No more derailing, folks. Please always post on-topic

...Ishilove ....Are We Seeing The Changes In Tha' So Called "change" ??

chai, Operation Sweep don happen on this thread.

Firefire:
chai, Operation Sweep don happen on this thread.

bros ..which can sweep ?

suppadan:

bros ..which can sweep ?

Let me help you maybe you don't know about "Operation Sweep"

Lagos State Governor

From 1996–1999 Buba Marwa was Military Governor of Lagos State. During his administration, he implemented programs such as "Operation 250 Roads" which greatly improved motoring conditions. He revamping public health institutions, and ensured that free malaria treatment that was available to all. His administration upgraded infrastructure in poor neighborhoods. He proclaimed an edict to regulate rents, stopping the "Jankara" method of eviction of tenants and ensuring that due process was followed.

Marwa became well respected in Lagos because of "Operation Sweep", a joint police and military venture that helped reduce Lagos' notorious crime rate.

In February 1998, Buba Marwa said on Nigerian state radio and television that unknown persons were again trying to assassinate him, and that he and his entourage had been the target of several bomb attacks starting in 1996. He said that he would not be intimidated.

In May 1998, Mohammed Buba Marwa imposed fuel rationing in Lagos State in an attempt to tackle petrol shortages and reduce chronic queuing at petrol stations. In July 1998, Marwa opened a new asphalt plant in Lagos, the largest in Nigeria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Buba_Marwa

Old memory of "Operation Sweep" in Lagos state.

0hh ...all vhat...

Firefire:
Craving for political appointment has never crossed my mind, because the vocation of teaching philosophy at the University of Lagos gives me incomparably sublime job satisfaction.

Considering certain facts known to me, I preferred Jonathan to Buhari in the last presidential election – and I still do, despite my criticisms of the former over the years. Therefore, if I were paid millions for that, it would have been a win-win situation for me since it means being paid for expressing my genuine preference in the election.

Certainly, no amount of money would have compelled me to support Jonathan if I were convinced he did not deserve to be re-elected, or Buhari because, as already stated, I really wanted his main rival to have a second term of office. Buharimaniacs are fond of hyperbolising the good qualities of President Buhari while unduly neglecting the disagreeable ones. In their jaundiced reckoning, the weaknesses of Buhari should either be ignored or explained away as inconsequential excesses of a military dictator committed to positive attitudinal change by Nigerians.

Anyone that expresses a contrary view or draws attention to his intellectual and temperamental deficiencies is jeered at as an “enemy” of Nigeria. Clearly, superlative descriptions of Buhari and his capability to rebuild Nigeria cannot withstand the harsh searchlight of ratiocinative scrutiny. For, granted that the President has cognate experience as a former military head of state, that experience is severely limited in duration and was garnered during a dictatorship powered by command-and-obey mentality, not by the slow laborious processes of democratic deliberation.

In addition, like every human being, the praiseworthy qualities of Buhari are alloyed by certain personal inadequacies that might jeopardise his ability to make the right decisions while in office. Of course, the President himself, the world in general and Nigeria in particular have changed dramatically since August 27, 1985, when Gen. Ibrahim Babangida unceremoniously overthrew his regime. Thus, those uncritically parading Buhari’s experience from his dictatorial days as if it is an unblemished magic totem for national reconstruction have not learnt any useful lesson from the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo between 1999 and 2007.


[size=14pt]In my opinion, the greatest enemies of President Buhari are not his critics; rather, they are those praising him to high heavens, uttering sugary insipidities to gain favours from him. Also included are the shylocks who recommend revenge against groups that did not vote for him and narrow-minded Northerners gloating simply because the presidency has returned to their region. [/size]

You can say that all over and over again! Your analysis critically fit the despicable political tendency and myopic views of many Nigerians today. Political views, assertoins, and criticism, which are essential in shaping the political ideology and objectivism of the ruling class, viz nation building and actualization of State developmental goals, have been reduced and subjected to tribal and regional sentiments.
.Thus, to question the veracity, ineptitude, recklessness, relevancy or defects, in character and policies, of a given political era or leadership, are immediately met with ridiculous comments from some myopic dorents, whose die-hard elephent stance are based on nothing but borne out of extreme regionalism and religious dubiousity; even when such views, assertions, and criticism are rigorously relevant and neccessary to the overall well being of our Nation in terms of policy formulation, develpmental planning and general governance.

Such is the nature of most people trending politics today. Instead of having that sense of patroitism and unbias stance geared towards making the political elites in the system more responsible and accountable for their actions and senseless inactions, many, out of cheer delusion and self imposed zombified reverence, tends to pitch tent myopically under the acronyms like GEJ, GMB; conversely, 'North, ''South,'' hard-lining: an entrenchment of the political demagogues.

Little wonder we are still where we are now.

Pathetic!