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NigerianNews Letter to the Editor

December 31, 2007

Dear Editor,

Re: Removal of Ribadu: The Triumph of Aondoakaa and his Ruse of Law

I've said it before and i'm saying it again, NIGERIANNEWS IS OBJ MOUTHPIECE AND BENEFICIARY OF OBJ IN WHATEVER SECRET FORM!

All and everything that is hidden will surely be exposed sooner than later! By omission or commission, one day God will cause the power that be to appoint someone

who will call looters and criminals in governments and private sector to order and bring them to book! If not for God, the fate that befell us as a nation in April Elections Scam

will have befallen us the illegal third term project which NIGERIANNEWS was actively supporting, which it still with bold face said amendment of constitution is done worldwide as was to be done by OBJ, the paymaster of NIGERIANNEWS!

Sooner than later OBJ, his cronies as well as Ribadu and his accomplices in EFCC and ICPC will be exposed just like Abacha, the anti-corruption general and the only man without whom Nigeria will fall apart, is being exposed for who he was truly is! And all the members of federal and states executives as well as the legislators of the 36 states

and FCT in the last 20 years will be brought to book!

I thank God for the Amason in NAFDAC because even if she takes a leave today NAFDAC will still wax stronger as she has transformed it into an institution!

May God deliver our dear nation from IBB, OBJ, Ribadu, NIGERIANNEWS, etc who feel who personalise a suppose institutions, nation, etc.

God Bless Nigeria!

Samuel B.
samben70@yahoo.com

Editor's Reply:

Samuel B's Quote:
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All and everything that is hidden will surely be exposed sooner than later! By omission or commission, one day God will cause the power that be to appoint someone who will call looters and criminals in governments and private sector to order and bring them to book!
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TO WHICH WE SAY, PLEASE GOD ANSWER THE ABOVE PRAYER, AMEN!

Happy Holidays!!

Editor, NigerianNews
Unbridled and Unafraid

December 30, 2007

Dear Editor,

Nigerians are Truly Corrupt!

Of all the things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst. –Spurgeon
I read with amusement some months back in one of the dailies that the government demanded an apology from a South African legislator who advices some newly political appointees in his country to shun the way of the Nigerian politicians. If I were the politician, I will not apologize; I will reaffirm the statement and damn the consequence because it is true. We may continue to play the ostrich forgetting that others see us as we really are.

Our newspapers are replete with stories of corruption everyday. The world is no more a global village but a global sitting room apology to Rev. Mathew Kukah. Everyday news of corruption dominates the headlines. If it is not one governor siphoning his state monthly allocation to his private account, it will be legislators approving out of this world allowances for going to the house to warm benches.

At a time the news that dominated headlines was that of our Madam Ex Speaker who looked at the house vacated by her predecessor barely a month before her and decided =N=650 million plus was what could bring it to her standard! Jesus Christ, are we so bereft of decency that we don’t even squirm before we do some things? Some men devoid of morality had the effrontery to come out in her defense that the money expended was just over =N=500 million. What kind of stupid defense is that? =N=500 million is enough to build an estate for 300 families even in Lagos. The outgoing PDP chairman threatened to recall any PDP members who dare voted in support of her impeachment.

The greatest disservice a man can do to his friend is to continue to tell him all is well when in fact everything is in shambles. No one in South Africa will defend a man or woman who misappropriated (is that really the word?) or rather, embezzled money put in his trust by the people of their country to this magnitude. It is only in Nigeria that people would give a governor convicted of looting public fund a rousing welcome and a chieftaincy title in his home town for a job well done. What is wrong with us? I believe we are a sick society; every one of our leaders needs psychiatric evaluation.

Obasanjo came into government mouthing empty slogan about fighting corruption while he himself was corruption personified. In 1999, when he came out of prison, he was reported to be broke. By the time he left government house he was said to own his own private helicopter, nobody raises eyebrow as to how he came to possess it. How much was his salary for eight years? He boasted that his Ota farm generates over =N=2,000,000 daily. Did anyone question how he performed this feat in less than two years when this same farm was redundant in 1999?

We convict or shoot our fellow countrymen for stealing =N=200 while we sentence a man who stole billions to two year out of which he will not serve a day. I am angry that Obasanjo cannot fix NEPA for eight years after putting 6 billion dollars or whatever into the hole called PHCN. What is our problem? We collect millions of dollars everyday from oil revenue and still live in abject poverty and squalor, while Ghana whose coast is no more paved with gold celebrated one year of uninterrupted power supply a couple of years ago. We deceive ourselves that we are the giant of Africa. What makes us a giant? Our size? Haven’t we heard of big for nothing fool? That is what we are. We could truly be a giant of Africa if we can give some of our leaders the Jerry Rawlings treatment. Only then, we can move forward. We need to dispose of those old recycled politicians and dump them in the garbage of history..

Obasanjo said he doesn’t know those that will succeed him but he knew those that will not. We have all seen what he meant. The damage Obasanjo inflicted on this country will take years to repair. We have not even begun to understand the enormity of what the man has done. He said Babangida regime was a fraud; his own regime was a monumental disaster.

Is there no end in sight to our ‘fobaky’ dance? A professor coined that phrase to mean forward and backward. Are we ever going to brake from this circle of corruption unlimited? We can. The first thing we do is decentralize the central government. The Federal set up as presently constituted wields too much power for any meaningful progress to be attainable. Power needs to devolve to the federating units. We need to discard the present federating units we called states too. They are more or less appendages of the federal government. Some states cannot even survive without the monthly allocation from Abuja. What kind of Federal system of government is that?

We need to evolve a more realistic federating unit. We can use the Abacha six geo political zone as a starting point after all we started with three regions and graduated to four. The present thirty six states are no better than local government units are. If we so desire, we can retain the present states. This means we will have four levels of government instead of three i.e. the federal, region, state and local government. Anything is better than the monumental failure we run presently. Each region will control what they have and only pay a percentage of their earning into the federal purse as tax. This may not eliminate corruption but it will reduce it drastically. There will be competition and sense of belonging among the regions. The states will be responsible to the regions if we retain them. No region should have more than six states. The problem of the Niger Delta would be solved permanently. Resource control is what they want; let them have it. Every region has comparative advantage over the other in one area or the other but because of the overt reliance on Abuja, they don’t utilize this advantage. The national cake belongs to nobody because everybody sees the center as only a means to achieving his or her selfish end.

Each region will control its security apparatus. The state and the local government will have their own police too. The State Security and the Military should be the only organs controlled by the federal government. Each region to be headed by a Governor General while Governors would head the states. The president should be chosen among six vice presidents to be elected for each region for a term of six years. Each of them will be president for one year. They can unanimously suspend any member for misconduct pending investigation by the National Assembly. Our parliament will have the power to remove any or all of them at any time during the six years for act inimical to our collective will. When that happens, election would be conducted in the region affected for a replacement to complete the removed vice president or president term. This will make the centre less attractive. My fellow countrymen, corruption can never be eradicated totally in any society. One or two bad eggs will always be willing to dip his or her hand into the common purse. We can only reduce corruption to the barest minimum.

The South African legislator was aware that there is corruption in his country that was why he advised those political appointees not to imbibe the Nigerian culture. Let’s face it, the whole world sees us as a very corrupt country. I wanted the open a Pay pal account to enable me claim some money accrued to me from sales I made on the internet. Nigeria name was conspicuously missing from the list of countries. Benin is even there. Nigeria was removed from the list because some of my countrymen turned it to a place to perpetrate fraud. We should not be angry and demand apology from someone who told us the truth about ourselves. We should see it as a clarion call for a change of attitude.

Ajibola Oluti Sr.

P.S This is the first part of a series of articles originally conceived as thoughts on the Nigerian Constitution.

December 29, 2007

Dear Editor,

Scam/Fraud - Advance Fee 419 Nigeria

Last November I have filed a complaint to EFCC, lead by Mr.Olaolu Adegbite and his associates Mr. Babamala Mohammed. They have responded and advised me to send all correspondence from the fraudsters which I've done immediately. So,far I have not received any progress to the investigation and no case# provided as of yet.

The reason I write this it's because as a victim I want to be heard by the people of Nigeria and to the whole world that these fraudsters can literally destroyed somebodys life as I have experienced.

I urged that EFCC must act fast not only affecting the country's image, but to help protect citizens all over the world. I want the gov't of Nigeria to show the world that there's justice to put these fraudsters to trial without delayed before they commit another crime.

I live in Calif, U.S.A. I have encourage all the victims to speak out and be heard. This kind of act is not acceptable in our society.

Do you have any suggestions to expedite my complaint to lead the arrest of these fraudsters?

Emelia S. Aquino

December 09, 2007

Dear Editor,

Would they know is Christmas?

"Wealth is like a viper, which is harmless if a man knows how to take hold of it; but if he does not, it will twine round his hand and bite him." -St. Clement Dr. Mike Adenuga is not one of your everyday businessmen. He is reputed to be fabulously rich. He is so rich he dashes those who pleases him state of the art cars at the snap of his fingers. His headquarter in Victoria Island is reportedly stocked with multi million Naira cars that will make many of the best car dealers in the country green with envy. His life style is the stuff fables are made of. He lives life to the fullest. The man does not spare any expense to ensure his own comfort. He donates millions at the drop of a hat to charity organizations and sponsor games both in Nigeria and outside to the tune of billions.

It is an irony that pensioners in this same man's company earns below =N=3,000 in this age when the least paid pensioners in most Federal Government organizations earns more than =N=15,000 a month. He consistently refused entreaties by the Pensioners Union to implement the various government increases in his Conoil that other companies have done. "Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want" -Swift.

Another Christmas is around the corner again. Will Conoil pensioners be able to celebrate it like his staff that are paid Christmas bonus? Mr. Glover is 65 years old. He retired 15 years ago. He has no known source of income other than his pension. He has no children to take care of him in his old age. He comes from Ibadan every month to collect =N=5,200 on which he is expected to survive for a month. Is this fair to a man who put over twenty years of his life into the service of his company before retirement?

Some people claimed the good Dr. is not aware of the ridiculous amount his company pays out as pension to its pensioners. This is not is possible. The buck stops at his table.

The pensioners Association has been trying to force him to negotiate an increase in line with what obtains in other organization with him for the past five years. It is a well known fact that he has never paid a kobo into the pension's fund since he bought into the company. This is contrary to a statutory provision that made it mandatory for any company that runs a pension scheme to pay a certain percentage of its annual gross profit into its pension fund.

We advocated liquidation of the pensioners fund and the balance shared among the present crop of pensioners at a percentage to be worked out by us as a way out of this quagmire. Since the Doctor abhor pension and believes whatever a man earn is enough to take care of him when he is out of service without added responsibility of pension, he should let us disburse the pension fund as we deemed fit.

Once upon a time the company transferred the building he now calls the Bull's Plaza to the Pensioners Association of the then National Oil in lieu of =N=500 million debt owed the Pension Fund. The good Doctor came and performed some financial abracadabra by transferring the building back to his company without paying a kobo into the Pension Fund. The record is there for all to see. Nobody can say for sure what becomes of the =N=500 million.

The man Dr. Mike Adenuga is allergic to pension. None of his companies operates anything that remotely resembles pension. The Pensioners Association is aware that sooner than later the pension fund as it presently stands will run out of fund. When that happens what becomes of the present crop of Conoil pensioners? We implore the Doctor to increase our pension in line with Federal Government approved increment and pay us all off before the scheme run out of fund. The money in the fund is exhaustible. If you keep taking out from where you put nothing, a time comes when there will be nothing more to take. The fund as it presently stands is enough to pay off all of us.

I admit his retiring me prematurely opens other doors in my life. It afforded me the opportunity to go for another degree and dust off my writing career. The fact remains that he retired me at a time when I still have over ten years more to serve in the company. I had no plan in place for retirement. I am not a business person because I know my limitations. My only source of income was the meagre pension he pays me monthly. I see my colleagues from other companies and I am angry at the way Adenuga treats my fellow senior citizens. I earn over a million per anum before Adenuga retired me. Now he pays me eleven thousand Naira per month. What percentage of my salary is that?

Early this year the bigman addressed the press to refute allegation that he treats the pensioners like sub human beings. He promised to do 'something' about our pension or pay us off. Ten months after, his 'do something' is still a mirage. We are still waiting for him to fulfil his promise.

Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr. please do something for the Conoil pensioners now that Christmas season is here again.

Abayomi Rasaq
Abayomirosco2004@yahoo.com

December 01, 2007

Dear Mr Larr,

Well doing

Never been so mistified about this country of ours till I got to know this government. I happened to serve in Katsina when he was a governor. I preached and sang his praises because of what he achieved with the little he had. Now I began to think otherwise; in the first instance, he refuses to take stance on vital national isssues, he changed course soon after little critism and the worst of it all, making a minister out of somebody who is an advocate for treasury looters. I thought the president should know better especially being the first "schooled" president in Nigeria if really it mattered.
Your articles are like the writings in our holybooks, I only prayed the president is wise enough to draw wisdom from them.

Nimxy Simeon