Six more months of emergency rule in the north-east will not end terrorist activities in the region. Nor will they witness the return of over 200 schoolgirls kidnapped from Chibok 223 days ago. But what kind of country is this? So those girls and scores of others abducted later have been forgotten and we are preparing for elections? We wait to see the day the PDP or the APC presidential candidate will mount the rostrum in Bama or Mubi to make promises. Our reps should quickly drop their impeachment threat. They and the senators do not need to be bribed – I know they need money now for electioneering – before they can approve extension of emergency rule. In fact, the entire country is in a state of emergency—emergency rule should be extended to every state that has witnessed bomb explosion in the last five years. And since the FCT has also lost its innocence, the National Assembly members should be on forced vacation – without pay. Finance minister Okonjo-Iweala has spoken of “austerity measures” in the face of dwindling oil revenue. Cost-cutting should start from the jumbo pay enjoyed by our public “servants” that contribute almost nothing to the development of the nation and its economy. What has happened to the report of the National Conference that consumed more than N12billion this year? My prayer is that the federal government would unite to fight the evils they have reared their ugly heads in this dispensation. We cannot afford any faceoff between the legislature and the executive in this wartime and election year. Let our leaders, for once, do what is right. leadership.ng/columns/391399/185-days-go-government-divided
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:00:24 +0000
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