₦airaland Forum

ItsMeAboki:
Pls stop lying, Abacha created the PTF under which more was money was budgeted and spent on southern road constructions than in the the north - though he and Buhari who headed the PTF at the time were both northerners - the records are still out there, you can check them.

Road constructions were carried out majorly in the north while the south was appeased by boreholes. The records are equally available for perusal.

Abagworo:
Oil was 11 Dollar per barrel coupled with sanctions by the Western powers I still find it miraculous how he was able to run the country and have so much savings. Personally I believe he was involved in private businesses that gave him money and didn't directly dip hand into Nigerian money. Maybe oil bunkering, diamonds in Liberia/Sierraleone and drugs which cannot be referred to as loot in the real sense of it.

Which country was he running? How won't there be much savings when the entire country ground to a halt? Were you living in Nigeria as at the time in question? Although I do realize that the Abacha regime made no difference for some people as they had been living a nightmare even before he came (I do not refer to you here but speak in general terms).

Funny enough I totally agree with this writeup. I believe it's mostly media propaganda used to equalize his autocracy. military men make some of the best leaders and in the first instance it was the highly fantastically corrupt politicians that pushed Nigeria to where we are now. The military just had to do damage control.

assyn:
Funny enough I totally agree with this writeup. I believe it's mostly media propaganda used to equalize his autocracy. military men make some of the best leaders and in the first instance it was the highly fantastically corrupt politicians that pushed Nigeria to where we are now. The military just had to do damage control.

The military did damage control from 1966 to 1979...then continued the damage control from 1983 till 1998. Wonderful damage control.

the northern propaganda,and yoruba and igbo will be killing themself.. north is evil.

logica:
The military did damage control from 1966 to 1979...then continued the damage control from 1983 till 1998. Wonderful damage control.

Exactly my point, that's what the media told us about the Military regime. I tell you that if the politicians had remained in power, Nigeria would have been in deeper shit than we are now. Politicians are crazy people only out for their fat pockets. That's why even Trump (military background) took out mainstream media during and after his campaign, which played to his advantage. Media is a powerful political tool.

Hemanwel:
Northerners are celebrating their own thief - Abacha;
Westerners are celebrating their own thief - Tinubu;
And you say Deltans should not celebrate their own too - Ibori and Tompolo.

Bro, your hypocrisy is irredeemable!

Sorry to say, u ar nt a reasonable person
2wrongs does nt make a right

:"Look at the Nigeria and tell me the pleasures of sanity."

hysteriabox:
Ya ubangiji

BlakKluKluxKlan:
Road constructions were carried out majorly in the north while the south was appeased by boreholes. The records are equally available for perusal.

You are right.
PTF was majorly for the north.

Flyingngel:
I doubt the authenticity of this story, but if it is true and i happen to meet that man; believe me na death sure pass.

The news was on Network news last night, so it is very authentic.

Gone were the days when hearing the name "Ishaya Bamaiyi", was like hearing gods name.

Those military generals that failed the country.
One of them is the present president. He is a disgrace and a failure.

NubiLove:
Abacha stole.... end of story. He is dead, FG should concentrate on getting the money back.

Abacha stole money. A lot of money.
Just as other military generals like him.
Today, obasanjo, ibb, abdulsalam, buhari are billionaires.

TRUTH IS BITTER BUT IT GET TO BE SAID. OGA IAM A MUSLIM LIKE U. BE FAIR IN UR COMMENT. ABACHA STEAL NAIJA MONEY AND IS ALSO A THIEF STOP BACK HIM UP WITHOUT ANY PROOF

What a joke? The man is high on weed.

assyn:
Exactly my point, that's what the media told us about the Military regime. I tell you that if the politicians had remained in power, Nigeria would have been in deeper shit than we are now. Politicians are crazy people only out for their fat pockets. That's why even Trump (military background) took out mainstream media during and after his campaign, which played to his advantage. Media is a powerful political tool.

The media told me about my life experience? What are you on about?

SalamRushdie:
11 dollars per barrel , severe international sanctions and economic blockade yet this short man grew the Nigerian economy consistently for years at 4 percent per annum , pegged the naira at it's most consistent of 22 naira to a dollar, not a single inflation during his govt instead prices fell, he fixed more Nigerian road than any govt till date using the PTF, the only head of state that didn't execute and single coup plotter .. His major Sins where his authoritarian nature and refusal to hand over democratic power to Abiola and for that the Yorubas can never forgive him... as a young military officer my father was saved by General Abacha from a firing squad for an offence he knew nothing about even though my dad was of Christian extract and even reinstated him , as a young officer my dad had already built houses yet at that time Abacha a full general didn't own a house ..I know this because he called my dad and asked him if he had a house an my dad said yes all officers have houses now and talk which led Abacha to commenced the building of his first house as an officer . Somehow this man Abacha has fallen on the wrong side of history.

one of the few times i agree with u but i knw theres more to the abacha regime than we already know, and i cant wait for somebody like al-mustapha to publish his book abt some of what transpired during that regime. One thing i knw is propaganda by the west and connivance with groups like nadeco played a lot in our perception of that man abacha....God knws best sha!

If General Abdulsalam Abubakar (rtd )had extended the transition period of his military government the likes of Lt. General Ishaya Bamayi (rtd ) could have been overthrown his government.

BlakKluKluxKlan:
Road constructions were carried out majorly in the north while the south was appeased by boreholes. The records are equally available for perusal.

Read my post more slowly again; I repeat more money was budgeted, i.e. more money was allocated and spent on southern roads than in the north - some of you like to twist things dishonestly to suit your propaganda; its annoying and disgusting.

Useless man

ItsMeAboki:
Read my post more slowly again; I repeat more money was budgeted, i.e. more money was allocated and spent on southern roads than in the north - some of you like to twist things dishonestly to suit your propaganda; its annoying and disgusting.

I don't twist issues around for any ulterior motive. I tell it as i know it to be even when it doesn't favour me.
I particularly followed PTF's actions because it was sort of given a blank cheque. Buhari-PTF used the outfit to modernise many roads in the north. All his actions then was heavily skewed in favour of the north. I stand by what i said. I witnessed the resurfacing of a road in Ondo state, others were bore-hole projects.
Records don't lie.

BlakKluKluxKlan:
I don't twist issues around for any ulterior motive. I tell it as i know it to be even when it doesn't favour me.
I particularly followed PTF's actions because it was sort of given a blank cheque. Buhari-PTF used the outfit to modernise many roads in the north. All his actions then was heavily skewed in favour of the north. I stand by what i said. I witnessed the resurfacing of a road in Ondo state, others were bore-hole projects.
Records don't lie.

Then please show the records you have to back up your allegations not just by mouth.

Reminds me of a recent article by Charles Ogbu. The average northerner would still defend Abacha while the southerners want GEJ's head.

In better places, this rtd. general wont even have the temerity to come out with these statements.

SalamRushdie:
11 dollars per barrel , severe international sanctions and economic blockade yet this short man grew the Nigerian economy consistently for years at 4 percent per annum , pegged the naira at it's most consistent of 22 naira to a dollar, not a single inflation during his govt instead prices fell, he fixed more Nigerian road than any govt till date using the PTF, the only head of state that didn't execute and single coup plotter .. His major Sins where his authoritarian nature and refusal to hand over democratic power to Abiola and for that the Yorubas can never forgive him... as a young military officer my father was saved by General Abacha from a firing squad for an offence he knew nothing about even though my dad was of Christian extract and even reinstated him , as a young officer my dad had already built houses yet at that time Abacha a full general didn't own a house ..I know this because he called my dad and asked him if he had a house an my dad said yes all officers have houses now and talk which led Abacha to commenced the building of his first house as an officer . Somehow this man Abacha has fallen on the wrong side of history.

History is most often written by the victors, hence the 'bad' version of Abacha we have today.

Abacha wasn't all bad just as he wasn't all good & such is the case with every leader.

the key thing that puts Abacha firmly in the 'bad' class of leaders are the restrictions on rights of citizens.

contrary to what nonpolitical scientists would have us believe, your dividends of democracy is not about infrastructure roads, power plants etc...

the real dividend of democracy is having full access to your rights as a human being & a member/citizen of an organised society.

my point is, Abacha might have been a nice guy to some people, but the fact that majority of the people had their fundamental human rights suppressed is what puts him in a negative perspective...

Nukualofa:
The North is the most corrupt region in Nigeria.

Show me any leading northern Politician that has been convicted.


Some Idiots call Ibori a theif forgetting that Ibori, Tinubu, OUK, Abacha are the biggest thief waiting to buy their way to heaven

Tribal bigot, work on your grammar first

Whenever i hear this name, oputa panel comes to mind... The confidently funny General

nepapole:
Abacha my guy...I remember those days. Miss u man. Continue to rest in peace or pieces.

Abacha... Your guy? Rest ...peace or p***es?