Ezemust: do not talk 2 ursf we can see u tru n tru
Welcome to the troupe. You will be joining a large group of people that want to entertain me. The previous entertainment has been very poor and the standards here are high, so you'll need to up your game.
Here's something to help you.
♪Monkey come chop banana. Monkey come chop banana.♫
Ezemust: Show us in 2015 and 19 where u scrutinized buhari like this.if u do this i will start believing u are apolitical.
Me or El-Rufai?
If the question is directed at me, then people who follow me know how I scrutinised Buhari ahead of the 2015 elections, in fact the post has been shared many times.
As for you, I'm not going to show you a damn thing because I don't owe you any explanation and I don't give a shit whether you think I;m partial or impartial. That is your personal problem.
Electorate: The only question I want to ask the OP is that if El-Rufai has the required qualification to analyse state budget? If no then he has no business with Anambra or any state budget for that matter...
Are you asking me?
Mr Electorate, the only question I want to ask you is if you have the required qualification to ask me any question. If no, then you have no business asking me or anyone any question.
1) It's quite entertaining when you see two people post basically the same thing, but they are attacking each other. It means that they don't even understand what they are posting. They are so much in attack mode that they actually attack people who agree with them.
2) It's quite hilarious when people refer me to politicians. Once upon a time I created a thread about a businessman that had trouble with the law. Someone quoted me and threatened to create a post about a politician. What the heck is my business if you create a post about any politician? How does that concern me?
There's a lot of hilarious nonsense on Nairaland and that's why I am never leaving this site.
One of the greatest gifts and tools that mankind has is a brain. Having a brain enables people to analyse things and think for themselves.
However, some people have contracted out their brain. They no longer use their brains. They allow ethnicity, political parties, religions, etc to think for them. Whenever there is an issue, the first thing they do is ask, what religion, what political party or what ethnic group. That determines how they respond. They can no longer think for themselves. Their thinking has been contracted out to these groups.
Furthermore, these people often make politicians their lords and saviours. It's so bad that it has evolved into fascism.
What is fascism?
I consumed Britannica Junior and World Book encyclopaedias like food when I was a kid and so I am fond of Britannica. It defines fascism as
A way of organising a society in which a government, ruled by a dictator, controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government
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This is the exact thing that some Nigerians love. They are so fanatical and sycophantic that they elevate politicians to their lords and masters. Once a politician becomes their lord and master, the following rules apply:
1) No one should criticise, scratch that, no one should even question their lords and masters. They attack you once you do that and claim that you have been paid or that you are an enemy of Nigeria. It's not even that no negative thing must be said against their lords and masters. You must not even question them. You must agree with everything they say, praise every action they take and worship them as if you are some mindless zombie.
2) Nobody should say anything positive about the opponents of their lords and masters. They attack you once you say anything positive about the opponents of their lords and masters. Those opponents are devils who can never do anything good. You must pour condemnation on anything that the opponent does, whether good or bad, and you must just follow the ideas that have been set by the group (you must not think for yourself).
There is no force in this planet that can make me follow any group think. That's reserved for he-goats. Even he-goats sometimes rebel against the leader of their herds. God gave me a brain so that I can evaluate things for myself and nothing, absolutely nothing, will make me elevate any politician to an unquestionable lord and master, neither will anything make me condemn something good just because someone else tells me to. I will criticise anyone that I feel needs to be criticised and I will praise any action that I feel needs to be praised and there isn't a damn thing that anyone can do about that, except to continue to make noise online.
Once I interact with you once and I see that you don't have anything sensible to say, I will put you in my ignore list and I will never read anything you post. I'll hit the back button immediately I see your username in my mentions tab.
Grandmeister: Naptu2 is older than most nairalanders, going by his threads on old school songs which only a few of us played back in our younger days. He is also lettered and schooled but you see this thing called TRIBALISM eh? No amount of abcd and 123 can wash it off you.
Check out another one here.
Ok, what "tribe" (as you call it) am I from?
Isn't it amazing that people just manufacture nonsense in their heads and come here to vomit it?
Brendaniel: So it is clear that El-rufai was the one who looked for trouble and for you naptu2 you are part of the reason why Nigeria is where it is today, you are not a kid, I noticed you have been supporting and still supporting useless governments right from your youthful age because of tribe and religion...
Hahahahahahahahaha
Everybody, come and check out this crap.
It's amazing that there are so many clowns that are trying to entertain me, but most of them are not even interesting. In fact, they are downright boring!
Why bother me with your boring nonsense when you know that you'll only end up in the ignore list?
Can't you even try to exercise your brain and produce something sensible?
Interim Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Malam Nasir el-Rufai, was yesterday in Awka prevented from moving out of his hotel room to monitor the Anambra governorship election.
el-Rufai told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the ‘Finotel Hotel’ where he lodged that some armed men of the State Security Service (SSS) restrained him from moving out of the hotel to monitor the election.
He said:“I arrived in Awka by 7 p.m. on Friday and had a brief session with the APC candidate, Sen. Chris Ngige. When I came out to have my dinner, I saw three heavily armed SSS officers at the hotel.
“I asked them why they were following me; they told me that they were protecting me because Awka is not safe.
“I told them that I came with my own security. This morning, as I was about to have breakfast, they blocked the corridor and tried to restrain me from going out but I pushed by and went to the restaurant to eat.
“After my breakfast, I will be going to the APC Situation Room in town to monitor the election. I am being unlawfully detained here,’’ he said.
NAN reports that at this point, one of the SSS men entered the restaurant and confiscated the reporter’s tape recorder and deleted the recorded interview before returning it to her.
When contacted on telephone, the Director of SSS in the state, Mr. A.U. Okeiyi, confirmed the report, saying that el-Rufai was being protected.
“el-Rufai is not an ordinary person. If anything happens to him, they will blame the security,’’ he said.
Heavily armed security men were seen guarding the premises of the hotel.
Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, reacted angrily to the development.
He said the former minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) had no business in Anambra State on the day of election.
The governor said genuinely accredited observers are not hindered by anybody.
“Accredited observers are moving around freely. But I am not sure el-Rufai was accredited by INEC as an observer.
“Like I said before, he has no business or any reason to be in Anambra at this time. All he is doing is dragging the name of Anambra in the mud.
“I can’t go to Katsina and monitor a governorship election. This is a federation. Even if he belongs to a particular party, the party has chieftains in this state and people of the southeast extraction.
“People should know that we have one country and we must build it for our children. el- Rufai has no reason to be in Anambra State.
“Quote me anywhere. I can’t go to Katsina State or Kano or where ever he may come from and go and monitor elections there. He should stay there”.
Where did Mallam Nasir El-Rufai go wrong in his presentation on Anambra’s budget of misplaced priorities? Is it the facts he presented that Anambra State with adult literacy at 74.0% is behind Imo (80.8%) and Abia State (78.2%) or that the two major contributors to IGR will be N6.76 billion from taxes and about N4 billion from fines and fees? If this IGR is measured against the state projected personnel costs of N16.3 billion, Anambra cannot pay its staff salaries without reliance on federal allocation; this means it is one of those ‘dependent’ states and is not economically viable for independent existence. Can anyone fault this simple analysis from information provided by the government itself?
I need not restate all that El-Rufai laid out in that piece but I was surprised that he was accused by Governor Obi of insulting the Igbos and that only Anambra State indigenes can assess his administration not outsiders who have never visited the state like El-Rufai. Anyway, I am an Igbo from Anambra State and I state as follows: I do not feel insulted in anyway by the article in question and being from Anambra State, I wish to exercise the right which the Governor graciously granted only the indigenes of Anambra state, which is the right to assess his administration.
Peter Obi brought civility into governance in Anambra State at a time politics in the state had degenerated to dangerous and unacceptable levels. That I must concede. But he has also taken, as they say, liberty for license, engaged in needless propaganda, pursuit of federal lucre and in the process, squandered a golden opportunity to positively transform a fruitful virgin state.
Propaganda works and it has worked well for Peter Obi, but it has its limits. One of the areas where a lot of propaganda has gone into in Anambra state is road construction. A lot of quality roads were constructed by the Ngige administration. But the present government claimed to have ‘Asphalted’ over 500 km of roads and claims that Anambra State has the best network of roads in the Country. How much did it cost the state, assuming the number is accurate and of what quality?
A government that prides itself as the most prudent in Nigeria should present the whole picture to its citizens. For instance, in May, 2011, the government of Cross River State under Senator Liyel Imoke, signed contract agreements Publicly with eight contractors for the construction of 474 km of roads valued at N20.325 billion to cover 28 communities across the State under the Cross River Rural Access and Mobility Project. The Projects are being jointly funded by the African Development Bank contributing N7.016 billion and Cross River State contributing N13.308 billion.
How much exactly did the 500km of roads built in Anambra State by Governor Obi cost? Informed citizens have put the figure at between N48 billion and N60 billion, more than double of what Cross River State is spending for corresponding kilometers of roads. As regards the quality of the roads, most indigenes would admit that you can determine which road was done under Ngige and the ones under Peter Obi by the standard. The roads built under Ngige are of a much higher quality. Most of the roads done by Peter Obi will have to be re-awarded, a case of penny wise, pound foolish.
Another major propaganda point is that the government of Peter Obi has not borrowed while other profligate states have been borrowing recklessly. How can a state with massive infrastructure deficits keep its funds in the bank while the Governor’s major developmental efforts will be in commissioning of bore holes, immunization programmes and giving grants to schools seeking accreditation? How much of the state government money is actually in the bank and can the government come out categorically and deny the rumor that over N150 million is paid out by the ‘banks’ as commission every month? Is there a correlation between these monthly commission payments from the banks and the fact that the average cycle of contracts and payment in the state is two to three years sometimes more in order to maintain a certain minimum bank balance?
While rebuking El-Rufai for daring to point out the facts about the state, the Governor claimed that he has attracted industries to the state and mentioned two: Innoson Motors and SAB Miller Breweries in Onitsha. Innocent Chukwuma is from Nnewi in Anambra state. His company, Innoson has always been in Nnewi, long before Obi became Governor. It started as a motorcycle assembly plant before moving to buses, and other vehicles. So Peter Obi did not attract Innoson to Anambra State. He considers as a major achievement the fact that he built the road leading to the Innoson factory and brought the President to commission it. Congratulations!
On Sab Miller, the Governor will need to address the rumor making rounds in the state concerning the ownership of 22% of Sab Miller shares. Anambra State Government owns 10% while the remaining 12% is said to be owned by other businessmen from Anambra State. Who are those other businessmen? Since they are not ghosts, it is important that their names be made public to avoid ugly rumors.
Talking about investment in the state, the Governor is known to be a successful trader before he became Governor. If the state is so attractive for business, what informed the decision of his own company NEXT International to invest over N12 billion building the two largest shopping malls in Abuja, one in Mabushi and the other in Central Area, opposite federal ministry of transport? The Governor announced proudly that this year, he will pay N32 million as tax in Anambra State. Why invest and create employment outside the state and then pay tax in Anambra State? It is a very strange way of doing things. Anambra State needs the investment and jobs that the Governor outsourced to Abuja and other places. I call on the Governor to publish his tax returns to know exactly where the N32 million income tax is coming from. Is it from dividends or other sources? Since he mentioned it, we need to know more.
Anambra State is a rural state and nobody can deny that. It has no airport, no stadium and no good public secondary school. If you fall sick in the state and you are unable to navigate yourself to the Nnamdi Azikiwe Federal University Teaching Hospital, you are finished. The State University Teaching Hospital, Awka, which was ‘commissioned’ by President Jonathan in 2010, is still an ongoing project in 2012. Yet, the money is in the bank! None of the three ‘cities’ within the state; Awka, Onitsha, Nnewi is really habitable. There is no public water supply system in those areas. The Government of Obi competes with individuals in the provision of boreholes all over the state with his so called development partners. No place like that can attract talents who will contribute to the development of the state.
Little wonder then, that two out of every three property/land transactions in Asaba and Enugu involve indigenes of Anambra State. Most members, past and present of Anambra State House of Assembly and Commissioners including most of the bank managers in Anambra State, all have their houses in Asaba and Enugu from where they commute to Anambra State. Why not? Their children have to attend good schools which do not exist in Anambra State. What Obi has managed to achieve in six years, is sustaining the rural status of the state.
The only habitable estate in Awka Capital Territory is the Udoka Housing Estate built by the Chukuemeka Ezeife administration in 1991/92. Across the other side of the Enugu – Onitsha expressway is the Ngozika Estate built by Obi’s government of a quality much lower than the Jakande houses of the eighties. He claims to have secured accreditation for School of Health Technology, Obosi, School of Midwifery, Nkpor, School of Nursing, Iyienu. Fine! But these are institutions built by his predecessors and he is listing securing accreditation as his achievement.
He announced that he invested N4 billion of state funds in Orient Petroleum but it was conceptualized and set up by Dr. Mbadinuju. The Anambra State University was set up by the same Mbadinuju and when Peter Obi builds a faculty building or hostel in the school, he will advertise it as a monumental achievement. Yet he claims that there was nothing on ground when he became Governor of the state. Even the Women Development Centre, Awka which is Anambra’s equivalent of the International Conference Centre, Abuja [Don’t laugh] was built by Mbadinuju. And I ask, apart from the State Secretariat, what project of note has Peter Obi initiated and completed in the past six years?
Thisday newspaper in awarding Governor Obi (4) four stars in its rating of Governors stated among other things that he built 77 bridges and 103 Schools. These are unsubstantiated claims. Some bridges, yes but not a single school was built under Peter Obi. What he did was that he awarded contracts to the 177 town unions in Anambra State to build 4000 classroom blocks in the schools within their communities. Unprecedented absurdity! He has no coherent educational policy. He would donate computers to some schools, give some principals’ money directly to build toilets in their schools and then supply some with generators as the spirit moves him. When the cacophonous interventions failed, he then out of frustration, rather than a carefully thought out policy, handed over the schools to the missions to continue from where they stopped 40 years ago. Lord have mercy!!
Thisday again listed a new Onitsha hotel and convention centre under construction as one of his achievements. This brings me to the issue of transparency and due process. Contracts under Obi are generally not advertised and are usually arbitrarily awarded. This ongoing convention centre was one of the few advertised and tenders received from companies all over Nigeria. After the pre-qualification and opening of the financial and technical bids, Costain won the bid and was invited by the Anambra State Ministry of Commerce to collect the award letter. Before that could be done, Obi unilaterally awarded the contract to another company. Serious companies avoid Anambra State resulting in the poor quality of work seen in the projects undertaken by Obi’s government.
Governor Obi has announced two years to the end of his tenure that he will build a new Governor’s Lodge and Governor’s Office before he hands over in March 2014. Informed citizens are asking him not to bother. Since he has lived in a temporary governor’s lodge and operated from a temporary governor’s office for six years there’s no hurry.
Lest I forget, three years ago when people complained about the lack of development in the State, Governor Obi announced to Anambra people that he was developing a base map for Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi with a United Nations group, Habitat in order to have orderly development. Great idea! Three years after, can someone please ask the Governor the status of the ‘base map’?
Hon. Chudi Offodile is a Lawyer and former member of the House of Representatives who served between 1999-2006 representing Awka North/Awka South Federal Constituency, Anambra State. He was also Chairman of the Public Petitions Committee of the House of Representatives.[/b]
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