₦airaland Forum

Katsumoto: Weakness on the part of the people leaves them open to manipulation and/or dictatorship. Most folks know what to do but choose not expecting others to make the change. As Marxism dictates, inefficiencies in an unregulated capitalistic society will lead to class struggle which will eventually lead to social revolution. End result will be revolution and socialism. Socialism will give way to communism with improvements in technology. Lazy attitudes will develop in a communist society as there are no incentives to create wealth. To survive, communism will revert back to capitalism. These evolution differs from society to society. As long as the 'owners' of Nigeria don't push Nigerians into that state that leads to social revolution, Nigeria will maintain the current state.

But there is nothing in human psychology that suggests that a group of humans will simultaneously change their attitudes and behavior without some prompting or education. Something will push them to make that change.

I disagree with you implying we are not close to being pushed. The issue is what would prompt us to make that change. And honestly speaking, it is not far fetched. The more the village champion status is deconstructed the more we move in that direction. The more Nigerians get exposed to what is attainable in other parts of the world the more they realise they DO NOT have to live the way they live. This can cause discontent, and information has proved a powerful tool. It has been the stirrer of the hornets nest in regions like North Africa and the Middle east. The only thing that will keep slowing down this change, is continued acceptance and contentment with the nature of things, a complacency which Nigerians seem quite accustomed to.

Ogahtech: @sky blue, let me make it clear to u. why 2011 was different, is because the south south were not telling Nigerians the truth about their interest. of wanting to have a Niger delta president even if heaven will fall. but rather the go about telling the citizens, that the north are been selfish. because Jonathan is a Christian that is why the north don't want him. which certainly is a deformation of character to the entire northerners. I want u to consider when Nigeria was predicated to break up by 2015 some years back all Nigerians think it was funny. but now no body longer think is funny. and that is exactly why I told u Nigeria was far better united than this present devilish administration.

Please don't take offence if I think your post is quite silly, it is just my opinion and I will explain why. What is South South? Is South South an ethnic group? Is South South a person? When you say South South was hiding their interest what on earth are you talking about? Are you claiming that Yar Adua was infact assasinated? Dude you really can't win with this bigoted post of yours (and that is what it really is - again just MY own view which is probably not worth much). Because you are either saying Yaradua was killed so a man from a particular part of the country could emerge president, or you are saying the Vice Presidency is actually a figure head token useless role because the Vice President should not have the right to accend to presidency if the president dies, especially if - God forbid - he is from a particular part of the country.

Again, if this threat of break-up if one man from a particular part of the country aspires to be president is what you keep coming back to then I say LET NIGERIA BREAK. And let me be clear, I do not advocate break up and have never even suggested it, but for this I say so be it. It is utterly disgusting that we can be talking about the audacity of a Nigerian to contest for presidency IN NIGERIA, because he is from a particular part of the country (or should I say - not from a particular part of the country). What really bemuses me is that you fail to see the connection between such reasoning and the disunity you 'lament' about. This whole idea of "how dare he", just unbelievable, you would think they were talking about a martian running for presidency in Venus.

If heaven will fall because a NIGERIAN that you don't even have to vote for I might add, want to become president, then I say let heaven fall. You can't build a nation on the sacrifice of equity, it just isn't worth it. Oh and by the way (hint hint), when people talk about "the north are being selfish" (as you put it), this attitude might be what they are referring to. How many freaking ethnic groups are there in Nigeria? Are some less human than others? I just don't get it to be honest . . . This is one of the detriments of touting WAZOBIA culture.

naptu2: This is what I thought previously, but I can't ignore the questions that crop up.

1) How do you know that the dictator is benevolent? I've experienced many coups in Nigeria and they are usually greeted with jubilation. Yet, most times, the dictator turns out to be a disappointment (you don't get to hear the dictator debate before hand, most times you don't know his track record. You didn't select him). Some people are well intentioned when they get to power, but absolute power corrupts.

2) How do you determine who will succeed the dictator. Nigerians are very ambitious people. In a democracy you have an idea of when the president is going to leave the stage. If you've got a dictator and people who are hungry for power and feel that they should be next in turn (either individually, or their ethnic group) yet they don't know when the dictator will leave, you could have a recipe for trouble.

3) Strength. If the dictator is not forceful enough people will think he's weak and try to take advantage of him. If he is forceful, people will complain about human rights abuse.

However, having lived during the WAI era, I still hope that we can find a way around these problems.

We DO NOT need a dictator, it is the response and thinking of the lazy. Nigerians need to STOP being so LAZY and get of their arses. Even with the questionable characters we have now we can work together and get things done if serious. Change doesn't normally require 100% of the population, heck 5% is even more than enough. We can't just shout 'social engineering' without the right foundations, it is something that has to be embedded in the nation. If WAI under Buhari was so sucessful in social engineering then why did it collapse pretty much once he left? Doesn't that go to show you the depth of that "change"? We need to be on the same wavelength as a country of different groups (ethnic, economic, religious, etc), and we need to have an agreement and an understanding which we never had a chance to talk about. We need a vision enshrined in a document we had some part in writing (even if indirectly), then we need to embed this in laws and teach it to our children so they know where we are coming from. That is how you get social engineering, through family, community and education.

We have a very lazy "enlightened" group. We just need Nigerians to rise to the occasion. Touting WAI as a success of social engineering is just dumb, giving that it pretty much unraveled rather quickly. So was it really social engineering or were people just afraid of getting whipped and doing frog jumps?

Ogahtech: @sky blue, if u look into all my articles. u will know I have nothing to do with PDP. but u and I doesn't have a choice. because for now PDP determined what happens in Nigeria. if u will be sincere, Nigeria's unity was far better in 2007. I always wonder why ur parents use to tell u that the northerners took them as slaves. this is 21st century, how could northerners be so stupid to consider the southerners as slaves? this is only a political propaganda. u people are just judging only the few bad northerners. I have done youth ambassadorship in Nigeria with both ibgo and yoruba. and we all love ourselves. Infact am a member of the world ibgo youth assembly. for this country to move forward, we must learn to reject some of the sayings of our leaders. because must of their sayings are for selfish interest.

Read post again. And to add to that, if you actually believe we were more united in 2007 than we are now, I propose to you that it was an illusion, people just hadn't got angry enough yet, they were still waiting to see what had changed. PDP is not Nigeria, and any suggestion of a return to turn by turn presidency which a handful of people agreed to is silly. Any suggestion that someone not being from a particular part of the country leading the country will cause disunity and break up the country, isn't only bigoted and myopic, it is also insensitive, short sighted, and DOES NOT foster unity. Perhaps that is why 2007 seemed nice to you, because you didn't need to look at things from other people's perspectives.

Your post is a contradiction. On one hand you talk about rejecting selfish views of leaders past and loving ourselves, and yet on the other hand you espouse those VERY SAME VIEWS you call others to reject. So what are you talking about?

We need to start getting rid of all these power lines and telecommincation masts that are ubiquitous on Nigerian cities and start looking into underground wiring. These things really are serious hazards we have just lying around the place. How many stories would we have to read of pole falling and wires electrocuting people?

Puntae: Seriously, invested in power sector! What is to show of it?
Their outcry is as a result of haven lost the bid through their company, else, this dust won't have been raised were it be that Southern Electricity Company emerged successful.
Their claim that they weren't informed to be part of the bidding is indeed premature and lacks merit... coz for an occasion that important, the who is who got ears.

That is my only worry. If we can become privvy to the judging criteria and more importantly, what made on company picked over the other, and we can all see it as fair and applied consistently based on competence, then they have little to stand on. People just want light. Better yet, they should explain specific details of their discontent, what makes the company they want better suited than the one chosen? Simple.

bokohalal: It actually includes Ondo State.So add LP.
I think the governors' grouse is that they have invested heavily in the power sector in their various states and have a more accomplished technical partner than the winner and that the bidding process itself was flawed.

You make a very strong point there and that 'grouse' has legitimacy, but ask yourself this, how has power improved in those states as a result of their 'investments'? Don't be fooled, states are actually in this administration allowed to generate power for their exclusive consumption as allowed by NERC. So if you state has not light the blame can now be shared between the federal and state government.

These people should stop playing politics with everything. What "peculiar" situations in the Niger Delta is Uduaghan talking about? The only reason they can be talking of "banning" any company is because it is government owned infrastructure.

Ogahtech: keeping religion aside, because Nigerians always want to use religion as a scapegoat. every Nigerian Citizen will agree with me that. in 1999, Nigeria's unity was appreciable. certainly northerners gave maximum support to gen obasanjo not considering he was a Christian and from the southern part of the country. also in 2007, the southerners supported umar yar'adua massively. not considering he was a Muslim and from northern Nigeria. but why in 2011 situation became critical? this is the question I want all
Nigerian citizens to think hard. as for me I realized is the inability of Jonathan , Edwin Clarks and co. to comply with the PDP zoning arrangements. the were unable to think of the hatred and it's resultant in the future before taking that decision. am not a fan of obasanjo but I still respect him. even after the northern politicians rejected his 3th term agenda. he still comply with the zoning arrangements. despite pressure on him from the southern politicians to anoint peter odili, former rivers state governor. obasanjo was wise enough to know the hatred that will follow if he abundant the zoning agreement. Edwin Clarks is among the Nigerian elders state men. I respect a lot. the biggest mistake he and other southerners did was, for them to think south south presidency is greater than Nigeria's unity. may God help Nigeria.

Stop playing ostrich, how many of those elections you tout were as fair as the last one we just had? Did your father agree to turn by turn leadership? PDP IS NOT NIGERIA. If the aspiration of a person from any region of the country towards presidency is enough to break Nigeria then the UNITY is FAKE, so please spare us the sanctimonious lament.

What kind of reasoning is that? Who is whose slave? It is like saying, I will continue to give you pats on the back as long as you continue to know your place. Do you realise how insulting that is?

Demdem: I agree, but we cant because of that not at least have faith in our justice system. we still have to.

Well quite frankly speaking the justice system hasn't given us a reason to have faith in them. Given our history, trust has to be earned.

Whitehorse: The other party sees it as fair because it benefits him. Lets not play ostrich here. If the East gets another state, that state will have to be funded from the federation, leading to less income for the other states. Its not rocket science.

Many Nigerians are concerned about constituional imbalance because they believe thats the only way they can get the basic amenities you talked about. Nigerians are not fools, we know resources are shared based on number of local governements and states.
People do not develop a parculiar mindest out of the blue, something must have made them think in a certain way.

If we have financial and resource autonomy for each and every state or region, i can guarantee you that the noise for more states will die.

The bottom line is people feel they are being cheated financially in this country, and that has to be addressed. Any other thing is secondary.

WORD. Nigeria has partly made Nigerians the way they are. If they don't trust government, it is because they have been taught not to. If they want a bigger share of the loot instead of reconsidering stealing altogether, it is because they have been taught that is doesn't pay to be moral. So let us not try and talk uneccessary philosophy here and ignore that truth. Social engineering doesn't come over night. But a VERY GOOD START to speed up the process, is an understanding, inclusiveness, equity, and shared trust that people can actually feel (even if sentimentally) and see, one that comes with the words and not just the words on their own.

As @Awake9ja nicely put it:

Awake9ja: 2) how long do you think it going to take us to change the mentality of our people? So do we expect people to wait till then before there will be equality and equity?

[quote author=Omo_Tier1]This is what I do not get with the SE governors! Does more state mean improved development? I mean, Edo, Delta is a good case study. And why don't we hear these governors also clamouring rights of the girl child in SE, the need to remove immunity clause, and so many other anomalies that ordinary Nigerians on the street would want to see amended in the Constitution? Why is it all about state creation which in my view they see as more money?[/quote]You have missed the point. Read the post again and think about it.

Sky Blue: I think you are missing his point. If clamouring for state is not the solution then why don't we reduce states all across the board? What he is talking about is EQUITY.

I agree with the statement in bold and honestly spaeking, that is the issue. If we reform Nigeria then we reform Nigeria and all is well and good. But if things are to continue the way they are going, at least make things fairer. If we are saying we want a strong nation built on a more efficient sytem bla bla bla, then GOOD. But if we are going to continue supporting a corrupt system focused on stealing from the people and giving nothing back, AT LEAST make all thieves equal. It sounds messed up but it is Nigeria, and it should be a rhetorical proposition because then hopefully people would want the first option of genuine reform. But you can't have two different moral standards whereby, state creation for a group is seen as greed, but for another it is rationalised.

[quote author=Akanbi_edu]I don't know Fashola's mind as regards SE getting six states, neither can I speak on his behalf on that. But even a common man like me knows what SE/Obi is asking for is not a good solution to the injustice question. Its like being conditioned to think in a certain way. They are not thinking outside the box at all. Getting six states would provide what kind of justice? making SE equal to who? NW? Ok then what? Seven state to make it equal to NW? Meanwhile on what ground should SE be equated to the rest? landmass, population? Fine. If it is what they term justice, they should be supported to get it, but deep down we should all know it's not the solution.[/quote]I think you are missing his point. If clamouring for state is not the solution then why don't we reduce states all across the board? What he is talking about is EQUITY.

I agree with the statement in bold and honestly spaeking, that is the issue. If we reform Nigeria then we reform Nigeria and all is well and good. But if things are to continue the way they are going, at least make things fairer. If we are saying we want a strong nation built on a more efficient sytem bla bla bla, then GOOD. But if we are going to continue supporting a corrupt system focused on stealing from the people and giving nothing back, AT LEAST make all thieves equal. It sounds messed up but it is Nigeria, and it should be a rhetorical proposition because then hopefully people would want the first option of genuine reform. But you can't have two different moral standards whereby, state creation for a group is seen as greed, but for another it is rationalised.

SamAfrik: Fashola talks like a philosopher. If he keeps going like this I see him giving the whole of Nigeria a sound legacy and lasting principles in the class of Socrates and other grand philosophers.
Attitude is the bane of development & prosperity in Nigeria. Every sector needs behavioral overhaul e.g politics, education,& even religious institutions. For example,I have seen VC of a prestigious university in south africa driving himself to school every morning in his old personal car, yet this is an institution that no Nigerian university can match in academic research, facilities & funding. Our own VCs can't even open their (official) car door by themselves without the help of tens of securities attached to them, even when facilites in their schools are fast decaying.
Obi on the other hand proffered only superficial solutions to d countries prob, while Chief Clark is only clamouring what ND are known for i.e resource control = more money.
Cant stop liking this man called Fashola, and I will be proud to call him boss one day. He has a leadership style that has caught my fancy.

I disagree with you on this. We DO NOT need more philosophers. Everybody in Nigeria already seems to want to play that role, it is one of the few countries I know where you can stop anybody on the street, ask them the fundamental problem with the country and they break it down for you, but will probably turn around and break the law in heart beat. Enough of that crap please. He is saying NOTHING NEW! There was a reason we had WAI in the Buhari regime. Social engineering is built on good foundations, you can't be waking up every morning to slap a child for NO reason at all and then complain that he cries too much.

At this point in Nigeria we don't need any more unecessary lectures please, we have that in abundance. Have you ever watched governors or leaders discuss when they meet? That is all Nigerians do, lament and philosophise. Enough. I have even heard Oshiomole say more profound things but we need to get things moving. And your view that Edwin Clark is clamouring for resource control because of more money is quite myopic to say the least. If he is to be accused of that then ALL regions and groups should be accused of that. You can't have one standard of morality for one group and a different standard for the others (which is part of the crux of Obi's postulation).

Have to agree with @PointB a bit here. Maybe we might need a transcript of all that was said in the meeting because I STILL don't know what Fashola's position is on the issue, and that commentary on social engineering is neither here nor there for me if I am being honest. This is the kind of back and forth I hope we will not have to endure if there ever is a national discourse. Because we need to get things moving, not sit down lamenting and then get NOTHING achieved at the end of the day (LIKE WE HAVE DONE SO MANY TIMES).

Edwin Clark made the most sense. Straight to the point, a proposal that can be accepted, rejected, augmented, discussed, worked on, etc (but ultimately advanced in some way). We don't need more uneccesary lectures and laments. We need to talk with the aim of advancment and getting to a destination and understanding.

Demdem: The bottom line is Hembe has been punished (removed from committee chairmanship) and he is still in court for the bribery allegations. What is or has been Oteh's punishment so far for the below or are we saying it didnt happen at all? has she defended herself against these allegations? what was her defence?

Of a truth, Hembe sucks, but Oteh is rotten. I want both of them out.

Why do you prefer to ignore the fact that Hembe also accused Oteh of indulging in corrupt practices and breaching public service regulations? She was accused of spending TAX PAYERS money to the tune of N850,000 on food and refreshments in one day, and staying in a hotel (Transcorp Hilton) on TAX PAYERS' bill for over 8 months, during which she wasted over N30 million of Tax Payers' money - in brazen disregard for public service rules:

No need to jump ahead of yourself. Not ignoring accusations on her person, simply challenging the argument that lack of conviction in Nigeria means innocence, as I clearly argue in the post you quoted.

pro01: Lol. Bros, were you the intermediary between the biitch and Hembe in the alleged bribery episode? How/why did you come to the conclusion that she is [wrongly] being maligned just because she refused to give "bribe" to Hembe and his committee? Because she herself alleged so? Or because the media reported so? Did the media not also report Oteh's corrupt/irresponsible actions as alleged by Hembe's committee? Why do you subjectively choose to believe the former and ignore the latter?

Why do you prefer to ignore the fact that Hembe also accused Oteh of indulging in corrupt practices and breaching public service regulations? She was accused of spending TAX PAYERS money to the tune of N850,000 on food and refreshments in one day, and staying in a hotel (Transcorp Hilton) on TAX PAYERS' bill for over 8 months, during which she wasted over N30 million of Tax Payers' money - in brazen disregard for public service rules:
www.premiumtimesng.com/business/4233-sec_boss_arunma_oteh_spent_n850_000_on_food_for_a_day.html
www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/business/equities/39946-investors-lose-n131b-as-dangote-stumbles.html

Now, I watched the committee proceedings live. Since she could not defend her excesses, she resorted to what biitches like her do best: she shed crocodile tears and accused the committee of demanding a bribe from her, and claimed that it was because she refused to give the bribe that she was being 'victimised'. Why did she not convincingly DENY the allegations against her, but chose instead to spew counter-allegations?

I don't need to reveal what I know or what I don't know. Since your arguments are based on newspaper reports, I would also limit my argument to newspaper reports. Now, since NO court has found Hembe guilty of demanding bribes from SEC or Oteh, and yet he was removed from his committee chairmanship (and subjected to a trial), why hasn't Oteh suffered the same fate? Both of them accused each other of serious infractions; why is Oteh's accusation more credible to you than Hembe's? More so when the former has been put though a judical process and yet has so far not been vindicated? The standard practice in more civilised societies is that accused persons would step down from their posts when they are accused - rightly or wrongly - of serious infractions, even if they are later found innocent. Remember Dominique Strauss-Kahn? Why the hell is Oteh still there? Because she is sucking Mr. President's executive ballz? Or because she is the only "Harvard-educated" Nigerian that is qualified to be DG of SEC? Please.

And since when did the Nigerian judiciary, EFCC, ICPC (and all the other nonefective acronyms we have managed to come up with) become a credible standard for justice? If that is the case then Nigeria is the most uncorrupt country in the world since I can't count beyond or up to the five fingers on one hand, how many public officers have been thrown in jail for corruption. A joke of a country, next thing Lawan will turn to saint. One thing that seems certain in Nigeria is that if you steal big, you WILL get away with it, and this administration has shown NO headway in fighting corruption.

NASS of recent are beginning to get more irritating then usual. Don't they have a job to do? What exactly are their achievements in the past quarter? What have they done to curb corruption? This is getting absolutely ridiculous. I think a couple of these people need to be withdrawn by popular protests and the democratic machinery to set a precedence! We are not serious as a nation. Has Lawan been recalled yet?

joanana: I will cut off his hand , do u know why?

There is this thief that always comes to in my window while m sleeping between 1am and 2am in the morning. This dude scares the hell out of me . whenever he comes, i don't know when n how he did it, he will quietly move my window to the other end n start searching for a phone or anything his filthy hand will lay on to steal. whenever he does that n mistakenly touch my leg, i quietly turn to see whose hand it is , expecting to c a cloud with a bright moon and stars; i will see a very big dark shadow in my window n i will scream 'Blood of Jesus" run out of my room!!!!
He did it many times so i was told that whenever, he comes i should should shout "ole!!!!!!!" I did that but it didn't work. So a friend of mine said since i know the time he normally comes to steal, i should hide n wait for him, the moment i c his hand i should cut it off with a machete!

Next time ein come just give am cornflakes (. . . . the guy na regular sotey she dey even make appointment wit her tif)

I just dey imagine scheduling argument:

A - 'Which time you dey come tif because I dey follow Simbi go do hair, and you know say thay girl hair de tin look small but we fit tey for inside market'
B - 'Well I no go fit wait you, you know say to dey find taxi for dat una side hard and I no wan tif come dey enter bus'
A - 'O boy I dey tell you say that 2pm just doesn't work for me. Or you want make Simbi come dey carry half hair waka, you don see de hair'
B - 'So if Simbi dey plat hair e mean say you go wait am? You sef too dey follow Simbi'

yuzedo: I was dishing out the story on another thread of how my uncle was under siege in his house with about 12 robbers (including women) who were hell-bent on robbing (and perhaps killing) his rich as(s)!

They had killed one of his security dogs while the other bailed the f(u)ck out.

Did my uncle falter? Did his heart fail? Was he lacking in tactical discipline and wavering courage? F(u)ck No! He looked at his fine-a(s)s wife and his young kids and made the decision that only MEN make... He'd defend them or die trying!

The robbers thought they had covered all loopholes, cutting his telephone wires (in the 09's) and bribing the police to stay away. They just didnt consider his "lack of bitchmadeness".

Operation lasted from 1am till 5am. They tried to burn down the house and smoke them out, he had fire extinguishers on the ready. They tried to negotiate and ask him to surrender. He told them to f(uck) themselves, he had bullets to last 3days. They threatened, they cajoled, they begged him to throw down some money (and jewelry insisted the female robbers), his reply was two bursts of gunfire in the air to signal end of negotiations!

At the end of the operation, the score was:

Robbers: Three dead (including their leader whose head got sniped the 4k off, apparently he wore an iron bucket/flower pot to protect his head while climbing a verandah, my uncle ignored him till he was in clear sight and dispatched him to hades).. Several injured and demoralized.

My Uncle: One guard dog dead. One security guard dead. Family traumatised.

6am that very morning, he moved his family out to a new home in Victoria Island to forestall a reprisal attack. Nobody has bleeped with him since then...
#TRUESTORY

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gommex: so u bin wan confirm weda na real or fake gun

O boy for dat kain situation pesin fit mad. If armed robber come my house dey nack my head with canvas as if I tif meat no close pot I go even hala sef, say which kain insult be dis, you come rob me you no fit even rob me well sef. Canvas? The only tin wey worse pass na if na slippers dey take nack for head, and wetin go vex pass for dat matta go be say dey even wia slippers carry come do harmed robbery. Na so dey dey take do am? I go even carry cane pursue dem commot say make dem come back when dey don learn the sontin, make dey go take harmed robbery class.

[quote author=acidosis™]lol... abeg nor vex.. I mistook "canvas" with "shoe".. The shoe is a hard one, sincerely.. cos I felt the pain so strong.
About the authenticity ? I doubt it too initially but I heard sporadic gunshots few minutes later and it was confirmed by neigbours..

and... e be like say pesin neva point gun for your head before sha... if it make pesin piss for bodi ooo... i pray make you no experience am.. [/quote]LOOL, I like the way you dey carry take confess say you piss one kain hot piss like dat, everybody wan go heaven but nobody wan die.

[quote author=The.Man]Wow what a country. Some time ago, someone was sentenced to death for stealing a mobile phone!!![/quote]And yet no one can count off beyond five fingers of one hand how many corrupt elected public officials the Nigerian judiciary has even jailed. We truly are a heartless and foolish people.

mcnepow: Still waiting for the Amended Version of the Anti-Corruption Bill specifically for the Public Office Holders. . .

Sooo where I was going to go with this. I mean, all well and good but what about corruption of public officers? A VERY disenginuous congress. See how SPEEDILY this bill scaled? Sharp-sharp it is law because they are being affected. But anything of worth to Nigerians, they will foot drag so much and give you soo many excuses, that you will just believe the slow pace is inherent in the system. Nigerians are still not yet serious about calling this people to order. Disgusting!

Bayrlsa, Delta, Abia: Suthern states that have never seen any sort of progressive leadership or administration in this republic.

babarazy: if they like make dem distribute iphone 5, i no go vote for dem

But you go still collect phone nau. I don tell people say if politicians wan buy vote, chop first but still vote wetin you for vote before. If not, dey no go learn. In fact chop vote the other way so dey go learn lesson (bribery is against the law)

Once I read "Abia State Government" I lost all interest. Name ONE administration that has sucessfully probed the dealings of its predecessor? We need to build institutions for these things, not waiting for people who will take us for a ride on the pretense of goodwill.

[quote author=acidosis™]I'll kill them and then re-kill them...

I don't care if the thieves are students, gangsters or cultists..

Some years back on the 3rd of march (a day before my birthday) two guys came to attack me in my room (off-campus hostel) around 7p.m. One hit my head with his canvas while the other drag me down to the floor..
They didn't threaten to kill though but they pointed a gun on my head asking for money, laptop and phone..

If I had a gun that day, I would have killed them...and then send their bones to respective parents..[/quote]Canvas? Which kain credit crunch robbing be dat? Ein no see better tin carry hit you for head? Think back now, you sure say na even real gun dey bin use or na hand dey carry point?

This is an utter waste of time. Whether you think Jonathan deserves a second term or not isn't the issue, he is elligible to put himself forward for a second term and any judgement contrary to that is a danger to our democracy. Judges don't decide who or not they think is elligible, the constitution does, and we can all read. This people should stop playing this silly game. But if the judicial process helps clarify things better so it is emblazened in minds then so be it. I almost can't wait for 2015, let us see if one man saying he wants to run again will cause some people to cimmit suicide. If you don't like him, mobilise and don't vote for him, it is that simple.

No brainer here. I will even pray that I don't miss. Although I wouldn't aim to kill but severly wound and hinder so I can hand them over to the authorities, but if they die in the process then tough luck. Nigeria has made beasts of us all.

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That was brutal