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An Open Letter To Buhari From Professor Andrew Efimini by Pstlyecouture: 9:19pm On May 01, 2016 |
OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUHARI I hope the President finds time to read this post from one of his citizens who is interested in the political, social, and economic future of Nigeria. Mr. President, I hope I understand you to be interested in: 1. The economic prosperity of Nigeria. 2. Ensuring that there is accountability in managing resources at all levels of society (public and private). 3. Improving the economic fortune of the people if only the crude oil prize can be better. 4. Your government has set a very important national goal of ending fuel importation by 2019. If this is achieved you will be President of Presidents. Employment, pressure on exchange rate, wages, and the subsidy wahala will experience positive change. 4. You have promised 10,000megawatts of electricity by the year 2019. 5. Railway projects will also experience some major changes. 6. I have no doubt that since you have 3more years to implement federal budget, we can count more project oriented achievements by your administration. THE CHALLENGES 1. Poverty is worsening; minimum wage of N18,000 is worthless. 2. The massive devaluation of the naira has impoverished the masses, especially those who are out of employment. Mr. President the number of Nigerians who are not sure of their daily meal are in millions. 3. These projects that will be executed under your administration, will not make Nigeria a developed country. Their impact on the poor will not be revolutionary enough. THE REAL CHALLENGE Mr. President, I am afraid that the assumption that the problem with Nigeria is essentially economic has been the bane of governments in this country since independence. 1. Your election in 2015 raised ethnic, regional, and religious sentiments in this country to a level not good enough for us as a people. 2. The feeling of alienation from the rest of Nigeria is increasing among the poor with very high and rising crime rate. 3. The political class are increasingly helpless in developing a comprehensive vision on how to proceed. 4. Ethnic tension has reached a worrisome level with mutually exclusive claims as to who is right. 5. Two national conferences have recommended the creation of extra state (Adada) for the South East. Each time this is put in the cooler. In spite of the economic crises, we can do justice to the South East by reducing the Federal share of revenue to 45% from 52%. 6. The Biafra agitations has shown that we are not united as a people. 7. The agitations from the South South is not new to the world. Oil politics is the most badly managed in Nigeria. 8. The abuse of animal and human rights leading to mass killings in Nigeria. Unfortunately these killings have put a big question make on the capacity of government to protect the ordinary people who are in most cases the victims of these killings. Whether in the northeast, northwest, middle belt, now southeast, the poor are the victims. THE WAY FORWARD Mr. President, Nigeria's major problem is political in nature. If we don't fix our politics, we are laboring in vain. 1. The structure of the Nigerian state is anti- development. You hinted at this when you complained that the Constitution imposed 36ministers on you. 2. The states are not able to pay salaries regularly even when the wages are slave wages. 3. The educational sector is badly structured. The federal government needs to roll back its presence in that sector. States and private sector should run education. That means substantially, we must move quickly to a federal system. 4. The present 'unitary' system and constitution need deepened review to recreate Nigeria for transformatory development. 5. Any system we propose must do justice to all Nigerians. The system must promote individual and group rights. FAIRNESS, FAIRNESS, FAIRNESS AND FAIRNESS unify peoples. CONCLUSION Mr. President you have just 3years to face the real challenge facing Nigeria which is political and constitutional reform. Only this part can guarantee your place in history. Projects executed from an unjust, anti- development structure means nothing to the long term good of Nigeria. History will confirm this letter was sent to you via Facebook # keepthinking. Andrew Efemini is Professor of Philosophy of Development at the University of Port Harcourt, now with Kogi State University |
Re: An Open Letter To Buhari From Professor Andrew Efimini by Caseless: 11:46pm On May 01, 2016 |
BUHARI go surely read the letter. vote ivyy for miss nairaland '16 and feel the earthquake. |
Re: An Open Letter To Buhari From Professor Andrew Efimini by drtwist(m): 12:01am On May 02, 2016 |
EFE Buhaari gat no time 4 reading o. If you want to pass any message to him send it as flight ticket. Maybe to Swahili |
Re: An Open Letter To Buhari From Professor Andrew Efimini by Pstlyecouture: 6:39am On May 02, 2016 |
drtwist: You're right Bro |
Re: An Open Letter To Buhari From Professor Andrew Efimini by omogin(f): 6:57am On May 02, 2016 |
But buhari no dey read so how he wan take know wetin u dey gist. Write osibanjo instead |
Re: An Open Letter To Buhari From Professor Andrew Efimini by mysteriousman(m): 6:58am On May 02, 2016 |
Seen |
Re: An Open Letter To Buhari From Professor Andrew Efimini by onatisi(m): 7:04am On May 02, 2016 |
Caseless:He will surely read it but he will surely not understand what is written there,and even of he understand the letter content he will definitely ignore the lessons and stay adamant 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: An Open Letter To Buhari From Professor Andrew Efimini by omaigala(m): 7:04am On May 02, 2016 |
There actually was no exceptional thing about this letter. Nothing catchy about it. Obviously sentimental and perhaps not from a professor as claimed by the op. |
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