Ashafa;
The main burden of Nigeria today is the political part called PDP. The cabal of corruption has its root within the party. It calls itself the giant ruling party in Africa.
Mr. President came to prominence through the party. He knows all the cabal and those who are very corrupt in his party and those in his cabinet.
The party has majority in both senate and house of representatives. The president of senate and speaker of house of representatives are from PDP. There is no way they will impeach their leadership of corrupt practices because they belong to the same group. Birds of the same feather, they say, flock together.
The power to make things happen positively in the country is through the ballot box. The electorate must be properly educated and constant reorientation from the media will go a long way to sensitize the public.
You know poverty is rampant in the country and you know PDP has all the stolen money to bribe poor masses and any opposition from the public results to killing or murder because they want to win at all cost so that they call rule for 60 years or eternally.
The country needs a nonviolent form of revolution. All of us must face the monster called PDP. The party of come and chop. We must stop come and chop party in the country. The last national protest over the removal of fuel subsidy is what we need to make a change.
Segun Ogungbemi.
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Segun,
But how can we do or achieve that when the father of the nation (figuratively) cannot deal with erring sons and daughters, be the cabals or whatever? Nigerians should wake up from this state of complacency regarding national issues of importance that determines the survival of it in the best of traditions. Though multi-factorial, our national crisis seems to dovetail largely on this official corruption. Can you imagine a bloody Director having over 100 residential houses in choice areas in the Federal Capital and because he contributed in a way in the 'success' that brought in Mr President, then he should not be reprimanded and then we expect that every looter of national resources would not support to overload another lackey over the nation as an assurance of being insured/immuned from being reprimanded? Probing the so-called cabals by the President if he is willing can never be as impossible as licking one's elbow and Mr President should please go ahead to relief the nation of this unnecessary liability that draws us back.
--- On Wed, 2/22/12, Seguno2001@yahoo.com <seguno2001@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Seguno2001@yahoo.com <seguno2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - This Country Nigeria is a Farce!
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 11:12 AMProf;
You have shown that our leaders are not concerned for the well-being of the country.
Nothing wil come out concretely from the probes.
In my own little contribution to the Nigria project, Mr. President should conscentrate on one project like roads and complete.
That is what we need. He cannot fight corruption becsuse he will offend his friends, cronies, and cabals. It is the last thing he will contemplate of doing. He cannot bite the fingers that fed him before he became President.
What we need urgently is an avenue for Nigerians to decide how the country be governed properly.
Segun Ogungbemi.
a.dasylva@mail.ui.edu.ng wrote:
>So many things are wrong with the leadership of this otherwise great country. We have been taken for granted for a long time, and something drastic must be done about those in government. If they have no solution to the nation's hydr-headed problems then they have no business for the posts they are holding.
>The protest against the supposedly removal of the Oil subsidy led to a number of actions. A committee of the House of Rep which probed the activities of the oil sector, a major unit in the Ministry, revealed the scam.Besides the rot revealed by the panel what Nigerian are waiting for is definite actions on the proverbial "cabal", and a confirmation or confutation of the government's claims on oil subsidy. What we have got in the last two weeks, it has been one insult upon another: that an approval was given to buy a jeep for the Senators costing N16million each; that tarrif on energy consumption would increase by April and that Nigerians should celebrate becuse it will soon be generating 5000 megawatts; that Nigeria has to take another loan running to trillions naira to execute some projects; that the Senate detected some strange figures running into zillions of naira smuggled into the Budget, etc, etc.
>Will there ever be an end to all the stench? A serious probe which indicted a Ministry was going on the minister was not on Suspension? She was a judge in a case that apparently indicted her either as an accomplice to the heinous crime against the nation or crass negligence on her part, the so called government didn't see anything wrong with that! A country the President claimed would collapse if the oil subsidy was not removed, yet the only palliative we ever got went to the Senators by way of Car gifts that cost N16million for each senator, perhaps to make them look in the other way when the President seeks their endorsement on anything no matter how illogical.
>Towards the tail end of Obasanjo tenure, the issue of monitization came up for implementation. Guess what? Official residential quarters were sold to the senators and the Reps, at a every ridiculous rate,so I learnt! Any logic in that? A job that is understandably not a permanent one? So when new senators come in, they are settled in hotels and the bills keep rising!
>While Nigeria may roll out its drums to celebrate 5000megawatts, the State of Texas which is 2/3 the size of Nigeria a year or so ago was generating 61000 megawatts! Texas energy need was put at about 21 000 megawatts. Coal constituted about 60/100 of it energy generation. Ask the Nigerian government what has happened to the once popular coal mining at Udi hill in Enugu the coal city?
>This country Nigeria is a Farce!
>DAO
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Segun <Seguno2001@yahoo.com>
>Sender: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
>Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:27:15
>To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
>Reply-To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
>Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fuel subsidy palliatives not
> possible again - Jonathan
>
>The President must not deceive the nation. It is better he limits himself to those projects he can realistically complete and not white elephant ones. He has a name to protect and he must live up to it. If it is just our deplorable roads he can fix and fix properly let him do just that. See all roads constructed by Pa Awolowo in the defunct Western Region that last, that is what we need or something much better.
>Politicians in Nigeria should live up to the expectations of the people. The call to serve and not to loot the treasury should remain sacrosanct in the 21st century in Nigeria.
>The world is watching Nigeria. As I wake up here in Texas, I hope for better news from Nigeria that will sooth the sorrowful mind caused by ineffective leadership which has paved way for the dreadful Boko Haram sect to have a field day violent operation in the country.
>May the President hold his ground firmly on those issues that will make us to be proud of his administration.
>The world is watching and waiting for better positive things to happen in our beloved country.
>Prof. Segun Ogungbemi.
>
>
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>On Feb 21, 2012, at 9:04 AM, "Biodun Sowunmi " <sowunmi@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Fuel subsidy palliatives not possible again - Jonathan
>>
>> FEBRUARY 21, 2012 BY OLUSOLA FABIYI
>>
>> PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Monday said the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment programme promised by his administration was no longer realistic.
>>
>> The President said SURE was hurriedly conceptualised in January on the heels of the nationwide protest against the removal of the fuel subsidy. Jonathan added that the implementation was no longer feasible since the zero-subsidy policy planned by his administration was not being implemented.
>>
>> Jonathan spoke at the 58th National Executive Committee meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party where he ordered his party men to retrieve copies of a SURE publication that had been advertised.
>>
>> The PDP members had distributed the publication to attendees at the meeting, but on sighting the document the President expressed surprise and ordered that it should be withdrawn.
>>
>> The President said, "As I came in, I saw this SURE book being distributed, we are withdrawing it. This is the old one. We developed this with the expectation that we were going to completely deregulate the downstream sector of the oil industry, (after) the 100 per cent removal of subsidy.
>>
>> "You know we could not achieve that though there was an increase in the pump price. I don't want this thing to be distributed; it will give a wrong impression.
>>
>> "We are working on a new document based on the reality, but we don't want to promise what we will not achieve. Those who have it please withdraw it, we cannot realise the money that is stated therein, but we will still come up with a document based on what we get."
>>
>> Curiously, Jonathan had inaugurated a board for the implementation of the SURE programme barely a week ago, on February 13. The board is headed by a former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr. Christopher Kolade.
>>
>> Critics of the government and opposition parties had earlier predicted that the government could not be trusted to implement SURE which some of the critics had described as a "fraud".
>>
>> In the SURE document, which was distributed on Monday, government has put the total subsidy reinvestible funds at N1.134tn based on an average of $90 per barrel of crude oil.
>>
>> According to the document, out of the total, N478.49bn would accrue to the Federal Government, while state governments and local governments would get N411.03bn and N203.23bn respectively.
>>
>> The document adds that N9.86bn would go to the Federal Capital Territory while N31.37bn would be transferred to the Derivation and Ecology, Development of Natural Resources and Stabilisation Fund.
>>
>> Among the items the Federal Government promised to spend money on were the construction of the East-West Road; construction of some roads and bridges in the six geo-political zones of the country; and the completion of rail routes.
>>
>> The government also listed some of the irrigation projects it planned to embark on, promising that the revitalisation of the irrigation projects would increase the local production of rice by over 400,000 tonnes per year.
>>
>> The withdrawn document further adds that government will contribute to the power sector reforms by improving generation capacity through hydro and coal power plants.
>>
>> "The current subsidy regime in which fixed price is maintained irrespective of market realities has resulted in huge unsustainable subsidy burden," the document says.
>>
>> The government had on January 1, 2012 announced a total removal of subsidy on petrol but the consequent jump in the pump price of the product from N65 per litre to N141 had attracted nationwide protests and a strike action championed by organised labour and civil society groups.
>>
>> Following a week of paralysis in the socio-economic sector, the government on January 16 agreed to revert the price of petroleum to N97 per litre.
>>
>> The Federal Government, however, on February 15 proposed additional N656.3bn to the 2012 budget to cater for its subsidy on petrol.
>>
>> Jonathan's coordinating minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, had in a statement explained that the 2012 Fiscal Framework earlier submitted to the National Assembly assumed 100 per cent subsidy removal and that only N155bn was provided for the carry-over of 2011 subsidy payments.
>>
>> Okonjo-Iweala explained that the estimated total figure for subsidy in 2012 was N888bn, made up of N656.30bn for 2012 and N155bn as carry-over from 2011.
>>
>> Shedding light on the subsidy budget for 2012, the minister stated that the amount was arrived at after extensive consultations with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency.
>>
>>
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