The attack on the Federal Government College, Buni Yadi, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State which claimed the lives of about 60 students still remains fresh in our memories, likewise many other attacks where the military were caught operating in unionism with Boko Haram fighters in a well embarrassing and disgracing fashion.
It still remains ambiguous on the motives and missions of Boko Haram, their unspecific attacks irrespective of gender, age, tribe or religion is worrisome, they remain anonymous after about five years of intensive bloody attacks, we are only being told that they are fighting a holy war to impose Islamic rule in Nigeria.
According to a recent survey by Amnesty International, dead figures as a result of Boko Haram activities from 2009-2014 were estimated at about 13,000 while more than 25,000 people sustained various degrees of injuries, and nearly 6m civilians are displaced and thousands in a critical need of humanitarian help.
Many successful coordinated attacks by the insurgents and the rising spates of wanton killings in the northeast raised several disturbing questions and solutions from all and sundry, Nigerians began scratching their heads wondering what the hell.
Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima, was the first to aired his frustrations regarding the poor handling of security situation by claiming the insurgents were better equipped and motivated than the military. This prompted a war of words between the Presidency and Gov Shatima to the extent Mr President threatened to withdraw troops out of Borno state and see if Shatima can survive it.
The then Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, equally voiced out his discomfort over Federal Government's ill-approach to the so-called fight against terrorism and claim that there may be Fifth Columnists sabotaging the efforts of the military from within, President Jonathan got so furious at Nyako and arranged for his impeachment.
As days gone by, the truth is now manifesting itself and Nyako's allegations has began coming out to the fore. The recent fighting between Boko Haram and the military in a border town of Gamboru Ngala which saw about 500 Nigerian troops crossed into Cameroon to escape from Boko Haram insurgents justified it all, it exposed the ill-equipping of the military and the lack of morale to confront the Boko Haram sect.
This well embarrassing retreat by government troops left many stories untold, it backed up the fact that the insurgents were more motivated than the military which government and top military leadership continuously disagreed upon.
The military headquarters denied these development, insisting the runaway soldiers found themselves in Cameron in a "tactical maneuver" while battling the insurgents, the military insisted that Nigerian troops found in Cameroon was as a result of a sustained battle between the troops and the terrorists around the borders with Cameroon, which saw the Nigerian troops charging through the borders in a "tactical maneuver".
There is nothing like tactical maneuver in this case, the real picture of the incident is that Nigerians troops were engaged in a gun duel at Gamboru -Ngala before the troops ran out of ammunitions and had to cross over the border into Cameroon to escape death and it was also gathered that the insurgents, while in Banki, overpowered the troops on ground by using rocket-propelled launchers and improvised explosive devices, while the troops managed to escape and flee towards several villages, before they entered Cameroon for safety.
By the way, let's first understand what "tactical maneuver" is before going into full business. According to my dictionary, "Tactical Maneuver: can be defined as the ability of small combat units to perform sophisticated tactical movement in order to increase the combat power of the units, thereby increasing the overall combat effectiveness of the army as a whole" but in this case, Nigerian troops were overpowered and opted to runaway into a nearby location seeking for safety. It was an open indication of inferiority in a shameful display of cowardice and a clear retreat without any attempt to increase the effectiveness of combat powers, it was just another show of unprofessionalism and lack of armaments.
Assuming we all agree with military that the troops crossed over to Cameroon on a tactical maneuver not on a retreat as it openly portraits, then why is the top military leadership arranging to court martial the returnee soldiers who fled into Cameroon? When did tactical maneuver became a punishable offence in the military?
The continuous denial of such national embarrassment within the top ranks of the military prompted many questions adding to the already existing unanswered ones, where government troops abandoned their duty posts hours before terrorist attack, despite prior notice from the attackers. What type of maneuver was it where troops miraculously disappeared at their duty station only to return after a terror attack?
Early on the 3 Dec 2013, the sect swept comfortably into Air Force base located near the Maiduguri airport. They left in their wake scores killed and five aircrafts razed. It was a stunning and embarrassing blow to Nigeria’s military pride, and it occurred with the armed forces firmly in charge of managing the war against the insurgents. Troops stationed at the base scampered into nearby buildings for safety. What type of maneuver is this?
On the Sunday morning of 17 Jun 2012, suicide bombers blew off two churches in Wusasa Zaria after sending a week long notice, all the military guards stationed to protect the area were seen packing hours before the attacks and when asked, they claimed to have received orders from above directing them to vacate Wusasa with immediate effect. Is this a deliberate plan to pave way for Boko Haram to strike or another tactical maneuver? Who ordered the military withdrawals?
On February 25, 2014, more than 60 students were massacred at the Federal Government College of Buni Yadi in Yobe State, where soldiers guarding the college miraculously disappeared hours before the attack. Did the soldiers went to pee at once or another tactical maneuver?
On 29 September 2013, Boko Haram gunmen entered the College of Agriculture in Gujba, Yobe State, killing about 70 students and teachers while soldiers at a military checkpoint attached to the college were nowhere to be found, only to return four hours after the attack. Where did the soldiers went to? Who directed their withdrawal? Were they also charging through a tactical maneuver?
On May 5, Boko Haram invaded an unprotected border town of Gamboru Ngala in Borno state. BBC Hausa Service reported that choppers hovered in the air while the attacks were ongoing, 300 people were killed, houses and a market burnt while soldiers helplessly watched and were ordered not to repel the insurgents nor render any assistance to those being attacked. Who ordered to stop the soldiers from engaging the terrorists at the time of attack? Can this also be another tactical maneuver?
General Muhammed Shuwa, was killed 2 November 2012, by gunmen believed to be members of Boko Haram sect in front of eight armed soldiers deployed to secure his residence. To the surprise of many, the armed soldiers watched helplessly as Gen Shuwa was being murdered, before later retreating to nearby buildings scampering for safety. Another tactical maneuver indeed.
On July 18, 2014, Armed gunmen numbering about 200, that were reportedly on a revenge mission, stormed the 33 Armoured Brigade, Damboa and the Divisional Police Station at about 5pm in Toyota Hilux vehicles, destroying the Divisional Police Headquarters, market, shops, houses, vehicles and killed many troops and policemen. How on earth could the military watch helplessly while Boko Haram were destroying a police base right adjacent to the military barrack? Yet, another tactical maneuver.
On the 14th of March, 2014, members of the Boko Haram terrorist group launched an attack on Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri, Borno State. The mission was to free many of their members who had been captured and held in the detention facilities in the barracks, which resulted to the lost of over three hundreds souls.
Interestingly, the attack was even videoed by the insurgents, thus showing the world how easily and unchallenged they operates, it further showcased how sophisticated their artillery is.
On the night of 14-15 April 2014, 276 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, the kidnapping occurred in an audible distance from a military base, but the terrorists succeeded in packaging 276 virgins into trucks and drove away unchallenged. A military officer revealed how they were stopped from rescuing the girls, he said and i quote; "we were ordered to arrest the vehicles carrying those girls but just as we started the mission, another order was issued that we should pull back. I can assure you, nobody gave us any directives to look for anybody.” Who issued the withdrawal order? I can see another tactical maneuver here.
On May 18th, 2014, the National Premium Post, Nigeria daily online newspaper, published army Generals selling weapons to Boko Haram, (nine serving Generals to face court-martial for treason). Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Minimah leads the investigation but was later debunked as rumours.
These scenarios and more further illustrated the best possible examples where Nigerian troops were caught blatantly in or on the verge of scandalizing an offence, in which the military will vacate their duty post to pave way for Boko Haram insurgents to operates in an unchallenged free reign.
Although it will be unfair to blame our gallant forces at war front for such recklessness, whoever found himself in their shoes would beat a retreat in the face of superior firepower.
They would definitely runaway or surrender before the insurgents who joyfully embrace death if they see no reason to die for their country, the issue of lack of welfare and motivation may be a determining factors for the troops to retreat but nevertheless, it's the business of the military to forfeit their lives in fighting enemies from within and outside to defend the sovereignty of a nation, likewise the most highest punishable offence in the military is when a soldier turned his tail before an enemy.
Tensions are now high among Nigerians about the disturbing increase of unseen hands manipulating the security situations currently ravaging Nigeria. We now have to contend with reports of about 500 soldiers abandoning their location and charged into Cameron to flee Boko Haram assault leaving Gamboru Ngala and some nearby villages at the mercy of the insurgents, in what was also termed as tactical maneuver not retreat.
With how things are now unfolding, the military high command needs to look inward in order to be able to contain the activities of Boko Haram. There is no doubt that with the various ambushes and surprise attacks on military formations, there are saboteurs within the military itself.
Corruption, impunity and government insensitivity has brought Nigeria to its knees. The government is intentionally not committed to end these nuisance called Boko Haram, those who have stolen the monies meant for security are well-known but the government is so care less to demand accountability. Those in authorities do not care to halt the menace of terrorism but rather concerned on how to deceive Nigerians using Boko Haram to loot public funds.
There's need to restrategize the entire military and other security agencies to meet the contemporary demand of social and economic challenges, as nothing can stop Boko Haram except a woeful defeat which can never be achieved with the current set of armaments and kindergarten leadership.
Unlike other terrorist groups across the world, Boko Haram's agendas and modus operandi are unique, they are an unappeasable adversary that wouldn't want to settle for anything less than victory, not even a draw.
The Federal Government most rise to curtail the increasing attacks on Nigerians and their properties, and most stop the blame game and politicking with the blood of Nigerians.
Sunday, 31 August 2014
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
A Warning To Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN).
Attention: Dr. Udenta O Udenta.
Our attention has been brought to a series of dubious media advertisements sponsored by some scrupulous elements within the presidency, to launder the image of President Gudluck Jonathan under the seeming of Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN).
TAN is a non-governmental organization launched by some close associates of President Jonathan whom are immensely benefiting from the paste-up of ethnic division, corruption and impunity which the present day leadership nurtured to it hindmost advantage.
It is a movement setup and fully sponsored by the presidency to sell Jonathan to Nigerians and drum support for his 2nd term bid, all their activities and operations are in every respect covered by the presidency using taxpayers money.
They (TAN) are engaged in a deceptive "tactical maneuver" of sponsoring media campaigns and organizing rallies all over the nation to solicit support for President Jonathan's 2nd term bid which hasn't even been made official, their dubious campaigns to deceive local electorates to vote Jonathan come 2015 isn't only worrisome but disastrous for Nigeria's peace, stability and oneness co-existence which is been threatened by the present regime.
On this note, Social Movement for Change (SMC) is cautioning TAN to desist from campaigning on behalf of Nigerians, they should henceforth stop using the word "Nigerians Demand" in their dubious activities, they are TAN not Nigerians and they aren't in anyway in the best position to speak for Nigerians.
Nigerians hasn't demanded any presidential candidate yet, they will do so at the polling units not via government owned propaganda and no group has the right to speak on Nigerian's behalf, we will no longer tolerate further abuse by TAN and their sponsors.
This further bespeak Jonathan's desperation to hold unto power in a "do or die" affair not minding what his citizens are going through, instead of him to strengthen efforts in halting the rising spate of terrorism currently ravaging the country, he's here bankrolling movements with state funds just to propitiate his selfish political desires.
We also call on TAN and anyone associated with Gudluck Jonathan to advice him on ways to right his leadership wrongs and act more of a president and only then Nigerians will demand his return, not wasting public resources in propagating fabricated lies on electronic medias while forgotten more than half of Nigerians doesn't even have enough electricity to see or listen to those dubious adverts.
We equally call on President Jonathan to rule upto what is expected of him and focus more on delivering democratic dividends to his electorates, he should be more of a president than a mere democratic doormat acting the scripts of some corrupt opportunist that only cares about the weight of their bank accounts while the citizenry are living in squalor.
Finally, we wish to call on Nigerians to unite against politicking with state resources, they should rise and fight Nigeria's common enemies, and any attempt to sabotage the sovereignty of the Federal Republic of Nigeria must not be compromise. They must defend Nigeria's unity, and uphold her honour and glory.
Social Movement for Change also wish to re-affirm it commitments to the fight for a greater Nigeria where impunity and political rascalities would not be accommodated but a Nigeria where peace, justice and unity shall reign.
We are urging Nigerians to live in peace, let's uphold that culture of being our brother's keepers and love one another.
God bless Nigeria.
God bless SMC.
Signed.
Usama A. Dandare
National Coordinator,
Social Movement for Change (SMC).
www.smchange.blogspot.com
socialmovementforchange@gmail.com
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
Mainasara Jonathan, The Grand Commander Of 'Unfulfilled Promises' By Usama Dandare
"The days promises were made, definitely comes and emerged in a broad day light leaving the promisor in shyness." ~ Hausa proverb
Saturday 16th April, 2011 was a memorable joy for the Jonathanians (core Jonathan supporters) when Gudluck Ebele Jonathan was declared President elect and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but a day to remember for many who lost their loved ones and properties to the post-election violence that erupted after declaring Jonathan's victory, which was widely viewed unfair.
It is imperative to note here that many Jonathan's die hard supporters overwhelmingly voted him not for his credibility or track records, nor for any of his core values but purely based on sentiments about personalities, religion and ethnicity which Jonathan conscientiously nurtured to his hindmost advantage.
As a nation in a state of comatose like ours, i think growing our democracy to achieve a situation whereby leaders are voted on the basis of merit, integrity, track record and morality will be the only way to progress but not sentiments.
President Jonathan is about rounding up his four years tenure with only some few months to go as the number one citizen of the most populous black country on earth. It is quintessential at this contingency to reflect rearmost and assess the journey so far, bisect his campaign promises, scrutinate his encompassments and miscues at full-time.
It is also expedient to scale that while campaigning, the captain piloting the transformation train made voluminous amphibological promises that were not easy to measure because in essence, they were just broad sweeping statement, with no targets neither direction. The aim here was to make it difficult for Nigerians to measure his performance or easily detect his fiasco, due to the fuzzy nature of the promises.
Let me tell you this for free. The Presidential vuvuzelas and his table members has forgotten to remind him of his numerous promises, instead they are ramified in praise singing and blaming others for the sinful failures of their boss, they are all products of an evil system benefiting from the paste-up of ethnic division, corruption and impunity.
With much reverence, let's now reflect posterior to the promises made by President Jonathan during his 2011 campaign and assay his efforts in fulfilling those promises.
President Jonathan is yet to recall most of his campaign promises not to think of delivering on them, his promise of building an airport in every state most be in the bin and even if built, would airports in every state benefit our local economies? Who are the passengers to sustain these airports, the people living in squalor or who? In a nation where 2/3 of it citizens lives below the poverty level, won't it be nice to renew the dilapidated road networks than building airports in all the states with no planes?
The all embarrassing phenomena called rail transport in Nigeria has been generating a lot of noise, the recent transformation in Nigeria's rail sector is deceptive and fly-by-night. You expect me to applaud a transformation that brought Locomotives at a price higher than that of modern bullet trains? Well knowing there's no company on earth that manufacture locomotives, they are outdated and unused. What the transformation agents did was to go round the world in search of scrap locomotives, refurbished them and brought them to Nigeria as new trains at a miraculous price while the rest of the funds goes to their offshore accounts. Haven't you wondered how Jonathan's trains rides slowly like those in the 70's? A train ride from Ilorin- Lagos takes almost 19 hours while a bus ride on the same route would be about 4 hours, and you called this transformation? Transcommotion indeed.
In Uyo, he promised to build coastal roads and rail from Lagos to Calabar, in Awka he promised to construct all major roads which link Anambra with its neighbors and complete the Onitsha Inland Port. He equally promised to provide potable water to Onitsha and Nnewi cities and tackle erosion in the South-East; in Dutse, Jonathan promised to establish airports in all the states without airports, with Jigawa as his starting point. He also promised to establish a secretariat for ALL Federal government's agencies and parastatals in Ebonyi. All this promises has been blown away by the winds.
President Jonathan promised to complete and dualized Enugu-Abakaliki road within one year of his Presidency. Years after, the Ebonyi state government have to bear the N6.8billion contract sum for the road having been tired of waiting for President Jonathan. The Lagos- Jebba rail project, Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Road, Abuja-Lokoja road among other roads are all neglected promises of Jonathan's administration.
Has Mr forgotten the promise he made to construct a new rail line from Kaura Namoda to Illela in Sokoto state? He promised to dredge the River Niger; build a dry port; complete the Second Niger Bridge; rehabilitate all the main roads into Abia and tackle the erosion crisis. Work on the 2nd Niger bridge has commenced but has been stopped few days after takeoff.
On the issue of power supply, Jonathan promised that Nigerians would no longer talk of generators and that he would end the ebolatic power shortages in his one term of office. Astonishingly, it only remains some eight months for Jonathan to vacate office and Nigerians are still battling to own generators, the 4,000MW inherited by Jonathan has consistently dropped below 2,000MW. In fact, the Presidency and PHCN also have generators as major source of power supply, while the government-funded PHCN serves as stand-by, and Nigerians spends trillions of Naira yearly to run diesel generators.
The petroleum industry is yet another measure of Jonathan's failure to deliver on most of his campaign promises. Jonathan promised that all our existing refineries will be rehabilitated by March 2013 and three new ones to be built by 2014 that can refine 1m bpd. And here we are, the existing refineries are completely neglected and none is working to full capacity not to mention of building new ones. Nigeria produced about 2.55m bpd in 2011, it reduced to about 2.52m bpd in 2012, then to 1.89m bpd in 2013 and now to about 1.2m bpd all under Jonathan's stewardship. Instead, Nigerians have seen a hike in fuel prices from N65 in 2007 to N141 in 2012 and N97 after a protest by Nigerians. We are still waiting for the Petrochemical plant Jonathan promised to build in order to create jobs.
Interestingly, a poor son of a canoe maker is now governing a government that has no sympathy for the poor. I did expect Jonathan to atleast if not anything fight poverty that forced him went to school without shoes, but he has now forgotten those days and decided not to take a revenge against poverty. Mr President has done nothing to alleviate poverty, his vuvuzelas has failed to remind him of his promise to the Plateau people to launch a straight fight against poverty. According to a recent survey by the United Nation (UN), over 100m Nigerians lives below the poverty line of $1 per day but we are hearing of a purported 2% decrease in poverty which is very shameful for any responsible government.
Under Jonathan's tyranny, unemployment in Nigeria has grown from about 21% to an estimated 38.7% with little or no jobs for the youths and unemployed. He has only succeeded in worsening the terrible condition of joblessness within our youths. What happens to the promise he made to create 3m jobs annually?
President Jonathan promised to curtail kidnapping in Aba and Enugu, he promised to stamp fulani heardsmen from murdering innocent citizens in Benue and Taraba, he also promised the people of Zamfara that his government will flush out those behind killings by unknown gunmen but today, all these criminals are having a field day slaughtering and murdering Nigerians in a free reign with impunity. As you all know, terrorist activities are on the increasing without any serious efforts by the government to halt the ugly situation, bomb blast has became part of our daily lives and has no way out unless to wait for our killers to come knocking.
The President is himself scared to visit some part of the country for fear of terrorists attacks but he keeps parading that all is well, he seems to be undisturbed by the spates of attacks on Nigerians killing thousands and annihilating properties worth billions. Whenever terrorists struck, Mr President will be seen attending parties and political rallies without any sign of sadness in his face.
Neither us nor anyone in the administration of President Jonathan has enjoyed relative peace and stability since swearing in of Jonathan as head of state, there have been countless promises by the president to tackle the ugly menace of insecurity ravaging the once most peaceful nation: Few minutes after the October 1, 2010 multiple bomb blasts at the Eagle Square in Abuja, President Jonathan assured Nigerians that the perpetrators of the act will be brought to justice. He said, "These are terrorists. We know them, we know their sponsors, we are on their trail and by God's grace, some of them will face the law."
Again, President Jonathan assured Nigerians that the perpetrators will be brought to book after another bomb went off at the Police headquarters. He said, "There shall be no sacred cows. All, no matter how remotely connected to these incidents, must be brought to justice. They must be made to pay. No one, and we repeat, no one, can make this nation ungovernable."
He promised that an era of transformation will not waver in that commitment nor allow any force hamper that resolve to bring about those positive changes that the common man in Nigeria desires and has patiently waited for.
President Jonathan promised the people of Benue state a five-year plan to revolutionize agriculture and establish industries in the country as well as complete the Otukpo irrigation project, he also assured that the Jada irrigation project and Kafin Zaki dam in Taraba, Adamawa and Bauchi would be pursued to boost agriculture and industrial development; In Lokoja on February 21, he promised to explore the agricultural potential of the state to boost food security; in Ilorin, also on Feb 21, he promised to grant loans to farmers and ensure the agricultural transformation of Kwara State and in Jos on February 17, he promised to build more dams and complete ongoing ones in order to boost irrigation farming in Plateau; he also promised to encourage the establishment of more agricultural research institutes. None of these promises have been fulfilled.
The transformer continued to pour in promises: In Osogbo on March 2, he promised to complete the Lagos-Jebba rail project right away and to complete the Ife-Ijesa dam; at the Northern Economic Summit, Kaduna, on March 19, Jonathan promised to spend N350 billion in building small dams across the North in the next four years to stimulate “massive irrigational farms”; in Benue, he promised that the Benue Bridge projects will be worked on in the next four years; also in Kwara State, President Jonathan pledged that the Jebba-Mokwa road and Jebba Bridge would be given adequate attention to ease transportation; in Sokoto, he promised to rehabilitate the abandoned Shagari irrigation project and fight the menace of desertification in the country. We are still waiting, Nigerians are waiting.
Education is given less or no priority by the present day leadership despite under the watch of Ph.D holder, president Jonathan in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, promised an aggregate review of the nation’s education policy but all we got was a year long strike by University and Polytechnic lecturers for Jonathan's inability to provide a conducive atmosphere for tertiary education to prosper. No need of further argument here, you are all living witnesses of the terrible conditions of our education system.
President Jonathan promised to “create jobs” so sa to strengthen the nation's economy. He pledged to refocus on the solid mineral development and launch “a straight fight” against poverty; to create wealth by improving power and water supply; on February 24, Mr. President pledged to rehabilitate all ailing industries in Aba and make Aba the hub aircraft production in Nigeria; in Asaba, he revealed that “The NNPC is developing a new programme that will absorb about 5,000 youths in the state” and promised to unveil a five-year development plan; in Ondo, he promised the exploitation of the vast bitumen deposits; in Katsina, he promised to enhance the living standard of Nigerians through implementation of people-oriented programmes and in Kano, he pledged to encourage the development of small and medium scale enterprises; during the one-man presidential debate on March 31 in Abuja, he promised to expand and develop the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry to provide about one million jobs.
In Lagos on February 28, Jonathan promised to partner with Lagos State in the interest of its continuous growth and the nation’s economic buoyancy. “We have taken this period to study what we are going to do and by your mandate in May 29, we will hit the ground running,” he said. On Feb 21 in Ilorin, he promised to tackle poverty and revitalize ailing industries; in Abuja on March 21 at a meeting with leaders of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, he promised to build car manufacturing or assembly plants. All this promises are not only unfulfilled, but forgotten by Mr President.
Amazingly, President Jonathan's dubious promises weren't focused on health and the failed promisor didn't regards healthcare as part of his transformation, making few promises on health; On the 25th of Feb 2011 in Abakaliki, he promised the South East geo-political zone that his administration will give much priority in healthcare delivery. The current strike action by Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) says it all, President Jonathan has woefully failed to deliver the services needed for the nation's healthcare sector.
The vague and bulky nature of Jonathan's campaign promises made it almost impossible to list them all at once, these are just a few of them and many yet to be compiled.
A successful and great first term always deserves another but i don't think a failed first term deserve a second chance. I see no reason to warrant the return of Jonathan as Nigeria's President come 2015, Nigerians must realize the fact that he is yet to deliver 10% of his campaign promises and if he can't deliver them in his first term, what's the possibility of him to fulfill them if given a second chance? Having already began making new promises for his re-election bid. "It is only the fool’s sheep that break loose twice."
Although, i wasn't surprise to witnessed Jonathan's leadership failures as he were a product of the most corrupt political platform that houses criminals whom only specialized in looting national resources with impunity, it has always been predicted that "when the chameleon brings forth a child, is not that child expected to dance?" President Jonathan is only acting the scripts of his political party but nothing more.
How long must feverish birds trouble in silence before their keeper? When will Jonathan realize the trauma and calamities he plunged Nigeria into? Nigerians are dying in their numbers, poverty is ravaging the entire citizenry, unemployment on the increase, nothing seem to be alright in Nigeria but yet, some co-devils benefiting from the rascalities of this current regime are up drumming support for their uncharismatic paymaster.
The Jonathanians should know that the "sky is falling is not the problem of one person." Their efforts to return Jonathan just to continue duping Nigerians off their wealth isn't only uncalled for, the nemesis of failed leadership must surely affect all and sundry either directly or indirectly. Dividing Nigeria along ethno religious boundaries for political purposes will have a huge dangerous effect on their lives now or in the near future, the violence that will erupt as a result won't only affect the common man but Nigerians as a whole irrespective of class, religion, tribe and gender.
What Nigerians need to do to salvage their future from destruction come 2015 is very simple, vote Jonathan and his devilish PDP out of the system and see how Nigeria must change from bad to good.
Saturday 16th April, 2011 was a memorable joy for the Jonathanians (core Jonathan supporters) when Gudluck Ebele Jonathan was declared President elect and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but a day to remember for many who lost their loved ones and properties to the post-election violence that erupted after declaring Jonathan's victory, which was widely viewed unfair.
It is imperative to note here that many Jonathan's die hard supporters overwhelmingly voted him not for his credibility or track records, nor for any of his core values but purely based on sentiments about personalities, religion and ethnicity which Jonathan conscientiously nurtured to his hindmost advantage.
As a nation in a state of comatose like ours, i think growing our democracy to achieve a situation whereby leaders are voted on the basis of merit, integrity, track record and morality will be the only way to progress but not sentiments.
President Jonathan is about rounding up his four years tenure with only some few months to go as the number one citizen of the most populous black country on earth. It is quintessential at this contingency to reflect rearmost and assess the journey so far, bisect his campaign promises, scrutinate his encompassments and miscues at full-time.
It is also expedient to scale that while campaigning, the captain piloting the transformation train made voluminous amphibological promises that were not easy to measure because in essence, they were just broad sweeping statement, with no targets neither direction. The aim here was to make it difficult for Nigerians to measure his performance or easily detect his fiasco, due to the fuzzy nature of the promises.
Let me tell you this for free. The Presidential vuvuzelas and his table members has forgotten to remind him of his numerous promises, instead they are ramified in praise singing and blaming others for the sinful failures of their boss, they are all products of an evil system benefiting from the paste-up of ethnic division, corruption and impunity.
With much reverence, let's now reflect posterior to the promises made by President Jonathan during his 2011 campaign and assay his efforts in fulfilling those promises.
President Jonathan is yet to recall most of his campaign promises not to think of delivering on them, his promise of building an airport in every state most be in the bin and even if built, would airports in every state benefit our local economies? Who are the passengers to sustain these airports, the people living in squalor or who? In a nation where 2/3 of it citizens lives below the poverty level, won't it be nice to renew the dilapidated road networks than building airports in all the states with no planes?
The all embarrassing phenomena called rail transport in Nigeria has been generating a lot of noise, the recent transformation in Nigeria's rail sector is deceptive and fly-by-night. You expect me to applaud a transformation that brought Locomotives at a price higher than that of modern bullet trains? Well knowing there's no company on earth that manufacture locomotives, they are outdated and unused. What the transformation agents did was to go round the world in search of scrap locomotives, refurbished them and brought them to Nigeria as new trains at a miraculous price while the rest of the funds goes to their offshore accounts. Haven't you wondered how Jonathan's trains rides slowly like those in the 70's? A train ride from Ilorin- Lagos takes almost 19 hours while a bus ride on the same route would be about 4 hours, and you called this transformation? Transcommotion indeed.
In Uyo, he promised to build coastal roads and rail from Lagos to Calabar, in Awka he promised to construct all major roads which link Anambra with its neighbors and complete the Onitsha Inland Port. He equally promised to provide potable water to Onitsha and Nnewi cities and tackle erosion in the South-East; in Dutse, Jonathan promised to establish airports in all the states without airports, with Jigawa as his starting point. He also promised to establish a secretariat for ALL Federal government's agencies and parastatals in Ebonyi. All this promises has been blown away by the winds.
President Jonathan promised to complete and dualized Enugu-Abakaliki road within one year of his Presidency. Years after, the Ebonyi state government have to bear the N6.8billion contract sum for the road having been tired of waiting for President Jonathan. The Lagos- Jebba rail project, Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Road, Abuja-Lokoja road among other roads are all neglected promises of Jonathan's administration.
Has Mr forgotten the promise he made to construct a new rail line from Kaura Namoda to Illela in Sokoto state? He promised to dredge the River Niger; build a dry port; complete the Second Niger Bridge; rehabilitate all the main roads into Abia and tackle the erosion crisis. Work on the 2nd Niger bridge has commenced but has been stopped few days after takeoff.
On the issue of power supply, Jonathan promised that Nigerians would no longer talk of generators and that he would end the ebolatic power shortages in his one term of office. Astonishingly, it only remains some eight months for Jonathan to vacate office and Nigerians are still battling to own generators, the 4,000MW inherited by Jonathan has consistently dropped below 2,000MW. In fact, the Presidency and PHCN also have generators as major source of power supply, while the government-funded PHCN serves as stand-by, and Nigerians spends trillions of Naira yearly to run diesel generators.
The petroleum industry is yet another measure of Jonathan's failure to deliver on most of his campaign promises. Jonathan promised that all our existing refineries will be rehabilitated by March 2013 and three new ones to be built by 2014 that can refine 1m bpd. And here we are, the existing refineries are completely neglected and none is working to full capacity not to mention of building new ones. Nigeria produced about 2.55m bpd in 2011, it reduced to about 2.52m bpd in 2012, then to 1.89m bpd in 2013 and now to about 1.2m bpd all under Jonathan's stewardship. Instead, Nigerians have seen a hike in fuel prices from N65 in 2007 to N141 in 2012 and N97 after a protest by Nigerians. We are still waiting for the Petrochemical plant Jonathan promised to build in order to create jobs.
Interestingly, a poor son of a canoe maker is now governing a government that has no sympathy for the poor. I did expect Jonathan to atleast if not anything fight poverty that forced him went to school without shoes, but he has now forgotten those days and decided not to take a revenge against poverty. Mr President has done nothing to alleviate poverty, his vuvuzelas has failed to remind him of his promise to the Plateau people to launch a straight fight against poverty. According to a recent survey by the United Nation (UN), over 100m Nigerians lives below the poverty line of $1 per day but we are hearing of a purported 2% decrease in poverty which is very shameful for any responsible government.
Under Jonathan's tyranny, unemployment in Nigeria has grown from about 21% to an estimated 38.7% with little or no jobs for the youths and unemployed. He has only succeeded in worsening the terrible condition of joblessness within our youths. What happens to the promise he made to create 3m jobs annually?
President Jonathan promised to curtail kidnapping in Aba and Enugu, he promised to stamp fulani heardsmen from murdering innocent citizens in Benue and Taraba, he also promised the people of Zamfara that his government will flush out those behind killings by unknown gunmen but today, all these criminals are having a field day slaughtering and murdering Nigerians in a free reign with impunity. As you all know, terrorist activities are on the increasing without any serious efforts by the government to halt the ugly situation, bomb blast has became part of our daily lives and has no way out unless to wait for our killers to come knocking.
The President is himself scared to visit some part of the country for fear of terrorists attacks but he keeps parading that all is well, he seems to be undisturbed by the spates of attacks on Nigerians killing thousands and annihilating properties worth billions. Whenever terrorists struck, Mr President will be seen attending parties and political rallies without any sign of sadness in his face.
Neither us nor anyone in the administration of President Jonathan has enjoyed relative peace and stability since swearing in of Jonathan as head of state, there have been countless promises by the president to tackle the ugly menace of insecurity ravaging the once most peaceful nation: Few minutes after the October 1, 2010 multiple bomb blasts at the Eagle Square in Abuja, President Jonathan assured Nigerians that the perpetrators of the act will be brought to justice. He said, "These are terrorists. We know them, we know their sponsors, we are on their trail and by God's grace, some of them will face the law."
Again, President Jonathan assured Nigerians that the perpetrators will be brought to book after another bomb went off at the Police headquarters. He said, "There shall be no sacred cows. All, no matter how remotely connected to these incidents, must be brought to justice. They must be made to pay. No one, and we repeat, no one, can make this nation ungovernable."
He promised that an era of transformation will not waver in that commitment nor allow any force hamper that resolve to bring about those positive changes that the common man in Nigeria desires and has patiently waited for.
President Jonathan promised the people of Benue state a five-year plan to revolutionize agriculture and establish industries in the country as well as complete the Otukpo irrigation project, he also assured that the Jada irrigation project and Kafin Zaki dam in Taraba, Adamawa and Bauchi would be pursued to boost agriculture and industrial development; In Lokoja on February 21, he promised to explore the agricultural potential of the state to boost food security; in Ilorin, also on Feb 21, he promised to grant loans to farmers and ensure the agricultural transformation of Kwara State and in Jos on February 17, he promised to build more dams and complete ongoing ones in order to boost irrigation farming in Plateau; he also promised to encourage the establishment of more agricultural research institutes. None of these promises have been fulfilled.
The transformer continued to pour in promises: In Osogbo on March 2, he promised to complete the Lagos-Jebba rail project right away and to complete the Ife-Ijesa dam; at the Northern Economic Summit, Kaduna, on March 19, Jonathan promised to spend N350 billion in building small dams across the North in the next four years to stimulate “massive irrigational farms”; in Benue, he promised that the Benue Bridge projects will be worked on in the next four years; also in Kwara State, President Jonathan pledged that the Jebba-Mokwa road and Jebba Bridge would be given adequate attention to ease transportation; in Sokoto, he promised to rehabilitate the abandoned Shagari irrigation project and fight the menace of desertification in the country. We are still waiting, Nigerians are waiting.
Education is given less or no priority by the present day leadership despite under the watch of Ph.D holder, president Jonathan in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, promised an aggregate review of the nation’s education policy but all we got was a year long strike by University and Polytechnic lecturers for Jonathan's inability to provide a conducive atmosphere for tertiary education to prosper. No need of further argument here, you are all living witnesses of the terrible conditions of our education system.
President Jonathan promised to “create jobs” so sa to strengthen the nation's economy. He pledged to refocus on the solid mineral development and launch “a straight fight” against poverty; to create wealth by improving power and water supply; on February 24, Mr. President pledged to rehabilitate all ailing industries in Aba and make Aba the hub aircraft production in Nigeria; in Asaba, he revealed that “The NNPC is developing a new programme that will absorb about 5,000 youths in the state” and promised to unveil a five-year development plan; in Ondo, he promised the exploitation of the vast bitumen deposits; in Katsina, he promised to enhance the living standard of Nigerians through implementation of people-oriented programmes and in Kano, he pledged to encourage the development of small and medium scale enterprises; during the one-man presidential debate on March 31 in Abuja, he promised to expand and develop the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry to provide about one million jobs.
In Lagos on February 28, Jonathan promised to partner with Lagos State in the interest of its continuous growth and the nation’s economic buoyancy. “We have taken this period to study what we are going to do and by your mandate in May 29, we will hit the ground running,” he said. On Feb 21 in Ilorin, he promised to tackle poverty and revitalize ailing industries; in Abuja on March 21 at a meeting with leaders of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, he promised to build car manufacturing or assembly plants. All this promises are not only unfulfilled, but forgotten by Mr President.
Amazingly, President Jonathan's dubious promises weren't focused on health and the failed promisor didn't regards healthcare as part of his transformation, making few promises on health; On the 25th of Feb 2011 in Abakaliki, he promised the South East geo-political zone that his administration will give much priority in healthcare delivery. The current strike action by Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) says it all, President Jonathan has woefully failed to deliver the services needed for the nation's healthcare sector.
The vague and bulky nature of Jonathan's campaign promises made it almost impossible to list them all at once, these are just a few of them and many yet to be compiled.
A successful and great first term always deserves another but i don't think a failed first term deserve a second chance. I see no reason to warrant the return of Jonathan as Nigeria's President come 2015, Nigerians must realize the fact that he is yet to deliver 10% of his campaign promises and if he can't deliver them in his first term, what's the possibility of him to fulfill them if given a second chance? Having already began making new promises for his re-election bid. "It is only the fool’s sheep that break loose twice."
Although, i wasn't surprise to witnessed Jonathan's leadership failures as he were a product of the most corrupt political platform that houses criminals whom only specialized in looting national resources with impunity, it has always been predicted that "when the chameleon brings forth a child, is not that child expected to dance?" President Jonathan is only acting the scripts of his political party but nothing more.
How long must feverish birds trouble in silence before their keeper? When will Jonathan realize the trauma and calamities he plunged Nigeria into? Nigerians are dying in their numbers, poverty is ravaging the entire citizenry, unemployment on the increase, nothing seem to be alright in Nigeria but yet, some co-devils benefiting from the rascalities of this current regime are up drumming support for their uncharismatic paymaster.
The Jonathanians should know that the "sky is falling is not the problem of one person." Their efforts to return Jonathan just to continue duping Nigerians off their wealth isn't only uncalled for, the nemesis of failed leadership must surely affect all and sundry either directly or indirectly. Dividing Nigeria along ethno religious boundaries for political purposes will have a huge dangerous effect on their lives now or in the near future, the violence that will erupt as a result won't only affect the common man but Nigerians as a whole irrespective of class, religion, tribe and gender.
What Nigerians need to do to salvage their future from destruction come 2015 is very simple, vote Jonathan and his devilish PDP out of the system and see how Nigeria must change from bad to good.
Tuesday, 5 August 2014
Asari Dokubo, His Conspiracy And The Haramites Of Boko ~ Usama Dandare.
05/08/2014
Let me start by reprobating the unprofessional oversight of Nigerian journalists that made an opinion leader out of a terrorist whom in any serious nation, should be cooling his head on a life sentence or should've been hanged to dead for effectuating treason against the laws of the land and his committed series of deadly crimes against humanity.
Permit me to briefly introduce the so-called founder of the terrorist group Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF) and a self acclaimed Muslim with unislamic proclivity in the person of Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo, a condemned criminal and a high profile terrorist licensed with a direct access in and out of Nigeria's Presidential Villa, a Militant who killed uncountable number of people and Nigeria's security personnels with impunity, and has carried out or conspired many terror attacks on Nigeria and its institutions. He's to Nigeria more or less what Al-shabab is to Somalia or what Taliban is to Afghanistan, he's causing more harm to Nigeria's unity than Boko Haram and Ombatse cultists combined.
For those who doesn't know, Asari Dokubo received his earlier Islamic education from the then Boko Haram founded Mohammed Yusuf while his stay in Borno, the home of the dreaded bloodthirsty terrorist group Boko Haram and later lived in the same cell with Mohammed Yusuf while serving a jail sentence.
Asari Dokubo has also voluntarily confessed to have received terrorism and insurgency training in the Republic of Libya for several years and had received funding from late Muammar Al-Qaddafi to promote his terror group Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Muammar Al-Qaddafi was widely known as the sponsor and founder of terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Lest we forget, Asari Dokubo has promise to wipe out the Federal Republic of Nigeria if President Jonathan fails to win the 2015 Presidential election saying "He will make Nigeria a history if Jonathan didn't win 2015" and i am afraid, only a terrorist can uttered such threat to a nation's national unity and security.
Asari Dokubo was arrested and detained in Benin Republic some months ago for allegedly trying to smuggled weapons into Nigeria, if not for the intervention of President Jonathan who stood firm to get Asari out of the whole mess and transported him back home aboard Nigeria's presidential jet.
It has therefore became necessary to ask a few questions: was Asari Dokubo released alongside his weapons? What purpose were the weapons for? Was Asari awarded a contract to procure arms for Nigerian security forces? Why didn't the Nigerian government prosecute for an attempt importation of dangerous arms into the country?
Asari Dokubo was widely known for his tumultous and ill-mannered utterances. He's fun of using the repugnant, astringent and opprobrious language to address issues, so much so that sometimes it seems as if he is on the terminus of hysteria.
The latest of such was Asari's outburst following the failed assassination attempt on General Mohammadu Buhari in Kaduna state where a suicide bomber detonated an explosive targeting a convoy conveying General Buhari.
I think Asari Dokubo has translucently gone maniacal since the failed assassination attempt. His uneasiness since the attack portrayed him as someone caught by guilty conscious? He'd never transorted that way on any terror attack in Nigeria.
Why would Asari Dokubo suggest that the assassination attempt on General Buhari by a suicidal bomber was staged managed by the General himself, his baseless reasons were such that Buhari was not known to be using an armoured plated vehicle before the incident.
How was Asari Dokubo able to know the movement and conditions of General Buhari’s vehicles?
Convincingly, Asari Dokubo knows many untold stories behind terrorism in Nigeria! Why Asari Dokubo has been so jittery since the attack on General Buhari? He needs to be arrested and force to explain everything he knew about General Buhari’s security prior to the dastardly attack on him.
By claiming he knows Buhari very well and that the General doesn't use bullet-proof cars except on that particular date, it axiomatically corroborated that Asari Dokubo has been monitoring the movements and personal activities of the General but if not, why was Asari fuming and angry that General Buhari and his aides did not die so much so that he had to call a press conference to express his anger and frustration?
Lest we forget, this same Asari Dokubo threatened the lives of General Buhari along with other Hausa/Fulani northern politicians and leaders if President Jonathan did not win the 2015 presidential election and as such, it became imperative to suspect Asari Dokubo with link in any attack on General Buhari.
It is also obligatory and de rigueur to canvass the international communities and the world to help Nigeria unearth every fact and truth relating to the security crisis in the country, which also makes it imperious to revisit Obasanjo's letter and Nyako's memo.
Finally, the Nigerian security forces should as a matter of imminence, commence inquiries and investigations into Asari Dokubo's possible involvement in undermining the sovereignty of Nigeria and possibly his copula with the haramites of Boko.
Usama A. Dandare
@osadaby
05/08/2014
Let me start by reprobating the unprofessional oversight of Nigerian journalists that made an opinion leader out of a terrorist whom in any serious nation, should be cooling his head on a life sentence or should've been hanged to dead for effectuating treason against the laws of the land and his committed series of deadly crimes against humanity.
Permit me to briefly introduce the so-called founder of the terrorist group Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF) and a self acclaimed Muslim with unislamic proclivity in the person of Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo, a condemned criminal and a high profile terrorist licensed with a direct access in and out of Nigeria's Presidential Villa, a Militant who killed uncountable number of people and Nigeria's security personnels with impunity, and has carried out or conspired many terror attacks on Nigeria and its institutions. He's to Nigeria more or less what Al-shabab is to Somalia or what Taliban is to Afghanistan, he's causing more harm to Nigeria's unity than Boko Haram and Ombatse cultists combined.
For those who doesn't know, Asari Dokubo received his earlier Islamic education from the then Boko Haram founded Mohammed Yusuf while his stay in Borno, the home of the dreaded bloodthirsty terrorist group Boko Haram and later lived in the same cell with Mohammed Yusuf while serving a jail sentence.
Asari Dokubo has also voluntarily confessed to have received terrorism and insurgency training in the Republic of Libya for several years and had received funding from late Muammar Al-Qaddafi to promote his terror group Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Muammar Al-Qaddafi was widely known as the sponsor and founder of terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Lest we forget, Asari Dokubo has promise to wipe out the Federal Republic of Nigeria if President Jonathan fails to win the 2015 Presidential election saying "He will make Nigeria a history if Jonathan didn't win 2015" and i am afraid, only a terrorist can uttered such threat to a nation's national unity and security.
Asari Dokubo was arrested and detained in Benin Republic some months ago for allegedly trying to smuggled weapons into Nigeria, if not for the intervention of President Jonathan who stood firm to get Asari out of the whole mess and transported him back home aboard Nigeria's presidential jet.
It has therefore became necessary to ask a few questions: was Asari Dokubo released alongside his weapons? What purpose were the weapons for? Was Asari awarded a contract to procure arms for Nigerian security forces? Why didn't the Nigerian government prosecute for an attempt importation of dangerous arms into the country?
Asari Dokubo was widely known for his tumultous and ill-mannered utterances. He's fun of using the repugnant, astringent and opprobrious language to address issues, so much so that sometimes it seems as if he is on the terminus of hysteria.
The latest of such was Asari's outburst following the failed assassination attempt on General Mohammadu Buhari in Kaduna state where a suicide bomber detonated an explosive targeting a convoy conveying General Buhari.
I think Asari Dokubo has translucently gone maniacal since the failed assassination attempt. His uneasiness since the attack portrayed him as someone caught by guilty conscious? He'd never transorted that way on any terror attack in Nigeria.
Why would Asari Dokubo suggest that the assassination attempt on General Buhari by a suicidal bomber was staged managed by the General himself, his baseless reasons were such that Buhari was not known to be using an armoured plated vehicle before the incident.
How was Asari Dokubo able to know the movement and conditions of General Buhari’s vehicles?
Convincingly, Asari Dokubo knows many untold stories behind terrorism in Nigeria! Why Asari Dokubo has been so jittery since the attack on General Buhari? He needs to be arrested and force to explain everything he knew about General Buhari’s security prior to the dastardly attack on him.
By claiming he knows Buhari very well and that the General doesn't use bullet-proof cars except on that particular date, it axiomatically corroborated that Asari Dokubo has been monitoring the movements and personal activities of the General but if not, why was Asari fuming and angry that General Buhari and his aides did not die so much so that he had to call a press conference to express his anger and frustration?
Lest we forget, this same Asari Dokubo threatened the lives of General Buhari along with other Hausa/Fulani northern politicians and leaders if President Jonathan did not win the 2015 presidential election and as such, it became imperative to suspect Asari Dokubo with link in any attack on General Buhari.
It is also obligatory and de rigueur to canvass the international communities and the world to help Nigeria unearth every fact and truth relating to the security crisis in the country, which also makes it imperious to revisit Obasanjo's letter and Nyako's memo.
Finally, the Nigerian security forces should as a matter of imminence, commence inquiries and investigations into Asari Dokubo's possible involvement in undermining the sovereignty of Nigeria and possibly his copula with the haramites of Boko.
Usama A. Dandare
@osadaby
05/08/2014
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