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See What Reno Omokri Says About Buhari, APC And Nigeria. by Nobody: 12:10pm On Jun 06, 2016 |
Read his write up below...
How can two walk together except they agree? Now
if two people cannot walk together except they
agree how much more three, four or a hundred?
For any government, company, family or
association to succeed, there must first be unity of
purpose. This unity of purpose does not mean that
everybody must agree, but it means that behind
close doors the groups meets to harmonize.
Now that word, harmonize, is a much misunderstood word.
Harmony does not mean that everybody has the same
purpose, but it means that everybody's purposes are
brought together and through a process of give and take, a
common thread is woven that encapsulates everybody's
agenda and when this is presented it produces an effect
that is pleasing to the group and those it wants to serve.
Both Christians and Muslims agree that God created the
entire world with His words. It is something we can all
agree on and in agreeing to this, we agree that words are
creative. They created the atmosphere of the world and
they will create the atmosphere of our individual worlds.
This being the case, we have to be careful, very careful,
about the words we speak because if we agree that
information is power, then the management of information
is power and its mismanagement is weakness.
So often, many of us do not realize that the words that
emanate from a leader and his surrogates must have
credibility because those words affect everything within the
domain of that leader. Every word that emanates from a
leader is a promise.
Don't believe me? Try to get the British Currency. On every
British Pound note you will find this promise 'I Promise to
Pay the Bearer the sum of' £5, £10, £20 or £50.
The promise on the British Pound is made by the Queen of
England who happens to be the Head of State of the United
Kingdom.
There is nothing inherently valuable about the paper the
British Pound is printed upon. It has no intrinsic value. If
you eat the British Pound you will get sick. If you dye it so
that the promise made by Queen Elizabeth II is no longer
legible, it will lose its value.
The value of the British Pound is tied to the promise made
by The Queen. The reason the British Pound is one of the
most valuable currencies in the world is because people
trust the promise made by the Queen.
All over the world, currencies are only as valuable as the
person of the sovereign or head of state making the
promise.
So for instance, if it becomes known today that the Queen
says one thing about Britain and the British Prime Minister
says something different, that credibility crisis will have an
immediate effect on the value of the British Pound and the
total capitalization of the London Stock Exchange and the
FTSE 100 index.
Now, the current occupants of the seat of power in Nigeria
do not seem to understand this dynamic.
Since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office as
President of Nigeria, there has been a remarkable
dissonance within this government. The President says one
thing, his spokesmen say another and other high officials
give a completely different take. What is going on?
Let us take the issue of Boko Haram. It was not too long
ago that a perplexed nation woke up to read headlines
which screamed that the President pontificated that Fulani
herdsmen came from Libya!
Well, if that is your story, then absurd as it is, you must
stick to it. But hardly had we gotten over the statement by
the President before we were regaled with another claim,
this time by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai,
who said "some of these herdsmen that are attacking
communities across the country may have some affiliation
with the Boko Haram terrorists."
That sent shock waves down the length and breadth of the
nation. What are we dealing with here? Herdsmen or Boko
Haram, we really do not know!
And then, to cap our confusion, the minister of information,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, amazingly told us "herdsmen move
from everywhere, from Mauritius or anywhere. You can't
stop them"!
This all happened within a space of two weeks!
Alhaji Lai Mohammed and current World 100 and 200 meter
champion, Usain Bolt, actually make me believe that
people's names actually affect their destiny!
I have been to Mauritius. I was there this past February.
This is a tiny Island nation more than 1000 miles from the
African coast. A herdsman and his cows would literally
have to swim for years before they got to Mozambique
from Mauritius. Then from Mozambique, it would take them
months by land to get to Nigeria!
But that is not even the point. The point is the
inconsistency and dissonance coming from the highest
levels of our nation's government.
And like I said, it is a pattern.
When British Prime Minister, David Cameron flippantly said
to the Queen that Nigeria and Pakistan were 'fantastically
corrupt' nations, Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu,
rightly issued a statement condemning Cameron's
callousness and the world's media including Newsweek
and Al Jazeera reported his statement stating that Nigeria
and President Buhari were 'embarrassed' and 'shocked' by
Cameron's words and denied that we were a fantastically
corrupt nation. This was on the 10th of May, 2016.
Now you can imagine the trepidation of Nigerians when
Buhari himself who had been reported as being 'shocked'
by his spokesman recovered from his shock and decided to
pass it on to us by agreeing with Prime Minister Cameron
on camera that Nigeria was indeed fantastically corrupt!
Perhaps that was the shock Garba Shehu was really talking
about.
Even if President Buhari believed we are all fantastically
corrupt (I am NOT) then he should have pretended to agree
with his own spokesman for credibility's sake. But he
completely made a fool of Shehu to the world and I can
assure my readers and Shehu (a specimen of a gentleman
and the star in the President's media team) that both
Newsweek and Al-Jazeera would not be quoting him in
future, except they have some form of corroboration from
President Buhari himself.
And then this confusion affects everything. Like millions of
Nigerians, I was so ecstatic about the fact that two of the
Chibok girls had been rescued that I tweeted
congratulations to the President. But then it turns out that
what the State House said was not true. Not only was it not
true, but it differed with the news coming out of Borno and
reported by the world.
One of the girls was not really a 'Chibok' girl and the one
who was really a Chibok girl was not rescued as the
government had claimed but had escaped from her
captors.
And it goes on and on. On the 13th of May, 2016, Vice
President Osinbajo tells us that fuel subsidy has not been
removed and we believe him because, well because he is a
pastor! Then three days later the minister of state for
Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, tells us that if
subsidy had not been removed we would be paying
marketers ₦16.4 billion a month!
What is going on here? Is it or isn't it subsidy? Has it or
hasn't it been removed? Our heads are spinning with the
spin! Who is right between Osinbajo and Kachikwu?
The President goes to China and his spokesmen let slip that
he is going there to sign a $2 billion loan agreement. Then
he lands in China and we are told that it is no longer $2
billion it is now $6 billion and then we are told that Nigeria
has signed a deal to make our economy a clearing house
for the Chinese Yuan. No, we are not going to be a clearing
house, we are having a currency swap.
I put it to Nigerians that from the President himself to his
minister of Finance, no one is actually sure what went on
as regards Nigeria's economy in China!
And it goes on and on. Today the President is going to
announce names of looters and then again he is not. It will
be published by Lai Mohammed's ministry of information
at some later date.
Doesn't this administration know that if a house is divided
against itself, it cannot stand?
This is the hidden reason why our economy is not
standing. Foreign Investors have been waiting to get a
concrete sense of the policy direction of this administration
and this same tendency of approbation and reprobation has
overshadowed the economy where you have the President
saying one thing, the Governor of the Central Bank of
Nigeria saying another and ministers saying something
else.
Is it too much to ask that officials of this administration be
on the same page? They are not even on the same book
talk less of page.
And unless and until they can get on the same page,
Nigeria's economy will continue waver and falter because
words create our atmosphere and the words of this
administration are in disarray which is why we currently
have an atmosphere of dissonance in Nigeria. |
Re: See What Reno Omokri Says About Buhari, APC And Nigeria. by Nobody: 12:12pm On Jun 06, 2016 |
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