Reuben Abati: Inside Dambazau’s shoes

 “See what your friends are writing”

“Who?”

“Your fellow columnists. See how they are attacking the Minister of Interior, General Abdulrahman Dambazau, just because an orderly helped to shine his shoes in public.”

“I really don’t see what the hoopla is all about”

“Me too”

“I think many of our people just like to talk about shoes. For five years, Nigerians kept talking about how former President Goodluck Jonathan had no shoes as a child.”

“But he was the one that started it. Last week or so, the former President was again talking about  shoes. In America.”  

“I think people love shoes. That is why they won’t also allow Dambazau to rest over his shoes.”

“Read what your friend has written here. He says the orderly was subjecting himself to indignity by bending down to shine his oga’s shoes at a public ceremony.”

“He doesn’t understand. Many of the commentators are probably thinking of their own type of shoes. When you see some shoes, you’d certainly not want a speck of dust anywhere close by. There are shoes and there are shoes. All these people

IMF ADVICE : MY PEOPLE LET US REASON TOGETHER BEFORE WE MOVE.

I know some of us don't like politics especially my dear and beautiful  ladies. Pls politics aside. This is pure ECONOMICS. Ignore it at your peril. When your boy friend begins to withdraw you from those eatery visits, Coldstone , Lagoon restaurants etc. This could be one of the causes. So, bear with him and pls follow me.

  

Policies are beautiful and can be dangerous if not thoroughly looked into especially the ones that dictate economy. I will rather have a quake doctor than a quake economist. Because he is likely to kill everybody on the word "go". Those who witnessed SAP in 1986 can say more on it. 

This is  to advise the FG to look well before leaping even though it is a leap year.

Information as my disposal says IMF is currently advising us to do the following in order to have our macro economy back to shape:

1. Flexibility of the FOREX Market

2. Increase our VAT (rate I guess)

3. Removal of fuel subsidy. 

Let us think through pls.

Flexibility of the forex market may

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not be a serious issue with us especially in the medium and long term also because we are not practicing a communist system.

GOOD THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS RIGHT THINGS : MY URGENT ADVICE FOR MR PRESIDENT

I have listened to various commentaries on why the ongoing war against corruption and treason should follow the rule of law and why the rule of law should be ignored at this point in time. One even asked me to go and echo “rule of law” to the “internally displaced persons” in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe.

Various lawyers and some members of the civil society have condemned the attitude and recent statement of the President on the rule of law during the Presidential Media Chat in respect to the court bail declaration on the former security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki and the Biafra agitator, Mr Nnamdi Kanu. 

The truth is, any judgment or decision that