THE DISTURBING "UNBEARABLE INSECURITY" AND WORSENING NIGERIAN ECONOMY - THE NEED FOR PRESIDENT BUHARI TO RISE TO HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
December 14, 2020 | News
I recall when President Muhammadu Buhari asked former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to resign and leave the Office to those who could handle the high level of insecurity in the country then.
THE DISTURBING "UNBEARABLE INSECURITY" AND WORSENING NIGERIAN ECONOMY - THE NEED FOR PRESIDENT BUHARI TO RISE TO HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
I recall when President Muhammadu Buhari asked former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to resign and leave the Office to those who could handle the high level of insecurity in the country then. Now that President Muhammadu Buhari has been given that opportunity to lead Nigeria, the insecurity situation in the country, as well as every other thing in the nation's economy, have all gone from bad to worse, and daily becoming really unbearable for the Nigerian populace. The saddest part however, is that there are apparently no hope of things getting better because Mr. President's body language, actions and disposition towards the whole situation, don't suggest like there will be any positive change under his administration.
This makes one wonder which way Nigeria? It is apparently sad that majority of Nigerian political leaders at all levels of Government, do not read and enlighten their minds on ways to address problems in the society. Whether they are medical Doctors, or lawyers, or military Generals or whatever qualifications they must have obtained, the situation is the same with all of them. They only read what their Media Assistants/Press Secretaries write for them to read to the press/public. Most of them have no inputs to make in the very scripts they read to the public, which are written for them by their Media Assistants/press Secretaries, and they don't even understand what they read to the press people and the public. These people are daft, with no single idea of what good governance is all about.
They only know how to appoint people not based on merit and moral values, as one thing or other. That is why we have all around us, government officials that are nothing but square pegs in round holes. For instance, I was surprised to read that the Nigerian Ambassador to the United States of America(US) was an 85 years old man when he died, and I ask what is a person of 85 years old doing in government as an Ambassador, or others like that man that were appointed as one thing or the other? Why didn't the 85 years old man reject such ambassadorial appointment, and even recommend his own child if he must, so he could guide him from time to time?
Apparently, many of them can't even trust their own children to be appointed as one thing or the other. It must be them as elders, that has to be appointed. The best a person of 85 years old can do is to be a silent Adviser/Consultant as an Elder Statesman to any Governor or President. Or be a member of a Committee, or be invited to make a speech at events, just like Wole Soyinka is doing right now.
The President, or the Governor, who appoints an 85 year old person as an ambassador, or any Executive position in Government, needs to be queried by the Nigerian Senate in the first instance. There are very many young, active and vibrant Nigerians with good ideas and innovation, that can fit in well in these Executive Government positions.
All of these, are part of the reason we are hopeless with the present administration when it comes to addressing the problems plaguing the nation right, left and center. Also, it is sad that President Buhari has failed to deliver practically all of his campaign promises. Under this government the Nigerian Naira is becoming more valueless, almost like an ordinary paper. Our external debts have risen to an all time high. The economy is poorly mismanaged, as the living standard of more Nigerians is nothing to write home about, with many now driven into severe poverty.
I voted for President Muhammadu Buhari and even campaigned for him as an individual who is not a member of any political party. But right now, I am regretting and ashamed of my wrong decision. The increasing level of insecurity and hardships are becoming more unbearable for the ordinary persons in the Street. Only under this Government that we started hearing of Nigerian police officers and soldiers being killed almost every other day by hoodlums, bandits and terrorists; we hear of people being kidnapped every day; we hear of armed robbers robbing people everyday; we hear of farmers killed/beheaded like fowls while in their farms to harvest crops; we hear and see our Federal Roads going from bad to worse; we hear and see basic food items no longer within the reach of many because of the high inflation - and in all, nothing seems to be getting better.
No one forced President Muhammadu Buhari to seek to be elected as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. And he is not doing Nigerians any favour apart from those idealess, clueless and incompetent Nigerians he appointed as one thing or the other. Not to mention the fact that all of them are not performing. Yet, Buhari retains them for doing practically nothing. Those Nigerians who still praise President Buhari are not helping him at all because they are not telling him the bitter truth, and "realities" on ground. No sector is performing as expected. Yet, Mr. President does not seem moved or bothered about the deteriorating economy and the insecurity situation in the country. Truth is, if President Buhari cannot handle the heat in the kitchen (which is the Presidency in this case), then he should quit the stage, just as advised and demanded by many Nigerians lately, especially the Northern Elders Forum. If President Buhari does not own up to his statutory responsibilities as Nigeria's President, then he should honourably leave the stage for those who can, to take over. Besides, this was the same advice he gave to former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Zik Gbemre.
December 14, 2020.
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes
I recall when President Muhammadu Buhari asked former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to resign and leave the Office to those who could handle the high level of insecurity in the country then. Now that President Muhammadu Buhari has been given that opportunity to lead Nigeria, the insecurity situation in the country, as well as every other thing in the nation's economy, have all gone from bad to worse, and daily becoming really unbearable for the Nigerian populace. The saddest part however, is that there are apparently no hope of things getting better because Mr. President's body language, actions and disposition towards the whole situation, don't suggest like there will be any positive change under his administration.
This makes one wonder which way Nigeria? It is apparently sad that majority of Nigerian political leaders at all levels of Government, do not read and enlighten their minds on ways to address problems in the society. Whether they are medical Doctors, or lawyers, or military Generals or whatever qualifications they must have obtained, the situation is the same with all of them. They only read what their Media Assistants/Press Secretaries write for them to read to the press/public. Most of them have no inputs to make in the very scripts they read to the public, which are written for them by their Media Assistants/press Secretaries, and they don't even understand what they read to the press people and the public. These people are daft, with no single idea of what good governance is all about.
They only know how to appoint people not based on merit and moral values, as one thing or other. That is why we have all around us, government officials that are nothing but square pegs in round holes. For instance, I was surprised to read that the Nigerian Ambassador to the United States of America(US) was an 85 years old man when he died, and I ask what is a person of 85 years old doing in government as an Ambassador, or others like that man that were appointed as one thing or the other? Why didn't the 85 years old man reject such ambassadorial appointment, and even recommend his own child if he must, so he could guide him from time to time?
Apparently, many of them can't even trust their own children to be appointed as one thing or the other. It must be them as elders, that has to be appointed. The best a person of 85 years old can do is to be a silent Adviser/Consultant as an Elder Statesman to any Governor or President. Or be a member of a Committee, or be invited to make a speech at events, just like Wole Soyinka is doing right now.
The President, or the Governor, who appoints an 85 year old person as an ambassador, or any Executive position in Government, needs to be queried by the Nigerian Senate in the first instance. There are very many young, active and vibrant Nigerians with good ideas and innovation, that can fit in well in these Executive Government positions.
All of these, are part of the reason we are hopeless with the present administration when it comes to addressing the problems plaguing the nation right, left and center. Also, it is sad that President Buhari has failed to deliver practically all of his campaign promises. Under this government the Nigerian Naira is becoming more valueless, almost like an ordinary paper. Our external debts have risen to an all time high. The economy is poorly mismanaged, as the living standard of more Nigerians is nothing to write home about, with many now driven into severe poverty.
I voted for President Muhammadu Buhari and even campaigned for him as an individual who is not a member of any political party. But right now, I am regretting and ashamed of my wrong decision. The increasing level of insecurity and hardships are becoming more unbearable for the ordinary persons in the Street. Only under this Government that we started hearing of Nigerian police officers and soldiers being killed almost every other day by hoodlums, bandits and terrorists; we hear of people being kidnapped every day; we hear of armed robbers robbing people everyday; we hear of farmers killed/beheaded like fowls while in their farms to harvest crops; we hear and see our Federal Roads going from bad to worse; we hear and see basic food items no longer within the reach of many because of the high inflation - and in all, nothing seems to be getting better.
No one forced President Muhammadu Buhari to seek to be elected as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. And he is not doing Nigerians any favour apart from those idealess, clueless and incompetent Nigerians he appointed as one thing or the other. Not to mention the fact that all of them are not performing. Yet, Buhari retains them for doing practically nothing. Those Nigerians who still praise President Buhari are not helping him at all because they are not telling him the bitter truth, and "realities" on ground. No sector is performing as expected. Yet, Mr. President does not seem moved or bothered about the deteriorating economy and the insecurity situation in the country. Truth is, if President Buhari cannot handle the heat in the kitchen (which is the Presidency in this case), then he should quit the stage, just as advised and demanded by many Nigerians lately, especially the Northern Elders Forum. If President Buhari does not own up to his statutory responsibilities as Nigeria's President, then he should honourably leave the stage for those who can, to take over. Besides, this was the same advice he gave to former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Zik Gbemre.
December 14, 2020.
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes