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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:


You are mad for this comment, of the other robber is implicated so what?

5-10 years at most if the girl's family have the legal fee in this corrupt country.

Later they come out and become worst in the society.

Here in Rivers state, two men were given 10 years term for killing 3 soldiers simply because they have political connections.

May your loved one be killed by a robber and may you catch the robber and let me see what you can use Nigeria system to do the armed robber.

You're an idiot
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.

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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.

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Politics / Re: Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe In Court With A Book Titled 'Dirty Politics' by TheLegal(m): 10:15am On Jun 26, 2018
seunmsg:
The IPOB senator is the one reputed for playing dirty politics. His appearance in Igbo attire and display of the book only goes to show the extent of his dirty bigotry. No matter his antics, he must produce Nnamdi Kanu or face the consequences of not producing him.

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:
trash. . .
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:
gej is not a saint nd he has his fucck up but he would forever be better than buhari.
only paid propagandist still blAme gej for Nigeria woes.even if gej caused the recession did he stop buhari From fixing it.

zombies can believe whatever they wanna believe though
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:
Well articulated and detailed.
If u want to know which persons administration was mostly corrupt. Zombies please Google transparency index and see for urself.

GEJ will always be reminded in history as the best president that ever ruled Nigeria;

God bless GEJ.

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.

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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/

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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.

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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:
grin

Buhari at 72 became head of State,his age became an issue to the hypocrites during campaign.

Trump is 70 now,and the hypocrites are cool with it,and having sleepless night supporting him for him.


~Adeleke Adekola~

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:
Just as PDP used to say, it's a family affair.
Pls is the dad from Ebonyi? Cos I believe Ebonyians are the only igbos who are polygamous. A more informed igbo person can educate me though, we learn everyday
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.

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Pets / Re: Joachim Iroko Names Daughter 'Aisha' by TheLegal(m): 9:07am On Sep 05, 2016
thesicilian:
The man seems to be lost. First he names his dog after his "hero" Buhari ( how about Azikiwe, Ojukwu, Achebe, Okocha, etc,?)
Then he gives his daughter an Hausa name Aisha, after the wife of this same hero who kept mute while he he was in jail for 3days, for no justifiable reason.
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:

Whenever you use "5 and 6", this picture should appear.

Unwritten Nairaland Rule 1!

Thank you very much for the pic

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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 grin grin grin

Meanwhile Port Harcourt Branch of NCAN reporting.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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Science/Technology / Re: Annular Eclipse To Occur In Nigeria On September 1st - NASRDA by TheLegal(m): 11:12am On Aug 17, 2016
kbams241:
Dump wailers go b Lyk *see wat buhari have caused again*
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:


Did your General Overseer do anyone at all? They save monies to buy jet.
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:
inflated GDP that relies mostly on it super structure and not the base? The already shut down almajiri school? The provision of dollars to the ibo petty traders to import tooth picks just to give value to the naira? 14 mini secondary school called university? That drunkard left a very fragile economy build on propaganda
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.

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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:
Op is confusing change with magic.
Magic is Tadaa
Change is a process

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.

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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 been instructed to give you this form sir.
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.

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