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Politics / Undercover: How APC Paid Domestic Observers Money During The Elections by Babalejnr(m): 10:48am On Mar 25, 2019
The 2019 General elections is marred by serious irregularities.
The APC government paid observers money to write reports in their favors.
Follow the link for details:

https://wikkitimes.com/2019/03/24/investigation-domestic-observers-compromised-paid-between-n100000-to-n250000-by-the-ruling-apc-in-bauchi-state/
Sports / Nigeria Makes History by Babalejnr(m): 9:24pm On Mar 23, 2019
Education / A 12 Year-old Girl Orphan Who Trashed 1,800 Students in a competition by Babalejnr(m): 9:53pm On Feb 19, 2018
Nairaland / General / Corps Member Protests Buhari's Feeding Allowance! by Babalejnr(m): 1:04pm On May 20, 2017
A serving Corps Member in Plateau Vows to protests Buhari's Feeding allowances and the continued starvation of Corps members and students in Nigeria.

Leaders eat fat as citizens continue to starve: genocide, war crimes and crime against our collective wellbeing

BY HARUNA MOHAMMED SALISU

This piece is informed by a story published by the Daily Trust Newspaper titled “Students starve as politicians eat fat”.

The story run by the newspaper has again reminded us of the pervasive criminality from a retardant atavistic crop of insignificantly few people, called leaders in Nigeria.

The story tells us that while a student in our unity colleges feeds on N150 per day, our president is eating N319, 444. That means a student in our unity colleges will have to stay in school for over two thousand one hundred and twenty-nine days (2129) before they will eat what the president will put in his stomach for one day. Look, the daily meal of our number one citizen is enough to feed our Unity College student from the time of admission to his graduation!

In other words, the president will gulp one hundred and sixteen million, five hundred and ninety-seven thousand and sixty naira (N116, 597,060) within one year, which is enough to feed one unity college student for seven hundred and seventy-seven thousand three hundred and thirteen years (777,313) at rate of 150 per day.

The report also states that the president’s kitchen will permanently silent the sum of 854 million naira within 365 days to put food on the table of our sick president, which is enough to feed a student for five million, six hundred and ninety-three thousand, three hundred and thirty-three days (5, 693,333) which is equivalent to fifteen thousand five hundred and ninety-eight years (15,598) if the student is to manage N150 per day.

The report went ahead to remind us that our number two citizen (The vice president) puts in his stomach a whopping sum of one hundred and forty-seven thousand two hundred and twenty-two naira (N147, 222) within 24 hours,(1 day) which is enough to feed a student in our unity schools for a period of twenty-three thousand, five hundred and fifty-four (23, 544) hours or 981 days.

The VP consumes food worth fifty-three million, seven hundred and thirty-six thousand and thirty naira (N53,736, 030) within a space of one year, which is enough to feed a unity college student for three hundred and fifty-eight thousand two hundred and forty years (N358,240) at the rate of N150 per day.

The kitchen of the number two citizen will spend Sixty-six million, two hundred and forty-six thousand naira (N 66,246, 000) to put food on his table within 365 days, but a poor student in one of our unity colleges has to spend four hundred and forty-one thousand six hundred and forty days (441 640 days) or one thousand two hundred and nine (1209) years to consume what our number two citizen will spend in just one year.

The report further revealed that our 109 senators at the upper legislative chamber will consume N410 million on meals and refreshment, or N10,000 will be spent daily on each lawmaker to cover their meals’ expenses. It means every senator in Nigeria will comfortably eat and go to bed a sickening sum of three million, seven hundred and sixty-one thousand four hundred and sixty-seven naira (N3, 761 467) while an innocent poor student will have to stay in school for twenty-five thousand and seventy-six years (25, 076 years) to be able to eat the same amount as his meals and refreshments. More succinctly put, a senator in Nigeria without any conscience will spend in 24 hours what a poor unity college student spends in 1,632 hours for food!

Now as a graduate doing my compulsory one-year national service, the federal government according to the report is spending N500 daily to put food on my table. By implication, I have to serve Nigeria for more than 20 years to be able to eat the equivalent of what a senator consumes in just one year as meals and refreshment or 638 years and 294 years serving Nigeria before I spend what the president and his Vice spend on food in one year.

Let us shift the goal post to our depended states governors and their law makers. The Katsina state governor though looking miserably lean compared to my state governor (Bauchi state governor) is reluctantly with the help of his deputy eating meals worth N650, 000 daily. By implication the two leaders will spend two hundred and thirty-seven million, two hundred and fifty thousand naira (N237, 250,000) to eat food in 2017 alone, while two students in boarding schools in the state will manage N65,700. It indicates that the two poor students will have to stay in school for a period of one thousand eight hundred and five years (1,805) each to eat food which equates what their state governor and his deputy eat in one year.

The 34 lawmakers of the Katsina State House of Assembly according to the report will spend an average of N13, 154 each on food daily, which depicts that, a student in the state will have to stay in school for fifty-three thousand three hundred and forty-six years (53,346) before they will eat food worth a single lawmaker in the state for one year.

I have earlier documented how 21 ex-governors and their deputies now serving senators and ministers ‘loot their economically crippled states in the name of pension’ an amount which will adequately pay all civil servants in three states in the North East at N18,000 minimum wage per worker.

This reckless spending on few individuals is happening at a time when millions of displaced IDPs have to be rescued with $ 672 million by the Oslo humanitarian conference.

This is happening at a time when ‘only one Primary school is housed with furniture (chairs) for pupils to sit’ in an entire state capital which I also unveiled last year. Where is the mercy? Where is the sacrifice you people pledged?

These indolence and treachery from domineering, belligerent and cunningly cynical demagogues is equivalent to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

History will certainly pass a terrible judgement on us if we fail to act against these impunity and injustices in our systems. We will individually and collectively remain one of the most dogmatic, narrow-minded and weak-willed sets of human beings to ever live on planet earth for refusing to demand accountability and confront these gullible and impulsive deceits.

Within my capacity as a concerned citizen and a serving corps member, I have resolved to protest across the six geo-political zones starting from Monday 22 May 2017. I shall hand over a protest letter to the Plateau state governor and subsequently unveil the details of the peaceful protest.

I am sincerely calling on all concerned citizens to join and support me in this movement for our collective well-being. We should as a matter of urgency, save our future, that our children from these ineptitudes.

Haruna Mohammed Salisu is a serving Corps Member in Plateau state. He can be reached at 08063180608, harunababale@gmail.com or @haruna_babale

See link: https://www.thecable.ng/leaders-eat-fat-citizens-continue-starve-genocide-war-crimes-crime-collective-wellbeing
Nairaland / General / Dogara, Budget Padding And The Insensitivity Of A Recalcitrant by Babalejnr(m): 12:30pm On Aug 01, 2016
Any keen observer of historical antecedents in the Nigerian political space is not and will not be puzzled by the ongoing drama in the country’s Green Chamber. Exchange of verbal assaults and insults, which often transmogrify to blows and punches—to protect self interest, political godfathers and the proclivity of corruption that define our lawmakers.
Find out more on
http://www.promptnewsonline.com/dogara-budget-padding-insensitivity-recalcitrant/
Politics / Femi Falana Should Rescue This Guy! by Babalejnr(m): 4:49pm On Jun 02, 2016
Samaila Umar Abarshi, 28, a graduate of Urban and Regional Planning from Abubakar Tafawa University, Bauchi, took an appointment with the Bauchi State Ministry of Education in November 2014, but since then has never been paid salary.
The 28 year old who resumed work at Government Day Technical College, Gar, Alkaleri Local Government of the state, has worked for over fifteen months, but was out rightly denied his salary over what he called “ incessant verification and the failure of the officer-in –charge of salary” to place his account details on pay roll.
Samaila who is passionate about his appointment said “I borrowed N70, 000, rented an accommodation and bought some cooking utensils with the hope that our salary will be paid in due course”, but laments that “as I speak to you now, for over fifteen months, I haven’t received a single kobo in the name of salary”.
A seemingly hopeless Samaila, after several verifications was neither paid his entitlements, nor dismissed, a situation he tagged as “baffling”. “They subjected us to various verifications, and personally, I visited the salary office, office of the Head of Department of school services with the hope that things will change, but nothing to show up till now”.
At a point, Samaila was terrified and began to question the authenticity of his appointment. “I had a second thought, I begin to ask myself whether the Appointment that was issued to me was fake. “ I went to Teachers’ Service Commission and was told that my Appointment was not fake because it was duly signed by Ibrahim S. Alashe who was authorized to do so.
see more http://watchdogreporters.net/12826-2/
Politics / Afraid Of Militants, A Military Gen. Sends Bloody Civilian To Visit Ogoniland by Babalejnr(m): 4:37pm On Jun 02, 2016
Until earlier today, the people of Nigeria’s Rivers State were waiting to receive President Muhammadu Buhari whose office had announced would be in Ogoni land to flag off the clean-up of the polluted oil-rich community in the country’s Niger Delta region. But they got a shocking news; the president would not be coming anymore, for reasons that were not disclosed. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo would be coming in his stead...
click to read more.
http://thenerveafrica.com/6595/nigerian-president-buharis-no-show-troubled-region-emboldens-new-crop-militants/
Nairaland / General / Bauchi State: A Dangerous Haven For School Teachers by Babalejnr(m): 11:34am On May 09, 2016
Samaila Umar Abarshi, 28, a graduate of Urban and Regional Planning from Abubakar Tafawa University, Bauchi, took an appointment with the Bauchi State Ministry of Education in November 2014, but since then has never been paid salary.

The 28 year old who resumed work at Government Day Technical College, Gar, Alkaleri Local Government of the state, has worked for over fifteen months, but was out rightly denied his salary over what he called “ incessant verification and the failure of the officer-in –charge of salary” to place his account details on pay roll.

Read more here... http://watchdogreporters.net/12826-2/

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