NIGERIA is set to celebrate its fifty-eight Independence anniversary, which is usually celebrated on the first of October every year, since its freedom from the colonial masters in 1960.
The Federal Government has declared Monday next week as a public holiday to mark the event.
Meanwhile, as Nigerians observe the day, our correspondent, sampled the opinions of the citizenry on the journey so far in Anambra State.
Speaking on the event, the Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese Most Reverend Paulinus Ezeokafor, who described the Independence day as the day of freedom, however, called on the Federal Government to be more serious in tackling the unknown gunmen that are killing innocent citizens across the country.
For the Anglican Bishop of Awka Diocese, Right Reverend Alexander Ibezim, Nigerians are yet to experience true democratic governance and called on the Federal government to be more proactive in providing democracy dividends across the country.
The Founder Save a Soul for Africa, Sir Ogo Ezeonu, noted that Nigerians should use the period to reflect on the concept and ideology of democracy which he observed is not in practice in the country as the voices of the masses could not be listened to by the leaders and representatives, praying God to give Nigerian leaders sense of justice to maintain an ideal democratic system that would be beneficial to all citizens.
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Sir Ogo called on the Federal government to do its best in ensuring that the people are listened to, with emphasis on restructuring which the citizens are clamouring for, saying that if the Federal Government accepts true federalism which will be ushered into the country by restructuring, the country’s indivisibility would be strengthened.
Contributing, the Transition Committee Chairman for Awka South Local Government Area, Hon. Leo Nwoba harped on the need for people to secure their voters’ card in order to express their power to elect the representatives of their choice during the 2019 general elections, and ensure more functional and people-oriented governance.
For the President general, Ohanaeze Ndeigbo Anambra State Chapter, Chief Demian Okeke-Ogene, Nigeria has nothing to celebrate, as the phenomena has remained and grown dormant and unfunctional since the country’s independence in 1960.
The Igbo leader who pray God to guide the leaders right, charge Nigerians to take the bull by their horn to address the issue of restructuring in order to bury the agitation of injustice, marginalisation and imbalance appointment by the present Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari across the six geopolitical zones.
He called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to set-up a monitoring committee to look into vote buying syndrome that has become the order of the day, noting that if urgent attention is not given, it would truncate 2019 general elections.
The lawmaker representing Dunukofia state constituency in Anambra House of Assembly, Hon. Laurence Ezudo, who also made case for true federalism in his message on Nigeria’s 58 Independence anniversary said that injustice and conflict would continue to fester for as long as the constitution is constantly and unnecessarily breached.
The APGA lawmaker called for a constitutional review which would ensure that more powers are decentralize from the centre, thereby enabling true federalism to drive for National unity.
Weak electoral system, Security challenges, infrastructural decay, and weak national institutions are all products of what Hon Ezudo described as a bogus system and concentration of power at the centre.
He therefore suggested that the National Assembly should implement a comprehensive legal framework that would ensure political stability and uniformity for the country democracy to meet International best practices.
How can we pray for a
Nation Living and
Celebrating Deceits!
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Nigeria
In a strange land (hand)
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Psalm 137:
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1 By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat down, yea,
we wept, when we
remembered Zion.
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2 We hanged our harps
upon the willows in the
midst thereof.
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3 For there they that carried
us away captive
required of us a song;
and they that wasted us
required of us mirth,
saying, Sing us one of
the songs of Zion.
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4 How shall we sing the
Lord’s song in a strange
land?
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How can we pray for
a Nation that had fallen
into deceits!
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How can we pray for a
Nation Living and
Celebrating Deceits!
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What is the % Of the
people
that vote to the
population?
Is this fareness, justice and equity?
Soon Nigeria will produce crusaders if the killing of Christians in this country does not stop and Nigeria restructured.
FG cannot continue to take 52% of state revenue. Then give back a token in form of bail out funds. This is making southern states poorer and making northern states with little revenue richer.
Restructure to true federalism and stop this propaganda, unless you want these agitations to intensify endlessly. Nigeria must be restructured. Reasons for restructuring are very clear; Nigeria is culturally diverse but not tolerant. No preaching or allocation can make Nigerians tolerable, we cannot live together and do business as usual anymore:
1. Muslims keep killing Christians
2. Fulanis keep killing southerners
3. Buhari, APC, FG keeps suppressing, marginalizing and killing Igbos using military.
4. Yorubas want Oduduwa republic
5. Igbos want biafra
6. North wants Arewa
7. Niger delta want their republic.
8. Corruption war targets only enemies of APC, meanwhile Amechi who stole rivers state money to fund Buhari and APC campaigns is given a portfolio as minister of Transportation.
9. Rights of Nigerians to free speech taken away because Buhari, APC and FG don’t want us to criticize a poorly performing government.
10. Buhari has returned Nigeria to military regime. We are no longer a democratic society.
11. No peace and security in the country. Boko Haram and fulani herdsmen on rampage.
12. Hunger leading Nigerians to commit suicide while senate is earning 3bn naira per annum
13. Quit notices everywhere
14. Songs of war by northerners to exterminate Igbos.
15. Reps sharing 1.6bn naira to buy only cars for themselves while Nigerians go hungry. They call it national interest.
16. Buhari and APC spending 700bn naira on bribe alone in their first year in office. Sharing the money in northern states. I wonder how much they would spend in the next 3 years when the next statistics is compiled.
17. Northerner owning most of the oil wells in Niger delta. This is very wrong.
18. North collecting more allocations from south because of number of local governments and population yet southerners are the ones producing the money.
19. They lied to us to get into office:
A. 1 dollar = 367 naira now
B. 1 litre = 145 naira now
C. 1 bag of rice = 18,000 now
D. 1 cup of beans = 110
E. 1 cup of garri = 50
F. Inflation has increased 600%
20. Engaging in projects which have no economic value such as extending rail way to Daura, when major federal highways which facilitate commerce are abandoned.
21. IG of police cannot be probed because he is above the law but Chief Justice of Nigeria and past military Generals can be probed for corruption because they are ordinary citizens.
22. After claiming that Nigeria is out of recession, FG borrowed 7.51 trillion naira, 100bn naira sukuk fund, $5.5bn euro bond to spend on corrupt politicians.
23. Nigeria had one of the world’s highest economic growth rates, averaging 7.4% according to the Nigeria economic report released in July 2014 by the World Bank. Today, Nigeria’s poverty index is 20yrs’ high, predating late Abacha administration.
24. Where is 3.4bn budgetary allocation for Aso Rock Clinic? Where did Buhari and APC keep the money?
25. Northerners seek to Islamize Nigeria.
26. Where is $25 billion nnpc contract fund? Details please?
27. Where is N640 billion nnpc loan or contract? Details please?
28. Buhari instructed foreign investors including world Bank president to focus only in the north.
29. Buhari spend N700billion to bribe in his first year in office, circulating the money mostly in northern states.
30. 919 million nhis training scheme scam scandal
31. N120 billion police allegations on corruption.
32. N500 million bribe from mtn to Abba Kyari
33. N182 million fraud/bribe by Dr. Saadu Alabama
34. $43 million of IkoyiGate
35. N273 million grass cutter contract.
36. N9 trillion nnpc scandal
37. Why has buhari Restored and promoted a criminal ex-pension boss after looting N2billion. The same thief that GEJ sacked for stealing.
38. Governors are busy embezzling bailout funds and not paying states salaries and all Buhari can do is to beg them, instead of holding them accountable.
39. Where is N22 billion that FG gives Fashola every month to buy gas to produce electricity? Rep raise alarm that Nigeria is still in darkness.
40. Buhari re-employing a corrupt thief like Maina who has a looting record of N14.37billion hanging over his head.
Buhari and APC have no moral authority to accuse anyone of corruption in this country because they are pretty much as corrupt. This fake and lopsided corruption war must stop.
Buhari and APC cannot deceive Nigerians anymore. In fact Dasuki has to be released. APC is looting more than Dasuki already and magu must go home.
Buhari’s APC is the virus that is eating away the life of Nigeria. Nigeria must be vaccinated against this virus.
This administration is full of liars and thieves.
It’s time for Nigeria to restructure or disintegrate. Let each region take care of itself the same way it happens in the USA. Enough is enough.
Buhari, APC and FG are fantastically corrupt, David Cameron was right.
The Nigerian police is so useless in this country. They arrested a ‘suspect’ who overdosed himself with a substance, then detained him without access to medical intervention. Tried to diagnose him in detention without the help of a medical doctor till the man died. Then spend the whole day trying to convince Nigerians that as policemen, that they are sure that it was the tramadol overdose that killed him. Now who is the criminal? Since when did policemen become doctors? This impunity must stop.
Meanwhile reforming SARS does not mean name change to FSARS. Sure IGP does not understand. I blame the IGP? ….the transmission to confusion who cannot even read to understand any case? In today’s political atmosphere the police is used as a political instrument to falsify, rig, victimize, distort and manipulate political events to fit with the political narrative of corrupt Buhari with his corrupt APC.
IGP Deploys 30,000 policemen to Ekiti for elections.
If 30,000 policemen were in benue and plateau there would not be that much killings. If 30,000 policemen were in borno, Boko Haram would be a forgotten issue. Osun state had a peaceful gubernatorial election when Adeleke of PDP won, until the police showed in the rerun to steal the people’s choice. Police came with so much show of force, violence, intimidation and Shooting that they forcefully snatched PVCs from people’s hands to thumbprint for APC.
The central government FG-NPF is very useless. They cannot even protect their own much less Nigerians. The IGP himself is an illiterate and dangerously misfit for the job, always on transmission and omission.
Exactly my point!
Institute state police.
Scrap the Nigerian police. They are wasting Nigeria’s resources in form of salaries and allowances. Why is the police paid and what are they paid for, if they cannot protect lives and property?
1. It was on the basis of protecting lives and property that the bill for Nigerian police was drafted. The police is not supposed to engage in politics. They have a duty – protect lives and properties.
2. The Nigerian police is useless to Nigerians. They dehumanize and kill innocent law abiding citizens just as much as killer fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram. ……Only that police extrajudicial killings are underreported.
3. They collect bribe to deprive justice.
4. They frame people up to victimize them.
5. They run away from crime scenes only to re-emerge when the scene is over, just to arrest and kill innocent citizens.
6. Their connivance with criminals to lend them their guns and uniform for operation is no longer a hidden mission.
7. They engage in a lot of extrajudicial killings so much that some of them are underreported…especially SARS..
8. They are now instruments of political propaganda in the hands of Buhari-APC to persecute political enemies.
9. They abuse law abiding citizens on streets of Nigeria for a token sum of N50 thereby making N50 naira note very scare in circulation.
10. They abuse people, beat up people on the street, falsely accuse people, detain innocent people, demand whooping amount for bail and arrest without warrant.
11. They dehumanize females on the streets by stripping them naked in the name of searching for tatoos. Yet they forget that the tribal marks they bear on their faces and arms are also called tatoos.
12. They never show up whenever they are called and informed of a robbery incident.
13. Rather than engage Boko Haram and fulani herdsmen to protect lives and properties of law abiding citizen, they cowardly run away.
14. What they do is the guard politicians.
Perhaps the lives of politicians are more important than every other Nigerian. Perhaps this is all they can do – guard politicians and let the rest of us die in the hands of fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram while they extort, abuse, victimize and dehumanize the rest of us who are alive.
15. Of what use is the Nigerian police to the Nigerian citizen?
16. The Nigerian Army is now doing the work of the police – to protect lives and properties.
#ScrapTheNigerianPolice