Our President Took All The Christmas Toys And Left Us None

Posted: Dec, 26 2013, 3:12PM
By Dr. Peregrino Brimah

This September it was announced that the Malawi government was selling their presidential jet to use the proceeds, $15 million to feed the poor. The proceeds will be used to purchase maize locally and some for legume production. President, Mrs. Joyce Banda, said the cost of running the jet was too much and as such she was selling it to help feed the 10% suffering from food shortage in the African nation.

President Banda also cut her salary by 30 percent and pledged to sell off 35 Mercedes Benz cars used by her cabinet.

Nigeria according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has 112 million poor with 100 million ‘destitute,’ living under a dollar a day. The number of poor has doubled since 2004, midway into the predecessor Obasanjo’s government, when the number stood at 54 million, to the present 112 million in 2013.

Despite Nigeria recording impressive economic growth, the wealth is simply not reaching the poor who are getting poorer and more desperate while the government and business friends of the government are getting stupendously rich, cutting up chunks of the nation’s resource and sharing its assets among themselves.


As the year 2013 draws to a close, Nigeria is promised more of the same. The government, unlike that of Malawi has budgeted to purchase another presidential jet to add to 10 jets already in the presidential fleet.

According to a recent report, the proposal for the new aircraft has already been included in the 2014 Appropriation Bill submitted to the National Assembly. This latest toy to be added to the presidential fleet will cost 1.5 billion naira.

It is no secret that most of these presidential jets are used for personal business including the ferrying of the president’s political campaigners and even for transporting questionable cabal, investigated for national fraud. In November 2012, Jide Omokore, a front-man of the Nigerian president and minister of petroleum was flying from Monaco to Paris when the presidential jet was detained for two days by the French authorities, as reported here.

As Nigeria’s military does a great job checking the atrocities of Boko Haram in the north east, several sources in the military have complained that they lack proper equipment. This has led to vulnerability to attack with the superiorly equipped Boko Haram being able to ambush and destroy military barracks’.

In the recent attack of a barrack in Bama in which several soldiers were killed and their family members burned alive, raped and also killed, it was reported that the base had only one armored personnel carrier (APC). Most of the equipment used by the Nigerian army was purchased since the Shagari regime.

The battle against terror can never be won by military force alone, however it is almost unheard of for rebel forces to sack military barracks. Even if the army falls short in protecting civilian villages, it is expected that they are armed and equipped enough to protect themselves. However Nigeria’s government satisfies itself, getting all the toys, in private jets for politics and business and bullet proof cars, while the army is left exposed and civilians suffer living under a dollar a day without things as simple as drinking water.

It is true that the raping of Nigeria did not start with this or the immediate previous governments during this 6th republic; however Nigerians are tired of being raped. It is no excuse that because others from other ethnic groups have forcefully seized power via coups and raped the country, that the people must open up to all 500 ethnic groups to rape the nation’s people, civilian and military in succession.

While many in urban areas and the totally abandoned villages will be going to bed with empty stomachs, lit kerosene lamps and no hope of employment and restitution, those in the corridors of power sleep once again with all the latest toys.

While the army at war stays up at night afraid that Boko Haram terrorists will sweep their camps, lacking in craft, APC’s, drones and modern technology to keep them ahead in the war, Nigeria’s leaders will fly high-speed and happy in latest jets and drive safe in their bullet proof jeeps.

We pray for a miracle in 2014. We pray the Lord will give us leaders who will not free convicted murderers, but will help us arrest and lock up all the government thieves of the past… lockup the cabal thieves as the poor thieves are locked up today, for what is mete for the poor is likewise mete for the rich.

We pray the Lord replaces this crop with leaders who will start the process of cleaning up the oil polluted swamps of the Niger Delta. Who will protect the gold mining poisoned children of Zamfara. Who will repair government assets and not sell them to their friends to extort us in unregulated monopolies. Who will create a path to create jobs for our 50% unemployed Youth. Who will resurrect our police force, equipping them with the toys and decent wages they need to work proud and effectively in curbing crime. Who will build roads without taxing us and even build subway systems. Who will encourage the setting up of automobile industries in pure competitive fashion, without first punishing us by banning us from importing cars we manage; while they hand themselves unlimited waivers.

We pray the Good Lord will abruptly seize power from the wicked and give it to people with kind hearts, selfless nature and astute judgment, people like Malawi’s President, Joyce Banda, for we cannot last like this much longer.

And we pray the Good Lord strengthen each and every one of us to stand up and say NO! And demand our rightful toys. To resist temptations of xenophobic stupidity which make us complacent to corruption and rape when it is ‘one of ours.’ We pray for progress.

Dr. Peregrino Brimah
http://ENDS.ng [Every Nigerian Do Something]
Email: drbrimah@ends.ng Twitter: @EveryNigerian

Despite Nigeria recording impressive economic growth, the wealth is simply not reaching the poor who are getting poorer and more desperatewhile the government and business friends of the government are getting stupendously rich, cutting up chunks of the nation’s resource and sharing its assets among themselves.

Sincere 9gerian:

** FG distributes 10,500 bags of fertilisers to farmers in Sokoto.

December 25, 2013 by NAN

The Federal Government on Wednesday distributed 10,500 bags of assorted fertiliser to 3,500 irrigation farmers in Kware local government area of Sokoto State.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the ceremony, which took place at Kware town, the headquarters of the local government Area, was presided over by Dr Jubril Enesi, the state Director, Federal Ministry of Agriculture.

Enesi, who was represented by Mr Abubakar Mohammed, said that the gesture was extended to the beneficiaries under the Growth Enhancement Support scheme of the Federal Government.

He said that each of the beneficiaries was given two bags of NPK fertiliser, one bag of Urea, a 25kg bag of rice seeds and two 2-litre cans of agrolyser nutrients.

“The three bags of fertiliser and the agrolyser were subdised by 50 per cent by the Federal Government, while the rice seeds are free,”he added.

Enesi said that the gesture was aimed at encouraging more Nigerians to engage in all-year round farming activities.

“This is to further guarantee the food security of the country, as the need for food is next to nothing,” he said.

The Chairman of the local government, Alhaji Abubakar Zamau, and the District Head of Kware, Alhaji Aliyu Abubakar, commended the Federal Government for the gesture.

They warned the beneficiaries against selling the commodities, so as not to cause any setback to the government’s laudable policy.

In a bid to realise the goal of ensuring self-sufficiency in rice production by 2015, the Federal Government said it is targeting the production of 1.6million metric tonnes of paddy rice during this dry season farming. About 1.1 million metric tonnes of paddy rice were produced in 10 selected Northern States, in the 2013 dry season rice farming

http://www.punchng.com/news/fg-distributes-10500-bags-of-fertilisers-to-farmers-in-sokoto/
http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/12/fg-eyes-1-6mmt-dry-season-rice-production/

Sincere 9gerian:
** 3,000 Employees Of SURE-P In Oyo Set To Receive Monthly Stipends Directly From Abuja
http://www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/news/item/9152-oyo-sure-p-explains-delay-in-payment-of-allowances

** 3,000 SURE-P Employees Begin Work In Ekiti
http://www.leadership.ng/nga/articles/51023/2013/03/27/3000_surep_employees_begin_work_ekiti.html

** Kebbi SURE-P engages 3,000 youths
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news-extra/kebbi-sure-p-engages-3000-youths/

** SURE-P: FG deploys 3,000 youths in Edo
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/02/sure-p-fg-deploys-3000-youths-in-edo/

** SURE-P Registers 3,000 In Benue
http://www.nigerianpilot.com/sure-p-registers-3000-in-benue/

** 3000 SURE- P Jobs For Youths In Katsina- FG
http://www.naijafreejobs.com/3000-sure-p-jobs-for-youths-in-katsina-fg/

This cuts across all the states of federation, including the FCT

Sincere 9gerian:
** ...Govt to spend billions on weapons

on Monday, 23 December 2013 05:00

Written by Turaki A. Hassan

The Federal Government has allocated billions of naira in the 2014 budget for the procurement of weapons and security-related equipments for the various security agencies, an analysis of the budget has shown.

Details of the 2014 appropriation bill obtained by Daily Trust indicate that the government intends to purchase different calibre of arms, ammunitions, GSM tracking devices, anti-bomb equipments, armoured personnel carriers, anti-riot equipments, bullet proof vests, ballistic helmets and other related gadgets for security agencies next year.

According to the details of the N4.91trillion budget, the Nigerian Army will procure ammunition worth N697.7 million, while the army engineering corps will be commissioned to produce Armoured Personnel Carriers (APC) for the army at the cost of N100 million.

For the Navy, the government will acquire two offshore patrol vessels worth N5.2 billion while ship spare parts will gulp N2.7 billion.

The Nigerian Air Force is allocated the sum of N286.4 million for the procurement of MI-34/35 helicopters, N1.8 billion for the purchase of six MI-35M helicopters, N1.5 billion for the maintenance of Alpha jets, while the quick response force will purchase equipment worth N301 million.

In the same vein, the Air Force will renovate its arctic L-39ZA AC for N1.3 billion and maintain the super puma for N324.5 million.

The Defence Industries Corporation Kaduna is allocated N300 million for the procurement and installation of 7.62 by 39m production line, another N150 million for the procurement of raw materials for the operation of the 7.62 by 39M new production line.

The office of the National Security Adviser will conduct a security programme for N5.1 billion in 2014, purchase security equipments worth N837.3 million, N2 billion will go for its emergency response centre, N1.2 billion will be spend by the NSA on NICEP II security elevation phase II and N11 billion for the purchase of enhanced and specialized security gadgets.

The Directorate of State Service (DSS) has a security vote of N3.3 billion; N2.89 billion will be use to buy security equipment, N425.6 for the procurement of Polaris mass location and wireless tracking system, strontium sky digit recovery system for N359 million, mobile hammers N412 million, GSM intercept will gulp N359 million.

Also, the DSS intend to procure fire arms worth N350 million, disaster recovery centre construction will cost N200 million, building of five detention centres at the six geo-political zones will cost N150 million and V-sat software purchase will gulp N50 million.

The Nigerian Intelligence Agency has a total budget of N36.9 billion of which N3.9 billion will go for enhanced field communication, while secure email encryption infrastructure will cost N1.6 billion.

The Nigeria Police formation and commands will procure BMW operation vehicles for N112.7 million, Armoured land cruiser vehicles for GSM tracking N107.8 million, patrol vehicles N202.6 million, specialized operational vehicles N222.6 million, arms and ammunition N277.9 million riot control equipments worth N193.9 million, and ballistic helmets and bullet proof vests for N297.5 million.

Similarly, the police will also purchase DNA equipments for N68.6 million, explosive ordinance disposal for N163.7 million, security intelligence for N144.1 million, GSM tracking for N167.7, million and communication equipment for N183 million among others.

The Defence Intelligence Agency is allocated N7.4 billion, Defence Intelligence school got N363 million while the Command and Staff College Jaji got N3.2 billion, National Defence College got N6.9 billion, Nigerian Defence Academy got N8 billion, Nigerian airforce got N73.302 billion, Nigerian Navy got N70.2 billion, Ministry of Defence got N23.2 billion while the Defence Headquarters got N1.8 billion.

http://dailytrust.info/index.php/news/12849-govt-to-spend-billions-on-weapons

Pukkah:

Just wait for a few days, no, minutes, and you'll see some of them come here to attack this thread or its creator; or the source and/or the author of the article, using all manner of their usual tricks - diversion, distraction, evading the issue, character assassination, etc



Honestly, I tire!

aventura: If you ask a Nigerian what the main problem of Nigeria is, They tell you it's CORRUPTION.

Nigerians should realize that CORRUPTION is part of the problem, but not the main problem.

Nigerians main problem is the POLITICIANS. It's like this:


POLITICIANS--beget--ETHNIC/RELIGIUOS BIGOTRY--beget--CORRUPTION.

Our POLITICIANS are on top of the food chain. If we shun tribal sentiments at the polls we would not elect misfits as leaders. CORRUPTION is the final product of the equation.

Nigeria's problem is not Jonathan, Jonathan is part of the problem. Jonathan constitutes to 10% of Nigeria's problem. The other 90% are the POLITICIANS that have ruled the country since the 60s. Jonathan and all POLITICIANS must die for sanity to return to the country.

Sincere 9gerian: Mission accomplished. This thread can now rest in peace.

However, if the thread makes front page, the posts I made above will provide readers with all sides of the story.

Sincere 9gerian: Mission accomplished. This thread can now rest in peace.

However, if the thread makes front page, the posts I made above will provide readers with all sides of the story.

Gbawe:

Joker. As if anyone takes your and your corrupt 'Messiah' seriously. That crap you posted above is if only fit for the toilet. Only clannish and ethnocentric posters read your garbage, lies and propaganda. The entire world can't be wrong about your ultra-corrupt boss even if you and other amoral liars come here daily to lick azz and launder image.

aventura: If you ask a Nigerian what the main problem of Nigeria is, They tell you it's CORRUPTION.

Nigerians should realize that CORRUPTION is part of the problem, but not the main problem.

Nigerians main problem is the POLITICIANS. It's like this:


POLITICIANS--beget--ETHNIC/RELIGIUOS BIGOTRY--beget--CORRUPTION.

Our POLITICIANS are on top of the food chain. If we shun tribal sentiments at the polls we would not elect misfits as leaders. CORRUPTION is the final product of the equation.

Nigeria's problem is not Jonathan, Jonathan is part of the problem. Jonathan constitutes to 10% of Nigeria's problem. The other 90% are the POLITICIANS that have ruled the country since the 60s. Jonathan and all POLITICIANS must die for sanity to return to the country.

Gbawe:

Certainly GEJ is on his way out but what will linger in the memory of kingmakers, to ensure his kind will never see power again

nku5:

This caught my attention. Please who are kingmakers in the land?