APC-Buhari Mandate And Dateline 2019

By Adeola Aderounmu

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Apc-Buhari Mandate, A Failed Government

The APC is into the second year of its reign. Not much has been acheived. A lot of hopelessness pervade the country. The discord between the ruling class the the suffering masses remains a big issue.

In 2019 Nigerians may head to the polls again. The struggle for the outcome of the 2019 elections started already in 2015 or probably earlier. This is one of the huge problems with Nigeria. There is no ideology to deal the pressing issues such as performance of a sitting government and even right now more pressing is the issue of the political structure of Nigeria.

Nigeria is not working and is probably not going to work under the present arrangement. So year in, year out, elections in, elections out, the problems continue to get bigger at a rate proportional to how the crazy politicians conitnue to enrich themselves.

The present political stucture in Nigeria is built for the benefits of those who conquer political power no matter the level.

So APC has failed and it will fail by the end of its tenure in 2019 because the operating manual for Nigeria is outdated and since the people are still abiding by an expired manual, their life-time porgrammed suffering will continue.

 

Buhari, Which Ticket Again?

Mr Buhari ought to be the first person to dissociate himself from governance in 2019. In the run off to the 2015 elecions, he hardly spoke and made only very fragile appearance on the platform during the campaigns. Now we know why.

He had been sick and in need of medical help. The position of the presidency opened a flood gate of unlimited funds and so he treated himself to the use of our commonwealth spending many days in a london hospital. Grace is what he got. Many of us did not expect him back in Abuja.

So, if there is anyone who should be longing to a well-deserved rest, it should be Buhari himself.

Sometimes, l do wonder what the gains are: when you can be at home resting and even if you like travel the world to do wonderful things, why choose to sit in a rat-infected office in Abuja?

Seriously, l was expecting Yemi Osinbajo to have taken over from Buhari because he is younger, more energetic, brilliant and willing to lead. It still baffles me that a man with a fragile health would risk the next 2 years clinging on to power.

The issue of contesting in 2019, from my perpective, is like a suicide mission. But l may be wrong. I left medical research in 2004, what do l know?

I don’t even want to talk about Atiku.

I don’t know how Nigerians elevate criminals and allow them to occupy public offices.

Atiku and Obanikoro have done some kris-krossing and moved to different camps. They will keep moving until Nigerians put a final stop to this nonsense that allows thieves to find all available options to the public treasuries.

Nigeria is full of intellectuals and brilliant minds but all we chose to talk about with regards to the 2019 elections are criminals like Atiku and Obanikoro.

Nonsense and ingredients!

This country will not be forgiven!

 

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Den Afrikanska Kvinnan

Jag hyllar de afrikanska kvinnorna. Jag hedrar den goda nigerianska kvinnan. Nigeria måste, mer än någonsin tidigare, börja främja kvinnors rättigheter och jämställdhet mellan könen

DEN AFRIKANSKA KVINNAN

Av Adeola Aderounmu

A Market Place in "old" Nigeria

The African woman, forever beautiful and strong

 

Jag bor i Stockholm, Sverige. Jag har varit pappaledig vid två tillfällen, vilket betyder att jag har varit ledig från jobbet för att ta hand om mina barn.

I vad som kan beskrivas som en omvandling av roller har jag skött om mina barn genom att ge dem materiellt, emotionellt och socialt stöd medan min fru arbetat måndag till fredag under den tidsperioden.

Mina reflektioner var mer intensiva under min andra pappaledighet. Här följer min berättelse.

Jag växte upp i en normal nigeriansk familj med bröder och systrar. Det jag kände till om min barndom, är förmodligen typiskt i de flesta nigerianska hemmen.

Våra mödrar var skyldiga att ta hand om hushållet medan våra fäder jobbade hela tiden.

Under vissa omständigheter skötte kvinnorna inte bara hemmen utan försörjde även familjen med det dagliga levebrödet. På ett sätt är det en väsentlig del av våra liv att lägga bördan av hushållssysslor och barnuppfostran på kvinnorna.

Mina erfarenheter som hemma-man i Sverige under en tolvmånadersperiod, med dubbelt ansvar att ta hand om mina barn och vårt hem i allmänhet, har övertygat mig om att denna aspekt av våra liv i Nigeria behöver ändras eller bytas ut.

Men utan ett ingripande från regeringen eller en mycket stark rekommendation från Nigerias kvinnodepartement kan det bli både tekniskt och byråkratiskt omöjligt att genomföra nya riktlinjer, inom både privata och offentliga institutioner, som skapar en högre grad av flexibilitet för föräldrar med respekt i att uppfostra sina barn.

Det förefaller som att denna fråga kommer bli en het debatt som står inför både motstånd och fördömelse eftersom det drivs ett icke önskvärt system i Nigeria, där många människor fortfarande anser att kvinnor är underlägsna männen. Jag kan föreställa mig att förespråka för lika rättigheter och möjligheter för kvinnor utifrån respekt för familjevärderingar i Nigeria, kan vara att efterfråga för mycket. Men det borde det inte vara.

Vi bör tillhandahålla en förlängd mammaledighet till nyblivna mödrar oavsett var de arbetar eller arbetets karaktär.

Dessutom behöver vi göra en studie eller kartläggning om hur föräldraledighet för båda föräldrar fungerar i länder som med framgång genomfört sådana program.

Jag vet att Storbritannien nu lägger mer uppmärksamhet på ett sådant program.  Grundstommen är väl fungerande offentliga institutioner, en genomtänkt regeringspolitik och ett välgrundat undervisningssystem.

Jag tror inte det kommer innebära att en främmande kultur införs ifall pappor genomgår samma upplevelse som mammor, i form av att vårda sina barn under de tidiga formgivande åren eller hela spädbarnstiden.

Efter nio månaders graviditet med efterföljande förlossning behöver kvinnor både moraliskt och känslomässigt stöd och att ge dem förlängd mammaledighet och ett socialt stöd borde vara den minsta ansträngningen samhället kan bidra med.

Jag tror att ett av de troliga skälen att Nigerias befolkning fortsätter att explodera, trots den hårda ekonomiska verkligheten och det ofördelaktiga politiska klimatet, är för att många nigerianska män inte alltid är hemma för att fysiskt se skötseln av hemmet.

När de är hemma är deras prioritet att se på tv, läsa gamla dagstidningar eller att underhålla vänner medan de fortsätter att uppmanar sina fruar att göra både det ena och det andra.

Män behöver förstå smärtan och den besvärliga situationen hos kvinnor och de behöver inse att det krävs mer av en pappa än att bara vara spermadonator eller inkomstkälla.

Betydelsen av familjen som samhällets grundläggande enhet kan inte nog betonas.

Familjebandet och dess inlärda gemensamma värden är grundläggande delar hos den närmaste omgivningen och för nationen som helhet.

Det finns starka tecken idag på att kommunikationsklyftorna inom familjen blir större och det kan i hög grad ha bidragit till de socialekonomiska problemen vi har i Nigeria.

Naturligtvis är splittrade familjer och värderingar nu ett globalt problem.

Vissa pappor känner inte sina barn och många barn känner inte sina fäder. Sexuell obetänksamhet är till och med på uppgång vilket leder till barn i ett odefinierbart föräldraskap. Sällan är det då mamman som saknas.

När dessa luckor väl skapats under de formgivande åren är de vanligtvis svåra och ibland omöjliga att överbrygga. Klyftorna kan komma att fördjupas och bestå livet ut.

Skilsmässa och/eller att leva separat kan inte antas ge rätt till ett vårdslöst föräldraskap.

Många separerade föräldrar i olika länder fortsätter att fostra och försörja sina barn som de skulle gjort om de levt under samma tak.

Mina erfarenheter under pappaledigheten gav mig möjlighet att reflektera dagligen.

Vanligtvis tänkte jag inte bara på min mamma utan även på afrikanska kvinnor i allmänhet som symboler för styrka, mod och beslutsamhet. Jag frågade mig själv flera frågor.

Hur klarade dessa kvinnor av sex barn eller fler?

Klagade de sig någonsin över trötthet till sina män eller papporna till deras barn? Fanns det alltid någon de kunde dela sin smärta och frustration med? Vad gjorde de när de inte fanns någon att vända sig till?

Hur hanterade de all stress och situationer omkring dem? Vad gjorde de när de själva skulle vilja sova men barnen fortsatte gråta efter uppmärksamhet och tröst?

I korthet frågade jag mig själv, hur hanterade de alla dessa problem? Hur klarar de av det nu?

I varje familj fortsätter den afrikanska kvinnan att fullfölja sina skyldigheteter som hushållerska, i nöd och lust!

Jag hyllar de afrikanska kvinnorna. Jag hedrar den goda nigerianska kvinnan.

Jag kan inte heller sluta tänka på de ensamstående föräldrarna.

Jag undrar hur mycket repatriering som kan ge tröst åt dem för deras roller, deras motståndskraft, deras mod, deras tålamod och deras uppoffringar i kampen att hålla ihop hem och arbete.

Nigeria måste, mer än någonsin tidigare, börja främja kvinnors rättigheter och jämställdhet mellan könen. Med jämställdhet och erkännande av kvinnors och barns rättigheter blir det lättare att kontrollera födelsetalet.

Nigerias ekonomi lider av ständiga åtstramningsåtgärder och arbetslösheten förblir mycket hög men ändå har inte födelsetalet sjunkit.

Detta är en onaturlig trend, inte bara i Nigeria utan även i andra ekonomiskt utmanade länder eftersom de biologiska lagarna kräver annorlunda.

Det är särskilt irriterande att läsa eller höra om kvinnor som ger upp sitt vardagsliv på grund av sin karriär eller vise versa. Det finns ett behov att skapa flexibilitet för att tillåta en rimlig integration av arbetet och hemmet, som en källa för både tillfredsställelse och glädje.

Nigeria måste skapa eller se över situationen gällande ammande mödrar och sociala välfärdspaket. Vi behöver inte vänta på ett perfekt politiskt klimat innan vi börjar leva och njuta av våra liv.

Det är inget fel i att påbörja program som ger stöd åt medborgarna i Nigeria, även om den politiska klassen består av obotfärdiga lögnare och korrupta människor.

Det är en annan aspekt i vårt kollektiva ansvar att rädda oss ur sådana missförhållanden.

Genom att noggrant studera föräldraledighetens process i länder där framgång har uppnåtts, kan Nigeria påbörja ett okorrumperat nationellt socialförsäkringssystem som tillgodoser ammande mödrar i alla åldrar och kategorier.

Det borde vara utgångspunkten. Inom en överskådlig framtid blir samverkan med papporna i processen mycket användbart i att återuppbygga familjen och även säkerställa att våra kvinnor inte är överbelastade eller missbrukas.

Slutligen måste regeringen omforma och ge ny kraft åt familjeplaneringspolitiken, samtidigt som de betonar behovet av den.

Fördelarna med en överensstämmelse av familjeplanering av alla och en var kan inte överbetonas.

 

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Translated to Swedish by Louise Holmberg

 

 

Buhari, The Present Father Of Corruption

Buhari, The Present Father Of Corruption

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Mr Buhari has taken nepotism and tribalism to the greatest level seen anywhere in the world.

 

By Adeola Aderounmu
In recent days  lot of uproars have trailed the APC-Buhari mandate which started in 2015, that is a little more than 2 years ago.

Whilst not taking credit as a seer, l remembered how people attacked some of us who pointed out early that the APC regime very early in its mandate showed traces that made it obvious that the status-quo was going to be maintained.

Mr. Buhari spent several months trying to put up a government. In the end he had no choice but to settle for the same old criminals that have served in various capacities under previous regimes.

It must not be forgotten that some politicians paid huge sums to sponsor the campaign and the eventual emergence of Mr. Buhari. They were rewarded with positions in the cabinet.

What is more shocking to me as a writer and social critic is the way Nigerians are treating the Buhari-APC mandate. They are acting like the government is off the track.

The truth is that the government was never on track. The government had always been full of criminals and thieves. How we expected a governmenr full of criminals and thieves to fight corruption beats my imaginations.

Nigeria is running a system of government that will never bring criminals and looters to book. If a system cannot allow for the emergence of sane people and credible politicians, how can such a system be good?

Nigeria as l have written before is a country going no where. What you have seen since 1999 is pseudodemocracy and for as long as we continue to shy away from the truth and the way forward, this poverty, this hopelessness and this criminality in the presidency that percolates the entire strata of governance is what we will get. There are no miracles about government and prayers are the most useless options.

It’s all about actions, what you do and what you don’t do. That is government.

I am one of those who have lost count of how many scandals that have rocked the Buhari-APC mandate.  Now imagine the daily scandals of looting, stealing, nepotism, triablism and outright madness that have been exhibited by Nigerian politicians since 1999? Since 1960?

The other day it was Goodluck Jonathan who should be hiding in shame that even made bold to condemn APC as a government of lies and propaganda.

I had to assure you before you go ahead that the writer  is neither interested in the APC nor the PDP. Hence my brief reference to Jonathan in that sense.

There was a tactical criminal tendency in the PDP from 1999 to 2015. For every crime, for every lie, for every shame and for all acts of corruption, the PDP adopted what it called “family affair approach”. That way the people were deceived and their eyes taken away from the ball.

In this Buhari-APC era that has since shown, in my understanding, that it is a variant of the PDP is adopting the same approach. But the mechanism is modified.

For every crime, for every lie, for every shame and for all acts of corruption, the APC first play the fool, keeping silent and pretending like nothing happened. Then people are invited to Aso rock and the dirts are swept under the smelly carpet in Aso rock. Little wonder the rats are eating up things there. It is stinking!

Buhari’s government is the most diabolic in Nigeria’s history. This government is the one that took lies, propaganda and deceits to the next level.

The evil deeds of this government would have meant less if for example Buhari or any person that is responsible in the APC stops saying that it is fighting corruption.

Which corruption?
I don’t get it.

How can you live and thrive in corruption yet you say you are fighting it?

I have sat back a few months just to observe this government closer. It is full of pure evil.

It is reckless and careless at the same time. This APC-Buhari mandate has perfected the evil plot and rendered the populace both powerless and thoughtless.

From a distance l see a corrupt goverment where all the key actors are criminally minded just the same way it has been from 1999.

I see a repressive government that is military-styled.

Just like before and now a bit worse, the democratic organs are still useless.

The presidency, the senate, the state and the local councils all stinks of corruption to the clouds.

This particular government needs to stop saying that it is fighting corruption. Those running it are corrupt. The head is rotten therefore the entire fish is useless.

I don’t want to start mentioning cases like Maina and the others. It is up to each one of us to look carefully and see how Mr. Buhari had been quiet and acting a god.

If the Nigerian politicians and politics are not useless and worthless, Buhari would have been impeached a long time ago.

But those who are to impeach him are not worth it, they are the birds of the same feather. Which is why Nigeria is heading no where.

If you like, look at how the NNPC scandal has been whisked away. Maybe it will give you a better picture of how billions of dollars have disappeared again under Buhari. Just like in the late 1970s!!!  Bad history repeats itself often in Nigeria because the people have stopped thinking

There was never a war on corruption. If there was one, it was never by Mr. Buhari who has surrounded himself with people from Northern Nigeria in one Nigeria. What nonsense!

If there would be a war of corruption in Nigeria, then we first have to fill the political posts with righteous people and saints. Today, everybody is stealing and the one who is caught is the thief.

We have a senate leader that l will never shake hands with. I cannot allow him to stain my hand and reputation. I cannot stand with Saraki just the same way I cannot stand with Dogaro the budget padder and friend of Mr. Buhari.

Which corruption are we fighting again? I am really annoyed now. Shut up everybody! There will never be a war on corruption. Just wait for it, Atiku is coming back! All the people who should be in prison are controlling the useless unitary system.

Nigeria is going no where.

By now the younG people need to think and reason. Is this how we want to go on? Is it not time to unite and take back Nigeria? Is it really true that we are all criminals waiting in the wings to capture Nigeria and milk it? I refuse to agree with that. Ther are no criminals in my family. I am not Saraki and I am not Buhari. I am not Amaechi and I am not Tinubu. I am not Atiku.

There must be a way to take back Nigeria, to take back the regions, to take back the states and find a better way forward.

Look at yourselves the youth of today. Is this the country you dreamed of ? Is this the country you will leave for your children? What a shame!

 

aderounmu@gmail.com

 

The Kings Are Mad (Part 4)

The Kings Are Mad (Part 4)

The people of the land continue to suffer. They continue to groan in hardship. No land south of the Tropic suffer so badly. No land, south of the Equator knows a suffering so painful that it remain without full-blown war.

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The King from the North stealing from the people, and this is not the first time. A Criminal is always a criminal

This land is special. In anticipation that one can become wealthy through one form of fraud or the other, majority of the people cling on to their religion while hoping that their prayers will help them succeed through their evil ways.

The reign of the King in the North continue. It is he who decides what will be taken from Abuja to everywhere else in the land. This King is not normal. He will never be a normal king because what he does are not correlated to what he says.

He said NO TO CORRUPTION but he is the head of the corruption ring. He has helped to steal monies especially in the oil industry. This is not the first time he would be in charge of stealing oil money. One of the greatest musicians to walk planet earth, a man called Fela sang about this King. He called him an animal.

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THE KING OF THE NORTH SERVING THE NORTH

Fela died a few years ago. He was a prophet who lived ahead and beyond his days on earth. Fela warned the people of the land about the criminals in uniform (khaki) but the people are deaf and cursed. Many of the people are unwise because hunger has disorientated them. They would rather beg than fight. The people who die on their knees than fight on their feet. They are cursed and they suffer. Their children too will suffer as they continue to leave their fate in the hands of criminals called elites of which the Kings scattered all over the land are permanent members.

The king in the North is supervising the worst reign ever seen south of the Equator and everything he says are not matched by action. He would even travel to Queensland when he got sick. Where should the ordinary people go when they are sick? If not madness, what is the definition of such a phenomenon? The kings are mad for they do care only about themselves.

The problems in this land are not only the problems caused by the different kings coming to Abuja to continue the deceit which has become the established tradition in this land.

Constantly there are demons possessing people in this land. Even the women are not left out. One woman, who was the wife of a former King from the south is so possessed she does not know the difference between night and day. When he drunkard husband was the king in Abuja, she stole so much money that she became almost mad. She even stole money on behalf of her dead mother. She is probably crazy too. Such people should have been tied and thrown to prison.

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This land is full of mad people and the women are not left out. Why are they all free instead of serving prison terms or facing direct firing squads?

But in this land, criminals and thieves especially the ones who have become crazy are rewarded even by the people because the people no longer know the meaning of dignity. When the people of other countries where prosperity is even look at this land dominated by crazy kings, they laugh and wondered too about the prayers that the people pray.

There is another woman who is totally crazy. Her madness too cannot be cured and she left the country so that her madness will be hidden. When she was in charge of the oil industry having been out there as a prostitute, she stole all the monies that belong to the people. She went to Queensland and acquired properties. There is no doubt about her insanity. There is no doubt about the insanity of the Queen in Queensland for allowing such a woman with an unsual name and behaviour  to live and buy things in the UK. The Queen is mad too.

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The face of a DEMON, One who steals so much money that she cannot spend all even if she becomes 2 million years old. Total madness and absurdity!!!

This land will not prosper until all the mad Kings and the mad women are made to pay for their crimes. For as long as the criminals are allowed to run things in the land, there will be no common prosperity for the people. Only the elites will enjoy. The people will live and die in poverty. There will be no two ways to prosperity. What is right must be done and what is wrong must be destroyed. No other way to glory for this land.

(To be continued….)

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Nigeria Going To World Cup in Russia (2018)

By Adeola Aderounmu

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On Saturday 7th of October 2017 Nigeria became the first African country to secure her place at the Football World Cup coming up in the summer of 2018 in Russia. To ensure her place at the tournament the Super Eagles of Nigeria defeated the National Team of Zambia in Uyo with 1 goal to nothing.

Congratulations to the Super Eagles.

I wish you well in Russia and l hope you have a good preparation. Don’t go to Russia as just one of the teams, go as champions and even try to win it.

Best wishes

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