Leadership (Abuja)
20 October 2008
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, recently said that he is determined to eradicate any forms of poverty and other related effects in Nigeria, and to appraise the nation's strategy against poverty degradation.
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King Tarry-A-Doer, Why do you lie shamelessly like this? You fight poverty by creating jobs, making good healthcare affordable to all, ensuring good schools for our children and adults willing to learn plus creating a business friendly environment like uninterrupted electricity supply so that small-scale enterprises can take off and spread presence to other West African countries, thereby creating more jobs for other Nigerians, plus mechanized farming to provide adequate food supplies and cash-crop earnings for our farmers. We've been warning you since July 2007 to move quickly but your go-slow approach, so far, (the cancelation of OBJ's healthcare centers promised to every local govt area residents of the federation, your idea to import fuel and food when we have crude oil that could be refined locally plus no action on power emergency declaration) are all examples of a clueless administration designed to fail. Without resolving the Niger Delta crisis, how are you going to find the fund to fight poverty in a global market that is suddenly starved of Foreign Direct Investment capital? Nigerians, please forgive King Tarry-A-Doer, for he knows not what he says or does - we should have learned from Shagari that when you put a Malam in charge this is the best they can do. The window of opportunity that OBJ opened for this dimwit is closing fast & pretty soon we'll be back to our usual 2.1% growth rate which may result in negative growth rate if his tenure extend beyond the 1st term. The victims of this visionless administration are the ordinary Nigerian folks with their leaders dancing to the tune of the Nigerian Shuffle - 2 steps forward and 12 steps back-wards and expecting God to do for them what they ought to do for themselves - if Nigerians are any wiser and bolder, they ought to have thrown these bums out instead of sidon & look while suffering in silence.