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What Is Restructuring? by Nobody: 11:54am On Sep 29, 2017

Over the past few months a lot have been going on on this RESTRUCTURE saga. Some school of thought said restructuring the country will help us while some said no, it won't help us as a country. I now sat myself down and pondered heavily on the subject but couldn't figure out what help it will render or why some quarters don't want it. That is why i am asking educated minds here to explain coherently;

What restructuring is?

What do we stand to achieve as a country if it is being restructured?

Will it strengthen the tie that bind us together as a country?

Why do some regions reject it and others see it right way at the right direction?

I will care if you can do justice to these questions above.

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Re: What Is Restructuring? by Ramanto(m): 12:07pm On Sep 29, 2017

I am sure a lot of people have this same question on the tips of their lips begging for answer. I think restructing has many phases ranging from economy (changing of our economy base from crude oil) to politics.
The gurus in the house should please educate us on this.

Re: What Is Restructuring? by nototribalist: 12:13pm On Sep 29, 2017

Only the Arewa parasites are asking this question. They think they're decieving us. Very uneducated region

Re: What Is Restructuring? by ITbomb(m): 12:32pm On Sep 29, 2017

dayo2me:
What restructuring is?
Restructuring as far as the Nigerian federation is concern is to realign the federating component and redefine how power is shared between the center and the federating units.
The restructuring that Nigeria needs is to devolve powers and responsibilities from the center to the federating units.

What do we stand to achieve as a country if it is being restructured?
The current system where you earn more (get more allocation) by breeding more unproductive people (more population) is retrogressive.
Restructuring will enable each component to earn more by being more productive while still enjoying support from the central government.
The component will control their resources while still paying tax and some other form of development fund that will be access by the less earning components for a specific period of time.

Will it strengthen the tie that bind us together as a country?
Yes, because, though each component will develop in its area of advantage, it will still depend on the other for other things
Also, once State of Origin is abolished and state of residence adopted, an Igbo man being a commissioner in Ogun State will not want to separate from his root though his allegiance is Ogun.
Also, the strength and pride of Nigeria in terms of defence is better in a unity Nigeria than some fragmented countries.

Why do some regions reject it and others see it right way at the right direction?
The regions that rejects it are afraid of being fund-starved as they wholly depends on federal allocation. Years of getting rich by just allocating figures has created lazy elites who had already sacrifice productivity and meritocracy for nepotism.
TO allay the fears, I would suggest the setting up of developmental funds for the economically disadvantaged states for a specific term as well as merging others for development of their resources.

I will care if you can do justice to these questions above.

Re: What Is Restructuring? by Nobody: 12:51pm On Sep 29, 2017

Wow! ITbomb thank you.

Basically, restructuring is to render the central authority powerless by giving each component the needed autonomy or power to generate funds and use that fund to develop itself(component)?

Re: What Is Restructuring? by Nobody: 1:23pm On Sep 29, 2017

Restructuring means different things to different regions.

Re: What Is Restructuring? by nototribalist: 1:45pm On Sep 29, 2017

Danielmoore:
Restructuring means different things to different regions.

according to Arewa, when they want to decieve people

Re: What Is Restructuring? by ITbomb(m): 2:13pm On Sep 29, 2017

dayo2me:
Wow! ITbomb thank you.

Basically, restructuring is to render the central authority powerless by giving each component the needed autonomy or power to generate funds and use that fund to develop itself(component)?

No, not powerless
In US, the states generate funds and develop themselves yet the center is still powerful

Re: What Is Restructuring? by orisa37: 3:26pm On Sep 29, 2017

Relocating your Penis to your Fore-head.

Re: What Is Restructuring? by Desyner: 3:58pm On Sep 29, 2017

ITbomb:
No, not powerless
In US, the states generate funds and develop themselves yet the center is still powerful

@DAYO2ME, the centre in USA is arguably the most powerful in the world.
What we have here is a parasitic structure. Poor people tend to have more children. The northern elite use this against their own people by keeping them poor. They reproduce in return and the elites claim more oil money on behalf of their ever poor subjects. This is reason why even though their excuse for one Nigeria is to allow the north advance educationally and economically they are happy the way they are.

Re: What Is Restructuring? by aolawale025: 4:55pm On Sep 29, 2017

The Yoruba position, which I think the southern states also subscribe to is a return to the 1963 constitution. Regionalism. 50% derivation. Etc

Re: What Is Restructuring? by Nobody: 9:11pm On Sep 29, 2017

ITbomb is restructuring the same as true federalism?

Re: What Is Restructuring? by ITbomb(m): 6:33am On Sep 30, 2017

dayo2me:
ITbomb is restructuring the same as true federalism?

An apt answer will be, "let's restructure so that true federalism can work".
It is just a means to achieve true federalism since we couldn't have it under the present arrangement

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Re: What Is Restructuring? by mybestlove(m): 7:50am On Sep 30, 2017

Restructuring is
Aboki 50%, Afonja 50%, Ipob 50%
Equality for everyone irrespective of tribe
Regions to control their resources and allocate to the centre rather than Federal to control and allocate to regions.(this is the bone of contention because oil money will be controlled by oil states)

A student in Adamawa will need to score 60% in waec to pass just as students in the southeast. No more nonsense quota system.

Restructuring means equality in everything for all of us. Nobody is losing anything. Rather, some people will restitute some things.

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Re: What Is Restructuring? by Wyttcat: 9:13am On Sep 30, 2017*

Restructuring will help each region grow at its own pace. Look at how advanced and well off Yoruba land was when we ran our own affairs, even the colonialists described Yoruba land as "the rich region where all the money is" compared with now that Abuja has all the say. Yoruba are being held back by the present system. Most of the regions lagging behind then have since been a drag to the SW. Regionalism will expose the real parasites. Let each region generate its income and pay a percentage to the center. We are too different to want and have the same thing. The federal government should only have the army with each region firmly in control of its national guard. Also the immigration with each region in control of who comes to their area lest the north or east import 2 million people from Chad and Central Africa and dump them in the SW to put strain on our welfare system and infrastructure, hehehe! Economic sabotage could be a weapon. When regionalism happens, there will be Afghanistan styled region. There will be paranoid North Korea like region that will always look to threaten all its neighbors with rockets for economic advantage. And finally the cool region everyone wants to be, the right balance of humanity. We really need to go back to regionalism.

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