₦airaland Forum

This is the state that honours a convicted thief called Alamieyesiegha, who was pardoned by way of tribalism and nepotism of the highest order.

Now they are hungry, while Alamieyesiegha has saved enough for his future generations.

I hope Ben Bruce would promise to devote his salary to his actual constituency now, despite not fulfilling the promise he made to Osun state civil servants.

Congratulations to the Northern politicians. They have no fancy degrees, but they know how to represent their constituencies.

Some only represent on twitter, while their ignorant constituency also congregate to support the North siphoning funds off the projects allocated to them, so as to fund more projects in the North.

AdamsBashforth:
Seunmsg do not cry more than the bereaved.

Is he not a Southerner? Or are you the one to decide who is bereaved or not?

I believe the government called it modernization.

This could mean pulling out all the existing junk for something that does not look like cold war Russia or East Germany.

Esseite:
Now they call it rescue, thought they usually roll them up and drop them at their various village bridges....

Am not partisan nor tribalistic.. i was always against what fashola did to the igbos, there was always a better way to go abt it.

There is nothing different with what Fashola did with destitute and miscreant Nigerians from different states across different tribes.

Or did you not read that some of them have been reunited with their family both within and outside Nigeria?

The sequence starts with their arrest/rescue (more of a forceful arrest after a tiring street chase) from the streets, then they are rehabilitated in a government center and accommodated while their family information is obtained from the willing. Those without any family to take responsibility for their care in Lagos are reunited to their state of origin or residence.

Remember, under the bridge is not a residence or home, and without any legitimate economic activity doing, no state is willing to bear the responsibility of another state, hence their return to whence they came.

As it stands, there is no better way of ridding buoyant economy states of the myriad of destitutes that serve no purpose than nuisance. They must be sent back to their families wherever they are, or their state of origin should carry the burden.

Peter Obi of Anambra did the same relocation of destitutes to Akwa-Ibom and Ebonyi before Fashola. Fashola also did the same relocation to other SW states and the North before he did same to Anambra. Akwa Ibom did same to other states including Lagos.

However some people rejoice in being seen on the news as victims of ethnic affront, some also cannot make any headway in life in their region without coming to Lagos - hence the need to fight for their economic survival in that particular case. Also the political climate then with the upcoming Anambra election between Ngige of APC and APGA ensured Peter Obi nurtured the episode for full political advantage.

Excuzeme:
Thanks for your post and being direct .... while others chose to be beclouded by tribalism and hatred for Buhari, shifting the blame unto him.

Let me quote the Senators involved:

1) Senator Udoma Udo Udoma Minister for Budget and Planning,

2) Senator Ashafa , Chairman Senate Committee on land transportation

3.) Senator Senator Danjuma Goje , heads the Committee on Appropriations.

4.) Senator Abdulmunin Jibrin , House chairman on Appropriations (allocation of money to projects in Budget)


From the above, l have a few questions of my own:

1.) If there was a #54 Billion "found floating" in the budget, and this was subsequently appropriated for the two rail projects, why was the part meant for the Lagos-Calabar portion also diverted to the Kano-rail (Northern project), an unnamed (but likely a Northern one) airport security project, and the rest given to Borno Inland Port project in Niger State (Northern project again)?
Is it that the South of the country does not deserve any physical project and is being short-changed by Senators of the Northern extract?

2.) The Eastern Senators who are of PDP, were the one that foisted Saraki as the Senate President , on the nation, is this Saraki's way of repaying them, by depriving them of a project that was ready-funded and diverting the funds to the North?

3.) Where were the Senators from the East, like Tweeter Senator Ben Bruce, Stealler Oduah, e.t.c when the Northern Senators like Goje and Jibrin were HACKING the Budget and diverting funds for Southern Projects, into the North? If its to follow Saraki to the ICC for trial, they will all wear agbada but look at how they fumbled in their primary responsibility!

4.) Even if the project was not in the original budget sent to the NASS... and was later included by way of supplementary Budget addendum, why did Godje and Jubrin (both Northern Senators) remove it and diverted the funding to projects meant for the north?

5.) How did Senators of the East and PDP who supported Saraki to become Senate President, allow him to foist the two most powerful Committee chair-positions, when it comes to funding projects from the budget, to the North?
Why not one to the North and the other to the South-East, South South or South West?
I hope we are all realizing how "dangerous" this Saraki of a person is, by now?

6.) Finally, why are the Northern Senators, knowing what they have done behind our backs, trying to harass Minister Amaechi and blaming him for what they did intentionally?
Easterners might not like Amaechi for decamping to the APC but that is what politics is all about! he realized his error and quickly remembered the South/Eastern region needed this rail line so he quickly corrected himself.... only for the Northern Senators who are now blaming Amaechi, to do their hacking on the project and its funds?


If these Senators think Nigerians are fools, they have another thing coming.
They have been exposed once and for all.
Buhari needs to send that Budget back and ensure they include that Lagos-Calabar rail project into ti (and any other project they have hacked out) ... before appending his signature.

Nigerians would wait, if that is what it takes to make these criminal Senators to do the right thing.
And if they dare abuse their "powers" on Ameachi or PMB, Nigerians are prepared to match on the NASS itself.

I love how you clearly analysed how Northern senators deliberately siphoned the funds for a Southern coastal rail line to fund other projects in the North.

Hatred has blinded many, leading to many downfalls. That some Southerners continue to argue in support of the Northern senators on this very matter, is testimony to the self destruction hatred can cause.

I congratulate the North for not being stupid. You barely see them ranting on twitter or pursuing a vendetta against their political opponents when the time to win the bread is at hand. Politics was surely mastered by some, while others have convinced themselves that they are only entitled to eat the breadcrumbs that fall off the table.

Adaure4ever:
pls keep quiet if you don't have anything tangible to contribute.
The free 10mb mtn gave you should not make you to start misbehaving.
Obasanjo was very corrupt but he is walking around as an elderstateman, show some respect to Alamco, he is a hero to the Ijaws and south south for his contribution to resource control, atleast 13% deriative is a result of the fight.

Paupers everywhere berating others about free 10mb.

What is that by the way? Is that a data plan you're on?

I only hear about it from comments like yours.

Let him be a hero. How does that erode the fact that his funeral was abandoned by regional governors who should see him as their hero?

odikimi:
who are more in Orile Iganmu, Mushin, Agege? Alimosho as a whole? Lagos is the only place u guys have, every other place is like a mad people's asylum

Every state has its highbrows and low income areas. The Yorubas will always be more in their own land except the ones that have been abandoned for refugees.

Ogun state is better that Bayelsa. Oyo state is better than Bayelsa, Ondo state is better than Bayelsa, Ekiti and Osun are way better than Bayelsa.

Is if they are mad people's assylum, then more than 2/3 9f Nigeria is an asylum.

Yet all these states above receive economic refugees daily.

odikimi:
Same Awolowo was convicted for conspiracy and treason/treasonable felony. So who is more useless among the two? After his education, he still got convicted. Which part are u talking about? the only useful place there is Lagos. Every other part in yo region is squalor. Even In yo Lagos, the area dominated by yo people looks like ●●●●●

The worst part of Lagos are the slums and shanties like Ajegunle and the like. A lot of South South and South East people live there. I'm sure you've heard of the likes of daddy showkey?

Where else can economic refugees afford to live? When the blessings of Lagos come upon them and they make it in Lagos unlike their abandoned regions, they get to move into the better parts of Lagos where they are given a chance to associate with Yorubas of means and not area boys. Infact an Igbo from Ajegunle axis got elected into the federal house of Representatives.

The sad part is whenever the state decides to clear off those slums and shanties, it is the economic refugees from outside Yorubaland that will be begging the state government to spare them, that the government hates poor people.

odikimi:
u said like me? lol!!! always insulting people but when they retaliate u will run to mods. for yo information I am not your class. Forget the fact that am on nairaland chatting with u, u can go to my signature, send me email so u can get my name and Google it. I, without pride have 2 first degrees and a masters, and have a well paid job. I can feed u for the rest of this yr. I only come on line when I am less busy, that is my leisure time so dude I am not yo class in all ramifications.

Yes you are not my class because you don't know who I am too. Do you know if you're even working for me?Do you know if it is in my power to lay you off that well paying job?

odikimi:
So Rochas is from the East? Did u watched the valedictory session and see d governors that attended it, both in Bayelsa and Abuja.
U guys are only interested in making d dead man a mockery because he is not fro your useless place, but u can celebrate Awolowo who was ex convict?

Awolowo went to the UK to receive a Law degree. Alamieyesiegha ran from the UK dressed like a woman to evade the law.

Awolowo was craftily put away by the government of the 1st republic, they got their reward in full years later. Those who remained alive were never relevant politically again.

Alamco made a mockery of himself. His regional governors couldn't even give him a befitting burial. They deserted him like he deserted the UK.

My place is very useless, yet we receive a lot of economic refugees from other regions daily.

Again this argument has nothing to do with tribe or region.it is about a convicted thief who died while running from justice and ended up in his own country where he had looted funds meant for health care that could have saved him.

Many died like him because of poor health care services, so Alamco only fell on his own sword.

odikimi:
must everybody be there? they were present at the service of song and the valedictory session. Delta State deputy governor was there, all the ijaw politicians where there irrespective of their states except those imbeciles; NDDC CHAIRPERSON, DAKUKU NIMASA and SYLVA who refused to attend because of the disgrace that was awaiting them. Rivers SSG was there, Labaran Maku, SAS all the way from the North. Senator Mantu, Ken Nnamani, Alduphus Wabara, Mike Ogiadomhe etc were all there. what is d big deal of all of them being there. Rochas of Imo was there, abi is Imo not from the ND? Why are u guys bothered, after all yo kinsmen said he is alive so y bothered as if u care about the man? pls save me yo useless sermon, if u v d guts, come down to Yenagoa and ask that useless Question as to why they didn't attend if u will go back alive. u can come with Burutai for all I care.

You are the one who turned this into a region and tribe argument. A thief is a thief.

I don't need to come to Bayelsa. Let the people there continue to enjoy what Alamco did for them. You don't need to tell me that your state parades the best crop of murderers and assasins. The concluded elections there and in Rivers already gives credence to that

My sermon is not for criminals and those who they give crumbs from the dining table like you, it is for those Bayelsans who can't travel to Dubai to receive the health care that Alamco put up there for them.

odikimi:
saving which country? Nigeria had it ds poor before, come to Abuja how he is being insulted by his fellow "mallows". Are following the fctelection? I thought u guys said pdp is a south south party? pls come let me bail yo useless Osun out of poverty.
Alamco is more important than anybody from yo region, he did more than anybody can in yo region.

I just realised you're a relation of Alamco, hence the defence. Sorry for your loss.

All your argument has been about region or tribe or calling people derogatory names. What has all of that got to do with the fact that a dead Alamieyesiegha who is the most important person in Nigeria according to your assertion, was left to be buried by only his family like you? Or you didn't read the title and its content? Where did his regional governors go to that not even one of them attended except his Bayelsa state governor?

Yet you compare him to my region?

Indeed he did more than anybody from my region. He stole and crossed-dressed to run to Nigeria from Britain. He was convicted, pardoned due to tribalism and nepotism by his former boy boy, but still had to run from Dubai like a fugitive that he was, to come die in Nigeria like the peasants his type make of Nigerians who are denied the dividends of good governance.
A pardoned man yet hunted into death by his own past.

Why didn't he die in the hospital he built in his Bayelsa state? Ok! He built it in Dubai and Port Harcourt for Bayelsans.

I wasn't the one who called PDP an Ijaw party, it was Jonathan who gave them a regional status as a Southern party, while Namadi Samabo had to do the reverse in the North, claiming that PDP was a Northern party.

As long as PDP is kept away from the federal government and away from federal funds to loot, Nigeria can only be better for it. 16years of failure cannot be overlooked except by a thieving mind like yours.

Go and bail Osun out like Senator Ben Bruce whose state constituency don't have drinking water?
The people of Nembe and Ogbainbiri in Bayelsa wash in the brown dirt water of the creeks where they shit. I believe such people need your help more than the civil servants being owed salary by many states across all regions of Nigeria.

odikimi:
the issue is, he died a more shameful death. Awolowo was imprisoned by military I guess?
And u r shamelessly defending Buhari who ceased a democratically elected government and u think u r wise.
I am not surprised, the shallow mentality of yo people; "we are the best".

Indeed Alamieyesiegha died a shameful death he deserved. On that note you are very right. Infact he still had a case to answer to in the UK and he remained a fugitive who jumped bail dressed like a Christian mother.

His fugitive status despite his pardon by his tribal brother protege, ensured he ran back to Nigeria when he got wind that the British were poised to come get him in Dubai. The poetic justice in his shameful episode was that his home state of Bayelsa had no reputable health care to provide him despite that he ruled the state and his state protege was president for 5yrs. He died shamefully in a federal hospital that was poorly equipped by the PDP federal government that ruled at the center for 16yrs.
In essence, he died the kind of death he provided for his people. He had no chance to die in a fancy hospital in Dubai.

Funny you still couldn't tell me the incriminating evidence used to convict Awolowo. Yes it was a civilian court under a democratic regime.
Whatever happened to the coalition that ruled then and contrived the treasonable felony charge? Their respective tribesmen ended up killing their opposite leaders in the civilian regime and military, while the civilians had a pogrom to keep themselves weeping. While Awolowo was a spectator who was begged to come help the government of the day.

Apparently you're already suffering from an inferiority complex to the Yorubas and Northerners. Unfortunately, I can't help you with that.

I am not defending Buhari for terminating a democratic government, infact I am celebrating him from saving Nigeria from criminals who masqueraded as a civilian government to loot the nation dry. Buhari locked them up in jail where they belong, and even made the bold move to kidnap a thieving minister of transportation Umaru Dikko who wrongly thought he had escaped Nigeria and the furious justice he deserved.

You are a criminal who would support your type, but hate anyone who tries to fight crime.

odikimi:
Some regions celebrated criminals like Awolowo who himself was ex convict only pardoned by Gowon, Abiola died in prison because of treason, PMB who was imprisoned because of treason (if u like call it military, all I know is they all were prisoners). Awolowo was sentenced to prison by a court of law.
U guys celebrated and voted for him when he came out of prison but always look down on others without removing the log from yo eyes.
I can see why u guys are hated down the South/East and in the North. I v friends from KD, Nasarawa, Kogi, Plateau etc who hate u guys like poo. They will tell me u guys are asslickers and untrustworthy, I thought they were lying. hypocrites, love your criminals, I love my, ki ni big deal?

Abiola was elected a democratic President in a generally free and fair election, only to be incarcerated for insisting on his mandate by a treasonous military regime itself that assumed power without any electorate's vote, yet you think your argument is sound that he died in prison over Treason?

A legitimate president elect is charged for treason by an illegitimate military regime that sacked an illegal interim government, and you think that is a normal dispensation of justice?
Kindly stop making foolish arguments that confer on you the title of an uncivilised human.

Remind me the incriminating evidence that was used to convict Awolowo of treason. I know there was a kangaroo court, but what was that incriminating evidence that no Nigerian, not even his political adversaries, seem to remember?

All the people you've mentioned were not pardoned for stealing public funds. So there's no comparison to be made to DSP Alamieyesiegha, who was convicted for stealing state funds. His people are rightly suffering for it without any drinkable water even in Otuoke despite also having their own son as deputy governor, governor, vice president, and president.

Kindly tell when Buhari was imprisoned for treason?
I hope you're not referring to the imprisonment when his military regime was sacked by the same military boys that put him there? How is that a treason related imprisonment? Did the Babangida regime term it so or was Buhari ever convicted by the Babangida regime, or your mind was just being creative?

When did being locked up in prison amount to being a convict without any known judgement by court or tribunal?
Were Alex Ekwueme and Ojukwu convicts because they were imprisoned by Buhari's regime, even though they were never convicted of any crime and subsequently released?

That you have friends across the country that are bigots, leaves no one surprised that you're one also. I bet your so called friends also told you they hate your own tribe too, but you suffer from such a terrible inferiority complex that you continue to fraternise with them and seek their approval. Must you look for the approval of the North to consider yourself a Nigerian with dignity?

If anybody hates the Yoruba like poo, let them know that is their own allocation of blessings. Some have to thrive while some have to be the haters.

crestedaguiyi:
OVER USED GENERATOR EXPLODED is what i was told.

i hope Ben Ayade's romance with the muderous APC has not brought mayhem to his people

I'm not surprised an Igbo man made this comment.

Maybe this mayhem occured because Ben Ayade is a PDP governor - a party now led by Ali Modu Sheriff of boko haram.

kingofchess:
I pity u...that is cheap publicity..... amaechi is a thief

If he is as you have alleged, does that stop him from being human and rendering help?

Wike that was stealing with him as his chief of staff was still voted and rigged in as governor by those who call Amaechi a thief.

Jonathan that is a greater thief is still some people's hero.

tonio2wo:
[size=28pt]PROPAGANDER!!!!!!![/size]

Who took the shots??
By the was na only women he dey pick, ashewoo!

What about the man in white top and the one with the orange marked top with backpack entering the vehicle in the 2nd to the last picture?

Madonna had this to say:

"You only see what your eyes want to see, how can life be what you want it to be, you're broken when your heart's not open.

If I could melt your heart."

kingofchess:
mtscheeeeew!! show off

But if news surfaced that he drove past without helping, you would say our leaders are heartless?

Has it ever occurred to you that you the followers are senseless?

If Trudeau was 43 when he became Prime Minister, even we have had leaders in their 30's yet no great development then.

FDR wasn't a young man when he was president, yet he made long-lasting positive changes to the structures of America.

So enough of all this irrelevant age campaign, as long as physical health is not impaired.

As for politician's kids studying abroad and eventually succeeding their fathers as the political elite,even Ben Bruce's kids too studied abroad, and it wasn't some rocket science courses unavailable in Nigeria, rather they were regular courses available in those satellite campus type of institutions.

Lastly, a man who joyfully supports a senate president on trial for false assets declaration and embezzlement of state funds, with same accused Senate President having a history of past police investigations of his shady banking deals, is not the one to teach any morality to the Nigerian youth.

Ben Bruce is a fraud like all others that have proselytised before him.

Fayose's online crew will soon tag this a lie from Lai Mohammed.

This is the same Fayose that has been running from pillar to post over the DSS doing its lawful duty, yet he was an advocate for the political use of the military and other security forces.

Can anyone imagine a Fayose as president, while a governor of a politically irrelevant state is antagonising him every day? A Fayose who sees no wrong in slapping a judge?

I pity that governor and his family.

Pheals:
we know that !



But we don't cry over spilt milk

You are a hypocrite, that's what you are.

At the end of his tenure, Buhari might be called all sorts of names both positive and negative, but I am certain nobody will ever call him an ineffectual buffoon.

Jonathan, I hope you're now learning how not to be a moronic commander in chief, even in matters that you also decried - like the NIS recruitment tragedy and the refusal of presidential orders by Abba Moro to refund the N1000 application fee, instead going ahead to buy himself a house.

Bode George that refused presidential orders at the NPA as regards the operation of private bank accounts for public funds, Yar'Adua made sure he became a convict.

Jonathan made sure everybody stole till they had nowhere else to hide it and required underground vaults.

A president who is scared of his own shadow cannot exert any authority.

Jonathan is a sissy, and we can all hear it in his voice.

Naija9090:
Same old fake news published in November 2015.

Same old news but no fake.

The same lawyer of his who said it was untrue, came out days later to say he never wrote any apology letters to those mentioned, but that it was his written statement while at the DSS.

The irony there was that the initial news report never said he wrote any apology letter, but only quoted the apologies in the same statement written at the DSS.

Apparently, the lawyer was too stupid to grasp the original news report.

bugzbunny:
Wat do u knw?
Olodo... There are igbos in SS....like me
Divide and conquer has long expired
Go tell ur fulani masters

Olodo... There are Yorubas in the SS too.

Go tell that to your Igbo brothers too.

You being in the SS doesn't give you the ownership of the heterogeneous and multi-ethnic SS. I couldn't care less if you as Igbo in the SS want to associate with your kind in the SE.

So next time just say "we Igbos", not we SE and SS.

I hope you have been educated?

Why is the SE so insecure it has to stand on the legs of the SS?

As long as it is food, Fayose must be there to commission it.
He is living up to his campaign promise of stomach infrastructure.

Wetin small boy wan do with school? Dem dey chop school?

When there's a government of stomach infrastructure to cater for him now and also for his own family in the future, education is irrelevant in the era of Fayose.

If Fayose could make it without education or forged HND, every Ekiti resident only need food in the stomach to also make it.

Some people seem to spend all of their lives craving for anarchy.

Ben Bruce suddenly discovered twitter, now Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus must be given a run for their money and followers.

A celebrity Senator.

Trending is more important than legislating.

The irony is that his tweets only disturb the urbane residents of Lagos, Abuja, PH etc. His constituents don't even know about his posturing and allure for the media spotlight.

Their needs are still very basic.

I wonder why the much touted republican Igbo suddenly want to be kings even on foreign soil?

Whatever happened to "the Igbo have no king"?

Yet the only culture that is being propagated by the Igbos is that of royalty and kingship.

So is the touted history a lie, or there's nothing desirable about that history such that a foreign culture is now embraced as tradition?