I will start by saying this: Which other president in the world spends over three million dollars of their government's yearly budget on their personal food bill? Yet 70% of the country's citizens are made to live on less than a dollar a day. Please look at the chart below for more revelations that would blow your mind. I am livid, incensed for the majority of Nigerians whose lives would be made unbearable by the removal of the oil subsidy while President Goodluck Jonathan enjoys the insanely pampered luxury of a government sponsored 15 million dollar fuel/transportation maintenance bill. His total maintenance bill as sponsored by the Nigerian tax payer comes to a whopping total of over $39 Million Dollars.
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I will borrow the words of 9jaFooDie who blogged about this:
"If you have been praying for Nigeria, please STOP. God has done his part; He has given us EVERYTHING, Human and Natural Resources. It is time for a revolution of sorts, time to disintegrate and start over." I think there is a lot Nigerians can do using social media to garner support for a peaceful protest against what can only be seen as a misuse of government funds. Why should Nigerians suffer while the president and other political leaders live it up at the expense of Nigerian citizens? Those resources belong to us all.
What You can do (Everyone has a part to play)
So I am asking all Nigerian bloggers and other interested parties to join me in a Nigerian Bloggers Protest for a week starting from today or by tomorrow. To join the protest:
1. Do a similar post of your own on your blog using the title "GEJ Presidential Palace Subsidy Must End: Nigerian Bloggers' Protest"
2. Add the pic/tabled diagram in this post
3. Publish your post today or latest by tomorrow
4. Please allow for seven days on your blog or place in a prime position on your blog for seven days.
5. You can still play your part as a non-blogger: share on facebook, twitter and other relevant social media.
6. Journalists, use your media space.
7. If you've done a post or published elsewhere online, please leave a link here, so I can come over and comment. Thanks.
7. If you've done a post or published elsewhere online, please leave a link here, so I can come over and comment. Thanks.
RIP Citizen Muyideen Mustafa - the young man who died in Ilorin's peaceful protest against the removal of the oil subsidy.
Are you going to be quiet and let his death be in vain?
Good one Naijalines! I have to go change the Title of my post.
ReplyDeleteThis is just ridiculous! Only God can help us!
ReplyDelete- LDP
9jaFooDie: You did it! Thanks, 9jaFoodie.
ReplyDeleteLDP: Na so we see am o. You can join in the campaign with a post of your own. Pls include 'Nigerian Bloggers Protest' in the title and include the 'rules' of the campaign in yiur post. Share the campaign with others on Facebook and Twitter.
xxxNaijalines.
I'd signed out when I left this comment.
Done!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ginger:D
ReplyDeleteI'm signing in with my post.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Culturesoup. God bless you.
ReplyDeleteWe need more bloggers to put up a post. I can't get round to asking everyone. It's impossible. Please if y'all are reading this, get clicking on your phone or PC. 'Twit' and 'facebook' your friends to take up the campaign. Get your journalist friends to do a story about the campaign in their papers and magazines. Do not give up on Nigeria. Nigeria needs us. Nigeria needs you!
I've done it and thanks for initiating this campaign. Change will elude us in Nigeria unless we take action to challenge everything that is wrong with our country.
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ReplyDeletei rest my case.
Naija4Life: Thank you for joining the campaign and putting up a post, bro. It means a lot. Like you said, change will elude us in Nigeria unless unless we take action to challenge everything that is wrong with our country.
ReplyDeleteDa Injurer: Thank you for your post and for joining the campaign. It is well appreciated.
ReplyDeleteDid you get a chance to read or watch Jonathan's speech? I have reasons to think he is not a very bright man. He wants to reduce 25% of BASIC Politician salaries, create 370k jobs overnight and reduce all travels expenses (when his own office has a proposed travel budget of over $11m), hooo and we are getting railways lines.... yeiiii us!! o_O
ReplyDeleteAdura, I am so sorry this is coming about a day or two later than stipulated. I support the movement wholeheartedly and I have put up a post to that effect. God bless you. God bless Nigeria.
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9jaFOODie: I have not read or watched GEJ's speech as I might burst a blood vessel if I were to do so. Railways ehn? We'll believe it when we see it.
ReplyDeleteCherryWine: Thanks for your post and for joining the campaign. Your efforts would not be in vain.
av done the campaign thing, though in my own way. You can check it out on my blog
ReplyDelete@ilola: Been to yours. You did great, girl! Well done. Really appreciate what it must have taken to do this at such a difficult time for you. I hope You do feel better soon.
ReplyDeleteI haven't gotten responses to the last e-mails I sent to you. Your e-mail is still active, yeah?
ReplyDeleteNakedSha: Sorry, dear. Just got them and I've replied. Funny about the November one because I checked that mailbox until end of November at least.
ReplyDeleteIt's coming late but please read
ReplyDeleteNo time like the present, Mstizzle. Thanks for joining the Nigerian bloggers protest. Love your post. Great job!
ReplyDeleteI know it's more than late but i had to
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