₦airaland Forum

otukpo:
That is to say APC does not mean well for Nigeria. Everyone knows that restructuring Nigeria is the best thing that will happen to Nigeria at this point in time.

There was no time APC meant well for Nigeria. It's an assembly of disgruntled elements and dissidents who came on vengeful mission to snatch power from PDP. Their sole mission is to have unfettered access to the national cake at the centre.

OP, you're right on point. Questions are been asked on the rationale for publishing looted funds without the names of culprits involved. If the FG is sincere and thorough with its investigations and findings, no amount of threat, legal or otherwise should prevent full disclosures of the identities of looters. These are my takes on the loot recovery claim;

1. A large chunk of the monies were not necessarily stolen but hurriedly classified as such just to give the socalled anti corruption drive some facelift. Armed robbers and drug peddlers are paraded with their loots on our screens on daily basis, yet high profile treasury plunders are shielded by a govt that claims to have zero tolerance for corruption.

2. The figures might include recoveries predating Buhari's govt but muddled up to over bloat the anti graft success.

3. Notable APC apologists or financiers may be among the culprits. At least we are aware of Jafaru's (Buhari's associate) involvement.

4. Amounts voluntarily handed over by officials of last adminstration prior to EFCC investigation. Unfortunately, people like Dasuki who may have the intention of making refunds have been hounded into detention in an apparent display of political wit.

Meanwhile, after attesting to the fact that some of the receivers of the looted funds may be unaware of its source, why is Olisa Metu been prosecuted and humiliated after claiming ignorance of the source of money he allegedly collected from Dasuki?

This govt will go down as the most untrustworthy and vindictive in the annals of our political history.

That's my man. They said he was corrupt, yet under his "corrupt" govt we could by a "mudu" of beans and rice for N250 and N300 respectively. Petrol sold for N87/litre. Nigerians were not "over killed" with electricity tarrif. Dollar was sold for less than N200 and readily obtainable. Nigeria was rated as number in Africa by World Bank, IMF and other rating agencies in terms of economic outlook. Today, under a propagandist, lying, deceitful, incompetent, analogous, primitive, egocentric, archaic, vindictive, excuse-drunk, arragee, divisive, sectional, insensitive, elitist, double-sided and buharish govt, petrol is sold at N145/litre, Naira has plunged to N350/ dollar(yet unavailable), beans and rice are sold at N450 and N500 respectively. Under a "corruption- free and saintly govt of Buhari, a minister was arm twisting one of the agencies under his supervision to path with N13m for a fathom trip to China. Jobs are lost on daily basis. The economy is sliding toward recession. "Trillions of loots" were recovered yet Nigerians are poorer and hungrier than ever! What an irony! What a twist of fate! What a negative change!. Jona our friend, may your days be long in happiness and peace.

LouisVanGaal:
Was it APC that squandered the money meant to fight boko-haram?? Was it APC that committed #EkitiGate?? Was it APC that said 'stealing isn't corruption' Was it APC that re-looted ova $300m of Abacha's money Was it APC that used Soldiers to oppress certain newspaper vendors in 2014 Was it APC that said 16 >19? Believe it or not, ALL opposition parties in the world utilises mild propaganda as a tool to warm themselves into the heart of the people...what do you think Trump is doing now Trying to paint the obama admin more 'badder' than things looks...BUT PDP's own is way too disgusting and demeaning! No sense of patriotism..the good thing is that Nigerians are aware of their desperation...we Nigerians have tested PDP and they have failed us..APC is still struggling..anoda Party shud come up 4 screening..

PDP's 'atrocities are Child's play compared to APC's silent evils in the last one and a half decade. I repeat again, may God never allow opposition politics played by APC to rear its ugly head in Nigeria again. An opposition that played politics with Book haram is nothing but satanic

ijustdey:
PDP needs to learn on how to be in the opposition from APC....



this is just too lame

Are you suggesting that PDP should play APC's type of opposition that led Nigeria to her current economic and political woes? An opposition that fooled 170 million Nigerians to get power? The one that promised Paradise but ends up offering hardship? May God Almighty never allow APC's kind of opposition to rise up again in Nigeria.

attackgat:
Of course he has a choice. If he doesn't implement it will you go and hold him? The report will never be implemented because the recommendations favour the South but not the North.

Then Nigeria is on a tight rope as far as peaceful cohabitation is concerned.

9ja4live:
I just pray the FG allocate the oil block in lagos to a kano man. Then you'll make that comment again I suppose.

Allocation of Oil blocs is at the whim and caprices of whoever is the president be it Yoruba, IBO or Hausa. It's a "paddy-paddy arrangee" thing, just as Fela said

But APC also tactically supported Boko haram and allegedly used saboteurs to vandalise pipelines during GEJ reign. Watch your steps while craving for power; it may turn round to become your albatross. E be like say na do me I do you if this allegation is true.

ikennaf1:
The report was done in 2014. And we all know in Nigeria that the last yr of a government is usually used more for campaigning especially if the president is going for a second tenure. Beside, trying to implement the report of the confab will bring criticism by the APC who will say that he is trying to limit the powers of the president because he knows he is going to lose to Buhari. The uprising of the opposition governors when NOI tried to save money from the excess crude account is a case point. Today, they are regretting it and still blame GEJ and NOI for not saving.

Good points.

theDEVILisHERE:
This is the excuse of cowards and people with lack of fur sight


You cannot totally emancipate your self from slavery without fighting to the death for it

This is a historic proven fact!

Did anything change after the death of MKO Abiola and Thomas Sankara in Nigeria and Burkinafaso respectively?

attackgat:
The unity of the country cannot take preeminence over the lives of the indigenous people of the land. You cannot claim to have a country without the sovereign consent of all involved and Nigeria does not have this, it never did. While it is true that the implementation of the confab recommendations would have gone a long way to calm the restive nerves of the SS/SE people, the truth is that there is another section of the country who are agitating against it. They are the ones currently holding the levers of power. Fair to say that the confab report will never be implemented while a northern president is in Aso Rock. In the meantime, the SE/SS will remain ever restive.

I don't think the president has any choice other than implementing the Confab report. It's the only panacea for enduring peace in the country.

theDEVILisHERE:
Why are black baboons and monkeys in Africa always scared of dying trying to do the right thing

This attitude of Black people is what made less than 5 thousand men ravage, enslave and destroy their entire continent

BE READY TO DIE IF YOU WANT TO FREE YOURSELVES FROM THIS SLAVERY YOU ALL CURRENTLY IN

very daft race of people

No dead man revolutionises the world, only the living do. In Africa, dead men's ideologies and revolutionary stance go with them to the grave owing to inability of their fellow comrades to take up the fight after their exit. Nobody is afraid of death but it must never end up in vain.

Whathaveidone:
Who is a Nigerian and who is a patriot?

Why are you crying for them when they themselves love what's going on.

You're correct. Tbh with you, I don't care about any other region besides the SW.

Let them enjoy their oil

Any outbreak of war in the Niger Delta would leave Nigeria at the brink. That's the truth.

Whathaveidone:
I don't even understand some of y'all. What's our business with whatever is happening in the SE/SS especially as
Yorubas.

We should be more concerned about the development of the SW, how our governors can look inwards
than taking panadol for SS/SE problems. Aren't they the same people co-signing the avengers? They
love what's going on. I LOVE IT TOO


Same people will still insult you asking you whether it's your land that's being destroyed

The only thing I don't want to hear is when investors start moving into the SW and some quadrangle heads
and riverine zorros come here and tell us Yorubas are the ones who sent investors out of their lands or Tinubu is behind
their woes

Wow! You mean you don't care about the plight of other Nigerians aside your region? I don't think that's a patriot's spirit.

Splinz:
The so-called leaders in this country lacked common sense in approaching issues. Instead of tackling the root causes of our multifaceted problems in the country, they went all out with brute force for the effect. How the killing of these agitators will solve all these problems is what I don't understand.

It beats my imagination too.

modath:
Really? Where dey do dat at?


Does that sound like what should happen in a million sane years to you? President go down on his knees because a few self centred, greedy and disgruntled elements decided to go rogue because their sponsors corruption conduit has been blocked?


I personally do not have any objection to a restructuring of this marriage of inconvenience, I even look forward to the day that will happen, (hopefully in no distant time) however it should be pursued the rational and logical way and not as a fallout of losing political relevance, or partly as a "revenge mission" which even Ray Charles from his grave can see clearly through their shenanigans.

I still maintain it, this agitation won't be successful because they aren"t doing this for the benefit of majority...

For a govt baffling with economic upheavals , prolonged military onslaught is the last option for this administration and I am sure Buhari is aware of that. Those militants don't have anything to loose.

wisov:
Hope u knw d national assembly is not in good terms with d exec. D budget wahala is a clear sign!

The unity of the country must take preeminence over any primordial considerations. If the president has to go on his kneels for the country to remain one, he doesn't have any choice. Grandstanding by any of the govt arms would lead us nowhere.

OrlandoOwoh:
OP, you should be telling the South East and South South what you are now telling the FG. If you don't know what led to the crisis in Rwanda, that you are alluding to, it was inciting comments on the media. Have you condemned Radio Biafra for making inciting comments? When NDA decide to take arms against the government and sabotage its efforts, such an action can not be regarded as an agitation, but insurrection. No government in the world condones insurrections that threatens the countries because every civilian government swore to an oath on the day of inauguration to keep the country as on indivisible entity.

I am very careful when issues of insurrection are brought to the front burner. However, if you read my post carefully you'll see the part that says we must exercise caution when dealing with agitators. For the benefit of hindsight, one of the reasons why Jonathan did not apply full weight of the law against Boko Haram initially was its religious, political and sociocultural implications. You and I were in this country when some elders in the north rose up vehemently against military onslaughts. While I don't support taking up of arms against the State under any circumstance, we should be mindful of the fact that the militants had rolled out their grievances and path to peace. It's left for the govt to carefully weigh its options but mass killing which can snowball into genocide MUST be avoided.

wisov:
Buhari alone cannot implement d confab! U guys shud also put presurre on saraki and dogara

Whatever step taken by Buhari as far as the confab report is concerned is what others would follow. If the president wants it implemented, other arms of govt would key in.

sanandreas:
Exactly my brother. I am neither Apc nor Pdp. All I want is a better Nigeria. Come join me as I soak cold garri and dried fish.

You're even combining it with dried fish? Good for you.

sanandreas:
True fiscal federalism would end Nigeria problems significantly. The SNC should be implemented.

True Federalism in Nigeria is a mirage. For instance, APC stalwarts like Tinubu and Fashola were very vocal in asking for State Police when they were in opposition. Today, as members of the ruling party, has anybody heard them talking about the issue? Most Nigerian politicians are after their pockets.

eshietIntrepid:
The military in nigeria is a puppet of whoever is in power.
In present situation we have found ourselves, let us reason and speak from our heart what's wrong with implemention of the national conference held no long ago.

But if anyone say is right not to implement the conf. Report then is clear some people are parasites to some. And they are ready kill and keep it so.

Or don't we have a right to chose who we are?

Unfortunately, most APC leaders do not believe in the Confab or its report but I expect Buhari to heed the calls of those clamouring for its implementation.

Goke7:
those fanning the embers of war against the FG should also have a restraint, everyone all across the country have been appealing to the militants to drop their weapons and be open to dialogue with the FG but they have been insisting on their own terms.

Dude, did you read the newspapers or listen to news today? Negotiation with the militants has been ruled out by the military and I want to believe they were speaking for the govt.

incomintop:
we are in a dangerous time

And a dangerous time needs proactive and cautions timekeepers.

Some weeks ago while cherry-picking from a catalogue of DVDs in a local shop, my attention was drawn to one in particular titled HOTEL RWANDA. My initial thought went straight to X-rated films that sell like bean-cakes in the Nigerian Film market. However, after going through its encrypted storyline, the gory story of Rwandan Genocide crept into my consciousness and momentarily, I felt like someone badly beaten by a morning rain. In my bewildered state, flashes of killings in the Southeast and Southsouth parts of Nigeria suddenly ran through my senses as the reality of such event happening here stared at my forlorn figure. Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 American historical film directed by Terry George. It's an adaptation of a screenplay co-written by the film's director and Kier Pearson encapsulating the ordeal of a hotel manager who tries to save the lives of his immediate family members and those of thousands of other Rwandan lodgers from the cold jaw of death in the 1994 massacre, now rated as one of the worst ethnic cleansing in human existence.

Readers should not make the mistake of misconstruing this piece as a PDP-APC, North Vs South narratives but a wakeup call to all parties involved in the ongoing carnages in the Southern and Eastern parts of Nigeria to thread with caution. Many reasons were adduced for the Rwandan crisis but the commonest was the narrative of hatred that allegedly spread like wildfire between the country's two major tribes; the Hutus and Tutsis. So, when the country's president who incidentally hailed from one of the two major tribes lost his life in a plane mishap, tongues of premeditated assassination began to wag In the ensuing confrontations, blames and counter-blames, security agencies were reported to have taken side with govt at the centre against the other tribe and hell was let loosed. The unprecedented mass killings that followed is what's today known as Rwanda Genocide. In our own case, the situation can be much more complex and complicated by the reason of our multifarious tribal divergences if care is not taken.

In the last one year, tens if not hundreds of people had been reported dead from confrontations between members of IPOB and State security agencies. Just two days ago, a large number of pro-Biafran protesters and security agents lost their lives. The Niger Delta is not left out in the blood spilling as unconfirmed reports allude to killings arising from hostilities between locals and security operatives deployed to foster peace in the troubled region.

Now to the crux of the matter. Criminality in whatever form should not be condoned in any nation but the Nigerian govt needs to do more in separating genuine agitations by law abiding individuals from the one ignited by questionable and destructive elements.

All over the world, there's virtually no nation that's completely immune from the problem of separatist rumblings. From India to Pakistan, Spain to the United Kingdom, history is replete with stories of self rule proclamations and agitations. While our resolve to co-habit as a united nation is guided jealously, we must be very careful in quelling any hostility that threatens our unity. The military, police and other security agencies should be seen to be neutral and impartial when dousing tensions in any part of Nigeria where public peace is threatened. The Federal Govt should engage in far reaching consultations with concerned stakeholders before sending out their boys or else, things may fall apart and the centre may not hold.

Maxymilliano:
“For Wole, no one can be good, nor can anything be spot-on politically except that which emanates from him or is ordained by him. His friends and loved ones will always be right and correct, no matter what they do or fail to do. He is surely a better wine connoisseur and a more successful aparo hunter than a political critic.” ... Chief Olusegun Obasanjo

You're right. Soyinka is such a pathetic human being who only condemn govt actions depending on who's in power. Nobody needs to embark on endless google search to unearth his hobnobbing with APC. This is a man that closed his eyes from many anti-people policies of APC governors in the Southwest, yet always fumes at anything PDP. I have never seen a sentimental and parochial human being like him. Even if APC/Buhari turns Nigeria upsidedown, Soyinka will always feel at home with them.

Just trying to imagine what Lai Mohammed would have said against PDP's govt in the midst of the present economic woes if APC were still in opposition.

Why won't you defend democracy when that's the only avenue for your wealth amassment? Try all your stuff under a military govt if Kuje would not come calling.

These Mr. President's speeches sound incongruent and haphazard or is it the reporter that made a mess of it? It's a mixture of yam-flour and koko Garri. I think Buhari needs at least 5 weeks of uninterrupted rest preferably in Daura. That's the stark truth

Shettima and Okorocha? I think Okorocha and Shekau will be a better combo.

1wolex85:
Millions of people reached the same conclusion? wow!

Yes, millions of Nigerian shared the same view

olaolayinkuz:
na wa o, me I can't shout

You can start wailing instead. I think it's good for spiritual cleansing.