by [color=#990000][/color][b][/b]John Okiyi Kalu


There is this piece circulating online on army promotions under General Ihejirika. The author, apparently sponsored by faceless failures, alleged that Ihejirika was promoting his Igbo brothers over Northerners to achieve an "Igbo agenda".

Here is what I know.

Unlike other past Army Chiefs, Ihejirika insisted on competence and merit as a basis for promotion to very senior positions in the Nigerian Army. To give teeth to that policy and engender competence and professionalism­, he invited an external body to administer promotion examination for those within the relevant cadres.

If Igbo or Yoruba man passed that exam and the author's sponsors fail to make it, should we promote the olodos and sacrifice competence and professionalism­? All the while "federal character" and "we we" were used as basis to promote all manner of misfits in the army, how did Nigeria benefit? Apart from coup plotting induced pot bellies and class looting of the nation, what did we gain from past promotions?

Let the author of that vile piece summon the courage to publish all promotions made in the Army from 1979 to date. It will help the whole world see why everything is wrong with Nigeria. Don't forget that even out of power, militicians replaced themselves with their civilian minions made up of slightly more incompetent people at all levels. Even then they still find themselves retiring and contesting elections to continue the suffocation of Nigeria to death. To them, merit is haram.

For Christ sake people should also stop insulting our sensibilities by flaunting fake population figures in public discussions. We are not in the dark ages and anyone who cares to know the truth about Nigeria's population should simply go to google earth and see how many buildings are there from Abuja to Sokoto. Even the British have long accepted complicity in this census fraud. I challenge any living Nigerian to swear that those figures we bandy about as census figures truly represent Nigeria's population distribution. If you lie let your story be Nigeria's story. Great potentials but negative growth for 52 years.

Let it be known that any system that is based on merit will favor the Igbo man and competence driven Nigerians, naturally. If the rest of the country is not ready for merit based progress let them reconsider keeping Igbos in Nigeria. It is wrong to force them to remain in Nigeria while living in mortal fear of them. Like I've said severally, a key reason Nigeria is not moving forward remains her fear of the Igbo man. That mind set have led to a situation where every single national system must have a viral program that says "keep Igbos down". A country committed to keeping one section down will remain down to keep that section down. It is better to seat down and tell them to go and form their own country so that those who choose to remain will progress (or retrogress) without Igbophobia.

Even our national football team is now a victim of this "I love, I no love" attitude towards Igbos. One so called activist recently posted thrash on how the match allowance paid to the national ogbono team mean enriching the Igbo nation. The emergency activist forgot that the glorious USA 94 team was also an "Igbo team". With the exception of Yekini and 2 others,, the rest of those who made up the first team were of Igbo Origin. I can tell anyone without fear of contradiction that the team excelled because Westerhoff made his team selection based on merit. All the coaches after him were forced to operate under the "national agenda".

Not long ago, we saw similar propaganda being circulated against the former head of immigration. She was sacked two weeks ago. It was also deployed against Barth Nnaji and he lost out. Such propaganda is hardly deployed against the locust and cankerworm of the Nigerian nation. They can steal N37b police pension money and get 2 years with option of N750k fine. Billions of new naira notes can disappear at CBN and nobody will talk about the CBN governor but EFCC will look for Soludo over N750m contract awarded by Obasanjo.

Sincerely, if Nigeria is not ready for merit based growth and development, let's sit down and talk. Lord Luggard's 100 years expires next year, 2014. If because of hypocrisy we cannot shake hands and say "you are still my brother no matter your new republic" let us agree a regional government where each region pursues the type of development suited to it. While some might choose the Sharia model, others will be free to pursue Awolowo style development socialism or apply the American Capitalist model based on merit and competence. If one region is making progress others will copy or at least visit that region to borrow wisdom. Who knows, after AD 2140, our great grand children might decide to come together and propagate and pursue merit as a basis for reward, promotion and appointments..

God forbid that my children will belong to a country where merit and competence are punished.

Make una respect una self with Ihejirika. To avoid "in those days when Igbos were here".

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JOK 1/2/13

chukkynwob: by [color=#990000][/color][b][/b]John Okiyi Kalu


There is this piece circulating online on army promotions under General Ihejirika. The author, apparently sponsored by faceless failures, alleged that Ihejirika was promoting his Igbo brothers over Northerners to achieve an "Igbo agenda".

Here is what I know.

Unlike other past Army Chiefs, Ihejirika insisted on competence and merit as a basis for promotion to very senior positions in the Nigerian Army. To give teeth to that policy and engender competence and professionalism­, he invited an external body to administer promotion examination for those within the relevant cadres.

If Igbo or Yoruba man passed that exam and the author's sponsors fail to make it, should we promote the olodos and sacrifice competence and professionalism­? All the while "federal character" and "we we" were used as basis to promote all manner of misfits in the army, how did Nigeria benefit? Apart from coup plotting induced pot bellies and class looting of the nation, what did we gain from past promotions?

Let the author of that vile piece summon the courage to publish all promotions made in the Army from 1979 to date. It will help the whole world see why everything is wrong with Nigeria. Don't forget that even out of power, militicians replaced themselves with their civilian minions made up of slightly more incompetent people at all levels. Even then they still find themselves retiring and contesting elections to continue the suffocation of Nigeria to death. To them, merit is haram.

For Christ sake people should also stop insulting our sensibilities by flaunting fake population figures in public discussions. We are not in the dark ages and anyone who cares to know the truth about Nigeria's population should simply go to google earth and see how many buildings are there from Abuja to Sokoto. Even the British have long accepted complicity in this census fraud. I challenge any living Nigerian to swear that those figures we bandy about as census figures truly represent Nigeria's population distribution. If you lie let your story be Nigeria's story. Great potentials but negative growth for 52 years.

Let it be known that any system that is based on merit will favor the Igbo man and competence driven Nigerians, naturally. If the rest of the country is not ready for merit based progress let them reconsider keeping Igbos in Nigeria. It is wrong to force them to remain in Nigeria while living in mortal fear of them. Like I've said severally, a key reason Nigeria is not moving forward remains her fear of the Igbo man. That mind set have led to a situation where every single national system must have a viral program that says "keep Igbos down". A country committed to keeping one section down will remain down to keep that section down. It is better to seat down and tell them to go and form their own country so that those who choose to remain will progress (or retrogress) without Igbophobia.

Even our national football team is now a victim of this "I love, I no love" attitude towards Igbos. One so called activist recently posted thrash on how the match allowance paid to the national ogbono team mean enriching the Igbo nation. The emergency activist forgot that the glorious USA 94 team was also an "Igbo team". With the exception of Yekini and 2 others,, the rest of those who made up the first team were of Igbo Origin. I can tell anyone without fear of contradiction that the team excelled because Westerhoff made his team selection based on merit. All the coaches after him were forced to operate under the "national agenda".

Not long ago, we saw similar propaganda being circulated against the former head of immigration. She was sacked two weeks ago. It was also deployed against Barth Nnaji and he lost out. Such propaganda is hardly deployed against the locust and cankerworm of the Nigerian nation. They can steal N37b police pension money and get 2 years with option of N750k fine. Billions of new naira notes can disappear at CBN and nobody will talk about the CBN governor but EFCC will look for Soludo over N750m contract awarded by Obasanjo.

Sincerely, if Nigeria is not ready for merit based growth and development, let's sit down and talk. Lord Luggard's 100 years expires next year, 2014. If because of hypocrisy we cannot shake hands and say "you are still my brother no matter your new republic" let us agree a regional government where each region pursues the type of development suited to it. While some might choose the Sharia model, others will be free to pursue Awolowo style development socialism or apply the American Capitalist model based on merit and competence. If one region is making progress others will copy or at least visit that region to borrow wisdom. Who knows, after AD 2140, our great grand children might decide to come together and propagate and pursue merit as a basis for reward, promotion and appointments..

God forbid that my children will belong to a country where merit and competence are punished.

Make una respect una self with Ihejirika. To avoid "in those days when Igbos were here".

.
JOK 1/2/13

Nigeria and war of words..... SMH.Lovely write-up by the way

Stop worrying yourself with this deceptive project called Nigeria. Thank GOD that we have amalgamation clause which we will invoke by January 2015 and every peace will reign.
The one Nigeria project is not working and can never work. The more you look the clearer it becomes that what we have today is a formula that favors laziness and rewards failure at the expense of excellence in the name of federal character. I was just wondering why we don't use federal character in the allocation of oil blocks.

1oracle: Stop worrying yourself with this deceptive project called Nigeria. Thank GOD that we have amalgamation clause which we will invoke by January 2015 and every peace will reign.
The one Nigeria project is not working and can never work. The more you look the clearer it becomes that what we have today is a formula that favors laziness and rewards failure at the expense of excellence in the name of federal character. I was just wondering why we don't use federal character in the allocation of oil blocks.

^^^On the bolded: not so fast mate.....if your reps in the senate and house of reps have anything to say about it, they could easily pass a motion overuling that amalgamation clause, saying that since they're the 'representatives' of Nigerians, they are well within their rights to do so; and the corruption, ethnicity, nepotism and murders of innocents that have been the hallmark of this country from the 50s to date can continue apace.

Merit based leadership is alien to North due to their inferiority complex and its attendant backwardness.the North is '0' and do not want to move ahead.

Woe betide nigeria if anything happens to Ihejirika.

Just arrived from somalia 6monutes ago. Actually I went to mogadish to learn the rudimernts of using bombs to enhance national unity and infrastructural development.

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LSI4SIGWTC: Laff Sotey i 4get Say i Graduate With Third Class

Abeg,they should leave ihejirika alone. Ozoemena!

why nigerian fear of igbo man

Nice post
Apt

Funny post ! Exam for army ?? So those people that do better in the exam are the ones that will return from Mali. Army work na exam?
The document circulating is obviously propaganda but you do not need to come here and tell stupid lies or say what you do not know just to be loyal

You claim that

chukkynwob: "To give teeth to that policy and engender competence and professionalism­, he invited an external body to administer promotion examination for those within the relevant cadres. Please tell us how you know this or is it a secret.

Since when did exams become the main criteria for promotions in the military?? Next thing you will be telling us Alex Ferguson does exam before selecting his team. We want to be fair to Igbos so let us be fair. Why must you tell us that when an Igbo man is promoted it is MERIT and when others are promoted it is nepotism. The truth is we do not have ANY information to make any judgement because the Army do not explain themselves to the public. At any rate the Army is a politicized institution and represents interests of the different ethnic groupss.Every one is trying to get an advantage and we do not pretend about it. If indeed Ihejirika is "correcting" previous wrongs so be it ,that is the nature of our country.It is his time. Please do not insult us with this MERIT CRAP we are not children?

Let us not in our zeal to defend "our brother" resort to the same slimy propangada .
You claim the Information against the Customs lady was "propaganda" how do you know this.

Why did Nnaji resign?? Do you know?? How do you know?? Who told you?

The issue of merit is a ruse. The population of Finland is about 5 million. This is slightly more than the average population of each state in Nigeria. There is therefore no geo-political zone that cannot produce ALL the officials that can turn Nigerian into a modern state. Marginalising some states in the name of MERIT or to discredit federal character in unwise given the massive unemployment in the country

Ghana has a system that is working for its economy, yet it has a population of less than one 6th of Nigeria's. There is nothing really very very special about any geo political zone in this country. We have more similarities than differences - colour, culture etc

The whites in the US have demonstrated (through technological accomplishments) that they are much different from us (Nigerians) than any group in Nigeria has demonstrated (through accomplishments) that is different from other groups in Nigeria. Were we to use the argument of distinctiveness therefore, there is no reason why any Nigerian should get a job working with whites in the US. They can always argue they can find a better whiteman which is the same argument for MERIT being put up here


BTW. Are contracts for road construction also based on MERIT?
Please comment on this

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news/federal-road-contracts-lopsided-say-senators/

Senators, including the vice chairman of the Works Committee, Basheer Mohammed, who presided over the budget defence session, Danjuma Goje, Bukar Abba Ibrahim, Enyinnaya Abaribe, Barnabas Gemade, Babafemi Ojudu and Ahmed Markafi, complained about the “glaring imbalance” in the allocation of projects in the 2013 fiscal year.
Goje asked the minister whether consideration is ever given to equity and fairness in the design of projects.
The former Gombe State governor insisted that the minister should furnish the committee with a comprehensive list of projects designed for zones and states.

He said: “Going through your proposal, you have roads under design. Some states appear twice and these designs will form the basis for future road projects.

If you don’t ensure equity and fairness, Mr. Minister, you are sowing the seed of disharmony in the country.
“If one state can get 20 to 30 road projects, the only one in my state has been discontinued; there is no fairness.
“I don’t want to mention the name of the state but Mr. minister, you know the state. You must ensure equity, you must ensure fairness; you must ensure justice.”
Mohammed demanded to know the criteria for allocation of projects “because some zones and states are crying of being left out in the allocation of projects”.

Abba Ibrahim wondered why Yobe State, where he hails from, should be “completely omitted in the allocation of projects”.
The former Yobe Governor noted that the only road project in his state had been abandoned.
Gemade wanted to know why some on-going projects in the 2012 budget disappeared from the 2013 project proposal.
The former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman also complained about a mix-up in location of projects.
He said a road in Zamfara State was listed for Northcentral. Another in Benue was said to be in the Northwest. Another in Edo, he said, was listed to be in Cross River.

Ojudu wondered why roads in Edo, Ondo, Lagos were listed for Ekiti State.
The Ekiti lawmaker told the minister to take particular interest in the road that link Ado Ekiti and Akure and the one that goes from Ekiti to Abuja which, he said are in a terrible state of disrepair.
Abaribe wondered why 25 roads meant for the Southeast geo-political zone were allocated to Enugu State alone. Only three were given to Imo State, two to Abia State and two to Ebonyi State.

Abaribe said: “Mr. Chairman, there is no way I can accept this. I can’t even comprehend this. How can we go home? What do we tell our people that all the projects meant for the Southeast were allocated to Enugu State? It is completely unacceptable.”
The Minister explained that the priority of his ministry was to complete on-going projects as directed by President Goodluck Jonathan.

He said Jonathan directed that all the roads, especially trunk A roads, must be made motorable.
He insisted that new roads were not accommodated in the budget proposal.
Onolememen said most of the projects the senators complained about were constituency projects.
But Abaribe faulted the explanation, insisting that constituency projects were shared equally to lawmakers.

advocate666: Woe betide nigeria if anything happens to Ihejirika.

+1000000

We need to pray for this country

if the pattern of coups in nigeria is anything to go by, then one can safely say if a coup happens now it will be done safe and clean and without ihejirika's involvement because he is trying hard to serve the rest of his years and retire safe.....he is not the type to rock the boat. coup planners usually pickan odd man to put on the leadership seat.

it happened with gowon, obasanjo, buhari, abacha.

if a coup happened today ihejirika could indeed end up a beneficiary. the question now is, will one happen? there are three events to watch closely

1. pib bill
2. bokoharam deal
3. mali contingent return back home

if nothing else, expect some boat rocking when these guys come back from mali. they will quickly learn in mali that while shedding blood fighting terrorists in another country, their own nation is rewarding and paying reparations to excused terrorists at home.

how do you reconcile that? thats going to brew some shyyt.

Lovely one @ ihejirika, if it is true

Load of rubbish. If other tribes are promoted, it is nepotism, if an ibo is promoted, it is merit. I say this is an insult on the other tribes. They'd sooner or later get what they asking for.

The fear of the igbo man is the beginning of being a balless coward! I just hope the witches and wizards who haunted Rose Uzoma will not dare go near Ihejirika! if not agha ga ebi kwa!

I said it, it only takes an igbo man to restore sanity to dis country. Ihejirika designed a system dat will be based on merit, igbos got d lion share. Same with old super eagles. Up igbos.
To the other ppl, keep on shining shoes for d bosses and federal character to survive.u ppl shd have supported biafra

We go negtiate nigeria by 2014 my igb brothers ndidi ka nma

Noise everywhere, God help us in this country

Wisdom says, "split Nigeria".

ladunsky: We need to pray for this country

Why should I join to pray for a cursed entity called Nigeria that has been rejected and forsaken by God?

PROUD-IGBO:


^^^On the bolded: not so fast mate.....if your reps in the senate and house of reps have anything to say about it, they could easily pass a motion overuling that amalgamation clause, saying that since they're the 'representatives' of Nigerians, they are well within their rights to do so; and the corruption, ethnicity, nepotism and murders of innocents that have been the hallmark of this country from the 50s to date can continue apace.

u know I keep telling people to forget that amalgamation clause but they don't listen. The clause is just anoda word on paper..

chosen04:

Why should I join to pray for a cursed entity called Nigeria that has been rejected and forsaken by God?

On point bro, i cant unstand y a nation that have received prayers this much doesnt get better. Even with d few,righteous ones therein.
Policies,fora,commitee,summit are present in Nigeria more dan any oda place,yet d prob is stl dere; reforms on mant tnz, privatization,etc have been dere since i was born,yet nothing to show for it.
I doubt If God supports Nigeria, he only supports us individually but as a country, no,no,no

how will someone tell me a promotion in the nigerian army is based on merit? With what exam?
I personally do not blame Ihijerika for the ethnic interest of his people cos when an Hausaman was there they did much more than Ihijerika likewise if it were to be Yorbubas.
Talking about quota system which is meant to be balanced, why do we have the grade A and sophisticated millitary base and training in the north than south?
Every ethnic group is just utilizing its oppurtinity. Merrit my ass!

^^^ I dont expect u n d non-igbos to understand this @ all. Am sure u bliv nothing in naija can/should be by merit but by nepotism and federal xter. This is jus d beginning of una end.
The guy didnt do it for igbos, he only introduced 'merit' tnz and igbos happened to dominate. Y wont dey dominate when they have been made perfect by forcing dem to work hard for every position they can occupy in Nigeria , while d oda groups benefit from cheap nepotism?
It is aversion of merit that introduced more non-igbos into super eagles and what is d result now? Mediocrity.
As a note of warning, no employee in naija shd do anything by merit unless he/she want igbos to dominate the arena. Rather, use nepotism and fed xter. Idiots.

Ngozi again? You don start again this year! This is what made u and i to gat a lil crap last year.
How will everything that favors the igbo tribe be base on merit and the ones that didn't favor them be base on nepotism, cronysism and favortism?
Are other tribes as lazy as you are making one to believe?

ngozievergreen: ^^^ I dont expect u n d non-igbos to understand this @ all. Am sure u bliv nothing in naija can/should be by merit but by nepotism and federal xter. This is jus d beginning of una end.
The guy didnt do it for igbos, he only introduced 'merit' tnz and igbos happened to dominate. Y wont dey dominate when they have been made perfect by forcing dem to work hard for every position they can occupy in Nigeria , while d oda groups benefit from cheap nepotism?
It is aversion of merit that introduced more non-igbos into super eagles and what is d result now? Mediocrity.
As a note of warning, no employee in naija shd do anything by merit unless he/she want igbos to dominate the arena. Rather, use nepotism and fed xter. Idiots.

Yes. Imagine if Seun employed by merit rather than by tribe. Nairaland would be competing against the likes of facebook today.

Tolexander: how will someone tell me a promotion in the nigerian army is based on merit? With what exam?
I personally do not blame Ihijerika for the ethnic interest of his people cos when an Hausaman was there they did much more than Ihijerika likewise if it were to be Yorbubas.
Talking about quota system which is meant to be balanced, why do we have the grade A and sophisticated millitary base and training in the north than south?
Every ethnic group is just utilizing its oppurtinity. Merrit my ass!

Do you think Oladipo Diya merited the title of General in the Nigerian Army?