Mr. Jonathan Feels Our Pain By Okey Ndibe

Please for the benefit of doubt, if you are one of those who read articles and cant comprehend what has been written by a well respected author like Okey Ndibe, dont come to SR to show ur ignorance. What other explanation does this idiot nick needs to understand what Okey is saying??? The President of the U.S. earns less than our lawmakers. Government should first reduce its profligacy before talking about subsidy removal. Period. Monkey Nick, you belong to the ZOO.

you are very right may your pen never run dry of ink, jonathan is confuse totally with power and far from reality in everyday Nigeria.the country so generously blessed with all it takes to rank among the most developed but painfully saddle with the worst type of so-called leaders from the devil's pit who are simply illiterates when it comes to the word leadership. Goodluck will not do anything in Nigeria.watch it....

not even worth reading...all Okey does is critisize...cyber tiger. Only to abuse no solution...rubbish

The Nigerian president thinks it’s untenable to “continue to use [Nigeria’s] limited resources to subsidize imported fuel,” but he doesn’t realize how ridiculous it is that Nigerians are compelled to subsidize the corruption, greed and – worse – incompetence of a cast of clowns, comedians and mediocrities posing as leaders.

THIS TO ME IS THE SUMMARY OF THE RIDICULOUSNESS OF THE WHOLE SUBSIDY WITHDRAWAL ARGUMENT!
WHAT A JOKE CALLED A COUNTRY!

As Mr President cajoles an impoverished population to pay for the loot of the petroluem cabal who infact sponsored his presidential campaign,he and his deputy needs 1 billion naira for food.
NIGERIA WE HAIL THEE!Those other heads of governments around the world must be reading all this and having a good laugh.Truffles,champagne,cavier,lobsters,prawns,etc,while in the President's home town children go to bed without food,the streets of the vice President's home town is full of lepers with plates in hand begging for food.
The President is a "christian" and the vice president is a"moslem",both religions preach modesty,humane deeds,and honesty.

Professor Ndibe's arguments are, as usual, incisive, illuminating, and irrefutable. And, whether we like it or not, his essay is complete in every sense; nothing needs to be added, nothing can be taken away. But let me add this, even though it's quite obvious: Nigeria is dead; what's left is the burial.

Why is it that the glass is always half empty with you? Logic dictates we must first plug the holes while we deside how to refill the tank.

Uncle Okey! whit all due respect, why do you advocate a continuous refilling of a tank full of holes?

Why Uncle? I just don't get it,

Paiko,
Don't kill the messenger. Dr Ndibe is stating the facts. He is not the president, vp, member of the House or Senate. If it were not for corruption and mismanagement by the Fulanis do you think he would be writing from America missing his folks at home?

jonathan couldn't have won a free and fair election against me where articulation, ability for deep thinking and personal life achievements bear on election results, he is not articulate in speech, perhaps because he is also not critical in thinking. I wonder how we nigerians commited such an esteemed office to a man with no proven evidence of personal life achievement

Habba!! Okey Nidbe, How did you feel the pain when you dont even live in Nigeria? Hypocreacy of the highest order.; Gbam!!

i have ready many of Okey's articles with delight. but as i recollect, virtually all has one signature:diatribe. ordinarily, i fall into the group of those who never see anything good in what nigerian politicians and office holders do. but at a point, i knew something was wrong with that view. how could all of them be so wrong while we the down trodden so saintly right? for me, what we now have are critics who have merely perfected the act of 'tear down' politics and no commensurate effort at proffering solution. Governmnet has advanced argument on why the subsidy should be removed but rather than counter with facts and figures, our critics like Okey, labour and a confused band of opposition politicians have played up demagoguery. in all of Okey's tirade on Jonathan can anybody see sameness of logic that puts a lie to jonathan's claims for subsidy removal? Okey, please be more creative.

You continue to philosophise the same thing I tell my fellow Nigerians. Why is it that these people at the helm of affairs refuse to see the pains and sufferings of our people? Do they not watch TV? Were they not ordinary people prior to their elevation as government leaders? Did they not observe people living under bridges, hawking food stuffs at over 100 degrees temprature or living in cardboard shelter?. We all have little time to spend in this world. The money stolen by these criminals will still remain here when the join the dead. Why cant they have basic human compassion?

I am very proud of Okey and his astute line of thought. What Jonathan knows is that his government will crash if he goes on with this unpopular policy. He cannot decieve any person with his claim of feeling with us while he awards his friends of dubius character "grand criminal of the republic". The very God whom he calls on when he wants to lie to his country will visit him with great anger if his reckless actions brings us this avoidable crisis.

@ Gozie. I only momentarily recovered from shock to ask you this rether simple question. Why can't the government arrest and ask Emeka Offor about the TAM project instead of asking Nigerians to continue to pay for their inability to punish corruption. Your warped logic really made me sad and angry.

What has PHD got to do with this?

ifeanyi u should be ashame of urself, people like u are so many in nigeria that cant aford to pay ur rent or send ur children to gd schools while ur paid master budgeted 1billion naira for food.i pity u and ur fellow imbeciles. Omaseoooo.

IBRAHIM SAAD,
Ibrahim what are you trying to do? Yeah, you are trying to entice Brother Jonathan to celebrate the Christmas at Eagle Square under public gaze. You don't wish him well, do you? You know very well that once he appears there some Fulanis will capture him alive. We are not ready for Mullah Sambo yet. Besides, with another Musulumi as president Islam will be forced into our throats. Thanks but no thanks, Ibrahim.

Without great minds like Okey Ndibe, Nigreia would have gone into total extinction.

Prof. we love you, please keep it up. Without great minds like Okey Ndibe, thieves and looters like Jonathan Badluck, Gov. Peter (419, Drug Pusher) Obi , James Ibori, and all the looters in Nigeria will destroy everything in that country.

Okey Ndibe thank you for all the great work all for the love of the masses.

Dr. Ndubisi Okoye

@Ifeanyi Democracy 4ever, I suspect you are paid to scrutinize the web and comment or rubbish any article written on the government, especially if such write-ups are not favourable to you/government. Please educate us with your solutions to issues raised in Okey's article. Better still, let us read your article in favour of our current government. We are waiting.

i guess you one the of those thieves spoiling this nation,can,t you see beyond your nose,Jonathan should save the nation first by reducing their salaries and other freebies,what you of the issue of security vote,it should be done away with

For once I agree with Deri's submission. Emeka Offor actually messed up the TAM of PHRC. And before you say anything, I am a full blooded Igbo woman. Let us call a spade a spade.

Subsidy should go.

The following says it all. "For starters, he should push to institute real accountability for office holders, himself included. A brave Jonathan should offer to lead the fight to cut the scandalously high formal and informal payments make to – among others – the Nigerian president, Nigerian governors, and Nigerian legislators. Why not lead a crusade to stop members of the National Assembly from collecting millions of dollars in constituency allowances? Why not send a bill immediately to stop the scandal called security vote? Why not bravely admit that Nigeria is sunk in crises, and champion the convocation of a national conference to discuss the reshaping and revamping of this comatose behemoth?"

Thank you my brother.

'Kwesiri.

Okey accurately summarised Nigeria's problems but the solutions he offered are largely academic and not very practical within the Nigerian context.A Cabal of thieves import petrol into Nigeria and receive huge sums as subsidies with no benefits to Nigerians.The same cabal have ensured that all our refinaries do not work at their normal capacity.If our Government decides to build refinaries, guaranteed it will remain unfinished for another 10 years.But if private individuals and companies build their own refinaries it will probably be operational within 2 years or less and competition will ensure the availability of petrol and kerosine at affordable prices.Thousands of jobs will be created.Jonah is right on this for once.

The PDP has been in power for more than twelve years and Nigeria cannot boast of one new refinery,we cannot run the existing ones due to lack of maintainance.Then comes Jonathan with the story that a cabal is responsible for our woes and that his government knows them,then in an inexplicable misdirected action goes on to punish the long suffering masses while maintaining his cordial relationships with members of the so-called cabal who we all know bankrolled his election.How can you assure us that they are not just trying to free more money to loot,these cabal are very much around and call the shots in the petroluem sector,please think and stop being silly.The president failed to explain why these cabal have not been investigated and expects trust?

@ KaparaK:- Your vulgar and sarcastic approach tell all about you. Three things are apparent from it: 1- you are an ignoramus or; 2- you are just a shameless puppet in the hands of the corrupt profiteers, or 3- you are one of the unscrupulous looters we have. Your thesis is as illogical as it is damnable.
Prof. Ndibe's reasoning is sound and focused and depicts sincere patriotism and love for humanity.

In as much as they want to convince us to accept the fact that the money paid for subsidizing fuel is much needed, they have not told us how they are going to ensure that the money saved will not be looted as before. my mum once told me that if you are given 1,000 and you did not manage it, you cannot manage 100,000 nor 1m.

let GEJ start with fighting corruption and building confidence in the heart of people and see how much the people will support him. we are not bad people afterall.

ur arguement would have been very welcomed if mr president himself has not kept mute on issues like that. why has the president not come on this subject matter before it became public? What has his government done with excess crude account? how has his government help ordinary nigerian on the street? and why has he not come out and tell us how his goverment is going to manage the subsidy if eventually removed? All these questions begged for answer! If his government has done all these, u wouldnt have been baffled wt peoples' response on this page. So I beseech, if you guys has any atom of God's fear, let everyone of do act in God's way.

Jonathan has symbolically failed before any examination is even conducted for him.Nigeria does not deserve a dull,clueless and "yes man" like him!

I don't like insulting people, but I think you have a BRAINLESS skull. I am sure that you are one of imps that feed from the rulers' crumbs !

Jonathan hasn't started using political forums to confuse Nigerians again, like during the election. Jonathan is heartless and weak. I like d part of him trying 2 use dis 2 make a political statement and stand