If the life of Dr. Tunji Braithwaite taught any lesson, it is that citizens remain the ultimate source of legitimate power and that power that does not derive its source from their will always endangers both itself and the people.
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Another evolution as the Nigerian government plans to utilize N20 trillion from pension funds for infrastructure development: "Critics, including Atiku Abubakar, raised concerns about the legality and potential risks to retirees' savings, while Finance Minister Wale Edun defended the plan as a means to unlock funds for development. The move sparked a debate on balancing economic growth with the security of pension funds.โ
Let me add my voice as we did when the last administration wanted to go after the same funds. First, the Nigerian government has no capacity to return this fund back to pensioners if it is allowed to use it. The Pension fund does not belong to the government, and public pension managers cannot listen to the government on their investment thesis.ย The government should just forget this fund and look for other alternatives.
The pension managers should resist such pressures and stand for workers. If the government needs funds to fund infrastructures, it should do what other countries do: improve rule of law and make Nigeria safer for infrastructure investments. If you do those, private companies will take over these infrastructure burdens.
In America, companies own train lines, bridges, etc, because there are strong property rights. Nigeria should make sure possible, and not where you get a building permit, and you build, then in ten years, another government will come and tear down the same building even though a previous one gave you a permit to build. Who will invest in infrastructure when you see how some state governments are bulldozing properties left and right? If Nigeria focuses on fixing those matters, private funds will come to build our infrastructures since it is clear the government has no kobo. https://t.co/hlMDCynBVH
@PNMbah Good evening your Excellency
Kindly help us reduce army check points in Enugu state.
The road blocks at the check points are causing accidents.
The accident at Eziagu check point is a good case in point
Festus Okoye of INEC,response to the final report of the EU Election Observation Mission of the 2023 general elections shows that he is bloody and pathological liar.There was no Glitches. The presidential election result was deliberately not uploaded to allow for rigging.
INEC Dashed Public Trust, No Transparency - Watch EU's Damning Verdict On 2023 Presidential Election
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Dear Nigerians,
It is indeed 30 years to the day that Aare Moshood Kashimawo Abiola won the Presidential Election and was denied his victory by desperate military adventurers and their civilian collaborators.
Today, one of those collaborators disguised as a "democrat" is sitting where he should not be, through mind-nunbing rigging and and calling those testing the system properly through the right channels "bad losers".
The Election Tribunals are part of the process of Democracy, and those who steal, rig, murder and pillage their way into office, and then seek to subvert the judicial process through "reorganisation of the judiciary" do not deserve to enjoy the fruits of democracy.
We are witnessing yet another insidious subversion of the democratic process, but this particular irony is lost on the perpetrators of the worst electoral heist ever seen in the history of Nigeria.
Let us remain calm and watch the Judiciary closely, as the earthly salvation of Nigeria now lies in their hands.
I remain hopeful that they will.ignore threats, blackmail and filthy lucre, and choose to discharge their responsibility with a deep sense of occasion and history. I also hope that they remember that if they make a wrong decision, they will be among the first victims, via "reorganisation of the judiciary", a not too subtle threat. Ask Onnoghen.
Happy Democracy Day!