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Crime / Re: Lady Killed After Withdrawing Money From Diamond Bank In Lagos (Graphic Photos) by TheLegal(m): 2:02pm On Aug 29, 2018 |
ediko5:Seriously? I am just seeing this your mention. Because I aired my opinion you had to rain so much abuse on me and my family? You did not end at calling me names but wished evil on me and my family. I am just cold! But good enough I have already rejected all the curses you thought you rained on me. Remain blessed bro. |
Crime / Re: Lady Killed After Withdrawing Money From Diamond Bank In Lagos (Graphic Photos) by TheLegal(m): 4:02pm On Jul 28, 2018 |
They shouldn't have killed the armed robber. He would have been used to implicate the other armed robbers that ran away. This our jungle justice mentality has done more harm than good. No evil shall go unpunished. 8 Likes |
Religion / Re: Plateau Killings: Bishop Oyedepo Spits Fire, Lays Curse On Killers by TheLegal(m): 10:18am On Jun 26, 2018 |
Bishop Oyedepo is one of the few Pentecostal pastors that stand by the truth. Other pastors, especially Adeboye would rather keep mum than to have their source of tithe cut off. Osibande will soon tell us that the victims caused their own misfortune for not been accommodating. 17 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe In Court With A Book Titled 'Dirty Politics' by TheLegal(m): 10:15am On Jun 26, 2018 |
seunmsg: Where did you see the Igbo attire? Is it that you are so blind you can't even recognize the coat of arm of your beloved country on his cloth? |
Religion / Re: "Spirit Of Beersheba Sent Me To Seduce Catholic Priests In Amaruru, Imo" (VIDEO) by TheLegal(m): 4:16pm On Jun 18, 2018 |
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Politics / Re: Revisionism, History And Defence Of Jonathan: The Guardian. by TheLegal(m): 12:46pm On Nov 17, 2016 |
lalasticlala and mydn44... |
Politics / Re: Revisionism, History And Defence Of Jonathan: The Guardian. by TheLegal(m): 9:17am On Nov 16, 2016 |
Sibrah:Is that all your brain can mutter? It is a pity indeed. |
Politics / Re: Revisionism, History And Defence Of Jonathan: The Guardian. by TheLegal(m): 8:41am On Nov 16, 2016 |
Godemcee:maybe he looted Buhari's brain too. |
Politics / Re: Revisionism, History And Defence Of Jonathan: The Guardian. by TheLegal(m): 8:24am On Nov 16, 2016 |
Pavarottii: zombies are incapable of making researches for themselves. they only want to hear what Lie Mohammed tells them. |
Politics / Re: Revisionism, History And Defence Of Jonathan: The Guardian. by TheLegal(m): 7:58am On Nov 16, 2016 |
lalasticlala come and defend Jonathan too. 1 Like |
Politics / Revisionism, History And Defence Of Jonathan: The Guardian. by TheLegal(m): 7:23am On Nov 16, 2016 |
First, let me make one thing very clear here. I did not support GEJ during the last election, not because he was not better than his Daura-born opponent, Muhammadu Buhari, but because despite his very good record as a democrat and a gentleman president plus his excellent economic achievements, I still considered him too weak and not competent enough to deserve my vote especially after the insensitive manner he treated the immigration job tragedy. I was at the national stadium. I saw my friend die in the stampede. When Jonathan refused to sack anybody for the job scam and the avoidable deaths that followed, I immediately knew the gods and the spirit of my dead friend would not forgive me if I gave this man my vote as insignificant as it was. I never made any post or comments in support of GEJ during the electioneering. But in all these, I never lost sight of the fact that mentioning the name GEJ and Buhari in the same sentence with a view to comparing them remained a moral tragedy. This article is borne out of a sincere desire not to sit back and watch morally bankrupt men twist history and destroy an innocent man with devilish lies. Having said these, let me come to the reason why I’m here. Undiluted, unadulterated, crude hate for Jonathan as a person and the desire to ensure his name is never associated with anything good is one thing every APC member and Buhari supporters have in common. This common characteristic is so strong…too strong, even! Matter of fact, it is stronger than the feeling of kinship that binds marijuana smokers together. If you are ‘a ganja man’, you will understand my drift here. Whether they belong to the Saraki faction, Tinubu faction, Buhari faction or even the latter day wailer-wanna-be faction, this common trait is the power house of all their activities the exact way the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. When you hear the APC tells you that the 16 years of PDP government is the cause of all our woes today, it is not the PDP they want you to blame, it is not even Obasanjo who ruled for eight solid years and is not the APC navigator-in-chief, it is Jonathan who was in power just for five years they want to incite you against. If you don’t believe me, ask yourself how come over 70% of all those holding public offices under APC today are ex-members of the PDP? Check all the ministers, governors, NASS members etc, over 70% of them left the PDP and were welcomed into the APC with an open arm and a baptism which washed away their sins and turned them to saints. If the APC strongly believes the PDP destroyed Nigeria, why welcome the same people into their party? Does this make any sense? Or is it just the acronym “PDP” that is the problem? Their target is GEJ. If not hate, why would anyone claim that Jonathan ran the most corrupt government in Nigeria history? Do these guys think we all have amnesia? So if we keep quite so as not to be accused of being paid by Jonathan or the PDP, these children of #broom will just alter history before our very eyes. So we have suddenly forgotten Abacha? Have we forgotten that all the money Dasuki is accused of sharing is not up to half of the very first set of stolen money recovered as Abacha loot, the same Abacha-thieving-government, their mini-god Buhari not only served under but vehemently defended and even swore by the seven gods that he didn’t steal a dime. This is even as billions of dollars (not naira) of the loot have continued to be returned to Nigeria. Have we suddenly forgotten the OBJs, the IBBs, the Abdulsalamis, the Buharis, the Gowons, etc who ran under the military system of government where there is no form of transparency? Or, they just selected only Jonathan’s government for probe and concluded it was the most corrupt? Which one did they compare it with or has it not occurred to them that for a thing to be adjudged the worst, it must have been compared with other things? These other men including the late Sani Abacha ruled the country with decrees and looted as they wanted but is it Jonathan who was in power for just five years that is the biggest thief in Nigeria history? Chai! Little wonder, these soulless liars were able to twist history and sold the political disaster called Muhammadu Buhari to Nigerians. First, they lied that Jonathan bought no single weapon for the military to prosecute the war on terror. When this lie could no longer stick, they amended it and claimed he actually bought some weapons but that they were substandard and were all backfiring and killing soldiers who were supposed to use them to fight Boko Haram. When Nigerians queried which weapons the APC government used to achieve ‘technical victory’ over Boko Haram since the ones acquired by Jonathan were all fake, the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed contradicted himself again by admitting the Jonathan government bought some good military hardware but that the prices were hugely exaggerated. Meanwhile, we all saw the newly acquired military hardware the GEJ administration secured from Russia after the U.S. and her allies refused selling us weapons as a result of a petition written to them in which El-Rufai, Murtala Nyako (ex-Adamawa State governor) and some Northern/APC leaders accused GEJ of using the military to reduce the population of theNorth under the guise of fighting Boko Haram. And we all witnessed as our soldiers used those weapons to liberate all our territories held by Boko Haram and sent the terrorists disguising as females to escape their superior firepower. Nigerians were all hash-tagging #NeverAgain as the military were combing the Sambisa forest in search of the Boko Haram boys. All these happened a little over a year ago. We could not have forgotten, could we? We have also not forgotten that the Boko boys were able to regroup immediately President Buhari came to power because he (Buhari) dismantled all military roadblocks set up purposely to checkmate their activities. We are not unaware of the fact that the same people hell-bent on blaming Jonathan even for the 1914 amalgamation hailed that ill-advised move. Another lie they’ve come up with is that GEJ caused our current economic woes by allowing those who served under him loot the treasury. This is a very big lie and here is why: Corruption alone doesn’t kill an economy. Else, our economy would have died a long time ago because there has always been corruption in the system right from the very first post-independence government of Nnamdi Azikiwe and Tafawa Balewa. Leaders of every military coup have always cited corruption as the reason for their intervention. There was systemic corruption during GEJ’s era just as there has always been systemic corruption but the big question is: How come the only two times Nigeria has gone into recession was in 1984 when Buhari was in power and 2016 when the same Buhari is in power again? Despite all the looting in Abacha government, Nigeria didn’t go into recession. Despite all the looting by all the other military rulers, we didn’t go into recession. The only twotimes was three decades ago and now…..all under the same Buhari. Haba! Even if you are incapable of any sort of intelligent reasoning, you should be able to figure this one out at least. Let’s even look at the two reasons advanced by IMF as the reasons for the recession: 1) Plunging oil revenue as a result of the crises in the Niger Delta which is the location of the oil the economy is heavily dependent on. 2) Weakened investors’ confidence in the country/economy. It is on record that barely two weeks after being sworn in as president, Buhari resurrected the Niger Delta crises by bombing the region, cutting the amnesty budget drastically and terminating the oil pipeline surveillance contract given to the ex-militants. The rush with which those actions were taken tends to suggest that public interest was the last thing on the president’s mind. In addition, Buhari went to America and made it clear he would discriminate against those who didn’t give him 97% of their vote. Whatever lies we chose to believe, we must not forget that these reckless ill-conceived actions of Buhari were hugely responsible for the current crisis in the Niger Delta which has led to plunging oil revenue blamed as one of the reasons for the recession. Weakened investors’ confidence: When Buhari took over from GEJ, rather than hit the ground running, he abandoned not just the economy but the entire country. He left the whole country on autopilot. No government in place, no minister, no economic direction. For over six months. Now tell me, if you were an investor looking for where to invest your money, would you invest in such an economy? After every election, investors always wait for the new government to reel out her economic policy to enable them to consider their chances of getting favourable return should they invest in such an economy. These guys are businessmen, not some bunch of “money miss road”. Buhari single-handedly weakened their confidence by leaving the entire country and the economy on autopilot for over six months. Is this even debatable? How exactly did Jonathan cause our current economic woes? Buhari complained he met a treasury that was almost empty which is a lie because a man who met a virtually empty treasury would not start building a helipad in his hometown in Daura. Such a man would not start traveling all over the world in company of governors from his APC party. Jonathan had one of the best economic teams. What Buhari has as an economic team is a bunch of sycophants who are mostly lawyers like the VP, the national planning minister, the president’s chief of staff who are all lawyers by profession and the trade and investment minister who is a medical doctor. The economists in the so-called economic advisory team are not up to four. Please don’t take my word for it. Do your own research. The over six months Buhari wasted before forming his government, the fact that he doesn’t have a competent economic team and his reckless action in bombing the Niger Delta, the reckless manner he terminated the oil pipeline contract which was part of the amnesty deal with the militants and slashing the amnesty budget were the main reasons why our economy went south. Jonathan didn’t cause all these, did he? Now, let us even assume that Jonathan looted everything, did he loot Buhari’s brain and his economic management abilities? Isn’t it 18 months already? Is 18 months not long enough for citizens to start feeling the impact of a government headed by a man who spent 12 solid years begging for the job and promising that he had studied all our problems and was ready to solve them all if only we would elect him president? Jonathan is human. He is no saint. He has his faults but he was a democrat. As president, he was a perfect gentleman. When he was stoned in Bauchi, he ran and was whisked away by his security details. None of those Bauchi-stone throwing boys were even arrested. But under Buhari, an ordinary army chief killed hundreds of people for blocking his convoy. Jonathan conceded defeat to Buhari in the 2015 election but in 2011 when he ran under a little known newly formed CPC, Buhari rejected the election result and incited his followers into killing hundreds of innocent Nigerians including youth corps members. Jonathan had plans. He was slow but he did have plans, some of which we are already seeing. The worst enemy Jonathan had was his media team. They were completely useless. These incompetent people failed to bring most of GEJ achievements in the open. But those achievements are still the President Buhari must be made to understand that at the end of his tenure, he would be judged not by what his predecessor did or didn’t do but by how he (Buhari) was able to manipulate economic and social-political indices he met on ground to get Nigerians to a better living condition than he met them. Enough of the puerile rhetoric from the presidency, please! This is the time to get to work. Let me just end this with this free piece of advice to my APC brethren: The best way to defend a government that is 18 months old in office is by reeling out its achievements, not by blaming the government before it. Buhari was not voted in as president just so he could spend the whole tenure telling us who and who caused our problem. We already know those who caused our problems and Buhari is one of them. He was voted in because he promised he had the solutions. Enough of the blame game and Jonathan’s bashing. Even if you must be against him, it is morally reprehensible. Charles Ogbu, a social analyst, writes from Port Harcourt. http://m.guardian.ng/opinion/revisionism-history-and-defence-of-jonathan/ 3 Likes 2 Shares
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Politics / Re: Police Teargas Protesting Shi'ite In Kano (Photos) by TheLegal(m): 1:48pm On Nov 14, 2016 |
The continued detention of the leader of Shiite movement and the continued protests by his followers, is a looming catastrophe! Buhari caused this and he wants to plunge this nation into the mercy of another terror group. What do you expect from a President who takes sides with certain sects, groups, denominations, religions,etc? He's a known tribalist, fanatic,etc. Wetin concern me self, they should enjoy what they voted in as president. 4 Likes |
Literature / Re: Why I'm Leaving USA - Soyinka by TheLegal(m): 6:33am On Nov 13, 2016 |
Lol. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Meet Trump's Daughter "Ivanka Trump" - Her Biography And Age by TheLegal(m): 12:06pm On Nov 10, 2016 |
shamsuRana: Trump is 70years, yes, but he has certificates and attended all the presidential debates. |
Politics / Re: "Chinedu My Son Was Killed" - Satchie Emmanuel Etoromi by TheLegal(m): 10:11am On Sep 05, 2016 |
frenchwine:You are really confused. Are you just seeking attention? Where did you read that the boy's dad is from Igbo? The reason you chose Ebonyi as the only state in Igboland that is polygamous, is surprising. Customarily, all Ndigbo communities are polygamous in nature. And thats why in this letter the dad wrote to him, he recognized the fact that "His Royal Highness, Igwe Oduah 1 of blessed memory had many wives too..." Was Igwe Oduah from Ebonyi State? So your believe that "Ebonyians are the only igbos who are polygamous" is not only erroneous but it casts a big question mark on your sensibility. 1 Like |
Pets / Re: Joachim Iroko Names Daughter 'Aisha' by TheLegal(m): 9:07am On Sep 05, 2016 |
thesicilian:who told you that Azikiwe, Ojukwu, Achebe, Okocha, etc are his heroes? He lives in an Hausa community and might have been greatly influenced by their worldview. |
Crime / Re: 'Mad’ Female Kidnapper Caught In Ikire, Osun State by TheLegal(m): 11:25am On Aug 29, 2016 |
AroOkigbo: Thank you very much for the pic 1 Like |
Crime / Re: 'Mad’ Female Kidnapper Caught In Ikire, Osun State by TheLegal(m): 10:23am On Aug 29, 2016 |
Enough of all these bad news from the Brown Roof Republic. Since morning na so so bad news I dey hear from these. Man sets his family on fire in Ogun Mad kidnapper caught in Osun Ritualist napped in Ekiti Fetish objects seen at the APC secretariat in Ondo These people and crime are inseparable like 5 and 6 Meanwhile Port Harcourt Branch of NCAN reporting. 13 Likes |
Politics / Re: EU And ECOWAS Storms Nigeria, Set To Meet With Buhari Over Biafra Agitation. by TheLegal(m): 10:19am On Aug 26, 2016 |
Will the Dullard listen to them? 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Photos: Idps In Maiduguri Protest On The Street Over Hunger and Lack Of Water by TheLegal(m): 6:09pm On Aug 25, 2016 |
Buhari is actually a big disappointment to those that voted him. He daily makes them appear like fools that they really are, for supporting and campaigning for an illiterate fool. There are illiterates that are not foolish. Buhari is both an illiterate and a very foolish man. He cant even feed those on whose predicaments he relied on to get voted in. His bigotry is loud to the deaf and obvious to the blind. He is a total failure. There is no one thing one can hail him for. His much touted fight against corruption is a media trial where opponents are maligned. His fight against terrorism is a farce. Nigeria is more terrorised now than ever. Boko haram , militancy, fulani herdsmen, and the continued killing of Christians by Muslims on an imaginary blasphemy are just examples. Buhari is a demented Dog. 19 Likes 1 Share |
Celebrities / Re: Charlyboy And His Virgins Release New Photos by TheLegal(m): 10:47am On Aug 24, 2016 |
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Celebrities / Re: "Alter Ego" Barrister Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde Representing Her Client In Court by TheLegal(m): 10:17pm On Aug 17, 2016 |
What's wrong with Nollywood? Why do they find it very difficult to conduct simple searches on the right costumes to put on? The way this lady is dressed is not how a female lawyer should dress in a Nigerian law court. 1 Like |
Science/Technology / Re: Annular Eclipse To Occur In Nigeria On September 1st - NASRDA by TheLegal(m): 11:12am On Aug 17, 2016 |
kbams241:Zombies will say 'it was all Jonathan's fault'. |
Religion / Re: Catholic Bishops Donate N10million To Nimbo Victims Of Fulani Herdsmen Attacks by TheLegal(m): 9:07am On Aug 16, 2016 |
Angelb4:dont just sit there and spew rubbish. Go to Nsukka Diocese and see how many of them that are on scholarship. What has the Federal Govt done for these people? |
Politics / Re: In Defense Of Jonathan, By A Facebook User Who Supported Buhari by TheLegal(m): 9:04am On Aug 16, 2016 |
nicedas:Zombie spotted!!! now answer these: 1. who shut down the almajiri schools? Is it Jonathan's fault that the Almajiris have failed to go to school? Did Jonathan build the said Schools which Northern leaders failed to build or not? 2. Is it that it was only Ndigbo that were given dollars? Is it that all Ndigbo who deal on importation only import toothpicks? Was the value of Naira better then than now? 3. Did any university in Nigeria ever start fully without it first starting from a scratch? Those 14 universities are they admitting students and employing the masses both as Tutorial and non-tutorial staff? I know you cant answer these questions because you have been zombiefied and there seems to be no remedy. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: A Rejoinder To Garba Shehu's Defense Of President Buhari by TheLegal(m): 8:52am On Aug 16, 2016 |
lalasticlala, mydn44 or mynd44 make una come defend Bubu. |
Politics / Re: A Rejoinder To Garba Shehu's Defense Of President Buhari by TheLegal(m): 8:51am On Aug 16, 2016 |
9jii: We are not asking the president to do magic. What we ask from him is far lesser than magical - he should keep to his campaign promises. He obtained the votes given to him fraudulently and so should stop reminding to us how he has achieved nothing. |
Politics / A Rejoinder To Garba Shehu's Defense Of President Buhari by TheLegal(m): 7:01am On Aug 16, 2016 |
In Defense Of The Masses: No! This Is Not The Change We Voted For! First, let's get certain things very clear here. President Buhari is an employee of the Nigerian people and so are his appointees. As such, we have a right to criticize them whenever we feel they are progressing in error. Holding the government accountable is the duty of every free citizens of every free state. It is the government that should fear her citizens, not the other way round. Our job is to pay tax and be law abiding. We only need to respect our government officials, not fear them and the respect should be mutual. I hereby wish to respond to the article by presidential senior media aide; Garba Shehu titled "In Defense Of Buhari: Is This The Change We Voted For? Yes, It Is!" written few days after I wrote a piece titled "In Defense Of Goodluck Jonathan"./(read It here https://www.nairaland.com/3283303/defense-jonathan-facebook-user-supported ) Let me start by stating categorically that the title of Mr Shehu's article is an outright insult on our sensibilities and a mockery of the hardship millions of Nigerians are currently going through. Thousands of people have lost their jobs, millions have continued to troop to the labor market in search of nonexistent jobs, desperate parents have resorted to using their kids as collateral to collect food items from sellers, people are now stealing their neighbors' food from the fire etc. And we yet pretend that this is the # Change we voted for How about we stop lying to ourselves?? People are really suffering and there is really no way this could have been the change they voted for. 1.//When they ask the question, is this the change we voted for, the critic forgets how far we have come from the scam tainted years of the PDP rule// I don't think we have forgotten the 'scam-tainted years of the PDP rule'. We only seek to know why a scam- free party such as the APC welcomed members of this 'scam-tainted PDP' into its fold such that almost 70% of public office holders under the APC today were members of the PDP. Does the APC have some kind of special corruption cleanser with which people are washed once they crossed over?? Let's not get it twisted. We knew the PDP for what they really are and that explains why we fired them and hired you, only for you to now welcome the same people into your fold. Today, they are still ruling over us in different capacities but under a different party called the APC. The only difference between the APC and the PDP is the acronyms. Nothing more. By the way, when do we get to know how the APC campaign was funded? Was it funded with sand from the river Niger? Who was their own Dasuki? How can we claim to be fighting corruption when budgets are still being padded with no one punished for it, due process is still being trampled upon and civil service rule broken just so the children of the very rich and powerful could be secretly recruited into the civil service, orders of our courts are being treated with disdain etc?? You cannot fight corruption when we are yet to know how your own election was funded. That is the first place to start in order to engender confidence in the anti- graft war. Has the president declared his assets publicly as he promised us?? No, he hasn't. He only listed some of his belongings and promised us a full public assets declaration once the CCB finished with the verification. The CCB has since finished their verification of those assets but the president is yet to honor his promise. Now, this is not good for the image of the president and his integrity. If we do not know how much our president is worth when he became our leader, how can we determine if he has corruptly enriched himself when he leaves office?? Isn't this the whole essense of the public assets declaration he promised us during the campaign?? Hasn't this wonderful idea of fighting corruption been defeated by his refusal to fulfil this promise?? Hasn't this painted the whole anti-graft war with a very bad brush?? We cannot be doing action movie and claim we are fighting corruption. Corruption is not fought on the media. It is fought in the law court before a judge with facts...solid facts. Corruption is not fought by arresting a suspect and nicodemously running to a magistrate court to obtain an order to keep him for two weeks and then another three weeks, hoping to coerse him into giving you the information with which you intend to prosecute him. No! A suspect owes you no explanation. The only person he/she owes explanation is the judge. I repeat, the judge. You are supposed to conclude investigation or at least establish a solid case against a suspect before moving for his arrest. And you are not supposed to interrogate people in the absence of their lawyers. You must not treat your own laws with contempt just so you could be seen to be fighting corruption. If the laws are weak, strengthen them. If the institutions are not strong enough, strengthen them. Ideal societies are not built on the whims and caprices of one man. It is built on laws! 2.//There are many today who take for granted the declared victory over the Boko Haram terrorists// Today, the Fulani herdsmen kill and maim Nigerians with impunity. They've killed thousands and displaced millions according to an Aljazeera report backed by what we are experiencing on the ground. Remember Agattu massacre, Nimbo killing and several such incidents of the mindless bloodletting by the fulanis across the country? Defeating one security problem while deliberately allowing another to gain ground does not call for celebration. Why should I roll out the drum in celebration of the victory over boko haram when I can still be killed or maimed by the Fulani herdsmen right there in my own village?? Nigerians are tired of hearing about millions, billions and trillions of naira and dollars recovered from the officials of the last government. We want to start hearing how those monies have been used or are being used to improve our conditions. A dead man has no need for naira and dollars. We are dying of hunger! And this is not about the PDP versus the APC. This is about the common man on the street who has probably never heard of those acronyms. We don't care who caused our problems. We just want you to fix them because that is why we elected you! That is why we are paying you! To fix problems, even if they were created by Lord Lugard. Accusing law abiding citizens of this country who are discharging their duty of holding their government to account, of being funded by corrupt politicians is absurd. Very absurd. And I wish not to breathe any more life to that lie by discussing it any further. Reminding us of Buhari's inaugural speech serves no purpose here. We know he promised to tackle insecurity, corruption, fuel and power shortages etc. What we wanna know is how far he has gone in fulfilling them. Are we now secure?? Is there no more systemic corruption in the government?? Has problem of fuel scarcity ended? Do we now have stable power?? How many megawatts have been added to the national grid 3.//The government has begun rolling out several social welfare packages: the direct cash transfer to the poorest of the poor, the school feeding and the recruitment/skills training of about one million jobless citizens are such an example// This is a noble initiative. I've got questions, though: How are these 'poorest of the poor' selected?? Do we have data base for such people? How did the government determine those who fall into that category?? How can we feed school children if we cannot feed the IDPs?? How?? And who are those one million jobless citizens being recruited or trained in the skill acquisition program? How were they picked?? Why can a government that is spending billions in oil exploration in the north be talking about diversification of the economy? Did we budget anything for fertilizer subsidy?? Are the farmers even being protected?? How can we be talking of diversification when we are still suggesting that farmers should be paying special protection fees before being protected by their own government?? When the president donned a military fatigue for the first time in 3 decades just to inaugurate a taskforce against cattle rustling, how many did he launch to protect the farmers?? So much for diversification. The Ogoni clean up: what has been done since the exercise was launched? Is gas not still being flared in Ogoni-land?? 4.//The subsidy removal has saved the government more than two trillion naira annual expenditure in this respect// If only you guys knew how much it grieves an hungry man to keep hearing those high sounding figures without feeling the impact of what those figures are being channelled into. 5.//The president many foreign trips have brought many things to the country// We know and we have never doubted this. We only seek to know when all those good things will translate to food on our table. This, here is the immediate concern of the common man. As long as a bag of rice is still sold for 18-19 thousand and 'mudu' of garri is still N260, telling the poor man what the president's foreign trips have achieved is more like pouring water on the back of the duck. Na Foreign Trip We Go Chop?? 6.//The president is the victim of the tyranny of high expectations// With all due respect, this is a very big lie. There is only one victim here: the poor masses! The president is not a victim of anything here. Let's get something very straight here: Buhari made some impossible promises during the campaign. He looked us eye ball to eye ball and promised us things he knew were impossible. If he has now realised he couldn't fulfill those promises, he should just come forward and face us just like he did when he made the promises and say; "please my people, I have now realized that some of those promises upon which I got your votes are unrealistic, please, can we just adjust our expectations?" This is the honorable route to take. You cannot raise people's hope to the sky with impossible promises during the campaign period only to start playing the victim after securing their votes on the strengthen of those promises. I find it negatively funny that the presidential media aide talked about the president being prudent in spending when we still have 11 planes in the presidential fleets. So long as those planes are still being used and maintained by the presidency, any talk about the president being prudent would never sit well with most Nigerians. He promised to sell off most of those planes and he is a man of integrity, is he not? Why has he refused to sell those jets to cut cost in government spending?? His good intentions for cutting down his cabinet from 46 to 24 has since been defeated by his insistence in keeping those jets. 7.//The president should be credited with the unblemished record of his ministers. This is a government that has stayed above board for a year// It is okay for us to lie to ourselves sometimes but it is unacceptable for us to start believing our own lies. Budget was padded left, right and center, submitted, stolen, resubmitted with ministers denying their ministries budget and blaming rat for inserting extra figures into it. The president even admitted it and promised to punish the culprits only to just redeploy them. And we say there's been no scandal? What about the interior minister; Gen. Dambazzou who was accused of owning properties abroad and helping the NPS boss falsify his age?? Note, I, Charles Ogbu, I'm not the one accusing the minister of anything here ooo. It is Sahara Reporters that made the accusation with back up proof. So that "cyberstalking" thing should go to them, not me. We've had scandals. We need to stop living in denial here. The president needs our support. No doubt about that. But that is exactly what we are doing in our own little way. How best to support your president other than by telling the truth at all time. I mean my president well and that is why I am telling him those things his close aides may be too uncomfortable to tell him for fear of loosing their jobs. We need to understand one thing here, as long as the president's aides cannot look him in the face and tell him the bitter truth about the amount of hardship in the country, we will continue to be in this mess no matter how good the president's good intentions may be. May The President Succeed. https://mobile.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154542782194255&id=608949254&comment_id=10154544021759255&_rdr#10154544021759255 |
Politics / Re: It's Been 15 Months, Stop Blaming GEJ #COPIED by TheLegal(m): 7:33am On Aug 13, 2016 |
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Politics / Re: In Defense Of Jonathan, By A Facebook User Who Supported Buhari by TheLegal(m): 12:11pm On Aug 12, 2016 |
pedrilo:I have always been Jonathan's supporter. the article was lifted from the wall of a zombie turned wailer. but I will help you deliver the form to him. 1 Like 1 Share |
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