₦airaland Forum

Listen to me Tex, when the head is corrupt, one can safely conclude that the whole body is rotten and corrupt too.

Big B1:
You guys must be very careful, the same law that is being abused might affect every one of us in the long run.

This is democracy and we must respect the law, period.

Abuse or degrading of the law should not be tolerated under any circumstances; and trust me, this is the only way to move a country forward effectively.

It sure is.

Anyway, as per corruption, I'll suggest you go and ask OBJ where he got the money to spend buying Hummer Jeeps for his girlfriends, and concubines at Abuja and all over the world!

Are you based in Nigeria? Just give me your mobile line, office address, e-mail address and lets get talking - if you're somewhere near me in Portharcourt.

@ Ishmael,
Man, you're doing a great job in here. I've read several of your posts on this matter. No doubt our Poly grads really should not be looked down upon.

We've got to re-orientate our people (society) about the evils this discrimination against HND graduates portends for the future of this country - and I believe yourself and HND-Holder have done pretty well to convince so many people on this board about this. Well done.

texazzpete:
a few days ago members of the Delta state house of reps cut short their recess periods to take possession of brand new Prado Jeeps. The members formerly were using Passat cars. This largesse by the govt comes with barely seven months to the end of their tenures.
I'm sure we all know how much these jeeps cost brand new. later y'all greedy folks will heap blame onmultinational oil companies, when leaders without focus are doing most of the havoc,

Send me the link (s) to this your new story, Tex. For me sha, the tory no fit hold ground.

This OBJ man really looms larger than life itself. If this man is corrupt, what the hell is wrong in pulling him out of Aso Rock? I mean, I'm tired and sick of his having hands in all the impeachment moves throughout the land.

Ndipe,
Me too. I've seen and heard enuf of em, that I'm no longer puzzled by anything!

"Mr. President should stop deceiving us with this corruption issue. When I said he was the owner of Bell University, he denied it. Bell University is there. They are building a massive structure there of about N4 billion to N5 billion contract, which the President paid them directly. The President is the owner of Temperance Farm account."

"I can give pictures of how Otta Farm looked like in 1998 and go and see the same Otta Farm. They are putting more than N30 billion investments there. So why are we deceiving ourselves? All these things are about deceit."


''If 20 governors had followed me and said it was bad, and we go to Obasanjo and said this is bad, these things would not continue. So, it is not about me. When they were dealing with me for six years, I told Vice President Atiku Abubakar, you people are keeping quiet, this thing is turn by turn. Whenever he tells me; please make up with Mr. President, you know he is our friend, please make up with him, I told him (Atiku) they are dealing with me and you are there laughing. It is not about Kalu, it is about the system and that is where we are today." -  Orji Uzor Kalu

Thought provoking quotes. Only time would tell who's deceiving who in this country.

Let the bridge collapse - with no human casualties sha, if possible. Our government people like fire brigade approach to issues. It's only when the damage has been done that they like taking action.

Meanwhile, my people in the delta have been praying and wishing that they should have a bridge as long as that one to connect their villages with the mainlands and open business opportunities for them, but the FG and their cronies will never allow that to see the light of the day.

Interesting!

Uncle[b] Chxta[/b], I'm yet to see your reply to my last entry on this matter.

No. I'm not Marvin Kanye. I've done a resend to you anyway.

Jakumo:
In my opinion veils and masks ought to be banned entirely in the UK, and anyone who does not like that should go ahead and LEAVE the UK to return the phuk back to their goat-herding village in Pakistan or Retardistan where they can live in squalor and dress like a damn masquerade till they are blue in the face.

Masquerade outfits could be used by criminals to hide their identities while committing armed robberies for example, and no group of people in a SECULAR DEMOCRACY should be allowed to get so pompous as to assign themselves the right to walk the streets in disguise. If I walked into a London bank wearing a Mickey Mouse mask, I would expect the police to swarm in and take me down for questioning. The same should apply to the wearer of any disguise in a public place.

The only argument in favor of mask-wearing would be that some of those covered-up BMO's (Black Moving Objects) are in fact so amazingly ugly that their gorilla mugs are best covered up so as not to frighten the horses.

LMFFAO!!

I sure did.

Lets discuss outside here. Reply my e-mail.

Yeah Seun. I've already sent an e-mail to her on that one. I guess since she frequents Nigeria and the UK a lot, she sure could be of help in procuring this set.

Thanks Naijacutee. Just reply my e-mail and lets get talking.

Exactly!! Good girl!

Thanks, naijacutee. Looks like what you have got is some kind of ''walkman'' MP4 player. Do we have this integrated in home theatre set? I mean, I like to sit in the comfort of my sitting room or bedroom and listen to something standing near my TV set.

Are you based in the UK? Tough luck. And hey! you're really cute.

Thanks for your response, though.

I guess this depends largely on your taste as a person. Compatibility will likely play a great role here.

Besides, I have noticed that over the years, peope who are widely traveled tends to go into interracial marriages than those who don't. But I guess in the end, love's the principal thing.

Folks,
I do not, under normal temperature come around here. But I want to get a multi-discs (including MP4/AVI) Players here in Portharcourt. I've gone round a lil bit. And all I could see are mere DVD/SVCD/MP3/JPEG players. And some DIVX compatible home theatre sets. Is DIVX and .avi thesame thing? Where can I get this type of players around here in Portharcourt?

I read this in the Guardian of yesterday. It was composed by no other person than
Okey Ndibe.

I have been LMFFAO since I finished reading it. I also ''heard'' that Fayose has lost a lot of flesh latley, and that he's breathing through his mouth! Lawdy lawd!!

Buluti,
Long time. I'm surprised you do not know that these are not the days and times for leaders at any level to resign in this country. Such ''luxury'' only happens in places like Ghana and South Africa. Nigerian leaders are sit-tight leaders. They steal and commit other atrocities with impunity. Telling them to resigh is like pouring water on stone. It won't sink in. Their conscience have been seared with a hot iron. They cannot change.

Otokx and Obong,
You two are indeed representatives of our people. But, Obong, you'd do well to apologise to Chxta. I don't like his views about the Niger Delta people and leaders, but we sure can get some other juicy stuff from him. Let us not throw punches, so that we will not be seen as weaklings in putting forth our points to buttress what we believe.

Now Chxta:

Chxta:
You would find that in every setup, no matter how good such a setup would be challenged by dissatisfied individuals (note that I am avoiding using the word disgruntled). Even in the US, there are people who feel that they are being hard done by. That is the natural order of things.

The facts remain (and I am yet to be proved wrong in any thread that I have raised these points despite all the hate and threats directed at me):

1) since we have reached a concensus that marginalisation in our diction is all about infrastructure or the lack of it, all parts of Nigeria have suffered marginalisation

And I've stated in one of my entries on this board that I'll like to have the kind of sufferings and marginalisations going on in such places as Maitama districts, Asokoro, Ikoyi GRA, high brow areas of Victoria Island, Kaduna, and Kano, which, as we all know, were built up with the resources from the Niger Delta states. In relative terms, the type of marginalisation and sufferings witnessed and we're still witnessing in the Delta is unprecedented in the history of this country. It's an absurdity that a place that produces the bulk of the nation's wealth should be subjected to such callous treatment by any type of leadership at the centre. It smacks of wickedness at it's peak on the part of these leaders.  

Chxta:
2) since we have agreed that the representatives of a people are their leaders, then the voices of the people of the Niger Delta (South-South) are as follows: (elected) Peter Odili, Dieprieye Alamiesiyeagha now replaced by Goodluck Jonathan, Lucky Igbinedion, James Ibori, Obong Attah, Donald Duke. We agree that the people deserve the government that they have, and since the people of the Niger Delta (South-South) are 'happy' to just sit back and let these rogues (apologies to Donald Duke) continue looting their treasuries, then the people also share a portion of the blame for their actions.

I've also stated that ''leaders'' from other states of the Federation have been fingered for one type of grave offence or the other. Fayose will soon begin to cool off his heels in the gulag. Dariye also jumped bail. Even the one that delights in amputating limbs was fingered! As a matter of fact, the[b] only governor who's been given a clean bill of health by the EFCC is a Niger Delta governor![/b] I wonder why this governor is not from the ''saintly'' North, West or Eastern part of the country. I thought you'd be praising the Delta people for producing the only credible governor in the whole Federation considering that we're the most marginalised people in the country.

Chxta:
3) we have all in one form or the other over the course of the last few months when I first burst on the scene with this article, agreed that he who cannot be trusted in small things cannot be trusted in big things. My own interpretation of that statement is he who cannot be trusted with coins cannot be trusted with notes. The implication of that is that the Niger Delta who get the lion's share of oil revenue, and have been getting that larger share for the better part of the last decade, and who still have nothing to show for it, do not deserve a larger share of such funds.

I think you should by now know where to direct this your inference.

Chxta:
4) we have all agreed that he who makes peaceful change impossible, makes violent change inevitable. History bears that out, that you can only push a people thus far. But history also shows that a struggle whose leadership is not pure (for want of a better word) and honest is bound to fail. We have all seen that the leaders of all the various 'break-Nigeria' movements (Ojukwu back in the 1960s), Uwazuruike, Dokubo, Adams didn't have the backs of their people when the chips were down, but instead were interested in self. With such dishonest leadership, all these movements will surely fail.

As stated earlier on, blame the folks at the centre. We all know that even after the death of Isaac Adaka Boro, since the sixties, the struggles for the emancipation of the Delta people lives on. You see, it's not over until the struggles yields the fruits desired by all concerned. Almost all Igbos believed in what Uwazuruike holds in high esteem. They obeyed the sit-at home order he dished out sometimes last year, and even the FG felt threatened when they realised that the Igbos obeyed this man. And although he's in prison and locked up, what he believed in still lives on. And a lot of Igbo chaps are willing to take over from where he left, and this will go on until the percieved injustice done to them is adressed, and seen to be adressed by the generality of the Igbo people. Don't be deceived by the temporary incapacitation of these people. No one can stop the people when the chips are down. Not even with brutal force as is currently being canvassed by you and your likes in here.

Chxta:
5) we have all agreed that Nigeria as it is currently constituted is failing. But we fail to remember that failure is an incentive to do well. We also fail to remember that Nigeria once was a sort of success story. It is easy for us to point out reasons why we are failing, but difficult to remember that other countries with similar situations are doing well.

Please tell, how and when was Nigeria ever a sort of success story? (Aside from when Muritala Muhammed was head of State - A South Southerner, as stated by you) Also list out these countries with smilar situations as ours. I'm yet to see one.

Chxta:
6) we have all agreed that based on the indigene-settler dichotomy which currently operates in Nigeria, Chxta for example is a citizen not of Edo State but of one of the states east of Edo (for reasons of national unity, I haven't filled in the state of origin slot in any form since 2001, for example in the last census, I filled in Edo as my state of origin, so don't ask what state I come from). Since this indigene-settler dichotomy operates, then the South-South geopolitical zone has indeed produced a Nigerian Head of State. His name is Murtala Ramat Muhammad. And until the day an Igbo man is allowed to run for governor of Lagos State, it remains an immutable fact that the late General Muhammad was from Edo State.

Stop dreaming. Why ask for the impossible?

Chxta:
7) we all agree that education is the only way to stem the apparent slide that is pervasive in the South of the country, and some of us have pointed out that despite figures that show that the East for example produces the largest number of applicants that doesn't necessarily translate into a higher number of graduates as the drop out rate of males in the East (and the South-South) is on the sharp increase. This would bode very poorly for us in the long term, and the sooner we address this issue, the better for us all.

Please correct me, the last time I checked some JAMB brochures, most of the ELDS (Educationally Less Developed States) were concentrated in the North. How is it then, that it's now a South South affair? So going by your reasoning here, the only part of the country that is educationally sound is the South West. If that is what you think, then, methink your view on education in the country is a bit warped.

Chxta:
This is not the time to fight. This is the time to sit down and take an inward look. As an ancient sage once wisely noted: 'The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than built by criticism'.

We have been looking inward for quite a long time. I think this is the time to look outward, since, when we looked inward, we did not make any meaningful progress as a country.

Chxta:
To borrow a phrase from Texazzpete: I have spoken.

Chxta,
I said in one of my entries on this issue that the presence of miscreants and militants activities in the Delta are the fallouts of lawlessness that pervades the Nigerian landscape. There is indeed some level of connection btw the activities of militants and true struggles of the Niger Delta people. But, by and large, these militants (including Bakassi Boys, Arewa youths, OPC, MEND, Omonile, Touts and Area boys etc) are the results of a failed security and accountability apparatus of state.

You see Chxta, Nigeria is a failed state. Under a responsible government, a government that has the interests and well being of it's people at heart, militancy, hostage taking and other ills will be non existent. Examples abound of responsible government all over Africa and indeed the world. Blame your leaders Chxta, and leave out the Niger Delta people over the activities of miscreants in the Delta. But if you must know, I'm happy these folks are matching action with words out there. But my heart goes out to those felled by bullets on both sides. When we come to the realisation that we are indeed parading incompetent and brutal people as leaders, we will all go out there and chase them out.

You should also know by now that the true struggles of the Niger Delta people for control of their life and God given resources transcends the activities of militants in the creeks. Our struggles, as stated by myself and mate Owo is a broad one, and it encompasses using what God has given to us in His infinite mercies to better our lots, that of the present generation and future ones. So that in the end we can confortably say: Thus far hath the Lord help us.

Lawdy lawd!! So much have been said. Who do I reply first? But in the end, I've realised that I just kept repeating thesame thing over and over again. I believe it's time for action and not words anymore.

MEND and other Joint Revolutionary C'ttee groups are fighting their lives out there in the creeks. Let us see who'd loose in the end. Nigeria, Militants or the Niger Delta people.

otolorin:
The president himself was even said to have whimsically told some of his friends shortly after he took over power in 1999 that he was born-again only from his head to the waist. Meaning that his loins had nothing to do with the term ''born-again''. The president meant it to be a joke, but some of those present did not laugh. It was not funny. That was when it dawned on some people that the president's ''born-againnest'' had not been tested outside prison and if he was born-again at all, he needed to get born-again, again.

LMFFAO!! All hail KingKong!!

How is it that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan' name is not on that list? His wife was fingered by the EFCC for corrupt enrichment, recently.

I still dey look as events unfolds.