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15/04/2022

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo
visionary leader Nigeria Needs Today
my personal experience interacting with PYO
By Kayode Aladesuyi

While I do not reside in Nigeria, I am a diaspora opportune to interact and engage with the seating Vice President of Nigeria, especially much earlier on, in the administration on the issues relevant to the growth and success of Nigeria. I truly feel honored to share that experience with fellow Nigerians.

I feel compelled to share my experience with fellow Nigerians because I read and hear public opinions including the media raising questions about the performance of the VP in the last 7 years as a member of the current administration, and the persistent questions raised regarding the performance of the vice president, as the number 2 man in the country and in particular, his role and responsibility for the nation’s economy.

I am disillusioned and disappointed in the leadership of the country and have been critical of the vice president on several occasions, the few hours I spent with vice president Yemi Osinbajo was quite enlightening and provided some insight into the man, the limitation on his ability to influence the economy and his vision for the country.

It is important to understand that my focus is on the vision of the man for the country. It is the one area where the leadership of the country has failed and failed woefully, visionless leaders abound everywhere, like the one who wants to conscript fifty million Nigerian youths into the military as a job creation program. This is where I see the strength the vice president brings to the position rather than how he has performed under difficult circumstances and restrained from certain quarters in this administration. Personal interests are more prevalent with those who surround and are closer to the president. A serious challenge for the vice president to overcome.

The purpose of my writing this piece and sharing my experience with fellow Nigerians is to state clearly that this is a person with a clearly defined vision for the country and if given the opportunity to execute that vision, will elevate Nigeria not only in the international community but the quality of life of all Nigerians.

I want to state clearly that it was vice president Yemi Osinbajo’s vision for the country that continues to inspire me to believe in the greatness and future of Nigeria and Nigerians. It is this singular strength in my view that separates Osinbajo from all others who have declared for the presidency. I will articulate how I reached this conclusion and what were the issues we discussed and how the vice president articulated his views to me during our meeting. My hope is that my writing will put to rest questions of Why Vice president Yemi Osinbajo? I have seen declared candidates float resumes that list degrees and awards from here to the moon, some touted their political prowess when we all know neither means anything if lacking in vision, especially in a process where selection and not the election is defined as being democratic. If anyone plans to vote for the vice president or is undecided, it is my hope that this insight about my experience with the man will strengthen your resolve or move your decision towards vice president Yemi Osinbajo.

My meeting with the vice president came early in the current administration, so his views were unadulterated, personal, and quite refreshing. It was a chance meeting facilitated by a mutual friend Mr. Kenneth Adoki who attended the university of Lagos with the vice president and remained his friend.

The first thing that struck me and left an impression was how unassuming and laid back the vice president was. Here was a man I never met before in my life, he took me to his office and chatted with me for hours as if we had known each other for decades, even more, impressive was his willingness to engage me intensely and challenged me on various ideas on how to move Nigeria forward economically and with better security. He connected passionately with issues affecting most Nigerians. Here I was, an unknown person in the vice president’s office, and the man had no hesitation to dive into a discussion on solutions to the challenges facing the country. Vice president Yemi Osinbajo will engage Nigerians and involve Nigerians on how to move this country forward, he is a leader, not a ruler, that I can say with certainty. We will all have a voice in his administration. The era of exclusivity for billionaires without a business portfolio will be over.

First, let me state why I was in the vice president's office. I created a national crime reporting and management system and presented it to the vice president.
Early in the administration, the issue of deteriorating internal security was high on the mind of the administration. Kenneth Adoki took me to the vice president to share our innovative solution with him. The VP immediately recommended that we look for ways to fund it and commercialize it without tasking or charging Nigerians to use the system. No government money involved, no corruption or bribery. It was unheard of. He instructed Hon. Ade Ipaye directed us to the NSA’s office where we met some of the staff of the NSA who reviewed the application and directed us to the Nigeria police force. If the system developed and concluded in 2017 had not been sabotaged by IGP Adamu, the crisis engulfing the nation today might have been avoided.

The moral of the story is, VP Osinbajo saw and predicted the security crisis ahead of the nation, the likes of which we have never faced before, he took immediate steps to facilitate tools (our system) to address it, arm the police and the public with a tool not just to report crimes but manage and administer crime interdiction. He suggested ways for the nation to acquire such technology without creating a financial burden that usually leads to corruption. Populations across the nation would have become anonymous sources of intelligence to law enforcement, to help fight crime and preempt the bandits and terrorists who have finally taken over the nation. The system had administrative tools that would have allowed local police to be accountable, statics on crime would be provided using the Microsoft Power BI analytics tool, the system would allow police to identify and remove criminals off the streets using facial recognition technology provided by Microsoft, we could use integrated drone technology to identify the location of criminals with integrated drone technology. The system was used to monitor the 2019 presidential election in Lagos by a joint task force of police, army, and other security services.

In fact, I remember the vice president making a light joke to push me to consider funding the project and I paraphrase “Mr. Aladesuyi, if commercialized properly, you will make enough money to loan money to your country, please let’s find a way to make it happen” and so we did. The man was thinking creatively outside the box, he was quick on his feet and in his thoughts. Imagine how many Nigerian politicians will do that, which of them will forgo the opportunity to endorse the project and use it as a tool to bring money out of the government to share amongst them. It was at that moment that my hope for Nigeria was elevated, and we went to work.

Once we settled on moving forward with the project. Hon. Ade Ipaye got his marching order to direct us to the NSA’s office, our conversation dived into the issue of jobs and that was the most contentious discussion as the vice president lit up with excitement belting us with a myriad of questions on how our ideas will work. The intellectual in the man came alive. He got off the chairs and walked into his office, grabbed a notebook, and began jotting down points.

This action took me by surprise, this was not a man who ask assistants to do everything, lift his chairs, carry his bags, and take notes for him. This was a man who rolled up his sleeves when issues are critical and important. He jumps into the fray of things. This was a person of action. I salivated and enjoyed every moment of our interaction. The VP was very animated during our discussion, challenging us at every turn. We discussed using taxation as an economic catalyst. Give Nigerians a reason to believe in taxation and to contribute.

When you hear of Dangote building roads for tax credits, those were similar ideas the VP was bandying around. The job tax credit, granting a tax credit to employers who created new jobs and extending such credit for up to 3 years, he did not just accept the concepts, he challenged its implementation processes. We discussed turning Nigeria into a global manufacturing hub and creating 15 to 20 million middle-class jobs in just 5 years which can be achieved. China did it, and India has done it. We discussed the strategy to turn our massive youth population into a technical workforce for an industrialized global manufacturing base. That would set us on a collision with China, but it would be in our national interest. We will create tens of millions of middle-class jobs. The plan will drive tax revenue above oil revenue. We would drive industrial growth by granting an energy tax credit to factories and businesses that power their facilities with solar power turning Nigeria into a direct competitor to China for global manufacturing. The entire plan will require a massive national training program to create the workforce to support the plan. The human capital development program is the single critical investment Nigeria's leaders continue to fail to implement. Human capital is Nigeria’s largest asset and our biggest failure as a nation. Vice president Yemi Osinbajo is the man with the vision to change that.

The ideas were simply creative, with little capital investment from the government (technical training program only), and a policy-driven agenda. Create a national technical job training program, offer a job tax credit to trigger employment, offer an energy tax credit to the power industry, and invite the world to Nigeria to manufacture and build one of the most powerful middle classes in the world. China was going to be our competitor; it takes half the time to ship to most places in the world from Nigeria than it would from China. We speak better English too. The world will come to Nigeria to manufacture. During COVID 19 crisis and the world was angry at China, we could have secured half of the world's manufacturing. It would take a visionary like VP Yemi Osinbajo to bring such ideas to life.

While I was traveling back and forth to, and from the US, one thing I noticed was the vice president’s interaction with youths across the nation. It was quite unusual even in the US. The VP was traveling to small, tiny development hubs across the nation, mixing it up with youths, having meetings, and encouraging them not to give up. He is not just a visionary, he is motivational. I had developed a relationship with Lanre Osibona his personal assistant, and he would invite me to various events where the VP will speak to youths. The electricity and energy at those events were electrifying and convinced me, that this was the leader Nigeria needed.

While I speak so glowingly about what I witnessed and experienced, I had my confrontational moment with the vice president. When the police began their shenanigans on the project we had developed for the nation, for an unknown reason the VP was no longer reachable. I was quite disappointed; we had invested over $4 million dollars to complete the initial stages of the national crime management and reporting system. Over time I have tempered my disappointment with the knowledge that despite his position he has to contend with the cabal at the villa. I remember stopping the VP in the middle of the floor after he completed his speech at an event at the villa, where I charged him for encouraging me to invest in the national crime project and disappearing on me when the police began their sabotage. It was later that one of his staff advised me to let him be as the situation was quite tense for him at the villa. This was following the termination of the former head of the DSS by the vice president.

The one thing I know for sure is, that if elected to the office of the president, Nigerians will have a leader who will give deep thought to the issues plaguing our nation and will dive into the problems with astute management skills. His manner, nature, and temperament will unite Nigerians again like no other leader in the past has done. His tone will assuage our concerns and divisions.

I met the man and had an engaging, thoughtful, and intellectual discussion with him. He was practical, he was thoughtful, he was deliberate in his approach, Vice president was quite detailed, with the probing questions he asked.

He is a thought leader!

I am already making calls to all my friends on the ground.

Prof. Yemi Osinbajo for President

04/02/2022

Nigeria Police responsible for crime growth in the country

NEW YORK POLICE TO USE FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY IN 2021 - NIGERIA POLICE HAD SINCE 2017

In 2017 the Hawkeye national crime reporting system was developed for the Nigeria police force with facial recognition powered by Microsoft. Interestingly former inspector general of police Adamu canceled the project without reason or cause.

So long as government officials are not held accountable for bad decisions Nigeria will never get out of the quagmire it finds itself. Developed by a US-based Nigeria American, the system would have significantly mitigated crime explosion in the country which is now an albatross around the neck of the current administration as hundreds of people are murdered or killed monthly in the country.

Unfortunately, Adamu will never be held to account. In a recent, 150 billion naira lawsuit filed for wrongful termination, the company, Web Asset Nigeria Limited charged sabotaged and termination for bribery and corruption.

26/01/2022

ALLEGED DEFAMATION: TED NWANKO ASKS POLICE TO PROSECUTE APHROSIDIAC MERCHANT JARUNA

SHAME OF THE DAY TO NED NWANKO

The story explains why dictatorship and tyranny will not disappear in Nigeria and other African countries. Ned Nwanko is a former lawmaker and a popular socialite “Nigerian” billionaire who we would all expect to understand the law, democracy, and how it works.

He is calling the police to arrest and get involved in a libel/ defamation case against himself. A case that is not criminal and should be filed in a civil court if he felt abridged.

This is how the so-called BIG men and women harass and abuse the average citizen using state power and corrupt police to enforce their crimes against the people.

Sadly Ned Nwako as an ex-lawmaker is looked upon with admiration by many Nigerians, most of whom will feel and believe he is following the appropriate channel to seek justice, assuming his claims are valid. Hence he indoctrinates his followers to understand and accept oligarchy and tyranny.

23/12/2021

The President Who loves his country but
HATE HIS PEOPLE
By Kehinde Aderibigbe

There has never been a history of any other President of any nation in the world who has stood before the world to berate, denigrate and say terrible things about his own people like General President Muhammadu Buhari.

At age 70+ you would imagine he had matured enough never to open his mouth before using his brain, but that he does often and with consistency.

General Buhari tried numerous times to win the office of the Presidency, and time after time, Nigerians rejected him. He threatened mayhem on the nation if he was not elected to the presidency, and many acquiesced. As I look back, we can see why General Buhari a Fulani had imported terror into the country in anticipation of being rejected one more time by the people. Killer Fulanis were imported from across Africa to unleash terror on the land. Until an ambitious politician, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, thought his path to the presidency was to make a deal with the devil. The agreement has brought hell upon Nigerians as General Buhari proves, time after time, his hatred for the people of the country that he loves so much.

The General stood on the global stage and called all Nigerian youths lazy. A man who has never worked a day in his life outside of government. Since he was a teenager, his entire life has been funded by the Nigeria State.

This President speaks with passionate denigration of his people; it is painful to listen and watch sometimes.

When asked about the massive unemployment rate in the country, he advised the lazy Nigerian youths that they may die of hunger regardless of their education because there is no job for them anywhere. Uhhhmmm. …. Lazy youths who can't find a job, where there is no job, this was the comment from a president who is clueless about human capital development.

Nigeria is embroiled in an undeclared civil war unleashed by groups many say has the tacit support of the government of General President Buhari, including the Fulani herdsmen imported to cause mayhem during the 2015 elections. In 2011, General Buhari threatened the administration in power that any attack on the terrorist Boko Haram would be an attack on northern Nigeria, an ethnic bigot by all measure. He has embarked on dividing the nation across ethnic lines throughout his career. Today Boko Haram has launched killings and terrorist attacks on northeast Nigeria for more than a decade, killing tens of thousands of Nigerians. The massacre has escalated since the General came to power as the group felt more emboldened with their primary benefactor seating at the Villa. The General, for the most part, has been quiet, speaking out only occasionally, making empty promises to Nigerians to end Boko Haram.

President General Buhari is so callous and heartless he never sends condolences to the victims of these terrorist groups even when villages women and children are massacred by his beloved Boko Haram terrorist groups in the northeast and by Fulani herders across the nation. He would send out his mouthpieces to defend his lack of compassion for the people he portended to lead.

How much more can this cruel individual demonstrate his hatred for his people? A whole lot more, more than most ever imagined.

As imported Fulani herdsmen embarked on ethnic cleansing in the country’s middle belt, the president and his allies refused to designate them as terrorists until the courts did in 2021. Nigerians were terrorized and massacred from 2015 until 2021, before the culprits were declared terrorists.

President General Muhammadu Buhari made excuses for the murder and massacre of Nigerians, and he did so publicly. He blamed the slaughter on old grazing routes established in the ’60s as the cause of clashes between farmers and herders. He claimed water resources and grass were essential for herders to survive with their cattle, and these places have been taken over by developments and urban centers.

The President asked his people to move out of the way of cows. His spokesperson Femi Adesina told Nigerians to either give up their lands for the marauding Fulani herdsmen or risk getting killed. The government never returned displaced communities to their homes, tacitly allowing ethnic cleansing to continue in Nigeria. When challenged with facts that the Fulanis herdsmen engaging in all of the killings were not native to Nigeria but coming from across West Africa, Mr. President General Muhammadu Buhari sent out his emissary the Governor of Bauchi State that Fulanis are a nomadic, stateless, ethnic group and belonged anywhere they settle, technically declaring Nigeria a borderless nation and ethnic cleansing was a fair game.

President General Muhammadu Buhari loves Nigeria, but he loves the Fulani race more than all other ethnicities that make up Nigeria. He hates his people, especially the educated ones. His disdain for education could not have been better expressed when he told educated Nigerians they would die of hunger and lack of jobs.

When we all thought he would leave office and we would get a chance to rebuild the nation in harmony, he embarked on steps to diminish Nigeria’s democracy. He took a hammer to the judiciary. He attacked them in their homes; he single-handedly decapitated the Nigeria Supreme court removing the Chief justice without a whimper from the lame judicial community led by the Nigerian Bar Association. Unlike the action of Pakistani lawyers during the reign of President Musharaf when he attempted to decapitate the judiciary. Nigerian lawyers were cowering and shaking in their shoes. Buhari emboldened the lack of resistance; he never looked back since. His agency or ministries ignore court orders just as they did when he was a military ruler. Buhari and his henchmen raid judges’ homes in the middle of the night. Place charges against judges without evidence or prosecution, tampering with cases in progress at will. Freedom of speech is now written into law as hate speech. Like the decree he wrote into law while a military ruler. The judiciary and the legislative bodies have become his subordinates. The legislative body now has a strategy, a simple one. To challenge the president in the initial stages of his legislative agenda, wait a few months when the Nigerian people are less focused on the subject, then pass it along, approving everything he wants. The judiciary simply does as he wants.

However, we should emphasize the president’s determination to build the country he loves so much at the expense of the people. He is constructing roads across the nation, building bridges and railroads, or should we say creating projects that can also line his and his cronies pockets with bribes and is doing it all for a population immersed in poverty. He has turned Nigeria into the largest debtor nation in Africa and defended by one of his cronies, Minister Babajide Fashola, who justified the debt funding strategy as a necessary step to building infrastructure for a future generation. Except they encumber future generations with the debt and the collateral seizing colonization strategy used by China across Africa. On the other hand, it was an admission that the government lacks the creative vision necessary to build a prosperous economy that can create internally generated revenue to fund a majority, if not all, of its infrastructure plan. President General Muhammadu Buhari is, in essence, mortgaging Nigeria for his obsessive unproductive love of Nigeria

The president has a potent weapon in his possession, the economic and financial crimes agency, a threat to the independence of any individual in a position of power in Nigeria. They have all been corrupt, taking bribes or stealing from the nation’s coffers at every turn, and General President Buhari has used the weapon to maximum effect. He has held hostage anyone that may speak against him or his policies—barring the fact that Buhari’s administration may be the most corrupt administration since Nigeria’s independence. A president whose son was involved in a $100,000 motorbike accident even though the president is quick to claim he has no wealth. Nigerians have wondered how this poor, impoverished man funded all his children to attend school in the UK.

A cowardly media except a handful will dare publish information that may tarnish the government of General Buhari. They will tell you to take your stories elsewhere. When they need to endear themselves to the public, they sensationalize a story and abandon it after a week or two, so it may die quietly. A good example was an accusation that one of the President's best friends was accused of using state funds to acquire private businesses, which is now a dead story no longer investigated by the media or the tale of DG Maina, who stole from the pension fund, fired, was under investigation, fled the country but returned, and rehired by the President, the story left the newspaper pages. It seems a gentleman’s agreement between the media and the presidency, and there is a litany of such stories.

Notwithstanding the media cooperation, General Buhari and his men have not ceased harassing and arresting journalists for writing to educate the public. The minister of information recently published rules that gave itself power (not written into legislation) to penalize, including termination of a broadcasting license of any entity which allows guests on its programs to opine without the government’s rebuttal. President Buhari has also vetoed the electoral reform law passed by congress; we are waiting to see how the legislative body cowers to General Buhari’s action. Unfortunately for Nigeria, the legislative body filled with criminal ex-governors and senators, afraid for their freedom, will go quietly into the night without even a whimper.

President General Buhari is taking a hammer on Nigeria’s democracy and constitution.

Nigeria is General President Buhari’s chessboard, and he manipulates one group against the other, turning the nation upside down.

Hunger ravages the nation. Nigeria, a once-thriving upwardly mobile society, is now declared the world’s poverty capital. Unfortunately, none of it has any effect on the stoic unabashed ethnic bigot who is convinced, despite his many failures and un-accomplishments, that he, and only him, has the answer to the nation’s problems as he continues to drive the country into the abyss.

The story of General Buhari should not be allowed to die quietly, and history must treat it for what it is.

The backward bending of Nigeria’s ascendancy to greatness and history should not spare his vice president, who has become the emissary of a lousy president. Good or bad, he is sent out daily to add sugar to Nigerians' bitter experiences and an accomplice to Buhari’s wickedness against his people.

24/11/2021

While the World Remains Complicit
The West is Silent on Murder and massacre.
By Kehinde Aderibigbe

In October 2020, thousands of youths in Nigeria were protesting police brutality. The protest was peaceful and nationalistic as the patriotic protesters waved the national flags and sang the national anthem. It was profound and emotional.

Then came the unpatriotic Nigerian army and the police, with orders from the murderous leadership. They opened fire on peaceful protesters, our children, their children, the leaders of tomorrow, killing several of them. It was worse than Tiemen square. They were trying to wipe out tomorrow and silence the future because they never believed they too, would someday die. Tomorrow can only belong to the young, not the old and dying sandbags occupying the leadership offices.

First, there was the blame of violent protest, which was quickly debunked, then there was the denial of killings and massacres. They unleashed the master spinner to spin the truth and issue threats to all who dare speak up. Yes, I am talking about Lying Lie Muhammed, the master spinner.

The analog leadership forgot that it was 2020, the world is digital, and news travels at the speed of light, information is available to all of us, our phones are now our eyes, and we can see long and deep. The analog leadership tried to shut down the digital age to blind us to all happening around us. But they failed woefully. Digital is the air we breathe and the space we live. It is impossible to shut it down, and the news of the massacre got out very fast.

The Whimper from global leaders was deafening.

Play nice, Buhari, they all said. Please don't be so harsh, they all sent, by mail and by voice. It would be best if you did it gently or discreetly. There were no scathing rebukes. An army with live bullets was standing at ease, shooting live ammunition on our children. The West was mum. I asked myself, is that not what the Chinese say when they claim, they just don't interfere. The West, as the beacon of freedom, is dying and will soon be dead.

The global leadership coming out of the US, Great Britain would make John F Kennedy or Winston Churchill cringe in their graves. Boris Johnson the wimp and Joseph Biden the mute, both looked the other way.

The world that stood against Hi**er is gone. It's an era of wimpish leadership hiding behind the good deeds of their predecessors. International organizations and NGOs were powerless in their voice. The media was consumed not with the inhumanity of the event but in their quest for audience and income.

The international criminal court was all but silent. Buhari has since taken one of his many trips to Great Britain, the number one accomplice to the murder and deaths of Nigerians in their hundreds, if not thousands. The West looks more like communist China than the beacon of freedom we all once knew and loved. Even after innocent youths were killed, hundreds of protesters languish in Buhari's gulag's

The West is Silent on Murder

The murderers and killers are still parading as leaders, and the world is still treating them like saints. There was no warning that he, Buhari, Sanwo Olu, and the general who gave the order may be sought and charged with the massacre of innocents. There was no affirmation of the international community's collective action against the killings and murders of the innocent. Instead, these murderers of innocent youths realize the world is deaf, dumb, and blind to their actions, so they continue with impunity and disregard. It will never happen under the watch of George W Bush Sr. or Ronald Reagan.

Buhari and his people are busy killings, maiming, and massacring innocents across Nigeria. He is integrating terrorists into the Nigerian military and teaching them the art of warfare.

There is a price to pay for the silence.

When northern Nigeria, represented by the current leadership of Buhari, become ground zero for the export of terrorists to the world. It is those same youth that you have so meekly ignored that you will need to rise to leadership to protect your people. Northern Nigeria has bred 14 million hopeless illiterates who see no future for themselves but engage in terrorist acts.

Rest assured; we will not be you or be like you; we will empathize, come to your aid and assistance, and not look the other way as you continue to do to our children. We will console you; we will defend you; we will support you. We promise you our humanity will be at its highest ever. We will neither be dumb nor deaf. We will advocate for you against acts of terrorism that are now being unleashed on our children and us.

We promise you, Joe Biden, Borris Johnson, and all those who claim to love freedom and free speech, we will be loud and abrasive in your defense and defense of your people.

Even after the investigative panel released its damning report, we do not understand why you will not defend us. We are struggling to understand your silence. Why Buhari and Samwo Olu with their compatriots will not be on the watch list of the international criminal court is bewildering to us.

Your silence is deafening!!!!