•President Buhari reading the budget...yesterday. PHOTO: STATE HOUSE
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President Buhari returns triumphantly from China, bringing a low/no interest cheap loan to stabilise the economy. Previously, injection of political and corruption money pushed prices up. The markets were in a hyper-inflated ‘Corruption Bubble’ ripe for bursting. Definitely the ‘greedy’ stock market in 2010-2014 spiralled up. The current stock price fall is an anti-corruption correction falling back to ‘normal’. It is not a financial catastrophe! Next –overvalued properties! The crash will take the ‘CORRUPTION HEAT’ from the economy. It is the 1999-2015 inflationary corruption and the 2016 backlash anti-corruption crash aftermath! The economists predicted gloom and doom without more foreign direct investment, FDI. The confidence for 2016+ FDI will come from loans driving real infrastructure development, jobs and increased purchasing power by people, not manipulative banks.
President Buhari brings loans with no ‘devaluation’ strings unlike the International Morticians Fund,IMF! We know that China is taking over Africa economically without demanding ‘pound of flesh’ communist ideological strings–‘Chinaism’! The UK and USA had their day through ‘Colonialism, Capitalism’. We have ‘Chinaism’- cheap foreign loan investment to replace theft and incompetence under past governments TILL WE GET THE STOLEN MONEY BACK! How many politicians in National Assembly () are of ‘FINANCIALLY SOUND MIND AND CLEAN’ enough to even discuss with Buharism –a success from ‘foreign trips abroad’. Buhari’s Chinese choice would not have been required if past governments and politicians had properly invested in real development and saved 1-10% of God’s billions ‘dashed’ to Nigeria. Past leadership has collective amnesia about their responsibility in failed and abandoned development strategies which forced each of us to become a local government. It allowed a pariah government structure, a maverick exploitative private sector and even produced a Dangote to be wrongly deified.
The combined ‘Past Presidents of Nigeria’ unapologetically failed in all sectors, except corruption and incompetence, allowing the institutionalisation of a ‘Maximum Corruption Figure’ of 50-100% of contracts and ‘BUDGET PADDING’- A ‘SOFT-LANDING’ WORD DESCRIBING THE PREPARATION PLAN FOR MASSIVE ‘BUDGET LOOTING/PILFERING/ROBBERY’ – stealing with consequent murder of citizens by a failure of services! THERE IS BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS!! This 50-100% figure is crippling and in excess of the ‘Maximum Corruption Figure’ of 10% compatible with the survival of a society to prevent zero growth or regression. NIGERIA’S GOVERNANCE HAS BEEN A THIEF WHO STOLE FROM THE COUNTRY AND ATE THE FOOD AND THEN GREEDILY ATE HIS HANDS DESTROYING THE ABILITY TO FURTHER FEED ITSELF –NIGERIA. Greed beyond need and we are still starving! President Buhari is trying to CHANGE OUR DEVELOPMENT DESTINY by this ‘CHINAISM’ loan and other actions that will attract the ‘DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT’ demanded by economists and those who supervised our economic downturn since the military misadventure into governance.
The Buhari government can take credit for exposing and preventing its ‘FIRST MULTI-BILLION NAIRA FRAUD CASE’ – a financial crime conceived and committed entirely under his administration and against his principles. This was CRIMINAL AND CORRUPT BUDGET INFLATION aka ‘BUDGET PADDING’ and requires FORENSIC INVESTIGATION. Nigerians see the evil workings of the 50+ year old method of INSTITUTIONALISED ‘TRADITION OF CORRUPTION AND FRAUD’ in BUDGET-MAKING. This is defined as ‘A CRIMINAL AND CORRUPT COLLUSION/CONSPIRACY BETWEEN POLITICIANS, CIVIL SERVANTS AND CONTRACTORS TO USE THE BUDGET TO DEFRAUD NIGERIA’- a sort of pre-emptive theft, A GRAND LARCENY, a crime worthy of maximum punishment involving many layers of high flying GAP [Government And Political] individuals who daily sing the National Anthem, pray the Second Stanza and Recite the Pledge.
The Budget face-off between the President and the citizens on one side and NASS on the other, is beyond politics and a Nigeria Survival Question – Us against Them! The Presidency is under fire from NASS for ‘revealing’ the secrets of preparation and inflation of the normally corrupt ‘Budget Nigeria’. The President’s upright stand has placed Nigeria at a crossroads – CONTINUE CORRUPTION OR KILL CORRUPTION- continue with traditional Budget inflation or change to a CLEAN budget of development making each naira go further? Choose ‘CHECKING AND RECHECKING BUDGET, LINE BY LINE’, to eliminate fraud. We need a (Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, ‘NEITI’ MONITORING GROUP for the newly discovered but ancient pariah -‘THE BUDGET EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY’.
Where do you stand? Nigerians must join the BATTLE FOR THE BUHARI BUDGET! Do you stand with the President or against – ‘With Development’ or ‘Against Development’? Do you stand with entrenched politicians who HAVE ALWAYS FAILED YOU and prefer ‘Constituency’ aka ‘Corruption’ or ‘Pork Pie’ Projects?
Will Nigeria again succumb to its NASS political servants? THIS IS A HERCULEAN CALL TO DEFEND THE ‘CHANGE’. Nigeria is at a development crossroads. The budget issues are about survival and development Vs corruption. Since 1999, NASS was allowed to overstep its bounds and wrongly given corrupt powers to alter Nigeria’s budget leading to a long wrong ‘tradition’ of ‘padding’ and rewriting budgets. But it is a BUHARI BUDGET NOT A NASS BUDGET.
Nigerians stand up, shout, be counted for the BUHARI BUDGET against a ‘NASS Budget’ NASTY substitution. NASS’s job is not to redirect massive funds within a Buhari budget but to confirm budget details. The BUHARI BUDGET must include the Lagos-Calabar Railway and exclude all Constituency Corruption Projects. NASS members should be recalled to their constituencies and educated on their role.
If NASS members want a nationwide constituency budget, let NASS members run for President. They will lose!!!
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