Sucker Punch: Ten Provocative Demands from Dr. Okonjo-Iweala to President Jonathan

The writer should be arrested, he is a likely suspect

There are three sides to any national issues;you,the other person and the right one.I respect all your views about federal govt,the minister of finance and monumental corruption in Nigeria.We are all saying the same thing,there is corruption in Nigeria,who is responsible,who is in charge.I blame the president for Nigerian woes.If Nigerian president has a clean slate,corrupt ministers will either resign or lose their position.Those calling for ministers resignation should note this,If all the ministers resigned today,Nigeria will still suck because the president doesn't give a dawn.

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Sucker Punch indeed! lets bring this to Home level.

if you are fond of putting (Throwing) your money (cash)on a Table in your living room and you found out that your Kids are having a field day.
How would you react:
(a) Stop throwing money on the table or
(b) embark on a preaching Spree, telling your wards how steeling is bad and how they will end end up in Hell!
For me i will Simply keep my cash in my pocket, safe. that i believe is the point Dr. Iweala is making.
Have a good Day!

Erapi

i am absolutely in support of all your proposals in the ten points. Its only a blind man that can not see them as the truth, DERI and his sponsors can jump into lake if they wish becouse the truth was said... Final!

sir thank you for this write up.

I feel sorry for Ngozi, this is the second time her ambition has gotten her in a mess. Obj's administration was also corrupt and riddled with misapropriation of public funds. After going thru that she accepts another appointment with this regime that turned a bad sitiuation into a complete disaster...she shoud've known better. I pray har mother is released by the "Political kidnappers" as soon as possible.

I think, this is the most blunt truth someone has ever spoken about this current government.What an unprecedented change if Iweala will take to this timely advice failure of which has put her on a downward journey with her name written in infamy.If 1001 Nigerians can be so honest in tackling this hydra-headed monster and our cruel overlords,the country will be saved from further degenerations for Frederick Douglass says "The limits of the tryrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress".Nigeria can only change when we tell our tyrants "Enough's enough... our endurance's weak and fragile"

Their house is seriously burning, as an Igbo (Churchill Okonkwo) is fighting fellow Igbos, Chuinua Achebe, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and semi-Igbo, President Dumbo. Who cares?

@ Churchill Okonkwo :

Whatever you smoke must be worse than Gbana! You're sick, this trash qualifies you for Asklepios Klinik. A home for the mentally retarded! The insensibility of your publication calls for you to be Investigated for Kidnapping/Contact with kidnappers! She made other lists this year, the referenced accolade was not announced last week, why tell us your joke at a time she's worried about her family's predicament? Nigeria is not worth it, 9ja was born Tote! Why should she advise Dumbo about your provocative list, what is the job of other Ministers? Nigeria was still-born by Lord Lugard's Hooker, Dumbo's just another Joker. Oko-oko, send your list directly to : Dr. Dumbo, Aso Rock Villa, Abuja!

Christmas is upon us, thugs are gulping fake Schnapps and writing from the gutter. For all I care, this hood is probably passing a "message" with this absurd write-up. This has been a waste of my time. Sucker!

@ Churchill Okonkwo :

Whatever you smoke sure blows your mind sky-high. The timing and incoherent nature of this trash qualifies you for Asklepios Klinik. You are mentally retarded. The insensibility of your publication calls for you to be Investigated for Hidden Messages! She has made several other lists this year, the referenced accolade was not announced last week, why add to her headache at a time she's worried about more important things than Nigeria? Why should she advise Dumbo on your grocery list, what is the job of all those SA's, SSA's and Ministers? Nigeria was born by a Hooker, Dumbo's just another Joker. More importantly, send your laundry list directly to Dr. Dumbo, Aso Rock Villa, Abuja! Idiot.

It seems every tout that can afford a fake bottle Schnapps Whisky has something to say nowadays. This provocation is unnecessary and this oko-oko should be Sanctioned by the Administrator at SR. He's a drunkard and a major disgrace to Literature.

This is an evidence of stalk illiteracy. I presume the author took his pen, began writing without thinking. In as much as the problems of Nigeria are daunting and enormous, the author has not shown any evidence of maturity in proffering solutions to the problems stated but rather resorted to beer parlor talk. Writing as if he thinks with his ass. All the claims cannot be proved which shows an evidence of extremely poor writing. I'm not a President Jonathan apologist but I can guess you cannot lead a council successfully as a Councillor if ever given the opportunity. All you want is CHEAP POPULARITY. If your claims are true, prove it and don't think Nigerians are fools. You can't play on our intelligence because of the poor leadership and the various challenges facing the nation. Sit, think and proffer solutions, starting from where you are.

This is an evidence of stalk illiteracy. I presume the author took his pen, began writing without thinking. In as much as the problems of Nigeria are daunting and enormous, the author has not shown any evidence of maturity in proffering solutions to the problems stated but rather resorted to beer parlor talk. Writing as if he thinks with his ass. All the claims cannot be proved which shows an evidence of extremely poor writing. I'm not a President Jonathan apologist but I can guess you cannot lead a council successfully as a Councillor if ever given the opportunity. All you want is CHEAP POPULARITY. If your claims are true, prove it and don't think Nigerians are fools. You can't play on our intelligence because of the poor leadership and the various challenges facing the nation. Sit, think and proffer solutions, starting from where you are.

The calibre of heavily corrupt officials appointed into office by this administration might rub off on the international reputation earned through many years of hard and honest work on an international scale by Madam Okonjo-Iweala.She cannot claim to exist in Isolation especially when it comes to matters directly affecting the economy like the massive immoral salaries and allowances approved by our indolent and non-performing legislators for themselves despite the burdensome 70% recurrent expenditure,the wasteful spending and budget allocations at the Presidency,the inflated contracts and lack of will in engaging corruption.
Lamido Sanusi may have his downside but he is clear in his resent to these anomalies while Okonjo-Iweala never makes her case before the Nigerian people.In matters of corruption,silence means tacit support,she has to be perceived as being on the opposite end of corruption by the world else she may live to regret working for this regime.

When General Sani Abacha took over, he set up the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) headed by Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd). The PTF did not meet the yearnings of Niger Deltans as its mandate covered all parts of the country. With critics saying that the PTF carried out more projects in northern parts of the country, restiveness in the Niger Delta assumed a higher gear. Abacha convened a National Constitutional Conference (NCC) in 1994, where conferees agreed on at least 13 per cent derivation. Abacha did not live to implement the recommendation.
His successor, General Abdulsalami Abubakar included it in the 1999 Constitution, which he handed over to President Olusegun Obasanjo on May 29, 1999. On his part, Obasanjo scrapped the PTF and established a special body, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), to undertake rapid development of the impoverished oil region.

In 1954, d 3 old regions retained 100 per cent revenues derived from their areas and contributed the rest to the central pool. It was on this basis that the regional governments led by late Chief Obafemi Awolowo (West); Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe (East); Sir Ahmadu Bello (North) and later Dennis Osadebey (Mid-West) unleashed unparalleled development in their regions. However, it came down to 50% b4 our freedom in 1960. Sadly d derivation principle was kicked aside by the military in 1967 as earnings from crude oil skyrocketed. First, part of the proceeds went into the prosecution of the Nigeria-Biafra war of 1967 to 70. After the war, the military rulers refused to return to the status quo and chose to disburse funds to the states as they deemed feat. The Fulani led military also created numerous states and local councils, which were funded with oil money. The oil producing areas were short-changed in the series of state and councils creation sprees by d Fulani North-so whats up again?

A United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report, last August, criticised how the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) deals with the environmental damage it has caused in the Niger Delta, especially in Ogoniland. UNEP said Ogoniland needed the world’s largest ever oil clean-up, which would cost an initial $1billion or N160 billion and could take 30 years. how Ogoniland and other polluted communities would be cleaned is a matter of conjecture. If now that oil revenue is available the areas cannot be cleaned, is it when the revenues cease that the task will be embarked upon?
By projection, Nigeria currently has a proven crude oil reserves of about 37.2 billion barrels which at the current rate of exploitation (2.5mbp) may be exhausted in the next 40 years unless new deposits are discovered.

SINCE Nigeria started generating revenue from crude oil in 1958, the country has earned about N50.696 trillion or N1 trillion a year, according to Saturday Vanguard investigations.
Of this princely sum, which accounts for about 80 per cent of the country’s federal revenue, only N6.577 trillion or less has been paid to the oil producing areas as derivation. The figure is N18.771 trillion less than the N25.348 trillion the oil-bearing regions should have got as derivation if 50 per cent derivation had not been jettisoned few years after crude oil became the chief revenue earner.
Between 1958 and 2007 (CBN Annual Report and Statement of Account, 2008), Nigeria earned N29.8 trillion from petroleum resources. And between 2008 and 2011, the country generated N20.895 trillion.

noce one i hope dey read it

Compare the increase of fuel price by over 900% in just under 2yrs in 1994(from 23 kobo per litre under Ernest Shonekan to N11 per litre under Abacha), which enjoyed the support of BUHARI, with this present increase of about 110% in 5yrs, from N65 per litre in 2007 to N141 per litre in 2012. Buhari did not see the WiCKED increase of over 900% in 1994,over 2yr period, under Abacha as DECLARATION OF WAR on the Nigerian people. He did not feel any MORAL BURDEN in heading the PTF to manage the proceeds from that murderous increment. But Buhari and his CPC has described the 110% increase of fuel price, in 5yrs, under President Jonathan, as DECLARATION OF WAR on the Nigerian people. SHAME on those who have been CONSISTENTLY INCONSISTENT. He truncated democracy in 1983 only to come back to contest elections in 2003,2007 and 2011. He vowed not to go to court after 2011 elections but we later found him in court. Again he said he'll quit politics but he is still LOITERING around politics. SHAME!

The Senate has formally named Nigerians who have stolen and benefited from the oil subsidy, causing pains and hardship to ordinary Nigerian citizens with Oando, owned by Wale Tinubu, younger brother of former Lagos Governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Sayyud Dantata MRS oil topping the list.

Mike Adenuga’s CONOIL and construction companies, one of them suspected to be Julius Berger were named as the culprits.
Among the names reeled out by the Senator Abe led Committee are; Oando Nigerian Plc. – N228.506 b, MRS – N224.818 billion, Enak Oil & Gas – N19.684 billion, CONOIl – N37.960 billion, Bovas & Co. Nig. Ltd. – N5.685 billion, Obat N85 billion and AP; N104.5billion.

It is this "respect' culture that has led Africa to the retrogressive state it is in. We have been brought up to respect authority in form or age or rank and as such we do not question authority. We need to probe, question etc. We need to put aside the "respect" and demand answers. Our so called elders do not deserve the respect we are according then,

I think she should admitt she was wrong first and fare-most before the other nine

Foolishness is in the heart of this writer. You are just a bad critic.

The 10 points mentioned are exactly the right thing expected from a positive thinker. I agree with you on your point lay down... but what I don't agree with you is the way you talk to your leader, I don't think you will ever address your father in this way even when he is totally wrong... will you? No matter what we should learn to always give maximum respect to our elders. Honour father and mother, so that that thy day may be long... God bless you brother.

I can agree with this writer summarily on three issues:
First, Jonathan is fighting corruption with lip service; preaching against corruption while failing to take necessary steps at combating it an/or shielding those indicted for oil theft.
Second, removing subsidy without first tackling the problem of corruption in the oil industry amounts to effort in futility because whatever advantages that are supposed to come with it will still be cornered by these oil thieves!
Lastly, this government is full of deceit and insincerity in all ramifications. It says something and does it the other way round; It sets committees only to come back and disagree with the reports of the committees, and so on and so forth! We need a transparent and accountable government.

I sincerely succumb to you.

my writer of this article is intellectual bankrupt..y should it be IWEALA that will advice jonathan on those ur ill thoughts...pls give ur life a meaning ...

A serious organisation especially a media house will not allow this kind of rubbish to be published on her pages. Its very sad indeed as the profession of journalism is at its lowest.

Hope the writer of this article is not among the kidnappers of the Minister's mother and he is passing through the back door to give their demand for her release. If not, why does he think that what he has written is possible? Looking inward into the writers personal life and activities, one will discover so many flaws talk more of leading a complex society like NIGERIA. Think before you write