President Buhari’s First Act of Fiscal Irresponsibility.

by Eze Eluchie

The very first executive acts of President Muhammadu Buhari, ordering the release of Twenty One Million Dollars (US $21million) to the so-called Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), a most amorphous entity unknown to Nigerian law and practice  and whose rules of accountability is unknown, is  in addition to constituting an act of fiscal irresponsibility and  rascality also an impeachable offense. Worse still, the US $21million is merely a part of the One Hundred Million Dollars (US $100million) which President Buhari pledged to give the so-called MNJTF.

A combined reading of the provisions of Sections 59, 81 and 82 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic makes it clear that the National Assembly has to legislate for any monies withdrawn by Mr. President from the National purse. As at the time when the US $21million-giveaway was effected, the 8th National Assembly was yet to be inaugurated. From where did Mr. President get the authorization to giveaway public funds to an entity unknown to our laws?

Is the MNJTF a drain pipe? Into whose pocket?

Was the pledge of US $100million to MNJTF reflected in any Federal Budget?

Was the US $21million giveaway accorded MNJTF ever approved by the Senate of the Federal Republic as stipulated in the Nigerian Constitution?

Whilst not calling for Mr. President to be impeached now, the Buhari regime must watch it! The President must, at all times be reminded that he is presiding over a supposedly democratic arrangement and not an autocratic era where he can wake up and do whatsoever he feels like with national resources. Such mannerisms, as displayed by the reckless throwing around of national funds, are the root causes of corruption and other vices which serve to undermine whatsoever efforts being made to pull our contraption out of the woods.

President Buhari, as part of the transitional processes, should be forgiven this time around, but such lapses must never occur again. The Legislative houses are enjoined to ensure that such lapses never occur again and that this present misadventure is corrected.



Picture: President Buhari clearly in need of learning fiscal practices of the presidential system

Reward For Terror.

by Eze Eluchie

From its very onset, I had recognized and classified the ‘abductions’ at Chibok as a monumental fraud, a game changer.

It sure did change the game! Unfortunately, so many others, including the 1st Lady of the United States, the British Prime Minister, amongst others, failed to see through the sophisticated charade Governor Shettima of Bornu State and his team, Oby Ezekwesili and her #bringbackourgirls gang were foisting on hapless Nigerians and the international community.

As leaders of the #bringbackourgirls gang and other principal actors in the ‘abduction’ saga at the secondary school at Chibok line up to be rewarded with political appointments at various strata's of governance under the newly elected governments in Nigeria, for a ’job well done’, some as Federal Ministers, State Commissioners and other political appointments, one only hopes that the remainder of the girls still been played as pawns in a lethal political chess game who have suffered irreparable harm and deprivation, if they are still alive, are allowed to go back home to their parents.

Perhaps its high time Nigeria apologizes to the international community over the fiasco at Government Day Secondary School, Chibok.

The only specie of the human race worse than terrorists are those who benefit from terrorism!



Picture: Some of those who were mesmerized into carrying the #bringbackourgirls placard (above) and the 'principal actors' in the Chibok fiasco (below). 

The Dumber You Are; The More We Support You!

by Eze Eluchie

A close study of the relationship between the characters that have been opportune to rule over sub-Sahara Africa States and some non-African powers will reveal a startling reality: the less intellectually endowed rulers have clearly received more support from the 'international community' than rulers perceived to be intellectually savvy or patriotic to their countries of origin.

Until the ‘misstep’ of the threatened mass deportation of persons of Indian ancestry from Uganda, one of the most vicious, dumbass, ignorant and senile rulers who any country has ever had the misfortune to be governed by, who also happened to be an acclaimed cannibal, ‘field marshall’ Idi Amin Dada of Uganda, had a most cordial, near fraternal relationship with the erstwhile colonial masters of his country, the United Kingdom, and by extension, the ‘international community’.

In a similar vein, a kleptocrat-per-excellence, butcher of his population and sadistic despot who stole so much from his richly endowed country that he once had the effrontery to loan money to his country, Mobutu Sese Seko of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was a much ‘loved’ and ‘respected’ African ‘leader’ in the corridors of power in Paris. This ‘love’ and ‘respect’ for Mr.  Mobutu by the erstwhile colonial overlords of the DRC, France, and by extension the ‘international community’, continued until the very last days of the brute’s regime.

Similar support for despots whose hands are soiled with the bloods of their countrymen and whose pockets are lined with loot from their country’s treasury, by the ‘international community’, permeates the entire African continent across history and into the present. It really takes spectacular intellectual depravity for anyone to deliberately set out to hurt his own country, deplete its resources only to enrich foreign domains.

Nigeria has been particularly afflicted with this syndrome with some of ours receiving the most support from the 'international community' both whilst in office and after being forced out/leaving office (such as the old despot, Olusegun Obasanjo) and perhaps the most patriotic {and devious, if you factor in his role in the Asaba massacre of 1968} been cut short the moment they begin to display some common sense (such as Murtala Mohammed).

The relationship between the ‘international community’ and leaders in the African continent who have shown a remarkable disposition towards the wellbeing of their populations and a willingness to assert an independent and patriotic disposition is, on the other hand, hardly cordial, mostly fraught with suspicion and certainly no mutual ‘love’ and ‘respect’.

Such leaders are systematically isolated, portrayed as pariah and evil and efforts made to effect ‘regime change’ either via direct coups or energetic support for stooges propped up as ‘opposition’ elements, elements that will be effectively backed by a deluge of ‘civil society activists’, ‘international election observers’ and international right organizations. The late leader of Burkina Faso, Captain Thomas Sankara, is a clear example of what happens to leaders in sub-Sahara Africa who try to exhibit any semblance of intellectual sagacity.

It is perhaps, thus, no surprise whatsoever that the most vilified, head of any African country, also happens to be the one that is by far most educated amongst the lot – Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

Picture: Two dumbass African rulers: Uganda's Idi Amin Dada and Zaires (DRC) Mobbbutu Sese Seko; Two intellectually sound African leaders: Burkina Faso's Capt. Thomas Sankara and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe.