Poor Nigerians crying for attention
October 13 2015. By Abi Giwa
The mass of Nigeria's unemployed youths have all thought that on the coming of a new government, their seemingly endless trajectory in unemployment will be over. But running to five months after President Muhammed Buhari assumed office in May 2015, tackling the dire unemployment situation in the country has taken the back seat in the nation's affairs.
President Buhari had said that the country had been stolen dry by his predecessors in office and that he would heed to plan meticulously to steer the country away from an imminent economic Armageaddon. It was the reason he gave for his four months of search for men and women to appoint ministers.
But many Nigerians on seeing the names on the list that the president sent to the senate for consideration for ministerial appointment have questioned the rationale behind the president's need to have waited for four months in appointing minister, when he knew his financiers and backers would fill his list. The names on the second list are not different from the first.
Some Nigerians say that the president's lists show that you have got to have well oiled political connections to be appointed as a minister. Further, they say it also shows that ministers are appointed to occupy political offices, and whether they effect positive changes or not is the president's business. No government will go looking for angels to fill political positions. And that Buhari's claim of looking for people without blemish to work with him have turned out to be hogwash.
They seem to have said that the business of the common man is to ask the president what he has been doing to effect positive change in their lives, because according to them, appointing ministers have never had any impact on their lives, based on their knowledge of the country's history.
The ministers, they say, often see their offices as political gain for election fights, to be enjoyed by themselves and their cronies.
President Buhari has said matters will be different this time, and it is the reason he has stemmed up the fight against corruption. But people are saying they would no longer for months before they will behind to ask questions.
The first question is about what the president may have been doing for fairy months after he was sworn into office, and for coming out with a list of ministers that did not justify his wastage of the country's four months keeping the people waiting for what had resulted to nothing. The second question is about the continued spate of insecurity in the country, they say Boko a Haram is still killing Nigerians like mosquitoes.
Amid these concerns, the army spokesman alerted the public of what he called Boko Haram's use of multi-dimensional bombs that are capable of hitting several places at the same time. An explosion in a beer parlor in Lagos had sent propel seeking cover wherever they went after the explosion no one had explained its cause, and no one seemed to believe whatever the police had said.
To worsen the situation on the ground, some powerful members of the ruling party have resorted to testing their newly acquired political status and powers against one another.
Ostensibly, the president is the most powerful individual in the country, but from reports, certain elements may have resorted to the use of the fight against corruption to hijack a section of the judiciary to settle scores, and what is manifest in the power play is that people are saying that the president cannot be unaware of anyone in his party using the judiciary to punish another member for having the temerity to disrespect the party in the choice of House leaders.
The party leader who believe that he is the Alfa and Omega who had ensured the party's victory in the last election is doing everything humanly possible to attract his nemesis, whom they have succeeded in dragging before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, for an offense said to have been committed 12 years ago.
The party leader is reportedly employing a section of the press in his attacks toward this single individual, all in his efforts to ensure party supremacy, which people say he personifies. This is exactly what has been the characteristics of the Nigerian Party politics from independence. Party leaders do what they like irrespective of the rule of law, while Nigerians live with mega inflation of leadership consideration for their worsening economic plight.
People who know say that Chief Obafemi Awolowo was a victim of this madness called party politics. MKO Abiola was also a victim of the same madness of party politics and military officers' involvement in politics, while the country and the poor people have also been at the receiving end of political godfathers playing god.
Nigerians are wondering how Buhari will end the madness and pay attention to the needs of the mass of unemployed youths. And that is believing that the after election victory's excitement and partying by the president and his party men have ended. They believe that the election victory and endless partying have been what the president and his men have been engaged for four months, without nothing to show as what they done purposefully to address the uncertainty in the country.
President Buhari had said that the country had been stolen dry by his predecessors in office and that he would heed to plan meticulously to steer the country away from an imminent economic Armageaddon. It was the reason he gave for his four months of search for men and women to appoint ministers.
But many Nigerians on seeing the names on the list that the president sent to the senate for consideration for ministerial appointment have questioned the rationale behind the president's need to have waited for four months in appointing minister, when he knew his financiers and backers would fill his list. The names on the second list are not different from the first.
Some Nigerians say that the president's lists show that you have got to have well oiled political connections to be appointed as a minister. Further, they say it also shows that ministers are appointed to occupy political offices, and whether they effect positive changes or not is the president's business. No government will go looking for angels to fill political positions. And that Buhari's claim of looking for people without blemish to work with him have turned out to be hogwash.
They seem to have said that the business of the common man is to ask the president what he has been doing to effect positive change in their lives, because according to them, appointing ministers have never had any impact on their lives, based on their knowledge of the country's history.
The ministers, they say, often see their offices as political gain for election fights, to be enjoyed by themselves and their cronies.
President Buhari has said matters will be different this time, and it is the reason he has stemmed up the fight against corruption. But people are saying they would no longer for months before they will behind to ask questions.
The first question is about what the president may have been doing for fairy months after he was sworn into office, and for coming out with a list of ministers that did not justify his wastage of the country's four months keeping the people waiting for what had resulted to nothing. The second question is about the continued spate of insecurity in the country, they say Boko a Haram is still killing Nigerians like mosquitoes.
Amid these concerns, the army spokesman alerted the public of what he called Boko Haram's use of multi-dimensional bombs that are capable of hitting several places at the same time. An explosion in a beer parlor in Lagos had sent propel seeking cover wherever they went after the explosion no one had explained its cause, and no one seemed to believe whatever the police had said.
To worsen the situation on the ground, some powerful members of the ruling party have resorted to testing their newly acquired political status and powers against one another.
Ostensibly, the president is the most powerful individual in the country, but from reports, certain elements may have resorted to the use of the fight against corruption to hijack a section of the judiciary to settle scores, and what is manifest in the power play is that people are saying that the president cannot be unaware of anyone in his party using the judiciary to punish another member for having the temerity to disrespect the party in the choice of House leaders.
The party leader who believe that he is the Alfa and Omega who had ensured the party's victory in the last election is doing everything humanly possible to attract his nemesis, whom they have succeeded in dragging before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, for an offense said to have been committed 12 years ago.
The party leader is reportedly employing a section of the press in his attacks toward this single individual, all in his efforts to ensure party supremacy, which people say he personifies. This is exactly what has been the characteristics of the Nigerian Party politics from independence. Party leaders do what they like irrespective of the rule of law, while Nigerians live with mega inflation of leadership consideration for their worsening economic plight.
People who know say that Chief Obafemi Awolowo was a victim of this madness called party politics. MKO Abiola was also a victim of the same madness of party politics and military officers' involvement in politics, while the country and the poor people have also been at the receiving end of political godfathers playing god.
Nigerians are wondering how Buhari will end the madness and pay attention to the needs of the mass of unemployed youths. And that is believing that the after election victory's excitement and partying by the president and his party men have ended. They believe that the election victory and endless partying have been what the president and his men have been engaged for four months, without nothing to show as what they done purposefully to address the uncertainty in the country.
