NIS JOB INTERVIEW DEATHS - SURPRISING THAT MINISTER MORO AND COMPTROLLER PARRADANG HAVE NOT RESIGNED

I am personally embarrassed that the Interior Minister and the Comptroller General of NIS has not offered their resignations. 

NIS JOB INTERVIEW CROWD

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Resignation is the only thing that would make these two brothers to be considered as human beings. Anyone higher than a beast in their position should resign. In case they do not know, what happened is despicable to say the least just on its own and learning that the recruitment exercise was contracted out and as much as N520 million was collected from hapless unemployed Nigerians in a scheme clearly calculated to make profit. This is now blood money. 

These two men were appointed at the mercy of and by the President. If they wait for the President to SACK them, they are not being helpful to the President as they are by their failure to resign, putting the burden on the President who had done them a good turn by appointing them in the first place. 

                                                                                                                      

Mr. Abba Borro  

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                                                                                                   Parradang

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I reject the argument that says that resigning is not a Nigerian thing. It is a Nigerian thing to do the right that is why we are complaining about lack of electricity and other basic proceeds from governance which we are not seeing. The right thing is for Minister Abba Moro and NIS Comptroller to offer their resignation immediately to the President and people of Nigeria for this infamy. 

The contractor and other levels of Nigeria Immigration Service personnel involved in any way should be charged to court, convicted and imprisoned for organizing the death of those Nigerian job seekers last Saturday. 

NEWS ANALYSIS: RE: BOKO HARAM: DON’T OVERTHROW JONATHAN’S ADMINISTRATION – FG BEGS MILITARY

The above news story published by Daily Post, Nigeria’s online newspaper, has been greeted with mixed reactions.  Some of them have been sharply against the Minister and others have indicated that the Minister might be speaking from information that he has.

My take is that the comment from the Minister of Information is most appropriate.  The opposition has in their utterances veiled and unveiled called for the interruption of the democratic process if they cannot have their way.  This is unacceptable.  The military need to be reminded and the public need to know that they have been reminded about the need to allow the country to grow democratically.

 Minister of Information, Labaran Maku

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The current problems in Nigeria are exacerbated by the military interruption in the system.  We would have by now overgrown corruption but for these interruptions.

STELLA ODUAH AND STORY OF JAMES AND JOHN

This first article appeared in the Daily Sun of Thursday 6 March 2014

Many years ago, one Onitsha based minstrel musician who went by the trade name Show Promoter produced a musical album with one of the tracks which he titled “James and John”.

Stella Oduah: probably wondering why those who do good have to die in Nigeria

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In that track, he told the story of twin brothers named James and John.  One of them was a good man and the other one was a bad man.  He related the sad story of James who was a good man and how his life was wickedly snuffed out by his wicked brother John.  While James suffered pain and early death, John the wicked man continued to live his life and enjoy himself.

The refrain of the track went this way:

          “If you do good, you die

          If you do bad, you live long in the world and enjoy your life”.

NEWS ANALYSIS: THE IGBO AND QUEST FOR PRESIDENCY IN NIGERIA

There has been much ado and clamour about a Nigerian President of Ibo extraction.  Much as I am not averse to that, I would without fear of misunderstanding and vilifications state that the way we are going about it would not help the Ibo cause and Nigeria and Nigerians that would best benefit if an Ibo man happens to be president of Nigeria.

Map of Nigeria

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Recently a group by the style Ibo Security Council stated that the Ibo would be president of Nigeria after Jonathan’s second tenure in 2019 otherwise heavens would be let loose.  I beg to differ and therefore state that it is not about talk but about working at it with a singleness of heart and mind.  The way the Security Council sounded seems as if someone would hand over power to the Ibo.  My knowledge and experiences show that nobody gives you power, you have to take it.  That is what all the other groups in the fabrication called Nigeria had done since independence.

Politics and power is worked out.  It is not talked about.  The British and the North worked at the power structure of Nigeria to get what they got.  The West worked at power leveraging the civil war, coups and counter coups to come to the point they are now.  Ibos should go and work.  They should stop talking.  Their working should be no-holds bared.  Everything thing should be worked at including secession.  My primary school rule said "you do a lesson, you do not succeed, try, try, try again. 

The cause of the civil war is still here with us.  Because the first attempt failed, is not reason it should not be tried again.  Those who mouth one indivisible Nigeria do not even believe so much in Nigeria.  These are those who are using Nigeria’s unwieldy nature to steal it blind - robbers. 

There is no reason why secession should not be repeated since history repeats itself because of the foolishness of man.  There is a good opportunity now in the National Conference.  Nigerians should come with an open mind and talk about these issues without no-go areas.  Because, what we have today is an albatross that is not serving any group well.

For Ibos go get power, they need to work more than others.  The shining light the Ibos represented at Nigeria's independence frightened the others so terribly that plots were made with British to destroy it and it succeeded.  So, the Ibos cannot get power by talking or threatening.  They should concentrate on other types of powers and work at it so hard until this people come to beg them to rule Nigeria.  Because actually, it would take an Ibo man to make Nigeria a real nation. 

This country would continue to be worthless to all who are unfortunate to be called its citizens by the way things are going.  Fifty three years of independence, fifty-two years of sectional stealing, the only time that someone had come upon the stage to do something, because he is not from North who claim right to rule and West which can destroy to they rule, every tongue is wagging and even bandit governors are abusing the President. 

The north and the west political elite are mere vultures beside a dead elephant.  They would not offer anybody, including their own people any worthwhile experience in being a Nigerian.

For Nigeria to be a country and possibly a nation, we need the type of egalitarianism only an Ibo man can offer, which President Jonathan, though not an Ibo man, have been trying to offer in spite of the sabotage and subversion of the North through boko haram and media and the west through the instrumentality of a recruited Obasanjo and media power.

Nigeria may survive.  Nigeria may triumph.  If we could have a Nigerian nation, I would so much like to be part of those who made it happen.

Think about it.

CRITICAL REASONS GOODLUCK JONATHAN SHOULD BE REELECTED IN 2015: 2. THE UNBUNDLING OF THE POWER HOLDING COMPANY OF NIGERIA

The second and very important reason Nigerians should reelect President Goodluck Jonathan is the herculean task of unbundling Nigeria’s corruption ridden, moribund and unwieldy power generation and distribution system represented by the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN).

power plant

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo spent Bola Ige, US$16 Billion (Sixteen Billion U.S. Dollars) during his first four of eight-year tenure without being able to procure a candle to show for his efforts in the power sector.

NEWS ANALYSIS: BEHOLD A POLICE STATION

Recently, the picture below was on the social media and online newspapers showing the state of a Nigeria Police Station in Eupi, Otukpo, Benue State of Nigeria.

Photo Credit: Daily Post

I have been associated with the Police closely for the last thirty plus years now.  I have lived in Police barracks, shared offices in Police Stations in several States and Local Government Areas of Nigeria.  What you see above existing as a Police Station in Eupi in Otukpo Benue State of Nigeria is a typical.

CRITICAL REASONS GOODLUCK JONATHAN SHOULD BE REELECTED IN 2015: 1 THE TEARING DOWN OF THE OLD EVIL ORDER

Since the demise of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, the Nigerian polity has been at the boiling point.  Immediately it became apparent that constitutional provisions conferred upon Vice President Goodluck Jonathan the right to be sworn as President of Nigeria, red hot cannonballs were fired especially from the Northern political elite.  First, they tried to ensure that President Yar’Adua though dead, should continue to rule through the voice of his wife.  They tried to ensure that Yar’Adua though dead, lived on.

President Jonathan(l) and former President Obasanjo(r)

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When the game plan of the Northern political elite and Mrs. Yar’Adua failed and Vice President Goodluck Jonathan became President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, a decree immediately went out of the mouth of Northern political leaders that he dares not hope or attempt to contest in 2011 as the North would need to complete their own two terms by having another Northerner stand for election under the platform of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) which then was and I fear even now still is the only platform through which one could be elected president in Nigeria.

Goodluck Jonathan, whose good luck turned the Northern dream into a tough luck and pipe dream, seemed set to rubbish the old order from the beginning of his political career.  Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, acting as a god pulled his devious political weight behind Jonathan.  Being no god, Obasanjo could not see that Goodluck Jonathan meant bad luck for tin and pocket gods that have ruined this country since independence. 

Given his background and his rather meteoric rise to power and how easily he has dispensed with tin gods around Nigerian body polity, we find one of the reasons why Jonathan should be reelected in 2015.

JONATHAN LIKE DAVID

In the Old Testament of the Judeo-Christian bible, we learn about David and Jonathan.  They were close friends.  Jonathan saved David many times when the King Saul sought to take his life.  David in his clumsiness, using a piece of stone and sling, slew Goliath who was the tormentor of the people of Israel. 

Let us see President Goodluck Jonathan as the young and clumsy David who destroyed an old order whereby the Jews were in perpetual dread of the Philistines.  Jonathan has destroyed the godfathers.  When Dr. Chris Ngige did the same thing to the godfathers of Anambra State, we all applauded him.  Why can’t we applaud President Jonathan for achieving the same thing at the Federal level?

King David ruled Israel into a good old age and was a great king and prophet among his people.  David in spite of his clumsy ways and sin continued to be the man after the heart of God because he served his people well.  David did not go to war to take other people's land for Israel.  He defended them well in the place they acquired on arrival and led them to prosperity within their own enclave. President Jonathan in spite of our doubts about him at present has continued to state that though he is presently the most criticized President of Nigeria; he would also end up as the most praised.  

What he has done in dispensing the godfathers and in other sectors which we would periscope in this blog in the coming weeks make him the type of King that David was among his people.  So, if God could forgive David, why should we not forgive President Jonathan any sins while applauding the great feats which he has achieved and is still working on in changing the political landscape of Nigeria.

I strongly feel that in Goodluck Jonathan is the Jonathan of the bible recompensed for his loyalty and for saving of the life of the young David who later became the King of Israel, bringing that country so much glory.

So, for being a Ghost-buster, who lack of sophistry to play the politics of chop-I-chop with godfathers and guts to stand up to the godfathers, the Nigerian youth owe President Goodluck Jonathan the duty of ensuring that he had enough tenure to deepen the freedom of the people from the clutches of godfathers and enemies of Nigeria.

Think about it.