Our Girls are still missing since April 15 2014. What hope? One wishes that the leadership would move forward faster. Time is not on government’s side-a little over two years left in their ‘first term’ and there are complaints of delays within a long democratic bureaucratic process, particularly procurement methodology. Government must open up and speed up this bottleneck by bringing everyone into a Georgia-like single space ‘long room’ and paying overtime. Government is losing the battle for hearts and minds because people are fickle and want quick-fixes.
Already many state governors are burning the ‘good will bridges’ needed for re-election in 2019 with draconian democracy characterised by heavy backdated tax regimes, unrealistic tariffs and pursuit of laws like city-wide No Parking Laws with zero ‘No Parking’ signs or car parks. The on-going Highway War in Nigeria is to ‘open’ the roads and improves IGR, Internally Generated Revenue. Nigerian Human Rights Commission, when is IGR actually ‘IGRobbery’? Nigerians have survived a Civil War and successive 419 governments only to have another ‘democratic’ government unleash ‘undemocratic’ ‘pouncing’, extortion, bribery, threats of violence and entrapment? Where is parking? Government is killing business nationwide with its draconian soldiers who do not care ‘whose ox is gored’. That ox to be gored may be the government at the 2019 election. EVEN ERRING CITIZENS ARE NOT THE ENEMY. GOVERNMENTS: TREAT CITIZENS IN A CIVILISED COMPASSIONATE MANNER OR RE-ELECTION WILL NOT HAPPEN.
Why are road soldiers never ‘helpful’? Where are the – ‘Traffic Offence Tickets’ and ‘2-4 Weeks To Pay The Fine, a helping hand or a ‘Preventive Measure Is Better Than Cure’, Cautionary ‘No Parking’ Announcement, or 1st and 2nd Warning? In Nigeria the training is AAA, Arrest-Arrest-Arrest or ‘Arass- Arass-Arass’ as in ‘Harass’ and not ‘Help’.
Without the civility of road markings, posters and warning signs, directions, ‘advice to move’ they, by powers-invested-in-them by our ‘elected’ politicians, unseen edicts, bye-laws and ‘arrogance-of-uniform’, intimidate, extort, seize vehicles and demand immediately payable fines of N25,000 -which only politicians think is small and carry around- from often unpaid citizens. The Nigerian road fines are disproportionate to income. Reduce the fines to N2,500. STATE 419 GANGSTERS IN UNIFORM SHOULD ENSURE CITIZENS HAVE SOMEWHERE TO PARK INSTEAD OF NOWHERE TO PARK.
BEWARE WHERE YOU STOP, DROP, SHOP OR CHANGE LANE. THESE ACTS ARE PROHIBITED IN NIGERIA-JUST GO, GO,GO! Avoid stopping for vendors colluding in an ensnarement scam. In Nigeria the best plans are distorted, disrupted and destroyed by the uniforms who see ‘POWER’ OR ‘BRIBES’, NOT ‘SERVICE’ – like Nigeria’s politics –a failure.
If Governors unleash IGR teams using corrupt methodology as IGRobbers on Nigeria, then Nigerians should set up cameras strategically and use the web to expose these criminals in uniform. Let us have a ROAD BLOG/WEBSITE to post our experiences. And the governors must know that they are building Protest Votes in 2019. These traffic draconian democracy policies are ruining access to SMEs by clients and customers driving down taxes and making cities unattractive to do business REDUCING IGR. No customer will shop where they cannot drop or park. So government YOU are driving business away from YOUR STATE and yet you want to tax those same businesses stupidly! City roads are not expressways!
Road authorities need close supervision. The Ministry of Environment’s army advanced on the citizenry WITH NO SIGNPOSTS belligerently for Internally Generated Robbery. Pity! No warning. No signboard. Just pounce, arrest, seize car, fine. It is 419 and illegal to extort money by IGRobbery. Law-abiding citizens respond to instructions not accusations of anti-citizen government agendas.
As Nigeria’s faces massive pipeline damage wrecking its gas to electricity plan, we hear that the Niger Delta Avengers are going for dialogue. Good! It must also use renewable locally available un-wreckable alternatives to circumvent vandalisation and domesticate power production. Nigeria claims a subnormal 4,700Mw but we deserve and have prepaid for 47,000 or 100,000MW. The government may be listening to the Indians as they offer us assistance with serious solar structures. “The world must turn to (the) sun to power our future,” India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “As the developing world lifts billions of people into prosperity, our hope for a sustainable planet rests on a bold, global initiative.” India wants 40% of its energy from renewable sources by 2030 including 100 GW of solar energy by 2022. The World Bank offers India a $1billion solar loan. Nigeria has that $1billion in our CBN and can borrow to make a $2billion SOLAR ENERGY FUND FOR SINGLE DIGIT LOANS FOR FACTORY CONSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURE AND END-USER PURCHASE OF CUTTING EDGE SOLAR PANELS, BATTERIES AND INVERTERS. Nigeria, wake up to our darkness. Our past living leaders Obasanjo1, Buhari, Babangida, Shonekan, Abdulsalami, Obasanjo2 do not apologise for their power failures or even keep quiet. Some seek profit from failure from new electricity contracts. African leaders, like Buhari seeking instant legacies should ‘Go Mega-Solar’.
Sadly the Germans are forced to help 3000 Bakassi returnees and the UN is helping IDPs. Shame! Nigeria and Nigerians have abandoned responsibility. Nigerian should deprive themselves in this time of WAR to donate to IDPs.
In Ibadan, the derelict old British High Commission grounds have been cleared! The compound is a metaphor for Nigeria. As the former BHC grounds are cleared, does that mean that Nigeria will be cleared for take-off developmentally? We expect the current leadership to be the best hope we have had.
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