₦airaland Forum

aresa:
N55 million is not enough to pay NEPA bill and not able to pay NEPA bill are 2 different things.

Is Osun state in Darkness? NO


Too many can't read and comprehend WAEC rejects on NL I swear....

Eko Ile o!

Clutching at straws since 1900

No wahala uncle Aregbe, the Lee Kuan Yew of Osogbo can pay from his security vote. Kwakwakwakwa!

Abeg post more 2009 pics make I laugh small

basilo101:
with excess loan for that matter.

Nothing person no go see

The State of Osun. Lol. Aregbe na clown sha. You go and assert the independence of your state as a member of the federation but you cant even pay nepa bill

This Eko Ile abi na aresa is a super clown. So aregbe building primary school building makes osun a viable state

By Obi Nwakanma

Dr. Chu S. P. Okongwu in his 2004 tributes to Ukpabi Asika, took an aside in his eulogies to emphasize the following: “The generation born after the civil war will not know that the former Eastern region, comprising East-Central State, South-Eastern state, and Rivers state, enjoyed a highly developed road network, with probably the highest quality road density in sub-Saharan Africa. These had been damaged or neglected during the war. Ukpabi Asika planned to reconstruct and modernize these.

BiafraAction was also taken to upgrade and transfer to central government responsibility some trunk ‘B’ roads (1, 240 kilometers) and introduce some new federal highways and alignments… .” Dr. Okongwu was East Central State’s Commissioner forEconomic Planning from 1970-1975, and presumably has the data. But that’s besides the point. The real point is that assertion that the East had the “highest quality road density in Sub-sahara Africa” before the damages of war and neglect ruined it all.

The terrible state of roads and interchanges in the old Eastern region, particularly in the current areas now known as the South East zone, remain even now, a sore point; and hard evidence of the neglect of the East by the Federal government since the end of the civil war in 1970. Those who have challenged the current agitation for Biafra, talk of equal opportunity misrule of the federation. But Biafrans present evidence of a specially targeted form of neglect.

There was no reason for agitation for a Biafra from 1970-1983, because in those intermediary years, the East was in recovery mode, and its key intellectual and political leadership, and its highly trained bureaucracy was still intact, and they had the requisite institutional memory to mediate some of the more difficult and challenging obstacles placed on the Eastern states, through both strategic negotiation and initiative. I do recommend Dr. Okongwu’s tributes to Asika to readers of the “Orbit” for a really good context, and a closer understanding of “where the rain began to beat us.” From 1983, a strategic neglect of the East became more pronounced.

Every effort of the past made to rebuild it; including investments in new industry, new skills, and so on, were stripped deliberately, almost as if to stifle the resurgence of its people by Federal authorities. Two marked examples for me includes Dr. Okongwu’s claim that the East Central State’s Data Processing Center, the first of its kind presumably in the continent, long before the current IT craze, was stripped and moved to Kaduna following the 1975 military coup.

Here are Chu Okongwu’s words: “Immediately there was dispatched to East-Central State a mandatory pro-consul in the person of the late Colonel Anthony Aboki Ochefu. His assignment: the dismantling of the East-Central state. Colonel Ochefu dismantled the public service of East Central state.

For good measure he declared that the mainframe computer of the Eastern Data Processing Center was unnecessary madness, beyond the needs and interests of the state. It was summarily dismantled and relocated to the Ahmadu Bello University where it found a necessary sane and needful home. Everybody in East Central state, except Col Ochefu, elements of the army of occupation and their touts, was a thief; the hounding campaign was underway. Cheer leaders and Coryphaei were not wanting in East-Central State.” Buhari was a member of the Supreme Military Council of that regime in 1975.

The same scenario played out following the December 31, 1983 coup at which Buhari was head. A little drama played out in Owerri when, according to close associates of the late Governor Sam Mbakwe, he held out at the Governor’s lodge, Owerri, prepared to call out a mass demonstration starting with street protests from Aba to resist the coup, until he was finally persuaded to give up that move. Buhari appointed his own proconsul, in the person of the then Brigadier Ike Nwachuwku. Again, his assignment: dismantle the gains made in Imo under Mbakwe. Ike Nwachukwu’s first declaration, under what he called the “Imo Formula” was to dismantle all the 42 industrial installations embarked upon by Sam Mbakwe, which were at various stages of development, and to which financial commitments had been entered.

Nwachukwu’s “achievement” was to consolidate the Imo state university under a single campus at Uturu, near his ancestral home, from the five-campus design which had been envisioned on a model of the State of New York University system, by Mbakwe and his team, to evolve into beautifully designed network of university campuses to stimulate strategic development, and carter to a wider range of students and skills development in the long run.

The effect of these was to stultify development in the East and drive a growing population of highly educated and skilled youth out of the East, into the wilderness. Kids who grew up in Government Reserved Areas in the East, for instance, suddenly found themselves living with rats in the ghettoes of Lagos because all the systems created to afford them the opportunity of living productive lives in the East on equal terms with their peerselsewhere in the world were strategically dismantled.

It is called diminution. Divestments, and lack of investments in both industry and infrastructure in the East, especially by the federal government has led to this moment. What these examples suggest is that Nigeria’s postwar domestic policies have, it has always seemed obvious to Easterners, especially the Igbo, been directed towards subduing, rather than reconstructing the East. Even now, Buhari is talking about billions of naira to be earmarked for the “reconstruction of the North-East.”

What about the East that has suffered from a devastating civil war levied against it, and from the mindless exploitation of oil that has rendered what was the entire Eastern region, one of the world’s great ecological disasters, with incidents of new cancers, the result of massive pollution, possibly the highest currently in the world? Easterners consider themselves victims of state-terror. There must be both reconstruction of the East and reparation for the years of discrimination.

These facts will continue to drive the agitation for Biafra. And this is the point that Ohaneze and the South East governors meeting last week in Enugu failed to acknowledge, and which continues to make them irrelevant to the solutions for these agitations.

The governors in the East and Ohaneze may make ex-cathedra claims, but they do not yet speak for these young people, who have clearly defied them in staging their protests. Again, whoever is advising this president must be plain in telling him that this generation considers him a great part of the Igbo problem, because under his watch as military head, progress in the East was stifled; and the East was isolated in his administrationfrom 1983-85; and as a member of the SMC in 1975, the first postwar moves to “dismantle” the East was set in motion. The onus is on him to show good faith, and dissuade the agitators, or he could show further proof, as some have suggested, that Buhari is rigid and does not listen

Sai Baba! I'm so loving this. If you no wan work resign

PointB:
IPOB should not miss the point here, if I may caution. The protest is not about the release of Kanu, but for the actualisation of Biafra; for a UN sponsored referendum that will partition the country between Biafra and Nigeria. The release of Kanu will of course be an added bonus.

Let's keep the message clear.

You are 100% right.

In my opinion IPOB should mobilize people and enlighten the masses on the coming referendum and what it will mean.

juicee1:
so, because a single ijaw man gave the name biafra, every ijaw man plus SS minorities must now become biafran?

Why not accept that every ibo man wants One Nigeria cos okorocha says so?

Na wah for this land grabbers and oyel thieves o

Rubbish yarn is there any record of dissent by ANY Ijaw person or groups of people at the declaration of the state of Biafra? All this revisionism is pathetic. ND for self preservation and on the advice of its leaders who had made deals with the Gowon government simply chose the side they knew had more guns. Shikena

SonOfEl:
You are so so overrated in nairaland.... Its obvious you know nothing about the eastern region....

That one is very far from home. A visit to the east will open his eyes

OP- abeg leave south-south alone I am tired of being betrayed and suspected by neighbours. Let everybody choose their fate. I believe they are comfortable with theirs in the Fulani Nigerian project.

Ufranklin92:
AM SORRY FOR U

I am even more sorry for the "people" that liked the poison he posted

oyem4u:
WARRI—THE Itsekiri ethnic nationality of Warri,
Delta State, has dissociated itself from the calls for
creation of a Biafra Republic out of Nigeria as being
drummed by some Igbo interest groups in the
South-East.


The Itsekiri Leaders of Thought, ILT, expressed the
group’s concern over the Igbo agitation
yesterday in a statement by its Chairman, Pa
Johnson Ayomike and Secretary, Edward Ekpoko.


The body is disturbed that the proposed Biafra
Republic as widely reported in the social media
includes the whole of Delta State.


The statement stressed: “We recall with pains the
day the defunct Biafran Army invaded Warri and
Benin in the then Midwest Region on August 9,
1967.


Never again will the Itsekiri tolerate such
invasion. The Itsekiri nation is committed to the
unity of Nigeria and will do all it can to promote and protect it as one indivisible country.


As Major
General Philip Effiong said on January 14 1970, the
Republic of Biafra ceased to exist. We, the Itsekiri,
wish it to be eternally so for the peace and
development of our great nation.”


source - http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/itsekiri-nation-disowns-calls-for-creation-of-biafra-republic/

Wetin Itsekiri wan talk before even if they say they wan follow I go say no

Make everybody answer him papa name when its time for referendum. No put mouth in my matter, I no put mouth for your own

With the deliberate denial of strategic appointments to the Yoruba race by the Buhari administration, a clear message is being sounded out by the Hausa/Fulani oligarchs, and the message is loud and clear: only a slave and those who wish to remain slaves would pretend everything is normal right now. The Igbo and, by extension, the South-South people, by virtue of the 97 percent and five percent dichotomy as elevated to an official status by the president himself, have known their place, at least, for now, and can only fight and react the way the youths are already doing. The only non-Hausa/Fulani race that still needs to be declared subjugated officially is the Yoruba race, and the process has since started.

With the growing rampage of Fulani herdsmen in the South-West that culminated in the kidnap, torture and humiliation of elder statesman, Chief Olu Falae, the dismissal and jailing of Ransome-Kuti when others were pardoned, is a pointer to the bigger plans of those who wish to keep certain parts of this country under their total control and dictate without questioning what happens in our nation. If not for the kidnap of Pa Falae, the other atrocities perpetrated by these Fulani herdsmen would have gone unannounced. And if not for the uproar generated by the kidnap of Pa Falae, it is possible those criminals would not have been apprehended and their crime would have gone unpunished just like the others that end up in “peace deals”, same peace deals that are never respected in the North-Central but that lead to more brutal attacks on the other parties to it.


…one is tempted to think that Brig. Gen. Enitan Ransome-Kuti’s dismissal from the Army and his jailing has more to it than we are being told.

Appointments by the federal government have not shown that any other region would be treated better. Despite the hue and cry that followed the earlier appointments by the president, he has gone ahead to still pick northerners in his latest appointments: Dr. DanAzumi Ibrahim as DG of National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP), and Professor Mahmood Yakubu as INEC Chairman. As it is now, Class Captains and Senior Prefects of our schools will have to come from the North, and where there is no northerner in such a school, be it in Lagos, Enugu or Port Harcourt, the class/school will have to do without such “offices”. That is how bad the situation is becoming!

It is based on the foregoing, that one is tempted to think that Brig. Gen. Enitan Ransome-Kuti’s dismissal from the Army and his jailing has more to it than we are being told.

The recent dismissal and jailing of Brigadier General Enitan Ransome-Kuti by the military for various offences came to many as a shock following the fact that just in September, the military pardoned 3,032 soldiers who had been convicted also for various offences by a properly constituted General Court Martial (GCM). The worry here is that the pardoned soldiers were not said to be innocent. That they were pardoned and not that the verdict against them was said to have been passed in error is an indication that the pardoned and reinstated soldiers were actually guilty of the offences for which they were convicted. This much can be understood from the statement released by the Director of Army Public Relations at that time, while trying to clarify “that not all the dismissed soldiers were granted pardon and recalled”, adding that “those with criminal cases for instance, have their sentences upheld”.




The question here is, what constitutes a criminal case and what does not in the eyes of the military? Were those pardoned not convicted of crimes? If they were actually convicted but later pardoned, does it not say a lot about the fact that they were actually convicted of one crime or the other? So on what basis or what criteria did the military use in selecting and differentiating between those pardoned and those whose sentences were upheld? The military should know that we are not all stupid! One begins to be tempted to ask for the names and ethnic origins of those whose sentences were upheld and those who received pardon. We are tempted to think that one of the criteria used is ethnicity. If you are pardoning soldiers of crime why not pardon all of them? As long as they were all convicted by a properly constituted GCM, even though some were later pardoned, it means that they all committed one crime or the other.

It is instructive to note that all those including Brig Gen Enitan Ransome-Kuti were charged under the leadership of Lt-Gen Kenneth Minimah, the immediate past Chief of Army Staff. What is curious is, why pardon some, get them reinstated while dismissing and jailing others? Does it have to do with their ethnic background, the religion they profess or gravity of offence? Whatever it is, it would only be fair to serve punishment or pardon on the basis of what is sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander.


The only non-Hausa/Fulani race that still needs to be declared subjugated officially is the Yoruba race, and the process has since started.

It is even more curious that a former Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zakari Biu, who was dismissed by the police for his role in the escape of a notorious Boko Haram suspect, Kabiru Sokoto, was pardoned by the police to the consternation of a majority of Nigerians just a day after the military pardoned the soldiers in question. Is there any correlation between these two issues? While Zakari Biu was exonerated, Enitan Ransome-Kuti was dismissed and jailed!




Is this all part of the script to deliberately and systematically humiliate and further subjugate certain parts of the country in favour of others?

With a name as famous as that of Ransome-Kuti, the thinking might just be to test the ground with such a renowned name in the history of our nation from the southern part of the country generally and the South-Western part particularly. If Ransome-Kuti is dismissed and jailed and no dust is raised, then the systematic and deliberate subjugation of the South-West can take a more daring dimension without qualms. Those who wish to perpetually subjugate other regions/persons usually test the waters in this manner. It was the same thing with King Herod in the Bible, Acts 12:1-3. King Herod had seized James, one of the Apostles of Jesus Christ, and had him put to death. When he saw that this met the approval of the Jews, he went ahead to seize Peter, the Head of the Apostles.

http://blogs.premiumtimesng.com/?p=169385

Barcanistus I don dey fear u o

Kwakwakwakwa! Barcanistus is at it again

I remember one weak, lame thread the guy posted in his APC days trying to prove "Biafran rebels atrocities" during the war.

So he has made u-turn thrice now.

aresa:
1. Personal or not, you have no clue per the content of former state's executive's retirement package so you can not reach any kind of conclusion per any wrongdoing. Even his prewdecessor has something similar and obviously done by the same vendor.

We are talking about legislated budget instituted by a constitutionally legislated government agency.


2. The agency in charge did not hide the project, it's intent or the amount. It's right there fully disclosed for the public to see.

When people commit illegal acts or wrong doing, they hide it away from the public including you.

3. The state procurement agency awarded the contract and you can not tell me you know terms of the contract, what it includes or doesn't.

4. With all the millions of ways available to steal billions and get away with it, is awarding a 78 million naira website contract and disclosing it on a public website for everybody to see the best and smartest way to steal..?

This is nothing but a pointless hysteria over nothing..

Catch am catch am. Thief thief thief!

Na wa for una authority stealing in the name of budget. So 78 million was the most competitive sum. Who got the contract and how much kickback dem share? The money reach u eko ile?

Lovesdaisied:
Locally modeled and assembled bus, 1960s. Nnewi.

No be today.

Igbo amaka

Beaf?