Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014 and no firm sign. Any hope for the families?
Increasingly we are hearing strident calls on this government to look forward to proffer solutions and not backwards to capture the causes of most of the current downturn in the economy and value of the naira. Naira approximates to less than toilet paper at present and people should pay for their crimes, corruption and entire careers of federal mismanagement.
Every shade of party has its saints, too few, and sinners, too many who participated whenever possible in the grand larceny against Nigeria. Perhaps government is already doing what any sane government should do. That is to do a bit of both, divide forces into the ‘looking backers’ and the ‘looking forwarders’ and let each proceed quickly, courts permitting.
Unfortunately the malnourished and starving children in IDP camps under federal government sovereignty speak volumes about Nigeria’s core incompetence and corruption with diversion of food by able-bodied members of government and agencies. The National Human Rights Commission must investigate this crime against innocent children and jail the culprits. I warned years ago that Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) were quite capable of looking after themselves. They were part of hard working self-sufficient communities before Boko Haram. Why does National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)or State Environment Management Authority (SEMA) think they have the right to ‘take over’ and actually feed fellow Nigerians with hands and legs and brains and time on their hands who love their children? All non- indigenes should be thrown out of camps unless the IDPs say they want them. Yes deliver food and living equipment to them but let them get on with their lives-cooking and selling, sowing, weaving, arts and craft, story-telling, engineering, medicine, nursing security and other professions. Employ them, pay them not ‘out of state’ people, to look after each other themselves. Establish an economy not a beggar’s camp.
Government dropped the ball on this one and it is not about visits by high and mighty giving out Nigeria’s rice as their own but visits by real food-bringing people on a daily basis. A hungry IDP child today will be equally hungry tomorrow no matter what noodles or rice or gari you fill her stomach with today. Unless, of course, she is dead tomorrow and they do die in this ‘Great but cretinous’ land where National Assembly (NASS) members, ex-governors and others too numerous to mention, still in 2016, take millions home from the public purse monthly. Can you know a problem better than the victim and relations? Now we are witnesses to a totally preventable ‘near famine’ and for the malnourished it is a personal famine, not percentage. Have we no shame in our incompetence? They should all be thrown out and new clean IDP hands found to feed themselves before Boko Haram says ‘life is more abundant on their side’.
For those who want to forget about the past, let them look around the
highways of their foreign retreats and look for the pothole- the sign
of Nigeria. They will not find one for thousands of miles or the local
government will be sued by the citizens. Let them ask their host for the
intoxicating smell of diesel and petrol to fuel a million generators in
case of a never-coming daily power failure or a destructive power
surge. They will not find one generator in millions of homes many of
which also use solar-Nigeria’s second gift from God after oil. Meanwhile
we have a different yardstick in Nigeria. Success is judged by the size
of your generator and your ability, or not, to fuel it 24/7 x 365 days x
30 years @ N4-10,000 a day. You do the maths. Wives abuse their
husbands, and even change them, for not meeting up to the 24/7 mark of
those who steal for a living or have the office funding the generator.
Nigerians have managed to convince themselves that their suffering is somehow in the national interest. ‘You must suffer to develop`. No nation can grow if it enlarges potholes as a Federal Target instead of having a quick ‘pothole filling campaign’ nationwide involving local contractors and boys empowered like PWD of old-a man-a-mile. Is it true that the petty traders dig the road at night to slow the traffic so that they can sell more goods? We cannot afford a few international roads, we want the kind of 1960s roads we can drive on not die on!
Nigeria has no shame. It does not care who stole its collective wealth in trillions and does not care where it begs for its starving citizens and then the project implementers steal the funds raised. Someone should tell Bono and Zuckerberg how much Nigerians politicians collectively seize from the treasury, how much the country, parties and individuals are spending this month on elections.
The ridiculous traffic on the Ibadan- Lagos ‘expressway’ is beyond imagination. By now the media should have taken to the sky for an aerial helicopter view or at least a drone view of the recurrent Sunday 4pm traffic, the same for three years, now compounded by the super performance of Julius Berger Construction stripping a lane of the long bridge and forcing the maybe one million vehicles and 10 million travellers per day into two tight lanes. Even the aircraft on routes in and out of Lagos Airport that pass over the Expressway can photograph the debacle. Any change?
Increasingly we are hearing strident calls on this government to look forward to proffer solutions and not backwards to capture the causes of most of the current downturn in the economy and value of the naira. Naira approximates to less than toilet paper at present and people should pay for their crimes, corruption and entire careers of federal mismanagement.
Every shade of party has its saints, too few, and sinners, too many who participated whenever possible in the grand larceny against Nigeria. Perhaps government is already doing what any sane government should do. That is to do a bit of both, divide forces into the ‘looking backers’ and the ‘looking forwarders’ and let each proceed quickly, courts permitting.
Unfortunately the malnourished and starving children in IDP camps under federal government sovereignty speak volumes about Nigeria’s core incompetence and corruption with diversion of food by able-bodied members of government and agencies. The National Human Rights Commission must investigate this crime against innocent children and jail the culprits. I warned years ago that Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) were quite capable of looking after themselves. They were part of hard working self-sufficient communities before Boko Haram. Why does National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)or State Environment Management Authority (SEMA) think they have the right to ‘take over’ and actually feed fellow Nigerians with hands and legs and brains and time on their hands who love their children? All non- indigenes should be thrown out of camps unless the IDPs say they want them. Yes deliver food and living equipment to them but let them get on with their lives-cooking and selling, sowing, weaving, arts and craft, story-telling, engineering, medicine, nursing security and other professions. Employ them, pay them not ‘out of state’ people, to look after each other themselves. Establish an economy not a beggar’s camp.
Government dropped the ball on this one and it is not about visits by high and mighty giving out Nigeria’s rice as their own but visits by real food-bringing people on a daily basis. A hungry IDP child today will be equally hungry tomorrow no matter what noodles or rice or gari you fill her stomach with today. Unless, of course, she is dead tomorrow and they do die in this ‘Great but cretinous’ land where National Assembly (NASS) members, ex-governors and others too numerous to mention, still in 2016, take millions home from the public purse monthly. Can you know a problem better than the victim and relations? Now we are witnesses to a totally preventable ‘near famine’ and for the malnourished it is a personal famine, not percentage. Have we no shame in our incompetence? They should all be thrown out and new clean IDP hands found to feed themselves before Boko Haram says ‘life is more abundant on their side’.
Nigerians have managed to convince themselves that their suffering is somehow in the national interest. ‘You must suffer to develop`. No nation can grow if it enlarges potholes as a Federal Target instead of having a quick ‘pothole filling campaign’ nationwide involving local contractors and boys empowered like PWD of old-a man-a-mile. Is it true that the petty traders dig the road at night to slow the traffic so that they can sell more goods? We cannot afford a few international roads, we want the kind of 1960s roads we can drive on not die on!
Nigeria has no shame. It does not care who stole its collective wealth in trillions and does not care where it begs for its starving citizens and then the project implementers steal the funds raised. Someone should tell Bono and Zuckerberg how much Nigerians politicians collectively seize from the treasury, how much the country, parties and individuals are spending this month on elections.
The ridiculous traffic on the Ibadan- Lagos ‘expressway’ is beyond imagination. By now the media should have taken to the sky for an aerial helicopter view or at least a drone view of the recurrent Sunday 4pm traffic, the same for three years, now compounded by the super performance of Julius Berger Construction stripping a lane of the long bridge and forcing the maybe one million vehicles and 10 million travellers per day into two tight lanes. Even the aircraft on routes in and out of Lagos Airport that pass over the Expressway can photograph the debacle. Any change?
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