₦airaland Forum

"IN MONTHS TO COME, A TOYOTA CAMRY WOULD BE OFFERED FOR N50.000 and MERCEDEZ G550 FOR N85,000 JUST TO FEED THE FAMILY

In 1984, just months after the military takeover by General Buhari, the country ground to a halt; just like today! He came with the same song-and-dance: THEY ARE CORRUPT!!

In a matter of months, mothers were selling their jewellery to send their children to school. Thieves were stealing food at gun point, just like today.

Within months, there simply was NO FOOD. The government gathered the little there was and restricted purchases.

Whether you were 100 or ONE in your family, every household had a card with which they went to military manned cooperatives to purchase rationed, “essential commodities”.

These included Rice, Beans, Yam, Bread, Milk, Sugar, and so on. Everything was rationed. It was war-time in peace-time!! Nigeria became like Somalia.

We lived like refugees.

And of course, a lot of children were simply pulled out of schools because feeding was priority number ONE! Going to school became a luxury, even for middle class families.

And ANDREWS & JANES started checking out.

People suddenly remembered they had British and American passports, and simply left the country!

Those who are not aware of all these, ask anyone who was born on or before 1984. They should be old enough to remember. It was that harrowing.

The most baffling aspect of all this was that, the people he said were corrupt and stealing, were presiding over an economy where the Naira was 1:1 with the US Dollar, and N2 to £1 Sterling!

An economy where we were buying Volkswagen Beetle at N400 from Volkswagen of Nigeria. An economy where my entire family, all 7 of us, travelled for summer hols on tickets purchased for N280 and BTA of N400 (official – we managed to sneak more out for shopping naaa).

An economy where everything was robust and vibrant and growing. Then a man comes in and says he took over because people were corrupt and he needed to sanitise things.

In a matter of months, the Dollar was N15 and the Sterling was N40. A VW Beetle sold for N8,000 (up from N400) and that N8,000 simply was not available anywhere!

Children dropped out of school, businesses closed, parents became destitute, food was NOT available and we queued for rations at cooperatives like refugees in a warring country!!!

Fast forward to 2015!! The same man comes with the same song-and-dance.

We tried to remind our peers and elders of those days, and we tried to educate the younger ones.

However, the wind of change, that wind that always tells us that the grass is greener on the other side, deafened them all!

And once again, within months, everything that happened in 1984 and 1985 Y THING – is all being repeated.

I have just come from a home where my friends have owed two terms’ school fees. They have just made the difficult decision to leave Abuja, relocate back to their village and take the two younger children out of school, at least temporarily.

The older boy will stay with friends and they will use the savings on rent and the likes to try and get him across the line (WAEC).

Feeding is now a major task. Infact, people are complaining of their kitchens and farms being raided for food – DAILY!!

Yet again, this is happening just months after Buhari takes over with screams of corruption and stealing.

Corruption and stealing, yet that my family friend who was not corrupt, not stealing and not anywhere close to the corridors of power was paying his rent, feeding his family and sending all three children to school.

Corruption and stealing yet businesses were opening daily, economy was vibrant, people were healthy, GDP was growing and so on!

In 1985, we were rescued by IBB and Dogonyaro. Immediately, people experienced a reversal.

Within a very short time, the cooperatives closed, food became abundant again, the Naira stabilised, mothers stopped selling their jewellery, and so on. It makes one wonder!

If there were no reference points, Buharists may claim that “if only he had been president”, but the mid-80s proved that the worst period in Nigeria’s history were the 20-odd months he was in power, sandwiched between two periods of plenty and growth.

Therefore, they cannot bring the argument that today’s sufferings and impoverishment were the fault of the past regime – because we will counter with “TAKE HIM OUT NOW LIKE IBB DID IN 1985 AND SEE IF BY THIS CHRISTMAS, YOU WILL NOT BE SMILING AGAIN.

Someone told me today that he predicts that by this Xmas or next Easter at the latest, a person will come and offer a Toyota Camry in exchange for N50,000, just so that his family can eat and make merry over the holidays!!

Nigerians simply don't refer to history! And I have run out of every single drop of sympathy in my body.

SO, LIKE I SAID BEFORE, KEEP STEWING IN YOUR BROTH. MAYBE NEXT TIME YOU WILL SHELVE PARTISANSHIP, TRIBALISM, ETHNICISM, RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY, HATRED, INTEREST AND ALL THAT – [truncated by WhatsApp]

A certified destroyer sef

The ultimate achiever!

We have confidence in this builder called Buhari.

He won't do a shoddy job just because some want him to do wound-dressing instead of proper surgery needed to fix the economy.

68% of Nigerians understand what he's doing.

PMB has no focus. Nepotism, tribalism and wickedness will not allow him to appoint appropriate and qualified people to help him run the economy. He is not only president to the North but president to the whole Nigeria. Every time he wants power, he will be shouting corruption. He shouted corruption in 1984 and people suffered. Now he is shouting it and again people are suffering. Is he a saint? It took him edges to appoint his so called saints "agents of change " as ministers and ended up giving us rogs as ministers. Now he is blaming the past regime that handed him over a robust economy. He always look for someone to blame for his failures. He is not a good marketer. He supposed to market the image of Nigeria very well before the world so that investors can come in and invest then he can genuinely and silently fight corruption within. There is no developed country that is not corrupt but they managed it within themselves.Does it mean that he has no plan for Nigeria when he was contesting for the last election and him and his party were promising us heaven on earth.

They are using the economy of a country that has a population of more than 170,000,000 to be doing experiments and gambling. CBN will make one policy today and revert it back tomorrow because it did not work. No professional plans and policies.

In fact I regretted voting for him.

In fact HE is a certified chattered destroyer.

DropShot:
The ultimate achiever!

We have confidence in this builder called Buhari.

He won't do a shoddy job just because some want him to do wound-dressing instead of proper surgery needed to fix the economy.

68% of Nigerians understand what he's doing.

CERTIFIED ZOMBIE WILL CALL BUHARI A BUILDER BECAUSE THEIR BRAIN IS FILLED WITH COOTON WOOL BUT SENSIBLE PEOPLE WILL CALL HIM A DESTROYER BECAUSE THAT WAS HIS WAY IN THE 80s AND THIS PRESENT TIME. BUHARI HAS NO NO KNOWLEDGE ABOUT GOVERMANCE AND HAS NO FORMAL TRAINING ON ADMINISTRATION SO I DONT EXPECT A SENSIBLE ADMINISTRATION FROM HIM

Hahahahah! We warned them.......that leopard's spot are both systemic and genetical.....but......Tinubu and his false prophets were dancing Skekewu...skelewu...skelewu upandan.....!

Scientists need to discover something about this Man......

DropShot:
The ultimate achiever!

We have confidence in this builder called Buhari.

He won't do a shoddy job just because some want him to do wound-dressing instead of proper surgery needed to fix the economy.

68% of Nigerians understand what he's doing.

Passingshot.. can you give us a template for the things he is doing that we cannot see??