- Posted January 10, 2012 by Susan Roces Poe source: www.otedo.com
OPINIONS:
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" Christianity is not indigenous. Religion and tribe is the problem. You guys can go on pretending it isn't there and blame every crime known to humanity on corruption or inefficiency in running a system that isn't ours. My beef is that some people namely the Fulanis have their own cabal who decide what happens to us. They do not believe that we are one country and their association is basically based on the spoils that come from the Nigerian state. This issue has to be addressed before the nation can take off as an entity. We are tired of our eyes being covered by all these stories. We have to be real. We have suggested that the nation be restructured so that we as a people can have something to fall back on. All these petty thieves that you are throwing in jail is an exercise in futility. The solution stares us in the face but those who think they are not fully equipped to compete in a Nigeria where regions are left to determine their livelihood have been holding us back for ages and still do. They do not realize that they hold themselves back in the process." - Tony Ndikanwu
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FROM: Neda Bernards Imasuen
“When I read this piece over and over again, I paused in reflection to the present day reality. That this statement 30 plus years ago resonate with us today truly speaks to the saying that history repeats itself. The same attitude, the excuse,the same rhetoric. The past often to be blamed for inaction or lack of vision.
THE LEOPARD'S SPOTS ARE INDELIBLE
On August 27, 1985 Brigadier J.N. Dogonyaro announced the coup that dethroned the Buhari/ Idiagbon government and brought Babangida to power. Below is an excerpt from his speech.
"........The Nigerian public has been made to believe that the slow pace of action of the Federal Government headed by Major-General Muhammadu Buhari was due to the enormity of the problems left by the last civilian administration.
Although it is true that a lot of problems were left behind by the last civilian government, the real reason, however, for the very slow pace of action is due to lack of unanimity of purpose among the ruling body; subsequently, the business of governance has gradually been subjected to ill-motivated power play considerations. The ruling body, the Supreme Military Council, has, therefore, progressively been made redundant by the actions of a select few members charged with the day-to-day implementation of the SMC’s policies and decision.
The concept of collective leadership has been substituted by stubborn and illadvised unilateral actions, thereby destroying the principles upon which the government came to power. Any effort made to advise the leadership, met with stubborn resistance and was viewed as a challenge to authority or disloyalty.
Thus, the scene was being set for systematic elimination of what, was termed oppositions. All the energies of the rulership were directed at this imaginary opposition rather than to effective leadership. The result of this misdirected effort is now very evident in the country as a whole. The government has started to drift. The economy does not seem to be getting any better ......."
This was 31 years ago...... Make whatever you may out of this.”
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