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| Goodluck Jonathan |
The Nigerian president renown for corruption from most online
comments coming mainly from citizens of Nigeria both within Nigeria and outside
has again boasted about a fight against corruption in 2014, The President in
his New Year message to the nation made available by his Special Adviser on
Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, Said the Federal Government would fight
corruption more in 2014. He said, “Our administration believes that the cost of
governance in the country is still too high and must be further reduced. We
will also take additional steps to stem the tide of corruption and leakages.
“We have worked hard to curb fraud in the administration of
the pension system and the implementation of the petroleum subsidy scheme. We
have introduced a Pensions Transition Arrangement Department under a new
Director-General. This department will now ensure that those of our pensioners
still under the old scheme receive their pensions and gratuities, and are not
subjected to fraud.
“Prosecution of all those involved in robbing our retired
people will continue. The Petroleum Subsidy Scheme is also now being operated
under new strict guidelines to tackle previous leakages in the scheme and
prevent fraud.
“Foreign travel by government personnel will be further
curtailed. This directive shall apply to all Ministries, Departments and
Agencies of the Federal Government. Our strategy to curb leakages will
increasingly rely on introducing the right technologies such as biometrics and
digitising government payments.”
Reactions from most observers of his administration
considered his New Year message as a mere joke not to be taken seriously An online comments by “Kay Soyemi” was quoted to
say “At least Mr. President has a sense
of humour for giving us a New Year joke! "More" is not just the wrong
adjective, it is a big joke since there was never a war on corruption.” Another response from a concerned citizen
said “The president of nigeria, mr. jonathan is a dreamer and a deceiver. With him
and his team of heartless men and women in Abuja, jonathan is beginning the
year 2014 with outright deceit.
Promising to fight corruption without releasing the report
submitted to him re Oduah, his precious lady in the Aviation Ministry is a way
of telling nigerians that more corruptions are on the way.
When other world leaders are counting their blessing,
jonathan is also pretending to have done something good for his nation. He
mentioned health and education as some of his achievements. If this man is not
a shameless thing, why should he include these two things in his speech?
Looking at the budget, almost two-third of budgeted for the
year 2014 is to care for him and his animal friends in Aso Rock. Nigerians
should continue to use adulterated kerosene to burn down their houses and our
children should wait while his children are schooling in abroad. Health care is
for the rich, poor man have no reason to survive and our pregnant mothers,
wives and sisters should look for ways to bring their unborn babies into the
world - Jonathan don`t give a damn whether they survive or die.
Jonathan is telling Nigerians to be happy with empty stomach
while he and his animals in aso rock has enough to eat and throw away. Our
humble men and women should join him in celebrating 100 years as a nation
without nothing to show for it while abati is busy preparing the next deceiving
speech for easter.
Mr. jonathan we nigerians are united not because you say we
should but because we love ourselves and our nation - it is you and your evil
men that are trying to tear us apart.
One thing is clear, all those who say our nation will not
see happiness they will not live in peace. The prayers of the evil men who
parade themselves as men of God will not help issue. They will all collapse
like a pack of cards.
God bless Nigerians who struggle day and night to make ends
meet.”
These and many other responses show that Nigerians have
reached a state of disbelief where every statement by the political class is
just a mere utterance without accompanying action
A sorry state for the largest population of Africa
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