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For our tomorrow we have to give the comforts of today. Subsidy has to go.

Government should not engage themselves in the building of refinery, it should be left to the more capable hands of the private sector. And for this to happen subsidy should go!

Freebies are not free in the long run, lets end subsidy TODAY!

Is Bakera planning to set himself ablaze as part of the protest? That is the only thing that will make me take that bitter hypocritical pastor serious.

Refer to my first post. Replace nationalization with marginalization. Phone posting devil.

Hmm, I don't have an idea how many people work in or visit Aso Rock; but clearly that figure is mind-bogling! More information and breakdown is clearly needed. The good news is that the budget is yet to be approved. I bet the legislative will of course perform the necessary oversight function.

Hmm, I don't have an idea how many people work in or visit Aso Rock; but clearly that figure is mind-bogling! More information and breakdown is clearly needed. The good news is that the budget is yet to be approved. I bet the legislative will of course perform the necessary oversight function.

Nationalization of any ethnic group by omission or commission is very wrong and unconstitutional. It should be re-dressed. I believe GEJ is still approcachable and would be willing to correct this sort of imbalance. At any rate the Yoruba intelligentsia should mount media campaign to bring this issues to the fore.

As for any group forcing the other group to stay in the union, the posturing by my brother Nchara and Dayokanu are just the normal NL talk. No ethic group or region has the will or desire to stop a determined major ethnic group from leaving the union peacefully or otherwise.

That said, a just, fair, less corrupt and peacefully NigerIa will be good for us all, but where that is no feasible, independent nations of homogeneous and like cultural ethic group is a promising alternative, deriding the aspiration of such alternative is unfortunate.

*** yawns***

Nice one.
Congratulations Chinedu, and welcome home!

It is stu.pid threats of strikes and indeed senseless strike such as this one that NLC is planning that are actually responsible for sky high inflation. Immediately the strike commences, motorists react by pushing transport fare to roof, others join them in a chain reaction. Even when the cause of the strike is eventually addressed or removed, price generally does not come down.

At any rate I will watch on the sideline as 'poor masses' protest since they are the ones affected. I will also be praying for these 'poor masses' that God should deliver them from 'poverty' so that they don't become a recurring decimal at protest grounds. Amen.

PapaBrowne:
Subsidy must be removed for this country to move forward!

Rather than spending 1.3 trillion on fuel subsidy year, I'd rather it be spent on any of these three!

Agriculture Loans and Subsidies

Entrepreneurial loans

Education Subsidies


Any of these three would be fine. Not a useless consumption subsidy like fuel.

1.3 Trillion would provide 1 million Naira in loans to 1.3 million Farmers. Do you have the slightest idea what that would do for our economy ??

1.3 Trillion would give 10 million Naira in loans to 130,000 entrepreneurs. Do you have the slightest idea what that would do for job creation??

1.3 Trillion would renovate 13,000 secondary schools at 100 million Naira per school.

All these can happen in just one year if we have good leadership that would knock off this nonsense called fuel subsidy

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OAM4J:
The mods are not against any of the candidate or blaming one particular ethnic group. We are only against the calls from some posters here asking for people to vote on ethnics line. Some are even asking for a merger. This is against our aim. We want any of the candidate to be elected not base on his ethnicity but simply because he is found to be the most objective, matured, intelligent and articulate poster.

Now, don't pretend you didn't see some of those calls and campaigns to vote on ethnic line. We mods are only doing our duty calling people to order and stopping a wrong trend.

So how have we gone wrong or disappointed you doing this?

I have seen call for merger between Gbawe and Kats, but I am yet to see any specific call for votes on ethnic line. What Houvest did was an innocuous appeal to me to help rally support for his candidate OnlyTruth for nomination. The appeal was not made on this thread, and if you noticed, I tactically ignored it. Nevertheless, there is nothing to suggest that OnlyTruth would not have emerged whether Beaf was banned or not, banning Beaf (rightly or wrongly) may or may not have helped the emergency of  OnlyTruth.

But in tacitly admitting without solid evidence (note that Jarus claimed you both  currently don't know the direction of the voting since it's secret) that this election is trending ethnically rather suggesting otherwise, you have helped whipped up the ethnic sentiment. Therein lie my disappointment.

To be fair, I don't agree with bigoted view of Gbawe on many issues; I don't read the long articles of Kats, nor I am impressed with the pretense of ekt_bear, how can I nominate or vote for them.

Wouldn't it have been better if you and Jarus had suggested that people are not supporting them because they don't agree with them on issues, rather than the simplistic and over-flogged ethnic reasons? If that suggestion does  not hold for you, then perhaps the idea of protest vote due to banning of Beaf is tenable. But simply buying into the idea that every unusual and 'inexplicable' event can be excused as ethnicism is a defeatist and escapist approach to dealing with reality.

Gbawe, Ekt_bear and Kats are popular among some people, just as Beaf, OnlyTruth and some other are popular in their own sphere. None of these people are better than the other - they are just different in their approach to issues. That is my opinion.

houvest:
My brother I tire for this n l. Untill the breeze blows.-----

I tire too my brother. All this I too know people!

GEJ won election and they accuse Igbos of ethnicism as if GEJ is ethnically Igbo, and as if other ethnic group did not vote for him. Now OnlyTruth is nominated to feature in a poll, we are hearing the same rubbish.

Please they should pull down the poll if they don't want 'some people' to participate; hatred for Igbo on NL is becoming a dangerous past-time that might end-up undermining this site, the same way it has undermined Nigeria!

What a shame!

Ola one:
I can bet my NL wife on Onlytruth.

Imagine all the Igbos on NL.

And all Beafites (supporters of Beaf).





No contest!

It is only disgruntled people and those who are too full of themselves that will believe that support for OnlyTruth is ethnically biased.
What exactly does Gbawe do here, if not to rave and rant against anything  GEJ and PDP and hail and sell anything Tinubu, Aregbe and the ACN goons? How can such one way person be the best - well perhaps in the kingdom of the blind.

As for Kats, if the topic is not about (actually against Biafra) you hardly notice him, so the less said of him the better.

OnlyTruth stands for justice, a deviation from the past, and a new direction.

If he wins, he won simply because people believe he is the best; all this attempt (including by the mods) to undermine his credibility and immense contribution actually strengthens it.  

I am actually disappointed with the Mods - Jarus and OAM4J, for their insinuations that the vote is trending towards ethnic bias. How exactly did you determine that? Or do you prefer few voters to decide the outcome like previous, when 38 people decided the winner, or a more robust and informed voters creating the necessary awareness and making the vote more competitive? I just dont understand while you both will make comments that undermine your own poll. It is quite unfortunate to put it mildly!

Rad1cal:
Okay we don hear . me too am honest  .

lol. How can you be honest when you are yet to be certified by Bakare!

^^^
Pls from when to when did Ghana have 10 years uninterrupted power supply? What part of Ghana was covered during this era?

Having lost all his investment in the political power capture vehicle deceptively tagged Save Nigeria Group, this clueless pastor is a frustrated and confused shadow of himself.

To make matter worse the holy spirit (if he had any) has abandoned him. In it's place he is randomly possessed by the restless spirits of corpers and other innocent Nigerians whom he and his self anointed Saint - Buhari, caused to be slaughtered by their singular act of very loud conniving silence.

Now this possessed pastor is in need of deliverance. Who will help this fallen man of God?

Well done Dr. Okonjo Iweala, next stop should be custom services, FIRS, Nigeria Army and hopeful a biometric census.

Accountability is necessary first step to riding the nation of corruption.

Remove the subsidy, increase allocation to the states, let see if the state governors will use the increase to fund subsidy in their respective state.

Nonsense protest.

Abeg wake me up when it is time to protest for splitting the country.

When they were busy inflating the subsidy figure the oil marketers did not remember us: but now that their evil scheme is about to be unravelled, they are making their survival to look like they are fighting for the masses.

Fuel subsidy must go!

Interesting development.

Ghana does not have the capacity now, and there is no guarantee they will have it by 2015 let alone sell same to Nigeria.

By the way since states government can now generate their own electricity the complexity on ground will change. Ghana Vice president is making a re-election campaign speech.

Ghost workers cause of high overhead, says Okonjo-Iweala


Thursday, 15 December 2011 00:00 From Muyiwa Adeyemi (Ado-Ekiti), Iyabo Lawal (Ibadan), Oghogho Obayuwana, Mathias Okwe, Collins Olayinka (Abuja) and Biodun Fagbemi (Ilorin) News - National


Labour tackles Jonathan over silence on fuel subsidy

PPPRA allays fear over price increase, NNPC cautions against panic buying

THE Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday attributed the country’s high overhead to the presence of ghost workers on the Federal Government’s payroll.

She, however, assured that this trend would soon be checked as the biometric initiative undertaken by the Federal Government had begun to yield fruits with the discovery that in the police pension scheme alone, N1 billion was paid to ghost pensioners yearly where as the actual amount required was just N500 million. The sum of N1.5 billion was actually being paid to the Police Pension Board by the Budget Office of the Federation.

These revelations were made yesterday in Abuja by the Finance Minister while shedding more light on the N4.75 trillion 2012 Budget presented on Tuesday by President Goodluck Jonathan to the National Assembly.

Accompanied to the briefing by the Minister of State for Finance, Dr. Lawal Ngama and Heads of the ministry’s agencies, including the Director-General of the Budget Office, Dr. Bright Okogu, Okonjo-Iweala declared that it was shocking that the Federal Government had survived it this far considering the level of graft on the public payroll.

Okogu also confirmed that the wage bill of the public service in less than four years more than increased from about N800 billion to almost N1.7 trillion, adding that of the current 72 per cent allocation in the 2012 Budget for recurrent, personnel cost of Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) alone constituted 35 per cent excluding those of the Judiciary and the Legislature.

Accordingly, the minister said the biometric exercise would be pursued vigorously in the New Year with a view to plugging loopholes and to save funds for the government to deploy in critical areas of need.

In this light, Okonjo-Iweala hinted that the ongoing public service realignment would be completed and agencies with duplicating functions merged to save cost of operations.

She also announced that in line with government’s tight fiscal stance, the Federal Government’s domestic borrowings had been reduced from N852 billion this year to N794 billion while efforts would be intensified to ensure that more corporate taxes were generated and agencies audited to ensure total remittances of their collections to the appropriate government coffers.

Besides, the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan not to mention whether fuel subsidy will remain or not and the possible date Nigerians will start paying international prices for petroleum products has drawn criticism from the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).

But the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has assured that there will not be any price increase on petroleum products during the Christmas. The Executive Secretary of the agency, Reginald Stanley who gave this assurance yesterday in Abuja, explained that there was no need for apprehension as petroleum importers had been given all necessary assistance to bring in products.

The agency has also released new guidelines for its fourth quarter allocation.  Among the guidelines are that allocation to import permit is henceforth to be based on performance and capability; and only oil marketing companies with depots are to be issued permit to import fuel.

Also, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has cautioned Nigerians against panic-buying and hoarding of petroleum products.

The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the Corporation, Dr. Levi Ajuonuma, blamed the emerging fuel queues noticeable in the Federal Capital Territory and some cities in the country on the unfortunate rush by some marketers and consumers to mop up enough products in anticipation of the envisaged take-off of the deregulation, which they believe will start with Tuesday’s budget presentation by President Jonathan.

A statement by the Acting General Secretary of Congress, Owei Lakemfa yesterday in Abuja who described the omission of the fuel subsidy removal from the budget as “a disaster waiting to happen,” noted that the budget proposal did not represent a potent instrument that could take the country’s economy out of the woods.

The statement read in part: “A critical perusal of the year 2012 budget proposal submitted to the National Assembly by President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday (Tuesday) showed clearly that the present government has no intention to lead the country out of the present socio- economic crisis.

“The budget, which was tagged: ‘Budget of fiscal consolidation, inclusive growth and job creation, is actually an anti-people’s budget designed purely in the service of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) and their local lackeys who dictate to the Nigerian government. It is a disaster waiting to happen.”

The NLC decried the exclusion of all the issues that relate to removal of fuel subsidy, saying: “In particular, the exclusion of fuel subsidy in the budget is not only tragic, but a declaration of war on the Nigerian people. Thus, the Nigerian people will have no choice but to confront this challenge.”

It contended that the President’s silence was a veiled attempt at further impoverishing the people as similar increases in electricity tariff, sacking of workers arising from merging of parastatals, attempt at returning of toll gates, the refusal to adequately fund education, and refusal to pay minimum wage, have demonstrated.

The huge allocation to security despite the challenges the country   currently faces from the Boko Haram insurgence seems not appealing to the NLC as it berated the Federal Government for devoting too much resources to security.

It added: “Despite the country’s security challenges, it is curious that the Jonathan government has allocated a massive lion share of the budget to security. In the first instance, the major cause of the increasing wave of insecurity in Nigeria is lack of education and mass unemployment, which are direct consequences of the general collapse of public infrastructure such as public electricity, roads, education, health etc. The security challenges are further compounded by lack of political will and abysmal ineptitude of security agencies.”

It cautioned that the mass poverty, unemployment and discontent that had increased bottled-up anger in the polity were like gun-powder that could be ignited by the planned removal of fuel subsidy even in the face of increased vote for security issues.

The NLC maintained that the budget was an instrument of punishment and that Nigerians had the right to resist.

The NLC said: “We call on all Nigerian workers and people to begin preparations for a general strike and mass protests. The people must be prepared in the next few weeks when the Jonathan administration begins to implement his anti-Nigerian policy. Nigerians should prepare to occupy the streets and public institutions to prevent them from being taken over by anti-patriotic forces.”

He revealed that the NLC leadership would be meeting on December 20, 2011 to firm up strategies and give directives on the start of protests that would mark removal of the fuel subsidy.

It added: “We call on the National Assembly to side with the electorate and the Nigerian people by refusing to pass this budget. We also ask the Jonathan administration to seriously have a rethink by reviewing his budget proposal, or be ready to take on the Nigerian people.”

Besides, the   Secretary General of the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), Chief Idowu Sofola (SAN), has lauded the decision of Jonathan to lead the negotiation with Labour over the proposed removal of the subsidy on petroleum products.

He, however, enjoined the government to extend the negotiation to other interest groups in the country.

Also, the first female Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Folake Solanke, yesterday joined others to warn the Federal Government against the move saying it would further compound the woes of the already traumatised citizenry.

Solanke who spoke at the valedictory court session in honour of the late former Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Timothy Ayorinde, reminded the Federal Government of the devastating impact the oil subsidy removal would have on the meager monthly wage of N18,000 approved for public workers, which even some states are yet to implement.

But the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Prof. Abdulwaheed Olatinwo, has lauded the allocation of N282.77 billion to the health sector in the next year’s budget as disclosed on Tuesday by President Jonathan.

In an interview with The Guardian yesterday in Ilorin, Olatinwo said the sum of money allotted to the health sector; a mere 5.95 per cent of the entire budget, if prudently used and dutifully monitored could serve as a veritable channel for creation of jobs for qualified Nigerians.

Earlier on Tuesday, the European Union (EU) Delegation in Nigeria urged caution on the issue of fuel subsidy removal.

At a media luncheon on Tuesday in Abuja, the head of the EU delegation in Nigeria David MacRae said that the controversy over the matter was brought about by the lack of trust by citizens who fear that there might not be enough transparency within the system in the judicious use of the money to be realised from the said removal.


http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70872:ghost-workers-cause-of-high-overhead-says-okonjo-iweala-&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

Kaduna Fulani blame violence on Niger Republic

News Thursday, December 15, 2011

By Luka Binniyat

Kaduna-Fulani community in Kaduna State has blamed the incessant attacks on minority Christians in the state on Fulani from Niger Republic.



A representative of Fulani in Kamuru and former Executive Secretary of Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, Alhaji Abdulmalik Durunguw, said this at a peace and reconciliatory meeting between Ikulu communities made up of Bajju, Fulani and Hausa, at the Kamuru palace of Agwom Akulu, HRH Yohanna Kukah.

This is coming on the heels of the post-presidential election violence which led to the death of over 850 people in some parts of the North.

Kamuru in Zangon-Kataf Local Government Area is about 150 kilometres South of Kaduna metropolis.

The area was among the places affected by the post-election violence, where some houses belonging to some Hausa/Fulani were torched by Ikulu natives, leading to the exodus of the non-natives to various refugee camps across Kaduna State.

Durunguw spoke just as Kaduna State Government said it spends an average of N1.2 billion monthly, about N300 million weekly, for the maintenance of soldiers and other para-military personnel deployed for peace keeping in the state.

He said Fulani from Niger Republic normally infiltrate the state to carry out violent attacks on innocent people in Kaduna, pointing out that in some cases their fellow Fulani's cattle were stolen by the invaders.

According to him, the Fulani in Kamuru were herdsmen who had never been involved in partisan politics and as such had no business with the violence associated with politics.

He said: "As far as Fulani in Southern Kaduna are concerned, none of them can attack another ethnic group. We the Fulani in Southern Kaduna have no power to arrest these invading Fulani from the Niger Republic.

''But any time we see them, we report to the police. I found my cows that were stolen from Southern Kaduna in Bauchi State and the thieves are Fulani that came here from Niger Republic.

''They used the crises as cover to steal our cows and even kill our own people."

However, the Principal Private Secretary, PPS, to Governor Patrick Yakowa, Mr. Yohanna Allahmagani, said the government spent an average of N300 million weekly in feeding and other allowances of soldiers and other security agencies, including the police and the State Security Services, SSS, providing security in the state since April.

He said insecurity in the state was a huge drain on the lean resources of the state, as so much was needed to maintain the personnel involved in enforcing the peace.

He said: "From Zaria to Kafanchan, you see military men. The state government pays each one of them daily. 'We spend N300 million every week on their allowances and other logistics. Imagine what N300 million can do for this community.

''I am calling on all those who have left their homes to return. In all of Southern Kaduna, Ikulu chiefdom is noted for peace.

''What happened in Kamuru was not violence. Some people had their homes vandalised and some may have sustained injuries while running away. But we all know that no one was killed here."

http://odili.net/news/source/2011/dec/15/334.html

Jarus:
Poll is secret ballot system, results not visible even to us Mods. It becomes automatically visible at the expiration of the poll December 30.

Don't worry, once it shows 'log in blabla' your vote has been counted.

Fantastic. That should be rig proof then.

Cast your ballot people; just do it! As I have done for the able and articulate OnlyTruth, the consensus candidate.   

SSS arrests Boko Haram leader’s wife, son
Written by  Adelani Adepegba and Jude Owuamanam


(19 votes)
Director-General of the State Security Service, Mr. Ekpenyong Ita Director-General of the State Security Service, Mr. Ekpenyong Ita File copy


Operatives of the State Security Service have arrested the wife of Mallam Abubakar Shekau, who is believed to be the leader of the Boko Haram sect.



Shekau, who succeeded the late leader of the Islamist group, Mohammed Yusuf, has been identified as a potent force behind the sect’s violent attacks.

Shekau’s wife was reportedly apprehended last Saturday along with her seven-month-old infant at their Kano residence.

Sources told our correspondent on Wednesday that the woman and her son were taken to the SSS Headquarters in Abuja later in the day.

"The woman (Shekau’s wife) was picked up at a house in Kano by SSS operatives and whisked away to Abuja on Saturday. I think the security agencies are getting close to catching Shekau and when they do, that would mark the beginning of the end for Boko Haram," a security source said.

Shekau, who is on the wanted list of security agencies along with the alleged mastermind of the United Nations office blast, Mamman Nur, had been on the run.

The SSS had offered N25m reward for anybody who could provide information that could lead to the arrest of Nur for his involvement in the attack which claimed 23 lives.

But in spite of spirited attempts to catch the two Boko Haram leaders, Shekau and Nur had managed to elude security agencies and they have continued to direct the violent activities of the sect from hiding.

The SSS could not be reached for more information on the arrest as calls and a text message to the agency’s Deputy Director, Public Relations and Media, Marilyn Ogar, were not answered.

Meanwhile, the Special Task Force on security in Jos, ‘Operation Safe Haven’ has said it has no plans to close down businesses and government activities in Jos from December 21 over a rumour that the city could be attacked.


[url]http://www.punchng.com/index.php/news/item/7809-sss-arrests-boko-haram-leader%E2%80%99s-wife-son[/url]

Demdem:
Honestly, u are cracking me up. What hard cold evidence are u talking about? The jurists TOT otherwise. Or are u saying u are much more knowledgeable than those judges or tinubu bribed them. Abegii leave tori. The case was thrown out because of the inneficiencies of the retardeens lawyers. Let them arrange themselves again and charge him. Till then, tinubu is still a innocent man.
Pdp being suicide bombers is a fact I am happy u didn't dispute

I haven't seen any PDP member convicted of suicide bombing; not that I care really. I see no difference in PDP, ACN, CPC. they are same of same.

Hmmmmm, interesting stuff. Noted!

Skii:
Innocent until proven guilty.

Charges against Tinubu were droppped

And Dokpesi?

Demdem:

Do u want me to proves that pdp members are suicide bombers / core bombers. That will very easy to prove. One a senator and another dokpesi. My source for the latter is the retardeen SSS.

Compare to Tinubu's case, the difference is that hard cold evidence were provided, yet Tinubu walked. Who is more guilty of fraud, perjury, crime and criminality? Tinubu or Dokpesi?

The choice is obvious - Tinubu.

Watch where you fling those stones boss. You live in glass house!

ib55:
See i fit get cows, if u like one. Haba no need for revolution we should just stop eatin meat, and strat riding on them. Horses, cows, donkeys, etc are other forms of transport. They no need fuel and easy to maintain, and they can reproduce.lol

Hilarious

lagcity:
we took back our region from PDP while u b1tches were threatening to report to a bed-ridden Ojukwu becos PDP screwed u over . do u remember that?

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-665296.0.html

Yea, you took it back from PDP and handed to Amosun (Ex-cultist) and clueless AregbeRascal. Well Done!

Boko Haram: Northern Christians talk tough, advocate that Nigeria should split
From NOAH EBIJE, Kaduna

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Apparently worried over the menace of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has advocated that Nigeria should split.



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Addressing a press conference yesterday, the Secretary General of the Northern (CAN), Elder Saidu Dogo, said the division of the country was necessary in view of the unabated killings and wanton destruction of property, particularly in the northern region by the Boko Haram.

Although the CAN scribe did not say how many parts the country should be divided into, he simply said if one section of the country did not want wholesome togetherness, everybody should go his own way, even as he expressed optimism that the sect would one day fizzle out.

He recalled that CAN was principally founded in 1964 to stop an interest group in the North opposed to the expansion of Christianity in the region, adding that the recent call by former minister, Prof. Jibri Aminu for the disbandment of CAN had justified the fear of Christians that some non-Christians did not want Christianity to thrive in the region.

Dogo also alleged that there was no Christian group in the country that was marginalized as those in the North, citing inability of northern Christians to clinch juicy jobs in public service allegedly because of their religious background.

He also accused former inspector generals of police of not helping in checkmating clandestine activities of criminals and the Boko Haram over the years through informants:

“If Nigerians are serious, then from here, we have to move forward, call a spade a spade, and move Nigeria forward. If we want to stay together, let’s stay, if not, everybody should go his own way. We cannot continue this way with this type of killings and so on and so forth. Some people do not want Nigeria to stay as one; It is important that this marginalization must stop.

“If you know what CAN stands for, CAN was formed in 1964, and why was it formed in 1964? There was an attempt to actually stop the expansion of Christianity in the North and Christians in the North decided that if we don’t unite and speak with one voice; we will be run over. So, all the Christians denominations decided to unite, forged ahead and formed this united body, so that they would be in a position to defend Christians in the North. If you look at it now, all these talks about indigenes, non-indigenes in Plateau State, people are just playing to the gallery.

“If you go to Katsina, Sokoto, Kano you have indigenes who are Hausa/Fulani, they have no other town, no other local government. They are being discriminated, they cannot be commissioner, they cannot contest for local government chairmanship because they are Christians. It is the Muslims in the North who started trouble in Nigeria, most especially in the North, the records are there.

“Someone carrying trailer load of beer across federal highways to another country, and some people somewhere attacked it and destroyed the whole beer, all his earnings and living gone. Nobody said anthing, and you want Nigeria to remain one?

“Let me tell you, believe you me, Boko Haram will fizzle away, our population is not up to America’s population, but as soon as the 9/11 incident happened, they put in place all mechanism, toady you cannot go to America and terrorize them.

“What is our population compared to America? Look at the amount of money we are having in this country, we are in the position in this country that even if a fly comes to any local government in Nigeria you will know. If we are determined to fight insecurity in this country, we will do it. But the issue is that, because of massive corruption, if you vote billions of naira for security, it will go into private pockets. Nobody will give any information. Anybody can cross from Niger, Chad illegally to Nigeria and have all he wanted and go free whereas individuals are stockpiling this money and taking them away.

“Honestly, if we have a government that is serious both at the state and the national levels, I am telling you that this crisis can be checkmated. This thing was done before, so I just want to tell you that if there is determination by the government, this thing can be checkmated by the government; if the United States and other countries have done it, why not Nigeria?

“There are elements of truth in what the former inspector general of police, Sunday Ehindero said recently that police intelligence unit is obsolete to withstand Boko Haram because when E-Department was cancelled and National Security Organisation (NSO) which is now the State Security Services (SSS), it was no longer effective.

“When the police had the E-Department, it was purely confined to intelligence gathering for the police force which work hand in hand with Criminal Investigation Department (CID), so in any place, you have any problem, even before the problem comes, the commissioner of police, the DPOs in that locality will know exactly what is happening, and within a shortest time, trouble will be curtailed, and the ability of anybody to cause problem will not be there.

“And let me tell you this, Boko Haram does not have the type of ability to bomb people outside the initial place where they were initiated, that is Maiduguri, Borno State. There are people who are actually using this opportunity to operate under Boko Haram. Boko Haram does not have the ability to do what they are doing, people know them and those who are sponsoring them. Thank God some of them have been arrested. Government can fish out all the Boko Haram members if it is determined, and that will be the way of stamping them out.”


http://odili.net/news/source/2011/dec/14/506.html

lagcity:
no man, i don't start anything i can't finish. you ppl are the ones calling for revolution. i'm not an emotional Igbo who doesn't use his head. u ppl are too emotional like b1tches.

Call for revolution for what? What are we revolting against? 
Abeg go siddon; SE PDP support subsidy removal my friend!

If you want to know those calling for revolution, talk to your confused ACN goons.