CALL FOR OKONJI IWEALA SACK WELCOME BUT…

If it were to be other person(s) than a Nigerian politician that calls for resignation, i would have said 100times without blinking. People rely on her antecedents at the world bank, but forget that even me will do better taking there (world bank), because the system there will always checkmate and put my toes on the right track. Haven't you heard of our so big above the law Nigerians behaves lawfully when they travel abroad or you do think they don't wish to cut corners? They do, but for the fear of the system over there, they hold their peace until they return back to this near lawlessness state, where integrity, openness, equity, transparency, justice and respect for others has taken leave of absence.

How do one juxtapose this, weeks after she has shouted to the high heavens of how well the economy is doing only to return and be shouting the Nigerian state is going into bankruptcy. The same overhead cost has been in place, which she claimed is eating the economy and is still in place. So, i wonder how can same overhead cost eats up the economy at some point and at other point blossoms it. Thank God there's always natural check and balance, except Nigeria is in another planet, dollar has been the measure for economy of countries. When a country's economy rises it gains in currency as it appreciate while dollar decreases, but ours has been steady rise in dollar, which automatically translate our economy is nose-diving.

Our Amnesty International poverty rate of this year is higher than that of last year, life expectancy of last year higher than this year, our unemployed rate has climbed its highest ever this year recording above 54m employable aged Nigerians unemployed. 10years backward, we used to have the high class, the middle class and the low class, but due to mismanagement, corruption and the inability of the government to provide or better create an atmosphere for growth, the gap has been stretched further, now we no longer have the middle class. The poor are now poorer and the rich richer.

The 2.5m jobs she claimed this administration has created, which I am yet to see but can only as every other Nigerian read on the pages of newspaper. Where are the jobs, is it an invisible jobs or sit at home kind of? In Agriculture they are using as a measure of jobs they created, I am yet see, read about a person who stated farming as a result of government support.

Almost all the farmers we have been farming before this administration, exception of few new ones who has joined not because they have received money or farm land from the government but out of there savings have been able to raise enough capital. The only thing the FG has done, which i acknowledged as a good move is the pronouncement of support in the areas of seedlings and fertilizer, of which the farmers are still crying foul that none has reached them. So, if people calls for her sack, i am well in support as she has done nothing but paper indices equal to lies, which has done nothing in anyway to better the economy of Nigerians.

Author; Uche Ifeanyi (The sun Publishing Limited)