₦airaland Forum

freeborn02:
Are you saying it is a crime to question a minister on projects paid for with Nigeria's money?

APC dogs attacked Jonathan because of corruption, but they're now protecting tinubu over the same corruption.

This shows that APC dogs do not really hate corruption; they only hate corruption when the perpetrator is not their preferred thief.

lexy2014:
Who is the "our"?

Is there anything said the the "personal opinion" that is not true?

If there is, can you point them out and negate them?

Morbeta11:
Source:
https://x.com/UmarSanithecat/status/1975809458933518384?t=CI0ksNmtD_fpXDT-8s4Vng&s=08[/quote]You have simply expressed your personal opinion, not our opinion or general opinion.

Thanks but no thank you.

hush15:
On your second paragraph, He is the minister, what approval is he looking for? From the NEC of his party? Even if he can't furnish the answers on air, his demeanor about it on air is still wrong. That is the problem. His demeanor, trying to talk as if he is superior to Rufai, yet it is the tax of rufai and other Nigerian citizens and companies that foot his bill. Don't loose the sight of it. He is not superior, he is accountable to Nigerians and the last I checked, Rufai is a Nigerian.

Then on you thoughts that ministers abroad don't give numbers on interviews is wrong. They do even when such questions arise from their arc nemesis in parliamentary or the ordinary student asking research questions. The government on a very good day even have on their website the way their tax monies is spent in UK for instance. Lets stop making excuses for anarchist tendencies. We need to make government accountable for our collective wealth which brings me to the last thing,

I am a Nigerian like you living in Lagos and a native of the very same Lagos. I am be opportuned than you or not but that's inconsequential. I just a country that works, has values and virtues, that benefits the majority and minorities alike. A country where equity, justice, peace, accountability and sustainability are watch words. Not one animal farm where some feel they more superior than the other.

givedemwotowoto:
This is a rejoinder to a front page story titled: Oba Of Lagos Bans Igbo Appropriation Of Yoruba Culture Event: https://www.nairaland.com/8534867/oba-lagos-bans-igbo-appropriation

hush15:
You keep saying ethics of the profession but you don't seem to understand what you saying. Oseni did his job. However the questions, if he didn't, Arise as a TV station themselves would have rebuked him cos it would affect their brand. If you watched the TV interview, from the word go, Umahi made the TV interview about Rufai before Rufai reiterated it again, even before going further with the interview. All that aside, whether it is average cost or cost per kilometer, where accountability exist, the figures should be put out there again and again as many times it is asked where there is nothing to hide and all about service. The demeanor of a public servant is more critical here, not the interviewer because it says alot about how they hold on to power. It reveals the level of impunity mentality up there. In trying to show authority, he said he is a professor in that field, when ask which institution bestowed him such honor, he replied he is a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers.
Lok, I no wan argue am much, Nigeria and Nigerians don't see anything wrong in the way they governed. No accountability, no regards to process and systems. Abuse of power and self aggrandizement. If you okay with it, congratulations. Rufai is wrong and Umahi is right.

I just pray May Nigeria never happen to you.

anyilalaz:
Very true as an engineer and professional in my own field, I can answer such question no big deal.
I simply start by schooling Rufia by telling him that alot of dynamics comes to play in costing per kilometre such as the ecological factors: land, swamp, rivers, estuaries, etc, social factors: cost of settlement and resettlement, of communities alone this corridor of coastal road, disruption and management of traffic in areas with preexisting traffics, etc.
After speaking on this and other costs that constitute the total cost for coastal and by extension in kilometre then I will tell Rufia that averagely on solid land with good load capacity this is the amount, on swampy areas that need to excavated and sand filled this is the average cost and so on and so forth.
Then finally I will then tell him that the contract is a living document that can always be reviewed for technical, political, economic reasons for example the coastal road is having an extension or detours to in Edo State see linkhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/thenationonlineng.net/lagos-calabar-coastal-highway-tinubu-approves-100-km-extension-through-edo/amp/).
So my friend, a public servant must act as one. He has the responsibility to answer to the people who's taxes and common wealth are used for such project and paying of his salary through the journalist or the press men. No be him papa work.

We should stop celebrating mediocrity.

Note: Don't mind my typo and other error, just multitasking with 5% attention on this comment

hush15:
I watched the interview. Oseni is not a public servant, Umahi is. Oseni doesnt spend public funds, Umahi does. However the questions come, Umahi as a public servant, the onus falls on him to displace candor and respond with every sense of responsibility, accountability and maturity that comes with his office, and not dodging, throwing sarcasm, exhibiting arrogance and playing master servant tendencies.

amazingspiderma:
Oseni was asking simple questions.
What has that got to do with when Umahi finished school or not.


It is this type of mentality that make you think other people don't have capacity.

Oseni was doing his job, but Umahi wasn't.

If he had another model of quantifying cost, he should have used the opportunity to educate Mr. Oseni on air and prove his superior view.

Not everything is about age, we are discussing public service not family meeting.

Penguin2:
If you read the news before commenting (which I know you are incapable of), you would have seen where David Mark said they are going to choose somebody with Character, Competence, Courage and Compassion.

Who else do you think he’s talking about if not Peter Obi - your nightmare?

Brendaniel:
That means you are saying Lagos state government is not as effective as NAFDAC?

Brendaniel:
So lying to defend your tribe is a thing of honor to you?

Brendaniel:
So how did NAFDAC seal up shops in Aba for weeks if not months successfully?

That is in Igbo land not even Lagos that belongs to the Yorubas...

Brendaniel:
So you lie to defend wickedness to support evil because of tribal affiliation?

Ezeama400:
https://saharareporters.com/2025/10/07/us-congressman-describes-nigeria-deadliest-place-globally-be-christian-calls-sanctions?fbclid=IwdGRjcANR6jtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgY_lXcAS2_z2mI-C2UMp-U72ZQbzhmhmT2BD1IQqBJ5gsLLwYTT5B1ihtKh_aem_0PSi9D50HL6-NBjgPKwqGA

Brendaniel:
That means you lied...

Brendaniel:
So are you saying deployment of security is more costly than demolition which will still have to carry security operatives along?

Brendaniel:
And you have not still proven that there was a court order...

mastermaestro:
Lagos is like New York where all nations congregate to pursue their dreams. However the kind of ethnically homogeneous Lagos that you advocate will lead to its ruins. A president is coming that will give you the narrow Lagos of your choice. Then it will become another Kano, Ibadan or Uyo.

Brendaniel:
A legal action can also be a wrong action...

Brendaniel:
no sentiments here and no blindness here

Brendaniel:
Something can be legal and not justified nor moral, the fact that a governor has the legal power to revoke any C of O does not make it justified if he wrongly does it to someone...

Is it legal?

Yes,

Is it justified?



NO...

Brendaniel:
So someone can just build house in front Sanwo olu's office and stay there for over 10 years before Sanwo Olu will demolish it abi?

shortgun:
This is not the first time the Lagos State Government is engaging in illegality and behaving like lawless rascals.

Brendaniel:
Have you seen the court order?

Brendaniel:
Did they build without any form of approval?

Brendaniel:
And you think the people who built there did not get any approval?

Brendaniel:
So you are making a claim on behalf of the government you have no proof of?

Brendaniel:
How did you know the court ordered the demolition?

Brendaniel:
Abia and Anambra demolished to build roads, is Lagos state building any road there?

Brendaniel:
What is Lagos state destroying these buildings for?