EARSHOT by Sam Nda-Isaiah. Worse Than The Civil War The situation in today’s Nigeria is worse than the situation during the Nigerian civil war years of 1967 – 1970. Unfortunately, while we had a competent leader and competent people around the leader then – including Obafemi Awolowo who was the federal commissioner of finance, Abdulaziz Atta, Liman Ciroma, Sunday Awoniyi, Ahmed Joda, MD Yusuf, Allison Ayida, Phillip Asiodu, Ukpabi Asika, etc – Jonathan, the current leader, is totally incompetent and out of his depth and his government is weakened by mindless corruption. What is worse, the very few good people around the government are not those close to him. Those in his kitchen cabinet are those doing most of the stealing and wreaking his government. Every day in Nigeria today, no fewer than 100 innocent souls are murdered in cold blood. The casualties now include boarding school students, young girls, women, market women and passersby. All these happen and the Nigerian president is completely without a strategy to prevent even the following day’s mass murders. We do not hear of these kind of mindless killings on a daily basis even in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia currently considered as the world’s most dangerous places. The serial killings that happened last week, for instance, are now worse than what has been happening in Syria where a civil war is currently going on. And, last week, some clowns got hold of guns and attacked the Enugu State Government House, killing a few people. A few days later, they gave a press conference declaring that they were biafrans and they did what they did to send a message which is that they are still around. Order has totally broken down in Nigeria. It is, therefore, time to engage the president in a discussion we should have had a long time ago: 1. What percentage of the police appropriated budgets has been disbursed to them since Jonathan became president? 2. What percentage of the military’s appropriated budget have they received since Jonathan became president? 3. Why is it that the Nigerian military are not well equipped for the battle against terrorists? 4. What is the cause of such low morale in the police and the services? 5. What percentage of the intelligence services’ budgets has got to them since Jonathan became president? 6. Why do we still have only about 370,000 policemen for a population of 173 million people? Does the president think this makes sense? 7. Why is it that the Nigerian military and the police once thought to be among the world’s best when they got deployed for international peace missions have now become one of the least competent in the world? 8. Why is it that state governors receive only about half of their monthly allocations these days and therefore are in weaker positions to tackle the growing insecurity in their states. 9. Or could it be that this large amount of blood that is spilled on a daily basis is being fed to the witches and wizards who have endorsed Jonathan for a second term? Remember that the spokesperson of the Witches and Wizards Association of Nigeria (WITZAN), Dr Okhue Iboi, informed Nigerians in an exclusive interview with THE UNION, the brand new newspaper out of Lagos, that they had agreed in the covens that Jonathan should have a second term. But as I said in the Earshot of January 20, 2014, the devil is a liar. 10. And, finally, does the president really, really think we can continue in this direction that he is leading the country, especially now that he even wants four more years?
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 05:55:05 +0000
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