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Agriculture / Re: My Pepper Planting Challenge by Yhinkss(m): 11:43pm On Apr 09 |
Are pepper going to be staked or no staking In pepper what's the duratio. of the nursery what type of fertilizer that can be applied and what way- before or after planting |
Crime / Re: Have You Ever Been Arrested? Share Your Story by Yhinkss(m): 3:55pm On Apr 01 |
such a funny experience I camped this girl for two days only to be discovered by her real boyfriend. that's how I was deceived to come back on my way to work only to be arrested the third day |
Politics / Re: Obi Reacts To Rising Insecurity, Faults Past Administration Over Insecurity by Yhinkss(m): 5:19am On Jan 17 |
BluntCrazeMan:I wouldn't know what is always wrong with Obi supporters, you over read and sensationalized anything to him ...Where is he suggestions solutions to insecurity here? Security, he is talking about reducing foreign trips. No wonder. it's takes two to tango, with the level of daftness 5 Likes 2 Shares |
Politics / Re: Obi Reacts To Rising Insecurity, Faults Past Administration Over Insecurity by Yhinkss(m): 4:03am On Jan 17 |
I must talk, can't people simply proffer solutions rather than identifying the problems we already know 23 Likes 3 Shares |
Agriculture / Re: How Profitable Pepper Farming Is In Nigeria by Yhinkss(m): 8:09am On Jan 04 |
Xwizard:what did you plant in those bags or are they also pepper and tomatoes. Are u going to transplant them. If not will the bag not limit their growth |
Agriculture / Re: How Profitable Pepper Farming Is In Nigeria by Yhinkss(m): 7:29pm On Jan 03 |
Having bought the seeds, can you use the seeds from the harvested plants a d still give the same results or you still have to buy the seed (hybrid) again for another planting please what type of fertilizer or did you use to improve yield or nothing at all how many seeds per hole u put lastly, did you use heap or horizontal ridge for your cultivation? |
Business / Re: I Need 50k Loan Paying Back 60k In 14days, I Have A 300k Collateral by Yhinkss(m): 4:19am On Mar 15, 2021 |
08137525121 |
Politics / Re: See Why President Buhari Jettisoned Complete Open Palms by Yhinkss(m): 6:07pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
brain is really paining u or that it is no more functional....is complete palm not five? so is dat not an open palm showing 4 years of elective term each. are u xpecting buhari to use five to indicate 4 years? i tire for all these ibo baby online 2 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Buhari’s Corruption Line-up For Next Level Campaign by Yhinkss(m): 5:57pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
u go cry tire, ipob youth 6 Likes 1 Share |
Travel / Re: NRC Begins Free Train Rides From Aladja-Warri To Itakpe-Abuja by Yhinkss(m): 5:55pm On Nov 09, 2018 |
[quote author=zombieTRACKER post=72825473][/quote] pig we know u dont celebrate good things in your lineage. u rejoice at bad news.. so Bleep off the thread 5 Likes 2 Shares |
Travel / Re: NRC Begins Free Train Rides From Aladja-Warri To Itakpe-Abuja by Yhinkss(m): 5:53pm On Nov 09, 2018 |
Olukat: pig abeg tell us the failure in delivering a rail project. and show us your father success too 39 Likes 3 Shares |
Politics / Re: PDP NATIONAL CONVENTION 2018: Result As Announced by Yhinkss(m): 11:59am On Oct 07, 2018 |
Atiku 950 and still counting |
Politics / Re: OsunDebate: Oyetola - We Don’t Pay Half Salaries, We Pay Modulated Salaries by Yhinkss(m): 8:29am On Sep 17, 2018 |
FastShipping: an average igbo boy does not have respect for their elder so they can never have respect for anybody. besides they are mostly product of baby factory with no parent attachment. the entire igbo lineage does not have proper upbringing and that's y they constitute social disorder.... all over the world. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: FG Completes Ilorin – Jebba High Way by Yhinkss(m): 12:18pm On Aug 18, 2018 |
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Politics / FG Completes Ilorin – Jebba High Way by Yhinkss(m): 9:59am On Aug 18, 2018 |
Ilorin- The federal government has completed the costruction and rehabilitation of the abandoned Ilorin -Jebba federal high way. Federal Controller of works, Kwara State, Engr. Atitebi Wasiu Kunle, who announced this on Friday told a team of journalists led by the minister of Information and Culture, Alh. Lai Mohammed, that the 93.6km completed road is part of the entire road contract awarded since 13th December 2013 by federal government, stretching from Ilorin-Jebba – Mokwa route at the contract sum of N14.579 billion. He explained that the Kwara state section is 93.6km in length, and starts from somewhere 6km behind within Ilorin township and ends at after Jebba bridge. “The road was constructed over 30 years ago and since then there has not been any attention on this road. For more than 10 years, this road was virtually abandoned because it completely collapsed because no vehicle could pass the road again. But those who had no alternative like those vehicles from the west to the north have to be plying it. Sometimes they have to be spending up to 6 days to get to either Jebba or Mokwa or beyond. “The contract started in January 2014 with a contract period of 3 years. However the contract period has been extended till the end of this year. “I can tell you that the contractor has been paid and you can see the road has been completed from beginning till end with road signs. “The quality of work is international standard and comparable to those all over the world.” On the quality of the road, Engr. Wasiu said: “With the current traffic, the road can withstand between 15 to 20 years,” and that government is not stopping at that because dualisation of the road has been awarded to the same contractor and is expected that within the next two to three weeks works will commence at a total contract sum of N130b. According to him, the Kwara state section of the proposed dualization is 80bn, while Niger state section is 50bn. Responding to questions, the Minister described the road as a very strategic axis to the nation’s economy because “it serves as a link between the South West and Northern axis, leading to Algeas.” According to the minister, “This administration took over the road at 15.9% completion and today the road has been 100% completed by the contractor.” Explaining further, Alh. Mohammed said “The Niger state portion had to do mainly with rehabilitation of the road, the shoulders, the escavation and also the calvert. “The focus of this administration is on infrastructure, you can imagine if this Mokwa bridge is at the original, what will be the cost of food items today? It means that commuters have to look for another route or they will stop bringing food stuff across the country. “We are not a govt that will put money in anybody’s pocket, if this contract cost N10bn and you are giving all the politicians one one million, when they have taken the one one million, they will join in abusing government, saying there is no road and no bridge. We will rather slowly and painstakingly revive the economy. Govt is working and the result is there for all to see.” When asked if the road would be tolled, the minister said: “Not all roads are for tolling, because if you look at the idea of tolling, a road is to be able to recoup the cost of construction because in most cases people take loans to do these projects and to make it sustainable. “The study is being compiled and at the end of the study, it will be decided whether we want toll. For us as a government, our focus is to provide these infrastructure. Whether we toll or we don’t toll there is still vehicles moving. This road carries 7,500 vehicles a day and about a year ago it was carrying probably one-tenth of that so I am quite glad.” Attesting to the sincerity of the present administration, the Baale of Bode Sadu Community in Moro LGA, Barr. Bolakale Yusuf, who expressed gratitude to government over the timely completion of the project said: “The road is the life wire of economy between the North/ South. “We are so grateful to government. The people in this community will do all they can to protect, we see it as important asset.We have tested and still testing dividends of democracy. “Before now, the road was terrible, we couldn’t do anything. Our market closed down because people were not secured. It affected everything. It could take weeks to travel out of this axis. Fixing this road has done a whole lots of good. It has positively affected our people. “Our market closed down because people were not secured. It affected everything. It could take weeks to travel out of this axis. Fixing this road has done a whole lots of good. It has positively affected our people.” Also speaking, the federal controller of Niger state, Engr. I.F Umeh, who was represented by the resident Engr. along Jebba-Mokwa road, Engr. Samuel Isa Sumangu told the journalists that “Before now, the surface of the road was undulating and there was a lot of failure at the location but remedy came when we excavated up to 6meters and reinstated it with boulders. After that we lay our stone base, our binder cost and our wearing cost that is on our carriageway subsequently on all. “We have about 38 failed sections from here to Mokwa and the shoulders. Also,we have reinstated them. We have also built 2 cell box Calvert. “At the second longest failed sections which we have reinstated it is at Tara. At this particular place, we reinstated with lateritic material then followed by our stone base, binder cost and wearing cost on the carriage way. Continuing, Sumangu expkained that: “This road was terribly bad to a point that some vehicles spend more than one week and are prone to accidents. But now it is a route that vehicles can ply. This section of the work is being funded by ecological fund. We have 2 locations of U shaped line train, 4 pipe cross Calvert and the double Cell box calvert. “The amount for this job is N1.07bn for 34kms but out of it, we did only 4.3km that was the fell sections.” https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/08/fg-completes-ilorin-jebba-high-way/ 1 Like |
Politics / Re: As It Stands Now Even If Borno Ex-pdp Ward Chairman Defects To Apc... by Yhinkss(m): 11:18am On Aug 13, 2018 |
you these morons putting different names just because you want to sway people are bastard... okechukwu issa abubakar. we all know it is an ibo youth that habours this kind o hatred to buhari. better go change ur moniker |
Politics / Fayose, Fayemi And The Rest Of Us In Ekiti by Yhinkss(m): 10:57am On Aug 12, 2018 |
July 15,2018 was a red- letter day and a day of
jubilation and rejoicing for the good people of
Ekiti State. That was the day the INEC, through
its returning officer, declared Dr. John Kayode
Fayemi elected and returned as the governor of
Ekiti State.
The last four years or so has turned out for Ekiti
people a most humiliating and harrowing
experience, having been governed by a
maximum ruler whose mode of governance is
characterized by autocracy and authoritarianism.
Fayemi and Fayose
For the first time in our 22 odd years of
existence as a state,we have a governor who
turns governance into eating toasted plantain and
groundnut by the roadside, buying cowhide
( ponmo) in the market, serving himself and
aides pounded yam and amala in local
eateries,frying gari at local processing depots
etc.
We became an object of scorn and ridicule in
the eyes of the people of other states who
despise and deride us that, as a land of honour
and fountain of knowledge, we deserve a better
deal than the short end of the stick we were
being fed in the name of governance.
The question may well be asked: how did we get
to this pass where odium and opprobrium of the
worst form became our portion?
To be sure, this is our governor’s second
coming having served as governor between
2003 and 2007, but I daresay that our experience
the first time pales into significance as it cannot
be compared with what we are going through
at his second coming. In a proverbial sense,
while he chastised us with whip the first time,he
did with scorpion the second time.
I was not on ground in Ekiti during his first
coming before he was impeached. So I had no
first hand information of some of the odd
things he did, even though I read quite a lot of
them in the media and heard a lot from some
of the people resident here.
And that explains why, when he sought to run, I
was prepared to give him the benefit of the
doubt that he should be allowed the second
chance and given the opportunity to correct the
shortcomings of his first outing.
In fact, I recall, with huge regret, that I had sharp
disagreement with some of my close friends
who tried to convince me that nothing good
could come out of him as he was a leopard that
could not change his spots. I stuck to my gun
since he sounded sincere that since he had
become born- again,he should be granted a
second chance..
With the benefit of hindsight, it is a matter for
deep regret that I allowed myself to be
hoodwinked by his chicanery and I have come to
terms that I was driven by sheer naivety and
grand illusion to assume that this leopard could
change his spots.
Between 2008 and 2019, I had served as a
Commissioner in Ekiti State independent
Electoral Commission, but Fayemi,s
assumption of office in October of 2010 put
paid to my tenure, along with other members
and truncated what was supposed to be a 5 –
year tenure.
Expectedly, our entitlements were not paid by
Fayemi who felt Chief Segun Oni, his
predecessor in office, stole his mandate and
visited the later, s ‘sins’ on his political
appointees. Naturally we didn’t take it to heart
because he came in as Oni’s political opponent
but when Fayose came in,we felt a reprieve was
on the way. We were wrong. All efforts to
persuade him as a party man to do something
about our claim proved abortive as he kept on
insisting to our astonishment that we should
pursue our matter in the courts to its logical
conclusions.. While I was disappointed,I didn’t
let that pour cold water on my opinion of him. I
still kept faith,but subsequent events and some
of his actions began to erode my confidence in
his ability to govern with fairness and
responsibility.
It became apparent as the months wore on that
we had on our hands a governor whose stay in
office was going to devalue,degrade and
denigrate all the values we as a people have
always held sacred. His manifold sins and
transgressions against the people of Ekiti
multiplied from day-to-day such that we began to
lose count and we kept hoping and praying that
this nightmare would fizzle out and we would
wake up relieved that we have been spared of a
creepy and eerie dream.
Through the grapevine, it became clear that this
governor had no business with the conventional
weekly executive council meetings and that
decisions were taken willy nilly on impulse; talk
of governing by impulse; the old- hallowed and
revered traditional institutions were no longer
accorded any respect but were defied, defiled
and desecrated at will, decisions were taken
without any consideration for the aggregate
interest of the people and devoid of due
process, hapless Ekiti people had their houses
demolished without compensation in the name
of urban renewal, civil servants were sidelined in
the scheme of things and denied of their
emoluments for several months, pensioners were
routinely denied of their pensions, white elephant
projects were embarked upon while projects that
could have direct impact on the people of Ekiti
were neglected, money was spent recklessly
without regard for openness and accountability,
the House of Assembly which should have
served as a veritable check and balance became
a mere rubber stamp having been completely
emasculated and put firmly in the pocket of the
ruler who unabashedly and routinely issued
orders to regulate their day-to-day proceedings
including downright usurpation of their powers to
pass the budget to mention just a few of the
sundry acts of misgovernance!
In all of these, the good people of Ekiti looked
on dazed,benumbed,bemused and bewildered,
brooding over what hit them and rueing the day
such a character was voted in to govern them.
While all these were going on,nothing prepared
the good people of Ekiti State for what the
boisterous governor was capable of doing and
indeed did in the buildup to the election. A
governor whose desperation became legendary
and obsessive ran amok,as it were, committing
dishonourable and ignoble acts serially without
batting an eyelid! every unconscionable
absurdity/impediments were put in the way of
the major opposition party, APC to underscore
his desperation.
Unlawful daytime curfews were imposed
tonfrustrate Ekiti people from coming out to
attend APC mega rally which bought PMB to
Ekiti, commercial vehicle drivers and okada
riders were directed to deposit their buses and
motor bikes at government house grounds to
enforce the compulsory stay at home order, we
saw a governor shamelessly shedding crocodile
tears in full view of the public in a vain attempt
to whip up emotions and futile public sympathy,
we saw a governor boasting pathetically, as it
later turned out that he was Peter, the rock and
whoever collides with him will fall into pieces
and whoever he collides with will crumble and
fall into pieces and we had a megalomaniac and
egocentric person who boasted he was so
popular among his people he could not lose an
election!
To add to the drama of the absurd, we had
somebody who carried on as if he was the
candidate contesting the election,and not his
protégé or puppet,Olusola Eleka and to cap the
serial insanity,we had a governor who
demonstrated unprecedented audacity and went
on state radio to announce that his deputy had
won the election while collation of votes was
still ongoing by INEC!
All said and done,to God be the glory and
adoration for the great things He had done. A
new governor- elect had emerged in Ekiti who
suffered grave indignities after he was
ignominiously run out of power in twenty
fourteen and with his victory comes a breath of
fresh air and a new window of opportunity for
responsive and responsible governance in Ekiti.
While thanking God for this change of guard, ii
is important to remind the governor- elect that
his election to govern Ekiti State for the next four
years has provided him a rare opportunity to
chart a new course and reinvent governance to
give Ekiti people a new lease of life. He must
realize and come to terms that in his first term
he took certain wrong decisions and stepped,
inadvertently on toes and his victory is therefore
an opportunity to atone for his sins.
He must see it as a bounden duty to right the
wrongs, make amends where necessary and and
strive to put sound and laudable policies and
programmes in place to heal the huge wounds
inflicted on the psyche of Ekiti people and
endeavor to make a huge difference in the lives
of the people.
I sincerely pray that the lessons learnt from past
mistakes will be brought to bear to orchestrate
good and responsible governance this time
around.
May God help him. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/08/fayose-fayemi-and-the-rest-of-us-in-ekiti/ |
Religion / Re: What Has God Done For You In 2017; That Deserves His Praise? by Yhinkss(m): 7:53am On Dec 17, 2017 |
provision of job and accommodation. 2 Likes |
Phones / Re: What Is Wrong With Airtel Sub? by Yhinkss(m): 7:35pm On Oct 04, 2017 |
the same issue am facing here. I thought it was only me. Airtel abeg what's happening? 1 Like |
Crime / Facts About A Man Who Slumped And Died In An Ethiopian Airline by Yhinkss(m): 8:04pm On Aug 02, 2017 |
Fresh facts have emerged detailing how one Mr. Sylvanus Amachukwu Godwin, a Nigerian national with Passport Number A06011089 aboard an Ethiopian Airlines Flight 606 en-route Addis Ababa to Guangzhou, China allegedly slumped and died of high grams of drug in body. Indications are that the late Godwin may have died of some drug in his body system but the airline authorities are yet to conclude investigations as to the proper cause of his death. In a telephone conversation with Nigerian Consul General to China, Ambassador Wale Oloko, Godwin’s death was announced to the consulate when the aircraft landed at the Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou, China. The consulate was informed that the Nigerian collapsed while in the flight and though first-aid measures were administered on him, he unfortunately died before the aircraft could reach China. It was also learnt that the corpse has been taken to the Aviation Hospital’s mortuary within the Baiyun International Airport complex for expected post mortem to determine the cause of the sudden death. Ambassador Oloko noted that the Mission is not restricting investigations on its part and has gone ahead to advise the management of Ethiopian airlines to use the information on the reservation system to reach the family of the deceased in Nigeria, with a view to arranging the repatriation of the body in line with the international aviation regulations, on the fact that the incident took place inside the aircraft and before disembarkation. Moreover, the Consul General also said that the airport and Ethiopian Airlines authorities are insisting on a comprehensive post mortem examination and the Mission believes they are doing so in order to avoid and or exonerate the management from potential liability. In light of the fresh development, Nigerians are urged to understand the dangers of drug trafficking and the negative impact on the country’s image. This is necessary, following the backdrop of the many reported incidents of Nigerians that have been arrested at the airport upon arrival on Ethiopian Airlines flights with drug in their system. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/nigerian-aboard-ethiopian-airlines-allegedly-slumps-dies-high-grams-drug-body/ |
Crime / Four Charged Over Break-in, Theft Of N10m- Punch by Yhinkss(m): 8:36pm On May 16, 2017 |
Four men on Tuesday appeared in an Ebute
Meta Magistrate ’ s Court, Lagos , charged with
breaking into a warehouse and carting away
goods valued at N 10 m, property of Fembosco
Engineering Ltd.
The accused — Paul Achong , 31 ; Ugochukwu
Anorue , 26 ; Sunday Eze , 36 ; and Kingsley
Obumneme , 33 — are arraigned on a five -
count charge bordering on conspiracy ,
stealing and break - in .
They all pleaded not guilty to the charges
brought against them .
Police Prosecutor , Chinalu Uwadione , had told
the court that the accused committed the
offences between January and April at No. 10 ,
Adewale Crescent , Oshodi.
He said the first accused , Achong , had broken
into the warehouse of Fembosco Engineering
Company at Oshodi and stolen indoor brilliant
lights , energy saving lights and other electrical
items valued at N 10 m .
The three other accused are alleged to have
received the stolen items from Achong .
The offences contravened sections 287, 309,
328 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos
State , 2015 (Revised ) .
The Magistrate , Mrs . A . S . Okubule , admitted
the accused to a bail sum of N 500, 000 each,
with two responsible sureties each in like sum ,
who must show proof of tax payment in the
last two years .
The case has been adjourned until June 21 for
trial . punchng.com/four-charged-over-break-in-theft-of-n10m/ 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Jonathan's Pathetic Apologetics by Yhinkss(m): 7:47am On Apr 28, 2017 |
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, reflecting
on his electoral defeat two years ago, shunned
deep introspection and remorse for his five- year
reign of impunity . What comes out from him from
excerpts of a new book is a potpourri of
falsehoods , hypocrisy , lame excuses and blame for
everyone but himself . But before Nigerians fall
once more for his favourite tactic of playing the
victim , they would do well to remember the
devastating impact of his bad government.
Words attributed to him in a book , Against the
Run of Play , by Olusegun Adeniyi , a well -known
journalist, and billed for public presentation in
Lagos on Friday , were vintage Jonathan. Posing
yet again as the perpetual victim , he blamed
former world leaders − Barack Obama of the
United States , Britain ’ s David Cameron, and
French president , Francois Hollande − for
desperately wanting a change of government in
Nigeria . He blamed Attahiru Jega , the former
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral
Commission , for allegedly working with the
Americans by insisting on the initial February
2015 date set for the presidential election ; he
blamed his own former party chairman , Adamu
Mu ’ azu , whom he accused of working against him,
and he carpeted the press and civil society for
highlighting the pervasive corruption that
flourished on his watch .
First , the context : As he left a limping economy
and widescale corruption behind , Jonathan’ s five
years at the helm were an unmitigated disaster
for Nigeria , the effects of which 170 million
Nigerians are experiencing today . He ran the
economy aground, failing like his predecessors to
diversify effectively and entrenching what The
Economist of London labelled “ a rentier state . ”
His government despoiled all fiscal buffers −
foreign reserves hardly rose despite persistently
high oil prices until August 2014 . In its defence ,
his finance minister claimed that it was $ 43 .13
billion that was inherited, yet , despite oil prices
averaging $ 90 -$ 103 per barrel up till mid -2014 ,
reserves moved barely perceptively , while the
Excess Crude Account had crashed from $ 22
billion to only $2 . 2 billion when Muhammadu
Buhari took over by mid - 2015 . Jonathan left no
major new signature infrastructure project ; only
inflated repair projects which are mired in
controversy.
Arguably his greatest disservice that ought to
have been his major triumph was the badly
managed privatisation of power assets that
transferred most of the generation and
distribution companies to untested , incompetent
domestic consortia that have saddled Nigeria
with a legal quagmire . But it is in the areas of
corruption and security that Nigerians were
mostly badly done in by that terrible government.
Jonathan ’ s denial that he dismissed corruption
allegations as “mere stealing ” is false . He declared
this on local and international TV . Corruption ran
riot on his watch , as attested to by the latest
scandals involving his wife , the suspended spy
chief who stashed away $ 43 million in a Lagos
apartment, the missing oil receipts being probed
in parliament , as well as the $ 2 .1 billion arms
purchase fund that ended up in private hands .
While he is whining that Obama and other world
leaders , civil society , the media and the
opposition alleged corruption “without proof,” the
world is still aghast at a sprawling corruption
scandal centred on the abuse of N 2. 53 trillion
petrol subsidy in 2011 when only N 248 billion was
approved in the budget . His government also
signed away N 603 billion in less than a year for
dubious import duty waivers , exemptions and
concessions, according to Customs. The fraud
associated with oil swap agreements is still
unfolding . Hypocritically , he claimed to have
dropped Stella Oduah as Aviation minister when
evidence emerged, but said he retained Diezani
Alison -Madueke as oil minister “ because there
was no foolproof evidence . ” This same ex -minister
is alleged to have withdrawn millions of dollars to
finance his re -election bid for which she and
many others , including electoral officials , are
being tried . He disingenuously discredited the
Nuhu Ribadu panel report on the grounds of
disagreement among some members , but failed to
say that he had appointed Steve Oronsaye and
Bernard Otti to the board of the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation in an obvious move of
brinksmanship.
It is not too late for Jonathan to grow up . He may
think Nigerians have forgotten and that it is time
to move on . This is fantasy . All the colossal
scandals that defined his time in government will
live on in the minds of the people who bear the
burdens of his misrule. Former president
Olusegun Obasanjo , who broke all party rules to
make him deputy to the late President Umaru
Yar ’ Adua, is quoted in the same book as admitting
that from his first days in office , “… he showed
that he was too small for the office.” He
demonstrated this in his mishandling of the Boko
Haram terrorist insurgency. Boko Haram has
killed over 25 ,000 people, displaced over two
million and once held 27 local government areas
as its “ caliphate . ” Rather than take full charge,
he allowed his generals to turn it into a gold
mine for corrupt enrichment , an ATM, according
to Obasanjo , for taking money from the treasury .
The influential The Economist once declared that
Jonathan ran the most corrupt , most clueless
government in Nigeria ’ s history. We can ’ t agree
more . Indeed , we hold him and his corrupt
generals responsible for the failure to rescue the
276 Chibok girls in 2014. His false narrative that
he did try to rescue them contradicts reports that
he failed to act when initially informed ,
continuing to view terrorism as a personal
conspiracy against him.
Surprisingly , Jonathan has not changed , falsely
asserting and boorishly claiming that Boko
Haram is being defeated because Buhari is a
Muslim , not viewed as an “ infidel’’ like he was.
But salafist militants view all existing
governments as infidels to be violently
overthrown . They target the Muslim leaders of
Saudi Arabia , Iraq, Egypt , Tunisia , Jordan ,
Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya , Somalia , Chechnya ,
Algeria and Bahrain . Boko Haram has killed emirs
and has vowed to kill Buhari, the Emir of Kano
and the Sultan of Sokoto , the nominal head of
Nigerian Muslims .
Jonathan incorrigibly blamed the media for his
electoral defeat . We insist he lost the election
because he was a total failure . He cites high
figures of votes for Buhari in Kano, but was silent
on equally suspicious figures for him from the
South -South states , from Rivers or from Akwa
Ibom and Delta states where votes recorded for
him doubled the number of accredited voters .
But we hold President Muhammadu Buhari and
the Nigerian people culpable for providing the
leeway for Jonathan to trample on our collective
memory . While the Buhari government has
demonstrated lack of courage to bring Jonathan to
justice, many Nigerians celebrate , instead of
rising against corruption. Across the world ,
people of conscience are marching in their
thousands to protest against corruption; in
broken , dysfunctional Nigeria , hundreds are, for
a few wads of naira, marching , vandalising
property, and preaching hate in defence of the
corrupt . The officials on trial who have claimed
to have been obeying Jonathan’ s orders by
collecting and distributing public funds provide
enough grounds to put him also on trial . The anti -
corruption war cannot go far unless Jonathan is
confronted in court with his misdeeds . Past
rulers who break the law are put in the dock .
South Korea , Guatemala , Brazil , Peru , Zambia ,
Italy , France are ready examples . No one should
be above the law .
Buhari should save his reputation by pulling out
all the stops in the war on graft . Far too many ex -
Presidents have demonstrated this belief that they
are above the law . Jonathan failed to bring
corrupt past leaders to justice, but Buhari must
bust the myth. Nigerians should realise that
corruption has ruined their present and rendered
the future gloomy for their children and rise up
against corrupt leaders − past and present . As for
Jonathan , he should be reminded that the history
of his administration is already being written and
it is neither flattering nor can he remodel it with
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