Re: {Yan Arewa} STATE OF THE NATION

[Maigoro A Jos]

Obviously, this is the real picture of our state of the nation but
mind you, only those with moral thought can acquaintance with you.

The beneficiaries of corruption and unapologetic PDP crooks are making
the atmosphere so noisy that PMB's policies not friendly.



Maigoro

On 04/09/2016, Imperial imperi...@yahoo.com [YanArewa]
<YanA...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> I have been following closely the activities of this government and whenever
> I have the opportunity, I try to find out the opinions of people as regards
> the performance of this government. I just realized that the hardship faced
> by many Nigerians is simply as a result of the fact that almost everyone of
> us benefited from the cycle of corruption.
> The bricklayer, plumber, laborers, tiler are all complaining because
> building construction has slowed down massively cause the thieves no longer
> have money to spend on real estate.
> The car dealers are grumbling because their cars are begging for buyers.
> Thieves can no longer spend wastefully.
> The private school owners are shouting because parents can no longer pay
> outrageous sums and are withdrawing their wards. I was shocked when I learn
> that in a popular private University in Abuja, parents are writing
> undertaking at the account section for their children to be allowed to write
> exams... and it goes on and on.
> The fact is, a lot of people are returning to what someone referred to as
> ''default mode''.We mostly have been living above our REAL MEANS. We have
> been staying in houses that ordinarily our incomes can't afford. Our
> children going to schools we can't afford. Driving cars we ordinarily can't
> maintain.
> We have been living a FAKE LIFE all along. Now the reality is before us and
> we don't want to accept it. This shows how morally bankrupt we are.
>
> You can't eat your Cake and have it. TAKE NOTE........"GOD HELP AND BLESS
> NIGERIA"
>
> You got billions from bank without collateral using your political
> influence. You put half into your business and spent the other half on
> exotic cars, jewelries' etc. Your business employs 100 people normally. You
> get illegal waivers and concessions to import raw materials at rock bottom
> prices, you get over-inflated contract to supply government some goods your
> company produce....in short your company is kept afloat by corruption.
> Now the new Sherriff in town say no more ridiculous waivers, no more
> inflated contracts, no more bank loans without collateral, in fact its time
> you or your company pay off the billions of debt owed.....AMCON takes over
> your company, staff are laid off......And you go on air and say the new
> sheriff is killing business and causing unemployment..
> The truth is....you and your company were never in business, you were only
> feeding off the system. Too many companies and banks are funded by
> corruption. Remove corruption from the system and they collapse.......and we
> end up blaming the person that removes corruption for the collapse of the
> corruptly run fake company.
> Its like our system and corruption are so interwoven and inseparable that
> removing one will kill the other. Maybe we should tolerate and learn to live
> with corruption so that Nigeria can survive?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>

[Otitigbe Obadiah Oghoerore Alegbe PhD]

Is Buhari not corrupt?. Is he not part of the problem? Why go oversees
for medial treatment. Buhari has failed.

Nigerians need solutions not blames. if he cannot solve the problems,
let him resign.

Otitigbe

[maxim...@yahoo.com]

There is a saying: If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

In addition to corruption (and what doesn't corruption corrupt?), there is this deep rooted aversion to planning anything among the political so-called "elite," the demon parasites that have infested Nigeria.

What party can ever claim any ownership of any form of progress or progressiveness, when the very core ingredient for claiming any kind of progressiveness is forward planning? 

The truth of the matter is that the political so-called elite have been the most regressive and destructive demography  that Nigeria has ever been cursed with.

For sixteen years, all of them including the political parties they fraudulently claim to have set up, telling truly progressive Nigerians to go and set up their own, have been in the destructive fake business in reference. They are so parasitic that they will steal ideas and use them to steal money without even any consideration for the light the ideas are designed to generate. They get the money and they thing their job is done, not that the purpose for which they get the money is to create something the idea was meant to generate. Thus they turn light into darkness. The reality of light they face now is that the medium of impenetrable darkness, which they so virulently represent, now has no currency.

Be that as it may, it is important to point out that the only way to keep hope alive and thriving, as well as to generate well-being in light is to be transparent. Anything less than transparent still represents darkness.

This means two things:

One:

Where is the money that the current regime claims it has recovered from the demon parasites?

Why are Nigerians not hearing that side of the story? The Nigerian government and whoever is advising them is not being transparent, when they claim to have recovered over 1 trillion naira, and they are not talking about the 1 trillion naira. Two things are happening here that preclude the resurgence of hope: 

a). Nigerians cannot see the money in front of them, thus the hope that there is a potential relief is blunted. 

b). When Nigerians don't see the money (even if they are not spending it), the tendency is to see the regime as being another one of the demon parasite tricks. It means they are keeping it secret, so they can steal it. 

The most interesting part of this is that this regime is now under the cloud of suspicion. They are now unnecessarily burdening themselves with the burden of proof that they are not corrupt, which they need not shoulder in the first place, if they are transparent all the way. 

So the question that naturally pops up is: Where and what is this "change" they were talking about?

Two:

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Yes, if you are going to get money and you have no plan to spend the money, you are planning to fail and squander it. This reminds of the Udoji pay raises that Nigerians got during the Gowon regime. Many people used the money to buy cars, marry new wives and drink beer. The real issue of planning for their children's future and their own financial security never occurred to them.

This government is not being open enough in many ways, to telling Nigerians what they plan to do with the money. They are telling Nigerians that they will have light for example, but when you already tell Nigerians there's no money, where is that money coming from? Currently you are collecting money from Nigerians for service you have not rendered, and you are not telling them that the money you will use to bring some more light is coming from the 1 trillion naira you collected from the looters on the other side (looters on the other side, because you have not shown clearly enough that you are not a looter on your own side). 

Of the myriad of needs Nigeria and Nigerians face, planning includes strategic selection and implementation. That is not being seen by Nigerians, thus the darkness deepens for them since they can't see the light you say you want to bring, even at the end of their long and dark tunnel.

 Also as important is the need to constantly keep this beacon of hope in front of Nigerians for two purposes: a). to keep Nigerians' hope alive and b). to be the light that provides a guide/direction out of the impenetrable darkness they have endured for these five generations of demon parasites, that are already procreating.

In other words:

1. Tell us where the money you are collecting from corruption is and keep telling us until we begin to see it clearly in front of us.

2. Show us a model of what you will do with the money to address which ones of these severe wounds we have all over us, inflicted by your demon parasite ilk (political parasite so-called "elite").

If you don't have the appropriate communications and other functional systems to help you do the most good for the most many, you have to review it and change. 

Those who put you there have not shown by their own examples that they are up to the task. The systems they set up have only deepened darkness where they have been in charge for 16 years. All the things that they inherited have witnessed desolation, or else Nigeria should be borrowing from them at this point. However, they created and nurtured a culture of cronyism (the ultimate corruption) that generated impenetrable darkness around them. They put on steel helmets, to make sure they never took advise and warnings from the truly progressive ones, and they had many of them in diaspora (including some who would be their agents) and at home. They relied on their cronies, whose focus is actually to get something, not to contribute.

They, in their absolute aversion to planning at all, never realized for example, that technology, including information technology, requires a set of infrastructural support items that includes power and software. So for example they wanted to use an opon imo that they did not plan (or adequately plan) for. Thus the opon imo (tablet of knowledge) becomes opon ode (tablet of ignorance), and the results are showing in their academic outputs five years later. It will be difficult to see sincerity in such a situation, to want to put hope in a result that shows five years of pivotal youth life wasted, and maybe another generation destroyed for their entire lives.

So now, you have to recognize that you have successfully presented yourself to Nigeria and Nigerians, that you are an emergency room doctor Nigeria and Nigerians need badly. Now, you have to show it through the patients that come out of your emergency room smiling. 

Not having patients coming out of your emergency room smiling is an existential threat for you, and you must be a suicide bomber to not realize this.

Two things:

1. Tell Nigerians where the money you say you are recovering from corruption for Nigerians is; keep telling them and loudly too.

2. Show what you are trying to use the money to strategically address among all the serious emergency wounds Nigerians have been enduring for these decades and involve them in the choice making process. 

Let them see the results they can hope for, before they experience it.

Be transparent, be seen to be doing so and keep it that way.

Those who have ears ...

O.E.

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From: Otitigbe Obadiah Oghoerore Alegbe PhD <otit...@oviri.com.ar>
To: africanw...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 5, 2016 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: [africanworldforum] Re: {Yan Arewa} STATE OF THE NATION

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