CHAT AWAY YOUR VOTE

I have been laughing since I read of the Rivers state Lawmaker that bought 85 Pieces Of Gionee 5 Phones As Constituency Project been 'dividends of democracy' for his constituents.
'Afterall' he will tell himself 'I am better than those that stole it all and did nothing'.

Lawmakers that spends their constituency allowances on overhauled curriculum, textbooks, construction of schools and scholarships will soon produce academics, QCs, Professors and world class entrepreneurs.

He that spent his money on a garage full of Ferrari, Bentley, Porsche and Range will soon raise constituency members who wants an immediate INEC recall, not minding the strange music, the satanic collabo, the senseless litigations and the acrobatic verbal gymnastics.

Be rest assured. This one that spends his constituency allowance on Gionee phones will soon raise citizens that will be facebooking, snapchatting, whatsapping, instagramming and peppersouping when the ballot box will be stolen.

72ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: THE BATTLE OF NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION

This 72nd United Nations General Assembly has been another interesting time for the world to conference together and discuss issues that affects humanity, human survival, women and children- Climate change, Global warming, Nuclear proliferation and the prevention of wars.

Most notable is it that the whole world agreed that The Fat Young Man of Pyongyang has gone crazier and needs to be tamed. But Iran was another major discussion where there was a split of ideology. America is not willing to join the world in renewing any Nuclear Non proliferation treaty in October 2017 with Iran. America's president Donald Trump insisted that if he's finding it too difficult, he will leave the matter to Congress. French President Macron had to speak against Trump's hard-line on Iran. He feels a cooperating country should be supported. In like manner, Even our own agelong black African dictator Robert Mugabe helped to objectively call kettle black. Now to my point!

Donald Trump promised to 'totally destroy' North Korea calling Kim Jon Un a rocketman. North Korea responded by referring to Trump as being mentally deranged as he tests more ICBMs against UN resolutions! Just yesterday, Iran's president Rouhani launched her own ballistic missile too. Without mincing words I can see clearly that all of them are right.

Israel insists that Iran's stop of Nuclear proliferation will only give it time to expand secretly into a Nuclear monster unstoppable by the whole middle east. That sounds possibly true but just 5 days into UNGA, Iran finally confirmed Israel's words by this launch. No one will ever test her ballistic missiles with common bombs in this forthcoming future. Hence, Did Iran really stop? Yes! Does Israel believe? Yes But did Israel lie about a possible future saddled with designs of nuclear warheads since ballistics are ready now? No! Is Kim Jon Un a rocketman? Yes,he has rockets that have been tested travelling over the territorial space of Japan and dropped in the pacific. Should someone who is testing nuclear weapons without checks be left to live? Yes! Using Clinimetric index to measure psychotic disorders, if Trump, as stated by Kim is truly deranged raised to the power 2 , what will be the clinimetric index of the psychotic disorder of Kim Jon Un? (My doctor friends should calculate and tell me please). So looking at it, everybody is right. The only difference is that, in America, you can only be crazy for 4 years after which you resume in your assylum or prison but in Pyongyang, grandfather,father and son can be mad serially for 6 decades and yet be celebrated as god by 25 million people!

I just wondered when others reacted to America for promising to totally destroy North Korea even when Kim is already testing ICBMs over the territorial space of another country unstoppably. We all sound like we have not heard such before. Yet when Former Iran's president Ahmadijenad unrepentantly promised very publicly to 'wipe Israel off the world map, there were no bitter responses like this thereafter.

Having read Saul Singer's Startup Nation in 2015, i do feel strongly that America but most particularly Israel may have developed a solution to nuclear attacks that is unknown to North Korea and Russia. They may have already concluded that one day, Iran and perhaps North Korea will attack Israel, US, allies and there will be nothing the UN will do than condemn.

Should there be a discovered solution, Rouhani and Kim must just be ready for a whole lot of specialised hiding as the last discoverer might react more virulently! No tunnel hiding please

72nd UN General Assembly

KACHIKWU AND THE CABAL

Dr Kachikwu’s leaked letter to President Muhammadu Buhari makes it the 2nd time this year a Director within a parastatal under a ministry will be resisting a federal minister to the clear knowledge of the public. Earlier this year, we all saw how the DG of NHIS Professor Usman Yusuf refused to proceed on suspension even as an investigative panel of inquiry found him culpable of maladministration and mismanagement of the NHIS. No sooner than Professor Adewole’s letter got to Yusuf that he replied the Minister insisting that “although by virtue of section 47 of the NHIS act, you are empowered to give directives of a general nature to the governing council of the scheme and in the absence of the council, you have the presidential mandate to exercise the powers and functions of the council but since the powers and functions of the council do not include discipline , suspension or removal of the Executive secretary of the scheme from office, the directive in your letter under reference cannot find comfort under the said section and presidential mandate”. Any time I read this response and I remember that the president was ill and abroad at this time of suspension; I always ask “must you shoot yourself because you really want to respond?”

Since no one is ready yet to prosecute Yusuf till today for corrupt practices and mismanagement of NHIS ,Another NNPC GMD Dr Maikanti Baru unknowingly to us all has been doing things his way at the NNPC for over a year now, making most senior appointments without the consent of the board, concluding contracts that surpass $20m without board consent against NNPC legal frameworks to the tune of $25bn, attending only his own preferred meetings amongst other unethical and unprofessional acts. Truly there was no part of Kachikwu’s letter that said Baru conspired to embezzle funds. Kachikwu did not also say that Baru initiated the contracts. His emphasis was that he(Kachikwu) was not carried along in line with official frameworks for such awards and appointments.

But the worst part of the letter is that Baru keeps saying Buhari knows about everything he is doing. Now, that is not a minor allegation. Historically, Buhari has consistently displayed two tendencies during his 2 terms as head of state and president that sharply negates Baru’s position- First, abhorrence of corruption and tolerance of his immediate next line at work. With this background, it is glaring that if truly, these contracts and appointments were really made by Baru with Buhari’s consent against Buhari’s renown antecedents, there are several lessons to learn for a New Nigeria to emerge.

First, when experts without character inevitably occupy a space, superior expertise with character must monitor them for efficiency. Buhari knows no jack anymore about today’s oil and gas industry. Stubbornness is not expertise. Stubbornness does not make anyone regret corruption. Only convictions and imprisonments does.

Second, for every wrong endure with action and body language, you will soon be forced to accept it as it grows into a trend. If no one sanctions and punishes one Usman Yusuf of NHIS for mismanagement and insubordination, One Baru of NNPC will do likewise to his Minister of Petroleum too.

Thirdly people should stop believing that Buhari’s ailment and trip abroad has no impact on the governance of our nation. Even one Senator Marafa did stand up in the senate and stated that the senate president should take over the leadership of the country since the president was on medication abroad and his VP was on official visit outside the country. A senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria did say that in public!

Lastly when I saw the makaruru NNPC board appointment, my first eruption was Aba Kyari again???? Lacunas I conclude in some cases in Nigeria are left deliberately to try permutations. Federal character suddenly became irrelevant for appointing this board. President became Minister for petroleum to okay GMDs works while sidelining Kachikwu . Baru is saying the consent of Kachikwu is not needed on the NNPC board. Presidency is saying that both should stop public altercations without addressing the real issues. Yet, to them, Kachikwu should just sit there and take blames for every fuel scarcity, pipeline vandalisation and insecurity issues in the Niger delta while Baru coordinates the contracts. These things don’t look like errors. They look really well orchestrated and I am beginning to feel the true rays of the Nepotism in Buhari which Junaid Mohammed talked about. With this, It is extremely right that Dr Olisa Agbakoba is suing the Federal Government as the appointments are just a starting point to affirm justice on this letter.

While the letter displayed utmost respect for the office of the president, we need to understand that Buhari’s absence did tolerate inefficiency, insubordination, corruption and nepotism. Until indicted members of the executive are brought to book while the Usmans and Barus get sacked, no one will anymore believe in Buhari’s zeal to fix this country. Zeal does not fight financial crimes in Nigeria. Save the appointments, it is sincerely going to be difficult to indict anyone. Nigeria must deliver herself from cabals and corruption for meaningful development to happen.

UMMI BOLORI: THE ZEAL OF A MOTHER

Take a woman's kids away from her because you are their father and you will see who exactly a mother is.
She faces the wealthiest in a fight!
She fights the untouchable to the last.
She marches to war even if alone!

The absence of her kids keeps her in the valley of loneliness
That worst state of womanhood.
Thinking she will not fight back
Is the most ulterior fallacy

She will confront anyone to have her kids
She will cry to the media to re-experience the warmth.
She will shout at her lawyer to win the battle
No husband let alone ex-husband has the right to keep full custody of the kids
She has same rights as well.
She really does.

If it will take locking up such ex-husbies to get her kids back, then so be it.
Rule of Law! go there and do your job
Nobody has a right to deny a mother custody of her kids
Not even an ex-VP's wife.
God bless Ummi Bolori

Ummi Bolori