The President, Governors and Assembly men of Our Dream. Is this Election Really Necessary? To begin with, we need to provide answers to some vital questions like; what are our national goals and aspirations? Is our democracy defined as the government of the rich (politicians), for the rich and by the rich?
The answers to the above question should be that our national goal is to create an egalitarian society with a level playing field where there are equal opportunities for every citizen to aspire and pursue his legitimate dreams for both national and personal fulfilment. Not a situation where a few and negligible percentage of our teeming population will plunder the absolute majority of our resources, in the name of governance, be it legislative, executive or otherwise.
Our national priority now, therefore, should rather be how to carry out rapid national reforms that will guarantee a better deal for the average Nigerian. At this critical stage of our nationhood we require more than an average person to be our president. He or she must have a demonstrable vision, will, carriage, wisdom, determination and courage to move things around and carry out the necessary reforms as explained above within his or her first One Hundred days in office. Should anyone be asking for our votes come April 2011, that individual must be ready to give us an un-interrupted electricity supply within the first hundred days in office.
He or she must be ready to declare and guarantee free and compulsory education for every child up to the end of junior school, with the provision for the indigent and disadvantaged child to enjoy free education up to graduate and post graduate levels. This must be accompanied with the provision of a minimum international standard welfare, health care and up-keep. Every Nigerian in need of health care and who cannot afford it must have access to free and international standard health care, be it woman, man, boy or girl, born or unborn.
Every young person or employable Nigerian must be given automatic opportunity to work and contribute his/her quota to the economy and earn a living. Please read details on how to make this possible in the All in One Programme of Action for Nigeria on this website – www.joint-heirs-reigningwithchrist.blogspot.com . Our in-coming president must not allow any of our senior citizens to go into the grave in shame or be treated with contempt or ignominy. They must not be allowed to queue up in the rain or sun, or travelling long distances to access their entitlements. These services must be taken to their doorsteps by special arrangements, as obtainable in civilised societies. See the All in One Action Programme for details.
He must be ready to correct the present injustice and gross in-equality as regards wealth distribution in the system with an immediate amendment of the constitution to cut the jumbo pay and allowances being paid to public servants at the expense of the teeming masses. To this effect, certain legislative and executive functions must be on part-time basis. It has been said in various quarters that it is more lucrative to be in politics than to peddle drugs.
Our political, economic and administrative (civil service) structures are very weak. We need to strengthen our institutions. Therefore, our incoming president must be ready to dismantle, first, and then, rebuild strong institutions. Otherwise, the present structure is so corruption pervasive, permissive and persuasive, such that no matter how well intentioned a leader is, he will be compromised or consumed by this all-time endemic system.
Provision of basic amenities such as portable water, good roads, standard health facilities, et cetera, all of which are taken for granted in civilised countries but are still evasive in our country. These must form a major part of the basis on which any aspiring politician should and could ask for our votes this time around.
All said and done we cannot run away from the basic truth on the enormity of the situation confronting our nation. The truth which is like a bombshell is that we should rather forget about wasting money on the forth coming elections but we should rather allow a representation of the major sector of the people to run an interim government with equal representation from all the six geo-political regions. There will be six co-chairpersons with an interim president elected from among them. The job of the interim government will be to restructure our constitution with a view to strengthen our union and all its component institutions such that governmental institutions and parastatals will be run in an open system that is accountable to Nigerians. The re-structured constitution must be made subject to the peoples’ ratification through a credible referendum.
We must make our leaders realise that since we sent them there, they can’t rule us in a master-servant relationship, but as servant leaders who must be responsive and responsible to the electorate that voted them there in the first place. They must be made to realise that the affairs of governance cannot be run as a secret cult. Every Nigerian should be free to ask how the taxpayer’s money is being spent. This fact gives high credence to the imperative of passing the Freedom of Information (FoI) bill As things are presently, any elected leader will be at the mercy of our weak and corruption permissive, persuasive and pervasive structures and may certainly not be able to do much regarding meeting, even, our minimum expectations. This, I believe has been the situation with the present government led by president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, in whom I see some level of sincerity and sensitivity to the yearnings of the people but who have been turned a lame-duck president by the structures and institutions of government as presently instituted by the constitution imposed on Nigerians by the General Abdul-Salam Administration. We need to build strong institutions rather than strong personalities as advised by one of our own, President Barack Obama, the man in the oval office sometimes in 2009.
Advanced democracies are not necessarily run by men who are holier than Nigerians nay Africans but by men who operate within strong institutions that are so open to public scrutiny such that there is zero tolerance for corruption or leadership abuses as we tolerate here. A public servant must live up to the billings of public expectations or must be prepared to resign or be kicked out once caught under the grid -light of the press as watch dog.
The Truth must be told. It is patriotic and God-fearing to so do. The obvious truth, therefore, is that by the present constitution and operation of our democracy, the welfare of the average Nigerian cannot be guaranteed or served. Only our fat and greedy politicians stand to benefit. We must call it quits with the present arrangement and quickly begin the building of an egalitarian society. A society that throws-up her best, not on the basis of the size of their pockets, ability to manipulate through the employment of violence, cunning and other forms of anti-social practices, which presently characterise our polity.
The present arrangement only gives room for the emergence of crooks, mainly, and not honest men and women. It is the survival of the fittest. Ayikwe Amah, commenting on the post Nkrumah era and the ensuing corruption, in his book, The Beautiful Ones are not yet Born describes them as those who can travel on the fast lane. In that book, we read about the stench and magnitude of the putrefying decay produced by the magnitude of corruption perpetrated by strong personalities, heroes of socialism, under a porous constitutional framework and weak institutions that literally turned its operators to demi-gods who were not accountable to the people in their self-righteousness. But God used Jerry Rawlings to clean-up the messy affair and the result is there for everyone to see. Anyone who is not prepared to carry out a shake-up of that magnitude may not achieve much. Those who are holding our nation to ransom by the jugular must be forced out of the system so that Nigerians can experience the true political, financial and spiritual/moral freedom. Here, I rest my case.
Pastor Ayo Akintayo,
Chairman, Justice Party,
Lagos State, Secretary,
Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, (CNPP),
Lagos State.
+234 803 347 5035
+234 807 731 7028
+234 808 218 7145
+234 809 888 7755
ayoakins@yahoo.com
ayowole.akintayo@gmail.com
www.joint-heirs-reigningwithchrist.blogspot.com
http://www.ayowoleakintayo.blogspot.com/
Monday, March 28, 2011
The President, Governors and Assembly men of Our Dream. Is this Election Really Necessary? To begin with, we need to provide answers to some vital questions like; what are our national goals and aspirations? Is our democracy defined as the government of the rich (politicians), for the rich and by the rich? The answers to the above question should be that our national goal is to create an egalitarian society with a level playing field where there are equal opportunities for every citizen to aspire and pursue his legitimate dreams for both national and personal fulfilment. Not a situation where a few and negligible percentage of our teeming population will plunder the absolute majority of our resources, in the name of governance, be it legislative, executive or otherwise. Our national priority now, therefore, should rather be how to carry out rapid national reforms that will guarantee a better deal for the average Nigerian. At this critical stage of our nationhood we require more than an average person to be our president. He or she must have a demonstrable vision, will, carriage, wisdom, determination and courage to move things around and carry out the necessary reforms as explained above within his or her first One Hundred days in office. Should anyone be asking for our votes come April 2011, that individual must be ready to give us an un-interrupted electricity supply within the first hundred days in office. He or she must be ready to declare and guarantee free and compulsory education for every child up to the end of junior school, with the provision for the indigent and disadvantaged child to enjoy free education up to graduate and post graduate levels. This must be accompanied with the provision of a minimum international standard welfare, health care and up-keep. Every Nigerian in need of health care and who cannot afford it must have access to free and international standard health care, be it woman, man, boy or girl, born or unborn. Every young person or employable Nigerian must be given automatic opportunity to work and contribute his/her quota to the economy and earn a living. Please read details on how to make this possible in the All in One Programme of Action for Nigeria on this website – www.joint-heirs-reigningwithchrist.blogspot.com . Our in-coming president must not allow any of our senior citizens to go into the grave in shame or be treated with contempt or ignominy. They must not be allowed to queue up in the rain or sun, or travelling long distances to access their entitlements. These services must be taken to their doorsteps by special arrangements, as obtainable in civilised societies. See the All in One Action Programme for details. He must be ready to correct the present injustice and gross in-equality as regards wealth distribution in the system with an immediate amendment of the constitution to cut the jumbo pay and allowances being paid to public servants at the expense of the teeming masses. To this effect, certain legislative and executive functions must be on part-time basis. It has been said in various quarters that it is more lucrative to be in politics than to peddle drugs. Our political, economic and administrative (civil service) structures are very weak. We need to strengthen our institutions. Therefore, our incoming president must be ready to dismantle, first, and then, rebuild strong institutions. Otherwise, the present structure is so corruption pervasive, permissive and persuasive, such that no matter how well intentioned a leader is, he will be compromised or consumed by this all-time endemic system. Provision of basic amenities such as portable water, good roads, standard health facilities, et cetera, all of which are taken for granted in civilised countries but are still evasive in our country. These must form a major part of the basis on which any aspiring politician should and could ask for our votes this time around. All said and done we cannot run away from the basic truth on the enormity of the situation confronting our nation. The truth which is like a bombshell is that we should rather forget about wasting money on the forth coming elections but we should rather allow a representation of the major sector of the people to run an interim government with equal representation from all the six geo-political regions. There will be six co-chairpersons with an interim president elected from among them. The job of the interim government will be to restructure our constitution with a view to strengthen our union and all its component institutions such that governmental institutions and parastatals will be run in an open system that is accountable to Nigerians. The re-structured constitution must be made subject to the peoples’ ratification through a credible referendum. We must make our leaders realise that since we sent them there, they can’t rule us in a master-servant relationship, but as servant leaders who must be responsive and responsible to the electorate that voted them there in the first place. They must be made to realise that the affairs of governance cannot be run as a secret cult. Every Nigerian should be free to ask how the taxpayer’s money is being spent. This fact gives high credence to the imperative of passing the Freedom of Information (FoI) bill As things are presently, any elected leader will be at the mercy of our weak and corruption permissive, persuasive and pervasive structures and may certainly not be able to do much regarding meeting, even, our minimum expectations. This, I believe has been the situation with the present government led by president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, in whom I see some level of sincerity and sensitivity to the yearnings of the people but who have been turned a lame-duck president by the structures and institutions of government as presently instituted by the constitution imposed on Nigerians by the General Abdul-Salam Administration. We need to build strong institutions rather than strong personalities as advised by one of our own, President Barack Obama, the man in the oval office sometimes in 2009. Advanced democracies are not necessarily run by men who are holier than Nigerians nay Africans but by men who operate within strong institutions that are so open to public scrutiny such that there is zero tolerance for corruption or leadership abuses as we tolerate here. A public servant must live up to the billings of public expectations or must be prepared to resign or be kicked out once caught under the grid -light of the press as watch dog. The Truth must be told. It is patriotic and God-fearing to so do. The obvious truth, therefore, is that by the present constitution and operation of our democracy, the welfare of the average Nigerian cannot be guaranteed or served. Only our fat and greedy politicians stand to benefit. We must call it quits with the present arrangement and quickly begin the building of an egalitarian society. A society that throws-up her best, not on the basis of the size of their pockets, ability to manipulate through the employment of violence, cunning and other forms of anti-social practices, which presently characterise our polity. The present arrangement only gives room for the emergence of crooks, mainly, and not honest men and women. It is the survival of the fittest. Ayikwe Amah, commenting on the post Nkrumah era and the ensuing corruption, in his book, The Beautiful Ones are not yet Born describes them as those who can travel on the fast lane. In that book, we read about the stench and magnitude of the putrefying decay produced by the magnitude of corruption perpetrated by strong personalities, heroes of socialism, under a porous constitutional framework and weak institutions that literally turned its operators to demi-gods who were not accountable to the people in their self-righteousness. But God used Jerry Rawlings to clean-up the messy affair and the result is there for everyone to see. Anyone who is not prepared to carry out a shake-up of that magnitude may not achieve much. Those who are holding our nation to ransom by the jugular must be forced out of the system so that Nigerians can experience the true political, financial and spiritual/moral freedom. Here, I rest my case. Pastor Ayo Akintayo, Chairman, Justice Party, Lagos State, Secretary, Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, (CNPP), Lagos State. +234 803 347 5035 +234 807 731 7028 +234 808 218 7145 +234 809 888 7755 ayoakins@yahoo.com ayowole.akintayo@gmail.com www.joint-heirs-reigningwithchrist.blogspot.com www.ayowoleakintayo.blogspot.com
Sunday, October 17, 2010
The All in One Action Programme for Our Good People of Nigeria
The All in One Programme of Action for Our Good People of Nigeria
The All in One Programme of Action is the articulation and advocacy for a direct and immediate intervention for the enforcement of the constitutionally and universally guaranteed provision of the basic, minimum, irreducible welfare package that any Aspirant to public office, be it at the local, state or federal level should be ready to implement for the good of our great people of Nigeria before he/she could receive our mandate come 2011 elections.
Today, our Federal Legislators earn more than the president of the United States of America, while majority of our people live below one dollar per day, a situation that qualifies Nigeria as about the one fifty-eight poorest nation in the world. Yet, Nigeria is the sixth largest producer of crude oil in the world. The most apt and succinct way to capture the situation is that less than one percent of our population, consisting mainly of politicians and their cronies, spend more than ninety-nine percent of our national earnings, while the remaining ninety-nine percent of our population scramble for less than one percent of our income. What a shame! We just cannot continue like this. The time for change is NOW! Hence, the need for the urgent implementation of our All in One Programme of Action as enunciated below:
The thrust of this programme shall be the Security and Welfare of our good people of Nigeria in terms provision of basic amenities such as Food, Water, Education, Health, Shelter and abundant Wealth in our quest for the maximum human dignity, patriotism, fuelled by a sense of belonging, equity and justice, and above all personal and societal fulfilment.
An average of one million naira per a Nigerian will be contributed at the ratio of 40/30/30 between the Federal, State and Local Governments into the National Social Security Fund, to be managed, like the pension fund, by participating Banks, to finance this project.
The All in One Programme is designed basically to focus on three broad categorisation or segments of our teeming populace, who are usually most vulnerable. These are the Children who must be protected from neglect and abuse and whose universal right to good education and access to standard health facilities, must be guaranteed at all cost.
The Youths who are the most vibrant, productive and creative segment of our populace and so constitute the engine that drives our Economy. These active qualities of the Youths must not be allowed to waste, be frustrated or misdirected into crimes and unproductive ventures but must be fully harnessed for their personal fulfilment and the over-all benefit of the society and the economy. There must always be avenues created to utilise and harness their productivity. They must not be allowed to become parasites and unwanted menaces.
The third group on our focus list are the Aged, Elderly and Retired, a number of who are always forsaken and treated unfairly by the society to whom the have given their all when they now become dependent. It is their inalienable right to be rewarded and taken care of by the society and not abandoned. Their wealth of experience could still be tapped in consultancy forms.
What then shall be our modus operandi for actualising our goals as enunciated above? The Blue Print shall then be unveiled based on a principle the late sage Obafemi Awolowo described as doing the Maximum good to the Maximum number of people at the Minimum cost. So, let’s start with the Children.
The Programme of Action for our beloved Children will be based on understanding and believe, as it is done in America and the civilised world for instance, that they are the greatest hopes for a re-branded tomorrow and as such they constitute the greatest potentials of any nation. Therefore, we must position our society to influence, be part of the part of, take proper account, be ready to play the fall-back role, at least, and so supervise or superintend, the upkeep, welfare, health, training and education of every child.
This means, we must not allow any child to be deprived of a dignified upkeep in terms of good nourishment, access to health facilities, adequate shelter, welfare, and most important of all, education as a result, either of poverty or loss of parent. These are the basic, God-given, universal, inalienable right of the child. And, that is why every decent and civilised society takes responsibility for the child. Little wonder, therefore, they grow up to be so inflamed with passion of absolute loyalty and patriotism to the country that cares and loves them so much. And if we are truly committed to re-branding, then this is our roadmap to evolving a responsible and committed citizenry.
As for the Youth who is the engine room and driving force of our economy being the strength of any nation, he must be empowered with the maximum education he is capable of receiving, along with appropriate skills or craft to earn a living for himself and to channel his productivity and creativity into the growth of the economy. No Youth must be allowed to be dependant; never. The economy is mouth-wide-open, yearning and gasping for his youthfulness, resilience, vibrancy, emerging talent and creativity; all which it cannot do without. These must be harnessed and welcomed into the economy.
How do we then go about working out this Blue Print?
Our Blue Print then must be predicated on the ideal that every youth must be equipped with the necessary education and training to thrive and aspire to his maximum potential. Having thus invested so much in him/her, this investment must be given opportunity to yield. What this then translates into is that we must work out how to automatically engage every youth in productive ventures after training and counselling. This will not only ensure that the youth leads a self-reliant and dignified life, we must realise that this is the only option for a self-reliant, prosperous and crime-free society.
All our youths must then be accounted for, counselled, grouped, empowered, supervised and backed-up with necessary facility and environment to succeed and to plough back into the economy.
Some will be empowered with the necessary tools and environment to set up their crafts, while some will be employed, and others will be empowered with necessary facilities to set up small scale businesses some of which given the right environment will grow into big industries. The basic line, however, is that, pending the time the youth is sorted-out, the society must engage him profitably, at least, to provide the basic necessities of life. A model close to the present National Youth Service Scheme will be expanded to include agriculture, road repairs, laundry services, food processing and preservation, seed cultivation, state security service, policing, cultivation for plantations and other productive ventures that will directly benefit the society.
As for the Senior Citizens, there must be a solid plan to take care of them in their old age. These are the people who have served their country meritoriously and who for one reason or the other, especially that of the bad economy and incapacity, are now dependant and in dire need of our understanding and willing assistance, if only to compensate them and to send out a clear message to the youth that if they give their best to the country now that they are young, the society will take care of them when they are old and possibly in need of assistance.
Certainly, not all our old people will be in need of this assistance but a plan must be in place for as many of them who may find this plan helpful. All interested old people will be registered to enjoy welfare services which include free heath facility, feeding and accommodation, recreational services and Peer Company plus a moderate but befitting burial when they transit.
Those of them who can still contribute meaningfully into the economy from their wealth of experience and/or expertise, at least, in consultancy capacities will be thus engaged. A number of them who still mentally alert will be engaged in marital and general arbitration/counselling services. Old people will be useful in community policing as informants as well
Elders’ Council will be constituted to advise government at all levels on major policy formulations. Banking and pension payment services will henceforth be to old people in their respective homes.
All the above Programmes of Action and more will make growing old a great pleasure and privilege. It will further inflame the passion of patriotism in the entire citizenry as young people, especially, will be eager and willing to give their best to the nation that cares and has a rock solid programme of succour for them in times of trouble or in old age.
Above all, the nation will engage a comprehensive insurance/security system that will cover every Nigerian citizen from cradle (in fact, from conception) to the grave.
This is why our politicking must change. According to Thomas Hobbes in his doctrine of the Social Contract, governance should be a contract between the governors and the governed where the people surrender their sovereignty to government and pledge their loyalty in exchange for their protection/social security and the provision of certain basic social amenities such as those enumerated above.
That is why the citizens’ rights which include our Programme of Action as enunciated above are guaranteed and listed under the Fundamental (God given, inalienable and natural) Rights of citizens in every modern constitution. They all emanate and are contained in the Universal Declarations of the United Nations on Human Rights of which Nigeria and the absolute majority of Nations in the World are signatories.
I know the pessimist and possibly the ignorant or greedy (and self-centred, who does not believe in the equitable distribution of the vast resources of Nigeria) politician may say alas! Where are we going to find the enormous resources that will definitely be required to fund this laudable Programme of Action of yours? But my sincere and researched answer to such people is in the vast resources which are presently being mis-prioritised, mis-appropriated, looted, wasted and siphoned abroad. Less than half of the resources which fall into the category just described will abundantly suffice to successfully underwrite our espoused Programme of Action. And there is absolutely no gainsaying or exaggeration in our expressed position on this matter. Please check it out!
The problem is that our nation has been largely bedevilled and seemingly cursed with bad governance and mal-administration of our vast resources. Probably due to the rate of poverty in the land and the lack of such Programme of Action like the one we now propose, to provide succour to societal and individual deprivations, those who gain access to national resources through governance immediately see it as an opportunity and ticket to banish poverty and deprivations for ever from their immediate, and possibly, extended families. This is the bane of good governance in our nation. The time for CHANGE however has come.
We must earnestly begin to change our attitudes and perception to things in order for our nation and people to fulfil our destinies collectively and individually.
Our free consultancy services shall be available to all incoming governments at all levels, local, state and federal. In actual fact, we will be willing to convey summits in all the six geo-political zones to train relevant officers from all three tiers of government on the modalities for programme implementation.
Truly, some may wonder, is this a socialist ideology of some sort? Especially since the main doctrine of socialism teaches; from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs. My reply to such inquisition is a definite No! The inspiration for this Project comes, absolutely, from the Almighty God, Jesus Christ, and the blessed Holy Spirit of God. Hence, for the purpose of economics, one will discover that it is a blend of Welfarism, Capitalism and Socialism. So, if you like, call it a mixed economy.
Benefits:
The Society as a whole, apart from beneficiaries, stands to gain a lot from this All in One Programme of Action if well implemented. A few of them are the underlisted;
A Buoyant Economy ;
The all important contribution of Youths in terms of energetic and creative services will be channelled into the economy and not wasted or frustrated. The situation of things presently is that many of them who are unemployed and are dependent, merely suck from the economy without any input, and are therefore parasitic.
Patriotism; a citizen that knows his/her country cares for him/her will be so grateful to that country and will be ready to die, if need be for that country. This is the direct solution to the prevalent lack of patriotism in our country.
Building Useful, Healthy and Enlightened Citizens from Cradle; a situation where every child has a dignified up-bringing in terms of good access to education, health facility and general welfare will lead to his/her growing up to become a useful, enlightened caring, responsible and healthy adult citizen/leader of tomorrow.
Crime Free Society; most of the crimes, like armed robbery, kidnapping, prostitution, hooliganism, assassinations and frauds would have been drastically reduced if this programme is well implemented.
Stable Polity; a satisfied citizenry in the face of equity, justice and fairness will bring about a lasting peace and a stable polity.
Egalitarian Society; a situation where every citizen is aware through education, healthy, productive, meaningfully engaged and enabled to develop to maximum potential will produce an egalitarian society.
Curse-free Society; a merciful and caring society will readily invoke the mercies and blessings of both God and our elders.
Caring Society; we will truly become our brother’s keepers in this atmosphere of caring and sharing.
Food Sufficiency & Agrarian Society; massive youth deployment into Agriculture and food preservations, with a good number encouraged and empowered to go into professional and large scale/mechanised farming will restore us back to an Agrarian society with sufficient food to nurture our economy and extra to export.
Industrial Revolution; Read, affordable, skilled, strong and healthy hands, spurred on and empowered by society will lead to an industrial revolution.
Good Roads; our army of youths will be galvanised and supervised by works departments to fix all our roads at much affordable and rewarding costs to the youths themselves. They will be trained in the art and science of road constructions and maintenance for a living. It will then become abhorrence to locate pot-holes on our roads.
Provision of Basic Amenities; our youths will be engaged in the provision of all basic amenities such that these good and services will not only be available but also affordable.
Low Rate of Inflation through Cheaper & more Affordable Services;
Highly Skilled & Job Mobile Youths;
Education for All;
Health for All;
Employment for All;
Equitable Distribution of Wealth;
Prosperity for All & Wealth Creation;
Elimination of Corruption;
Compassionate Leaders;
Fulfilled Citizenry;
Courts and Prisons Decongestion; through a highly reduced rate of crimes resulting from constructive youth engagements and involvement of retired elders in Arbitrations.
Immediate accomplishment of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
For further enquiries, please call:
Ayo Akintayo on;
+234 803 347 5035
+234 807 731 7028
+234 808 218 7145
+234 809 888 7755
ayoakins@yahoo.com
ayowole.akintayo@gmail.com
The All in One Programme of Action is the articulation and advocacy for a direct and immediate intervention for the enforcement of the constitutionally and universally guaranteed provision of the basic, minimum, irreducible welfare package that any Aspirant to public office, be it at the local, state or federal level should be ready to implement for the good of our great people of Nigeria before he/she could receive our mandate come 2011 elections.
Today, our Federal Legislators earn more than the president of the United States of America, while majority of our people live below one dollar per day, a situation that qualifies Nigeria as about the one fifty-eight poorest nation in the world. Yet, Nigeria is the sixth largest producer of crude oil in the world. The most apt and succinct way to capture the situation is that less than one percent of our population, consisting mainly of politicians and their cronies, spend more than ninety-nine percent of our national earnings, while the remaining ninety-nine percent of our population scramble for less than one percent of our income. What a shame! We just cannot continue like this. The time for change is NOW! Hence, the need for the urgent implementation of our All in One Programme of Action as enunciated below:
The thrust of this programme shall be the Security and Welfare of our good people of Nigeria in terms provision of basic amenities such as Food, Water, Education, Health, Shelter and abundant Wealth in our quest for the maximum human dignity, patriotism, fuelled by a sense of belonging, equity and justice, and above all personal and societal fulfilment.
An average of one million naira per a Nigerian will be contributed at the ratio of 40/30/30 between the Federal, State and Local Governments into the National Social Security Fund, to be managed, like the pension fund, by participating Banks, to finance this project.
The All in One Programme is designed basically to focus on three broad categorisation or segments of our teeming populace, who are usually most vulnerable. These are the Children who must be protected from neglect and abuse and whose universal right to good education and access to standard health facilities, must be guaranteed at all cost.
The Youths who are the most vibrant, productive and creative segment of our populace and so constitute the engine that drives our Economy. These active qualities of the Youths must not be allowed to waste, be frustrated or misdirected into crimes and unproductive ventures but must be fully harnessed for their personal fulfilment and the over-all benefit of the society and the economy. There must always be avenues created to utilise and harness their productivity. They must not be allowed to become parasites and unwanted menaces.
The third group on our focus list are the Aged, Elderly and Retired, a number of who are always forsaken and treated unfairly by the society to whom the have given their all when they now become dependent. It is their inalienable right to be rewarded and taken care of by the society and not abandoned. Their wealth of experience could still be tapped in consultancy forms.
What then shall be our modus operandi for actualising our goals as enunciated above? The Blue Print shall then be unveiled based on a principle the late sage Obafemi Awolowo described as doing the Maximum good to the Maximum number of people at the Minimum cost. So, let’s start with the Children.
The Programme of Action for our beloved Children will be based on understanding and believe, as it is done in America and the civilised world for instance, that they are the greatest hopes for a re-branded tomorrow and as such they constitute the greatest potentials of any nation. Therefore, we must position our society to influence, be part of the part of, take proper account, be ready to play the fall-back role, at least, and so supervise or superintend, the upkeep, welfare, health, training and education of every child.
This means, we must not allow any child to be deprived of a dignified upkeep in terms of good nourishment, access to health facilities, adequate shelter, welfare, and most important of all, education as a result, either of poverty or loss of parent. These are the basic, God-given, universal, inalienable right of the child. And, that is why every decent and civilised society takes responsibility for the child. Little wonder, therefore, they grow up to be so inflamed with passion of absolute loyalty and patriotism to the country that cares and loves them so much. And if we are truly committed to re-branding, then this is our roadmap to evolving a responsible and committed citizenry.
As for the Youth who is the engine room and driving force of our economy being the strength of any nation, he must be empowered with the maximum education he is capable of receiving, along with appropriate skills or craft to earn a living for himself and to channel his productivity and creativity into the growth of the economy. No Youth must be allowed to be dependant; never. The economy is mouth-wide-open, yearning and gasping for his youthfulness, resilience, vibrancy, emerging talent and creativity; all which it cannot do without. These must be harnessed and welcomed into the economy.
How do we then go about working out this Blue Print?
Our Blue Print then must be predicated on the ideal that every youth must be equipped with the necessary education and training to thrive and aspire to his maximum potential. Having thus invested so much in him/her, this investment must be given opportunity to yield. What this then translates into is that we must work out how to automatically engage every youth in productive ventures after training and counselling. This will not only ensure that the youth leads a self-reliant and dignified life, we must realise that this is the only option for a self-reliant, prosperous and crime-free society.
All our youths must then be accounted for, counselled, grouped, empowered, supervised and backed-up with necessary facility and environment to succeed and to plough back into the economy.
Some will be empowered with the necessary tools and environment to set up their crafts, while some will be employed, and others will be empowered with necessary facilities to set up small scale businesses some of which given the right environment will grow into big industries. The basic line, however, is that, pending the time the youth is sorted-out, the society must engage him profitably, at least, to provide the basic necessities of life. A model close to the present National Youth Service Scheme will be expanded to include agriculture, road repairs, laundry services, food processing and preservation, seed cultivation, state security service, policing, cultivation for plantations and other productive ventures that will directly benefit the society.
As for the Senior Citizens, there must be a solid plan to take care of them in their old age. These are the people who have served their country meritoriously and who for one reason or the other, especially that of the bad economy and incapacity, are now dependant and in dire need of our understanding and willing assistance, if only to compensate them and to send out a clear message to the youth that if they give their best to the country now that they are young, the society will take care of them when they are old and possibly in need of assistance.
Certainly, not all our old people will be in need of this assistance but a plan must be in place for as many of them who may find this plan helpful. All interested old people will be registered to enjoy welfare services which include free heath facility, feeding and accommodation, recreational services and Peer Company plus a moderate but befitting burial when they transit.
Those of them who can still contribute meaningfully into the economy from their wealth of experience and/or expertise, at least, in consultancy capacities will be thus engaged. A number of them who still mentally alert will be engaged in marital and general arbitration/counselling services. Old people will be useful in community policing as informants as well
Elders’ Council will be constituted to advise government at all levels on major policy formulations. Banking and pension payment services will henceforth be to old people in their respective homes.
All the above Programmes of Action and more will make growing old a great pleasure and privilege. It will further inflame the passion of patriotism in the entire citizenry as young people, especially, will be eager and willing to give their best to the nation that cares and has a rock solid programme of succour for them in times of trouble or in old age.
Above all, the nation will engage a comprehensive insurance/security system that will cover every Nigerian citizen from cradle (in fact, from conception) to the grave.
This is why our politicking must change. According to Thomas Hobbes in his doctrine of the Social Contract, governance should be a contract between the governors and the governed where the people surrender their sovereignty to government and pledge their loyalty in exchange for their protection/social security and the provision of certain basic social amenities such as those enumerated above.
That is why the citizens’ rights which include our Programme of Action as enunciated above are guaranteed and listed under the Fundamental (God given, inalienable and natural) Rights of citizens in every modern constitution. They all emanate and are contained in the Universal Declarations of the United Nations on Human Rights of which Nigeria and the absolute majority of Nations in the World are signatories.
I know the pessimist and possibly the ignorant or greedy (and self-centred, who does not believe in the equitable distribution of the vast resources of Nigeria) politician may say alas! Where are we going to find the enormous resources that will definitely be required to fund this laudable Programme of Action of yours? But my sincere and researched answer to such people is in the vast resources which are presently being mis-prioritised, mis-appropriated, looted, wasted and siphoned abroad. Less than half of the resources which fall into the category just described will abundantly suffice to successfully underwrite our espoused Programme of Action. And there is absolutely no gainsaying or exaggeration in our expressed position on this matter. Please check it out!
The problem is that our nation has been largely bedevilled and seemingly cursed with bad governance and mal-administration of our vast resources. Probably due to the rate of poverty in the land and the lack of such Programme of Action like the one we now propose, to provide succour to societal and individual deprivations, those who gain access to national resources through governance immediately see it as an opportunity and ticket to banish poverty and deprivations for ever from their immediate, and possibly, extended families. This is the bane of good governance in our nation. The time for CHANGE however has come.
We must earnestly begin to change our attitudes and perception to things in order for our nation and people to fulfil our destinies collectively and individually.
Our free consultancy services shall be available to all incoming governments at all levels, local, state and federal. In actual fact, we will be willing to convey summits in all the six geo-political zones to train relevant officers from all three tiers of government on the modalities for programme implementation.
Truly, some may wonder, is this a socialist ideology of some sort? Especially since the main doctrine of socialism teaches; from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs. My reply to such inquisition is a definite No! The inspiration for this Project comes, absolutely, from the Almighty God, Jesus Christ, and the blessed Holy Spirit of God. Hence, for the purpose of economics, one will discover that it is a blend of Welfarism, Capitalism and Socialism. So, if you like, call it a mixed economy.
Benefits:
The Society as a whole, apart from beneficiaries, stands to gain a lot from this All in One Programme of Action if well implemented. A few of them are the underlisted;
A Buoyant Economy ;
The all important contribution of Youths in terms of energetic and creative services will be channelled into the economy and not wasted or frustrated. The situation of things presently is that many of them who are unemployed and are dependent, merely suck from the economy without any input, and are therefore parasitic.
Patriotism; a citizen that knows his/her country cares for him/her will be so grateful to that country and will be ready to die, if need be for that country. This is the direct solution to the prevalent lack of patriotism in our country.
Building Useful, Healthy and Enlightened Citizens from Cradle; a situation where every child has a dignified up-bringing in terms of good access to education, health facility and general welfare will lead to his/her growing up to become a useful, enlightened caring, responsible and healthy adult citizen/leader of tomorrow.
Crime Free Society; most of the crimes, like armed robbery, kidnapping, prostitution, hooliganism, assassinations and frauds would have been drastically reduced if this programme is well implemented.
Stable Polity; a satisfied citizenry in the face of equity, justice and fairness will bring about a lasting peace and a stable polity.
Egalitarian Society; a situation where every citizen is aware through education, healthy, productive, meaningfully engaged and enabled to develop to maximum potential will produce an egalitarian society.
Curse-free Society; a merciful and caring society will readily invoke the mercies and blessings of both God and our elders.
Caring Society; we will truly become our brother’s keepers in this atmosphere of caring and sharing.
Food Sufficiency & Agrarian Society; massive youth deployment into Agriculture and food preservations, with a good number encouraged and empowered to go into professional and large scale/mechanised farming will restore us back to an Agrarian society with sufficient food to nurture our economy and extra to export.
Industrial Revolution; Read, affordable, skilled, strong and healthy hands, spurred on and empowered by society will lead to an industrial revolution.
Good Roads; our army of youths will be galvanised and supervised by works departments to fix all our roads at much affordable and rewarding costs to the youths themselves. They will be trained in the art and science of road constructions and maintenance for a living. It will then become abhorrence to locate pot-holes on our roads.
Provision of Basic Amenities; our youths will be engaged in the provision of all basic amenities such that these good and services will not only be available but also affordable.
Low Rate of Inflation through Cheaper & more Affordable Services;
Highly Skilled & Job Mobile Youths;
Education for All;
Health for All;
Employment for All;
Equitable Distribution of Wealth;
Prosperity for All & Wealth Creation;
Elimination of Corruption;
Compassionate Leaders;
Fulfilled Citizenry;
Courts and Prisons Decongestion; through a highly reduced rate of crimes resulting from constructive youth engagements and involvement of retired elders in Arbitrations.
Immediate accomplishment of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
For further enquiries, please call:
Ayo Akintayo on;
+234 803 347 5035
+234 807 731 7028
+234 808 218 7145
+234 809 888 7755
ayoakins@yahoo.com
ayowole.akintayo@gmail.com
Monday, April 13, 2009
Need Based Versus Purpose Based Marriage
Marriage: Purpose Based & Need Based
1. Need Based is based on present needs and necessities such as;
a] Sex and Beauty
b] Companionship
c] Child Bearing
d] Support and
e] Worldly Expectations
2. Purpose Based Marriage is Based on the partnership that will ensure the actualisation of ones divine Destiny and Purpose. They include those based on;
a] Same or Complimentary Vision and Mission
b] Same or Complimentary Pursuit
c] Same or Complimentary Focus
d] Same or Complimentary Passion and
e] Same or Complimentary Purpose
What is My Vision?
To serve God and Humanity World-Wide as an Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher.
My Mission
To allow the finished work of grace through the minitry of the Holy Ghost and the Word to empower minister to God in Spirit and in Truth and to miniter to the spiritual, Social, physical and psychological needs of humanity through:
a] The Co-Heirs Ministries and Churches
b] Taking active part in politics and seeking political offices up to the presidency of Nigeria and internationally
c] To establish such media as TV. Radio Stations, Newspapers, Magazines etc
d] To establish Banks , financial institutions, educational\training institutions and such ventures and enterpreneurship that will mobilise, manage and distribute funds to meet spiritual and social needs of the poor, orphans, widows, the handicapped, the vulnerable youths,the weak, frail elderly ones and the sick,
e] Youth empowerment schemes to mentor and help fulfil youn destinies.
1. Need Based is based on present needs and necessities such as;
a] Sex and Beauty
b] Companionship
c] Child Bearing
d] Support and
e] Worldly Expectations
2. Purpose Based Marriage is Based on the partnership that will ensure the actualisation of ones divine Destiny and Purpose. They include those based on;
a] Same or Complimentary Vision and Mission
b] Same or Complimentary Pursuit
c] Same or Complimentary Focus
d] Same or Complimentary Passion and
e] Same or Complimentary Purpose
What is My Vision?
To serve God and Humanity World-Wide as an Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher.
My Mission
To allow the finished work of grace through the minitry of the Holy Ghost and the Word to empower minister to God in Spirit and in Truth and to miniter to the spiritual, Social, physical and psychological needs of humanity through:
a] The Co-Heirs Ministries and Churches
b] Taking active part in politics and seeking political offices up to the presidency of Nigeria and internationally
c] To establish such media as TV. Radio Stations, Newspapers, Magazines etc
d] To establish Banks , financial institutions, educational\training institutions and such ventures and enterpreneurship that will mobilise, manage and distribute funds to meet spiritual and social needs of the poor, orphans, widows, the handicapped, the vulnerable youths,the weak, frail elderly ones and the sick,
e] Youth empowerment schemes to mentor and help fulfil youn destinies.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Who is Pastor Ayo Akintayo?
ABOUT PASTOR/PROPHET AYO AKINTAYO
·Place of Birth: Asipa, Ife North Local Government ,Osun State
· Date of Birth: December 9, 1962
· Nationality; Nigerian
· Marital Status: Married
· GSM Numbers: 0803 347 5035; 0808 218 7145, 0807 731 7028 , 0809 888 7755
· E-mail : ayoakins@yahoo.com, ayowole.akintayo@gmail.com
EDUCATION
· Post-Graduate Diploma [PGD] Mass Communications -University of Lagos, Akoka – [1992]
· Bachelor of Arts [Education] Religious Studies - University of Lagos, Akoka – [1988]
· WASC ‘A’ Levels – Eng. Lit. / CRK / Govt. – OyoState College of Arts & Science, Ile-Ife [1985]
· WASC ‘O’ Levels – Modakeke High School , Modakeke ,Ife [1980]
· Primary School Leaving Certificate – St. John’sAnglican School, Abata Egba, Ife [1973/74]
POLITICAL RESUME
· Senatorial Candidate for Justice Party, Lagos-East, 2003 Elections
· Coordinator & Chairman, Justice Party, Lagos State – 2003 till Date
Secretary, Lagos State Conference of Nigerian Political Parties -July 2010 till date
· Chairmanship Candidate, Justice Party, Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government, Lagos State - 2008 LGA\LCDA Elections·
Representative of the National Democratic Party, Welcome Committee, 2002 Presidential Visit to Lagos State during Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s Tenure.
· State Chairman, National Democratic Party’s Committee on Research, Planning & Strategy - 2002\2003
· Director of Administration – Arise & Shine CampaignOrganization, Shomolu, Lagos – 2002
· Publicity Secretary, National Conscience Party, OyoState –Sept. 1994 to December 1995
· Representative, PGD Mass Communication Class in theUniversity of Lagos Post Graduate StudentsRepresentative Council – 1991/92
· Member, Constitution Drafting Committee, Universityof Lagos Post Graduate Students Association – 1991
· Secretary, Editorial Board – NYSC Secretariat Uyo,Akwa Ibom State – 1988/89
· Member, Electoral Committee, University of LagosStudents’ Union – 1987/88
· Speaker of Parliament, Education Students’Association, University of Lagos – 1985/86
· Member of Parliament, University of Lagos Students’Union – 1985/86
· Chairman, Judicial Committee, Oyo State College ofArts & Science Students’ Union, Ile-Ife – 1984/85WORK AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
· CEO/Media Consultant – Co-Heirs Ventures &Communications Company, 52b, Asabi Taiwo, Obawole, Ifako-Ijaiye – Sept.2004 till date
· Consultant, Centre for Distance Learning, ObafemiAwolowo University, Ile-Ife – June 2005·
Independent Producer/Presenter – Good Legacy Show onNTA, Ile-Ife – 2004-2006
· Editor [ Part time ] – University of Lagos AlumniPublication – Akokite-on-Line – 2003-2007
· Marketing Director – Frank Marketing CommunicationsLtd. Somolu, Lagos – 2002
· Correspondent – Defunct National Interest Newspapers, Ogba –June 2001 – March 2002
· Editor, Defunct Assembly Focus Magazine, Isolo – 2002
· Assistant Editor, Assembly Focus Magazine, Isolo –Dec 2001 – Jan.2002
· Reporter – Test Candidate – Guardian on Sunday /Advert Executive – Guardian Newspapers, Rutam House,Isolo – 2000/2001
· Freelance Reporter – Defunct Third Eye Newspapers,Ibadan – 1994/95
· Education Officer, Ministry of Defence – Jan. 1990 to June 1994 - [Classroom Teacher at Airforce Secondary School, Ikeja, departure thruresignation & application for Leave of Absence inJune/July 1994]
· Lecturer – School of Arts & Science, Uyo, Akwa -Ibom State [NYSC – 1888/89]
· Banking Clerk – Defuct ACB, Ilesa Branch – 1982/83
· Auxiliary Teacher – The Apostolic Grammar School,Ipetumodu –1981/82
· Auxiliary Teacher – Baptist Grammar School,Mefoworade , Ife – 1980/81
EXRA –CURRICULAR
· President / Founder – Co-Heirs Communion Ministries – 1985 tilldate·
PRO, Lagos State Ecclectic Movement – 2003/2004
· Personal Assistant to the National President,Social Security Outreach [SSO] PFN, Headquarters,Mafoluku, Lagos – 2003/2004
· Associate Pastor, Foursquare Church of God,Abule-Oja – 2001 –2003
· PRO, Berachah Church of God, Apapa – 1996 –2000· PRO, PFN Badagry – 1993/94
· PRO, Christian Corpers’ Fellowship, 4 Udozen-UkoClose, Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State – 1988/89
· Chairman, Evangelism Committee, Christian Corpers’Fellowship, 4 Udozen-Uko Close, Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State –1988/89
· Member, Bible Study / Evangelism Sub-Group, Lagos Varsity Christian Union, 1985 – 1988
· Prayer Secretary, Christian Union, Oyo StateCollege of Arts and Science, Ile-Ife – 1983/84
· Member, Scripture Union, Modakeke High School – 1975–1980
APPRAISAL
· Ability to lead and work without supervision
· Ability to motivate and inspire others to success
· Ability to pioneer, negotiate, unite, analyze,strategize, edit, publish and to engage inentrepreneurship, being self motivated, hardworking,honest, industrious, reliable, persevering, bold,unrelenting, friendly, positive,
team worker, withpractical disposition, pragmatism and intellectualsagacity.
MOTIVATION
· Desire for excellence, honesty, dependability,trustworthiness and doing only things believed to beright, equal, and godly in the service of God andhumanity.
HOBBIES
Computer, Handsets and Electrical devices’appreciation, debating, reading, making new friends,singing, dancing, drama, comedy & Master of Ceremony
REFEREES
1. Professor M.A. Isawumi – Former Director National History Museum,OAU, Ile-Ife
2. Mr Olu Sodimu - Registrar, University of Lagos, Akoka.
3. Mr.Maxwell Loko – Former General Manager, NTA, Ile- Ife
·Place of Birth: Asipa, Ife North Local Government ,Osun State
· Date of Birth: December 9, 1962
· Nationality; Nigerian
· Marital Status: Married
· GSM Numbers: 0803 347 5035; 0808 218 7145, 0807 731 7028 , 0809 888 7755
· E-mail : ayoakins@yahoo.com, ayowole.akintayo@gmail.com
EDUCATION
· Post-Graduate Diploma [PGD] Mass Communications -University of Lagos, Akoka – [1992]
· Bachelor of Arts [Education] Religious Studies - University of Lagos, Akoka – [1988]
· WASC ‘A’ Levels – Eng. Lit. / CRK / Govt. – OyoState College of Arts & Science, Ile-Ife [1985]
· WASC ‘O’ Levels – Modakeke High School , Modakeke ,Ife [1980]
· Primary School Leaving Certificate – St. John’sAnglican School, Abata Egba, Ife [1973/74]
POLITICAL RESUME
· Senatorial Candidate for Justice Party, Lagos-East, 2003 Elections
· Coordinator & Chairman, Justice Party, Lagos State – 2003 till Date
Secretary, Lagos State Conference of Nigerian Political Parties -July 2010 till date
· Chairmanship Candidate, Justice Party, Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government, Lagos State - 2008 LGA\LCDA Elections·
Representative of the National Democratic Party, Welcome Committee, 2002 Presidential Visit to Lagos State during Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s Tenure.
· State Chairman, National Democratic Party’s Committee on Research, Planning & Strategy - 2002\2003
· Director of Administration – Arise & Shine CampaignOrganization, Shomolu, Lagos – 2002
· Publicity Secretary, National Conscience Party, OyoState –Sept. 1994 to December 1995
· Representative, PGD Mass Communication Class in theUniversity of Lagos Post Graduate StudentsRepresentative Council – 1991/92
· Member, Constitution Drafting Committee, Universityof Lagos Post Graduate Students Association – 1991
· Secretary, Editorial Board – NYSC Secretariat Uyo,Akwa Ibom State – 1988/89
· Member, Electoral Committee, University of LagosStudents’ Union – 1987/88
· Speaker of Parliament, Education Students’Association, University of Lagos – 1985/86
· Member of Parliament, University of Lagos Students’Union – 1985/86
· Chairman, Judicial Committee, Oyo State College ofArts & Science Students’ Union, Ile-Ife – 1984/85WORK AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
· CEO/Media Consultant – Co-Heirs Ventures &Communications Company, 52b, Asabi Taiwo, Obawole, Ifako-Ijaiye – Sept.2004 till date
· Consultant, Centre for Distance Learning, ObafemiAwolowo University, Ile-Ife – June 2005·
Independent Producer/Presenter – Good Legacy Show onNTA, Ile-Ife – 2004-2006
· Editor [ Part time ] – University of Lagos AlumniPublication – Akokite-on-Line – 2003-2007
· Marketing Director – Frank Marketing CommunicationsLtd. Somolu, Lagos – 2002
· Correspondent – Defunct National Interest Newspapers, Ogba –June 2001 – March 2002
· Editor, Defunct Assembly Focus Magazine, Isolo – 2002
· Assistant Editor, Assembly Focus Magazine, Isolo –Dec 2001 – Jan.2002
· Reporter – Test Candidate – Guardian on Sunday /Advert Executive – Guardian Newspapers, Rutam House,Isolo – 2000/2001
· Freelance Reporter – Defunct Third Eye Newspapers,Ibadan – 1994/95
· Education Officer, Ministry of Defence – Jan. 1990 to June 1994 - [Classroom Teacher at Airforce Secondary School, Ikeja, departure thruresignation & application for Leave of Absence inJune/July 1994]
· Lecturer – School of Arts & Science, Uyo, Akwa -Ibom State [NYSC – 1888/89]
· Banking Clerk – Defuct ACB, Ilesa Branch – 1982/83
· Auxiliary Teacher – The Apostolic Grammar School,Ipetumodu –1981/82
· Auxiliary Teacher – Baptist Grammar School,Mefoworade , Ife – 1980/81
EXRA –CURRICULAR
· President / Founder – Co-Heirs Communion Ministries – 1985 tilldate·
PRO, Lagos State Ecclectic Movement – 2003/2004
· Personal Assistant to the National President,Social Security Outreach [SSO] PFN, Headquarters,Mafoluku, Lagos – 2003/2004
· Associate Pastor, Foursquare Church of God,Abule-Oja – 2001 –2003
· PRO, Berachah Church of God, Apapa – 1996 –2000· PRO, PFN Badagry – 1993/94
· PRO, Christian Corpers’ Fellowship, 4 Udozen-UkoClose, Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State – 1988/89
· Chairman, Evangelism Committee, Christian Corpers’Fellowship, 4 Udozen-Uko Close, Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State –1988/89
· Member, Bible Study / Evangelism Sub-Group, Lagos Varsity Christian Union, 1985 – 1988
· Prayer Secretary, Christian Union, Oyo StateCollege of Arts and Science, Ile-Ife – 1983/84
· Member, Scripture Union, Modakeke High School – 1975–1980
APPRAISAL
· Ability to lead and work without supervision
· Ability to motivate and inspire others to success
· Ability to pioneer, negotiate, unite, analyze,strategize, edit, publish and to engage inentrepreneurship, being self motivated, hardworking,honest, industrious, reliable, persevering, bold,unrelenting, friendly, positive,
team worker, withpractical disposition, pragmatism and intellectualsagacity.
MOTIVATION
· Desire for excellence, honesty, dependability,trustworthiness and doing only things believed to beright, equal, and godly in the service of God andhumanity.
HOBBIES
Computer, Handsets and Electrical devices’appreciation, debating, reading, making new friends,singing, dancing, drama, comedy & Master of Ceremony
REFEREES
1. Professor M.A. Isawumi – Former Director National History Museum,OAU, Ile-Ife
2. Mr Olu Sodimu - Registrar, University of Lagos, Akoka.
3. Mr.Maxwell Loko – Former General Manager, NTA, Ile- Ife
Thursday, October 30, 2008
THE TERROR CALLED VIO
By Ayowole Akintayo
My encounter with the Ayobo Iyana-Ipaja detachment of the Vehicle Inspection Officers on Tuesday 21October, 2008, is definitely a revelation and eye opener to the tyranny, reign of terror, unwarranted hardship and great injustice being visited on our good people of Lagos State in the name of revenue generation by all means. I mean by fire by thunder!
In the name of law enforcement, the power drunk and over-zealous officers have constituted themselves into the Law itself and a tin god judging by the level of arrogance and despotism displayed on that fateful day and Which through my journalistic instinct and investigation, I have discovered, to be the norm
Out of my crowded Schedule, I was driving, in the company of my vice chairman, to my son’s School, to settle certain urgent bills, when this dubious, lawless, erratic sharply un-intelligent extortioners flagged me down. As a law-abiding and responsible, I stopped, gave them my vehicle particulars and my I.D card as the Lagos State Chairman of Justice Party who was hurrying to an important event.
The particular officer attending to me, having discovered that my papers were up-to-date and as if looking for an an opportunity to nail me by all means for the purpose of financial extortion, the egregious officer asked for my driving licence which I promptly supplied.
At this stage however it was clear to me that this tin-god must hold me to ransom and disrupt my multi-million dollar worth assignment that fateful day and I was promptly resolved in my mind not to bulge or cooperate with their antics, for if they could oppress a relevant State party Chairman this way, what untold hardship, extortion and grave injustice must the poor ordinary folks suffer in the cruel hands of this overlords.
When the officer found nothing to nail me with, he began another frantic search through my documents, only to come up with a trump-up charge that one of my document was fake. How come I queried, when the money paid for this document was paid into a government designated account and same document issued by the relevant department in charge.
My investigation revealed that this officer was only trying mischievously to capitalise on a situation, during Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s second term, when he was forced to revoke the contract with the institution empowered to issue the papers to the public on behalf of government were no longer faithful in remitting money to government covers, notwithstanding the fact that government had earlier directed that money be paid to that account.
My hostile, unfriendly and hostile overlord without any regard for my age, position or status in the society promptly ordered my car be driven to their habitation of cruelty. I insisted on driving my own car now getting furious.
On getting to their enclave of unrighteousness, I was issued a bill of N5500.00 or their about but I promptly threw their bill of oppression back at them in protest. Even such unwarranted injustice and provocation was not visited on us by some past Military Governments. I asked to see their boss only to be led to the 2i/c, one Mr. Agbodu, who as if to add salt to injury on hearing my lawful protest, proceeded immediately to deflate three of my tyres.
I then gave him a piece of my mind, which he later referred to as curses, of course. ‘eni to ba sise epe, a je ise epe’. They have since, not only illegally deprived me the lawful use of my car but have also subjected me to untold hardship, ample waste precious, humiliation and a number of horrendous experiences.
I hereby recommend to His Excellency the immediate review and possible disbandment of the VIO, as presently constituted, and my car released with payment of adequate
damages and compensation.
My encounter with the Ayobo Iyana-Ipaja detachment of the Vehicle Inspection Officers on Tuesday 21October, 2008, is definitely a revelation and eye opener to the tyranny, reign of terror, unwarranted hardship and great injustice being visited on our good people of Lagos State in the name of revenue generation by all means. I mean by fire by thunder!
In the name of law enforcement, the power drunk and over-zealous officers have constituted themselves into the Law itself and a tin god judging by the level of arrogance and despotism displayed on that fateful day and Which through my journalistic instinct and investigation, I have discovered, to be the norm
Out of my crowded Schedule, I was driving, in the company of my vice chairman, to my son’s School, to settle certain urgent bills, when this dubious, lawless, erratic sharply un-intelligent extortioners flagged me down. As a law-abiding and responsible, I stopped, gave them my vehicle particulars and my I.D card as the Lagos State Chairman of Justice Party who was hurrying to an important event.
The particular officer attending to me, having discovered that my papers were up-to-date and as if looking for an an opportunity to nail me by all means for the purpose of financial extortion, the egregious officer asked for my driving licence which I promptly supplied.
At this stage however it was clear to me that this tin-god must hold me to ransom and disrupt my multi-million dollar worth assignment that fateful day and I was promptly resolved in my mind not to bulge or cooperate with their antics, for if they could oppress a relevant State party Chairman this way, what untold hardship, extortion and grave injustice must the poor ordinary folks suffer in the cruel hands of this overlords.
When the officer found nothing to nail me with, he began another frantic search through my documents, only to come up with a trump-up charge that one of my document was fake. How come I queried, when the money paid for this document was paid into a government designated account and same document issued by the relevant department in charge.
My investigation revealed that this officer was only trying mischievously to capitalise on a situation, during Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s second term, when he was forced to revoke the contract with the institution empowered to issue the papers to the public on behalf of government were no longer faithful in remitting money to government covers, notwithstanding the fact that government had earlier directed that money be paid to that account.
My hostile, unfriendly and hostile overlord without any regard for my age, position or status in the society promptly ordered my car be driven to their habitation of cruelty. I insisted on driving my own car now getting furious.
On getting to their enclave of unrighteousness, I was issued a bill of N5500.00 or their about but I promptly threw their bill of oppression back at them in protest. Even such unwarranted injustice and provocation was not visited on us by some past Military Governments. I asked to see their boss only to be led to the 2i/c, one Mr. Agbodu, who as if to add salt to injury on hearing my lawful protest, proceeded immediately to deflate three of my tyres.
I then gave him a piece of my mind, which he later referred to as curses, of course. ‘eni to ba sise epe, a je ise epe’. They have since, not only illegally deprived me the lawful use of my car but have also subjected me to untold hardship, ample waste precious, humiliation and a number of horrendous experiences.
I hereby recommend to His Excellency the immediate review and possible disbandment of the VIO, as presently constituted, and my car released with payment of adequate
damages and compensation.
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