Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Change is supposed to have come, so, what the hell is going on?

Nigerians have become so used to doing things against the rules that getting them to do things in accordance with the rules is resisted at every level. Many do not know that they are the ones that should change, what the leadership  is expected to do is provide the leadership. Check out filling stations in Anambra state at Easter, they decide change of price of  fuel depending on the flow of traffic.   On   Wednesday 23rd of march, the price was still N140. By thursday 24, they decided  the price will be N150 a litre, as if that was not enough, on Easter day the price changed to N160 a litre. The workers told me they are in season, that the price will reduce after Easter.  This is how we inflict pain on our fellows while expecting change that will fall from heaven. Come to the Universities, many students just come to class without proper registration of courses, they just present evidence of fees payment on the exam day and jump into the exam Hall, to the effect that a lecturer who thought he had about 50 students during the semester finds out that he /she has about 200 students on the exam day. Neither the school authorities nor the departments are ready to comply with the regulations provided the student paid fees, yet we are all expecting change that will fall from heaven. Check out the traffic police expected to help put order in the movement of vehicles at many intersections,  you find many of them pursuing motor drivers for handouts while traffic remains chaotic, yet they are all expecting change from Heaven. Until we understand that change means following the rules, and replacing order with chaos,  and doing what we expected to do as responsible citizens , we shall wait for this change for  a long time.

Nkolika

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From: Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com>
To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2016 11:33 PM
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Change is supposed to have come, so, what the hell is going on?

Chidi Anthony Opara was responding to one Mazi but what Mazi wrote to deserve his response has not been shared with us. However, CAO is now sharing his view with us that he did not believe in Buhari's change as canvassed during election campaign and therefore he is not disappointed that change is yet to come. His reason for not believing in Buhari's change was not based on the political, economic and judicial system in Nigeria but on Buhari's ability as a person. Consider the following: The Nigerian electorates voted APC into majority to take over the National Assembly but the will of the electorates for "change" after 16 years of PDP in power was immediately subverted when the old and new PDP took over the National Assembly. Therefore, laws that should be promulgated to bring about "change" are effectively blocked; The Nigerian courts have become cemeteries where justice and righteousness are buried with judges acting as undertakers and lawyers as grave diggers. Olusola Saraki's and Olisa Metuh's cases of corruption are just the tip of the iceberg to show how the judicial system is a big impediment to change in Nigeria. Olusola Saraki was arraigned for false declaration of assets at the CCT in September 2015, but instead of defending himself he has been shopping around for courts' verdicts to stop and quash the 13 counts charge against him. In one of his asset declaration form, he signed under oath that he had a house at No. 42 Gerald Road, Ikoyi from which he was earning an annual income of 110 million naira but on verification there were no tenants in the property which was an empty land at the time of declaration. A clear case of anticipatory corruption. In a civilised world, the case would not have taken more than a month. On Friday, 15 January 2016, Olisa Metuh was arraigned before Justice Okon Abang at an Abuja High Court. From the account of Office of the National Security Adviser with the Central Bank of Nigeria, the sum of 400 million naira was credited in 2014 to Metuh's account No. 0040437573 which his firm, Destra Investment Limited, operated with Diamond Bank Plc. It was part of the money set aside to procure weapons to fight Boko Haram. Metuh had been paid for doing nothing for ONSA. Metuh has pleaded not guilty but has employed every trick to frustrate the case. The latest chess drawn by him through his lawyer is that the trial judge was his classmate in the law school and as such he did not expect to get justice from him. He is demanding that the judge should excuse himself from the case. As long as Nigerians remain roadside poets chanting about no change instead of protesting against agents of status quo in corruption, there will be no change.
S.Kadiri 
 

> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 02:41:12 -0700
> From: chidi.opara@gmail.com
> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Change is supposed to have come, so, what the hell is going on?
>
> Mazi,
> I did not believe Buhari and his "change" choristers during the election campaign, so I.am not disappointed.
>
> CAO.
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