Recently, President Jonathan said
poverty has been reduced by 50% in Nigeria. And I ask: where are the indices?
Where are the empirical evidences? We cannot eradicate poverty in Nigeria until
we fix our power sector and overhaul our crumbling infrastructures. In 1999
Nigeria was electricity output was 4000 megawatts (MW) and almost 16 years
after we are still at 4000 MW of output. So what are we talking about in spite
of all the billions of dollars invested in that sector?
We appreciate God that Nigeria is 54
years. We thank God that we are still together as one entity despite the huge
tragedies of the past. Nigeria has been a country where the best never happens
and the worst never happens.
But we cannot continue to celebrate
mediocrity in the age of success. We cannot continue to celebrate impunity in
the age of rule of law. We cannot continue to celebrate corruption in the midst
of abject and extreme poverty.
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2015 is decision time and we must
seize the moment to bring the desired change and to put Nigeria on the path of
progress. This is a task that must be done. This is our chance.
Recently, President Jonathan said poverty has been reduced by 50% in Nigeria. And I ask: where are the indices? Where are the empirical evidences? We cannot eradicate poverty in Nigeria until we fix our power sector and overhaul our crumbling infrastructures.
Recently, President Jonathan said poverty has been reduced by 50% in Nigeria. And I ask: where are the indices? Where are the empirical evidences? We cannot eradicate poverty in Nigeria until we fix our power sector and overhaul our crumbling infrastructures.
In 1999 Nigeria was electricity
output was 4000 megawatts (MW) and almost 16 years after we are still at 4000
MW of output. So what are we talking about in spite of all the billions of
dollars invested in that sector?
Now what can we call this? What is
happening? Did the money get lost? Did somebody shortchange Nigeria? Is it
sabotage? Is it corruption? Is it leadership weakness or incompetence? Where
did the rain start beating us?
The truth is this: until we fix the
power sector the dream of reducing poverty to the barest minimum in Nigeria
will continue to elude us. But the tragic reality is that power generation and
distribution are fast turning to rocket science and only a daft and rudderless
government, as we have been having since 1999 can assure this.
Now, how can anybody believe that we have reduced poverty by 50% when there is
massive unemployment in the land? Are we working with statistics or is it just
doing guess work?
Is it just dropping mere figures to
please the political hangers-on? Why should a president of a country be talking
so off cuff in his belief that Nigerians know nothing and are not bound to
interrogate? Do we just quote figures just for the sake of it thinking that we
are all gullible people who will accept it hook, line and sinker?
Are we not living witnesses of the
Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment tragedy recently? Did you not
witness nearly two million young Nigerians scrambling for 3000 jobs that may
have been given out to girl friends, relations and friends even before that
fatal tragedy?
Did you not see the tragedy of
losing nearly 30 young Nigerians due to stampede for jobs that were not there
in the first place? Did you not see one of the characters of the immigration
tragedy Mr. David Parrandang being honoured with National Award in Abuja few
days back?
If millions of young graduates are
out of jobs, it becomes a joke taken too far when the President claims that
poverty has been reduced by 50%. This is ludicrous. This is careless
talk.
But then, no less a person than the
United Nations Secretary General revealed that Nigeria has the third highest
population of poverty in the world despite our oil wealth. If we recall that
the countries Nigeria trail are countries with 1.3 billion people and 1.1
billion people, we will realize why Nigeria is, practically, the poorest
country on earth with its estimated 165 million people.
In matters of National Security I think Nigeria is at the lowest level now since the 80s. Never in the history of this country has the moral gauge sunk as low as we have it today. The Armed Forces of Nigeria rated so high in the past in the comity of nations has gone down considerably, so weak that they now run away from rag tag insurgents called Boko Haram, which the PDP controlled Federal Government created in order to remain in power.
In matters of National Security I think Nigeria is at the lowest level now since the 80s. Never in the history of this country has the moral gauge sunk as low as we have it today. The Armed Forces of Nigeria rated so high in the past in the comity of nations has gone down considerably, so weak that they now run away from rag tag insurgents called Boko Haram, which the PDP controlled Federal Government created in order to remain in power.
It is now clear to us that President
Jonathan and PDP are harvesting political gains from the Boko Haram onslaught.
Since the federal government negotiator Stephen Davis spoke about the
involvement of PDP controlled Federal Government in the mass murder of innocent
Nigerians just to remain in power they have become speechless.
Now I want Nigerians to take notice
of this: As 2015 draws near the nearly 300 Chibok Girls will be released from
where the thieves and murderers in PDP have kept them and the gullible
Nigerians will clap for them and the clamor for votes for President Jonathan
will continue.
Even Boko Haram insurgents will
surrender their arms because their sponsors would have told them to do so, and
the gullible Nigerians will say yes, I told you so. Why do Nigerians think Modu
Sherrif the founder of Boko Haram was warmly received by PDP and became a
presidential consort to foreign countries when he is deeply indicted for
sponsorship of Boko Haram?
All these dirty maneuvers were
contracted to swell more votes for President Jonathan in 2015. Nigeria’s Armed
Forces until recently was one of the greatest standing of armies in Africa but
in order to remain in power, Nigeria’s PDP has destroyed all this.
As I write this, President Jonathan
has so divided Nigeria along ethnic lines that all the things that hold us
together as one family are now being called to question. When there is a threat
to security of lives and property then nothing is safe.
In the atmosphere of chaos and
strife businesses will be hampered and jeopardized, and the result is poverty
and prostitution. War time is whore time!
Impunity, mediocrity and corruption devastate Nigeria in no uncertain terms now. Where do we start? Is it from the stolen 20 billion US dollars, the 9.3 million dollars loaded to South Africa, 10 billion naira spent by a Minister to hire planes, the trillions from the petroleum subsidy, the trillions from the kerosene subsidy, the SURE-P loot, the Pension scam, and crude oil theft that rose to a frightening level this year?
Impunity, mediocrity and corruption devastate Nigeria in no uncertain terms now. Where do we start? Is it from the stolen 20 billion US dollars, the 9.3 million dollars loaded to South Africa, 10 billion naira spent by a Minister to hire planes, the trillions from the petroleum subsidy, the trillions from the kerosene subsidy, the SURE-P loot, the Pension scam, and crude oil theft that rose to a frightening level this year?
We have gone full cycle and Nigeria
is bleeding so badly from this. The fat cows that grow corruption in Nigeria
have never had it so good while the poor and distraught masses have never had
it so bad.
We are gradually taking this madness to the judiciary and this will be the last straw that will break the camel’s back. When the institution of Justice is assaulted the way Mr Ayo Fayose and his thugs did in Ekiti State then everything is lost.
We are gradually taking this madness to the judiciary and this will be the last straw that will break the camel’s back. When the institution of Justice is assaulted the way Mr Ayo Fayose and his thugs did in Ekiti State then everything is lost.
This is the first time this kind of
madness and brigandage is being witnessed in the nation’s history and if we
treat this assault with kid gloves the madman Ayo Fayose will kill Judges, even
as police are standing by.
With his hands tied to two murder
cases, his case with EFCC, and the excess luggage of impeachment he suffered in
2006, is Ayo Fayose still qualified to be the Governor of Ekiti State, the land
of knowledge?
These are just few instances of the mess Nigeria has been ran into in the past 54 years. At 54, Nigeria is a nightmare to Nigerians and Nigerians seek every available way to escape the horror called Nigeria.
These are just few instances of the mess Nigeria has been ran into in the past 54 years. At 54, Nigeria is a nightmare to Nigerians and Nigerians seek every available way to escape the horror called Nigeria.
Life has become so unlivable that
Nigerians wish for something else than a so called independent nation riddled
by a fiendish cartel and cult that eat and devour others for their existence.
Nigeria badly needs change to kick start the process of recovery.
Nigeria needs change to reverse the
deteriorating state that sees Nigeria at the very bottom of every available
indices of progress all over the world. Nigeria needs more than what Senator
John McCain termed a practically non existing government, a government soaked
in corruption, misdeeds, impunity and incompetence.
Nigeria needs a government that
unites rather than divides Nigerians, a government that leads by its stellar
example not by its putrid malfeasance. Nigeria needs to be recovered from
reprobates and scoundrels who are leading a rich and well endowed country to a
certain doom.
That should suffice as the best
message for Nigeria at 54.
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