Following the letter written to President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday by some people under the group name, ‘A Group of concerned Nigerians’, agitated Nigerians have taken to the social media to bewail what they described as the inability of the Buhari-led Federal government to deliver the ‘Change’ promised during campaigns.They called on the president to commence work of salvaging the worsening state of the country’s economy, thereby bringing the needed development.

Theycalled the attention of President Muhammadu Buhari using the hashtag, #OpenLetterToMrPresident.

See full letter here:


A desperate SOS to Mr. President



[b]Good day sir,

We are using this medium to pass this message across to you because all other options of getting our message across have been exhausted. As you are aware, Nigeria is facing a big fiscal crisis due to falling oil and gas revenues and it is important now more than ever before to expand other sources of government revenue to make up the shortfall between revenues and government budgets.

It is against this backdrop that a ruthless group of greedy and unscrupulous elements are attempting to drive the country over the financial precipice, with the unwitting or deliberate support of the Central Bank of Nigeria whose Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele has promulgated a number of policies that are destructive to Nigeria’s economic interest and financially ruinous to an already impoverished populace.

Right now as you are reading this, there are several vessels at the Lagos port loaded with rice awaiting the CBN FORM M which is mandatory for large-scale forex transactions. These vessels will generate Customs revenues in excess of N6b, but the Emefiele-led CBN has refused to approve the FORM M Non-Valid For Forex.

The automatic result of this is that these vessels will proceed to Cotonou in the neighboring Republic of Benin and discharge their consignments. These consignments will then find their way back into Nigeria because Nigeria is the only country in West Africa with a high demand for parboiled rice.

A lot of commodities that are supposed to be imported legitimately into Nigeria via the ports are being diverted to ports in Benin Republic and then brought into Nigeria through land borders such as Seme and Idiroko where Customs are conniving with agents to under-declare goods. For example, a truck loaded with 45tons of rice is to pay N 2.1m as Duty, but it will be rotated 4 times with just one Duty receipt.

If the CBN will not allow Nigerian businessmen to conduct legitimate trade through our own ports which create jobs for millions in Nigeria, why are these commodities being allowed to find their way to Nigeria’s corrupt and porous land borders via Cotonou?

Our investigations show that Stallion Group which owes Nigeria over N20b in unpaid rice Duties currently has four vessels discharging rice in Cotonou. This rice will eventually find its way into Nigeria after being massively under-declared at the borders, swindling our country of billions of Naira in revenues at a time when Nigeria is facing harsh financial austerity due to weakened government revenues. We strongly suggest that all businesses owned by Stallion / Popular Foods /Mascot Agro should be immediately shut down and investigated for corrupt and treasonous dealings.

By A Group of Concerned Nigerians #OpenLetterToMrPresident[/b]

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/letter-to-buhari-stirs-ripples-on-social-media/

The question now is Can Buhar! read?

[quote author=londongal03 post=40398969]The question now is Can Buhar! read?[bae long time ]

A bag of Rice was very cheap when GEJ was there, now a bag cost 3 times.... Mr Duala who came from where they boast that they are the one feeding the whole Nigera refused to be Agriculture minster instead he cornered the Petroleum ministry when there is no drop of crude oil up there in the North.... Retired soldier who supposed to take over the Defense ministry but choose to colonize the Petroleum ministry yet no fuel and the economy is dying... now none of his body language is working any more and keep on asking has the language changed from Hausa to Swahili? or from English to Chinese

londongal03:
The question now is Can Buhar! read?

Why are you talking like this? Are you trying to say that Mr. Bubu failed comprehension in English in his O'Level exams? Don't worry I'll prove you wrong. I'll get you his certificate.

Nigerians is been published for the wrong choice they made.
The way am seeing it, this could be the beginning of our trouble..
How can u vote for an illiterate who has never created any employment opportunity all his life to lead a country of over 180million people.
This is just athe beginning..

Dear group of concerned Nigerians,

The President is currently planning hu is next trip to Paris, so he won't read this your letter.
Also, he's also not that conversant with English language, why don't you try and rewrite this letter in Hausa or Fulani, the language of 95 % population of Nigeria according to our calculative president.

front page pls..he will read it, try twitter as well