STATE OF THE NATION (Nigeria)

Forwarded as received

*STATE OF THE NATION*

I have been following closely the activities of this government and whenever I have the opportunity, I try to find out the opinions of people as regards the performance of this government.

I just realized that the hardship faced by many Nigerians is simply as a result of the fact that almost everyone of us benefited from the cycle of corruption.

The bricklayer, plumber, laborers, tiler are all complaining because building construction has slowed down massively cause the thieves no longer have money to spend on real estate.

The car dealers are grumbling because their cars are begging for buyers. Thieves can no longer spend wastefully.

The private school owners are shouting because parents can no longer pay outrageous sums and are withdrawing their wards.

I was shocked when I learn that in a popular private University in Abuja, parents are writing undertaking at the account section for their children to be allowed to write exams... and it goes on and on.

The fact is, a lot of people are returning to what someone referred to as ''default mode''.

We mostly have been living above our REAL MEANS.

We have been staying in houses that ordinarily our incomes can't afford.

Our children going to schools we can't afford. Driving cars we ordinarily can't maintain.

We have been living a FAKE LIFE all along. Now the reality is before us and we don't want to accept it.

This shows how morally bankrupt we are.

You can't eat your Cake and have it. Take Note..."GOD HELP AND BLESS NIGERIA"

You got billions from bank without collateral using your political influence. You put half into your business and spent the other half on exotic cars, jeweleries, etc.

Your business employs 100 people normally. You get illegal waivers and concessions to import raw materials at rock bottom prices, you get over-inflated contract to supply government some goods your company produce....in short your company is kept afloat by corruption.

Now the new SHERIFF in town says:

no more ridiculous waivers,
no more inflated contracts, no more bank loans without collateral, in fact its time you or your company pay off the billions of debt owed.....

AMCON takes over your company, staff are laid off......And you go on air and say the new sheriff is killing business and causing unemployment..

The truth is....you and your company were never in business, you were only feeding off the system.

Too many companies and banks are funded by corruption. Remove corruption from the system and they collapse.......and we end up blaming the person that removes corruption for the collapse of the corruptly run fake company.

Its like our system and corruption are so interwoven and inseparable that removing one will kill the other.

Maybe we should tolerate and learn to live with corruption so that Nigeria can survive?

Recession: What recession? If you think Nigeria is broke, then you are living in another planet. Now, please read the information below and tell me why Nigerians crying of hardship are comfortable with the bold looting of their collective wealth by the politicians.

A SELF DECEIVING COUNTRY CALLED NIGERIA

Twenty-one senators currently receiving pensions from government as ex-governors and deputy governors.

The current senators who once served as governors are Bukola Saraki of Kwara, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano, Kabiru Gaya of Kano, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Theodore Orji of Abia, Abdullahi Adamu of Nasarawa, Sam Egwu of Ebonyi, Shaaba Lafiagi of Kwara, Joshua Dariye of Plateau Jonah Jang of Plateau, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto, Ahmed Sani Yarima of Zamfara, Danjuma Goje of Gombe, Bukar Abba Ibrahim of Yobe, Adamu Aliero of Kebbi, George Akume of Benue and Isiaka Adeleke of Osun.

The  former deputy governors in the Senate are Ms Biodun Olujimi of Ekiti and Enyinaya Harcourt Abaribe of Abia. Danladi Abubakar Sani served as the acting governor of Taraba state.

Many former governors are also in Buhari's Cabinet as Ministers. This includes: Ngige, Fayemi, Amaechi and Fashola (SAN).).

In Akwa Ibom State, the law provides that ex governors and deputy governors receive pension equivalent to the salaries of the incumbent. The package also includes a new official car and a utility vehicle every four years; one personal aide; a cook, chauffeurs and security guards for the governor at a sum not exceeding N5 million per month and N2.5 million for his deputy governor.

In Rivers, the law provides 100 percent of annual basic salaries for the ex-governor and deputy, one residential house for the former governor “anywhere of his choice in Nigeria”; one residential house anywhere in Rivers for the deputy, three cars for the ex-governor every four years and two cars for the deputy every four years.

It is alledged that in Lagos, a former governor will get two houses, one in Lagos and another in Abuja, estimated at N500 million in Lagos and N700 million in Abuja. He also receives six new cars to be replaced every three years; a furniture allowance of 300 percent of annual salary to be paid every two years, and a N30 million pension annually for life.

This is the reality for all the 21 ex govenors and deputy governors who are currently serving as senators. This same is also true of ex governors who are now serving as Ministers.

NOW I ASK:
How many years did these guys serve their states as governors and deputy governors? Is it more than 8years? Is that a reason to be entitled to pensions for life? Even if they are entitled to pension for life, must it be so outrageous?

As if that is not enough: HOW on earth can any public servant with conscience collect salaries and allowances as a senator or minister, and still have the audacity to claim pensions equivalent to the salaries of a serving governor in Nigeria?

IT ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE......

Once you are elected a senator or appointed a minister, you must forfeit any pension accruing to you from government at any level until you vacate office. This should also apply to senators collecting military pensions like former Senate President David Mark.

Yet these senators are in the Senate that is inviting the current finance minister to discuss the recession of Nigeria's economy. A senator pockets approximately 30 million naira monthly as salary and allowances. Our "honourables" are not interested to make laws that could restructure our country into economically autonomous federating States/Regions to save the country from sectional agitations that is threatening  to destroy Nigeria. The sad and hopeless situation is that the rest of Nigerians are busy arguing based on party, ethnic and affiliations while these enemies of state continue to rape us.

Do you know that it costs tax payers 290m Naira yearly to maintain each member of our National Assembly in a country where nothing works & 80% of population earn below 300 Naira a day ? A working day earning of a senator is more than a yearly income of a doctor; it's more than the salary of 42 Army generals or 48 professors or 70 commissioners of police or more than twice the pay of the US President or 9 times the salary of US congressmen.

It's high time the country had a referendum on those outrageous salaries of Senators, House of Representative members and other political office holders.

*If you are seriously against the looting of our commonwealth in Nigeria, in the name of democracy, you can let this piece go viral by sharing it with as many of your contacts and groups too!*

*Ngozi okonjo-Aweala* @ UN Sumit in Mauritania "2019

*Ngozi okonjo-Aweala*
@  UN Sumit in Mauritania
"2019 Presidential election is fast approaching,the enemies of this nation are uniting,they are planning to come back to power and hold this country unto ransom once again.

- The media are angry,why? There is no more free money from the government.

- The Ex generals are murmuring, Why? There is no sign President Buhari will renew their oil blocks contract.

- Social cultural groups are grumbling, Why? No more Ghana must go bags of money to support Buhari.

- The Royal Fathers are shouting, Why? Buhari did not pay homage with cars and cash gifts.

- The Legislators are not cooperating, Why? No more budgets padding and bribes before passing of the budgets.

- Corrupt Religious leaders are lamenting, Why? No more shady arms contracts.

- Corrupt Civil Servants are not supportive, Why? No more corrupt practices, BVN and TSA have exposed their sharp practices.

- The spoilt kids are bitter, Why? PMB has made people to understand that their parents are not that rich.

Having realized the set of people that want to set this country ablaze because of their controversial ways of living, I pray that The Almighty God should help President Muhammadu Buhari overcome all these obstacles and take Nigeria to the promised land

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE STAND WITH A MAN OF HONOR, CHARACTER AND INTEGRITY.

Nigeria Shall Rise Again!!! - ABIKE DABIRI

Nigeria shall rise again!!!

- ABIKE DABIRI

1.Saudi Arabia with a population of 26m has 16 functional refineries, to commission another 2 of 400k barrel each per day capacity in 2019.

2. The U.S State of California alone has 26, Texas has 19 refineries

3. While Singapore with a population of 5.6million people has 3 refineries with combine refining
capacity 1.3m bp/d

4. Nigeria has 3 or 4 (non functional refineries) built in the 70s & early 80s...now obsolete...16 years of oil boom we didn't add even ONE.

5. When you don't invest in our downstream sector, but handed out importation licenses to cronies & acolytes. Today we are paying the price.

6. We are paying the price of our past profligacy, irresponsibility in governance and blind leadership.

7. Egbin power plant was valued at $1.2 billion a German electricity company bid but GEJ sold it to Sahara energy at $470m.

8. Sahara had no previous antecedents on power plant aside importation of petrol but we handed them our LARGEST thermal plant.

9. Easier to cry today but whatever problems we see today was created yesterday with the active connivance of all of us...

10. Active connivance in the sense that we all kept quiet & looked away... Our day just dey break?

11. I am not exonerating the FG of blame, but laying the facts as they are... While you have the right to be angry, pls be angry with sense.

12. Change will come but it will not come overnight... A lot of mess was made either out of omission or commission, change will take a while,

13. I am laying these facts out and I challenge anybody with contrary facts to bring it.

14. I am doing this bcos I feel the pain and agony we are going thru and I feel the collective hurt but we must understand why we are here.

15. I pray that the present FG will have the courage and conviction to right so many of the ills of the past. Our future depends on it.

16. May Nigeria be great again & may our collective suffering spur us to a greater sense of true nationhood.

Nigeria shall rise again!!!

- ABIKE DABIRI

We Will Speak For PMB In The Fullness of Time

We Will Speak For PMB In The Fullness of Time

By Joe Igbokwe Lagos

The shameless plunderers, the looting colonies, the unconscionable thieves and the unrepentant criminals who stole everything in sight in Nigeria in 16years are now talking tough, telling us how they plan to return to power in 2019. We see them every day pretending as if we have forgotten the rot they visited in the land in 16years. They maintain bold face or what a friend described as ‘whispering in the dark’ (fake courage) in the face of devastation and decimation they inflicted in the land of 180 million people. They stole what they do not need, they stole for themselves, stole for their children, their grandchildren, great grandchildren, and they stole for their girlfriends and concubines.  PMB has collected trillions from them, houses worth trillions and cars and SUVs worth billions and yet they show no remorse. They pretend as if there was no yesterday, as if all of us have short memories. They mock us as if their fathers and fore fathers own Nigeria and others are mere foreigners. They talk as if we owe them apologies for the decimating and debasing the commonwealth. My friend tells me that the medicine man that placed this curse on them died with the antidote. If the medicine man did not die with the antidote, tell me where the fake boldness is coming from. Of what meat are they fed? Who is beating the drum for them? Where is the boldness coming from? Maybe we are a bunch of Never-do-wells, without sense of history, without understanding, without heads, without ideas, without knowledge, without life.

One of the unrepentant master of lies and deceit is the Former President Obasanjo who rode to power in 1999 by dancing on Chief M.K.O Abiola’s grave. Chief Abiola won a Presidential election on June 12 1993 but Obasanjo claimed he is not the Messiah. He encouraged those who annulled the historic elections to get away with it and incarcerated Abiola for 5 years and eventually killed him, and destroyed his huge business empire. Obasanjo later became the President in 1999 because South West had to be appeased and compensated for the June 12 saga that claimed thousands of lives.

Now, how OBJ ruled Nigeria for 8years, with his Deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is another big story. While in office for 8years Obasanjo could not recognize Chief MKO Abiola or make an attempt to immortalize his name. The wicked and shameless reprobate never mentioned Abiola’s name even in any discussion or conversation. The ingrate did not remember his collapsed businesses and the totally devastated family. Not even a single project was built in the South West by Obasanjo in 8years and not even the road leading to his farm in Otta Ogun State was fixed. Instead he deliberately punished South West for 8years for not voting for him in 1999.

Obasanjo seized Lagos LGA allocations for years until the late President Yar’Adua came in to release the funds. Obasanjo could not find the killers of Chief Bola Ige, his Attorney General. Even those accused of having a hand in the murder were set free. One of them Iyiola Omisore was even crowned a Senator from prison. Obasanjo wasted 8years in office which Yoruba would have used to reposition Nigeria. While in office Obasanjo set up Bells University and extorted money from Nigerians to build a Presidential library. At a time Obasanjo threatened that if he had his way he will throw Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu out of a moving aircraft. Time and space will not permit me to narrate all the atrocities he committed and how he converted Aso Rock to a brothel.

This is the man who wants President Buhari, who is very busy and breaking his back to fix a battered nation OBJ and his co-travelers left behind to go.

PMB is busy fixing the rot they left behind, healing the wounded country and wiping away tears from the eyes of the offended. While PMB is busy rebuilding Nigeria, the looting gang led by Obasanjo and Atiku are busy encouraging killers across Nigeria just to get at PMB. But we still remember Odi and Zaki Ibiam massacre. Worsted by PMB left and right, front and back, up and down Obasanjo has been running helter-skelter to harass a sitting President, but all to no avail.

He wrote letter to PMB not to run in 2019 thinking that he will be supported and instead he got public opprobrium and condemnation. He formed the so-called 3rd force and it collapsed like a pack of cards. He went to Olu Falea’s SDP and they rejected him for his bad behavior, selfishness, intransigence, and clannishness. He went to form alliance with ADC and it did not fly because the pilot is incompetent. He sponsored the Red Card Movement and it failed also because he cannot be trusted. He accuses, blackmails, insults and intimidates and all that did not work. He tried every trick known and unknown to whittle down PMB’s towering image, but all to no avail. Recently, OBJ took the matter to God and said “God will Remove PMB the way he removed Abacha”. Now, does he want PMB to be killed? For fixing Nigeria? For recognizing Abiola? For fixing Ajaokuta Steel Complex, the power sector, second Niger Bridge, 450 Federal Roads, for cleaning Ogoni land, for fixing the rail projects across Nigeria? For jailing the corrupt entities and seizing their property? For healing the wounds of 40years? For bringing justice to all or planning to bring back the National carrier? For financial prudence, discipline and incorruptibility? I can go on and on.

The other day, his Deputy Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was in Bayelsa to campaign and I watched him talk about insecurity, division in the land, economy and others. He thought we have forgotten. Atiku has been part of the problem, part of the looting gang and part of those who crushed and decimated our yesterday. Atiku who want to rule Nigeria cannot travel to the United States of America for fear of facing corruption charges. Atiku’s hands are tired in every ugly deal in Nigeria right from his days in the customs to his exploits at Intel, Nigeria. In the fullness of time, we will say it all.

Japan, China And Nigeria (Shinto-Buddhist-Christian/Islamic Nations)

Food 🥘 for thought.

"“Japan is a majority Shinto nation. Japanese don’t pay tithe and Japan is the 3rd largest economy in the world. China is a majority Buddhist nation. Chinese don’t pay tithe and China is the fastest growing economy in the world and largest exporting nation in the world. Nigeria is a Christian/Islamic country. Nigerians, especially Nigerian Christians, pay tithes but Nigeria is one of the most corrupt countries in the world, one of the poorest countries in the world, one of Afrika’s largest debtor countries, and one of the most underdeveloped countries in the world. Nigerians are more prayerful than the Japanese and Chinese. While Nigeria has nothing to show for its economic development despite all the fasting and prayers of Nigerians, Japan and China have a whole lot to show in terms of economic development despite Japanese and Chinese not being prayerful people. Nigerians pray but nothing works in Nigeria. The Japanese and Chinese don’t pray at all but think and work hard and things work for them. Isn’t that funny? Why aren’t Nigerian Christians asking themselves what the Japanese and Chinese are doing right which makes them prosperous? Why aren’t Nigerian Christians asking themselves what they are doing wrong which is why Nigeria doesn’t work? Only fools repeat a failed Plan A, expecting a miracle, without opting for a Plan B. A wise man will try as many plans as possible until he discovers the perfect formula that can solve problems for him.”

A JOKE TAKEN TOO FAR - by Gen. Alani Akinrinade (Rtd).

Read What Gen. Alani Akinrinade Has to Say About the 8th Assembly

A JOKE TAKEN TOO FAR - by Gen. Alani Akinrinade (Rtd).
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As far as l'm concerned, there is nothing like senators in the federal republic of Nigeria as at today. What people refer to as senators, is merely a deceptive and illusory assemblage of national irritants, who deliberate daily on how to purchase new cars, build new mansions and buy fantastic ones abroad, arrogate a strange and unjustified immunity to themselves, get constituency votes for marrying new wives and servicing girlfriends.
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This assemblage derives most of its membership from retired and expired ex-governors, who ran their states aground and left them in huge debts, and also left their subjects bleeding, and weeping in sorrow and abject penury. You also have a lot of rascals, hooligans, area boys and street fighters amongst their fold.
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Now how can this insensate and fiendish lot, after enough dosage of weed, lock up themselves in one obscure chamber and begin to mute the idea of impeaching a democratically elected president?...
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Well, l must state here that it is none of their faults. If Nigerians had turned out en-mass and come to #OCCUPYNASS so we chase these prodigal sons back to their respective villages, we surely won't be discussing this today.
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They should let it trickle down to their medulla that things are no longer the same. It is no more business as usual and there is nothing they can do about it.
I reliably gathered that most of them who borrowed money from banks to finance their campaigns, are finding it increasingly difficult to cope with pressures from the banks.
That's the way it should be. This is not a business venture, rather a call to service. Hence, if you are not comfortable with the tune of events, then you resign, instead of turning yourself a legislative embarrassment and national disgrace. I'm yet to see any of them who would be missed for a minute if he resigns today.
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This crop of Wonderers would undoubtedly leave a legacy as the worst performing, and most unproductive Senate in the history of Nigeria. Their latest actions and pronouncements are indeed a joke taken too far.

AGONY OF MONOGAMY

AGONY OF MONOGAMY written by Chief Tola Adeniyi, a former MD of daily times.

Society must rethink this issue of pretentious monogamy vis-à-vis polygamy so that in the not-too-distant future we do not end up with millions of unmarried women whose life style would be worse than prostitutes’ and millions of children whose fathers would be nowhere to be found.

The article is designed to expose the hypocrisy and pain associated with embracing false notions which are really not observed by any culture in the world, and to advise those who erroneously sentence themselves to a life of sadness and emptiness because they were deceived to believe that there is some utopia somewhere called monogamy.

I am very much aware that this article will generate a lot of controversy most especially from those who live holier-than-thou life and have continued to deceive the world that they are upholders of a doctrine that is not supported by true and enlightened interpretation of any religious doctrine.

My Greek, Italian, Russian, British, American and other Caucasians routinely visit their other wives [called by other names] with whom they have children. But back in the homes shared with the one carrying the ring, they are monogamists!
If God had wanted humanity to be monogamous He or She would not have made the pigeon the only monogamous creature. The cultures that practice polygamy had always known that at any given time, the number of available marriageable women far out number available men plus the fact that an 80-year-old man, if he has money, is still very much in the market whereas a 60-year-old woman may not be that lucky. The biological limitation to a woman’s productive age is also a factor. Why should a woman therefore remain on the shelf till age 45 when she could jolly well get married as second or sixth wife to a man who can afford to share life’s responsibilities with her? Why should a woman leave a man with whom she is No 1, simply because he took a second wife and end up being numberless in the hands of several men with whom she naturally shares bed just because of some doctrine she hardly understands?

All the women who should go and marry but are saying they do not want to share their man with another woman in a polygamous setting, are sharing current boyfriends with several other women. Where is the logic?

The argument that children in a polygamous house are always at each other’s throat does not hold water. Many siblings of monogamous families are sometimes known to have had worse and irresolvable or irreconcilable squabbles with dirty bitterness over inheritance or even other matters than children from different mothers.

The agony suffered by both men and women in the hand of unnatural laws and doctrines is too stifling for comfort. In 2002, five hundred and two Reverend mothers were reported to have died while procuring abortion in Rome (alone). Nigerian Tribune wrote an editorial on the unfortunate incident. And stories of Reverend fathers having children and sodomising young men in their care are legion! Why the hypocrisy? Why should the world continue to live the life of Ostrich?

A well known Nigerian journalist hid his other wives from his wife because his religion would not permit of it and his wife, living in monogamy should not hear of it. At his funeral, 9 Funeral Service programmes by his 9 wives surfaced and the woman parading the ring collapsed. It was the grace of God that prevented double internment that day!

So, over to those whose opinion is hinged on whatever reason to rethink. This is becoming a wild fire that will leave no home in no distant time.

Please, what is your honest opinion about this?

I Choose To Hope

Abiodun Fijabi:

I Choose To Hope

I am an incurable optimist. I often see from the eyeglaasess of hope; for hope keeps me alive.

So, against all odds, I choose to see an end to the killings on the Plateau and in other parts of the North of Nigeria. I see our President prove the naysayers wrong that he indeed is the problem and not the solution. I see the security chiefs rise above ethnic and religious interests to do the job they are paid to do.

I see peaceful and sensible elections in 2019. I see a nation of laws and not a nation of special interests. I see us get it right in the provision of critical infrastructure. I see political power devolve more to the states and the regions. I see a political class that is visionary, competent and humane. I see electorates that are savvy and discretional. I see a Church that is truly light and salt; and a beacon of hope.

I see... Wait a minute; it's July 5 again! Then, I see you and I trump all our challenges and turn our adverse situations into adventures of hope. I see us live intentionally and triumphantly. I see us choose hope.

Massacres: You Weep For Plateau; Did You Weep For Efik?

This is a compelling well written piece. Please read!

Massacres: You Weep For Plateau; Did You Weep For Efik?

By Duncan Odey

First, I write as a human in compatriot spirit will all humans, second - as a proud Cross Riverian of (maternal) Efik extraction; and third - as a disenchanted Nigerian; disenchanted enough to be pondering my own separate nation.

Now, what's my story? Below is my story:

Just days ago, Fulani people - yes, Fulanis, whether herdsmen or Miyetti Allah or FUNAM murdered my Nigerian "brothers and sisters", my fellow humans in significant numbers, in the Plateau.

Am I upset? Yes. Am I grieving? You bet, I am. But am I feeling funny and a bit disconnected from it all? Yes, I am feeling not only funny and disconnected but I am also feeling that this whole mourning, outrage and anger about the Plateau killings is insincere, duplicitous, and profoundly lacking in stark appreciation of history.

You might ask: What history? It is a history banned by those who rose to power on the ashes of a genocide they committed. It is a history banned in schools out of a sense of denial; yet it is a history still accessible to anybody and everybody. In substance, it's a history of blood, of massacres, of genocide, and of pogroms unpunished; and other evils untold.

It is a history of a Nigeria where ONLY Igbos (and some non-Igbo Eastern Nigerians, like my people - the Efiks) have largely borne the brunt of massacres and genocide since 1945 at the hands of Fulanis, assisted by Hausas, some other northern Nigerian tribes, including the very Plateau people that were just massacred just days ago.

On the other trajectory, it WAS a history of "northern brothers" against the East. Now it IS a history of Fulani turning on their "northern brothers". That's funny; that causes some disconnection.

It is also a history that is on a constant rollercoaster. Yes, a rollercoaster where - in 1966, 67, 68, and 69 to 70, you gleefully joined in the massacre of your Eastern brethren that did nothing to you. You stupidly joined in committing genocide dishonestly called a civil war to "unite" Nigeria; to unite a Nigeria that is now massacring you that largely bore the brunt of the bloody uniting.

Now, you weep. Did you weep for Eastern Nigeria; Did you weep for Efik? Did you weep for Biafra? If you didn't, you lie. Weeping must come with some honesty; weeping must be well-deserved; otherwise it's called 'crocodile tears'.

You killed my father, my younger brother, my beautiful cousin (after raping her untold), thinking they're all Igbos; or you knew they were not but you killed them anyway because they came from the East, lived in Jos beside you and spoke Igbo. You didn't care that they also spoke Birom. Now you weep for Plateau; you weep lies and insincerity.

Then you pulled out a young, wailing, innocent Igbo woman out of the train in Makurdi and slit her belly and brought out a budding Igbo embryo and 'killed' it. Now, you're being killed in Agatu and Makurdi and you want me to weep. Yes, I weep but I also wept for my people killed in times past by your people. That's what makes me different from you - your weeping is one-sided, and you have killed before; I haven't. And I not only wept in 1967, I took matters in hand, declared myself free and fought back. Have you? Keep weeping whilst they keep killing.

That's why it's a rollercoaster - now you're in front, next you're in the rear. They spin blood, you spin tears. They kill, you weep and then your tears dry. They come back and kill again - one head of cattle for two two heads of humans; then you weep. A rollercoaster, a vicious cycle of weepings and killings. That's your Nigeria, Buhari's Nigeria. That's not the Nigeria my forefathers helped most to liberate from foreign occupation.

It was me in 1967; today, it's you. I weep for Plateau, but also I weep for before-Plateau. Who do you weep for? Only Plateau? You lie. Why don't you also weep for Agatu, Egede, Jos, Madalla and all the Central Nigerians caught up in the web created by their parents? Do you discriminate in your weeping, just like you discriminate in all things Nigerian?

Why don't you weep first for Eastern Nigerians killed by your parents? Did you weep for young Eastern Nigerians (yes -Biafrans) cut down in their prime by Buhari's Python Dance? Did you weep for Nnamdi Kanu. Did you weep for an IPOB that can't hurt a fly, yet you joined in declaring them terrorists so you can go for another kill like you did in 1967. If you didn't weep for these, you have no moral right to weep for Plateau.

Are you ashamed of your past, your 1966-1970? Are you a Gowon, a Danjuma, a Bissala, a Domkat, a Shelleng, an Useni, a Walbe, a Mark, an Ochefu, an Unongo, a Tsav, or worse - a turncoat or what? If you are, then search your soul; do some contrition; make an atonement and seek the face of God - again; only then can you weep honestly.

What about you - the "One Nigerianer"? I tell all of you this: If you weep for Plateau and it's recent deadly forerunners and you don't weep for 1966-1970, you lie, you cheat, you are undeserving. Danjuma, your former maestro has told you what to do; yet you do nothing but weep. What are you waiting for? Where are your balls? Did you lose your mojo?

Are you waiting for an Nnamdi Kanu that had the guts to fight back (with strong words) but whom you joined in suppressing? Have you now seen the sense in his sermons of freedom from oppression that is as unrelenting as your never-drying tears?

You weep; excuse me, please man up and take matters in hand. That's what gutsy men do. Self-defense is a constitutional right. Self-determination is NOT a crime but a right under the laws of federation of Nigeria.

Stop saying you killed Igbos or Easterners in the past for them. Stop saying you fought Biafra for them. Stop saying you killed Ijaw, Efik, Ibibio for them. Don't you get it? They don't care; Buhari doesn't care, Buratai is biased (Danjuma said it all and first), your entire security chiefs are comprised of them; and they see you as a kafir, an infidel, a willing tool, a half-wit to be deployed at will against Biafrans (and sometime all the South) Then, when it suits them, they dispense with you, they turn their guns on you; and dishonestly call it farmers-herdsmen clash. Are those priests and children farmers also?

You knew all these, yet you didn't weep. But now, you weep for Plateau. Did you weep for Efik? Stop weeping; demand Referendum. That's the ONLY way out.