the question is did the adherents of Islam in kano kill an innocent woman for a mere accusation of blasphemy?

Tinubutoto:
Buhari must beg, we don't need his courtesy call to Jonathan. He has to apologise publicly for terming us 5%.

Beremx:
You didn't pray for Nigeria when Jonathan was president okwa ya?

hypocrite!

sonOfLucifer:
Stop praying o. THat's why we're in this mess. God has ear infection worse than Buhari's own.

benedictnsi:
Lol
I d craze to believe am before May be they've gone to "Arsenal market" to shop for Missiles, bullets and other sophisticated bombs for pipelines and Co

bejeiodus:
If the news is true, it is the way to go. Dialogue can resolve issues faster than guns and bullets. Now is the time to put down the weapons and come to the talking table.
The food of justice is never cooked in the pot of violence.

We also need the international communities as well. Hence, we must desist from any life threatening actions that will derail our genuine struggle for our people.

chikel2000:
Fayose d man of d people. I just lov dis guy

“I want to say that I will be expecting you back to your offices when you are ready to return to work.