Gaborone:




I found the bolded really funny.

Please get your facts right. Between 1960 - 1999, about $400Billion has been stolen from Nigeria. I don't know about 2000 - 2015, but I know its going to be a small fraction of that. Now, lets be realistic: supposing our President is able to recover a part of this at the end of the day (let's say $50Billion), how far will that take Nigeria, if by then, all investors have gone, and the economy has finally crumbled. How many years' budget will that take care of, since we now place the budget and drive the economy through recovered funds?

And I don't want to even talk about revenue drives, or presentations, or meetings, or committees, what I want to talk about is RESULTS. We've seen too much cheese dangling in the past, so much so that we are not moved till these 'drives' that churning out results.

gists:
I suggest you better look for another job elsewhere because if this is how your boss reason, you people may close shop sooner than you think.
Ministers appointed and doing their work and someone is saying Nigeria closing shop.
Oil vessels are on the high sea with extremely little buyers and add the fact that the oil price is down, yet you boss thinks getting stolen funds (in billions of dollars) to beef up the country's financial strength is a waste of energy.
Are the ministers not working? The other day Fashola gave a presentation just as the minister of finance is embarking on an ambitious revenue drive

gists:
I suggest you better look for another job elsewhere because if this is how your boss reason, you people may close shop sooner than you think.
Ministers appointed and doing their work and someone is saying Nigeria closing shop.
Oil vessels are on the high sea with extremely little buyers and add the fact that the oil price is down, yet you boss thinks getting stolen funds (in billions of dollars) to beef up the country's financial strength is a waste of energy.
Are the ministers not working? The other day Fashola gave a presentation just as the minister of finance is embarking on an ambitious revenue drive

Standing5:
Your diversion tactic summaries your desperation here. The message or the messenger, pls be mature and have a go at one properly..

GogobiriLalas:
The problem with your boss's analogy is that Nigeria is not a shop it's a nation and if you don't catch the thief who robbed your nation today, rest assured, more thieves are encouraged for tomorrow...in fact tomorrow is too far...

Gaborone:



It's so sad.

The other day too, an Aunt of mine was complaining of being stressed out, and I suggested she took a day or two off her leave days to rest. She didn't waste time in saying 'No, this is not the time for taking leave'
The fear of losing jobs is real. When companies are not making as much, downsizing begins, and that's what's happening right now.

Someone was giving me an Economic 101 lecture the other day, and he was like it takes a period of about 6 months for the result of mass retrenchment to start showing. That right now, the I million or so Nigerians who have lost their jobs of recent would still be spending as much as they did while they had jobs, because of the savings which they have kept. But months from now, when their savings have run out, and they haven't found new jobs, they would begin to put their scale of preference in order, and cut down costs. When this happens, they would begin to consume less, and as a result, this would affect 'consumer' companies, because people are not buying as much. When people don't buy as much, company profit drops. When Company profits drop, more people are retrenched and investors would find nothing appealing in the country... and the ripple effect will continue.

I don't know... but at the end of the day, I pray for wisdom for those in government, because when they lack direction, the people suffer.

anonimi:


It is either you lack comprehension or you are a liar?
Which one is applicable for you





Note the use of the word- ALL as against the use of the word some. Then you may understand what this is about.



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Richlife247:
It will be difficult to accept some naked truths.. .. .. As the saying goes "a man will never accept defeat (except GEJ) until defeat is accepted as reallity" in the face of serious hardship and excruciating pain of the economy, it will be difficult to accept that the current government is not performing to expectations, accruing to the fact that faith was deposited on the current ruler as the messiah, staunchly!

Having said that, anything that negates their believe will be counted as tantamount to destroying their image and present them as being gullible at their choice. In order not to look so, they continue to throw blames on the past, coming up with irrelevant defence just protect their and look right. Just like the chronic and sentimental Arsenal fans whom in spite of not winning trophies for years (which should be the prime factor for competition) they'll come up with defence like "never mind, we are making money for the club"

In summary, it will be difficult to accept the "parable of the employer in order not to exhibit any format of folly of their choice of messiah.

xp17:
@op, your boss made no sense at all.

As a president who understands farming, before you plant , you need tree deforestation, bush clearing and burning , then you plant and await bountiful harvest.

But if you just start planting on without first removing all those stuffs that will hinder good harvest, no matter how hard you work, your effort won't bring up anything tangible.

You call war against corruption a waste of time. Lol . sounds like a typical Nigerian.

light004:


No one has suggested that the thieves should be allowed to go without any punitive measures meted out to them but the president should stop making it the central focus. The nation is bleeding due to lack of attention to critical sectors of the economy. Even, the fight against corruption is one-sided or is it that only people in PDP are corrupt?

Please let face the facts, the President needs to shift his attention to more serious issues and allow the security agencies and judicairy to determine the fate of these looters.

Zoharariel:
@OP - Pls be sincere and tell me your boss is not an Igbo man.

They will never see anything wrong with the administration of Ebele - The accursed & Clueless inspite of the can of worms being opened by the EFCC.

light004:


No one has suggested that the thieves should be allowed to go without any punitive measures meted out to them but the president should stop making it the central focus. The nation is bleeding due to lack of attention to critical sectors of the economy. Even, the fight against corruption is one-sided or is it that only people in PDP are corrupt?

Please let face the facts, the President needs to shift his attention to more serious issues and allow the security agencies and judicairy to determine the fate of these looters.

SamJed:
this is why some people like u will never get sense....GEJ's regime has gone and gone forever...instead of u to talk about solutions to the problems in Nigeria u will still be blaming someone that is going around collecting awards and recognitions...even buhari ruled nigeria and he was not awarded up to half of what GEJ has gotten...can u tell me that buhari was 100% clean during his PTF time U won't talk of obasanjo because he decamped to ur group....Anyway, people like u need spiritual brain cleansing b4 u will understand...
































RECEIVE SENSE

Richlife247:
It will be difficult to accept some naked truths.. .. .. As the saying goes "a man will never accept defeat (except GEJ) until defeat is accepted as reallity" in the face of serious hardship and excruciating pain of the economy, it will be difficult to accept that the current government is not performing to expectations, accruing to the fact that faith was deposited on the current ruler as the messiah, staunchly!

Having said that, anything that negates their believe will be counted as tantamount to destroying their image and present them as being gullible at their choice. In order not to look so, they continue to throw blames on the past, coming up with irrelevant defence just protect their and look right. Just like the chronic and sentimental Arsenal fans whom in spite of not winning trophies for years (which should be the prime factor for competition) they'll come up with defence like "never mind, we are making money for the club"

In summary, it will be difficult to accept the "parable of the employer in order not to exhibit any format of folly of their choice of messiah.

Standing5:
you are very silly to attack me without a point. How did i take the OP words out of context? You desperation is getting clearer still. Grow up dude.

Note the use of the word- ALL as against the use of the word some. Then you may understand what this is about.

maajin007:
by there fruit u shall know them;you every development is brought by the foundation platform of the predecessor; gej loot this country and Nigeria is feeling the effect .Some people are trying to figure out the solution to the problem. ogbeni use ur common sense

Gaborone:


It's not about seeing anything wrong in Jonathan anymore, it's about the PRESENT administration making us see something right in them.

Gaborone:
So, here we go...

Yesterday at the office, my boss walked up to us -his employees- and gave an impassioned talk about President Buhari's style of governance. He said, while he thought Buhari's attempt at recovering stolen funds were not out of place in itself, he was giving way too much attention to it. According to him, the President's lack of priority in this regard had become counter-productive and had started to prove detrimental to other areas that are in dire need his attention.

To drive home his point, he gave us a parable of an employer who kept N20,000 in his office somewhere, and on coming back to take it, he discovered that one of his Clerks had run off with it. After the discovery, the employer took the keys to the office, locked it up. He ran out with as much fury as he could muster, shouting to the hearing of all who would listen, "Who saw my boy?!!!", "Please, help me find him and get my money!!" All the while this employer was out looking for the stolen money, his shop remained under lock and key, no monies coming out, no monies going in. No customer, no profits in sight; he was making losses with every turn. Yet, ALL that mattered to him remained getting the thief of a boy, and recovering the stolen money.

My boss likened the employer in the above parable to President Buhari. He says our President has practically closed shop -Nigeria- and has decided to channel all his energy into getting stolen funds, forgetting that there is a bigger picture -an economy- that needs urgent attention; forgetting that the country might be going into a recession; forgetting that people are losing their jobs, forgetting that foreign investors are leaving, and more are 'plotting' to close shop and leave Nigeria; forgetting that an economy is not run by stolen funds which are recovered, but that if anything, they are to be regarded as "extras".

The above is how my boss sees things right now, and I agree with him.

I have to agree because, since coming into office, the activities of President Buhari's government has centered around just two things: 1. Foreign trips; and 2. Instigating the prosecution of looters of the past (who I must mention are not pro his government or pro-Apc). While the relevance of the above two can really not be downplayed, the fact remains that attention need to be given to the economy of Nigeria. As my boss said, no country has ever been run on recovered funds. Me thinks he needs to stay home a bit more, and pay attention to the alarms being raised by the World Bank and other bodies about Nigeria's economy. He need to share that attention he is giving the boy who stole the money.

Now, what's your own take about what my boss said?

#As an aside, he needs to stop talking so much about his predecessor -Jonathan. It's only a lazy man that blames his tools all the time.


Cc: lalasticlala

anonimi:



Please see below, thanks.

gists:
I suggest you better look for another job elsewhere because if this is how your boss reason, you people may close shop sooner than you think.
Ministers appointed and doing their work and someone is saying Nigeria closing shop.
Oil vessels are on the high sea with extremely little buyers and add the fact that the oil price is down, yet you boss thinks getting stolen funds (in billions of dollars) to beef up the country's financial strength is a waste of energy.
Are the ministers not working? The other day Fashola gave a presentation just as the minister of finance is embarking on an ambitious revenue drive

Gaborone:



It's so sad.

The other day too, an Aunt of mine was complaining of being stressed out, and I suggested she took a day or two off her leave days to rest. She didn't waste time in saying 'No, this is not the time for taking leave'
The fear of losing jobs is real. When companies are not making as much, downsizing begins, and that's what's happening right now.

Someone was giving me an Economic 101 lecture the other day, and he was like it takes a period of about 6 months for the result of mass retrenchment to start showing. That right now, the I million or so Nigerians who have lost their jobs of recent would still be spending as much as they did while they had jobs, because of the savings which they have kept. But months from now, when their savings have run out, and they haven't found new jobs, they would begin to put their scale of preference in order, and cut down costs. When this happens, they would begin to consume less, and as a result, this would affect 'consumer' companies, because people are not buying as much. When people don't buy as much, company profit drops. When Company profits drop, more people are retrenched and investors would find nothing appealing in the country... and the ripple effect will continue.

I don't know... but at the end of the day, I pray for wisdom for those in government, because when they lack direction, the people suffer.