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Hmnnn....Don't put it beyond banks to sabotage the BVN exercise. Due to the emptiness of some of my accounts, I decided to do away with some and out of nowhere, I get an alert from a bank I never visited for BVN, giving me my BVN number!

Initially, I thought it was a scam until I took it to the bank I operated (I am a banker too) and it was actually confirmed that the BVN was in my name! Now the big question : WHOSE BIOMETRICS WERE USED since I never visited the bank?

I have decided to hold on, visit the bank to check my balance later to see if the bank/crooks have succeeded in making my account a WAREHOUSE for questionable funds....I don hammer be that!

I agree that the fine is enough to give MTN finances a massive HBP but we also need to look at an important angle :SECURITY.

Since the introduction of the GSM in Nigeria, a new chapter and phase of security challenges were released
Crooks, criminals, kidnappers et Al easily tapped into the technology and used it to destroy our lives.

We complain of boko haram, frauds and scams but do we realize how crippled their operations would have been if we had good and credible data to work with?

MTN was required to ASSIST the country, collate the details of phone users on its network but no, MTN had other plans in mind.According to a publication by the NCC, even when they were contacted to do the needful,they still chose to dilly dally.

Would the fine atone for the numerous lives lost to security challenges? families scammed of their lifelong savings etc?
Hmnn....the fine can actually kill MTN so I believe the NCC should please pity MTN and bring it down while MTN and other companies should learn to be better socially responsible

Bros, this is a different case o, it's not about the CCT vs SARAKI but the one SARAKI took to the Appeal Courts yo fight the CCT.

SARAKI is still on trial however, I wonder how they'll handle ministerial screenings at the same time

Wow, BRAVO!!!

If PMB defeats boko haram "dont mind him, they are his people, he planned it from the beginning" and if Boko Haram remains strong and victorious "yeye PMB he promised he was going to destroy boko haram but he lied"Please, WHADAHELL IS YOUR PROBLEM?

Kindly provide me with your address may be I can persuade boko haram to come visit you before you know they are for real!

PS: Na joke I dey joke o, i no sabi boko haram o!

Hello,

In as much as we cant be definite about the 'money stolen' but where was it written that 'she stole the monies in 2014'? Little drops of water ( abi na oil?) makes a mighty ocean. Here a little, there a little and before you know it, you have stolen Africa!

I still remember the independence bombing attributed to MEND but which was denied...I also believe not ALL bomb blasts are Book Haram initiated.Some MIGHT be from highly-placed detractors and enemies of our common good. And finally, a GOAT is arrested yesterday in faraway land and TWO BOMBS explode in Nigeria (ABUJA)Hmnnn..I wonder why I have a feeling the bombs are diversionary?..

I'm of the opinion that "we wrestle not ONLY against boko haram but against principalities and powers.." Our intelligence units need to step up their games

Conscience is an Open wound and only the truth can heal it


The intent of this writing is to expose the lack of integrity of Enterprises Bank Management and also give a background of the injustice Heritage Bank is helping to perpetuate.

The employees are supposed to be the soul of a business however in recent times in Nigeria; the employee is being treated as the sole of the business. Management and employee relations have never being cordial. Conflict is always on the agenda as the employees always see themselves as being exploited and their rights trampled so the question arises MUST PEOPLE FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS? CAN’T THEIR RIGHTS BE RECOGNISED AND RESPECTED?

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

Martin-Niemöller (1946)

The subject matter of this writing is NOT just TO ‘FIGHT FOR’ the rights of those who were short-changed and weren’t paid gratuity but an appeal to equity, good conscience and justice from the hearts and minds of all and sundry. If you chose to be silent now, as the Martin Niemoller above said, when they come for you, who would speak for you?
In 2011 August, when the CBN withdrew the operating licenses of Spring Bank, Bank PHB and Afribank, 3 bridge banks were established. Staff and depositors were scared but thanks to the wisdom of the CBN, their fears were allayed as Enterprise Bank, KeyStone Bank and Mainstreet Banks were born. The new banks started operation seamlessly and according to the CBN, corporate governance was a core requirement from the new banks. In the case of Enterprise Bank, staffs were made to declare there intention to work with the new bank by signing some well-worded documents and without much ado, the numerous staff obliged however on February 14 2012, there was a bomb shell.

Valentines Day was supposed to be a day of love but in Enterprise Bank in 2012, it was one of sorrow and tears as a good number of staff were laid off. It was quite painful but as the saying goes, life goes on. It wasn’t all doom and gloom for the laid off staff as on the 17th of February, ALL their accounts were credited with gratuity payment. Talking about gratuity payment, please note what the Enterprise Bank policy states:

(c) Gratuity Scheme
Any Employee who has served for five years and above, who is retiring, (or leaves
service for reasons other than dismissal on account of fraud, miss-conduct or any
criminal offence) shall receive a gratuity based on total years of service. Gratuity
entitlement shall be calculated in line with approved policy.
EBL Policy page 87

This policy statement was the same statement used to disqualify and deny some staff of their gratuity payment on the 2nd of September when Enterprise Bank‘s Management decided to pay off Spring Bank staff. The unpaid staffs were ‘disqualified because they haven’t spent up to 5 years’ as spelt out in the Spring Bank Policy.


Firstly, do note that there wasn’t an enforcable Spring Bank Policy. The Spring Bank policy was just advisory and had no force since no Managing Director signed it. However from the Enterprise Bank policy (stated above), the emphasis was on ‘retiring staff’. Staffs who retire after 5 years of service in Spring Bank were eligible for gratuity payment but our case is not about staff retiring, it is about the Bank retiring and being reborn and rebranded. The liquidation of the Bank was not in the policy. What was the bank to give its staff if it liquidates or decides to reborn/ sell itself?

The answer to this was glaring to all as I said earlier for on the 17th of February 2012, Enterprise Bank paid ALL the staff of Spring Bank that were laid off. Among those laid off were Management Trainees who have spent less than 5 years and yes, they were paid gratuity. Take a look at the information below:
Name of Staff Account Number Amount Paid
Emesiani Anthony 1800012808 649, 597:64
Ofulue Ifeoma 1800012891 683,755:09
Onyebu Magareth 1800014455 649, 597:64
Futughe Lucky 1800014723 649,597:64

These are just four instances of people who have not spent 5 years but did get gratuity payments. Please, which policy guided the above payment decision? Was it by the whim and caprices or self-desired rule of thumb? Surely, a socially responsible and corporate entity like Enterprise Bank should not lack well-defined, ethical and laudable policy to which it would always take recourse to.

Again, we are all aware that the contract staff FSFS after their long war with the management, got their gratuity payments and again, ALL were paid INCLUDING THOSE WHO WERE NEVER A PART OF SPRING BANK! WHY!!! Is there a policy that specified this? Is there truly corporate governance in Enterprise Bank? Why double standards in gratuity payments? Why should the goal posts be shifted however and whenever the Management desires? This is not good for us.
As we focus on excellent customer service, how would cheated, demoralized and unjustly treated staff from their hearts of hearts serve their customers passionately? It’s not easy to smile with tears in your eyes, believe me, it is not. The hearts of the unpaid staff are heavy. They may have smiles on their lips but deep within, there is bitterness, pain and regret. Why should this be their portion? Shouldn’t justice, fairness and equity be for all? Don’t they deserve gratuity payments too?

Please our darling Management, we understand that funds are low while the debts are high but let this not deter us from doing that which is right and for which coming generations would either hail or flay us. We need to do what is right –Integrity should remain our watchword.

According to Prof Wole Soyinka :“The man dies in him who keeps quiet in the face of injustice.”

Finally,a look at Martin-Niemöller (1946) again:

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

WHO WOULD SPEAK FOR YOU IF YOU CHOOSE TO BE SILENT CONCERNING OTHERS?

CLEARVIEW, Enterprise Bank has recently been bought by Heritage Bank yet the injustice is not yet addressed. Years put into Enterprise Bank shouldnt be gone with the wind. The Contract staff still have a pending case regarding the FULL PAYMENT of their entitlements while the FULL STAFF have been short changed with the shorter end of the stick. This borders on integrity of the Management and the Regulators...this should CHANGE

Hmnn did you say delight customers with SEAMLESS SERVICES? Great! But what about the STAFF, were they delighted or haven't they been CHEATED again?!

Heritage Bank acquired Enterprise Bank Limited, a bank whose leadership under Ahmed Kuru - the new AMCON boss, denied staff who had spent less than 5 years in former SPRING BANK their severance benefits. The denial is seen as UNJUST as this same KURU paid all disengaged staff on February 14, 2012 without using the "fraudulent five year principle" but when it was time to pay those lucky to avoid the disengagement, the mischievous rule came into play.

The FULL STAFF and CONTRACT STAFF (FSFS) kicked and using gestapo style oppression, were silenced. Enter 2015, Heritage Bank takes over Enterprise Bank and again says, it is only going to recognise 2 years of the Staff 4 years in Enterprise Bank - DOUBLE CHEATING, DOUBLE WAHALA!

Its not entirely Heritage Bank's fault, its the absence of good labour laws hence the repeated raping of workers...God have mercy!

Kindly correct your title, its a bit misleading.

APC VICE Chairman didnt resign but the APC Vice Chairman IN BAUCHI STATE did.

Thanks

Seriously, we need a super moderator who will not only deal with SCAMMERS and SPAMMERS but also SENSELESS posts like this

I remember gate-crashing an interview some years back.The interview was slated for 9:00 a.m on a Sunday, I went to church for the Praise and worship session and bolted out from church for the interview. After initial fears about turning back and forgetting the interview, I got extra-bold when I met another gatecrasher and we both went and put our names on the attendance register.my name was number 11 on the list (my co-gatecrasher should be 12)

When the interview started, the interviewers called in number 1 to 11 and moved us to another room before going back to other waiting candidates to tell them " if you weren't invited for this interview, PLEASE LEAVE! ". At this point. I knew it was God at work.

When I was to face the panel, I found out that one of the ogas on the table was a woman I had met earlier on the staircase ( its like a 7 storey building) and I had shared encouraging words with her as I saw her gassing from the stress of climbing the stairs.

To cut the long story short, I got the job. It was two- levels above my current position and the pay was good...to add to the humour, the week I tendered my resignation at my erstwhile office was the week the promotion list came out and I got a one-level promotion. Without thinking twice, I boned the yeye promotion and moved on!

Its a shame, the media/press have become so unreliable...we need a Dora Akunyuli in the Media Council to deal with fake and adulterated news.

In the democratic world, the Press is seen as a very important agent and requirement for true democracy. Apart from the Legislative, Executive and The Judiciary, the Press is identified as the Fourth Estate of the Realm however, recent trends in the Nigerian setting seems to show otherwise.

Once upon a time, whenever you get any information and you need it verified, all you need do was to pick up a copy of a newspaper or tune in to the next news broadcast but recently, with the unchecked presentation of outright lies, falsehood, misrepresentations and fabrications by the Press, the masses are at the mercy of all manners of useless-ill-motives-newsbodies.

What is news? I remember my year one definition of news: “factual, accurate, account of an event, something real and current, out of the ordinary that is of interest to people”. When you open up yourself to media products, I bet you will agree that what we see are definitely not news. – NOT FACTUAL, NOT ACCURATE but ill-intentioned fabrications of fraudulent people!.
The glory of the Press is being eroded. It is hard trusting our Pressmen and women and this is an issue that this season of Change should address.

Yes, the Press should be free but this should not be a license for irresponsibility. What is the role of the Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation (NBC)? What is the Nigeria Press Council (NPC) doing? How do we ensure a socially responsible Press?
Gone are the days of “brown-envelops”, bribes can now be exchanged electronically, how would this unethical practice be checked?

In the days before, the Military introduced decrees in order to whip the Press into shape while I am not all-out in support of the ‘muzzling’ of the Press, I believe the Press should do its own work.

Online blogs, imaginary news media and a teeming number of charlatans have taken over the functions of the Press, disseminating bile and discordant tunes detrimental to the harmony of the Nation,and I ask is this right? Should they be left unfettered operations?

This is the season of Change, WE all have our roles to play. I am an advocate of a socially responsible press, working within the ambit of the Constitution.

The Press should come alive, work according to its constitutional empowerment and help nurture a truly democratic society, a nation bound together in Freedom,Peace and Unity and not become the Fourth Estate of the Wreck Nigeria might become if the current mode of media operation is sustained.

Nigeria Press, what is the way forward?

In the democratic world, the Press is seen as a very important agent and requirement for true democracy. Apart from the Legislative, Executive and The Judiciary, the Press is identified as the Fourth Estate of the Realm however, recent trends in the Nigerian setting seems to show otherwise.

Once upon a time, whenever you get any information and you need it verified, all you need do was to pick up a copy of a newspaper or tune in to the next news broadcast but recently, with the unchecked presentation of outright lies, falsehood, misrepresentations and fabrications by the Press, the masses are at the mercy of all manners of useless-ill-motives-newsbodies.

What is news? I remember my year one definition of news: “factual, accurate, account of an event, something real and current, out of the ordinary that is of interest to people”. When you open up yourself to media products, I bet you will agree that what we see are definitely not news. – NOT FACTUAL, NOT ACCURATE but ill-intentioned fabrications of fraudulent people!.
The glory of the Press is being eroded. It is hard trusting our Pressmen and women and this is an issue that this season of Change should address.

Yes, the Press should be free but this should not be a license for irresponsibility. What is the role of the Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation (NBC)? What is the Nigeria Press Council (NPC) doing? How do we ensure a socially responsible Press?
Gone are the days of “brown-envelops”, bribes can now be exchanged electronically, how would this unethical practice be checked?

In the days before, the Military introduced decrees in order to whip the Press into shape while I am not all-out in support of the ‘muzzling’ of the Press, I believe the Press should do its own work.

Online blogs, imaginary news media and a teeming number of charlatans have taken over the functions of the Press, disseminating bile and discordant tunes detrimental to the harmony of the Nation,and I ask is this right? Should they be left unfettered operations?

This is the season of Change, WE all have our roles to play. I am an advocate of a socially responsible press, working within the ambit of the Constitution.

The Press should come alive, work according to its constitutional empowerment and help nurture a truly democratic society, a nation bound together in Freedom,Peace and Unity and not become the Fourth Estate of the Wreck Nigeria might become if the current mode of media operation is sustained.

Nigeria Press, what is the way forward?

I dont think that is a wise decision. Doing such would finally make the PDP lose its nationalistic outlook and be relegated as a regional party.

datsall!

I dey hail MY General

Finally, the Presidential elections are over. Battles have been lost and won. Winners are wining; losers are smirking, mourning for what would have been. Amid all this, thank God Nigeria Survived, no thanks to the numerous dollarized-prophets in the country!

Allow me to introduce to you one of the UNKNOWN Prophets, as it was said of saul " Is Saul also among the prophets?" so should it be said of this MY prophet. He still remains Femi Fani Kayode (FFK)

A prophet is known for his ability to see ahead, get priviledged information about the distant future and give sense and direction to the people. In this light, I affirm that FFK is a prophet.

Take a look at the Prophesies of Femi Fani Kayode - long before the cancelled Febuari 14th Presidential elections:

“A president who prides himself on his weakness and incompetence and whose love of false prophets and strange women knows no bounds and has no end”. Again Fani-Kayode said: “A president who has abdicated his responsibilities, destroyed his own political party, divided his own people, brought ridicule to his own faith, cowers before his own officials, scorns the international community and breaks his solemn oath to defend the Nigerian people.” On PDP, Fani-Kayode said: “PDP is a self-evident sinking ship.”


When you take a look at the disappointing performance of the Mega PDP, you can not but agree that of a truth, FFK is a Prophet - worth every cent!

While CAN under its "dubious leadership" was aiding the division of the nation along religious lines, the Creek guys were working on the Oil-threat angle while the President was playing his part very well in the South west by using dollars to divide the hearts and loyalties of Kings, depleting our national treasury..(hmnnnn that is a discuss for another day)prophet FFK already knew the end from the beginning!

2019 is another election year, let intending candidates be wary of their tactics and strategies - and of course, the Prophets they employ. FFK hasn't dropped the trade, he is still available once you show him the "colour of your good money" but before I leave, I leave you with a caveat in the words of FFK : let not your "love of false prophets...know no bound", get good ones!

So, if tomorrow, Prophet FFK says GEJ deserves, will win the Mo Ibrahim prize, believe him without reservations! Yes, even if he says GEJ will be the next president of the USA, defeating Hillary Clinting with a landslide, never house any atom of doubt - or dont you still believe that Femi Fani Kayode is a PROPHET?Did you say[b] Femi - FUNNY Kayode?[/b] [b]O YE OF LITTLE FAITH!

For many years, Nigerians have been conned, deceived, manipulated, divided, looted and robbed - both Peter and Paul!

Politicians have been upping their games and making sure that the polity is always having the shorter end of the stick while their accounts are bursting and bubbling with transformational balances. 2015 is here.

What they tell you is that " we can't have a muslim-muslim ticket , they want to turn Nigeria to a Muslim state" but the question is CAN THIS BE TRUE?

Under the present structure of Nigeria - the Executive, the Legislative and the Judiciary, can TWO OGAS AT THE TOP ISLAMIZE the country? Yes? No?

Let's tell ourselves the truth, for such an ISLAMIZATION to occur, all the THREE arms of government must be involved.

The Legislature would need to agree with such "unthinkable proposition" and the Judiciary would also need to adjudicate positively on it before such can occur.

So, you see that every arm of government is important, right? Good.A question I'll like to ask is :" ARE WE CONCERNED ABOUT THE CROP OF REPRESENTATIVES WE ARE SENDING TO THE LEGISLATURE?

If you take a good look at the SENATE/HOUSE OF REPS, what you see are crooks, criminals, ex-looters, corruption kings and queens,people at war with morality and good conscience!

If Nigeria is to be Islamized, a good player needs only to settle the Judases in our Senate and its a done deal.

Our negligence to the residents of the HOUSE can do Nigeria more harm than what the "Ogas at the top" could phantom.

The Presidency can not Islamize the country under a democracy, its a fallacy - be not deceived!

By the way, why are we always talking about muslim- muslim, christian- christian, muslim-christian tickets? Isn't it time we had a Sango-Ogun ticket?

For many years, Nigerians have been conned, deceived, manipulated, divided, looted and robbed - both Peter and Paul!

Politicians have been upping their games and making sure that the polity is always having the shorter end of the stick while their accounts are bursting and bubbling with transformational balances. 2015 is here.

What they tell you is that " we can't have a muslim-muslim ticket , they want to turn Nigeria to a Muslim state" but the question is CAN THIS BE TRUE?

Under the present structure of Nigeria - the Executive, the Legislative and the Judiciary, can TWO OGAS AT THE TOP ISLAMIZE the country? Yes? No?

Let's tell ourselves the truth, for such an ISLAMIZATION to occur, all the THREE arms of government must be involved.

The Legislature would need to agree with such "unthinkable proposition" and the Judiciary would also need to adjudicate positively on it before such can occur.

So, you see that every arm of government is important, right? Good.A question I'll like to ask is :" ARE WE CONCERNED ABOUT THE CROP OF REPRESENTATIVES WE ARE SENDING TO THE LEGISLATURE?

If you take a good look at the SENATE/HOUSE OF REPS, what you see are crooks, criminals, ex-looters, corruption kings and queens,people at war with morality and good conscience!

If Nigeria is to be Islamized, a good player needs only to settle the Judases in our Senate and its a done deal.

Our negligence to the residents of the HOUSE can do Nigeria more harm than what the "Ogas at the top" could phantom.

The Presidency can not Islamize the country under a democracy, its a fallacy - be not deceived!

By the way, why are we always talking about muslim- muslim, christian- christian, muslim-christian tickets? Isn't it time we had a Sango-Ogun ticket?

I read this morning, the House of Representative's position that the lawmakers coordinating the impeachment process of President GEJ have disclosed that they have identified [b]over 50 constitutional violations against the President[/b],[size=8pt][/size] which would form part of the impeachment notice. A ranking officer in the House who revealed this said both chambers have resolved to work together for the common good of the country by impeaching President Jonathan for “incompetence, corruption and unprecedented impunity.”


Having read this, I still recall some day's back when President GEJ said he is "the best President Nigeria has ever had" and I am really foncused

If the President is that good as publicized by JonaTAN and all the TAN ambassadors, how could the Reps have such a truck-load of dirt against him?

Its about time we told ourselves the truth and put an end to ethnicity and religious sentiments, we really need to answer the question: HOW GOOD IS PRESIDENT GEJ and DOES HE DESERVE A SECOND TERM?

If the Lawmakers - both APC and PDP agree that GEJ's scorecard is not in the interest of Nigeria WHAT SAY YE?

Sports, (especially Soccer) in Nigeria is a strong unifying factor.it helps us forget our religion, ethnicity and political party affiliations. When President JonaTAN and his guys decided to TANsform our football (branding our colors with TAN,supporter's club, presenters, etc) they succeeded in putting a wedge in our hearts.Although we ALL wanted Nigeria to succeed but somewhere, at the back of our minds, NOT EVERY ONE IS A TANoid...This will no doubt create an imbalance in the degree of support and loyalty NIGERIANS would have for the TEAM...GEJ said his motto is NIGERIA FIRST; NIGERIA ALWAYS but with the TANing of our soccer, this is definitely not the case - its ALL ABOUT GEJ!
Please, don't politicise sports..TANks!

Hmnnn the BVN issue , in my own opinion is setting the platform for the anti-Christ.How? By the time you all get numbers and your details -finger prints etc are stored up in whatever database, whenever the world is ready to implement a one-world government and makes it mandatory that people get the MARK OF THE BEAST on their foreheads/hands whoever fails/declines can be easily locked out from commercial activities and tracked.

And by then, it becomes a crime not to have the number of the beast and with the way the US is going, expect the unexpected

Its a BIG warning to the groom: "ANY ATTEMPT TO LEAVE ME...."

OP: You are very correct. The West (America in particular) has diffused our degree of morality with their reprobate way of life and sadly we seem to see no ill in lapping up every goddamn thing they offer!

I am not holding brief for Boko Haram but fact is its such ways of life that the BOKO BOYS and other Islamic extremist fight against.

America shouldn't always be the model or pattern for our lives - It has failed in many ways and is experiencing many social problems which our lives are not ready for.

This is a very good act of TRANSFORMATION! Feeding allowance of 500 by 30 days equals 15,000. What about transportation for 22 (working )days; housing, medical, wardrobe, by the time you compute all, corpers allowee should hit 30,000 - in a country where the MINIMUM WAGE IS 18,000...DO THESE GUYS HAVE BRAINS AT ALL?!!

WARNING!!!THIS IS A LONG READ


I am an avid supporter of General Muhammadu Buhari despite the fact that under his leadership in 1984, my family suffered a great financial loss. My support for him is detested by members of my immediate family but I still see him as the Anti-corruption messiah who will deliver Nigeria from the deep and deadly claws of corruption.

Recently, I posted a comment on my Facebook concerning a Buhari-Fashola ticket because I felt Buhari could deal with corruption while the 'youthful' Fashola would handle innovations in the overall interest of Nigeria and of course, I got many responses. One prime comment I got was : 'Nigeria can not have a Muslim-Muslim ticket . Even though I personally detest such statement because it brings to the fore the fact thatwe dont have ONE-NIGERIA it is plain hypocrisy to say we are one when we can easily be divided by the potent and sentimental lines of Ethnicity and religion.

Hoever, my biggest upset came from a post from a friend and after reading it, I have been dumbfounded. I will present the post but I have a question :DID GENERAL MUHAMADU BUARI REALLY DID THESE DEEDS? AS IN REALLY?!

IF the General actually did them then all hope is lost for Nigeria..GEJ can well be re-christened St. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan!
Find following, the accusations againt the General:

The Crimes of Buhari” – By Prof. Wole Soyinka.

The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future. Of course, we know that human beings change. What the claims of personality change or transformation impose on us is a rigorous inspection of the evidence, not wishful speculation or behind-the- scenes assurances. Public offence, crimes against a polity, must be answered in the public space, not in caucuses of bargaining. In Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest prospect of change. On the contrary, all evident suggests that this is one individual who remains convinced that this is one ex-ruler that the nation cannot call to order Buhari? Need one remind anyone – was one of the generals who treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with unconcealed disdain. Like Babangida and Abdusalami, he refused to put in appearance even though complaints that were tabled against him involved a career of gross abuses of power and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry. Prominent against these charges was an act that amounted to nothing less than judicial murder, the execution of a citizen under a retroactive decree. Does Decree 20 ring a bell? If not, then, perhaps the names of three youths – Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) do. To put it quite plainly, one of those three Ogedengbe – was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. This was an unconscionable crime, carried out in defiance of the pleas and protests of nearly every sector of the Nigerian and international community religious, civil rights, political, trade unions etc.
Buhari and his sidekick and his partner-in-crime, Tunde Idiagbon persisted in this inhuman act for one reason and one reason only: to place Nigerians on notice that they were now under an iron, inflexible rule, under governance by fear. The execution of that youthful innocent for so he was, since the punishment did not exist at the time of commission – was nothing short of premeditated murder, for which the perpetrators should normally stand trial upon their loss of immunity. Are we truly expected to forget this violation of our entitlement to security as provided under existing laws? And even if our sensibilities have become blunted by succeeding seasons of cruelty and brutality, if power itself had so coarsened the sensibilities also of rulers and corrupted their judgment, what should one rightly expect after they have been rescued from the snare of power. At the very least, a revaluation, leading hopefully to remorse, and its expression to a wronged society. At the very least, such a revaluation should engender reticence, silence. In the case of Buhari, it was the opposite. Since leaving office he has declared in the most categorical terms that he had no regrets over this murder and would do so again. Human life is inviolate. The right to life is the uniquely fundamental right on which all other rights are based. The crime that General Buhari committed against the entire nation went further however, inconceivable as it might first appear. That crime is one of the most profound negations of civic being. Not content with hammering down the freedom of expression in general terms, Buhari specifically forbade all public discussion of a return to civilian, democratic rule. Let us constantly applaud our media those battle scarred professionals did not completely knuckle down.
They resorted to cartoons and oblique, elliptical references to sustain the people’s campaign for a time-table to democratic rule. Overt agitation for a democratic time table however remained rigorously suppressed military dictatorship, and a specifically incorporated in Buhari and Idiagbon was here to stay. To deprive a people of volition in their own political direction is to turn a nation into a colony of slaves. Buhari enslaved the nation. He gloated and gloried in a master-slave relation to the millions of its inhabitants. It is astonishing to find that the same former slaves, now free of their chains, should clamour to be ruled by one who not only turned their nation into a slave plantation, but forbade them any discussion of their condition. So Tai Solarin is already forgotten? Tai who stood at street corners, fearlessly distributing leaflets that took up the gauntlet where the media had dropped it. Tai who was incarcerated by that regime and denied even the medication for his asthmatic condition? Tai did not ask to be sent for treatment overseas; all he asked was his traditional medicine that had proved so effective after years of struggle with asthma! Nor must we omit the manner of Buhari coming to power and the pattern of his corrective rule. Shagari’s NPN had already run out of steam and was near universally detested except of course by the handful that still benefited from that regime of profligacy and rabid fascism. Responsibility for the national condition lay squarely at the door of the ruling party, obviously, but against whom was Buharis coup staged? Judging by the conduct of that regime, it was not against Shagaris government but against the opposition. The head of government, on whom primary responsibility lay, was Shehu Shagari. Yet that individual was kept in cozy house detention in Ikoyi while his powerless deputy, Alex Ekwueme, was locked up in Kiri-kiri prisons. Such was the Buhari notion of equitable apportionment of guilt and/or responsibility.
And then the cascade of escapes of the wanted, and culpable politicians. Manhunts across the length and breadth of the nation, roadblocks everywhere and borders tight as steel zip locks. Lo and behold, the chairman of the party, Chief Akinloye, strolled out coolly across the border. Richard Akinjide, Legal Protector of the ruling party, slipped out with equal ease. The Rice Minister, Umaru Dikko, who declared that Nigerians were yet to eat f’rom dustbins – escaped through the same airtight dragnet. The clumsy attempt to crate him home was punishment for his ingratitude, since he went berserk when, after waiting in vain, he concluded that the coup had not been staged, after all, for the immediate consolidation of the party of extreme right-wing vultures, but for the military hyenas. The case of the overbearing Secretary-General of the party, Uba Ahmed, was even more noxious. Uba Ahmed was out of the country at the time. Despite the closure of the Nigerian airspace, he compelled the pilot of his plane to demand special landing permission, since his passenger load included the almighty Uba Ahmed. Of course, he had not known of the change in his status since he was airborne. The delighted airport commandant, realizing that he had a much valued fish swimming willingly into a waiting net, approved the request. Uba Ahmed disembarked into the arms of a military guard and was promptly clamped in detention.
Incredibly, he vanished a few days after and reappeared in safety overseas. Those whose memories have become calcified should explore the media coverage of that saga. Buhari was asked to explain the vanished act of this much prized quarry and his response was one of the most arrogant levity. Coming from one who had shot his way into power on the slogan of discipline, it was nothing short of impudent. Shall we revisit the tragicomic series of trials that landed several politicians several lifetimes in prison? Recall, if you please, the judicial processes undergone by the septuagenarian Chief Adekunle Ajasin. He was arraigned and tried before Buhari’s punitive tribunal but acquitted. Dissatisfied, Buhari ordered his re-trial. Again, the Tribunal could not find this man guilty of a single crime, so once again he was returned for trial, only to be acquitted of all charges of corruption or abuse of office. Was Chief Ajasin thereby released? No! He was ordered detained indefinitely, simply for the crime of winning an election and refusing to knuckle under Shagari’s reign of terror. The conduct of the Buhari regime after his coup was not merely one of double, triple, multiple standards but a cynical travesty of justice. Audu Ogbeh, currently chairman of the Action Congress was one of the few figures of rectitude within the NPN. Just as he has done in recent times with the PDP, he played the role of an internal critic and reformer, warning, dissenting, and setting an example of probity within his ministry. For that crime he spent months in unjust incarceration.
Guilty by association? Well, if that was the motivating yardstick of the administration of the Buhari justice, then it was most selectively applied.
The utmost severity of the Buhari-Idiagbon justice was especially reserved either for the opposition in general, or for those within the ruling party who had showed the sheerest sense of responsibility and patriotism.
Shall I remind this nation of Buhari’s deliberate humiliating treatment of the Emir of Kano and the Oni of Ife over their visit to the state of Israel? I hold no brief for traditional rulers and their relationship with governments, but insist on regarding them as entitled to all the rights, privileges and responsibilities of any Nigerian citizen. This royal duo went to Israel on their private steam and private business. Simply because the Buhari regime was pursuing some antagonistic foreign policy towards Israel, a policy of which these traditional rulers were not a part, they were subjected on their return to a treatment that could only be described as a head masterly chastisement of errant pupils. Since when, may one ask, did a free citizen of the Nigerian nation require the permission of a head of state to visit a foreign nation that was willing to offer that tourist a visa? One is only too aware that some Nigerians love to point to Buhari’s agenda of discipline as the shining jewel in his scrap-iron crown. To inculcate discipline however, one must lead by example, obeying laws set down as guides to public probity. Example speaks louder than declarations, and rulers cannot exempt themselves from the disciplinary structures imposed on the overall polity, especially on any issue that seeks to establish a policy for public well-being. The story of the thirty something suitcases it would appear that they were even closer to fifty – found unavoidable mention in my recent memoirs, YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DOWN, written long before Buhari became spoken of as a credible candidate. For the exercise of a changeover of the national currency, the Nigerian borders air, sea and land had been shut tight.
Nothing was supposed to move in or out, not even cattle egrets.
Yet a prominent camel was allowed through that needles eye. Not only did Buhari dispatch his aide-de-camp, Jokolo later to become an emir- to facilitate the entry of those cases, he ordered the redeployment as I later discovered – of the Customs Officer who stood firmly against the entry of the contravening baggage. That officer, the incumbent Vice-president is now a rival candidate to Buhari, but has somehow, in the meantime, earned a reputation that totally contradicts his conduct at the time. Wherever the truth lies, it does not redound to the credibility of the dictator of that time, General Buhari whose word was law, but whose allegiances were clearly negotiable.
On the theme of double, triple, multiple standards in the enforcement of the law, and indeed of the decrees passed by the Buhari regime at the time, let us recall the notorious case of Triple Alhaji Alhaji Alhaji, then Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. Who was caught, literally, with his pants down in distant Austria. That was not the crime however, and private conduct should always remain restricted to the domain of private censure.
There was no decree against civil servants proving just as hormone driven as anyone else, especially outside the nation’s borders.
However, there was a clear decree against the keeping of foreign accounts, and this was what emerged from the Austrian escapade. Alhaji Alhaji kept, not one, but several undeclared foreign accounts, and he had no business being in possession of the large amount of foreign currency of which he was robbed by his overnight companion. The media screamed for an even application of the law, but Buhari had turned suddenly deaf. By contrast, Fela Anikulapo languished in goal for years, sentenced under that very draconian decree. His crime was being in possession of foreign exchange that he had legitimately received for the immediate upkeep of his band as they set off for an international engagement. A vicious sentence was slapped down on Fela by a judge who later became so remorse stricken at least after Buhari’s overthrow that he went to the King of Afro-beat and apologized.
Lesser known was the traumatic experience of the director of an international communication agency, an affiliate of UNESCO. Akin Fatoyinbo arrived at the airport in complete ignorance of the new currency decree. He was thrown in gaol in especially brutal condition, an experience from which he never fully recovered. It took several months of high-level intervention before that innocent man was eventually freed. These were not exceptional but mere sample cases from among hundreds of others, victims of a decree that was selectively applied, a decree that routinely penalized innocents and ruined the careers and businesses of many.
What else? What does one choose to include or leave out? What precisely was Ebenezer Babatope’s crime that he should have spent the entire tenure of General Buhari in detention?
Nothing beyond the fact that he once warned in the media that Buhari was an ambitious soldier who would bear watching through the lenses of a coup-detat. Babatope’s father died while he was in Buhari’s custody, the dictator remained deaf to every plea that he be at least released to attend his father’s funeral, even under guard. I wrote an article at the time, denouncing this pointless insensitivity. So little to demand by a man who was never accused of, nor tried for any crime,much less found guilty. Such a load of vindictiveness that smothered all traces of basic human compassion deserves no further comment in a nation that values its traditions.
But then, speaking the truth was not what Buhari, as a self-imposed leader, was especially enamoured of enquire of Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor both of whom, faithful to their journalistic calling, published nothing but the truth, yet ended up sentenced under Buhari’s decree. Mind you, no one can say that Buhari was not true to his word. Shall tamper with the freedom of the press swore the dictator immediately on grabbing office, and this was exactly what he did. And so on, and on, and on……
http://www.osundefender.org/?p=107456

WARNING!!!THIS IS A LONG READ


I am an avid supporter of General Muhammadu Buhari despite the fact that under his leadership in 1984, my family suffered a great financial loss. My support for him is detested by members of my immediate family but I still see him as the Anti-corruption messiah who will deliver Nigeria from the deep and deadly claws of corruption.

Recently, I posted a comment on my Facebook concerning a Buhari-Fashola ticket because I felt Buhari could deal with corruption while the 'youthful' Fashola would handle innovations in the overall interest of Nigeria and of course, I got many responses. One prime comment I got was : 'Nigeria can not have a Muslim-Muslim ticket . Even though I personally detest such statement because it brings to the fore the fact that we dont have ONE-NIGERIA it is plain hypocrisy to say we are one when we can easily be divided by the potent and sentimental lines of Ethnicity and religion.

Hoever, my biggest upset came from a post from a friend and after reading it, I have been dumbfounded. I will present the post but I have a question :DID GENERAL MUHAMADU BUARI REALLY DID THESE DEEDS? AS IN REALLY?!

IF the General actually did them then all hope is lost for Nigeria..GEJ can well be re-christened St. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan!
Find following, the accusations againt the General:

The Crimes of Buhari” – By Prof. Wole Soyinka.

The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future. Of course, we know that human beings change. What the claims of personality change or transformation impose on us is a rigorous inspection of the evidence, not wishful speculation or behind-the- scenes assurances. Public offence, crimes against a polity, must be answered in the public space, not in caucuses of bargaining. In Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest prospect of change. On the contrary, all evident suggests that this is one individual who remains convinced that this is one ex-ruler that the nation cannot call to order Buhari? Need one remind anyone – was one of the generals who treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with unconcealed disdain. Like Babangida and Abdusalami, he refused to put in appearance even though complaints that were tabled against him involved a career of gross abuses of power and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry. Prominent against these charges was an act that amounted to nothing less than judicial murder, the execution of a citizen under a retroactive decree. Does Decree 20 ring a bell? If not, then, perhaps the names of three youths – Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) do. To put it quite plainly, one of those three Ogedengbe – was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. This was an unconscionable crime, carried out in defiance of the pleas and protests of nearly every sector of the Nigerian and international community religious, civil rights, political, trade unions etc.
Buhari and his sidekick and his partner-in-crime, Tunde Idiagbon persisted in this inhuman act for one reason and one reason only: to place Nigerians on notice that they were now under an iron, inflexible rule, under governance by fear. The execution of that youthful innocent for so he was, since the punishment did not exist at the time of commission – was nothing short of premeditated murder, for which the perpetrators should normally stand trial upon their loss of immunity. Are we truly expected to forget this violation of our entitlement to security as provided under existing laws? And even if our sensibilities have become blunted by succeeding seasons of cruelty and brutality, if power itself had so coarsened the sensibilities also of rulers and corrupted their judgment, what should one rightly expect after they have been rescued from the snare of power. At the very least, a revaluation, leading hopefully to remorse, and its expression to a wronged society. At the very least, such a revaluation should engender reticence, silence. In the case of Buhari, it was the opposite. Since leaving office he has declared in the most categorical terms that he had no regrets over this murder and would do so again. Human life is inviolate. The right to life is the uniquely fundamental right on which all other rights are based. The crime that General Buhari committed against the entire nation went further however, inconceivable as it might first appear. That crime is one of the most profound negations of civic being. Not content with hammering down the freedom of expression in general terms, Buhari specifically forbade all public discussion of a return to civilian, democratic rule. Let us constantly applaud our media those battle scarred professionals did not completely knuckle down.
They resorted to cartoons and oblique, elliptical references to sustain the people’s campaign for a time-table to democratic rule. Overt agitation for a democratic time table however remained rigorously suppressed military dictatorship, and a specifically incorporated in Buhari and Idiagbon was here to stay. To deprive a people of volition in their own political direction is to turn a nation into a colony of slaves. Buhari enslaved the nation. He gloated and gloried in a master-slave relation to the millions of its inhabitants. It is astonishing to find that the same former slaves, now free of their chains, should clamour to be ruled by one who not only turned their nation into a slave plantation, but forbade them any discussion of their condition. So Tai Solarin is already forgotten? Tai who stood at street corners, fearlessly distributing leaflets that took up the gauntlet where the media had dropped it. Tai who was incarcerated by that regime and denied even the medication for his asthmatic condition? Tai did not ask to be sent for treatment overseas; all he asked was his traditional medicine that had proved so effective after years of struggle with asthma! Nor must we omit the manner of Buhari coming to power and the pattern of his corrective rule. Shagari’s NPN had already run out of steam and was near universally detested except of course by the handful that still benefited from that regime of profligacy and rabid fascism. Responsibility for the national condition lay squarely at the door of the ruling party, obviously, but against whom was Buharis coup staged? Judging by the conduct of that regime, it was not against Shagaris government but against the opposition. The head of government, on whom primary responsibility lay, was Shehu Shagari. Yet that individual was kept in cozy house detention in Ikoyi while his powerless deputy, Alex Ekwueme, was locked up in Kiri-kiri prisons. Such was the Buhari notion of equitable apportionment of guilt and/or responsibility.
And then the cascade of escapes of the wanted, and culpable politicians. Manhunts across the length and breadth of the nation, roadblocks everywhere and borders tight as steel zip locks. Lo and behold, the chairman of the party, Chief Akinloye, strolled out coolly across the border. Richard Akinjide, Legal Protector of the ruling party, slipped out with equal ease. The Rice Minister, Umaru Dikko, who declared that Nigerians were yet to eat f’rom dustbins – escaped through the same airtight dragnet. The clumsy attempt to crate him home was punishment for his ingratitude, since he went berserk when, after waiting in vain, he concluded that the coup had not been staged, after all, for the immediate consolidation of the party of extreme right-wing vultures, but for the military hyenas. The case of the overbearing Secretary-General of the party, Uba Ahmed, was even more noxious. Uba Ahmed was out of the country at the time. Despite the closure of the Nigerian airspace, he compelled the pilot of his plane to demand special landing permission, since his passenger load included the almighty Uba Ahmed. Of course, he had not known of the change in his status since he was airborne. The delighted airport commandant, realizing that he had a much valued fish swimming willingly into a waiting net, approved the request. Uba Ahmed disembarked into the arms of a military guard and was promptly clamped in detention.
Incredibly, he vanished a few days after and reappeared in safety overseas. Those whose memories have become calcified should explore the media coverage of that saga. Buhari was asked to explain the vanished act of this much prized quarry and his response was one of the most arrogant levity. Coming from one who had shot his way into power on the slogan of discipline, it was nothing short of impudent. Shall we revisit the tragicomic series of trials that landed several politicians several lifetimes in prison? Recall, if you please, the judicial processes undergone by the septuagenarian Chief Adekunle Ajasin. He was arraigned and tried before Buhari’s punitive tribunal but acquitted. Dissatisfied, Buhari ordered his re-trial. Again, the Tribunal could not find this man guilty of a single crime, so once again he was returned for trial, only to be acquitted of all charges of corruption or abuse of office. Was Chief Ajasin thereby released? No! He was ordered detained indefinitely, simply for the crime of winning an election and refusing to knuckle under Shagari’s reign of terror. The conduct of the Buhari regime after his coup was not merely one of double, triple, multiple standards but a cynical travesty of justice. Audu Ogbeh, currently chairman of the Action Congress was one of the few figures of rectitude within the NPN. Just as he has done in recent times with the PDP, he played the role of an internal critic and reformer, warning, dissenting, and setting an example of probity within his ministry. For that crime he spent months in unjust incarceration.
Guilty by association? Well, if that was the motivating yardstick of the administration of the Buhari justice, then it was most selectively applied.
The utmost severity of the Buhari-Idiagbon justice was especially reserved either for the opposition in general, or for those within the ruling party who had showed the sheerest sense of responsibility and patriotism.
Shall I remind this nation of Buhari’s deliberate humiliating treatment of the Emir of Kano and the Oni of Ife over their visit to the state of Israel? I hold no brief for traditional rulers and their relationship with governments, but insist on regarding them as entitled to all the rights, privileges and responsibilities of any Nigerian citizen. This royal duo went to Israel on their private steam and private business. Simply because the Buhari regime was pursuing some antagonistic foreign policy towards Israel, a policy of which these traditional rulers were not a part, they were subjected on their return to a treatment that could only be described as a head masterly chastisement of errant pupils. Since when, may one ask, did a free citizen of the Nigerian nation require the permission of a head of state to visit a foreign nation that was willing to offer that tourist a visa? One is only too aware that some Nigerians love to point to Buhari’s agenda of discipline as the shining jewel in his scrap-iron crown. To inculcate discipline however, one must lead by example, obeying laws set down as guides to public probity. Example speaks louder than declarations, and rulers cannot exempt themselves from the disciplinary structures imposed on the overall polity, especially on any issue that seeks to establish a policy for public well-being. The story of the thirty something suitcases it would appear that they were even closer to fifty – found unavoidable mention in my recent memoirs, YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DOWN, written long before Buhari became spoken of as a credible candidate. For the exercise of a changeover of the national currency, the Nigerian borders air, sea and land had been shut tight.
Nothing was supposed to move in or out, not even cattle egrets.
Yet a prominent camel was allowed through that needles eye. Not only did Buhari dispatch his aide-de-camp, Jokolo later to become an emir- to facilitate the entry of those cases, he ordered the redeployment as I later discovered – of the Customs Officer who stood firmly against the entry of the contravening baggage. That officer, the incumbent Vice-president is now a rival candidate to Buhari, but has somehow, in the meantime, earned a reputation that totally contradicts his conduct at the time. Wherever the truth lies, it does not redound to the credibility of the dictator of that time, General Buhari whose word was law, but whose allegiances were clearly negotiable.
On the theme of double, triple, multiple standards in the enforcement of the law, and indeed of the decrees passed by the Buhari regime at the time, let us recall the notorious case of Triple Alhaji Alhaji Alhaji, then Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. Who was caught, literally, with his pants down in distant Austria. That was not the crime however, and private conduct should always remain restricted to the domain of private censure.
There was no decree against civil servants proving just as hormone driven as anyone else, especially outside the nation’s borders.
However, there was a clear decree against the keeping of foreign accounts, and this was what emerged from the Austrian escapade. Alhaji Alhaji kept, not one, but several undeclared foreign accounts, and he had no business being in possession of the large amount of foreign currency of which he was robbed by his overnight companion. The media screamed for an even application of the law, but Buhari had turned suddenly deaf. By contrast, Fela Anikulapo languished in goal for years, sentenced under that very draconian decree. His crime was being in possession of foreign exchange that he had legitimately received for the immediate upkeep of his band as they set off for an international engagement. A vicious sentence was slapped down on Fela by a judge who later became so remorse stricken at least after Buhari’s overthrow that he went to the King of Afro-beat and apologized.
Lesser known was the traumatic experience of the director of an international communication agency, an affiliate of UNESCO. Akin Fatoyinbo arrived at the airport in complete ignorance of the new currency decree. He was thrown in gaol in especially brutal condition, an experience from which he never fully recovered. It took several months of high-level intervention before that innocent man was eventually freed. These were not exceptional but mere sample cases from among hundreds of others, victims of a decree that was selectively applied, a decree that routinely penalized innocents and ruined the careers and businesses of many.
What else? What does one choose to include or leave out? What precisely was Ebenezer Babatope’s crime that he should have spent the entire tenure of General Buhari in detention?
Nothing beyond the fact that he once warned in the media that Buhari was an ambitious soldier who would bear watching through the lenses of a coup-detat. Babatope’s father died while he was in Buhari’s custody, the dictator remained deaf to every plea that he be at least released to attend his father’s funeral, even under guard. I wrote an article at the time, denouncing this pointless insensitivity. So little to demand by a man who was never accused of, nor tried for any crime,much less found guilty. Such a load of vindictiveness that smothered all traces of basic human compassion deserves no further comment in a nation that values its traditions.
But then, speaking the truth was not what Buhari, as a self-imposed leader, was especially enamoured of enquire of Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor both of whom, faithful to their journalistic calling, published nothing but the truth, yet ended up sentenced under Buhari’s decree. Mind you, no one can say that Buhari was not true to his word. Shall tamper with the freedom of the press swore the dictator immediately on grabbing office, and this was exactly what he did. And so on, and on, and on……
http://www.osundefender.org/?p=107456

Why are they forcing GEJ to contest when he is not interested in ruling the country beyond 2015? What is wrong with the PDP people sef? They shouldn't stress the President unnecessary of didnt they get the memo?

The saying 'No one can know what you are feeling if you don’t let it show” applies to individuals, Organizations and Countries. It makes sense to have surveys, opinion polls and customer forums to really know the minds and feelings of people however, there is a challenge: PEOPLE DONT ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THEIR FEELINGS.

Recently, Enterprise Bank Limited, conducted an Employee Survey to really know the minds of their staff however many of them hid the truth and decided to bottle their real feelings. In fact, as I am writing this, a driver is lamenting beside me: “the salary I was being paid 7 years ago when my kid was in primary 1 is the same I am receiving today. If I see a fraud of 20 million, who says I won’t do it.”

Truth is Surveys is a pre-requisite for progress. For as long as we hide and bottle our true feelings about our environment, we are collaborators in the Conspiracy of Silence.
Whenever the need for surveys/opinion polls/ elections arises, do not do contrary to your true feelings. Don’t let fear or sycophancy derail you from the path of Truth, Sincerity and Integrity. Our leaders really need to know what is going on ‘down stairs’ For you GEJ haters, if you had the chance – one on one, with the President, can you really tell him the TRUTH?

Find following, some questions from Enterprise Bank Staff Survey, if you were sitting face to face with your HR Manager, can you answer the questions truthfully?
Let’s see your answers here, Write the name of your Organization, then go ahead, and give a sincere response to the questions.

Happy Survey!!


EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT SURVEY
The Survey is meant to help HR better understand your need so that we can fashion out ways to improve your satisfaction level

Career Development


1.
I have career advancement opportunities within this organization


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








2.
This organization provides me with a clear development plan


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








3.
This organization is committed to the development of its staff


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








4.
This organization provides me with new experiences and opportunities to grow


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








5.
I have gained valuable experience while working at this organization


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








6.
Suggest three ways on how this organization can provide you with opportunities to further your career







Compensation


7.
Our organization offers an attractive compensation and benefit package compared to industry standard


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








8.
I understand my total salary package


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








9.
My salary is commensurate with the value I add to this organization


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree






Job Satisfaction


10.
I am inspired to meet my goals at work


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








11.
My job contributes to the purpose of this organization


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








12.
My targets (KPI) are realistic and achivable


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








13.
I would recommend working here to a friend


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








14.
I am willing to go beyond my normal work duties to help our organization succeed


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








15.
I am satisfied with the quality of work tools provided by this organization


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








16.
I believe this organization is committed to me as an employee


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








17.
I feel that my job is secure with this organization


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








18.
I believe this organization factors my job security into its overall decisions and direction


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








19.
I am not seeking a new employer due to job security concerns


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








20.
I believe my job is important in this organization


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








21.
Mention three ways in which job satisfaction/engagement can be increased







Leadership


22.
I believe senior management is doing a good job in managing our organization


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








23.
I trust the decisions and actions of senior level management


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








24.
I believe senior management communicates a clear vision of our future direction


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








25.
Communication between management and employees is good


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








26.
I believe senior management cares about the employees of this organization


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








27.
Suggest three ways to improve communication between Management and staff







Reward & Recognition


28.
I believe I am recognized for my efforts


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








29.
I feel that recognition is fair and consistent within our organization


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








30.
I am valued and appreciated for the job I do


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








31.
Our organization does a good job of recognizing and rewarding outstanding performance


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








32.
I am valued and appreciated for the job I do


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree






Line Manager


33.
I have a good working relationship with my manager


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








34.
My manager effectively communicates my job responsibilities


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








35.
My manager is effective in setting my job priorities and objectives


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

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Strongly Agree








36.
My manager regularly provides me withmy performance feedback constructively


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly Agree








37.
My manager appraises me objectively


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

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Strongly Agree








38.
Suggest three ways to improve the relationship between line manager and reportee







Team Work


39.
I trust the decisions and actions of my team members


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

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Strongly Agree








40.
My team respects the views and opinions of one another


Strongly Disagree

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Neutral

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41.
My team normally completes our work assignments on schedule while still focusing on quality


Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neutral

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42.
My team holds efficient and productive meetings


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Neutral

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Training


43.
The training I receive is relevant to my work responsibilities


Strongly Disagree

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Neutral

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44.
I am satisfied with the quality of the job training I receive


Strongly Disagree

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Neutral

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45.
I receive on the job training each year on a regular basis


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Strongly Agree






Culture


46.
I believe people are held accountable for their decisions and actions within this organization


Strongly Disagree

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Strongly Agree








47.
I believe our organization is both customer focused and committed to quality


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Strongly Agree








48.
The culture of this organization is positive and optimistic


Strongly Disagree

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49.
Our organization operates in a professional and ethical manner


Strongly Disagree

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50.
This organization does not condone or permit unethical behavior


Strongly Disagree

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51.
I understand what type of behavior is expected in this organization


Strongly Disagree

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52.
The structure of our organization allows for effective communication and information exchange


Strongly Disagree

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Neutral

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53.
The departments within our organization share a common vision and direction


Strongly Disagree

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Neutral

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Strongly Agree








54.
Our organizational structure allows us to operate in an efficient and productive manner


Strongly Disagree

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55.
Suggest three ways that the Bank Culture can be imbibed and improved upon

For daring to request for equity,fairness and justice the Management of Enterprise Bank has suspended some of its staff.

The grievance of the staff, mostly Management Trainees is not unrelated to the acquisition of the Bank (Spring Bank) by the Central Bank of Nigeria in 2011 August.The staff are requesting that their gratuity and severance benefits be paid to them but the Management believes they don't deserve it since Spring Bank is dead and the staff did not serve u to 5 years n Spring Bank before its demise as specified in the Bank's policy.

However, the staff are basing their request on the fact that the policy was refering to 'retiring staff' and not 'retiring bank' and also. Some of their colleagues who were sacked on the 14th of February 2012 were promptly paid their gratuities on the 17th of February 2012.

At the moment, there seem to be confusion in the interpretation and implementation of the Enterprise Bank Policy and the Management is using its powers to stiffle and smother dissenting voices.

From provisions earlier made for staff gratuity payments, records show that apart from the former MD of the Bank Sola Ayodele and her Executive Staff all other staff were short changed.

The current MD of the Bank, Ahmed Kuru has chosen to be silent on the issue even as the Contract Staff of the Bank (FSFS) are presently in court agitating for the payments of their severance benefits.

The CBN is packaging the bank for a re-sale but at the moment, there is an uneasy calm and graveyard silence in the Bank

This is going to be a leghthy read so, I advice that you prepare your mind to read about the ongoing issues in Enterprise Bank,former Spring Bank, which the CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido nationalized on the 5th of august 2011.Yes, the Bank is still alive and is being prepared for a sale but the mind of staff - especially the younger ones, are seriously greived.

There are series of injustice and non-coporate governance issues in the Bank and the Management are seriously trying to silence all dissenting voices using the Gestapo style but fact is ' the man dies in any man who keeps silent in the face of injustice' (prof Wole Soyinka)
Conscience is an Open wound and only the truth can heal it

Enjoy the reading and feel free to share and pass it on.

Cheers!

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN ENTERPRISE BANK LIMITED: A MIRAGE?

Firstly I really must appreciate the management of Enterprise Bank Limited for providing the whistleblowing platform as this medium can help a system put itself in check via important self-regulatory feedback communication system. This medium would no doubt help the Bank (just like GTB did recently) to evaluate its decisions and how the stakeholders see them. At the end of the day, goodwill will be repaired/retained/sustained and the Bank would be the better for it.

The employees are supposed to be the soul of a business however in recent times in Nigeria; the employee is being treated as the sole of the business. Management and employee relations have never being cordial. Conflict is always on the agenda as the employees always see themselves as being exploited and their rights trampled so the question arises MUST PEOPLE FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS? CAN’T THEIR RIGHTS BE RECOGNISED AND RESPECTED?

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

Martin-Niemöller (1946)
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The subject matter of this writing is NOT just TO ‘FIGHT FOR’ the rights of those who were short-changed and weren’t paid gratuity but an appeal to equity, good conscience and justice from the hearts and minds of all and sundry. If you chose to be silent now, as the Martin Niemoller above said, when they come for you, who would speak for you?
In 2011 August, when the CBN withdrew the operating licenses of Spring Bank, Bank PHB and Afribank, 3 bridge banks were established. Staff and depositors were scared but thanks to the wisdom of the CBN, their fears were allayed as Enterprise Bank, KeyStone Bank and Mainstreet Banks were born. The new banks started operation seamlessly and according to the CBN, corporate governance was a core requirement from the new banks. In the case of Enterprise Bank, staffs were made to declare there intention to work with the new bank by signing some well-worded documents and without much ado, the numerous staff obliged however on February 14 2012, there was a bomb shell.

Valentines Day was supposed to be a day of love but in Enterprise Bank in 2012, it was one of sorrow and tears as a good number of staff were laid off. It was quite painful but as the saying goes, life goes on. It wasn’t all doom and gloom for the laid off staff as on the 17th of February, ALL their accounts were credited with gratuity payment. Talking about gratuity payment, please note what the Enterprise Bank policy states

(c) Gratuity Scheme
Any Employee who has served for five years and above, who is retiring, (or leaves
service for reasons other than dismissal on account of fraud, miss-conduct or any
criminal offence) shall receive a gratuity based on total years of service. Gratuity
entitlement shall be calculated in line with approved policy.
EBL Policy page 87

This policy statement was the same statement used to disqualify and deny some staff of their gratuity payment on the 2nd of September when Enterprise Bank‘s Management decided to pay off Spring Bank staff. The unpaid staffs were ‘disqualified because they haven’t spent up to 5 years’ as spelt out in the Spring Bank Policy.


Firstly, do note that there wasn’t an enforceable Spring Bank Policy. The Spring Bank policy was just advisory and had no force since no Managing Director signed it. However from the Enterprise Bank policy (stated above), the emphasis was on ‘retiring staff’. Staffs who retire after 5 years of service in Spring Bank were eligible for gratuity payment but our case is not about staff retiring, it is about the Bank retiring and being reborn and rebranded. The liquidation of the Bank was not in the policy. What was the bank to give its staff if it liquidates or decides to reborn/ sell itself?

The answer to this was glaring to all as I said earlier for on the 17th of February 2012, Enterprise Bank paid ALL the staff of Spring Bank that were laid off. Among those laid off were Management Trainees who have spent less than 5 years and yes, they were paid gratuity. Take a look at the information below:
Name of Staff Account Number Amount Paid
Emesiani Anthony 1800012808 649, 597:64
Ofulue Ifeoma 1800012891 683,755:09
Onyebu Magareth 1800014455 649, 597:64
Futughe Lucky 1800014723 649,597:64

These are just four instances of people who have not spent 5 years but did get gratuity payments. Please, which policy guided the above payment decision? Was it by the whim and caprices or self-desired rule of thumb? Surely, a socially responsible and corporate entity like Enterprise Bank should not lack well-defined, ethical and laudable policy to which it would always take recourse to.

Again, we are all aware that the contract staff FSFS after their long war with the management got their gratuity payments and again, ALL were paid INCLUDING THOSE WHO WERE NEVER A PART OF SPRING BANK! WHY!!! Is there a policy that specified this? Is there truly corporate governance in Enterprise Bank? Why double standards in gratuity payments? Why should the goal posts be shifted however and whenever the Management desires? This is not good for us.
As we focus on excellent customer service, how would cheated, demoralized and unjustly treated staff from their hearts of hearts serve their customers passionately? It’s not easy to smile with tears in your eyes, believe me, it is not. The hearts of the unpaid staff are heavy. They may have smiles on their lips but deep within, there is bitterness, pain and regret. Why should this be their portion? Shouldn’t justice, fairness and equity be for all? Don’t they deserve gratuity payments too?

Please our darling Management, we understand that funds are low while the debts are high but let this not deter us from doing that which is right and for which coming generations would either hail or flay us. We need to do what is right –Integrity should remain our watchword.

According to Prof Wole Soyinka: ‘the man dies in any man who keeps silent in the face of injustice”
A look at Martin-Niemöller (1946) again:

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

WHO WOULD SPEAK FOR YOU IF YOU CHOOSE TO BE SILENT CONCERNING OTHERS?