Grand Corruption: Nigeria’s Greatest Threat.
The recent report from the IMF consultation further raises concerns about the scale of grand corruption under the Tinubu government. The IMF now reveals that about N8.83 trillion in expenditure undertaken in 2025 is not reflected in the budget. This expenditure is not budgeted and is therefore not under legislative oversight or administrative scrutiny. This is horrible.
N8.83 trillion is as follows:
1.About 2% of our GDP.
2.Over 35% of Nigeria’s 2025 N23.96 trillion capital project budget. In fact, the amount is more than the actual released capital funding for 2025.
https://t.co/Hta3LViCB8 is more than the entire combined budget for education (N3.52 trillion) and health (N2.38 trillion).
If such an amount is properly used and accounted for, it could transform Nigeria’s public health and education sectors. It could create hundreds of cottage industries that can provide jobs for thousands of graduates and build a solid foundation for economic development. But we cannot account for it. This is not an isolated incident.
This is a pattern of grand corruption that has become part of this administration.
We have a lot to worry about regarding the state of corruption under President Tinubu. The sort of corruption that is ingrained in total disregard of elementary rules of public finance management poses a grave danger to national security and the stability of the Nigerian state. The capture of the Nigerian state and the plunder of its resources are actions that undermine the basis of state stability and deepen poverty and state failure.
This recent revelation proves that the APC government is grossly corrupt, incompetent, and insensitive. With the growing poverty and the urgent need for significant upgrades to social and physical infrastructure, a responsible and responsive government would ensure that N8.83 trillion is prudently utilised to address these gaps. But not the Tinubu administration.
A few days ago, I called on President Tinubu to resign from office for incompetence, lack of capacity, lack of compassion, and failure to improve on his campaign promises. Some people thought perhaps the call was excessive. But with the daily revelations of pervasive corruption in this administration and its total lack of commitment to the welfare and security of Nigerian citizens, the only reasonable action is for President Tinubu to resign from office. The collapse of elementary forms of due process under Tinubu and the increased evidence of rampant looting of Nigerian public finances reinforce the need for greater accountability. It is now time for Nigerian citizens to rise within the law and hold this administration to account.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
“There two standards I see in Nigeria: one standard for the north & another standard for the south. Whenever a few Igbo boys have gotten angry & reacted, they sent Air Force, Navy & Military to go & stop them. They take armored tanks to the east. But we see Fulani boys stand & speak on the internet, they say anything, do anything, & nothing moves. Instructions are given for nobody to move.”
~ Pastor Sarah Omakwu
@SaharaReporters@EmodiMba Who is their sponsors ?
Their imported weapons are shipped into the country under the supervision of the Federal Agency of Customs and Excise DG.
A Bill for an Act to Change the Name of Nigeria to;
1.Federal Republic of SONGHAI.
(parts of Nigeria was once part of the Songhai empire)
2.United African Republic.
3.Federal Republic of AZIKENIA
(Coined from Azikiwe,the most passionate Nigerian leader ever)
One of the advantage of changing our name is to tell China that Nigeria has died and we can’t pay them their money the Late Nigeria borrowed.
“ Make sure people around you have eaten before you carry food to the orphanage “
~ Kizz Daniel
“ I can’t tell you how to spend your money but some kind of things requires common sense . You can’t have struggling neighbors, people hustling to make it and you skip them to go to the orphanage and give so you can take pictures , I am not saying it is bad but guy , help people you see suffering around you . If you collapse na them go first carry you .”
~ Kizz Daniel
If Tinubu is not removed then Nigeria should apologise to Mmesoma and give her scholarship.
If we want to be mad as a Nation then let’s be proudly mad
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THE PEPT JUDGEMENT WON’T GO THE WAY OF 30 PIECES OF SILVER. THE JUDGES ARE NOT JUDAS'.
1. Wednesday, September 6, 2023, though in future is already etched on stone of history of Nigeria and cast in the steel of African renaissance story.
2. Africa waits to see the guide Nigeria will provide.
3. Honest soldiers in countries bedeviled by corrupt leadership presently pondering how to come to the rescue of their nations await to see if Nigeria will confirm that democracy can still work in the continent.
4. Since after Judas, no one has ever desired to be associated with him.
For the purpose of my non-Christian readers, Judas was the man that betrayed Jesus (the Christ). He accepted a bride of 30 pieces of silver coins and handed Jesus over to his adversaries, who made false allegations against him, and got him condemned to death.
5. Jesus had performed many miracles which Judas witnessed, so Judas believed that he (Jesus) will miraculously escape from his captors, while he goes on and enjoy his 30 pieces of silver coins. Unfortunately, Jesus did not escape, but was ignominiously tortured and killed. When Judas saw the gory torture, he couldn’t bear the evil he had committed, he went out and committed suicide by handing himself on a tree.
6. Every single Judge of the PEPT knows the story of Judas, but unlike Judas, they all know that no petitioner before them has shown to possess miraculous powers, therefore whatever judgement they issue goes with full potency.
7. His adversaries bore false witness and had Jesus condemned to death because he said he is the TRUTH (indeed He is). So, for betraying this TRUTH Judas died a shameful death (of suicide) that begot him eternal disgust and rejection.
8. Before the PEPT, there is only one TRUTH, and the Judges know it. How would anybody think that the Judges will want to go the way of Judas and betray the truth for whatever blackmail or inducement? Who wants to be subjected to eternal disgust and rejection? Or who would want to commit such a heinous crime against TRUTH, and set their souls up for eternal torture?
9. News making the rounds say that some evil persons have made some input in the judgement to suit their wicked desire. I would think that no one should worry about this. Even if it is done, those who prepared the evil judgement shall, with their own ears, hear the TRUTHFUL and JUST judgement pronounced.
10. Do they think the judges are fools? Or That the Judges are not aware that they have ran out of the country (or are set to run out) in case of ‘eventuality’?
11. Of course the Judges know that all eyes are on them. These are eyes of love and kindness, eyes that are saying: “you know the truth, say it! Don’t let their inducement and blackmail make you to give verdict against the TRUTH. Remember Judas, he didn’t live to enjoy his silver coins. Don’t let them push you onto the way of Judas.”
12. Every Nigerian should rest assured because the eyes of love on the judiciary have become the gracious morale they need to do the right thing. The Lordships will do justice. They will not bring down the roof of Nigeria on Nigerians (them inclusive). They won’t.
#AllEyesOnTheJudiciary