UnchangeableGod: It is not ill-thought sir so it will come to pass and your evil machinations against us will not materialize. If Biafra agitation started with the defeat of GEJ as you people claim, may it not come to light but if it has been before 2015 elections, may it come to pass this very year I J N, Amen.
Oh please, don't feel too important. I pray fervently every day that you get your damn country and would have created dozens of threads to support it but guess what.. The last time I made a comment in support of it, was banned for violating rule 9!
So you see, if it were within my powers, I would grant you your desires before nightfall.
As for your prayer that it comes to pass before this year runs out, from the depths of my heart, i say a thunderous AMEN!
So kiddo, stop crying in my mentions thinking I'm the one holding down your future.
Where on earth does herdsmen kill and rape innocent citizens in their own lands and the hopeless government remains silent in the face of thousands of deaths and complaints if not in Nigeria? The people are right to agitate and change incompetent leadership, call it any name you choose.
That is their effing business and I pray they get the darn country tomorrow. My worst regret would be having them still occupying the same national boundary as me sunrise tomorrow.
After my release from a three-day incarceration which terminated two days ago, I lost the appetite to contribute to discussions here. Nevertheless, upon some consideration I decided to do this.
For those who insist we just forgot about the immediate past admin and concentrate squarely on the current one, well, you might have a good point but the problem is, the guys that push this line of thought are the same guys that keep attributing every accomplishment of this government to Jonathan. When it has to do with some cheery news, an assembly plant here and there, stable power supply, etc, they go "oh thank you GEJ", but when those idiotic murderers set off a bomb, or the local currency takes a beating, they don't hesitate a split second to blame the President.
There's no gainsaying most of the ills we suffer today, from economic hardship (devaluation of the naira) to ethnoreligous intolerance have their roots from seeds sown by the past leaderships, especially Jonathan's.
So, in the spirit of fair coverage and keeping the legacies of Ebele alive, I decided to do this little piece.
Enjoy.
We've heard, on several accounts, about incidences of massive corruption under Jonathan's administration, chief amongst which were:
1. Fuel subsidy scam: This is arguably the biggest fraud in the country's recorded history. From the outcome of several probes, it was revealed that the monies stolen under this scheme ran into $16.4 billion. On some accounts, we had up to 2.56trillion naira stolen, the most conservative of which was 1.8trillion naira. The fact that the figures couldn't be reconciled by the various bodies who should have a common figure as to how much was actually expended on subsidy, from the Finance ministry to DPR, PPPRA, to CBN, showed that indeed the expenditure was questionable.
The most chilling part of this was that it was done with no supplementary approval (budget) from the NASS, in blatant violation of extant fiscal laws. Under the budget, only about 356 billion naira was appropriated. To this day, no explanation has been given as to what accounted for the astronomical rise in subsidy expenditure.
2. Pensions Fraud: Under this scam, we saw over 400billion naira (over $2.5billion then) stolen by Maina and his gang. sunnewsonline.com/new/n469bn-police-pension-fund-scam-they-want-me-dead-maina/
3. Crude oil theft: Under saint Jonathan's admin, according to the coordinating Minister of the Economy, Nigeria was losing a princely $12.6billion. thenationonlineng.net/new/oil-theft-and-a-ministers-lament/ . In this interview, Jonathan even sank as low as blaming the oil thefts on "the refineries abroad!!" He didn't think his surveillance contractors or himself had any blames to take whatsoever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCZos8xM7Iw. How much more dishonourable can a leader be?
4. Kerosine subsidy mega scam: Under the guise of a nonexistent subsidy on kerosine, the government of Goodluck Jonathan expended a whooping $8.76billion. This fraud was so staggering the governor of the nation's apex bank had to blow the whistle. But rather than investigate and bring offenders to justice, Jonathan went for broke, persecuted and criminalised the whistle blower! www.punchng.com/feature/kerosene-subsidy-the-hidden-mega-scam/www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26535530
At the risk of sounding verbose, I'd limit the cases to these as they are some of the most publicised cases of barefaced theft under the immediate past admin.
Now, let us sum up the figures above: 16 + 2 + 12 + 8 = $38billion!! The greatest betrayal of the mandate given Jonathan by Nigerians was that not a SINGLE individual is serving a jail term over this rot. That seindividual is serving a jail term over this rot.[/b] That sends but only one signal to discerning minds- that the presidency itself must have been complicit in the whole scheme.
Here are some potentially life changing projects these monies could have been channelled into had Jonathan and his henchmen shown a little bit of honour and commitment to the course for which the Nigerian people elevated to where they were.
I call them the Opportunity Costs of Corruption.
1. The Itaipu Hydro Electric Dam. I chose to refer to this first because the problem of inadequate power supply is one that affects every single Nigerian and as a problem, has defied solutions by successive administrations, not because of insolvency but corruption.
Jonathan's government spent over $8billion ( www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fg-states-lgs-spend-8-26bn-on-nipp-projects/202324/ ) generating nothing but darkness. In the twilight of his administration, the economy of the nation was literally shut down as power supply dropped to its lowest levels in the country's recorded history.
Itaipu dam was built by joint effort between two countries- Brazil and Paraguay. It is the world's second largest hydroelectric plant with an installed capacity 14GW. It supplies 75% of electricity consumed by Paraguay and 17% of that consumed by Brazil. It cost both countries and investors $20billion to build to finish!
Let's put these figures into perspective: Kainji dam, Nigeria's premier electricity generation facility has an installed capacity of 760MW and cost us $209million to build. There are 1000megawatts (1000MW) in 1gigawatt (1GW). If we were to convert, we would have 0.760GW of electricity being produced by Kainji. ie. Kainji dam generates approximately 5.4% of what Itaipu generates!!
Now, had Jonathan's government decided to build an Itaipu-like dam rather than stealing the monies above, they would still have kept a change of $18billion and Nigeria electricity problem would have been history!
Given that the nation has a total installed capacity of 10,000MW (10GW) and an "available" capacity of 6,000MW (6GW), the total is still 4,000MW shy of Itaipu's capacity and what could actually be transmitted is 8,000MW shy of Itaipu's. Isn't this a disgrace??
The economic benefits in terms of employment and wealth creation having such a facility brings to a country can only be imagined.
2. John Hopkins Hospital: All of these for just - wait for it- $1.1billion!!!. m.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/its_open_the_johns_hopkins_hospitals_new_11_billion_building_welcomes_first_patients
With citizen dying of very preventable causes and spending millions of dollars yearly on seeking medicare abroad, imagine what a facility like this could have done for us in terms of prevention of deaths, prevention of capital flight and medical research.
Now, with both projects in the kitty, we still have about $16.9billion left!
3. The Mogul of Mumbai: This is one monstrosity that has placed India shoulder to shoulder with superpowers of engineering and technology. It is one of the world's largest petrochemical refineries with a capacity to refine 600,000 bpd. With annual revenues in the region of $18billion, one can only imagine what a facility like this could do to a country's economy.
Now, guess how much it took investors to set this up- a "paltry" $3.2billion!!
Subtracting this from the 16.9, we would have a change of $13.7billion left.
4. Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge: Nothing demonstrates Jonathan's grand deceit than his non-completion of the second Niger Bridge which happened to be one of his strongest campaign promises during 2011 elections. He even went as far as saying he'd go on exile if he doesn't complHe even went as far as saying he'd go on exile if he doesn't complete that bridge before 2015!!
The Danyang Grand Bridge is a 165km engineering masterpiece built in four years, the same duration of time Jonathan plans to deliver his fabled Second Niger bridge of 1.5km!!.
Let's play with these figures a little: for a bridge of 165km to be built in 4years, it means about 3.5km would be built in a month!! Just imagine this!! It means the Chinese would take less than a moth to deliver what it would take Jonathan 48months to complete!!! If that doesn't make your head spin, then I don't know what else would.
To the interesting part: it took just $8.5billion to deliver this.
Again, subtracting from the change we are left with, upon building one hundred and ten second Niger Bridges (165km divide by 1.5km), we would still have a change of over $5billion left!! There are a billion and one things we could do with this amount of money as a nation!
These are but just a few things this nation could have done with the proceeds of corruption and incompetence in the last admin.
It remains to be seen how Jonathan cuts the image of a "hero" deserving of a Nobel Prize.
You are right, Nigeria doesn't punish incompetent presidents, if they do, Buharry should still be languishing in kirikiri for destabilising Nigeria's democracy.
Where on earth does winning an election become a source of instability if not in q place like Nigeria with a horde of sour losers who changed from Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria to Indigenous people of biafra OVERNIGHT?
This buffoon comes across as the most dillusional idiot the planet's ever seen. After binging on poorly refined liquor, the halfwit goes on to make a successful mess of himself and those who adore him.
Were this to be a society where criminals are duly held accountable, a character like him would have been languishing in some max security prison drawing grafitty on the walls, counting the days until he gets the lethal injection. But in such a society as ours with ample supply of pigs and idiots, there's no gainsaying you'd find likes mind like himself ever ready to validate every inanity of his.
BORNTOSUCKPUSSY: omenka weytin do ur other moniker? I know say konji dey worry you chill small mynd44 dey bring 1 biafra thread for you make you masturbate small
mars123: Photokiosk...we all know Buhari was at home last Christmas. These IPOB scums really think all Nigerians are illiterates like them.
Very disgusting things honestly. It wasn't even a photoshop, the pig simply edited and older pictorial post of his, supplanting an old picture with a new one. I did same on one of such old posts of mine and guess what, it worked and there was no "edited" displayed at the bottom of it like it does when you edit your reaction to a post or simply post only texts.
“Once there is a full-scale war, thousands or millions will die. After the loss of the 2015 (presidential) election, which Igbo never thought Jonathan would lose, hell was let loose. The colossal and tragic loss led some Igbo leaders to believe in anybody that will throw as many stones as possible at the All Progressives Congress and President Muhammadu Buhari. I can understand this.
This is what they certainly cannot deny. This whole nonsense was fuelled by Jonathan's defeat because 99% of those who call themselves ipob yoots were the same people who called themselves transformation ambassadors of Nigeria, a campaign organisation of jonathan/PDP.
Very interested in seeing how it all ends, but these guys better do all they can to get their damn country this time, otherwise, the political backlash of this ill thought out adventure going forward would be really huge.
He authorised Clerk to nominate a trustworthy person?
Was Jonathan EVER taking any decisions as president at all? I have this feeling he had such destructive low self-esteem that he didn't think himself smart enough to take decisions on his own, hence his perpetual use of proxies and fronts.
Imagine such critical assignment entrusted into the hands of a known crook like Clerk et al, of course they were bound to bungle it!
Jonathan was the architect of his own destruction yet he has the temerity to apportion blames here and there.
I'm kinda confused. I thought I read somewhere some judge granted her unfettered access to the account and she even went ahead to withdraw some money from it recently. .
MayorofLagos: [s]I continue to hammer on this issue for past two years. God forbid if Buhari passes, that the Northerners will agree to submit to Osinbajo leadership.
Osinbajo is not sorrounded with class and authority, at all!
Presidency comes with tradition and culture and in Nigeria Yoruba are the fashionistas, we command couture taste. In traditional Yoruba culture Osinbajo is not dressed formally in this picture. This appearance diminishes the grandeur that should naturally associatr with his office and role.
Imagine the VP of a western country coming out in ordinary shirt and tie, no suit...and does that everyday and wherever he goes and regardless of the occassion. The equivalent of that image is what Osinbajo does when he comes out in this taxi driver attire.
Now, who is that guy behind him in blue kaftan? It just gets worse!! In his case picture President of Nigeria visiting the West and the assistant to their President appears in the office with just shirt, no tie, no suit. Thats what we have here. Na.k.ed!! No style, just dry!
Very irritating! Tasteless, classless, devoid of any appeal...just dry![/s]
Politics / Re: Nnamdi Kanu Is A Kid, Not An Igbo Leader – Joe Igbokwe by Progressive01(m): 3:02pm On Aug 13, 2017 
