This is post one of Day one on this new blog that has been specially created to allow POSITIVE PARTNERS, a Nigeria-based global civil society group, interact more effectually with all stakeholders in the dynamic actualisation of positive change in our world today, by promoting a culture of passionate and active compassion.
There will be more relevant sensitisation IEC beginning tomorrow.
Shalom!!!
TIUranta.
There will be more relevant sensitisation IEC beginning tomorrow.
Shalom!!!
TIUranta.
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Envoys snub ex-Mauritania leader
Mauritania's new rulers have pledged to stand aside peacefully
The United States and the African Union have dropped their demands that last week's coup in Mauritania be reversed.
The US is now working with the military junta to ensure that multi-party elections are held as soon as possible, a State Department spokesman said.
President Maaouiya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya was criticised at home for working with the US in trying to fight alleged terror groups in the Sahara desert.
AU officials called the junta leader "president" after meeting him.
New government
AU delegation leader Nigeria's Foreign Minister Oluyemi Adeniji stressed that elections should be held soon, and did not call for Mr Taya to be brought back.
"All the people we met with indicated they agreed with the change - we think it would be simpler to take the transitional process toward democracy," he said.
The guys running the country right now are the guys we're dealing with
Adam Ereli
US State Department spokesman
He, however, said that Mauritania would remain suspended from the AU until elections are held.
Meanwhile, a new government has been appointed.
None of Mr Taya's ministers have been retained but Ahmed Ould Sid'Ahmed, the foreign minister who signed the 1999 deal establishing diplomatic relations with Israel, has been given his old job back.
The head of the military council, Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, looks set to take on the duties of defence minister, after no-one else was named to this post.
'Right decision'
The military council has pledged to hold elections within two years and to forbid any member of the military junta from standing for office in that contest.
US State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said the US was working with the junta on that basis.
"The guys running the country right now are the guys we're dealing with, because they're the ones making the decisions and we are trying to get them to make the right decision," he said.
The BBC's Pascale Harter in Mauritania says the coup has initially proved popular with Mauritanians, many of whom were exasperated by two decades of repression under Mr Taya.
Thousands of people flocked into the streets when news of the coup emerged last week.
Within hours all the country's opposition parties backed the new rulers, with Mr Taya's own party, the Social Democratic Republican Party (PRDS), also throwing its weight behind the junta.
But Mr Taya is vowing to return and has gone to The Gambia from Niger.
"As the president of the republic, I order officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the armed forces and security forces to put an end to this criminal operation in order to restore the situation to normal," he told Al-Arabiya television on Monday.
PositivePals (PPs),
Now that Nigeria's Foreign Minister has given the new junta carte blanche to continue in power (suffering only a mere suspension from the AU until democracy is "re-installed") one hopes that a wrong and deadly message is not being sent out to our over-ambitious young military officers throughout Africa; and that Nigeria is not inadvertently preparing ground for the "legitimisation" of a coup within her own boundaries...(although any such madness will be resisted "unto blood" in this great African nation's case, for sure!).
We must be ever careful, however, not to send wrong, mixed, or confusing signals to enemies of democracy, justice, equity, and truth worldwide. Viva Life & Positive Change.
Shalom!!!!
Africa needs to learn the integrity exhibited by consistency of policies, and not tow the line of the US or any other nations outside the continent, unless we wieh to perpetuate and support the neocolonialism of politics and cultural imperialism that is gradually sweeping away all of our identity as a people.
Shalom!!!
Stiil trying to get the hang of this resource. Shalom!!!
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PositivePartners were amongst the first groups to congratulate the Nigerian Presidency on the attaining of over $20billion "debt relief" from the Paris Club of international multilateral creditors who have been holding this African nation to ransom over ghost-debts that truly only ended up (mainly) back in western banks through the thievishness of Nigeria's past and present leaders!
We were all elated to believe that we were at last being let off the hook...from what we, the people never enjoyed in the first place, anyway...until we read the fine print, and realised how murderously callous, mercenary and ultra-capitalistic the Paris Club is being, and how venal, or stupid, our Nigerian debt-relief/cancellations negotiators have been all along...that we are being SOLD into the greater slavery of being denied the fruits of our hard-earned labour, as gained through the windfall of crude oil receipts-"excesses" (i.e. revenues exceeeding projected budgetary expectations from oil and gas sales).
The Paris Club is now asking us to return this God-sent and badly-needed revenue "excess" (one still wonders why these sums are called "excesses", when they are nothing but the simple returns from the market realities, which could have swung either way, anyway!) to its coffers, in an insidious and diabolic style, that would deny us the opportunity to use this windfall for the betterment of our social welfare system (for whatever it is worth, given the corruption levels of the country right now)...to forgo developmental projects, to ante energy costs (some mad folks are trying to increase fuel prices, instead of using this windfall to cushion any "international market negative impacts" as had been earlier agreed upon between the government and the people of Nigeria!), to ignore the nationwide hunger, poverty, disease, and illiteracy that exacerbate our lack of basic infrastructural basics...and to servilely return the just earnings from our mono-product exports to the very same nations that continue to conspire with Nigerian leaders to bleed our treasuries dry, whilst lending us monies that they conspire to ensure that they return invariably back into their bank vaults nearly immediately after the funds are initially transferred to these shores, without having positively impacted the nation or her peoples in any way.
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the late pan-Africanist Afro-beat virtuoso, was wont to calling all such players ITT (International Thief Thief) and it appears that we are in for more bamboozling thievery from the western creditors, with the conniving partnership of our so-called nation-reforming leadership this time.
Nigerians must begin, TODAY, to plan how to resist this brigandage...this blatant looting of the treasury with impunity!
We must NEVER AGAIN allow our resources to be stolen through plots of devilishness or feigned ignorance. The people of the Niger Delta are not suffering deprivation and dying, just to watch their wealth being stolen from them thrice over...!
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
Obasanjo must not be allowed to, wittingly or inadvertently, kill this country's economi (and political) future by acceding to these self-serving greek-gift plans of the Paris Club that hold out no compassion for Nigeria's suffering millions.
Shalom!!!
PositivePartners were amongst the first groups to congratulate the Nigerian Presidency on the attaining of over $20billion "debt relief" from the Paris Club of international multilateral creditors who have been holding this African nation to ransom over ghost-debts that truly only ended up (mainly) back in western banks through the thievishness of Nigeria's past and present leaders!
We were all elated to believe that we were at last being let off the hook...from what we, the people never enjoyed in the first place, anyway...until we read the fine print, and realised how murderously callous, mercenary and ultra-capitalistic the Paris Club is being, and how venal, or stupid, our Nigerian debt-relief/cancellations negotiators have been all along...that we are being SOLD into the greater slavery of being denied the fruits of our hard-earned labour, as gained through the windfall of crude oil receipts-"excesses" (i.e. revenues exceeeding projected budgetary expectations from oil and gas sales).
The Paris Club is now asking us to return this God-sent and badly-needed revenue "excess" (one still wonders why these sums are called "excesses", when they are nothing but the simple returns from the market realities, which could have swung either way, anyway!) to its coffers, in an insidious and diabolic style, that would deny us the opportunity to use this windfall for the betterment of our social welfare system (for whatever it is worth, given the corruption levels of the country right now)...to forgo developmental projects, to ante energy costs (some mad folks are trying to increase fuel prices, instead of using this windfall to cushion any "international market negative impacts" as had been earlier agreed upon between the government and the people of Nigeria!), to ignore the nationwide hunger, poverty, disease, and illiteracy that exacerbate our lack of basic infrastructural basics...and to servilely return the just earnings from our mono-product exports to the very same nations that continue to conspire with Nigerian leaders to bleed our treasuries dry, whilst lending us monies that they conspire to ensure that they return invariably back into their bank vaults nearly immediately after the funds are initially transferred to these shores, without having positively impacted the nation or her peoples in any way.
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the late pan-Africanist Afro-beat virtuoso, was wont to calling all such players ITT (International Thief Thief) and it appears that we are in for more bamboozling thievery from the western creditors, with the conniving partnership of our so-called nation-reforming leadership this time.
Nigerians must begin, TODAY, to plan how to resist this brigandage...this blatant looting of the treasury with impunity!
We must NEVER AGAIN allow our resources to be stolen through plots of devilishness or feigned ignorance. The people of the Niger Delta are not suffering deprivation and dying, just to watch their wealth being stolen from them thrice over...!
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
Obasanjo must not be allowed to, wittingly or inadvertently, kill this country's economi (and political) future by acceding to these self-serving greek-gift plans of the Paris Club that hold out no compassion for Nigeria's suffering millions.
Shalom!!!
Why has President Obasanjo of Nigeria not come out to announce the names of corrupt leaders that have been given to him by the Paris Club...especially since the EFCC has declared that these thieves stole over 220 billion pounds sterling of Nigria's monies...an amount which equals western aid to Nigeria over the last four decades?!
It follows that if we were to recover even just 50% of these stolen funds, we would have more than enough to pay off all the Paris Club debt without having to grovel or beg for any relief or cancellation! And still have enough to cushion the fallout from many of the necessary free-market policies of the Nigerian government today.
This position is without prejudice to the fact that Positive Partners had been crying out all the while against seeking seeking debt-relief, and demanding that we should be championing/demanding REPARATIONS from the genocide-practising slaves-stealing western nations that killed millions of Africans and raped the continent of all other natural resources (they still continue their genocide and resources-rape, under different guises of greedy wickedness, assisted by our fellow-Africans; just as they were assisted in the open slave-trade days when our forefathers captured brother-Africans and sold them off to slavery in the whiteman's lands...of, course, only a blind idiot will profess not to know that the slave trade still continues today, albeit more covertly than in those heinously terrible days!).
It behoves President Obasanjo, the EFCC, and western stakeholders who desire to see that compassion, truth, justice, and equity are enthroned in Nigeria and worldwide, (just as many fought for the jews' rights after the holocaust, and for the rights of Palestinians today) to ensure that these looters that have impoverished a nation of over 150 million people do not continue to hold the people hostage any longer.
Anything less than this will show up the OBJ regime as being a mere showboater one that is spurious in its avowed anti-corruption war; encourage more Nigerians to continue worshipping at the nation-destructive shrines of corruption; keep these people enslaved to foreign "creditors" who really owe us more than we could ever we them in a million years (remember that their economies were built on the blood, tears, sweat, pain, and corpses of our brethren shipped away into slavery...which many of them have not really fully broken free of even as we speak right now!).
OBJ cannot pretend to be unaware of the "high-places" ostentatiously built and inhabited by many ex-rulers of Nigeria, whom he (OBJ) himself had, in times past, castigated as being incorrigibly corrupt.
Let, also, the EFCC deploy its skills and expertise in other directions that reek of the decadence of corruption-boosted opulence in the midst of this nation's squalor. These are areas that are begging for very urgent attention.
Shalom!!!
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