₦airaland Forum

BuddahMonk:
Not all Python and not all towns in Anambra but majority Anambra towns forbid killing of that particular Python.

I was in village last most and the dude came visiting, I asked it to go and it obeyed, come see kids running towards their mothers.

You’ve committed impeachable offence

BY OMONIYI SALAUDEEN

The loud disquiet generated in the polity by the perceived lopsidedness in the appointments of President Muhammadu Buhari administration remains unabated, despite the assurance of possible redress in the subsequent selection of other key government functionaries. In this interview, a former governor of the old Anambra State and a respected leader of thought in the Southeast, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife, categorically declares that there is nothing Buhari can do to remedy the denial of the Igbo position of Secretary to the Government of the Federation. “What motivated Buhari ‘s attitude to the Southeast, I don’t know. What did we do to deserve comprehensive hatred of the Southeast people”, he asks rhetorically.

Excerpts:

The Buhari government is already 100 days old in office. What is your
assessment of the performance of the administration so far?

First of all, there is no government in place. Where are the ministers? If there is a government, there will be ministers. The Federal Executive Council is composed of people from various parts of the country according to the constitution.

And from what they said, the president derives his authority to announce decisions, policies and budget et cetera from the council. But now, there are no ministers. So far, so bad! The president is bent on scattering a nation that has been built over so many years. We cannot clap for him. What am I saying? The constitution provides for what we call federal character. The convention has always been respect for federal character. In one of the interviews conducted before the election, an Aljazeera woman who was the interviewer pointed out to Buhari that there is a suspicion that he does not fully understand or respect the diversity of Nigeria he is intending to rule. Of course, he denied it. But right now, we see. His government is not even Northern government, it is Northwest government. We have six geo-­political zones.

Appointments;; announced and unannounced, are dominated by the Northwest. South east has no appointments at all. If SGF position has been denied the people of Southeast, then there can be no remedy at all. What is our President telling people from Southeast? What is our President telling the South as a whole? Sometimes ago, he was accused of having Northern agenda, he denied it.

Today, no soul can have sympathy for Buhari’s denial of Northern agenda because it is all over the place. He promised to fight corruption and we support him for saying so. Meanwhile, we are not fighting it yet, we are just talking about it, and randomly picking up people. Already a committee has been set up for that, we are yet to see the war being fought.

Power is the main thing in this country. I don’t see what is going on in the power sector. Nigeria has a problem of high cost of production. We cannot compete in the global economy with

China. What we need to do is to use what we have petroleum-­ to increase our competitive position in the world economy. We as a people need to look at economic development as the grund norm;; the real objective of governance in Nigeria. To wipe off the shame of slavery from the faces of every black, we must focus on economic development. We cannot see it. Instead, we are focusing on ethnicity, we are focusing on religion. To focus on the economy, in addition to using petroleum products to encourage development, we also have to look away from one trade centre organization and look at how we can protect our economy from unreasonable competition. There should be a protection duty on anything imported.

For various sectors, we must develop sectoral and product protection duties. Fly over Nigeria, you Will find massive land lying fallow, while millions of youths are lying unemployed. Agriculture can partly transform our problem. Brazilian people are looking for land in Enugu to produce pineapple which they intend to fly to Europe because when them six hours to get to Europe. I am told they already got land. Why can’t we copy from them?

We have potentials in agricultural development and we have processing agricultural inputs. We need a vocal point;; we need somebody who will be deciding on economic activities of national development. Buhari said some nice things at the beginning, but we haven’t seen them in action. He said: “I belong to everybody, I belong to nobody.”

He belongs to Northwest.

You spoke about the renewed anticorruption war of the administration. Are you saying that the war is selective war or that it is against a particular ethnic group?

No, I am not implying any ethnicity in the war against corruption. I am saying that we are hearing of war but we are not seeing it being fought.

We hear of the war on the pages of newspapers, we have not seen it being fought. Some people say government should get stolen money from anybody found wanting and throw him to prison.

For me, we only need to get the money back and use it for welfare. And we can sustain welfare for ever. We can also use part of it for power. Some people who deserve state support will be given state support. This is a humane country. So, I am not saying the war is against any particular individual but the war is not being fought. We hear of the war on the pages of newspapers, we have not seen it being fought.

Then, what do you expect the government to do to strengthen the anticorruption war?

First of all, I think there is a need for structural change. EFCC is there, ICPC is there. There are also others. Some personnel of these bodies are accused of corruption even worse than the ones

they accuse the people they are policing. There is a need for a new beginning in the anti-corruption war, first from the president. In doing so, he will say to everybody he is employing, ‘do as you see me do. How much money did I collect from you in employing you? If I did not collect money from you, don’t collect from anybody or else I deal with you ruthlessly. Then, he must clean himself up. It is not just enough to say that Buhari is not corrupt; he must ensure that people around him are also not corrupt. That way, he can easily get support of people. When I was governor, I asked people who became commissioners: If you know how much money I collected from you to make you commissioner, go ahead and collect money from people. But if you know I didn’t collect any money from you, and you are collecting from people, if I catch you, I deal with you ruthlessly. And that helped me a lot. I don’t know how much I can say about the personality of Buhari because if you delegate and you don’t supervise, whatever is wrong will be attributed to you. We all support him on the corruption issue. But we are saying, corruption has no time limit. Stolen money has no time limit. Anybody who has abused his office, we should approach him, leave five percent of the loot for his survival and take the rest. And he doesn’t have to go to prison. Anything happening from this warning will then be treated differently.

Anybody caught from now on can be imprisoned. He can even pass a law saying that corruption is anti-developmental and all anti-developmental issues will be treated by death penalty. He can do that for future activities. But for the past, get the money back to the nation and leave the person. He needs people who can do it. How many people can do it? When you ask some people to go and fight corruption and they see somebody who stole N5 billion, they will take N1 billion from him and give him a clean bill of health. This is the tough assignment he has, but he hasn’t started it.

The most damnable thing is that there is no government in place. A dictatorship is being run and it is an impeachable offence. How can an elected president be a dictator running government for three months and decide things alone. That is a military dictator. There is even no minister of finance.

He said he is buying time to study individuals who are going to make his cabinet so that nobody will be found wanting in any way at the end of the day. Is anything wrong in that?

It is a lie fabricated by the government. You can sit here and look for whom to engage in Sokoto. It is not difficult to get competent people from any part of Nigeria. But if you want to decide everything alone, and in the way you like, you can go ahead and do it.

You said not constituting cabinet is an impeachable offence. Is there any timeline in the constitution for the composition of cabinet?

There may be no timeline to anything in the constitution but there are conventions. The day you become president, you name your ministers within one month, not within two months even. Is there any government which did not form cabinet within three months in the past? Are you saying that one man alone can do it? If one man is doing it and we are not seeing the result, don’t we have right to complain?

What is the fate of the South-east in this government?

Junaid Muhammed, the topmost irredentist Northern politician, said to the Southeast: You may secede again, if you like and face the consequence. Buhari told him nothing. This man is one of the top politicians in the Northern hierarchy. He is leading the group that says Buhari is totally correct. They see nothing wrong in his appointments. These are the people whom Iblis is using to spoil Nigeria.

Then, what is the action plan of the Southeast to checkmate this trend?

We are a people of destiny. We do not believe everything is in human hand. God is in heaven looking at affairs of men. We believe in God. We develop every part of Nigeria. Let anybody deny it. The Hausa man said: If you look am place and you no find an Ibo, go away, it is not good for human habitation. Where else have we not developed? We have a saying: You make where you live. That is why you see us developing every part of Nigeria as homes.

By doing so, the local people who see us begin to get jealous. From jealousy, they begin their hatred, and even get to shedding of blood. Some of them say, ‘Let these people go and leave their property for us.’ There are lots and lots more from where we got what we did. It is from God and no man born of a woman can stop us. It is not possible for a man born of a woman to stop us.

We are a people of destiny and nobody; whether that person is called Buhari or Junaid Muhammed can stop us. And we don’t want to stop anybody.

We have started the idea of making our host communities happy with us. This is something we have been promoting for more than two years. We even accused ourselves of not doing well enough with regards to Almajiri. We said; our people when they were sending their children to school should have taken the Almajiris along.

What I am saying is that this country is destined by God and we have the best of everything. You can go out every morning or afternoon. Go and try that in another place; you will die in 30 minutes. We have every resource in Nigeria both human and material to make this country great. God blessed us so much, but short sightedness and lack of proper education is making us think negatively towards each other instead of thinking positively towards each other and positively grow Nigeria. I love Nigerians where ever they come from. Somebody came to me from Katsina State looking for money to pay his school fees at the Ahmadu Bello University. Nobody knows me with money. I made some calls to some of my friends to make contributions to make him go back to school. He has nothing to do with the Southeast. This is what Nigeria should be like.

Every Nigerian gains more from proper development of Nigeria, after all, the amalgamation of North and South protectorates was meant to use resources of the South to cover the deficit of the North. Today, the deficits of the North compared with deficits of the south are wider than in 1914.

Those who know should know that complementality of the people of Nigeria will make for a greater country. The largest concentration of blacks in the world is in Nigeria, and it is God’s purpose that it should be so in order that Nigeria provides the black man with a rallying point. The original sons and daughters of God are blacks. They have nothing inferior to any human race in this world. Most of sciences and technologies came from here. Because we are favourably treated by God, we didn’t have to fight for continuous improvement of the environment we live, that is why we are lagging behind.

We are the original sons and daughters of God, and very soon you will see it happen. Nigeria is beautiful, Nigeria is great. It is ordained of God to be so. Let no man, let not Buhari, let not Junaid Muhammed, let not Northern irredentists kill the design of God. And they can’t, because God is Almighty.

What would you suggest as a way to reunite the already discontented people of this country as a result of the lopsidedness in the appointments of Buhari?

You cannot deny the Southeast Secretary to the Government and you think you can propose a remedy. It is not possible. He’s already crossed the line and going back is impossible.

As it is, no amendment, no remedy is feasible. Of course, human beings can rethink what they are doing. What motivated Buhari ‘s attitude to the Southeast I don’t know. What did we do to deserve comprehensive hatred of the Southeast people? We all must know the importance of Nigeria. Time is of consequence in the comity of nations. Let nobody think of the Islamisation or Christianization of Nigeria because it will not work. We, the Southeast people, have our direction and nobody can change it. They will come to us and say sorry for what we did to you. Let’s be together again. And, of course, we will be together.

swizken6:
were are my yellowbar friends.. yelllowbar kwenu!!!

post=37669248:
Rabble rouse we are dealing wif facts from those that keep data not to recycle rubbish and post I can as well post another crimes links committed by your tribe duds, if you have credible statistics link challenge Him, that was how they disgraced you guys in human developments indexes in Nigeria wif facts.

kernel501:
I don't blab, l deal on facts and figures. This is a summary copy of drug peddles activities, yet you are showing me individual records.

Secondly, the amount of marijuana produced in Ondo alone, is far than what you get in the whole of the Eastern states joint together.
ARE THEY WRONG?

The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics in conjunction with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency released the Drug related crime statistics from year 2010 – 2014

NUMBER OF ARRESTS BY STATES
The report showed a total of 8,805 arrests were made. The states that
had the highest number of arrests in 2014 are..
◾Katsina – 609
◾Kano – 503
◾Bauchi – 471
◾Lagos – 434
◾Akwa Ibom- 401
TOTAL NUMBER OF DRUG CASES BY GEOPOLITICAL ZONE
North East – 1,017
North Central – 1,416
North West – 2,261
South East – 1,136
South South – 1,314
South West – 1,682
NUMBER OFCONVICTIONS SECURED BY STATE
Kano secured the highest with a total of 182 convictions, followed by
Kaduna with 151, while Lagos secured 125 convictions. Borno State
secured the least with 2 convictions.

kernel501:
I heard you talk about drugs, your Ogun state Senate is one of the most wanted for drugs barons in the world, even Tinubu too... Please mention two prominent Igbos involved in drugs.

Blind man let me lead you.
The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics in conjunction with the National
Drug Law Enforcement Agency released the Drug related crime statistics
from year 2010 – 2014.
NUMBER OF ARRESTS BY STATES
The report showed a total of 8,805 arrests were made. The states that
had the highest number of arrests in 2014 are..
◾Katsina – 609
◾Kano – 503
◾Bauchi – 471
◾Lagos – 434
◾Akwa Ibom- 401
TOTAL NUMBER OF DRUG CASES BY GEOPOLITICAL ZONE
North East – 1,017
North Central – 1,416
North West – 2,261
South East – 1,136
South South – 1,314
South West – 1,682
NUMBER OFCONVICTIONS SECURED BY STATE
Kano secured the highest with a total of 182 convictions, followed by
Kaduna with 151, while Lagos secured 125 convictions. Borno State
secured the least with 2 convictions.

www.nairametrics.com/katsina-state-records-highest-number-of-drug-arrests-nbs/

totoisgud:
Mr Goat I'm not Ibo. U must b suffering 4rm a strange form of psychosis. Do u hv a brain? D Ibos on dis thread r not claiming anything. They r only defending their tribe. Who started this thread? Was it an Ibo or a Yoruba person? If an Ibo creates a thread dedicated 2 Yoruba denigration, wud u b happy? Do u expect ibos 2 b happy when a Yoruba starts generalising & insulting their tribe without provocation? U must really b a sick fvck if u don't understand dis.

meforyou1:
There are far more igbos in Peckham than children of oduduwa that fell from sky. But the place is still a ghetto. We are far more than you guys anywhere in the world both in uptown and downtown areas, more gainfully employed, better educated, more professionals. U cowards are only more into crimes and criminalities.

onenaira3:
Tobechi onuwuhara is the second Igbo on FBI list while yoruba have had a whopping 18 people on that list. Refer to my last post and mind you the recent 22 weren't on that list. There are several more yoruba scammers caught every f2king day. Hell in 2005 there was a Nigerian 419 ring also discovered and everyone of that list were yoloba. I even found one caught in 1993 in NY for the same 419. 1993 for God sake, when that sh1t wasn't even known and the MF they do am. I will not be surprised if Tobechi grew up around Yoruba and got influenced by them. I will not be shocked.

totoisgud:
I know dat u r proud of d high population of yorubas in Peckham. But pls note dat Peckham is a ghetto in London. I suggest dat u examine yr value system properly.

onenaira3:
Oyotunji village was built by a Nigeria yoruba migrant therefore, how are you influencing them when it is you that built the village for them.

The only anything built by the USA indigienous to celebrate a Nigerian tribe was the Igbo village at the Frontier Culture Museum in Virginia and the Igbo landing status in Georgia. That's about it and most Igbo could careless about that, unlike you imferority complex niggas shit like that is not even something to chest beat or tale pride in.

onenaira3:
I live and still currently live in USA, therefore I know wtf is going on in USA more so than you. Your people are a f2king disgrace. Few years ago in NY, the largest 419 ring ever discovered was busted over there and in it over 22 of the members of the ring were Nigeria, guess who those entire 22 ppl were? You people are f2king embarrassment and a thorn in the rest of our backs.

oilykid:
quit the hate and tribalism bro, its not good
africanspotlight.com/2015/04/09/nigerian-woman-appointed-clinical-professor-of-law-at-harvard-law-school-photo/

oilykid:
africanoutlookonline.com/index.php/component/content/article?id=2443:frontier-museums-igbo-village-opens-in-virginia-usa..
Another evidence of igbos being more influential in the USA

onenaira3:
Wtf kind of stupid lie is this. I have been to LA, NY, DC, Atl, Maryland, VA, Houston, etc. In fact i lived in three states out of those list (dc, atl and va) and currently residing in one of the state (va) and Yoruba population in all those states and in minority. Where in those state do you people live that actually gave you the illiterate conclusion you over populate Igbo's there. The only city in the entire USA I can accurately say you Yoruba population is semi close to Igbo is Atl and DC and that is it. Texas, despite having the highest Nigerian population in USA dispora, are predominantly Igbo no matter what fucking city you go to be it Houston, Dallas, Austin, etc. You people stay in your South West villages, refusing to f2king travel but always typing bush2t to soothe your over exxaggerreated ego. UK I can't speak of since I don't reside there but i have a childhood friend of mines does but one thing I do know the entire Nigerian prisoners population in Europe are all predominantly Yoruba. You've packed up that UK with so many crimes be it beheading police officers, 419, drug dealing, human trafficking, etc that there was a time they literally offered to help Nigeria built more prisons so they can start deporting una criminals back to Nigeria and make space for the over population you guys are creating there. Go to any good in UK , especially London, excluding Caribbean boys, the drug dealing den of UK are majority yoloba boys. Even in USA, step your foot in DC hood, just DC, any drug dealer you meet that's Nigerian, 99.5% are Yoruba. Most Nigerians I met whole living in DC that refused to benefit themselves but rather imitate the African American, even to the extent of deluding themselves they can pass off as African Americans are predominantly Yoruba. In the f2king USA, your so f2kimg known for 419 that FBI literally labeled a urhobo a Yoruba because Una have been on their list so many tomes for so many years when did finally find a Nigerian from a different ethnicity than Una that they wanted on their list, they automatically assumed the nigga spoke yoruba.

You people are literally a thorn in every f2king immigrants that came from that shithole country. Because you people are known to scam everybody, including you f2king employee, because of that the rest of us have to walk on egg shell because the minute an employer hear the word "Nigeria" and "migrated from", they instantly make the assumptions you going to steal from them, all thanks to the bullsh1t ya'll fuckers have been doing. Hell even the only African store around where I live, one of your brother did check fraud repeatedly on them and when caught the coward tried to blame it on his Igbo friend, one reason I keep saying Igbo should never befriend you fools..y'all are snakes, anyway, luckily for the Igbo nigga, the owner of the store busted the yoloba fool on his accusation and pointed his lying deflation to an innocent man and the shit fell directly on just the coward's head. But thanks to the bastard, the Ghanaian owners now treat the rest of us like scammers.. As usual, we all now have to walk on egg shell takes you f2king 419 niggas that refuse to stop so the rest of us can actually enjoy our life without dealing with una BS aftermath.

oilykid:
the highest ranking black officer in the USA army is an Igbo man
sunnewsonline.com/new/nigerian-colonel-obama-honoured-award/

meforyou1:
Don't mind Yoruba tribalists. 75 languages in New York and their babalawo language is not there

http://www.nypdnews.com/2015/06/2015-nypd-medal-day-ceremony.html

MEDAL FOR VALOR
The Department’s third highest award, the Medal for Valor, is granted for acts of outstanding personal bravery performed in the line of duty and at imminent personal hazard to life, under circumstances evincing disregard for personal consequences. The following 14 members of the service received the Medal for Valor:

Sergeant Cornelius Clancy, DETF
Sergeant Eric Florio, Intel Crime
Sergeant Patrick Quigley, Intel Crime
Detective 2nd Grade James Schutta, Bomb Squad
Detective Ade Ajasa, NBBS
Detective Robert Brager, ESS 5
Detective Kevin Canavan, Bomb Squad
Detective Joseph Delre, ESS 6
Detective Albert Jackson, NBBS
Detective Eder Loor, 23 Precinct
Detective Joseph Rodriguez, 88 Detective Squad
Detective Kevin Roy, DETF
Detective Joseph Whiteman, 88 Detective Squad
Police Officer Joseph Arbia, PBQS

oilykid:
check no 30 there, Igbo language is there www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/news/news_foreign_lang_outreach.shtml

http://www.nypdnews.com/2015/06/2015-nypd-medal-day-ceremony.html

MEDAL FOR VALOR
The Department’s third highest award, the Medal for Valor, is granted for acts of outstanding personal bravery performed in the line of duty and at imminent personal hazard to life, under circumstances evincing disregard for personal consequences. The following 14 members of the service received the Medal for Valor:

Sergeant Cornelius Clancy, DETF
Sergeant Eric Florio, Intel Crime
Sergeant Patrick Quigley, Intel Crime
Detective 2nd Grade James Schutta, Bomb Squad
Detective Ade Ajasa, NBBS
Detective Robert Brager, ESS 5
Detective Kevin Canavan, Bomb Squad
Detective Joseph Delre, ESS 6
Detective Albert Jackson, NBBS
Detective Eder Loor, 23 Precinct
Detective Joseph Rodriguez, 88 Detective Squad
Detective Kevin Roy, DETF
Detective Joseph Whiteman, 88 Detective Squad
Police Officer Joseph Arbia, PBQS

meforyou1:
British police are recruiting Yoruba speakers because of the headache your brothers are causing them in UK not because of your "large" population.
Whenever I watch UK border agency program, any mention of Nigerian, it's Yoruba. And you know your brothers don't speak English well, so that's why UK police are recruiting Yoruba interpreters

DICK4UCKPUSSY:
Stop lying mr LiE-NUS. Yorubas dominate any african tribe in USA they have 1.8 million yorubas as at year 2000 census ,take this pill to cure ur ignorance and stop telling lies
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_American

meforyou1:
Which Yoruba colony in Peckham? Peckham that my cousin has landed properties. Dominated by igbos and Jamaicans. So also Tottenham. So also Brixton. Boy, you shouldknow who you tell those tales by moonlight, not widely travelled person like me

kettykings:
They don't travel indeed but we know the people who are defacing the roads of Abuja and port Harcourt with rickety scraps in the name of taxi driving or how about the fake automechanics who litre Abuja and other northern states where they fool ignorant car owners in the name of repair and service of cars

vicadex07:
lol...bare faced lie Even your brothers will deny you on this one. If you had mentioned china now where you import fake goods or all those asian countries like malaysia or indonesia where you carry hard drugs to, I might have been inclined to give it a thought

meforyou1:
Boy, there are more igbos than Yorubas in UK and U.S. Say what u know

menabadoo:
stop blabbing, and read?

scholes0:
Again, I will school you stark unlettered man.....


http://www.ijens.org/vol_12_i_04/1214704-7878-ijcee-ijens.pdf

Show me figures for Aba, and stop arguing like a Nursery 2 Pupil with mucur running down his nostrils.

scholes0:
Your stupidity is unrivaled.
You have never heard of an industrial corridor?

let me educate you.
The industrial complexes of Ogun are in suburbia and outskirts, not in city center.
But even at that, the Industrial area is the Sagamu-Otta-Ibafo-Agbara axis. Eve Ijebu-Ode is not left out.

As far back as 1999, Otta was already the third largest Industrial city in Nigeria. In case you didn't know.

scholes0:
I would suggest you read this, to clear up any diubts you have about the prowess of the Agbara-Otta-Sagamu manufacturing corridor.


[size=13pt]Ogun State, Ikeja (Lagos state) were Nigeria's top manufacturers’ investment destinations in 2014[/size]
Ogun state was clear favourite, getting 78% of total industrial investments in Nigeria, 2014.

https://www.blackborderbuild.com/uploads/6/9/0/1/6901039/3232825_orig.jpg

https://ogunstate.gov.ng/ministryofhousing/images/AGBARA-LAYOUT/Agbara-Estate-Development5.jpg


http://businessdayonline.com/2015/02/ogun-ikeja-top-manufacturers-investment-destinations-in-2014/