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The evil fantastically corrupt leaders of this failed state want to slash salaries.And are unwilling to reduce the size of the most expensive convoys of government official in the world. No Governor/Premier in UK,Canada,Netherlands,Spaine, move around the S Class,Landcruiser VX,Range Rovers.

Speaker of House of Representatives of the poverty and corruption capital of the world convoy.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJBHS0XlchA

They borrow money from Western countries to fund this ostentatiousness and will go crying back to them for debt forgiveness.

Wiifesnatcher:
a pathetic situation, a situation that called for sober but watched these useless people to turn it to APC and PDP talk



stupid and foolish sycophants can't allow this country to progress with the way they praised and defend these leaders

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Nigerians please let’s do something about this.

Even if it’s just voting the right people into power please.

You can’t be voting people in just because of tribalism or hatred, or whatever negative reasons because of spite.

There are so many people that can shake up governance at all levels, EXTREMELY brilliant Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa people. People making drones, business moguls, intelligent teachers, doctors, engineers, marketers... why then do we choose agberos, godfathers and the likes?

Elections are not parties, they have real and serious consequences


My people, black men and women, we deserve so much better you and I. God did not create us so suffer in a nation blessed with resources.


Just last week there was a thread here were the senate said Nigeria is poor, yet look at how they ride in the richest cars.

ruggedtimi:
Omo then 504 Na highest ...love that car then

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VaselineCrew:
Nigerians please let’s do something about this.

Even if it’s just voting the right people into power please.

You can’t be voting people in just because of tribalism or hatred, or whatever negative reasons because of spite.

There are so many people that can shake up governance at all levels, EXTREMELY brilliant Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa people. People making drones, business moguls, intelligent teachers, doctors, engineers, marketers... why then do we choose agberos, godfathers and the likes?

Elections are not parties, they have real and serious consequences


My people, black men and women, we deserve so much better you and I. God did not create us so suffer in a nation blessed with resources.


Just last week there was a thread here were the senate said Nigeria is poor, yet look at how they ride in the richest cars.

Too late INEC gave Nigerians no choice.

Our former colonial leaders with the exception of the Prime Minister use the train and their personal cars to get to work.

Or cycle or even walk.

The country is just a failed state and will not witness any sign of progress as long as the leaders continue to live like kings. How can anyone justify this?

A mere state governor in the poverty capital of the world has a 20 car convoy. America the richest country in the world, Governors use their personal cars or get one official vehicle to move around and call the local police to escort them when they go on official assignments.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTOdC0lLS5s

Even a common LGM chairman has a 20 car convoy. Where else, his counterparts in developed countries walk and act like normal people.

Curent UK Prime Minister,Boris Johnson, use to bike to work before he became Prime Minister. Go the United Kingdom or Netherland you won't even know who is a Senator,Governor or House of Parliament member. You can run into them cycling to work,on the train or at a traffic stop.

Why can't we return to the 70's when leaders like Shehu Musa Yardua the second in command used a 5 car convoy of 3 Peugeot 504's,Range Rover and armoured carrier that were affordable?We can't afford to maintain a 20 car convoy for any goverment official and have thousands of police and military protecting politicians, when insecurity is at an all time high.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_LfloE6BWc

Mynd44
Lalasticlala
Seun

Western politicians are essentially upgraded civil servants.

Rugaria:
The way the states purse has been handed over to the governors in Nigeria is undemocratic. A governor/president in Nigeria can wake up one morning and order his finance minister/commissioner to transfer all monies in the state coffers into his account or that of his girlfriend and nothing will happen, apart from the EFCC using that to blackmail the governor into supporting the president in power. This is wrong in all fronts. In almost all the states of the federation, this has led to situations where tenures of the governors are characterized with basically looting of the states funds without doing anything to help the people.. The Rivers State governor woke up one morning and bought brand new SUVs for all political office holders in the state, just to look like a father Christmas! Billions wasted on a set of people who are already rich beyond measure. There should be a very strong monitoring system to checkmate these excesses. It's not their personal purse. The federal legislature should enact a law making it mandatory for every executive expense to be veted by a non partisan anti corruption body created by say the judiciary/NBA, NOT the executive.

It should also be made impeachable if a governor is found neck deep in such pratices.. Again, I think it's time we remove blanket immunity for executive office holders in Nigeria! It's not working! It's counter productive here. Maybe, it's working for other democracies, but the opposite is the case here. Governors and presidents should be forced to answer to cases of corruption and extra judicial killings while in power! A special process that allows for indictments before prosecutions should be created in order to avoid the whole idea being abused by political opponents. Ordinary people with sensitive information should have the constitutional abilities to activate this process. This is necessary because as it's today, both the judiciary and the legislature can easily be bought over by an overzealous executive to blunt any investigations, only for the chief executive to then proceed to loot and plunder under the cover of an amarphous immunity clause. The shameful display of opulence in the midst of want is wrong..

Well said.
I just don't see how we'll acheive this.
Something drastic needs to be done, just don't know what.
Demonstrations will be stopped as we saw during endsars.

I thought about how we got here and using that as a roadmap to exiting this cycle of doom. Our best and most brilliant people, the ones who are humble and intelligent go into professions like law and medicine etc. Where do the dummies and "average" ones go? Politics.

These are people who have nothing else going for them so they have to steal. So how do we change the narrative and start to put the qualified and moral ones in public offices?

Is the solution a political movement that is bred among the young working class. A merit based movement that aims to gather the ones who have a passion to get involved but don't know how cos everything seems doomy and gloomy.

It's a drunkman's fantasy, I know. I just wish we can do more than complain online. We're all complaining online. Why can't we start to organize our thinking and doing solutions