I am allergic to corruption...PMB
*The National Assembly now attempts to blackmail the president, and even shirks its constitutional responsibilities now only because responsible agencies and institutions of law and order have laid hands on two of its leaders to answer to allegations of crime and forgery. Some of its members announce "withdrawal of support" from the president for this reason, alleging that by this act of "aggression" against their "untouchable" leaders, who, in their vain imagination, are "above the law", "democracy is being threatened," "the independence of the legislature is being compromised," and similar balderdash. Those Nigerian lawmakers need to go back to school or attend summer courses on responsible and representative lawmaking in a democracy, for they assume extra-constitutional privileges that exist only in their warped imagination. Pitiable legislators!
* Groups in Niger Delta, as the president correctly put it, are competing on which of them could do the most damage to the nation. Those rogues don't represent the Niger Delta nor are they intellectually equipped to recognize and diagnose the ailment that they now are to their people. Poor souls!
* The other time, while the president was on a brief health vacation abroad, all South-South governors excepting the Edo State governor, demanded, as a condition for peace in the Niger Delta, that Buhari's government should discontinue all corruption litigations against Niger Delta rogues, including "ex-militants", and the Minister of State for Pertroleum, Mr. Ibe Kachukwu, according to reports, sided with them! Pathetic give-away!
* Kachukwu declared at a town-hall meeting held recently at Uyo, Akwa Ibom, that he did not "care" about the N13 billion that an "ex-militant" from his State (Delta) was given by uncle GEJ for a piece of land in one village of the State for a Maritime University. He "does not care" that such huge amount of public funds could be given and taken fraudulently! I am distressed about his perception of corruption, being a key player in Buhari's government. Not upto N13 billion has been invested to build the university in GEJ's village since 2011! Kachukwu even boasted that if the Minister of Transport, under whose ministry the proposed university could have been housed, was not well-disposed towards it, he (Kachukwu) would "build it as a Petroleum University." What ignorance both in law and politics by a Law scholar! First, FG cannot develop the land in dispute and yet demand refund of the N13 billion. Second, there is already a University of Petroleum in Delta State; politically, you cannot expect another in the same state! By the way, who is Nigeria's president; Kachikwu? Political miscalculation! PMB must rein in his over-reaching ministers and demand harmony within his cabinet, otherwise his government can't stand.
Do you love, excuse or defend corruption? If you do, you are one of our numerous causes of headaches.
"Is he the only corrupt person; why can't they touch others too?" "PMB is being selective in his anti-corruption fight." "Na anti-corruption we go chop?" "Is Buhari a saint?" Alright, when you succeed in under-writing the expenses of bringing an angel down from heaven to fight corruption in Nigeria, then you can enlist me in the advocacy for him to run our affairs in Nigeria. You rebuke neighbors when they provoke you or others, don't you? Are you not being "selective" then? Are they the only provocative Nigerians?
But these also will pass away. Evil cannot prevail.
*The National Assembly now attempts to blackmail the president, and even shirks its constitutional responsibilities now only because responsible agencies and institutions of law and order have laid hands on two of its leaders to answer to allegations of crime and forgery. Some of its members announce "withdrawal of support" from the president for this reason, alleging that by this act of "aggression" against their "untouchable" leaders, who, in their vain imagination, are "above the law", "democracy is being threatened," "the independence of the legislature is being compromised," and similar balderdash. Those Nigerian lawmakers need to go back to school or attend summer courses on responsible and representative lawmaking in a democracy, for they assume extra-constitutional privileges that exist only in their warped imagination. Pitiable legislators!
* Groups in Niger Delta, as the president correctly put it, are competing on which of them could do the most damage to the nation. Those rogues don't represent the Niger Delta nor are they intellectually equipped to recognize and diagnose the ailment that they now are to their people. Poor souls!
* The other time, while the president was on a brief health vacation abroad, all South-South governors excepting the Edo State governor, demanded, as a condition for peace in the Niger Delta, that Buhari's government should discontinue all corruption litigations against Niger Delta rogues, including "ex-militants", and the Minister of State for Pertroleum, Mr. Ibe Kachukwu, according to reports, sided with them! Pathetic give-away!
* Kachukwu declared at a town-hall meeting held recently at Uyo, Akwa Ibom, that he did not "care" about the N13 billion that an "ex-militant" from his State (Delta) was given by uncle GEJ for a piece of land in one village of the State for a Maritime University. He "does not care" that such huge amount of public funds could be given and taken fraudulently! I am distressed about his perception of corruption, being a key player in Buhari's government. Not upto N13 billion has been invested to build the university in GEJ's village since 2011! Kachukwu even boasted that if the Minister of Transport, under whose ministry the proposed university could have been housed, was not well-disposed towards it, he (Kachukwu) would "build it as a Petroleum University." What ignorance both in law and politics by a Law scholar! First, FG cannot develop the land in dispute and yet demand refund of the N13 billion. Second, there is already a University of Petroleum in Delta State; politically, you cannot expect another in the same state! By the way, who is Nigeria's president; Kachikwu? Political miscalculation! PMB must rein in his over-reaching ministers and demand harmony within his cabinet, otherwise his government can't stand.
Do you love, excuse or defend corruption? If you do, you are one of our numerous causes of headaches.
"Is he the only corrupt person; why can't they touch others too?" "PMB is being selective in his anti-corruption fight." "Na anti-corruption we go chop?" "Is Buhari a saint?" Alright, when you succeed in under-writing the expenses of bringing an angel down from heaven to fight corruption in Nigeria, then you can enlist me in the advocacy for him to run our affairs in Nigeria. You rebuke neighbors when they provoke you or others, don't you? Are you not being "selective" then? Are they the only provocative Nigerians?
But these also will pass away. Evil cannot prevail.
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