Chidi,
Re - "A slogan is not a program, platitudes are not policies, and good intentions are not good governance" (Jaye Gaskia).
" to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?" (Hamlet)
Today an obstinate senate is preventing progress on the anti-corruption front.
The money.
Monies are missing just as Conversations with Wole Soyinka is missing from the great man Jeyifo Biodun 's CV, as lodged in his Harvard website. That is maybe an oversight caused by a surfeit of intellectual achievements on his part, whereas for an academic pauper like me with no kobos to count (only the widow's mite) that would be a one item for which I would like to have a standing ovation from here to eternity, so that when the Almighty asks what have you done, I could point to that and to some songs unsung.
For Muslims, there are the questions at the grave before ascending to paradise or down to the other place...
Unloading a little of the fury after reading the report you posted about "Niger Delta people suffering more than almajiris". I love the Ijaw people. I also love the seagulls...
In this epoch of pithy sayings I should just like to add another reality that cannot be denied : From the conscientious point of view, the looters are indeed the looters. Policy wants to recover as much of these looted national assets ("the national patrimony") as possible and that's why guys like Ogbeni Kadiri are fuming and praying that if Buhari can't then the Almighty should bring their planes ( the looters' planes) crashing down from the sky, give them whirlwinds for roads and rain down on them a full measure of the curses in Deuteronomy
We don't hear so much about Buhari's vice president Yemi Osinbajo , do we?
It should be good to hear from Ogbeni Kadiri about this - since he is a walking encyclopedia of Nigerian lore, that today, what is missing from Buhari is his side-man Tunde Idiagbon who was probably the driving moral force behind his e.g. War Against Indiscipline. When the duo took over on 31/12/1983 many civil servants in my neck of the Niger swamp had not been paid for months , but were still going to work and doing their patriotic duty/duties. Within two weeks of that coup civil servants had been paid a few months arrears and those people were singing to the Almighty, "God bless Buhari!" Within three weeks, the mountainous heaps of rubbish at Mile One Market in Port Harcourt, where mango trees had taken root, their leaves reaching for the sun – those rubbish heaps vanished within two days, cleared by decree that came from military headquarters.
Today : Buhari gives 5,000 naira to the poor
A problem : should big government in Nigeria be downsized, that would only add to the army of the unemployed….
Cherie Bondowe ( extolling prostitution? Circa 1975
On Wednesday, 4 January 2017 12:11:52 UTC+1, Chidi Anthony Opara wrote:
"Someone please tell APC-President Buhari that A slogan is not a program, platitudes are not policies, and good intentions are not good governance" (Jaye Gaskia).CAO.
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