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Will Nigeria Survive All These? By Temple Chima Ubochi by jude90(m): 6:29pm On Mar 27, 2016 |
Nigeria defies all common sense and logic; for months we were inundated with the news that the senate president, Bukola Saraki, was corrupt as the then governor of Kwara State, and he was prosecuted by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). Saraki had 13 charges preferred against him. Saraki claimed that he was prosecuted because he became the senate president against the wish of the president and the APC leadership. But, all of a sudden, the APC leadership had a nocturnal meeting with the president in Aso Rock, on Tuesday, March 22, and thereafter, Saraki, the corrupt one, became a saint again out of the blue. Even, some All Progressives Congress senators, who opposed the election of Bukola Saraki as Senate President, held a meeting the same Tuesday, March 22, and suddenly, they cast their differences aside and started supporting the senate president. Why did they waste our time all along? As this was happening, the charges against Saraki were dropped, and then, the 2016 budget was passed, in a jiffy, by the senate after weeks of foot dragging. Nigeria is in trouble! All these prove that President Buhari is a corrupt leader and can't fight corruption. What happened was that the senate president, Saraki, sat on the 2016 budget, and threatened the president that the senate will not pass the budget unless the charges preferred against him were dropped. The president used all tactics to force Saraki's hand but to no avail, and when nothing was working to make the senate president cave in under pressure from the presidency, the president and the APC leadership had no other option other than to dance to Saraki's tune. Saraki then got what he wanted, and the budget was passed. Attah Iron Comfort sees Buhari as the world's most corrupt leader and why? Because, "Nigerians have come to terms of late on how President Muhammadu Buhari and his handlers dubiously manipulated Nigerians with the slogan of CHANGE and the promise to fight corruption, and with Buhari's lack of planning and mismanagement of the bailout money, spending over unbudgeted N8trn in 9 months and his submission of overloaded and over padded budget of 2016 (to the national assembly), which he drafted to compensate those that sponsored his election. Buhari because of one man, Bukola Saraki, should have wished to sink Nigeria because the Senate President was not his preferred candidate for the position. Now, the corrupt Buhari, for selfish reasons, is now Saraki's friend: The captivity of Bukola Saraki has been turn around within 3days timeframe. . **On Monday (March 21) APC caucus met, and then the judge on Saraki's case withdrew. **On Tuesday (March 22) APC faction against Saraki declared support for Saraki. **On Wednesday (March 23) Saraki's Senate passed the padded 2016 budget without questions and Buhari praised Saraki to high heavens. Buhari is Corrupt and Corruption cannot fight Corruption. NO WONDER NIGERIA IS NOW NUMBER 1 CORRUPT COUNTRY IN THE WORLD">NO WONDER NIGERIA IS NOW NUMBER 1 CORRUPT COUNTRY IN THE WORLD". The problem continues: Saraki was declared a saint on Tuesday, March 22, after months of telling us that he was as corrupt as the devil. Then, the following day, March 23, the Nigerian senate finally passed the 2016 budget into law. We learned that the passage followed a motion by the chairman, senate committee on appropriation, Senator Danjuma Goje, for the passage of 2016 Appropriation of N6.07trillion and seconded by Senator Andy Uba. But how come that a budget that was padded, that also led to the sacking of many for padding it, was passed without first of all sorting out the problems? It was reported that Senator Danjuma Goje, while presenting the report on the budget, said that the budget was "full of controversy", but that the senate would not want to delay its passage by adding more controversies to it. What was he talking about here? How can they pass a budget riddled with controversies, within an hour, without much debate? Hear Goje say that "there were lapses in the budget, but, the committee had to work around them". Then, satisfied with explanations that the nation will benefit from the proposal, the senate passed the budget into law without questions asked. Even the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, the man in the eyes of the storm, commended the Committee for a good job done on the budget in view of errors in it, while urging the full implementation by the Executive. Not only that, the Presidency immediately commended the National Assembly for passing the 2016 budget into law. Do you see how the politicians are toying with Nigeria and Nigerians; Orderpaper Ng. wrote "The Senate has passed the 2016 Budget in spite of what senators were told were 'outstanding lapses' that were neither filled by the Executive nor corrected by the Parliament". Saraki held the nation to ransom, and the presidency caved in to his demand and stopped his trial. So, in the first place, President Buhari has been manipulating the judiciary for his own selfish gain. He uses the judiciary to fight his political or real enemies, and in order to get what he wants, he wouldn't mind putting his personal interest above that of the nation. Is this the man to salvage Nigeria? I need the answer from you! Buhari is a milksop; but people see him as a strong man based on what we were told he did as the then head of state. But, from what's happening now, it's clear that Tunde Idiagbon was the strong man behind the government then, while Buhari reaped the glory. Remember that Tunde Idiagbon, the number 2 man then, left Nigeria to Mecca to pray and the government was toppled even when Buhari was in Nigeria. As I noted before, if Idiagbon didn't travel out then, but remained and prayed in Nigeria, nobody could have been able to topple that government. The weak man, who was the then head of state, couldn't stop the coup that swept him out of power. Now, the senate president, Saraki, brought Buhari to his knees, by refusing to pass the budget, and that forced Buhari and his APC to withdraw all charges preferred against him. Where's the Buhari's strongmanship or conscience now? People say that corruption has been tamed since Buhari took over as the president, that even his body language makes a dent in corruption. But, it's not so: Buhari is himself corruption personified: subverting the constitution; disobeying court orders; and manipulating the judiciary all for his selfish gains are parts of corruption. Did you read that $16 billion corruption was committed under Buhari's very nose? According to the Vanguard: "Apparently believing that he had heard and seen the worst of how corrupt practices have brought Nigeria to her knees, President Muhammadu Buhari, last week (third week of March 2016) almost lost his cool when it was brought to his attention that a whopping $16 billion - (at the official exchange rate of N196, this comes to N3.136 trillion; while, with the parallel market rate of N315, it comes to a whopping N5.04trillion), of the nation's crude oil revenue loss could be traced to some sharp practices by some individuals in Nigeria's oil and gas sector. The quantum of funds in question are revenue that ought to have accrued to the Federal Government of Nigeria through oil-lifting deals which are now subject of intensive investigations". The APC caucus has just endorsed President Buhari for another term in 2019, when he has done nothing to justify his first term, and when he still has more than three more years to go before the end of his first term. Wonders never cease to happen in Nigeria. The APC leaders, who endorsed Buhari for 2019, are political lackeys who don't know what will happen tomorrow. These political morons are not the people who will dictate to Nigerians who will rule them as from 2019. Nigerians made the mistake of electing Buhari in 2015, and I don't think that they would want such an illiterate and clueless president as from 2019. There will be no more Sai Buhari or Sai Baba as from 2019. Nigerians have learned their lesson, and will elect a better leader as from 2019. When Patience Jonathan warned us in 2015 that "only conductors give change" we refused to heed to that warning. The president is not upto his job, but, he wants to whip up cheap sentiments and to hoodwink the gullible. He plans to sell himself to Nigerians, when he knows nothing about leadership. The president has budgeted N1.2 billion and plans to use #IStandWithBuhari to rally support for himself, when that money can solve so many other problems, or, can offset the salary arrears and allowances the federal government owes its workers. The Whistler Ng. wrote that "The March 31 rally in support of the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to gulp N1, 203, 500 (One Billion, Two Hundred and Three Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira), mainly from tax payers money and business concerns seeking patronage from government. In documents obtained by The Whistler, the group said the sum is to cover T-shirts, face-caps, transportation, accommodation, live coverage and publicity of the event billed to hold in Abuja". Can somebody tell the president that a good product sells itself: he can spend whatever amount he wants to launder his dirty image, but, nothing will change, if he refuses to fix Nigerian's problems? He asked for the office and it was given to him, so he needs to get the job done. President Buhari cries that Nigeria is broke, but, he steals all the monies he has recovered or what his predecessor left. He has no problems travelling all over the world, wearing expensive things etc. Did you read that former President Olusegun Obasanjo has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to stop using dwindling crude prices for lack of performance? According to Obasanjo, he met worse situation when he took power in 1999, but made the best of it. He reminded Buhari that unlike his administration that met a paltry $3.7 billion, in the coffers, Goodluck Jonathan left behind a whooping $30 billion for Buhari. What has Buhari done with the money Jonathan left for his government plus the oil and gas proceeds since June 2015? Buhari knows where the monies are. He needed power in order to get what he didn't get the first time when he was the head of state, because, IBB threw him out "prematurely". Just see how deceitful this government is: Hope for Nigeria wrote that "In a dwindling revenue, Buhari did the unheard of, instead of reducing the budget, he increased the budget from N4.3trn to N6.07trn. He presented the most fraudulent, inflated and irredeemably padded budget". The government said that it can't pay the paltry N5.000 stipends to the unemployed, because, there's no money for that, but, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Sen. Danjuma Goje (APC, Gombe), disclosed that the 2016 budget, passed by the National Assembly on Wednesday, March 23, has a provision of N500 billion for payment of stipends to unemployed youths and the vulnerable in society. Why is this government deceiving Nigerians? I will continue to say it that a government built on lies and deceit will fail. This government has dragged Nigeria through the mud, making one to wonder if the country will survive Buhari's onslaught. HAPPY EASTER TO YOU ALL! TIT BITS These excerpts are from Mr. Jim Lawson Moses, who called on Buhari to resign: With just about 100 days to the end of his first year in office, PMB is still apportioning blames rather than proffering solutions. Rather than shop for those that will help him fix the nation's bleeding economy, President Buhari is busy globetrotting; spending the little resources that Nigeria is left with abroad and returning back home with little or no results for his missions abroad. Is it his war against corruption that has refused to yield results as buttressed by a recent statement by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) boss, Ibrahim Magu, that "senior lawyers are frustrating the war against corruption? Is it his victory over Boko Haram which he claimed can no longer carry out any conventional attack yet they bombed Maiduguri, Borno State capital, killing and injuring scores? The same Boko Haram bombed an IDP camp too killing and injuring scores of harmless women and children he swore to protect. And just recently, the same group of terrorists razed Mala Keri in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State. Is it the "padded zero- based" budget of "change", corruptly designed to enrich some pockets, which they also claimed some rats smuggled some items into it, as reported by the BBC or the Treasury Single Account (TSA) which he recently pronounced was a creation of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan's administration? Would it be only the Dasukigate? Of what immediate benefit is Dasukigate to Nigerians compared with the sorry state of the Naira or faulty policies like the one which has caused even students inability to pay their school fees abroad? President Mohamadu lacks clues on how to move Nigeria forward. He also lacks the capacity to be Nigeria's president. This is because he equally lacks ideas on how to diversify the economy of this great nation blessed with abundant natural and human resources. His team also lacks cutting edge ideas that will take Nigeria out of the woods. They have nothing new to offer as his "miracle making" and "saints" ministers are of the old school or old brigade with little or no achievements to show in their past leadership roles except for Babatunde Raji Fashola. Nigeria, a country with about 220 million people, does not need a president that lacks a 22nd century vision. We need one with solutions to her challenges. The kind of president that can set the propellers and the turbines of Nigeria's economy running rather than bringing it to a total halt; a president that can place the most populous black nation in the world, in its rightful place, in the comity of nations. |
Re: Will Nigeria Survive All These? By Temple Chima Ubochi by Tocheagle(m): 6:38pm On Mar 27, 2016 |
We will but somehow |
Re: Will Nigeria Survive All These? By Temple Chima Ubochi by Nobody: 6:47pm On Mar 27, 2016 |
dont ask,just wait and see it urself. |
Re: Will Nigeria Survive All These? By Temple Chima Ubochi by jude90(m): 7:55pm On Mar 27, 2016 |
we are still waiting for this government to deliver |
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