Comments on: Of benevolent dictatorship and Vision 20-20! http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/03/of-benevolent-dictatorship-and-vision-20-20/ Latest news from Nigeria, business, politics, entertainment, lifestyle, fashion, health, technology Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:54:47 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Patrick Agbobu http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/03/of-benevolent-dictatorship-and-vision-20-20/comment-page-1/#comment-9960 Patrick Agbobu Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:41:58 +0000 http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=7054#comment-9960 MR. PRESIDENT YOU ARE NOT LISTENING. YOU SHOULD USE NIGER DELTA MONEY TO DEVELOPE THE NIGER DELTA IMMEDIATELY. ABUJA AND ENVIRONS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPED WITH THE MONEY FROM THE NIGER DELTA. THE SAME INTEREST AND SPEED THAT WAS USED TO DEVELOPE ABUJA SHOULD BE USED TO DEVELOPE THE NIGER DELTA. THIS WILL BE A WIN WIN FOR NIGERIA. THE CRISES WILL STOP, INVESTMENTS WILL RUSH IN, THE YOUTHS WILL BE GAINFULLY EMPLOYED, NIGERIA WILL MAXIMISE HER CRUDE OIL AND GAS PRODUCTIONS,TOURISM WILL FLORISH, NIGERIAN INTELLECTUALS AND BUSINESS PEOPLE ABROAD WILL COME BACK TO NIGERIA AND CREATE A LOT OF JOBS. AS LITTLE AS 100,000.00 (ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND) POUNDS COULD ESTABLISH A SMALL COTTAGE INDUSTRY OF A SMALL FARM AND ABOUT SIX WELL PAID JOBS CAN BE CREATED. BY SIMPLE CALCULATION, ABOUT ONE MILLION NIGERIANS ABROAD CAN RAISE THIS TYPE OF MONEY. THAT IS ABOUT SIX MILLION NEW JOBS. MR. PRESIDENT LISTEN! LISTEN!! LISTEN!!! LISTEN!!!. TIME IS NOT ON OUR SIDE AND YOUR SIDE MAKE HASTE NOW!!!!! MR. PRESIDENT YOU ARE NOT LISTENING. YOU SHOULD USE NIGER DELTA MONEY TO DEVELOPE THE NIGER DELTA IMMEDIATELY. ABUJA AND ENVIRONS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPED WITH THE MONEY FROM THE NIGER DELTA. THE SAME INTEREST AND SPEED THAT WAS USED TO DEVELOPE ABUJA SHOULD BE USED TO DEVELOPE THE NIGER DELTA. THIS WILL BE A WIN WIN FOR NIGERIA. THE CRISES WILL STOP, INVESTMENTS WILL RUSH IN, THE YOUTHS WILL BE GAINFULLY EMPLOYED, NIGERIA WILL MAXIMISE HER CRUDE OIL AND GAS PRODUCTIONS,TOURISM WILL FLORISH, NIGERIAN INTELLECTUALS AND BUSINESS PEOPLE ABROAD WILL COME BACK TO NIGERIA AND CREATE A LOT OF JOBS. AS LITTLE AS 100,000.00 (ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND) POUNDS COULD ESTABLISH A SMALL COTTAGE INDUSTRY OF A SMALL FARM AND ABOUT SIX WELL PAID JOBS CAN BE CREATED. BY SIMPLE CALCULATION, ABOUT ONE MILLION NIGERIANS ABROAD CAN RAISE THIS TYPE OF MONEY. THAT IS ABOUT SIX MILLION NEW JOBS. MR. PRESIDENT LISTEN! LISTEN!! LISTEN!!! LISTEN!!!. TIME IS NOT ON OUR SIDE AND YOUR SIDE MAKE HASTE NOW!!!!!

]]> By: Patrick Agbobu http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/03/of-benevolent-dictatorship-and-vision-20-20/comment-page-1/#comment-9826 Patrick Agbobu Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:47:49 +0000 http://www.vanguardngr.com/?p=7054#comment-9826 It is not severance pay that is the problem, it is the over empolyed political class that is the problem. What of other hidden pays, like entertainments, clothing, unnessasary security payments, gratifications, unneceasary estacodes and other unnecessary travel allowances, etc. The Governments, federal, states and local governments spend about 0ne and half trillion naira on wages and unneccessary emoluments. This amout is almost 85% of our yearly earings. These federal, state and local government workers are about 5 to 6 % of the population of Nigeria. In short about 6% of the population of Nigeria spend about 85% of the money of Nigeria. So the remaiming 15% of the money of Nigeria is spent on about 6% of the population, by way of capital projects. We all know what happens, to the so called capital projects, as part of it is eaten up by corruptions. This is the actual picture of Nigeria and yet the majority of Nigerians the about 94% of the population, have done nothing about this disgraceful practice. I see no reason why Nigeria, must have two house of representation at the Federal level, namely Senate and house of representatives. Nigeria should have, only one chamber at the federal level. We should either do away with the Senate or the house of representatives. This will save a lot of money, which will be used, for capital expenditure that will benefit the masses. On the states we should either scrap them and have more powerful local governments and a federal government or we should drastically reduce their wasteful spendings and their wasteful and unneccessary appiontments, just to give jobs for the boys and girls. The state assembly members if we must keep them, should only get sitting allowances, what they collect now, is not good vavle for the type of money they collect from the treasuries. They are reaping off Nigeria. I am sure something can be worked out, to further address this unneccessary drain on public funds. Most of the state houses are just rubber stamp for the governors and most of the houses of assemblies if not all are redundant. The local government where, almost 50% of the money of Nigeria is spent or rather wasted on unneccessary appiontments, which could not have been made in the first place. ALL councillors should only be paid sitting allowances and all other political appointments in the councils cancelled, for they are not necessary but ridiculous. The money saved from these reorganisations should then be used for capital developements, that will impact on all Nigerians. If we address all these, we can have the money for energy and electricity, whick will create and generate lots of jobs for Nigerians. We will have money for good roads, hospitals, schools, etc, these will impact on all Nigerians. If we fail to adderss these issues now, Nigeria will be sitting on a time bomb, that can consume all of us. It is not severance pay that is the problem, it is the over empolyed political class that is the problem. What of other hidden pays, like entertainments, clothing, unnessasary security payments, gratifications, unneceasary estacodes and other unnecessary travel allowances, etc. The Governments, federal, states and local governments spend about 0ne and half trillion naira on wages and unneccessary emoluments. This amout is almost 85% of our yearly earings. These federal, state and local government workers are about 5 to 6 % of the population of Nigeria. In short about 6% of the population of Nigeria spend about 85% of the money of Nigeria. So the remaiming 15% of the money of Nigeria is spent on about 6% of the population, by way of capital projects. We all know what happens, to the so called capital projects, as part of it is eaten up by corruptions. This is the actual picture of Nigeria and yet the majority of Nigerians the about 94% of the population, have done nothing about this disgraceful practice.
I see no reason why Nigeria, must have two house of representation at the Federal level, namely Senate and house of representatives. Nigeria should have, only one chamber at the federal level. We should either do away with the Senate or the house of representatives. This will save a lot of money, which will be used, for capital expenditure that will benefit the masses.
On the states we should either scrap them and have more powerful local governments and a federal government or we should drastically reduce their wasteful spendings and their wasteful and unneccessary appiontments, just to give jobs for the boys and girls. The state assembly members if we must keep them, should only get sitting allowances, what they collect now, is not good vavle for the type of money they collect from the treasuries. They are reaping off Nigeria. I am sure something can be worked out, to further address this unneccessary drain on public funds. Most of the state houses are just rubber stamp for the governors and most of the houses of assemblies if not all are redundant.
The local government where, almost 50% of the money of Nigeria is spent or rather wasted on unneccessary appiontments, which could not have been made in the first place. ALL councillors should only be paid sitting allowances and all other political appointments in the councils cancelled, for they are not necessary but ridiculous. The money saved from these reorganisations should then be used for capital developements, that will impact on all Nigerians. If we address all these, we can have the money for energy and electricity, whick will create and generate lots of jobs for Nigerians. We will have money for good roads, hospitals, schools, etc, these will impact on all Nigerians. If we fail to adderss these issues now, Nigeria will be sitting on a time bomb, that can consume all of us.

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