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i'm often the first person to admonish people to shut up if they've got nothing significant to say. hence the silence on this blog for some time. i just dont feel like anything significatn has happened to be worth my time and your attention. but i observed yesterday while driving home, that life is short and there is never a better time to set out one's thoughts than now. also, as there is never a time when my thoughts stop running, i guess there's always something to talk about.

having said that, i would like to re-iterate my above advise to some funny guy who was introduced on a radio show last night as a "chieftain" of the People's Democratic Party. as you already know, the word "chieftain" now refers to any irrelevant maybe-not-even-card-carrying member of any political party. gone are the days when the word "chieftain" refered to the solomon lars, the sarakis and the adedibus. so anyways, i guess for lack of anything better to discuss on the programme, he was called up on the phone to assess fashola. firstly, i believe that airtime should be put to proper use and such only relevant information backed by facts should be disseminated to the listening public. secondly, the only man authorized to critize another is the man with facts and figures not baseless speculations and illogical opinion.

as soon as he was asked the question, i turned up my radio to ensure i didn't miss a thing. unfortunately, quite the opposite happened: i didn't get a thing he said. he just dragged his words a lot like he was talking to a group of imbecilic folks and just kept hammering on the alleged 25billion which he claims that lagos gets from the Federation Account. His opinion was that based on this said amount, just building a couple of roads and planting flowers cannot be used to evaluate the success of a governor.

unfortunately, the original host of that particular radio show passed on recently (more on that later on) and the new guy appears not to be on his wit. he forgot to ask this same chieftain to please identify any of the PDP governors that can boast of even the "basic" achievement of flower planting and road construction. i mean, please. if the PDP does not know that administrative policies of government should be tailored along societal demands and needs, then that explains the absolute lack of direction that the present administration at the federal level is exhibiting. is fashola supposed to build more hospitals instead? and leave us all in 5 hour traffic jams just trying to get home after work? even a lay newcomer to lagos knows that there has been a population explosion and that the ONLY solution to it is to (1) build new roads and expand existing ones (2. Remove obstructions to easy flow of traffic including illegal markets, street trading and shanties and (3) open up new areas of the state like badagry, ikorodu and epe for development to spread the population accross the state.

isn't that obviously what the current policy is directed? in as much as opinion remains subjective to the individual expressing it, for it to be of any value, it must earn credibility by being based on facts and logic. i almost feel personally offended by this blind allegiance to a failed political party and even more insulted that a comatose group has the audacity to score fashola a mere 40% for performance. Someone should please call me to score yaradua...please, please call me.

okay, i'm done venting. did anyone else see the over 8 pages of names published in a newspaper yesterday (can't remember now if it was in Guardian or Thisday) by the Federal Teachers Scheme? basically, over 200 individuals applying to teach your children in government schools are themselves forging certificates claiming that they are qualified to teach. What therefore is the fate of the children that are being taught. how many of the already employed teachers around the country are laying claim to degrees that they were only awarded in their dreams. the teacher himself could not pass exams sufficiently to earn a degree but wants to teach others to do so. only in nigeria...i do hope someone will be prosecuted for this.

today, i will end on a sad note. the said radio programme that i listen to faithfully on my way home daily is Kubanji Direct on radio continential. it is packed with information that i can use and was founded by Mr. Momoh Kubanji. The truth is that, most radio presenters become personal to the listeners even though you dont know them from Adam just by listening to them daily. you share their moods with them, laugh at their jokes and hiss at their goofiness. so i was shocked really hard to just hear the announcement that he had passed on in mid-October. it felt like losing someone dear and my heart goes out to his family. May God give you the fortitude to bear the loss in the realization that the man lived his dream and touched more people than you all may probably ever meet.

see y'all tomorrow. and if you find it hard to read or write and you went to a government school, its most likely because your teacher forged his certificate too...its hardly your fault now, is it?

later peeps.

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