₦airaland Forum

Buhari must be decisive on fuel subsidy .The
state nearly collapsed under Jonathan .The last
regime left behind a deficit of N7 trillion .New
president must be careful in choosing his
ministers
BY FIDELIS MAC-LEVA AND
NURUDDEEN M. ABDALLAH
June 21, 2015


Can you recall your experience when you were
appointed to head the APC transition
committee and your feelings over the
appointment?
I really don’t know how I felt. I had gone to
bed and there was a bang on my door at about
1:30 am and I was naturally feeling sleepy and
even afraid that anybody should wake me up at
that hour. But they persisted so I opened the
door and asked what it was and they said it was
the president-elect who wanted to speak with
me. I woke up a little bit jolted and the person
who was on the telephone said the president-
elect wanted to speak to me but they couldn’t
get me earlier so he had just gone up but
wanted to see you tomorrow. I do get surprises
like that sometimes but I went to bed and slept
without knowing what he was calling me for. But
I guessed that it must be some kind of
involvement in the transition, though I didn’t
know in what capacity. The next day I flew back
to Abuja and met with the president. He told
me about my appointment as chairman of his
transition committee. I thanked him for the
honour and privilege to serve our country and
that was it. He then gave me a letter with the
terms of reference attached and said I should
do the work in two weeks and I made two
observations. That, for the size of the task the
number of the members was too small because I
anticipated that we needed to set up a number
of specialized committees that would receive
volumes and volumes of papers from both the
government and from other interested parties:
the business community, the society groups,
individuals who felt they wanted to make an
input. He explained to me why the size of the
committee was kept too low and I said the time
was too short, but he said I should try and do
it. Our first problem was where to meet and
work; how to get the personnel that would help
to do the work, set up the secretariat and
appoint the resource persons, appoint
rapporteurs and everything. It took us three
days to find a suitable area of buildings where
we could do our work efficiently. We then had
to buy the computers and the necessary hard
and software with which to work. At the end of
the first week we were ready to go and I had
my first meeting with the former secretary to
the federal government after one week of
being appointed and we learnt that the
government handover notes, upon which our
terms of reference were based, would not be
available to us until sometime in May, which
would be four weeks after we were appointed
and two weeks after our mandate would have
terminated. We had to strategize to receive
memoranda; sometimes even without invitation
there were a lot of memoranda coming from
the public, trade groups, chambers of
commerce, industry experts whether oil or gas,
agriculture or electricity or transport, railway,
waterways, port, harbours; everything was
coming. But there was nothing coming from the
government and we did not receive a single
piece of paper until May 25, four days to the
handover. This came in many volumes amounting
to 18,000 pages so we had to set up our work
groups and about five sub-committees. We
spent the next three to four days trying to
sort these papers out and assigning them to the
various committees. We couldn’t start real work
until the first of June and we eventually
submitted our report and our recommendations
on Friday the last week to the president.


source and more details of the interview with Ahmed Joda

http://saharareporters.com/2015/06/21/we-found-corruption-everywhere-says-buhari-transition-committee-chairman-ahmed-joda

You cannot have an engineer who
is idle living there without doing any
engineering job for the next five years and still
be called an engineer. If a doctor doesn’t
practice for five years he is not a doctor for
you to submit yourself to him. So the solution is
sitting down to look at the service as it is,
rationalizing it and creating jobs; public works
where everybody gets engaged and the country
see the results. - Ahmed J

Just incase

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Cc: lalasticlala

This is a very important piece esp to the tanoise and their leader Mr Barcanista

If there were supposed to be ten assistant secretaries in an establishment but only eight in place during the budget year you could employ not more that number to fill those vacancies. But now you have a situation where you have only ten vacancies but twenty people are employed; all the ten extra people are illegal and are not covered by the budget and under what we used to call the finance management Act it is a criminal offence to do that because you are breaching the approved budget. Ahmed Joda

Cc: severussnape, barcanista, mogidi, truckpusher, showyourcertificate, ecoterrors, oremussanctus, soundking, biafranqueen, etc

abduljabbar4:
Cc: lalsticlala

This is a very important piece esp to the tanoise and their leader Mr Bacanista

if only they can read everything.

Of course corruption is in every sector in nigeria

abduljabbar4:
Cc: s everussnape, barcanist a, mogid i, t ruckpusher, showyou rcertificate, ecot errors, ore mussanctus, soundkin g, biafr anqueen, etc

How is dat my problem?

Ahmed4002:
if only they can read everything.

Believe me once they read the topic and see the source they will run away

Modify and call me back

abduljabbar4:
Believe me once they read the topic and see the source they will run away

read this below from the interview

So what happened in 1979, I had
left the service in April 1978, so all the people
in government; the permanent secretaries from
the new head of service and the secretary to
the government down to directors were all
people with whom I had worked and who were
junior to me in service. So it was easier for me
to talk to the SGF and HOS without any
restraint at all and they told me the truth and
if the information is there they give it to me.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
How is dat my problem?

Ask google

Corruption is an inevitable by-product of the existing political structure. Once they fix this structural problem, every other thing falls into place.

D same corruption dat has bin dere since 1983 till date, so why d alarm. Dey voted d old cow to fix tinz up, and not telling us bullshitz. If he knows nufin, he shld hand over to someone dat is capable of doing d job.

These are preambles and nothing to debate on.
Please Op stop calling me out if you can't elaborate on your post

Stealing is not corruption

Rilwayne001:
Just shvt up your mouth if you don't have anything reasonable to say.

Tell him to handover to you

Am not d man dat told u to fast na allahh, so if u hungry pls channel ur anger at allahh.
Wadz d meaning of all dis non sense?

LRNZH:
There's a proverb that of you let bad habit persist for up to year, it becomes a tradition.

While OBJ fought corruption to a considerable extent, GEJ embraced and celebrated corruption. It was such a shame that a shoeless one became an elite overnight, harboring the same cabal that kept him shoeless in his early days.

I would have preferred if you hadn't put it in these words... but truly you're declaring your words true to the matter..

Brb

Rilwayne001:
Just shvt up your mouth if you don't have anything reasonable to say.

Tell him to handover to you

The guy is plainly senseless

Rilwayne001:
Just shvt up your mouth if you don't have anything reasonable to say.
Tell him to handover to you

u dey mind d clown