FRIDAY FREE FOOD FOR FRIENDS’ FREAKING FREETHINKING Vol 242
BEN MURRAY-BRUCE TWEETS REVIEW
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Governors should not get salary or
allowances until all workers are paid — Ben
Bruce
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Ben Murray-Bruce
@benmurraybruce
A former minister told me how NNPC put
him up in a £5000 per night hotel which he
rejected. That’s an economic crime!
11:36 PM – 9 May 2015
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Ben Murray-Bruce
@benmurraybruce
Corruption kills more than terror! Nigeria
must unleash EFCC on corrupt public
servants with same urgency as we unleash
soldiers on Sambisa!
11:54 PM – 9 May 2015
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Ben Murray-Bruce
@benmurraybruce
If we want EFCC to work, the President must
be stripped of power to appoint EFCC boss.
EFCC Chair should be appointed by the Chief
Justice.
1:10 AM – 10 May 2015
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Ben Murray-Bruce
@benmurraybruce
I built a successful business by spending
less than I earn and cutting my coat
according to my cloth not my size. Nigeria
must do the same!
12:13 AM – 10 May 2015
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Ben Murray-Bruce
@benmurraybruce
If Governors blame the FG for their inability
to pay salaries why then do we need Govs?
Are they just to have convoys and retinue of
aides?
1:00 AM – 10 May 2015
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Ben Murray-Bruce
@benmurraybruce
A Gov who can’t pay salaries has no moral
right to a huge convoy or to guest houses
or to a private jet. Your workers must be
your priority!
3:01 AM – 10 May 2015
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Ben Murray-Bruce
@benmurraybruce
I’m not going to the senate to make money.
I have much more than I need. I’m going
there to serve God by fighting for the good
of Nigerians!
5:06 PM – 10 May 2015
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Ben Murray-Bruce
@benmurraybruce
Party politics is money politics. I assure
Nigerians I’ll fight for the right of
Independent Candidates to run for office in
all elections.
5:20 PM – 10 May 2015
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Ben Murray-Bruce
@benmurraybruce
When I see anger in youths on Twitter, I’m
inspired to make a change at the Senate.
Don’t stop being angry until you see results
you want!
5:32 PM – 10 May 2015
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Ben Murray-Bruce
@benmurraybruce
As far as I’m concerned, until all state
workers are paid their salary, no gov, no
commissioner, no SA should collect salary or
allowance!
6:23 PM – 10 May 2015
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Ben Murray-Bruce
@benmurraybruce
Nigerians are tired of politicians that deliver
activity but get paid as if they deliver results.
Politics isnt a business. Its a sacrifice.
6:53 PM – 10 May 2015
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Ben Murray-Bruce
@benmurraybruce
Let us settle this matter once and for all by
agreeing that any budget where recurrent is
more than capital expenditure WILL NOT be
passed!
7:57 PM – 10 May 2015
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Ben Murray-Bruce
@benmurraybruce
The hottest place in hell should be reserved
for Governors who live large at public
expense while workers with children have
not been paid!
10:15 PM – 10 May 2015
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Ben Murray-Bruce @benmurraybruce
As I flew from Abuja Airport, I wanted to
weep at the sheer number of parked Private
Jets. Extreme wealth coexisting with
extreme poverty!
10:28 PM – 10 May 2015
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Ben Murray-Bruce @benmurraybruce
Constitution allows recall of your Rep/
Senator at NASS. Tell them if they don’t
support reduction in salary/ allowances,
you’ll consider it.
10:41 PM – 10 May 2015
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Ben Murray-Bruce @benmurraybruce
Political parties arent your agent of change.
These guys breath in PDP and breath out
APC.
NASS must Remove Immunity Clause for real
change.
11:03 PM – 10 May 2015
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Ben Murray-Bruce @benmurraybruce
Why for instance does Nigeria spend tens of
billion sponsoring her rich elite to go on
pilgrimage. Why can’t they pay out of their
pocket?
FRIDAY FREE FOOD FOR FRIENDS’ FREAKING FREETHINKING Vol 243
States that didn’t spend prudently are now having problems with funds and are now owing their workers
There was a time Nostra II warned states to be more prudent and to spend wisely, rather than spend on white elephant projects but on masses. But rather than d masses to appreciate him, they rained abuses on him because they’ve been brainwashed and blindfolded with d white elephant, deadweight and horcus-porcus projects. Rmr this?
https://m.facebook.com/notes/michael-drbiggie-adeyemi-i/the-legacy-of-dead-weight-horcus-porcus-white-elephant-projects-jamborees-and-sh/812299665493478/?refid=21
Who’s suffering now? Isn’t it d masses that Nostra II was fighting for and trying to educate? O ma se o (pity) like my big brother – The Oracle Zents Kunle Sowunmi always said. It’s no news that about half the states in Nigeria are owing workers 3 to 6 mths salaries and it cuts accross all political parties
List of States Owing Workers Salary ranging from 6 Months above!
Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Benue, Cross River, Ekiti, Imo, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Kogi. Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers and Zamfara states
“The report of the Task Force of the NLC revealed that while some of the states had paid salaries of workers up to date, they were owing arrears of pensions running into months.
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The states owing salaries or pensions are Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Benue, Cross River, Ekiti, Imo, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, and Kogi.
Others are Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers and Zamfara states.
However, a look at the report reveals that Adamawa, Anambra, Bayelsa, Borno, Delta, Edo, the FCT, Gombe, Kaduna, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Sokoto and Taraba are not indebted to their workers.
The report stated that Abia State had not paid salaries of workers of the State Teaching Hospital for nine months.
The state is also said to be owing workers of the Hospital Management Board eight months’ salary; Abia State Universal Basic Education Board, six months; Abia State Polytechnic, five months; local government workers, four months; and teachers, three months’ salary arrears.
It was stated that while Enugu State had paid salaries of civil servants up to date, parastatals were owed 12 months’ salaries and pension and gratuity remain unpaid since 2010.
Others states owing are Osun State with six months’ salary and pension arrears; Plateau with six months salaries and seven months pension; Benue with five months salaries and four months pension arrears; Kogi with four months of pension and salary arrears; and Oyo which owes three months salaries and between five and 11 months of pension arrears.
Also among the states which are likely to owe salaries and pension of workers into the incoming administration on May 29 are Ekiti with three months of unpaid salaries.
Jigawa is owing judiciary workers a month salary arrears in 2015.
Ondo owes one month salary and pension.
Friday Free Food For Friends’ Freaking Freethinking Vol 244
Analysing recent talk and tweets from Ben Murray Bruce
It’s no news that Sen-Elect. Ben Murray Bruce has been in the news lately. I have watched his speech over and over again and have shared his tweets which highlighted the main points of his talk. He’s hammered this well during The Silverbird Man of the Year Award just few weeks ago and has been hammering them ever after. It’s not that he hasn’t raised few of these points before. He has ! But not as vocal and audacious as he is now. Let us all give another round of applause to Mr. Ben Murray-Bruce, Senator-Elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and founding Chairman of the Silverbird Group.
What is Mr. Ben Bruce saying?
Which point is he trying to make? The revenue which his party (PDP) had at its disposal during its 16years rule is higher than that which the country realised from 1914 till 1999 and yet NOTHING to show for it. His political party WRECKED this nation, and with all due respect, to them he should direct his ideas and appeals.
I admire Mr. Ben Bruse though, but all these lectures are just ill-timed and uncalled-for. With all these ideas, his terrible political party ought to have make him a minister and probably turn this nation to Dubai. Enough of all this timeless cock-and-bull stories.
Not even this time when 12Trillion Naira Debts is awaiting the incoming regime.
He’s a bloody hypocrite. Why wasn’t he hammering on this especially to his kinsman and fellow Bayelsan – outgoing President Jonathan ? Would he have been this bold to say it if Jonathan won a 2nd term? God forbid jonathan winning.
Nigerians are tired of all this lip-service. How’s he gonna cope among the fellow armed robbers PDP senators and fellow pollithiefcians and pollilooters? Nigerians Deceiving Nigerians .
While we applaud Mr Murray-Bruce, we must be very wary, lest we take this messenger as an epitome of the message he preaches. Who is Mr. Bruce? Well, I have known Mr. Bruce for over 20 years now. I am not close to him, but I know him loosely. This man managed NTA for 8 years. NTA was basically ran to the ground during this time. Mr. Murray was never wealthy before NTA. He lived in a modest house in Lagos. We all know that it was after he left NTA that he became rich despite his salary as DG being N200,000 per month on average while he ran the institution. He then went to establish the Silverbird group which has been fairly successful. I am not against being rich and successful. However, I am against those who steal public money and invest it in the businesses to make it look like they are wealthy from the business, and then turn around and say Nigerians public officials are corrupt. When your son is in the safety of LA playing around with all sorts of Los Angeles women. That is certainly not acceptable! It has been alleged he received part payment for a 33billion naira contract from Akwa Ibom without executing the job, not even a land excavation! Silverbird group received nothing less than $20 million from GEJ during the campaign. Our tax money went to this man called Murray-Bruce.
But Mr. Bruce we are not buying it. Only gullible Nigerians will buy it. In the meantime, enjoy views of his son “playing” in his $5million mansion in Los Angeles!
He said some things, which were in Buhari’s plan. Now wanting to differentiate between the message and the (unworthy) messenger and not throwing away the baby with the bathwater ,Buhari should look at many of the good things he said to implement very many of them. He put the cart before the horse in some cases. Can u think of electric cars before stable electricity? US and Europe that have stable electricity, what’s % rate of their electric car use and what’s the %rate of their hybrid car use? What percentage of cars are electric in US,Europe and japan that have stable electricity? How feasible are solar cars? Rememberr even for homes that use solar energy, they can’t use it to cook or boil water or iron and refridgerators need to be off during the day to be used mainly at night? Maybe if a committee is set up,it’ll see many of Muray Bruce’s ideas aren’t that feasible. How strong, durable and efficient are the batteries you want to use to store solar energy now that many of them are substandard? How has SON helped curb this?
FRIDAY FREE FOOD FOR FRIENDS’ FREAKING FREETHINKING Vols 247 to 250 (Very Special Edition)
Goodbye President.Goodluck Jonathan.
Goodbye President.Goodluck Jonathan, the worst and the most corrupt and most clueless Nigerian civillian president ever. May Nigeria NEVER again have a president of ur type or form or likeness again. Amen.
Many called you a hero, well, hero my foot. I’m not surprised because I know some people still hold Adolf Hitler as a hero, some still adore Osama bin Laden, the terrorist as a hero and love the terrorist networks – ISIS, Al Shaabab and Al Qaeda. Some people still worship Lucifer ( Satan). So, a hero to some is thick darkness to others. Different strokes for different folks.
I’ll have loved to go into that to explain in details reasons for what I’d written earlier but it’s not the reason for this article and will distract me from my reason for this article. I’ve explained myself and made my points and reasons for my words very clear in previous posts and articles.
Some of the famous sayings of President.Jonathan include
1. CNN has said our Economy is growing. The best Economists are at the World Bank. Now you have all these Nigerian Economists talking nonsense. Do they know better than CNN or World Bank?
2. Nigeria is not poor. Come and see the amount of private jets Nigerians parked at Kenya Airport when we went to Nairobi for Conference. Kenyans were just looking at us with envy. How can you say Nigerians are poor
3. Nigerians need jobs. Vote for me and i will create Unemployment
4. We are giving special Scholarships to our First Class Graduates…….in ten years time, they are going to take us to the Moon
5. How can you jus say $20 billion is missing. If that kind of money is missing, the Americans will know. They know everything
6.Corruption is not stealing. If you put yam where a goat is, the goat will eat the yam.
7. If you go to Lagos and shout “ole ole” they will stone you well well. But if you shout “corruption”, people will jus be looking at you.
8.Why should i declare my assets? I don’t give a damn!
9.People are just raising false alarm. How can 200 children go missing jus like that? It is our enemies trying to cause confusion. But we are investigating the matter
10. We are going to rebuild the Chibok school. And we are going to build high fences round the school to protect them next time . Yes Yes.
11. People keep saying,why don’t we go to Chibok, why don’t we go to Chibok. Aaah, we can’t go to Chiook just like that. The Boko Haram people will fire at us.
12. This Abuja bombing is not by MEND. We know it is by Boko Haram. They are everywhere. Boko Haram is even in my Government.
13. Boko Haram are our siblings. You can’t set the Army to go and wipe out your family
14. Mend tried to kill me. They came to bomb me in Abuja. That is why we jailed Henry Okah in South Africa
15. I did not plan the Election postponement. Even my Service Chiefs did not consult me.
16. If i knew Election was going to be postponed, why will i waste my time and Federal Government money to go and campaign in Bayelsa.
17. Is Shekau dead? I don’t know whether Shekau is dead or not. You journalists should know better . You get more information than many of us. You should know whether he is dead or not.
18. I am the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. You don’t expect me to go and be fighting in Sambisa forest. People just talk anyhow.
19. We are going to buy Guns and give good Pensions to our Brave Soldiers, so that when they are killed, their families will not suffer
20. Some people jus call themselves Statesman for nothing. They jump about and talk like motor park touts.
21. After God and my Parents, the third person i thank most for my life is President Olusegun Obasanjo.
22. I want to apologise to the people of Rivers State for not bringing any Projects here. It is because i don’t want people to say i am doing favouritism.
Vote for me and in the next 4 years you will see my hand
23. I am the sitting President. If there is any trouble, it is me that the United Nations Secretary General calls. Everything is on my head.
24. May 29 Swearing in Day is sacrosanct. Definitely, a new President will be sworn in on that day.
25. “People exaggerate corruption in Nigeria. It is not even our first or second problem, maybe the third”- President Jonathan
26. “Over 70% of what are called corruption (cases), even by EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) and other anti-corruption agencies, is not corruption, but common stealing.” “People have been confusing corruption with stealing. If public officers steal money they term it under corruption… – President Jonathan;
27. “It is not possible to steal $20bn and America will not know. It is their money.”- President Jonathan
28. “…I will do my best. I don’t expect praises now. It’s when you leave that people will begin to compare you with others…”. Nigerians will appreciate me when I leave Office – Jonathan.
President Goodluck Jonathan has said that Nigerians will appreciate the good works he has done for the country after he has left office.
Thanks Mr president, we have surely praised you after the March 28th 2015 election when you conceded defeat to Buhari, rather than face the GBAGBO treatment or SAMUEL DOE treatment that awaited u if u proved stubborn goat. U averted bloodshed. We are even praising you more on May 29th when you will hand over the reins of leadership to Buhari!!!
I will miss his fellow comedian wife – Patience Jonathan too ooo.
Now that Buhari is about to be sworn in, will Buhari’s wife make Nigerians laugh and forget their sorrows like First Lady Dame Faka Patience Jonathan does?
This woman has increased the life span of an average Nigerian.
Few examples of her “Award Winning Speeches” include:
1- Nigeria is a great CONTINENT.
2- My husband Jonathan and Sambo IS good people.
3- I rather KILL myself than commit SUICIDE.
4- My FELLOW widows.
5- My fellow WOMENS.
6- I travelled to Abroad to REST IN PEACE.
7- My husband is the best COUPLE on Earth.
8- The Doctors are RESPONDING to treatment.
9- For those who said I SPEECH bad English, I left them for God.
10- Ojukwu is DEAD, but his MANHOOD still lives on.
11- Na only you waka come?
12- Chei! Chei!! Chei!!! This BLOODS they are SHARING in Borno
13- diaris god oooo… hmmmm diaris god.
14- On behalf of N2 MILLION I donate my family.
15- To all those who think Goodluck Jonathan has failed, I have a question for you. When a child fails an exam, isn’t the child supposed to be repeated? Lets repeat Goodluck Jonathan.
16- Nyeson Wike is the younger brother of my husband. This man I have TASTED him and he is very sweet. Support him.
17. NOLLYWOODS actors and actresses are great
18. “Do you come with two teachers? You were not informed too? Ehn? Continue… No problem… No problem God will see us. There is God in everything we are doing. Those bloods that are sharing in Borno will answer. What of two teachers… two … eerrrm… WAEC. Two teachers that can tell that they conducted that exam… Do you come with any? Principal… No too? Only you waka come? Okay. Now the first lady is calling you. Come, I want to help you find your child… Your missing child. Will you keep quiet? Chai! Chai! There is God ooo. The bloods that we are sharing, there is God ooo. There is God oo There is God oo (breaks down in tears)”- the wife of the President, Patience Jonathan, said while carrying out an inquisition into the abduction of the Chibok girls.
Whether Buhari probes Jonathan or not, my final words for Jonathan is contained in a song composed by William Onyeabor in 1985. It’s a classic. If u were a member of a Nigerian household in d 80s and early 90s, u’ll most probably know Williams Onyeabor. Or does the name look strange? Even if u can’t rememberr him, you will have heard his songs then that were ruling d airwaves in d 80s& early 90s.
I know then you’ll have heard d song ” when the going is good and smooth” . That was the song that came to my mind when outgoing President.Goodluck Ebelemi Jonathan lamented that his friends have deserted him bcos he lost election&he receives far less visitors than before.
Let’s sing it ” When the going is smooth and good many, many people will be your friends
When the going is smooth and good many, many people will be your friends
But when the going becomes tough, many, many of them will run away.
When the going is smooth and good many, many people will be your friends
But when the going becomes tough many, many of them will run away
When the going becomes tough
Many, many of them will disappear
CHORUS:
That’s bad, very very bad
And that is what I mean
And that’s what I’m saying
When the going is good
You’ll have many friends
But when the going is tough
Most of them will disappear
And may never come back
When they come back, They have come back
To help in knocking you down down down
CHORUS:
That’s bad very very bad
And that’s what I am saying
And that is what I mean
When the going is good
You will have many friends
They will call you many names
They will say they love you
They will say they need you
They will say you’re great
And so on and so forth
But when the going is tough
Most of them will disappear
And may never come back
When they come back they have come back
To help in knocking you down down down
Down down down down down down
CHORUS:
That’s bad very very bad
When the going is good
You should keep your good friends
And when the good is bad
You should keep your good friends
Don’t try to help in knocking your good friends
Down down down down
Goodbye President.Jonathan. May Nigeria never see any of your kind or form or likeness to rule Nigeria again. Amen