TO RULE IS EASY,TO GOVERN DIFFICULT.

When the Nigerian government between year 2000 and 2007 begin to encourage the private sector to invest on crude oil refining, and 22 licensees awarded to some private investors for the construction of new refineries, people thought that the government were sincere.  Up till this moment non of this private refineries has been able to commence any thing in that respect, in building any refinery, they have a compounded problems if it is not government unfavorable business condition, it is lack of financial resources.

As we are talking about that, this government raised our hope to build Greenfield Refineries in the following states Lagos, Bayelsa and Kogi,it is quite sad that there is not sincerity in the part of government. This government has been footdragging on this issue of Greenfield refineries.

The government is shifting their responsibilities to fuel subsidy, falling to put the old refineries to working condition, to build new once or to encourage private investors to build refineries, that could meet the demand of daily national 32million litres per day consumption, instead of the present low production capacity of 445,000 barrels per day.

This government lack idea’s or do not have the willing power to implement idea’s,they are just ruling and not governing,to rule is easy,but to govern very difficult.

WE SAY NO!

This government is like an empty head;

which not really empty,but head filled with insensitivity or stuffed with rubbish.

Hence the difficulty of forcing reasonable thing into the empty head.

WE SAY NO TO OIL SUBSIDY,WE SAY NO TO EPILEPTIC NATURE OF ELETRICITY, NO TO BAD ROADS,NO TO ANYTHING LESS THAN #18,000.00 NAIRA MINIMUM WAGE, TO THE CIVIL SERVANTS. If this government is not ready to lead they should get out of the road,for those who have the vision and the mission to lead.

THE NIGERIA POLICE ARE AT IT AGAIN; THE SECURITY OF THE NATION IS IN DISTRESS AND NIGERIA IS DESPAIRING.

By Joseph Fagbola




It was just on the 1st of Nov. 2011, I wrote on the arrest of three Policemen who allegedly participated in the killing of 25-year old Emmanuel Victor, at the Sani Abacha Expressway, Yenogoa, Bayelsa State, on Sunday 16th October, 2011, for commenting on the extortion of money from commercial motor cyclists, popularly known as Okada. Earlier on, I commented on the killing of two brothers born of the same mother and father by the Police, at Okitipupa in Ondo State. Till now, the investigation of these two separate killings of three young innocent men has not led to any known prosecution, in spite of the promise of the PPRO of Bayelsa Police Command, Mr Eguavon Emokpae (DSP), to make the outcome of the orderly-room trial of the killers of Emmanuel Victor, known to the public.


As if that is not bad enough, The Nigeria Police are at it again. Only yesterday did the Vanguard report the killing of a 78 year-old Pa Amos Oriyomi, Baale of Bamgbelu Parafa Community in Ikorodu Local Government of Lagos State. According to the report, life was snuffed out of the septuagenarian, Pa Amos Oriyomi on Thursday, 10 November, at 5. 30 pm, shortly after his last super with some visitors, who came to see him.


This unfortunate incident of the killing of Pa Amos Oriyomi would make it the third time I am writing on the atrocities committed by our Police who are paid from the coffers of the Public Fund to protect lives and properties of Nigerians. This year alone, the Security Sector alone (Military, Police, Internal Affairs Ministry, Police Reform, etc) got a mind-boggling appropriation of N1052 billion, which is about 35% of the total Federal Government Budget. What Nigerians are getting from this jumbo allocation, is wanton destruction of lives and properties. These are three extra-judicial killings by men in police uniform, and a carnage, too many.


When one adds these unfortunate incidents with the killing of over 150 people in Damaturu, Yobe State by Boko-Haram, on the Jumat day preceeding the Eid-EilKabir Festival, it becomes obvious that life is becoming highly unsafe in Nigeria, regardless of the impression that General Owoeye Azazi, the National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, would want to give to the outside world, to the contrary.. Could this retired Army General be said to be insensitive to the security situation of the country or is the denial a mere hypocrisy?. Or is this the time to be chasing shadows and engage in grandstanding instead of facing the reality of the security situation with a view to finding a lasting solution to the menace? The truth of the matter is that the security of the country is in distress, and Nigeria is despairing


Only yester-night was one of our sisters Chi Tola was asking the President, on the security of life and property in Nigeria, I jokingly advised her not to rely on the President or anybody for that matter, as nobody could be trusted on the present situation of the country. Rather, I told her to rely on God, who never fails and to continue to chant Psalm 23; 1 &4. Seriously speaking now, I wish to suggest that as an interim measure and pending whichever re-organisation that the Government wants to carry out, the suspected police in the killing of any Nigerian, should be charged to court under Sections 315 &316 0f the Criminal Code. We should stop making them to face orderly-room trial, which is a mere smoke-screen to cover the iniquities and heinous crime of murder, on daily basis as it is being done presently, by the Police. ENOUGH SHOULD BE ENOUGH

FUEL SUBSIDY A MOUNTAIN-CLIMBING VENTURE

       FUEL SUBSIDY A MOUNTAIN-CLIMBING VENTURE

I am calling on the president and commander- in- chief  of federal republic of Nigeria, Dr.Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, not to allow some greedy Nigerians to advise him wrongly to stick to the removal of oil subsidy.

Should he refuse to listen to the voice of reason crying from the wilderness  not to remove the subsidy, this may lead to crisis in Nigeria, which those in government could not contain.

What any sensible government could do in things like this is to hold wide consultation and feel the purse of the people before embarking in such destructive venture .

The president should be aware of this that those of them that are advising him to remove petroleum subsidy, are enemies of the people. They will be the first to run away to another country when the crisis of this removal subsidy begin.

Mr. President you have no excuse to give if you fail on this because the bulk stops at your table, you must take responsibility of failure of your government.

Ignorance is not an excuse to law. If one goes contrary to the law he faces the consequences.

Instead of your  government embarking on this fruitless journey, I will advise you to urgently refurbish  the four refineries in the country, so that they would stop this senseless  importation of fuel from foreign countries.

We all know that the importation of fuel is as a result of corruption, the cabal  who w’re milking the country dry will not let go such opportunity or allow it, to slip their way.

Prices are determined by market forces, but here in Nigeria once prices has gone up it hardly come down. Nigerians must enjoy subsidy, if in the actual sense this subsidy has been effectively carried out all  this years.

A regrettable danger is around the corner if this government insist in the proposal of oil subsidy, it will negatively affect the masses of this country, this will aggravate the sufferings of the so called common man instead of alleviating it.

It is going to carry chain effect, other products, services inclusive will be unimaginable.

This government should concentrate on addressing the welfare of the people, and take more interest on the poor state of infrastructure, with the resources from the excess crude oil revenue.

From all indication corruption is the only thing that is militating against the working of the refineries. If the government themselves are not corrupt  they would have blocked the loopholes where funds are looted. 

If the effectively block all the loopholes there will be no need to talk about removal of subsidy.

BUNCH OF NEVER-DO-WELL.

Detaining any body for speaking against oil subsidy in Nigeria is a sure way ,this government is proving to the world and Nigerians that they are bunch of NEVER-DO-WELL. They must understand one thing, power the say belong to the people, the masses have constitutional right to take it back, when they passed vote of no confidence in the government.

Be that as it may, the pews  can not be taller than the pulpit, the earlier this government understand this the better for them.

Having said that, this government should prepare their detention room where it will contain all the masses of this country because, we ‘re in one voice saying NO to petroleum subsidy.

It has become more striking that this government is noting but A WHITE HOSRE THAT IS  VERY ESPENSIVE TO MAINTAIN THAT CAN NEVER WIN A RACE.

Any government that is doing well,will not be afraid of it’s citizens speaking out their minds, in the affairs of national importance, such as fuel subsidy.

Nigerian masses are  hard pressed to the wall by this government, when you are hard pressed to a wall, it breeds defense mechanism. And the only option is civil disobedience or bloodless revolution.

If we don’t rebel, if we’re not physically in an active revolution, then it’s spiritual death.

It is now or never.

Let the revolution begin now.

Nigeria is in a cross road, according to news paper report today.

The national security adviser to the president  today exhibited their weakness once again when he took on, the United states of America warning, on attacks in the Federal Capital Territory as “non new”. Yes he will call it non new because killing innocent Nigerians has become a norm therefore it has become part of election promises fulfilled.

There is one saying that my people use to say; when a particular festival continued for a year it becomes  custom for the people.

Azazi repeated the same old song of the government in Nigeria, the security agencies were up to the task of securing the country.

Tell me, the security agencies are up to the task and people are being killed everyday in Jos Plateau state, the Boko Haram making real their treat of bombing and killing innocent citizens of this nation.

US Embassy has received information that Boko Haram may plan to attack several locations and hotels in Abuja, Nigeria, Potential targets may include the Nicon Luxury, the Sheraton Hotel, and the Transcorp Hilton Hotel.

Let this government show it by action that they are on top of the matter, at least by reducing this insecurity in the country to the barest minimum.

I have to say this once again revolution is now,if we the masses of this country truly need a change. We must not try to predict or timing the revolution.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. But when it comes it moves irresistibly.

Let the revolution begin now.

THE GOVERNMENT ARE NOT SINCERE.

Laughable; the inspector general of police Hafiz Ringim,once again said that the bombing which has continued unabetted by the Boko Haram sect,will be checkmated. This is coming after the weekend, preposterous bombing of Damaturu in Yobe State,and Maiduguri Borno State. Please can they tell Nigerians how long it will take them to checkmate this mania?

 We have continued to be hearing this assurance for a long time now, yet nothing concrete seems to be done by the police.  It is the same old story of the security operatives in Nigeria saying,’ we are on top of the matter’.while things continue to go wrong. A young lady from Enugu state, Eucharia Remmy a graduate of University of Nigeria Nsuka, who was doing her youth service in Damaturu,Yobe state was attacked and killed by the Boko Haram.

This government should cover their face in shame because they have failed to protect the innocent people of this country, who ‘re victims of insecurity. This government is not committed to bring a change, and improve the condition of lives of our people, they have continued to give lip service to this, just like all the previous administration before them did. It is a simple fact that there will be no peace in Nigeria till the leader’s learn to serve the people than serving them selves.

If government is sincere to stop this illogic bombing and killing of innocent people in this country, they know how to go about it.

Member’s of Boko Haram are living in the same society where we live, people knows them, they stay’s in the same house with some of us, they are not invisible.

Why they became invisible is because they are doing the hit on, for some elements in government. It is the duty of any government to lend wings to,it’s citizens to fan the flame of better life.

The time to make a change is now tomorrow mght be too late.

 

May God save Nigeria.

It has been made clear to the people of Nigeria that this government has lost track on the security problems in Nigeria. For how long could it take government of the most populous black nation in the world to check mate insecurity in it’s clime. 
It is very clear that this government has no solution to the Boko Haram senseless Killings and bombings in Nigeria. Report reaching us this night is saying that 73 people confirmed dead today after another bomb exploded not more than 30 minutes ago.
The bombing in Borno and Damaturu, is senseless and lack no merit, this government should wake up to their responsibilities, they should talk less and do more.
Given the state of insecurity in this country Nigeria, and the attempts to create chaos, time has come when we the masses should have to do something to protect ourselves from the forces of insecurity and criminality. Since it is very clear that the government has failed us.

IN STRUGGLE NO TIME IS A WASTE...

The express way to destroy any nation is when it’s citizens remain in their comfort zone, and dose not have the effrontery to challenge oppressive government.

In a country like Nigeria where it’s leadership has been known by their maladministration, misappropriation, treasury looting, feeding the people with fake election promises, state sponsor fraud, fake contracts, over invoicing etc, and somebody came out to accuse any body of grumbling or not making good use of his time, by talking or picking against government miss did against it’s citizens, that person is worst than infidel and must be regarded as an anathema.

One THERESA CHIOMA ONWUMERE,accused me of not utilizing my precious time very wisely, by not turning to a prayer worrior praying for this same looter's.
She also accused me of grumbling against those in government.

This lady is qualified to have national merit award because her type is what this looter’s in government do love to hear their voice.I hope the president must have taken note of her.
How am I not sure that this is the same group,who once requested that I should remove my posting on fuel subsidy from the social network. The must have appeared on a different identity.

They want us to pray for them even when they do not believe in the effectiveness of prayer.

I want this lady to note that, it is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. We do not dare because we are afraid to leave or comfort zone. If you're in a comfort zone, afraid to venture out, you note that all winners were at one time filled with doubt. We need civil disobedience now,if we love this country called Nigeria. Darkness can never ostracize light, instead when light comes darkness fade away.

If you remain in your comfort zone you will not go any further,for Nigeria to move forward we the masses must come out to seek for a change. Change can not come by itself,we must desire it and go for it.

It is a known fact that millions of Nigerian’s are going through untold hardship, people are living bellow poverty level children out of school. For any body to turn a blind eye's and accused somebody of grumbling against the government,must be worst than a NICOMPOOP.
I wish to encourage the people of Nigeria that no miss rule in the society,no hardship forced in your life can depress you,keep you down,or forced you to retired in your comfort zone. We must rise up and seek for our right.

So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.
I am a good student and supporter of Gandhi non violent struggle; Hear him say,
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness...Every citizen is responsible for every act of his government...There is only one sovereign remedy, namely, non-violent non-cooperation. Whether we advertise the fact or not, the moment we cease to support the government it dies a nature death.

Tell me why we could not replicate such in our situation today in Nigeria.
Yes,I know, that those who dare are in the minority,but the test of courage comes when we are in the minority. We need courage to seek for a change in Nigeria,though courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Therefore,let us remove fear because the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
To rest my case, I say this,life loses its meaning when we get stuck up in comfort zone.
MAY GOD HELP NIGERIA,
BY COMRADE EVAN AKAHSON.

Why Nigerians Must Resist the Next “Fuel Subsidy” Withdrawal.

Why Nigerians Must Resist the Next “Fuel Subsidy” Withdrawal.


I have never seen a country run so fraudulently as is Nigeria. The rulers have been criminal liars and there don't seem to be any end to this, more or less, perpetual fraud and deception of the people by a few politically connected elites ripping off the vast majority of long suffering Nigerians to no end.
Since 1986, there has been t...his lie, notched up a gear since the so-called democracy of Obasanjo and Papa deceive pickin (PDP) of 1999, that Petrol in Nigeria is heavily subsidized, and the "fuel subsidy" must be removed so government can free itself from subsidizing motorists and use the money for, wait for it, "infrastructure development." Babangida started this argument in 1986, when he asserted that Petrol was too cheap at 23Kobo per litre- yes twenty three kobo, not Naira, a litre and that petrol should not be cheaper than a bottle of Fanta (Coke) which went up under his watch from 30K to 50K a bottle-for those of you too young to know how Nigeria has been sinking in the hands of vile and utterly evil leaders! And so after his SAP, which sapped dry the blood of the middle class and set-off the never ending brain drain that has continued to decimate the knowledge base of Nigeria, including her Educational and health care personnel, in particular. Even with all the mess created by IBB his regime only increased petrol per litre to 70K in 1991 and left it at that when he was kicked out of power in 1993.


Then another leech and pretender to the throne, Chief Ernest Shonekan, cried that Nigerian fuel was too cheap and increased it to a whooping N5.00 per litre from the 70K it was when IBB hurriedly left power. And then the real "evil man" shoved the pretender chief out of the way in less than 3 months of illegal "interim government of the "Egba chief." And so Abacha, who wanted to gain some popularity following all the riots preceding his ascension to “illegal throne” tried to align with the "oppressed masses, so he slashed the price a bit to N3.25, initially and then increased it later to N11.00 per litre in October 1994, using the "freed subsidy,"according to him, to set up the "Petroleum Trust fund"for the same lie "infrastructure development" for the deprived and poor masses. General Abdusalami increased the Nigerian petrol price from N11 to first N25, and following outcry from Labour and the public, he “reduced it to N20 on 6th January 1999.


Then the real hike started with the dawn of "democracy" in 1999. Obasanjo "removed the subsidy on fuel," to "deregulate the downstream sector," free government fund and waste in "unnecessary fuel subsidy, and encourage Direct Foreign and local investments in downstream sectors of the very corrupt Nigerian petroleum industry more than 3 times during his 8 years of misrule and electoral fraud.. From N20 a litre when he assumed power in 1999, he jacked it up to N30, but reduced it to N22, following public outcry in 2000, then to about N26 in 2002 and then to N40 per litre in 2003 and after the explosive protests he reduced it to N34 but later increased it to N40 in 2006 and finally to N75 just before he left power in 2007 when plotting to impose Yar Adua on Nigerians, despite the man's health challenges to start a fight with Nigerians and Labour unions on "fuel subsidy withdrawals." Yar Adua managed to reduce the price from N75 to N65 in 2007, which it has remained till date and from which GEJ, want to play the spoiler on long suffering Nigerians. From 2012, if what we hear is true.
In all of these the arguments have been the same by the evil leadership Nigeria parades- leeches that don’t care about the welfare of its people because they get everything for free- Free accommodation, which I hear the Bankoles and David Marks can purchase at peanuts and lease back to government collecting annual rents equivalent to the costs they acquired the properties; they get free 4x4 some with bullet proofs and free Jets all fuelled by Nigerian tax payers and commoners; Free food and free water, so why should they care about hike in petrol prices and the attendant inflation on the masses?


WHERE IS THE SUBSIDY?


The truth of the matter is that there has never been any subsidy. Before the lame duck president Yar Adua (Peace unto his soul) died, he confessed that a cabal has hijacked the Nigerian Petroleum distribution and Marketing process, and suggested he was helpless in getting unto them, probably because these cabal funded his rigging to power in 2007 or because of his health challenges then. And recently Prof Tam David West, a former Petroleum minister (1984-1985 under the Buhari/Idiagbon regime)- and should know better, confessed that there was no subsidy in Nigerian petrol before 1986 and up to this day and I agree with the Prof. What has been happening is that thieving and greedy governments who want 10 Presidential jets for themselves, wives and girlfriends, all out of state funds, when Nigeria can't even manufacture a propeller, never mind an Airplane engine; those whose second homes are in French Reveries, Central London and Hampstead areas and Potomac areas of Washington/or Maryland when all they do is lazily distribute oil proceeds in Abuja every month and go to sleep thereafter until the next round of monthly distributions- have caused Naira to continuously depreciate and become “worthless” more or less like “monopoly money," or waste paper- getting closer to "Mugabe's Dollars!"
And so each time the governors and the Federal leeches finish sharing they go straight to buy Dollars anywhere they can find them, including from Malams at MMA and Eko and Nicon Noga hotels to feed their frenzy of Armani suits for self and WAGs; latest 4X4s, some of them bullet proofs to for fear of the "oppressed poor." And as Naira keep dwindling in value and the evil politicians who do not care because they get free petrols and aviation fuel for their chains of cars and Jets, come back on the hard pressed people to tell them they want to withdraw “fuel subsidy.” There is no end, and there will be no end, to this as long at these band of pirates continue to rule us! They know the truth and where the problem lies but they will never address it. Like I said about Prof Tam David-West, there were no subsidy in fuel when our 4 Refineries, all built when General Buhari was Petroleum Minister, was functioning at full capacity and properly maintained. Since 1999 in particular, tons of cash has been allocated for TAM (Turn around maintenance of the 4 refineries) which never get anywhere near Engineers or equipments for maintaining Refineries, but end up in bank accounts of PDP supporters and election rigging facilitators- who call themselves contractors.


And so Nigeria has been dependent largely on imported petrol and Kerosene for a growing population, the exact numbers remain unknown, as we can't even count ourselves because of ineptitude and corruption of our rulers who always manipulate these numbers to their selfish desire. And who does all the importation of Petroleum products? PDP mafias and election rigging funders at all levels of the chain. Can you now see the Nigerian people are in deep shit? The people are screwed, whichever way the pendulum swings and no way out of this mess because the baton is been changed to the same group of oppressors- utterly clueless and corrupt and it doesn't matter where the baton holder comes from- they all dance to the same tune, and never representatives of the people they purport to represent.


There will be no end to these cycle of increases and lies of “Subsidy removal” so long as the greedy elites and IMF-inspired technocrats like Okonjo-Iweala are in charge to ensure Nigeria continually depreciates the Naira relative to the Dollar with all the waste, mismanagement and corruption in running all arms of government in such a wasteful country. Yes the Nigerian people must resist very vigorously this umpteenth increase in fuel prices the name of a "bogus fuel subsidy" removal.


By .Tony Ishiekwene. Sahara Reporters.