₦airaland Forum

Mirasteel:
This one that can't fight war😂

How do you know this one cannot fight a war This beautiful light-hearted lady might turn into a beast if poo hits the fan.

Yeeeee. A whole general kidnapped by a ragtag army??!

Guestmale:
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If he really performed wonders as you said, Anambra ought to have become Dubai of Nigeria. No matter what the undeniable legacies will be there for people to see.

Please be realistic. How much was Anambra getting from the federation account? He managed the little he was getting saved costs and minimized expenses and he was able to do well with limited resources compared to governors of most of these oil producing states

MrDoGood:
But it's normal for security personnel to guide ex governor and big politicians.

Right?

They are abnormal cultures carried out on from the military era. As an ex governor if you desire protection you can hire it at your own expense.

RandDigital:
Quick history lesson...

You are so ignorant of history. You need to find out why their Arab brothers don't want them. Find out what they did in Kuwait, Jordan and finally Lebanon.
You guys will surely regret this in the next 20 to 30yrs I bet you.
If they were such a lovely people why didn't their closest neighbors Egypt allow them in

Guestmale:
Your Excellency sir,you have served both at national and state level, you can't exonerate yourself from the failure.

If only you know this man. He performed wonders considering the paltry sums coming to Anambra state then. His impact was mainly felt in the education and road construction sectorS. Don't mind Soludo with his lies. He is angry Obi didn't support his governorship ambitions then. He is bitterly jealous of Obi just like Umahi is. They are jealous Obi is getting so much support than any other politician in the south east has ever gotten.

Emekaonline:
And when Soludo said the truth about you, Were you and your headless mob not castigating him?

How do you know what Soludo said is true? Tell us

Richtaiwo:
I truly do not understand it. Since when did the mere act of cramming random figures and brandishing them at every trivial opportunity become a criterion for measuring intelligence? Why does this man insist on reciting numbers that collapse under the slightest scrutiny? Even if one must memorise statistics to create the illusion of brilliance, is it too much to ask that he at least cross-check them from credible sources?

Now he claims that over 130 million Nigerians are living in poverty and, according to him, this number somehow exceeds the combined population of poor people in India and China. One has to wonder whether someone placed a special curse on this man’s calculator. India, by all global assessments, remains one of the poorest countries in the world. Let us even be charitable and assume that only 30% of its population is poor, a figure far below reality. What is 30% of an estimated 1.2 billion Indians? A very elementary calculation yields roughly 400 million. How, in any universe, can 130 be greater than 400?

And that is without even factoring in China, where it is laughable to assume that everyone is wealthy. So what exactly is he trying to accomplish with this compulsive habit of flinging obviously baseless statistics around? Truly, one can only sigh. Nawao.

Ori e ti yi seyin.

That is why Britain loves the country the way it is. An underdeveloped cesspit run by criminals and sons of devils with very daft citizens who don't even bother to ask questions.

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Putindbutt:
Of course, the likes of Shell have been exploiting crude oil in Nigeria before independence, pumped it in vessels and shipped abroad. Only giving tokens to Nigerian Government in form of royalties and taxes. More unfortunately, the Military Governments even empowered them the more as long as they were oiling their deep pockets privately. One of such military government was Abacha under which a certain fraud from Agulu served as a boi boi, he benefitted from the corrupt military government. Today, he is telling his gullible supporters a new Nigeria is possible.
Thankfully, we now have a President who has the love of the country at heart and is now repositioning the fortunes of the country's oil sector. In line with Akon's evaluation, Tinubu has been supporting local investors to take over the oil sector and keep it running. Under Tinubu, three big local oil companies have acquired some offshore assets of some major international oil companies like Shell and ExxonMobil. A local consortium company has also bought some. Tinubu is trying to make sure the oil money is largely retained within the country. The masters stroke is the new policy of allocating oil wells to local refiners like Dangote to directly drill and pump his oil to his refinery. Also important is the policy of buying crude oil in naira rather than dollars.

Ori e gbale.

I pray it survives the toxic Nigerian market and that government policies don't kill it off as it has done to others before it.

How stupid can people be in this generation? You commit a crime then announce it? Is he insane?

Goodness me!!! Something I saw on opera news as breaking news then came over to nairaland and saw the same thing.
I am afraid of this generation. Rumours and fake news can cause irreparable damage.

Shs is probably under the influence when she said this abi what is This?

ALTERNATEID:
The part in bold is the point a lot of Nigerians are missing. On what basis should our military be deployed to protect a construction site with a directive to shoot government officials who are on routine monitoring exercise? Are we in a war situation with another country over the property? Is that what we’ve reduced our armed personnel to? Instead of deploying soldiers to fight terrorism and protect the territorial integrity of Nigeria, we now deploy them with the directive to shoot government officials over an illegally acquired land. What a shame.

Like I’ve said before, all the soldiers involved in that illegal operation and show of shame including the person that deployed them to that site should have been arrested by the police and charged to court. I condone impunity far too much in this country and that’s why people get away with a lot of rubbish.

This is the point I have been making which people are not seeing. I know wike can be obnoxious at times but on this issue he is right. Imagine them wanting to shoot at government workers and people are supporting them.
How do we expect to develop with this kind of mindless brigandage?

The people that did this might be people he is familiar with. The people he laughs and shares jokes with. The people he might even be telling his secrets not knowing they are devils in human skin.
The Bible says the human mind is desperately wicked, who can know it

MrDoGood:
Your minister would have used the appropriate authorities to address the issue rather than confront. Rather, he went there to flex his powers 😂

If you understand how chain of command works in the military, you won't be saying this.

Mind you, the officers weren't there illegally

The Ministry of Defence (via the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle) says the officer did not breach military law, and that Wike should have gone via proper channels rather than confront the officer directly.

Wike is overdoing it. How will you just start demolishing people's properties. Na so ?

His boys had issues just last year around sabon Lugbe with a serving Major General


His boys went there to stop the demolition and seized 3 Hilux belonging to FCDA and blew out the tyres of the caterpillar.

You still don't get it. All these having soldiers guide ex military heads is just one of the abnormal cultures we carried over from the military era. It's not normal for you to see soldiers guiding properties of ex military heads that's what I am saying.
A whole lot of things we have taken as normal is actually abnormal. Take for example soldiers beating up a civilian. You don't dare try it in a sane setting. You don't even get to see soldiers on the streets with their uniforms. That was the way it was before the military came and destroyed everything.

We are going into the final year if his rule yet he still regales us with stories. What has been his achievements after 3yrs now? Changing the national anthem?

yarimo:
Nigerians are happy with your leadership sir .

Just say lunatics and sadists are happy with your government sir.

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anonimi:
Why do you think that this orogun rival of Regina is saying the truth in this matter

That man has been marrying women long before the leech Regina and her family came along and we haven't heard any controversies from them till after she appeared in the family. She must be the problem. Even the kayan mata lady said almost the same thing.

I knew that girl must be the cause of all these problems. These genz girls can pull down a giant if one is not careful. Remember that one that tore her lecturer to shreds yet claiming false sexual harassment. That's how they behave.
I said this man had other wives before that leech and her family came along and there was no complaints.

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MrDoGood:
The person behaving he's above the law is your wike. I like the man, but he should know his boundaries.


He has no right to counter the chain of command.

In this aspect, he's not recognized.

How can you insult a uniform man?


Like the audacity is loud.

You speak ignorantly because you don't know the function of soldiers in a civilian setting. So a uniformed man can act against the constitution because he is in uniform? Is that what you are saying?
Those soldiers aren't meant to be there in the first place if our nation was a functioning one.

We have still not done away with military mentality despite the soldiers returning to the barracks years ago.
The soldiers should be banned from taking action on any civilian matter. No soldier should harass any civilian except in a case of emergency rule where civil law is suspended, heck our soldiers should not even be seen in uniform in public.
That was the way it was before the military came and bastardized everything.
Soldiers have no business protecting private property when the nation barely have enough to fight it's several wars on terror. If the ex naval chief needed protection for his land he can hire private security.
If we don't stop this madness then impunity will never end. Soldiers will continue to see themselves as gods and trample on civil laws, fight their fellow security agencies and lawlessness continues.
I even see soldiers doing driver work for ogas wives and family members. This shouldn't be so in a civilized setting.

The order to guard a private piece of land while the nation is on fire is now a lawful order.
Both parties are wrong.
Nonsense will never end in this nation anytime soon.

OgaTheTop2:
Soldier is not civilian. Their is chain of command he must obey. If he was asked to shoot anyone, trust me, he will do so. Wike was only trying to be bossy at the wrong person and he learnt his lesson shamefully.

You say this because you were born in a lawless country. Truth is a soldier has no right to shoot at anyone unless threatened or is out defending the nation.
Those soldiers protecting that land is a shame and a total waste of the money used to train them.
A soldier belongs to the barracks and not in public handling civilian matters. This demeans them and opens them up to ridicule.
Soldiers should not be fighting policemen and vice versa.
We are still suffering the effects of military rule that's why people still see them as gods.

israelmao:
The young man was there on the instruction of his boss.He obeyed his boss so he has no fault.

I am not talking about the young man being there. It's the culture of having military men guiding private property that I am against. It demeans our service men in no small way.
Our soldiers should only be seen during a state of emergency or when the nation is at war.
For so long we have normalized the absurd. Do we see military men guarding private properties in the western world? No.

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Kobicove:
To start with why should a senior military officer whether active or retired be using military personnel who should be at their duty post to secure his private property?

This is the core question many are not asking. If things are not set aright and done appropriately problems like this would continue to occur. Military men should have no business in civilian matters. Their business should be at the barracks protecting the territorial integrity of the country or during a martial law or what we call state of emergency. Asides these soldiers must not be seen in public.
Do you know how rare it is to see South African soldiers in public? They are only see during periods of unrest. They maintain their respect that way but over here........

If Nigeria was a country of law and order with right thinking people, why should military men be guiding private property while the nation barely have enough men to prosecutor it's several wars against terrorists? This is the question we should be asking.
Soldiers are meant to protect territorial integrity of the country not private property.
In sane climes soldiers are rarely seen in public. You only see them in their barracks or fortes. But here every tom dick and Adamu can engage them in meaningless activity.
It's Time we address this abnormality we have normalized for decades.
Wike deserves what he got because he is also an enabler of impunity so it's laughable hearing him talking about law and order.
The impunity will surely go around if someone is not wise enough to stop this sickening culture.

israelmao:
This man's line of thought is next to that of a lunatic.Is military Wike insulted not a constituted authority?Even the young man mmaintained his composure in the face of unwarranted harassment and embarrassment.

The thing is many Nigerians cannot reason well. Both wike and the young military officer even though he is following orders are wrong
For years we have normalized abnormality. With all the insecurity going on everywhere, why should military men be protecting private property?
Wike on his part should have followed procedure in recovering the land instead of his usual madness.