₦airaland Forum

igbodefender:
Buhari is the better option. Crude oil is recovering, so government will find it easier to execute its programs.

Buhari 2019, Igbo Presidency 2023

madridguy:
Kwotinu searching

vedaxcool:
We know they are unreasonable the same shameless people that defend corruption now turn around because of their acute tribalism to shout MAINA. ... Pigs and idiots only know crumbs

The increasing number of corruption scandals rocking the Muhammadu Buhari administration has further exposed the dishonest integrity of a man, many love to describe as Mai gaskiya but who to the disappoint of most, have progressively turned out in a reality to be Mai kariya. The latest revelation about the re-instatement Abdul Rasheed Maina, a fugitive public servant accused of stealing billions of naira from the pensions of senior citizens only adds to the sad tales of corrupt practices in high places under the Buhari administration.

In order to keep his crowed of devoted Buharideens in the line of devotion because of a visible expression of dissatisfaction and audible murmuring among the rank and file, President Buhari, a master of the game of minds, gave his followers the usual opium. He belatedly ordered the sack of Abdulrasheed Maina and asked for explanations surrounding the entire saga and like the SGF Babachir Lawal grass cutting affair and the Ikoyi cash dump controversy, case is closed.

Once again the President has succeeded in shifting the blame for this scandal to the cabal whom everyone blames for every wrong while crediting him for everything right.

While campaigning to be president, Muhammadu Buhari rightly identified corruption as one of the causes of Nigeria’s stunted growth and arrested development. He was so passionate about anti-corruption that Nigerians gave him a chance to prove his credibility by voting out the incumbent Goodluck Jonathan, under whose watch, corruption took a hydra headed monstrous dimension and proportion. Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief and hoped for a new beginning with a leader whom they believed was going to be incorruptible, just and fair to all in the discharge of his responsibilities as head state and duties as head of government.

Once in government, it becomes abundantly clear that President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the understanding of the theme of his most passionate electoral promise, corruption. Through his body language, association, public speeches, appointments, policies and programs, Buhari has revealed his lack of adequate knowledge of the proper definition of corruption and the wisdom to tackle it holistically. Otherwise, the President should have known that at the root of corruption is sectionalism; a most unfortunate practice that he has elevated to a near state policy.Unpatriotic practices such as cronyism, nepotism, ethno-geographic chauvinism and religious bigotry, collectively known as sectionalism is are corrupt practices that are condition precedent for economic and financial crimes [stealing of public funds].

Sectionalism elevates mediocrity above merit because the yardstick is not what you know but whom you know. Sectionalism creates separates states of ethnic nationalities within a nation state with each group strengthening their positions to compete with each other to secure a bigger share of Nigeria’s meagre national resources by every means possible including subversion of the rule of law and undermining of the laid down rules and regulations that is due process to favour cronies, friends and family. Consequently, law and order enforcement agencies like ICPC and EFCC are prevented from bringing to justice offenders who owe their positions in government to sectionalism.

By elevating sectionalism in his administration to unprecedented levels in the history of Nigeria, Buhari has succeeded in deepening the roots of corruption with the grave consequences of increased stealing of public funds by members of his administration to satisfy personal and sectional interests with impunity because they are well protected by a system that has elevated every associate, appointee and family member of the President above the rule of law.

If Goodluck Jonathan provided shade for corrupt cronies, Muhammadu Buhari sweeps corruption allegations against his cronies under the carpet.The hinging of its war on corruption on Ibrahim Magu’s EFCC by the Buhari administration is an unfortunate display of arrogance of ignorance.

Neither Magu nor his EFCC can fight corruption because the agency in question is not set up by law to be an anti-corruption agency. EFCC was established to tackle economic and financial crime, both of which are just two of the consequences of corrupt practices like cronyism, nepotism, ethno-geographic chauvinism and religious bigotry that are collectively known as sectionalism. So long as these practices are entrenched in government, economic and financial crimes [stealing of public funds] will be inevitable. Reasons why Magu’s chasing of corrupt individuals have not abated the stealing of public funds within the system.

The measure of the success of Buhari’s war on corruption can easily be measured in the day to day life in Nigeria. Police men still mount illegal road blocks and extort money openly from helpless citizens while bail is still not free at the station. The procurement process is still riddled with over pricing, over invoicing and multiple repetitions of same items in capital budgetary provisions throughout government establishments. Hoarding of contracts in exchange for kickbacks ahead of award by public servants is widespread under this administration. Top jobs are closed to the children of the ordinary Nigerian while secretly opened up for the powerful men and women in the Buhari administration, in high paying government Ministries, Departments and Agencies such as CBN,NNPC, NCC, FIRS,LNG,NIMASSA, NPA etc.

From the foregoing, the president is not immune from corrupt practices as his defenders would want people to believe. The attempt by his devotees to shield his person from the now complex level of monstrous corruption under his watch by blaming it on the cabal is ridiculous. More ridiculous is when his ministers are blamed for obvious acts of corruption while leaving out the real culprit, Muhammadu Buhari, hitherto venerated as Mai gaskiya but who is fast gaining notoriety as Mai kariya. Ministers of government are merely acting on delegated authority by the president or his clique of ‘’influence peddling’’ [an act most corrupt] close and absolutely trusted associates, through his Chief of Staff who is their loyal protégé in the administration.

The fact that nobody in his cabinet gets fired for such brazen acts of corruption is enough proof of complicity on the part of the president. Therefore, as president and commander in chief, Muhammadu Buhari should always take responsibility of for the actions of his appointees.

Until conflicts of interests arising mainly from sectionalism in high places is not only frowned at but discouraged and criminalized, the war on corruption has not even started. The basis for appointment into public office should not be premised upon loyalty to the person of the President but to the government of Nigeria, in this case the people.

The presidency of a republican constitutional democracy such as Nigeria is far different from a hereditary dynastic monarchy wherein personal loyalty to the sovereign is mandatory. The President of the federal republic should at all times lead by good example of fidelity to the dictates of the letters and spirit of the constitution whose underlining philosophy is the security and welfare of the citizens  while applying the principles of justice, equity and fairness to all irrespective of place of birth, ethnicity and faith.

Once these principles are sacrificed on the expediency of satisfying sectional interests, as is the case with the Buhari administration, the seeds of corruption are sown and continuously watered by the intense struggle for Nigeria’s meagre resources by competing ethno-geographic groupings.

DrGoodman:
Let's be fair to Buharri for once, this is not his fault.

This was a man who has never been to school and does not have any knowledge of democratic processes but was insisting on becoming president just to steal more money for his people. The born to rule mentality.

Tinubu made his dream an impossible reality to the surprise of everyone, even Buharri was surprised he won. He took more than 6 months to adjust to the reality that he won.

Now he is starting to learn democratic processes.

What a shame of a nation.

•Says health and wellbeing of all Nigerians at risk

Media Rights Agenda (MRA)yesterday named the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) this week’s inductee into its Freedom of Information (FoI) Hall of Shame, contending that the agency’s sundry acts of non-compliance with the FoI Act suggest that the health and wellbeing of all Nigerians might be at risk.

In its statement in Lagos announcing NAFDAC’s induction into the FoI Hall of Shame, MRA’s Programme Director, Mr. Ayode Longe, expressed concern over the implications of the agency’s failure to fully implement the provisions of the FoI Act and fulfill its duties and obligations under the law.

Longe said: “The situation with respect to NAFDAC’s non-compliance with the FoI Act is extremely worrisome because the agency regulates a critically important sector touching on the health and wellbeing of all Nigerians and non-Nigerians living in the country. Its failure to perform its duties and obligations under the FoI Act naturally raises questions about the extent to which it is faithfully performing its functions under its enabling Law, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control Act, Cap N1, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004. If NAFDAC cannot be trusted to apply and implement the Law, then it poses a grave risk to the health and wellbeing of all Nigerians.”

He noted that the mandate of NAFDAC is to regulate and control the manufacturing, importation, exportation, distribution, advertisement, sales and use of food, drugs, cosmetics, chemicals, detergents, medical devices and packaged water, among others but accused the agency of consistently failing over the last six years to proactively disclose factual reports, inspection reports and studies, whether prepared by or for the institution by independent contractors, as required by Section 2(3) (d) (iv) of FoI Act.

Longe argued that “the demonstrable lack of transparency and accountability on the part of an agency that is established to perform such important functions as well as the apparent willingness on its part to disregard the Law as evidenced by its flagrant violation of numerous provisions of the FoI Act are issues that every Nigerian should be worried about, particularly those with authority over NAFDAC.”

MRA acknowledged that NAFDAC had proactively disclosed on its website a description of the institution and its responsibilities as well as details of its programmes and the functions of each division, branch and department of the institution as required under Section 2 (3) (a) of the Act, but said it failed to proactively published other information which it is statutorily obliged to disclose under the Act.

For instance, the organisation said NAFDAC failed to proactively publish information relating to the receipt or expenditure of public or other funds of the institution; as well as the names, salaries, title and dates of employment of all employees and officers of the institution.

Besides, it added that although NAFDAC had proactively disclosed applicable regulations and guidelines as well as a list of registered products on its website, it has consistently failed to proactively disclose files containing applications for any contracts, permits, grants, licenses or agreement, or materials containing information relating to any grant or contract made by or between the institution and another public institution or private organization, in accordance with Section 2 (3) (e) of the Act.

MRA also accused NAFDAC of failing to designate an appropriate officer of the institution to whom applications for information under the Act should be sent or proactively publishing the title and address of such an appropriate officer, in accordance with Section 2 (3) (f) of the Act.

It said there is no indication that NAFDAC has trained its staff or officials on the public’s right of access to information or records held by government or public institutions as required by Section 13 of the Act, although the agency had put out information about other training workshops that is has organised to build the capacity of its officers to detect and report Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR).

MRA noted that the submission of annual reports to the Attorney–General of Federation was also one of the obligations of NAFDAC under the FoI Act, adding that in the last six years of the existence of the FoI Act, NAFDAC had not submitted a single annual report to the Attorney-General of Federation, as required by section 29 (1) of the FoI Act.

This failure of NAFDAC to submit its annual reports had made it virtually impossible to determine the number of applications for access to information that the agency receives each year and the number of such applications that it processed and granted for any particular year.

MRA launched the “FoI Hall of Shame” on July 3, 2017 to draw attention to public officials and institutions that are undermining the effectiveness of the FoI Act, 2011 through their actions, inactions, utterances and decisions.

omenkaLives:
I know their usual technique but I'm not gonna fall for it.

The insults would be squarely ignored, while the essence of the thread is maintained.

I could remember one of them who once bore the moniker "showyourcertificate" in response to Buhari's "inability" to show them a "valid" cert, claiming that which they see is "fake".

Now we want to see!

Where are the evidence of Kanu's educational qualifications people?

BeardedMeat:
You are right, her name is Mynd1

ModsWillKillNL:
Shattap!

Book Haram is becoming increasingly apolitical as the day goes by.
They have proven it severally since the day of YarAdua

naijafella:
Mentally derailed

LockDown69:
Where's the connection here? You see a kid being subjected to this and you couldn't come up with a logical comment but this, I pity you. Receive sense

Vutseck:
.Somebody should tell that olodo that after 90 days on sick bed he will be declared incapacitated
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9jaBloke:
The popular online encyclopedia has lent its voice, or rather its words to the on-going media frenzy about Dino Melaye's academic records.

See link and screenshots below:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino_Melaye#/editor/5

Caseless:
they did release a statement.

Jabioro:
You are the one who saw plagues in my eyes remove it, don't let your neighbor goes blind ...

Jabioro:
Correct it..

Sweetguy25:
Someone seeing this will think BMB is an academician, not knowing the man never attended any higher academic institution in his entire life.

Jabioro:
the statement of result he presented is from Cambridge.. if don't know go and cross check it, you can even google it.. instead of you proven what you have no grip of.