₦airaland Forum

codemaniacs:
Only states with along a river can build natural rice farms, rice needs a lot of water to grow... Unless its a greenhouse farm.

States that have rice storage facilities may not own rice farms...

If there was vegetation in the core north, there will be no need for northern politicians to the south for grass..

From your comment I could glean the following:
1. U haven't been anywhere near the north

2. U dnt know about irrigation farming

3. Did u say they have storage facilities and dnt grow rice? I dnt even kno how to respond to u. What has vegetation got to do with rice cultivation? Please dnt bother replying...a basic secondary school agric textbook should suffice! Have a nice day!

codemaniacs:
middlebelt is not core north... there are no farms in core north...

1. Did you say there are no farms in the core north? Wow....and farmers in returned to their farms in maiduguri or rice is not cultivated in kebbi state? Dnt make me laugh abeg!

Amberon11:
That is very true. They must really be confused. Today they ask igbos to go home, and when igbos want to leave, they say "you can never have Biafra". Lol...they must really be bipolar.

"....so if you're asking Igbo's to go home then be ready to boycott SS oil too." Even after been reminded of how the SS treated you folks after the war, you still hold this belief? Hmm...lol

Anyway If "go home" to you means secession, then that wasnt what the write up addressed.

Let me give you an example to simplify what the writer is positing before you guys do what you do best whenever truth stares you in the face-you try to change the narrative!

In EVERY STATE I have stayed outside the CORE NORTH, I noticed something with the Northerners during the rainy season! From the shoe maker, water pushers, wheelbarrow pushers even some that have businesses in the markets close down and go to their farms in the NORTH! That is what runs their economy! They later return to their bases after this activity! This is what "go home" means!

So tell ur fellow folks to "go home"...use the ingenuity that you are blessed with and make something out of the SE then that burdensome umbilical attachment with the SS will fall off on its own cos its obvious you need to shed it off and fast!

What about the Niger Delta states?
They get money based on derivation and have established oil commissions. How well are they playing their roles?

I should be asking the media which sings their praises amid their failure almost all the time. That is what I am saying, that the problem is internal and the states share a lot in the failure. We get allocations from the federal government, we generate funds internally, what have they done with it?

They are commissioning roads and all that.
What roads? Roads you commission today, tomorrow it is washed off by rain; is that what you call development? Put together, the annual budget and accrued income of the six core producing states – Delta, Akwa-Ibom, Edo, Bayelsa, Cross Rivers and Rivers – is almost one trillion naira. Do you see anything commensurate being delivered to the people? Delta is saying its wage bill alone amounts to seven billion and currently they claim they barely get three billion from the federation account. They are not so open-minded about IGR. They are now saying the wage bill alone overshoots what they get, but when they were getting ten, fifteen billion, what were they doing with it? One problem we have had as a government is that most of the governors rose from poor background. They are like children from poor background who didn’t feed well. By the time they get to the rich man’s house, they rush at food like they must eat all the food there so as to have something in reserve for tomorrow or probably for the rest of their lives. That is what is happening to some of our governors. They come to the Government Houses not to develop the people, but to compete for how much they can make after their four or eight years.

Delta State had said through the Chief Job Creation Office that the current government has been able to create thousands of direct and indirect jobs.

That one is like a child is crying of hunger and you gave him something to keep quiet without thinking of how to stop this cry tomorrow or next tomorrow. Those are fire brigade jobs. They are never sustainable, not verifiable beyond the media hype. Let’s talk about the role of oil producing communities. Are they conducting themselves well? If you have read my book, Thinking Ahead, I stated there that we have some honorables, community leaders who don’t care about their community. All they believe in is how to benefit at the expense of the larger community. And these people get the backing of government to shortchange the people. Since 1999 to date, government at all tiers has not come to commission even a project of N5million in Ugborodo, for instance. Rather, they come to commission problems.

How do you mean?

They will not develop the communities. Neither will they ask the oil companies tomeet their social responsibility to the communities? All they are concerned about is how to collect revenue. They even encourage crime in the communities. Again, let’s go back to Ugborodo where government set up a peace committee from the two factions fighting. One principal actor alleged that the other is corrupt in the community’s leadership. That is the cause of the fight which has left the larger community suffering. In the guise of restoring peace, government created a peace committee with the principal actors as members. If they unite, to whose advantage is it? The poor sense of security in the state is another cause for worry. It is either the security agencies are not alive to their responsibility or government is not showing enough support. Something must be done about it.

Your last response speaks to a basic question. Are Niger Delta states doing enough with their security vote?

Apart from appointing the Director General of Internal Security, Delta, for instance, has Waterways and Land Security Committee. Meanwhile, the same government also instituted an advocacy committee headed by the deputy governor to go into the creeks to calm the Avengers to no avail. How needful are these committees and scarce resources being spent on them?

Do you know when that Security Committee visited Ugborodo, there was a protest against the Director General of Internal Security. The deputy governor was there and in a responsible society, he would have asked to know why the community protested against the DG. Up till today, nothing has changed.

Then when you talk about the Avengers, I am concerned whether they are right or wrong. What are they avenging by destroying their own environment? If I am in their position, I would rather do bunkering, refine the oil in my backyard and sell it and if the federal government comes, I will tell them i get this in my back yard and I am not benefiting from it and this is the right way I can benefit from it. What you are supposed to benefit from, you are destroying, that, to me, is self-destruction.

Final word

Even the colonial masters recognized traditional governing structures in our communities when they came to impose their imperialist rule.

The moment you respect each community’s mode of governance, you will get sustainable peace for development. Where you impose touts as leaders in the name of politics at the expense of the community across the region, peace and security become elusive no matter how much security vote or military personnel you have on ground.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/niger-deltans-worst-enemies-sandys-author-70s/

What about the Niger Delta states?
They get money based on derivation and have established oil commissions. How well are they playing their roles?

I should be asking the media which sings their praises amid their failure almost all the time. That is what I am saying, that the problem is internal and the states share a lot in the failure. We get allocations from the federal government, we generate funds internally, what have they done with it?

They are commissioning roads and all that.
What roads? Roads you commission today, tomorrow it is washed off by rain; is that what you call development? Put together, the annual budget and accrued income of the six core producing states – Delta, Akwa-Ibom, Edo, Bayelsa, Cross Rivers and Rivers – is almost one trillion naira. Do you see anything commensurate being delivered to the people? Delta is saying its wage bill alone amounts to seven billion and currently they claim they barely get three billion from the federation account. They are not so open-minded about IGR. They are now saying the wage bill alone overshoots what they get, but when they were getting ten, fifteen billion, what were they doing with it? One problem we have had as a government is that most of the governors rose from poor background. They are like children from poor background who didn’t feed well. By the time they get to the rich man’s house, they rush at food like they must eat all the food there so as to have something in reserve for tomorrow or probably for the rest of their lives. That is what is happening to some of our governors. They come to the Government Houses not to develop the people, but to compete for how much they can make after their four or eight years.

Delta State had said through the Chief Job Creation Office that the current government has been able to create thousands of direct and indirect jobs.

That one is like a child is crying of hunger and you gave him something to keep quiet without thinking of how to stop this cry tomorrow or next tomorrow. Those are fire brigade jobs. They are never sustainable, not verifiable beyond the media hype. Let’s talk about the role of oil producing communities. Are they conducting themselves well? If you have read my book, Thinking Ahead, I stated there that we have some honorables, community leaders who don’t care about their community. All they believe in is how to benefit at the expense of the larger community. And these people get the backing of government to shortchange the people. Since 1999 to date, government at all tiers has not come to commission even a project of N5million in Ugborodo, for instance. Rather, they come to commission problems.

How do you mean?

They will not develop the communities. Neither will they ask the oil companies tomeet their social responsibility to the communities? All they are concerned about is how to collect revenue. They even encourage crime in the communities. Again, let’s go back to Ugborodo where government set up a peace committee from the two factions fighting. One principal actor alleged that the other is corrupt in the community’s leadership. That is the cause of the fight which has left the larger community suffering. In the guise of restoring peace, government created a peace committee with the principal actors as members. If they unite, to whose advantage is it? The poor sense of security in the state is another cause for worry. It is either the security agencies are not alive to their responsibility or government is not showing enough support. Something must be done about it.

Your last response speaks to a basic question. Are Niger Delta states doing enough with their security vote? Apart from appointing the Director General of Internal Security, Delta, for instance, has Waterways and Land Security Committee. Meanwhile, the same government also instituted an advocacy committee headed by the deputy governor to go into the creeks to calm the Avengers to no avail. How needful are these committees and scarce resources being spent on them?

Do you know when that Security Committee visited Ugborodo, there was a protest against the Director General of Internal Security. The deputy governor was there and in a responsible society, he would have asked to know why the community protested against the DG. Up till today, nothing has changed. Then when you talk about the Avengers, I am concerned whether they are right or wrong. What are they avenging by destroying their own environment? If I am in their position, I would rather do bunkering, refine the oil in my backyard and sell it and if the federal government comes, I will tell them i get this in my back yard and I am not benefiting from it and this is the right way I can benefit from it. What you are supposed to benefit from, you are destroying, that, to me, is self-destruction.

Septuagenarian author and community leader, Sandys Omadeli Uvwoh, has been an advocate for a peaceful and robustly developed Niger Delta.

In this interview conducted in Warri, Delta State, Sandys advances the advocacy, saying the under-development suffered by communities in the oil – rich region is largely self-inflicted by Niger Deltans themselves,political office holders and community leaders in particular.

Much has been heard lately about your advocacy for a better oil producing Niger Delta, but you have been talking more on the failure of government and oil companies in developing the region.

What about the internal stakeholders, Niger Deltans themselves. Don’t they share in the blame? We do share in the failure, in quite significant proportion. As far as I am concerned, we failed ourselves. Should I start with the Jonathan’s era because we had the most opportunity to make change then? Jonathan was a President of Nigeria, not a President of the South – South. I won’t say Jonathan was a failure as a Niger Deltan. Rather, it was a collective failure of the leaders who enthroned him. None of us during Jonathan’s era went to him to say this was what we needed in the best interest of Niger Delta and he refused. Rather, the political fathers, uncles, cousins and leaders were always going to him to make selfish demands which they got to the detriment of the common good. What they were impressing on him was, ‘this is my boy, give him appointment’. None has come up to say ‘we led a delegation to Jonathan and asked for this and that’.

How do you mean they achieved their selfish interests without bothering about collective interests?

I will not mention names. Some of the people who are billionaires and what have you today were nothing back in the 80s, in early 90s. They were practically nothing, some could not pay their rent, some had no cars, but they became men of means during the Ijaw and Itsekiri crisis. They came claiming, ‘Jonathan was my class mate’, ‘Jonathan was my co-worker,’ ‘Jonathan was my colleague in the university’. Nobody went to him and say, ‘Look, you have to develop this region’. Their primary interest was themselves and that was not the failure of Jonathan. That is why I said Jonathan did not fail us, rather we failed ourselves.

Are you then making excuses for him? There were basic expectations the people in the region had over his presidency? If those with him never wanted the common good, how could he have succeeded?

He supported existing structures and established other ones to make the task of changing Niger Delta achievable. He appointed his own brothers and charged them to drive the processes and made substantial funds available to them. What more could he have done?.Do you think those uncles, brothers, friends, fathers, university mates and what have you, who helped him to fail, think of his era as failure as the ordinary Niger Deltan feel? They obviously don’t see any failure. They all had more than a handful. A man in such a state of mind wouldn’t term Jonathan a failure. They all succeeded infilling their pockets to the point of overflowing. Their personal successes were the failure of the larger Niger Delta.

Under the current dispensation, a lot has happened and the generality of Nigerians, groaning in worsening pains, are not so enthusiastic about President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘change’ mantra anymore. Why do you still have so much faith in the administration?

In 1983 when Buhari came in as military head of state, there were appreciable changes he made. Some people complained he was hard, but for democracy to succeed anywhere in the world, the leadership must be resolute. This was where Jonathan failed. Some people said we had three Presidents in his time, he and two women. The man was a weak leader because he wanted to please everybody. He did not want to take the bull by the horn while people around cashed in on that weakness to rubbish his administration.

So you have absolute confidence in Buhari?

No doubt about that. Development shouldn’t just be viewed in terms of physical development. You must instill sanity into the society. Where there is sanity, people now have conscience for physical development. The problem we are having is that we no longer have conscience. I have confidence in Buhari. I have not met him, but I believe he is committed to changing our ways of life. Anyone desirous of bringing positive change must changeour ways of life. It cannot be business as usual.

Buhari is just the head of the executive. You don’t expect that he is the one to fix all theproblems. For instance, you have senators, House of Reps members, heads of MDAs representing the region in the government. Doyou have corresponding confidence in them to make the difference in resolving the Niger Delta question?They are worse than our pastleaders. Tell me, since 1999, have they fought for anythingfor the Niger Delta that truly satisfied the common good? They struggle to be ministers, for Board chairmanship, NASS Committee on Niger Delta, NDCC, want to be this, want to be that, but the primary interest for all that struggle should have been how to appropriate the votes for the common good. At the end of the day, in the midst of huge provision budgetary provisions, no development gets to the people. Stagnation reigns, but their personal estates and vaults witness astonishing development. You then see people that never had the opportunity of buying a third hand vehicle; by the time they get there, they become something else. That is why Isaid our politicians and thoseof us local leaders failed the region. For instance, there was crisis in the Niger Delta where you had all categories of fighters fighting for purported liberation of the region. For want of how to settle this, people went for Amnesty, saying our sons and daughters should be paid, sent abroad and, in doing that, we forgot about the cause of the fight or struggle. The same people who struggled and personalized the Amnesty to fill their pockets are the loudest voices saying Amnesty failed. What benefit did that give us with all the billions provided?Look at what happened with the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East. The peopleasked for a commission to be set up to develop the zone. They did not ask for amnesty, they did not ask for cash. They want the regeneration of the region because of the destruction they have suffered. You will now find out that the people have foresight. They know what they are doing because the leaders have concern for the common good.

I think human capital development, the kind formerGovernor Uduaghan was always harping on, is also necessary.Harping on that is fine. Do you develop people to become idle? What did you put in place to make them useful to themselves and thesociety after training? It is like sending your son to school and, after graduation, he comes back to join you. So if you are a car washer, hewill join you with his degree to become a car washer? What did you then achieve sending him to school? Why don’t you just leave him to have more car washing experience with all that time and money you spent sending him to school? When we say Niger Delta is not developed, you can’t rationalize development. Do we have a master plan for the development of the NigerDelta?

But the interventionist agencies, including the NDDC, are seen in many quarters as part of the master plan to develop the Niger Delta..How masterful is that plan and how well is it being followed? The NDDC Committees in the National Assembly have been headed by lawmakers from the region. When NDDC drafts its budget, do they verify the past projects to determine what has been executed or not? I bet they rather struggleto pad the proposed budget to suit their interests; then we say projects are abandoned. What have they done to ensure we don’t have abandoned projects? We are the problem of the Niger Delta.

This post is riddled with so much errors and your source...hmm...leads nowhere....nobody is kindergaten in here Son....the errors make me think u concocted this hooey and the lack of or rather d misleading source only gave u away for what u are!

Of course the NDA wl never admit that their members were caught and wl always try to paint this invincibility/invisibility hue around themselves...they will slip up at some point considering human nature! Its just time!

Anywy, nothing new is being said and will be said here! Its all the usual threat...we will get used to theirs....Shekau said and did worse!

partnerus:
You've said it all. You concur with me that death sentence isn't the solution as you did stated that there are more others still nursing the ambition to peddle drugs to Indonesia. Don't misunderstand me that I am sympathetic to the course of drug peddlers. The truth is, I am not in support of death sentence as a means to deter others from engaging in such heinous act.

Not at all...I dont see the congruency between my position and your submission. I said only verifiable statistics about the death sentence been a deterrence for drug traffickers fromcountries like Indonesia will give sufficient proof not emotional sentiments because there is no one magic bullet that will put an end to crime in any society. Jst cos there are desperate folks who will "get rich or die trying" doesnt mean the policy has no teeth and doesnt work!

Going by the YEARS of legal processes it took to arrive at a conviction for the drug peddlers, it tells you that it isnt "caught today, dead tomorrow sentiments" that is expressed by you.

I asked you and those of you that are averse to the death penalty to proffer a workable alternatives to these countries that are swamped by this menace and all I got is suspicious silence!

Goodmorning brother!

partnerus:
Has death sentence reduced both drug trafficking and it's usage? If the answer is NO, then death sentence isn't the best option to resolving this problem we are facing as a society.

The answer u seek will be found in the statistics provided by countries like Indonesia who are everyday bedeviled by this drug traffickers-not me!

The death penalty is suppose to be a deterrence but if it has to be enforced to the letter for these criminals to know how serios the indonesian govt is, then so be it!

Son, been emotional about this doesnt change nothing because as we speak there are folks who are on their way there and in a couple of years some wl be paraded jst like these ones and folks like you wl still come here with that "eyah mentality"....i choose to stand on the side of the victims of this heinous crimes by these drug peddlers!

I have seen first hand d deadly effect of drugs on how a family got wasted so am not been heartless but been realistic!

Oya tell us what you think d solution should be!

partnerus:
This is really touching. Can't stop imagining what's going through their minds at that point in time. No matter what, no man has the right to condemn another to death. May God accept their soul in His bosom. Amen

Its obvios u r emotional about this...hmm...only if u stop to take stock of the number if lives that will be condemned to "death" literally and figuratively by the drugs these folks peddle!

Maybe u shd check Yaba for reference!

Thanks for this man...you read ma mind u kno...some1 wanted resource and i ddnt have mine handy...interestingly you jst dropped 60-70% ebooks that got me started on fiverr!

Following you bumper to bumper and waitin for ur next uploads

Adaure4ever:
I saw a thread about IPOBs calling Victor Attah "Clueless", I was raged with disappointment on how these "nnamdi kanu faithful" are busy embarrasing the Igbo Race with their Undiplomatic and Insultive "take it or leave it" dictatorial strategy.
-Victor Attah a respect figure is what these Touts call "clueless" because Of his opinion, Is it by Force to join Biafra?
Why are these ipob people embarrasing many hardworking Igbos who don't support Ipobs? Even Ojukwu would never have supported Nnamdi Kanu.
The insultive nature of these ipobs is nauseating, they lack diplomacy and are just jokers.
Now Let me make it clear to them that.
Urhobos, Ogoni, Kalabari, Isokos, Benin, Ijaws, Itsekiri, Efiks, Ibibios etc, ARE NOT INTERESTED IN BIAFRA.
If Nigeria divides, each tribe will be on their own
Igbo Leaders are not in support of these suicidal agitation, They want a Restructured Nigeria.
IPOBs do not speak for IGBOS.
I APOLOGIZE to Dr.Victor Obong Attah for any insult he may have received from this undisciplined elements called IPOBs.
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South South minorities have said NO to Biafra, what are you ipobs going to do now? Insulting and Harrasing them.
This is Africa! There MUST be a War In Every Seccesion, No One is going to grant you any damn refrendum.
Are the Igbos ready for any Progrom or war?
Whats wrong with you IPOBs?
- A Restructured Nigeria is what Igbos Want. NDEWO NU- Adaure4ever

I admire your courage to take up your folks who will rather peddle insults than engage in intellectual discourse on such a matter!

There was a BREXIT recently and not one insult was peddled. No one set up a pirate radio station to insult everyone imaginable- even those that will be instrumental for pushing for a referendum for them that want to seceed!

When you have insulted even World leaders, n u still want them to speak up for you? Wrong!

There are Hausas/Yorubas/other tribes in their numbers (E.g Soyinka) who left to them will gladly let the igbos go but to them EVERYBODY is an "animal in a zoo"!

There are Igbos in their numbers who dnt believe in this agitation not because of the fear of a repeat of the Civil war but because of the way it is mishandled with this puerile disposition to its conversation!

The annoyin thing both on and offline is whenever some1 expresses a contrary opinion, all they got is slurs in their arsenal waitin to deploy!

How has that helped the cause?

How has all this help to galvanise HOME support for the agitation talk more of international support?

Isnt it time this folks take stock of the non-effectiveness of this modus operandus?

Like I once asked a fellow who went mute on this:

What is the total population of the US gay population? How dd dt community gain legislative endorsement?

Simple, they made friends in every sphere influence e.g sports, movies, presidency e.t.c and this engineered an open conversation about their position!

Biafra is dead on arrival if the agitators cant even make us have a civil and open conversation about Biafra! This is the first step not this "playing the victim emotional rhetorics" we hear every now and again! By this I mean is there a broad based support even from their elders and elites? This are the folks that bring about a mainstream conversation about Biafra not all this old boys tying biafra wrapper?

Brexit ddnt just happen....there was a CONVERSATION then CONSIDERATION before CONSENSUS was achieved...this took time!

To all those thay think if it gets bloody it wl get easier i want to remind you that we are in the 21st century not just PERSISTENCE will win BUT INTELLIGENT PERSISTENCE and that's is not seen ir heard from them.

If you still think bullets puncturing monalisa on walls will get you out of this zoo, i wl advice you to go read about the Tamil Tigers who have been at it for 30years plus and they havnt gotten an inch closer to their aim!

Lastly Let me say that if it was the yorubas who were agitating by now they wd have gotten their way or wd have been pretty close without the needless bloodshed! I say this not because I dnt believe the Igbos are not capable of taking this route but because I believe the whole agaitation has been hijacked and the restructuring they seek should start from within them!

Welldone Adaure4ever!

rheether:
I thought we have won the battle?

In an insurgency the military wins BATTLES every now and again but the WAR is a long long process e.g The cold war is over but is it really over? The biafran war is long over but is it really over? The Arab spring has long gone cold but is it really over with the mess that has been created in its trail?

So whenever I see questions like yours littering this platform whenever there is aa setback on the part of our military, i wonder if youths like you ever see statements within context of where we are coming from!

There was a time not too long ago that it literally rained bombs like everyday n we expected it sef...if its not Borno, it is Yobe or Gombe or Yola or Kano or.....now its largely localised in borno (mostly outskirts of maiduguri, the capital)

Expecting it to stop OVERNIGHT is a tall order but giant leaps we have made in this fight and its only a matter of time before we can fully count our gains and losses

So yes, bokoharam has been technically defeated and residents of the North Eastern states kno better!

MDsambo:
Shaqhead cheack the First Revelation or the Biography of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

Son, u are acting lyk dose skul teachers who cant give a convincing answer to a question and they will turn it to assignment!

Since u cant show me where in the portion of quran u referenced, and u now want to send me on an errand to cover your obvious ignorance...I will say to you what your Quran says before attempting to make incongruous comparison..Iqra (Go back and READ!)

@MDsambo
Below is a complete chapter of Quran 96 v 1
96. Surah Al-Alaq (The Clot)
1.Read! In the Name of your Lord, Who has created (all that exists),
2.Has created man from a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood).
3.Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous,
4.Who has taught (the writing) by the pen [the first person to write was Prophet Idrees (Enoch)],
5.Has taught man that which he knew not.
6.Nay! Verily, man does transgress all bounds (in disbelief and evil deed, etc.).
7.Because he considers himself self-sufficient.
8.Surely! Unto your Lord is the return.
9.Have you (O Muhammad ()) seen him (i.e. Abu Jahl) who prevents,
10.A slave (Muhammad ()) when he prays?
11.Tell me, if he (Muhammad ()) is on the guidance (of Allah)?
12.Or enjoins piety?
13.Tell me if he (the disbeliever, Abu Jahl) denies (the truth, i.e. this Qur'an), and turns away?
14.Knows he not that Allah does see (whathe does)?
15.Nay! If he (Abu Jahl) ceases not, We will catch him by the forelock,
16.A lying, sinful forelock!
17.Then, let him call upon his council (of helpers),
18.We will call the guards of Hell (to deal with him)!
19.Nay! (O Muhammad ())! Do not obey him (Abu Jahl). Fall prostrate and draw near to Allah!
http://www.noblequran.com/translation/surah96.html

Question: Can you please tell us where Muhammad is quoted to have said "I am not learned" within this portion of the quran? Please dnt tell me it is implied because u actually quoted those words in your words!

Firstlieutenant:
Atiku will only rule this country in his dreams.

Folks like you never learn on keeping shut and watchin how things unravel even after this same hooey was peddled against Buhari. Do u remember when it was said that Buhari can never rule?

P.S I dnt think an Atiku stands a chance against a Buhari but saying Never to a determined Atiku is lykin sayin Ronaldo cant win a Ballon d'or

topeayan:
Am an advocate of anti corruption but am against one sided fighting against corruption if Buhari cannot probe Dambazau nd Burutanshi den let him forget his anti corruption anthem and concentrate on economy nd security.

This is where folks like you that aver such weird submission get it wrong!

The fact that person A is prosecuted and person B is not does not take away the culpability of person A. Simply put, non of these folks are PERSECUTED but PROSECUTED because after much grilling by the EFCC NON of them has claimed non-culpability. All we hear are the same flimsy excuses that folks like you fall for!

Folks like you who opine such "If we can't catch person A, we should let ALL of them go" position, would rather we open our prison doors and let EVERYONE out because we cant catch ALL the armed robbers out there. Isn't that the height of inanity?

Son, if SELECTIVE PROSECUTION will bring a bit of sanity in this system, then am all for it! If the SELECTIVE PROSECUTION had been sustained through successive govts from OBJ till now, close your imagine how Nigeria wd have been by now!

For the different names folks like you keep throwing about that you believe should be prosecuted, their day in court will come. This ones been rubbished never believed that today will come knocking, so chill and stop creating an untenable position!

Its only Nigerians like you that never see an armed robber out there (who does exactly the same thing as these politicians) as been SELECTIVELY PROSECUTED but you are quick to defend politicians who dont give a damn about you.

Concernin leaving them ALL to face the economy like you suggested, how do you leave so much cash in the hands of rogie politicians who can make a mess of our national security vis a vis economy. The Avengers comes to mind....this is one among many things they can do because of disposable cash in their possession!

topeayan:
Am an advocate of anti corruption but am against one sided fighting against corruption if Buhari cannot probe Dambazau nd Burutanshi den let him forget his anti corruption anthem and concentrate on economy nd security.

This is where folks like you that aver such weird submission get it wrong!

The fact that person A is prosecuted and person B is not does not take away the culpability of person A. Simply put, non of these folks are PERSECUTED but PROSECUTED because after much grilling by the EFCC NON of them has claimed non-culpability. All we hear are the same flimsy excuses that folks like you fall for!

Folks like you who opine such "If we can't catch person A, we should let ALL of them go" position, would rather we open our prison doors and let EVERYONE out because we cant catch ALL the armed robbers out there. Isn't that the height of inanity?

Son, if SELECTIVE PROSECUTION will bring a bit of sanity in this system, then am all for it! If the SELECTIVE PROSECUTION had been sustained through successive govts from OBJ till now, close your imagine how Nigeria wd have been by now!

For the different names folks like you keep throwing about that you believe should be prosecuted, their day in court will come. This ones been rubbished never believed that today will come knocking, so chill and stop creating an untenable position!

Its only Nigerians like you that never see an armed robber out there (who does exactly the same thing as these politicians) as been SELECTIVELY PROSECUTED but you are quick to defend politicians who dont give a damn about you.

Concernin leaving them ALL to face the economy like you suggested, how do you leave so much cash in the hands of rogie politicians who can make a mess of our national security vis a vis economy. The Wvenger comes to mind....t

Esperooke:
God bless PMB. I always find pleasure whenever the monster 'corruption' is being fought . Call it selective or non selective I don't care, as long as the individual in question is culpable . if GEJ was selective, PMB is selective, and the one who will succeed him is selective a point will be reached where every corrupt individual will be made to face the music .

On point! If the "selective fight against corruption" had been sustained from OBJ to Yaradua to GeJ and then PMB..by now Nigeria wd have bn more sane than it is now cos if u kno i wl expose how dirty ur boxers is and I kno u dnt clean up after using the toilet, we will both be wary of each other!

All those who shout media trial, propaganda and selective prosecution shd shut it cos the common robber who steals a bag of cement is never labelled as bn selectively prosecuted but the moment it is one politician who doesnt give a damn about this wailers existence, they weave all sorts of conspiracy nonsense!

Those ones lurking in this govt shd also know that their time is coming...turn by turn!

eleojo23:
I think you got me wrong.
I am not questioning the efficacy of the hangman's noose.
I am just saying that despite all these consequences, some people will still go ahead to smuggle drugs there. That is why I shook my head.

And yeah, I am doing fine.

Hey bro gdmorn, dnt mind me joor misconstrued ur position!

eleojo23:
This will still not stop some people from smuggling drugs into Indonesia tomorrow or even tonight.
smh

Yes it wont, cos of human nature bn what it is! But lets imagine d consequences of a few kilos of cocaine on an individual, family, community, state, country n we will see the need to enforce such stringent measures!

If those vermins dnt care about the devastatingly rippling effects of the drugs they try to smuggle in that country, why should we then care how they meet their waterloo.

Ele why are u questioning the efficacy of the hang man's noose and seem to forget the number of families that will be broken, the destinies that will be wasted, the lives that will b cut short in their prime by the drugs they peddle?

So wat do u propose as an alternative, spend taxpayers money on this same criminals in their prisons? They don't deserve such!

Lol...yes, its me again! How ur side?

Domislaz:
You are right my dear. I hope he gets your point. Women don’t cause rape by what they wear. Asking about correlation between clothing and rape is tricky, though. To make clear, sexual assault is never the victims fault. Someone has to act to commit rape. No one forces that choice. If seeing an enticing woman led men to conclude, “I’ve got to rape her,” all men would be rapists. Yet few are. And plenty of assaulted women are not dressed sexily, including women draped in head-to-toe burqas.

Interestingly, veiled women are blamed, too: “He must have seen a bit of her ankle, wrist, hair, neck… Who could resist!?”
Strippers are the most sexually “provocative” of all, yet patrons manage to contain themselves. Yes, bouncers provide security, but they aren’t stationed with blinders blocking their sight. And who’s watching them? Male customers aren’t physically restrained. The men are actually controlling themselves.

Sociologists who have interviewed rapists, read their accounts and looked at the circumstances of their crimes have learned that they have a variety of motives . Here are a few:
Some rape to feel powerful, others gang rape to demonstrate their “manhood” (defined as powerful, dominant, violent, virile, and not gay) to each otherhand fraternally bond, some become aroused by sadistically bringing sex and violence together, others seek to harm an entire race, community or nation by using sexual assault as a political weapon, still others seek revenge against someone other than the rape victim. And some misread cues.

Rapists who misread cues believe the following: men are naturally assertive and women are naturally passive. There are “good girls” and “bad girls.” Bad girls secretly want sex but can’t admit it, so they trick men into forcing sex. In a nutshell, the number of assaults will not go down if women make sure to cover up. The cue-reading rapist has decided to attack someone, and is seeking justification. He will rape and he will find something to blame other than himself. By placing women in charge of his sexuality he abdicates responsibility (it’s her fault). How convenient for him!

And while different rapists have different ways of
thinking, they are all sexist. At the least, they believe
they have more right to a woman’s body than a
woman does, herself.

A poll was carried out in 2013 in Nigeria on the prevalence of rape by NOI which clearly disagrees with your position

"Furthermore, in view of the debate that often arises about the cause(s) of rape in the society respondents were asked the following: What do you think is the prevalent cause of rape in the society?From the result, the majority ofrespondents (34%) were of theopinion that most prevalent cause of rape in the society is “Indecent dressing”; followed by 18% of respondents that cited “Unemployment”. Also, “Lack of moral values” and the “Inability to control sexual urge” were each cited by 9% ofthe respondents as the prevalent cause of rape. Other reasons mentioned by respondents include “Faulty upbringing” (7%), “Ungodliness”, “Illiteracy aboutwomen rights” and “Bad Company” (all with 5%)."

http://www.noi-polls.com/root/index.php?pid=152&parentid=14&ptid=1

TippyTop:
I wrote same thing earlier today. She can't be arrested as long as she carrys a diplomatic passport.
For those who claim Sudanese president was arrested in South Africa even though he had diplomatic immunity, this case is different.
Sudanese president committed crimes against humanity which meant he could be arrested anywhere in the world.

U say what? Guy ur mix of arrogance and ignorance is lethal u kno!

A diplomatic passport stops her from being arrested? Where dd u get that from? Ur warped mind i guess?

Abeg make we hear word!

Firefire:

Keep that face like that till the 3rd, then u can breathe a heavy sigh of relief!

nnachukz:
Until they bomb the bridges excluding the Onitsha-Asaba bridge, I am not going to take them seriously. Empty threats.

Now u want to pick and choose which bridge to b blown abi?

Cos the poo is about to hit u, their fans!

Lol...i cant fit laff. I guess u and ur cotravellers never saw this coming!

What happens if they do? Wd u guys still crave to be seen as siamese twins?

Anyway chill, they wont!

Firefire:
See this ediots, bomb 3rd Mainland Bridge? if dem born una papa well make una come try am. Awon oloribu.

Better bomb the whole of your region to make good your threat and agitation and leave SW from your stupidd dream.

Now that the threats of bombing don dey reach ur dormot ur eye don dey clear abi?

Dnt tell me u never supported the NDA jst to spite this govt!

E go reach everybody and everybody go suffer am!

Let us see how e go touch PMB...last last e go loose election!

buharisbae:
y u begging those illiterate? They are fvcking buffoons!

Cutie chill...where was PMB quoted saying that....sensationalist and junk journalism just for traffic mileage! No b vanguard again?

manbuchai:
Ojukwu and gowon went to Ghana and settled on regional government but Nigerian government side stepped later.It is not by force to remain together simple.Biafrans has gone to war concerning that too,how else do you want them zo prove that they want to stay on their own

Where is the congruency between your opinion and my submission? Please address the salient points I raised or pls stay off my mentions! Have a nice day

BekeeBuAgbara:
In 2014 there was Scottish independence referendum, the arrowhead Alex Salmond was never seen as an enemy of the state or thrown into jail.

In 2013 David Cameron an advocate of Remain promised the people of UK Leave/Remain referendum on EU which was carried out yesterday, the people voted to exit EU.

But in Nigeria some people go haywire whenever they hear Biafra referendum as if their lives depend on it.

I think the premise with which you go about trying to achieve an objective matters a whole lot! Keep that at the back of your mind!

But non of them setup a radio station to broadcast HATE message....against those that are FoR and AGAINST YOU...NON! You might want to argue but that is the biggest pitfalls of your agitation! World powers also hear whats bn said and that is why they are reluctant to make a concrete pronouncement on this issue

Persistence wears out Resistance at the end of it all but in this 21st century it is Intelligent Persistence and not just Persistence!

Ask urself what is the gay population in the US and how were they able to achieve legislative endorsement? Simple! They made friends not enemies in every sphere of influence...from education, movies, judiciary, sports e.tc

Are there Hausa/Fulani/YorubA that support ur agitation and left to them wd gladly let u go? YES there are! Should u b working to keep their support? YES u shd but u rather choose to lump everyone as part of a "zoo"!

On the converse, wd u agree that there are IGBOs even among ur elites who dont buy into the BiAFRA movt, not just becos they fear the resurection of another civil unrest but because of how the whole BIAFRA movt has been presented as an "Us Against Them" thing instead of "What We Want" thing" and "Why We Believe We Should Go" thing! Should u folks be workin to galvanise support back home? Yes, U shd!

Instead of u folks painstakingly tryin to sell the BIAFRA product to even "unbelievers" in ur midst, all we see and hear are insults been peddled at them!

How does that help ur cause?

If anyone tells you that doin it the hard way will produce results, I wish you goodluck but that hard way only brings the TAMIL TIGERS of SRILANKA to my mind!

IRserveMyComent:
Instead of you to scrutinize your people in a bid to bring out the truth you are busy saying it a distraction tactice. There is a bit of truth in every rumore as they said.

Maybe I shd spread a rumour that you are pregnant for Mogidi when u dnt evn kno weda mogidi is a place, animal or thing?

Maybe we would see you seriosly reading ur calendar to calculate when last u had ur period jst cos we put out that rumour.

This criminal elements thrive on propaganda madam and its not every nonsense that has sense in it!

houstonia:
what more evidence do we need to identify a tyrant, after them go yab GEJ a man who withstood every opposition, degradation, insults and criticism with silence. Wole Soyinka you won't tell them again “any government that is afraid of criticism is......... ”

Maybe if u can jst close ur eyes right now and imagine that you are a shareholder/Account holder with Union Bank, maybe this news item would make sense to you!

It was witch hunting when EFCC came for Fayose, only for him not to deny the fact that 1.2billion was in his personal account!

Keep at it! More elbow to ur grease!

willyo:
Are they not the same soldiers...? Just changing names would not change the inexperience and incapability of these untrained illis we call soldiers

This development, according to Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin becomes expedient in order to inject new tactics and robust operational initiative to tackle the emerging security challenges in the Niger Delta region such as piracy, bunkering, vandalism and other criminalities prevalent in the area.” The statement read.

Just like we had the same soldiers once been chased by bokoharam but what changed about them now?