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“Dem bo-bo your mama, dem bo-bo. Dem bo-bo your Grandmama, dem bo-bo”–Femi Kuti.

“Pastor house na him dey fine pass…in the name of Almighty Lord, Amen…Amen…Amen…” –Fela Kuti

In 2007, a Lagos High Court (Ikeja Division) passed a death sentence on Chukwuemeka Ezeugo (AKA Reverend King), the General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly for the murder of Miss Ann Uzoh, a member of his church.

Rev King Ezeugo was said to have sprayed petrol on Miss Uzoh and set her on fire, alongside five other members of his flock for what he allegedly described as “acts of fornication”.

To this day, Rev King enjoys tremendous support from his church members who frequent his kirikiri prison for prayers and spiritual consultations. His birthday is celebrated every year. Till date. Most of his congregation believe he was misunderstood. He can never be wrong because god can never be wrong. He is god on earth, they claim. He is their god and they are so sure about that.

In August 2002, a particular church in Lagos was having its annual end of the year report. N17m grew wings and didn’t add up. A lot of members of the said church noticed and started grumbling in hushed tones, claiming the pastor of the church diverted the missing money for personal use which included sending three of his children to study in America. A 15year old also noticed this discrepancy and at a church service, he stood up and questioned the pastor in the presence of the entire congregation. Everyone screamed. Looking in his direction in utter disbelief, his mum fainted there and then. And before anyone could say “Jack Robinson” the lad was bundled by two ushers straight to the prayer tower where he was accused of being possessed by an evil spirit.

The Boy was later excommunicated for calling the pastor a thief. His parents almost disowned him. No one stood up for him. Even the ones who were grumbling underground advised his parents to go and apologize to the pastor, which they did. Everything went on as normal. No one investigated the boy’s allegation. No one

August 2013, a lady issued a blogpost about her having an affair with a top pastor in Abuja. As of the time of writing this article which is some 120hrs after the allegation has been made, the Pastor or his church has not issued a single statement in defence or denial. Meanwhile, his church members had organized themselves into social media militias and voltrons; declaring support for the pastor and one of them even described the lady as an” arrow that has been sent by the enemy into the church of God”.

None has bothered to question the pastor or wait for him to release his own side the story. The lady has been accused of being a blackmailer and bitter person who was only trying to get back at “an anointed man of God”. They said the pastor never raped her. It was consensual. She knew what she was doing. She went into it with both of her eyes open. They openly justified adultery. But they had forgotten that “Sex between consenting adults is one thing, the abuse of authority is another”. They had forgotten or probably were never taught by their pastor(s) the story of David and Bathsheba. Or of Bill clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Or of Tiger woods; whose endorsement contracts were revoked when news of his philandering filtered into public space. They forgot that the accused was a supposed man of God. A role model. A spiritual leader. A father and above all, someone’s husband. They defended him anyway.

For like Rev king’s followers, he was misunderstood. He cannot be wrong because God can never be wrong, they claim. His judgment is with God, they claim. But the lady’s judgment is with them. Here on earth. But no matter how they choose to justify his actions, (if the lady’s confessions are anything to go by) The pastor is guilty. He is guilty of lust and abuse of authority. He is guilty of adultery… Of betrayal of trust….Of dragging everything Christianity stands for into the mud.

How did we get here? Notice how in three of the examples I cited above, the followers are really the problem. The same way we worship activists who later become our biggest oppressors, is the same way we have nutured our religious leaders into tyranny. Who can’t be questioned? Who is only answerable to God? Who is only second to the almighty? Who is the connection between us and our maker?

Christianity means being Christ-like. Ask yourself today: Is my Pastor behaving like Christ? Did Christ sleep with his followers? Enrich himself beyond belief? Spray gasoline on “sinful followers” and light them up? Did Christ teach about prosperity alone? Or about salvation and love for one another? When Christ had 5000 people come listen to him, did he feed them with the word and with food or did he take from the little they had and enriched himself and his disciples?

If your pastor is doing any of these things, the time to reflect is now. The time to move closer to God yourself is now. For God doesn’t discriminate between the prayers of a pastor and a follower. We are all equal before the eyes of God.

I am not perfect. Never portrayed myself to be. Never will be. I am glad we cleared this up. Now please read this with objectivity. Just pick the wisdom out of my ramblings and move on.

A word is enough for the wise.

The writer is on Twitter as @DOlusegun.

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The irony of the two individual cases is so interesting and saddening at the same time. .

The Scenarios.

1, They both demanded for bribe.

2, They were both caught on tape.

3, Farouk Lawan demanded for $3million , got $650,000 - Omeleze Chris demanded for something above N2000.00 but not up to N25,000.00

4, The video evidence shows Farouk Lawan collecting the bribe and actually carrying out the job being paid for the next day on the floor of the house of Representatives - No video evidence to show whether Omeleze Chris collected the said bribe.

5, Farouk Lawan is still in the House of representatives, earning More than N20million Naira a month and the Police are still investigating his case. Omeleze Chris has been dismissed, and is to face further charges.

6, Farouk Lawan's case started June 9, 2012( 1 year, 2 months now)Still searching for Justice - Omeleze Chris's case is just 3 days (Justice served)

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These political grand standings by Sanusi Lamido Sanusi are mere hogwash. There is no template for Nigeria to occasion the development the Sanusi tends to preach. Nigeria was created to fail and it shows.

Let's agree that Nigeria was created to fail.
Can we also agree that most if not all of the people that were involved in the creation are also dead.

My dilemma is, can't we find a solution, this generation I mean. We didn't create the problem, we were born into it. So we have to deal with it. And we should refuse the wishes of some dead folks to continue flourishing in our actions.

I have friends from all over the country and I can rightly say that they are good people.

All that is needed is an ideology that we can relate to.

Ours is truly a lost generation. (those born in seventies and eighties till the millennium).

No ideology, no true leader, no future to look forward to.

You read comments on nairaland and see the reasoning of peeps and you just wonder whether they truly can't see past their ethnicity.

Its a shame.

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi on a book Launch In Lagos.

“Let me start by saying that I am Fulani (laughter). My
grandfather was an Emir and therefore I represent all that has
been talked about this afternoon. Sir Ajayi has written a book.
And like all Nigerians of his generation, he has written in the
language of his generation.”

“My grandfather was a Northerner, I am a Nigerian. The problem
with this country is that in 2009, we speak in the language of
1953. Sir Olaniwun can be forgiven for the way he spoke, but I
cannot forgive people of my generation speaking in that
language.”

“Let us go into this issue because there are so many myths that are
being bandied around. Before colonialism, there was nothing like
Northern Nigeria, Before the Sokoto Jihad, there was nothing like
the Sokoto caliphate. The man from Kano regards himself as
bakane. The man from Zaria was bazazzage. The man from
Katsina was bakatsine. The kingdoms were at war with each
other. They were Hausas, they were Muslims, and they were
killing each other. “The Yoruba were Ijebu, Owo, Ijesha, Akoko,
Egba. When did they become one? When did the North become
one? You have the Sokoto Caliphate that brought every person
from Adamawa to Sokoto and said it is one kingdom.They now
said it was a Muslim North.”

“The Colonialists came, put that together and said it is now called
the Northern Nigeria. Do you know what happened? Our grand
fathers were able to transform to being Northerners. We have not
been able to transform to being Nigerians. The fault is ours. Tell
me, how many governors has South-West produced after Awolowo that are role models of leadership? How many governors has the East produced like Nnamdi Azikiwe that can be role models of leadership? How Manygovernors in the Niger Delta are role models of leadership? Tell me. There is no evidence statistically that any part of this country has produced good leaders. You talk about Babangida and the economy. Who were the people in charge of the economy during Babangida era? Olu Falae, Kalu Idika Kalu. What state are they from in the North?”

“We started the banking reform; the first thing I heard was that
in Urobo land, that there will be a curse of the ancestors. I said
they (ancestors) would not answer. They said why? I said how
many factories did Ibru build in Urobo land? So, why will the
ancestors of the Urobo people support her?”

“We talk ethnicity when it pleases us. It is hypocrisy. You said
elections were rigged in 1959, Obasanjo and Maurice Iwu rigged
election in 2007. Was it a Southern thing? It was not.”

“The problem is: everywhere in this country, there is one Hausa,
Ibo, Yoruba and Itshekiri man whose concern is how to get his
hands on the pile and how much he can steal.Whether it is in the
military or in the civilian government, they sit down, they eat
together. In fact, the constitution says there must be a minister
from every state.”

“So, anybody that is still preaching that the problem of Nigeria is
Yoruba or Hausa or Fulani, he does not love Nigeria. The problem
with Nigeria is that a group of people from each and every ethnic
tribe is very selfish. The poverty that is found in Maiduguri is
even worse than any poverty that you find in any part of the
South. The British came for 60 years and Sir Ajayi talked about
few numbers of graduates in the North (two at independence) .
What he did not say was that there was a documented policy of
the British when they came that the Northerner should not be
educated. It was documented. It was British colonial policy. I have
the document. I have published articles on it. That if you educate
the Northerner you will produce progressive Muslim intellectuals
of the type we have in Egypt and India. So, do not educate them.
It was documented. And you say they love us (North).”

“I have spent the better part of my life to fight and Dr. (Reuben)
Abati knows me. Yes, my grandfather was an Emir. Why was I in
the pro- democracy movement fighting for June 12? Is (Moshood)
Abiola from Kano ? Why am I a founding director of the Kudirat
Initiative for Nigerian Development (KIND)?

“There are good Yoruba people, good Igbo people, good Fulani
people, good Nigerians and there are bad people everywhere.
That is the truth.”

“Stop talking about dividing Nigeria because we are not the most
populous country in the world. We have all the resources that
make it easy to make one united great Nigeria . It is better if we
are united than to divide it.”

“Every time you talk about division, when you restructure, do you
know what will happen? In Delta Area, the people in Warri will say
Agbor, you don’t have oil. When was the Niger Delta constructed
as a political entity? Ten years ago, the Itshekiris were fighting
the Urobos. Isn’t that what was happening? Now they have
become Niger Delta because they have found oil. After, it will be,
if you do not have oil in your village then you cannot share our
resources.”

“There is no country in the world where resources are found in
everybody’s hamlet. But people have leaders and they said if you
have this geography and if we are one state, then we have a
responsibility for making sure that the people who belong to this
country have a good nature.”

“So, why don’t you talk about; we don’t have infrastructure, we
don’t have education, we don’t have health. We are still talking
about Fulani. Is it the Fulani cattle rearer or is anybody saying
there is no poverty among the Fulani?”

This is a great message to our generation. Are we truly ready to
develop and unite Nigeria?

Source: www.abusidiqu.com/?p=12797

By American Voices
Tribune Media Services
March 19, 2013, 12:30 p.m.

Just outside President Goodluck Jonathan's office sat 17 ambulances, just in case he or one of his aides fell ill. They were seldom if ever used.

No actual health-care facility nationwide had as many, and in fact a few still have none at all. But as soon as a Nigerian newspaper took a photo of the ambulances and published a story about them, they suddenly disappeared -- probably to an underground garage.



Jonathan is president of Nigeria, which should be among the world's most prosperous nations. After all, it produces an estimated 2.4 million barrels of oil each and every day. With oil now selling at $93.61 a barrel, that's $224 million in income daily. And yet many hospitals can't afford to buy an ambulance. The reason, in my view: Nigeria is the most corrupt nation on earth.

Sure, Transparency International lists almost three dozen states as more corrupt -- Chad, Haiti, Laos, Yemen, Cambodia and the like. But are any of those nations as wealthy as Nigeria -- taking in $81 billion annually, just from the sale of oil? No, not even one of them. So Nigeria steals and squanders more money than any other nation, making it the world's most corrupt, by that measure.

Nigerian journalist Musikilu Mojeed finds all this so discouraging.

"With its geopolitical power, economic resources and middle class," he laments, "no country (with the possible exception of Saudi Arabia and Egypt) has the power to change the course of black/African civilization like Nigeria." After all, Nigeria is Africa's most populous state -- and large, twice the size of California.

So Nigerians are living an opportunity squandered -- particularly now. Egypt is in turmoil. In just the last few days, in fact, many Egyptians have been calling for a military coup -- anything to rid the state of its widely despised Muslim Brotherhood government. And a new report by the World Economic Forum ranked Egypt the least safe and secure tourist destination among 140 tourist nations evaluated.

Egypt has lost its place as the Arab/African worlds' leader, and Saudi Arabia never had it. So for Nigeria, the time is ripe. But its leaders seem interested only in stealing the state's money to make themselves rich beyond imaging. Think about it: $81 billion a year just from the oil, while most every local government official still tells his people the nation just doesn't have enough money to fix the roads, schools or hospitals. (Roads are in such terrible shape that government officials generally travel any distance by helicopter.)

And Nigeria's people -- well, they are as mistreated as any on earth. In only nine nations -- among them Liberia, Sierra Leone and Somalia -- do more mothers die during childbirth. And in only 10 states, including Chad, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe, is the average life expectancy lower. Right now the average Nigerian's average life span ends at 52. That may be why the median age of Nigerians is just 18.

A few months ago, the Economist Intelligence Unit published an evaluation of the best places for babies to born in 2013, given their probable welfare as children and the chance for a safe, comfortable, prosperous life. Switzerland, Australia and Norway were the top three. The United States came in at 16th, largely because "babies will inherit the large debts of the boomer generation."

Dead last: Nigeria. "It is the worst place for a baby to enter the world in 2013," the report said.

Even with all that wealth, only just over half the population has access to clean drinking water, and one-third to a toilet, UNICEF says. Two-thirds live below the poverty line. Only one child in four who contracts pneumonia is given antibiotics, and only about half the population is literate.

The CIA also cites endemic "soil degradation; rapid deforestation; urban air and water pollution." All this in a county whose gross domestic product stands at $236 billion a year, in the same league as Denmark, Chile, Israel and the United Arab Emirates -- prosperous, successful states to be envied.

Goodluck Jonathan is certainly aware of all of this. After all, taking the oath of office, he swore to "devote myself to the service and well-being of the people of Nigeria. So help me God."

Well, just last week he demonstrated who he really is and what he stands for when he pardoned a former state governor who'd been convicted of embezzling state funds and laundering the money. That pardon triggered a broad, angry uproar.

Good luck, Mr. Jonathan. It's time you were impeached.

(Joel Brinkley is the Hearst professional in residence at Stanford University and a Pulitzer Prize-winning former correspondent for The New York Times.)

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sns-201303191300--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20130319-20130319,0,2415012.column

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" When injustice becomes law, Rebellion becomes a duty". Anonymous.

The youth burnt down the houses of a commissioner, a legislator and the council chairman.

Some youth in Langtang South Local Government
Area of Plateau State on Tuesday burnt down the
houses of a commissioner, a legislator and the
council chairman.

The victims include Bako Famak, Commissioner for
Youths Development; Joyce Ramnap, the lawmaker;
and Nanman Darko, the chairman.
A witness said, in Langtang on Tuesday, that the mob took advantage of the strike declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress in solidarity with teachers and other local government workers.

The local government workers including primary
school teachers have been at home for eight months to protest the non-implementation of the N18, 000 minimum wage. A witness, who pleaded anonymity, said the reason for the attack on the houses was not clear. He said, “the rioters, had however, accused the victims of allegedly conspiring with Governor Jonah Jang to sustain the strike and subject the workers to untold hardship.
“They also claimed that the non-implementation of
the wage and the prolonged strike had killed many
innocent people.”

The houses of Mr. Ramnap and Mr. Darko were
completely burnt down. Mr. Famak’s residence was
only partially burnt.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer,
PPRO, Abuh Emmanuel, confirmed the incident,
which he described as very sad. “We have already deployed policemen to restore normalcy to the affected area,’’ he said.

Mr. Emmanuel described the action of the mob as
criminal and uncalled for since the strike was itself
was illegal. “There is a court injunction, yet the workers have chosen to embark on strike; we shall not tolerate any act of indiscipline from any individual or group,” he said.

Also commenting, the Plateau State Government,
through its Information Commissioner, Abraham
Yiljap, confirmed that government had received
reports of arson. Mr. Yiljap also said that government had received reports of bloody physical attacks on law abiding citizens of Plateau by some labour leaders.

He said, “As a government, we find this incident
tragic, especially coming at a time when labour
leaders should have invested their creative energies on focused negotiations toward ending the
disagreement. “We also note that the strike itself was a flagrant disregard for the order restraining the strike action given by the National Industrial Court in Abuja. “The labour leaders have presented themselves as being above the law since they were only expected to wait for when they will present their position on the matter before the Industrial Court,” he said.

Mr. Yiljap said “The labour leaders should have
explored ways toward an amicable solution of the
feud. “That is instead of encouraging, supporting and sponsoring their members and some unidentified people to engage in willful damage of private and public property as well as violence against the people.”

The commissioner said that it is tragic that in this
period of democratic governance, there could be
found among organised labour, those that are anti-
law, even after benefiting from the law.
He said that the Plateau Government had
demonstrated its respect for law and order by
approaching a court because it did not want to resort to “self-help”. He said, “So far, government has acted with all civility, decency, maturity, restraint and patriotism in handling this labour dispute. “But it is very sad indeed that labour has not only chosen the path of disobeying a valid court order, but has gone ahead to do violence on innocent citizens.

“Consequently, (Governor) Jang has held a meeting
with security chiefs and ordered that adequate
measures be taken to contain arson and other forms of criminal activities and to bring perpetrators and sponsors to justice.’’

The NLC had ordered all workers to join the strike, as part of solidarity after a 10-day ultimatum to the
Plateau Government to meet the workers’ demand.

The ultimatum expired on Monday, December 10.

Source - premiumtimesng.com/news/110656-protesters-burn-commissioners-house-lg-boss-legislators.html

These tithe givers keep rationalising on nothing.

The moment you see a needy person and your heart does not tell you to help because the money with you is for tithe, then you are not a christian.

"traditions of men" were actually what the Christ refused to obey - while He unfailingly obeyed God.


"And He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath." "And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And He laid His hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God."

"And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day."

"The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?"

"And when He had said these things, all His adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by Him." (Luke 13:10-17 KJV)

My people, if you are a christian, follow Jesus Christ and not men of God. It is evil not to help the needy because of tithe promised to church so as to receive blessings.

Fhemmmy: I said it, so no need to use the 3rd party language here . . . I spoke with my mother pretty much often and her first question has always been, Son, are you faithful in your tithing? so i am glad i have a mother that understand and appreciates it, i was never a blver of tithing till i tried it and God has been great . . . tithe is tithe and no 2 ways about it . . . .

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Can you now try and give without expecting anything in return, not because you will be blessed or because they have scared you that you will be cursed. Just give freely, from what your heart tells you to people that you know can never repay you in any way, probably anonymously.

You might wonder why I say this, this is when you start seeing the world through Gods eyes as he let's the sun shine and rain fall on both the wicked and the good. And Gods blessings start coming cos this is when you actually connect to the source of all creation.

Giving without being compelled is one of the cardinal rules of the universe which cuts acroos religions, races and sexes.

Blessings, prosperity and wealth. Shey they will bury them with us or our graves will be deeper than six foot so as to accommodate the goodies.

Touch lives, make dreams come tue, give hope and put smiles on peoples faces.

The Ten Commandments Reflect Christ’s Two Great Commands

In all of Torah, only ten commandments were written Ex 31:18 “with the finger of God.”

The first three teach us how to love God: “You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve,” “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain,” and “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.”

The remaining seven teach us how to love one another: “Honor your father and your mother,” “You shall not kill,” “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife,” and “You shall not covet your neighbor’s propert

And even some of these were re phrased by Jesus Christ.

He said, Mt 5:43 “You have heard that it was said, ’You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’” The Hebrew Scriptures accepted hating the enemies of God. Ps 139:21 “Do I not hate them that hate Thee, O Lord? And do I not loathe them that rise up against Thee? I hate them with perfect hatred.” He changed Lv 19:18 “love your neighbor” to Mt 5:44 “Love your enemies,” expanding the range of our love from the neighborhood to the world. God loves all His covenant family; the most miserable refugee remains God’s image and likeness. Jesus told us, Mt 25:40 “As you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.” The “coveting” commandments, Ex 20:17 prohibiting near occasions of sin, prefigured our Lord’s raising several “love one another” commandments to new heights. The fifth commandment, Ex 20:13 “You shall not kill,” became, Mt 5:22 “Every one who is angry … shall be liable to judgment.” The sixth, Ex 20:14 “You shall not commit adultery,” became, Mt 5:28 “Every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” The eighth, Ex 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness,” became, Mt 5:34 “Do not swear at all … Let what you say be simply ’Yes’ or ’No.’”

This paying of tithe has actually turned some people to zombies. Heartless and selfish

One even said he would rather pay his tithe than give his mother the money to eat cos God will provide for her. Isn't that insane. Just so God can bless you, your mother can die of hunger.

Why do people believe that its what they do that keeps them alive and well. We live by Gods grace always.


The two greatest commands of Christ are

Mt 22:36 “[Jesus], which is the great commandment in the law?” And he said to him, ’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.”

Some of you are definately not practising christianity and I believe Christianity started with Christ. What you are practicing is your own selfish agenda .

‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ Why is this so hard to understand?

Paying your tithe religiously from the day you were born till you die can never bring you close to the righteousness of people like Mother Theresa, Mama Ekundayo and others. Except you believe your salvation will be based on prosperity and wealth, rather than righteousness.

And for all of you shouting obedience, can you kindly list all the other commandments in the old testament that you follow to the letter, pls just list 2.

IN an article last week, President Goodluck Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Media & Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, went after his boss’ critics.

By his definition, they included “all the cynics, the pestle-wielding critics, the unrelenting, self-appointed activists, the idle and idling, twittering, collective children of anger, the distracted crowd of Facebook addicts, the BBM-pinging soap opera gossips of Nigeria,” formerly known as Dr. Jonathan’s friends on the Internet.

He called them a diverse “army of sponsored and self-appointed anarchists,” who are “in competition among themselves to pull down” the President.

As a man who evidently considers himself an authority on public affairs, he said: “The clear danger to public affairs commentary is that we have a lot of unintelligent people repeating stupid clichés and too many intelligent persons wasting their talents lending relevance to thoughtless conclusions.”

The simple truth is that Mr. Abati has reduced to shame many people that used to respect him. Every Nigerian staring at the bumbling, stumbling and fumbling at Aso Rock knows that, having been pushed to the thing edge of irrelevance by Mrs. Patience Jonathan, the former columnist is only fighting to remain presidential spokesman.

Otherwise, it might have occurred to him that labeling critics “liars” and trying to plunge a knife deep into the very heart of Mr. Jonathan’s political support in the past two years is an amateurish gamble.

But desperation makes a mockery of clear vision, and in the end, Abati’s “The Jonathan They Don’t Know” emerged as “The Abati They Did Not Know.”

Is Mr. Jonathan a nice, simple man, as his spokesman laboured to establish of a man who has spent five years in the presidency?

Surprisingly, Mr. Abati does now know how irrelevant this point is. The issue is not about being a nice man; it is about being the leader to uplift Nigeria; about being the “transformational” figure he claimed he would be.

As a “pestle-wielding” dissenter myself, let me now restate some of the grounds on which I have criticized Mr. Jonathan as President, beginning from March 2010 when he became Acting President, and invite Mr. Abati to say how these constitute “lies” against a simple man.

One: corruption.

I have criticised Mr. Jonathan as being the latest in a line of rulers who deploy only words against the monster. If he takes himself and his country seriously, he must not only declare his assets publicly, he must fire such top officials as Ministers as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Anyim Pius Anyim, and Ministers Diezani Alison-Madueke and Mohamed Bello Adoke, all of whom have been stained by allegations of corruption.

Regrettably, along with refusing to sack them, Mr. Jonathan has ignored a mountain of top-level corruption reports that sit on his desk, including Halliburton, Okiro, Siemens, Wilbros, the Petroleum Ministry, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

But there have been words. Among them in July last year, at an event at which he identified corruption as “the monster that we need to confront and defeat,” and pledged that the “war” will start at the centre, he asked two “anti-corruption agencies to probe all federal ministries, departments and agencies, starting from 2007.” As usual, it was the last time anyone heard about that initiative.

Second: Mr. Jonathan’s 2011 political promises, upon which he has completely turned his back, as though they never were made.

Third, the insecurity in Nigeria. Since Mr. Jonathan took office, billions of dollars have been thrown at the problem, alongside denial and amateurish mismanagement.

Four: Jobs. I have documented Mr. Jonathan’s vows on jobs. What I have not been able to document, is a serious, structured approach to redeeming those vows, or a full-frontal assault upon those issues that are keeping jobs away from us.

Five: the “pretend governance” culture in which the President sets up committee after committee to look into serious problems, only to throw their reports aside. His haul includes the Justice Belgore Panel on electoral reform; the Okigbo Committee on Halliburton; the Theophilus Danjuma Presidential Advisory Committee, and the Presidential Projects Assessment Committee.

Six: Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda: During his election campaign, the President successfully sold a transformation concept, but with almost one and a half years gone, he has not published the transformation plan, if any. On July 2, 2011, one month after Mr. Jonathan was sworn in, Mr. Anyim told the American ambassador that when Jonathan unveils the “transformation agenda,” there would be major institutional changes aimed at plugging loopholes and opportunities for corruption.

The point was confirmed in October 2011 when the Minister of National Planning, Mr. Shamsudeen Usman, said the transformation agenda, when published, would emphasise the rule of law, judicial system and the policing system.

Seven: electoral reform. The intervention Mr. Jonathan promised was reform on the basis of the Justice Belgore report rather than the cosmetic changes that we have seen. Without the wholesome philosophical and functional changes promised by the Belgore plan, true electoral reform cannot be institutionalised.

Eight: arbitrary promises: In Minna in July 2010, Mr. Jonathan warned that unless Nigeria retraced its steps from corruption, illegal acquisition of wealth, absence of productivity, dependence on oil, and evasion of taxes, “very soon the system will collapse.” Similarly, in his New Year message in January 2012, he lamented that Nigeria needed to move much faster, but “that is where the devil comes in and puts road blocks.”

But it is not the devil that has failed to provide proper example by declaring his assets. It is not the devil that does not “give a damn.” It is not the devil that flip-flops over dialogue with Boko Haram, or who promised earlier in the year he would defeat the militants by June.

These are some of the substantive issues, and they relate to Mr. Jonathan’s sincerity as a man, and his abilities as a leader. What Nigerians are criticising is the relationship between what Mr. Jonathan says and what he does; and between what he promises and what he delivers, as the quality of life plummets for the ordinary man and woman.

They are about whether Mr. Jonathan means well or not, which is what Abati misunderstands when he writes, “I have even heard that the President spends billions on feeding.”

Actually, yes, the presidency did budget nearly N1 billion for food. And no, it does not matter whether it was for pepper-soup or roast turkey; or whether the president actually eats the food or uses it in food fights.

What Nigerians are saying is that the same President who had no shoes ordered three new executive jets as soon as was officially possible; offers bribes in hard currency to State House visitors, and made his first advocacy in office the subject of a six-year presidential term.

In other words, what Abati ought to be defending is why the Jonathan presidency is deeply resented as a government that has failed its people. Instead, he says, with embarrassing shortsightedness, that the President’s critics “just cannot accept that someone with his simplicity can be their President.”

And then, elevating sycophancy into philosophy, he tried to smuggle Mr. Jonathan into the same farmyard as Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Kwame Nkrumah, “men who have shaped the world that we live in by simplifying what others have complicated.”

At a time that Jonathan is pronouncing himself the most criticised President on earth, and asserting his government will now clap for itself if the press will not do it, Mr. Abati ought to have realised that, sometimes, you are at your most eloquent when you are silent.

If Mr. Jonathan wants to enter the same city with those four men, to him falls the challenge of not trying to complicate what they simplified through service and sacrifice.

Author of this article: Sonala Olumhense

source: http://ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=97484%3Aolumhense-the-reuben-abati-they-did-not-know&catid=38%3Acolumnists&Itemid=615

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