“Gap Crisis is symbolic with poverty, hunger,inequality,unemployment, lack of social protection, being health,education,lack of social protection,safe drinking water,clean environment,women equalization, girl child welfare.”
~@ChimarokeNamani
“Social Contract as later developed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke is an agreement between the people and leaders for the people to give power and authority to the leaders in exchange for the leaders to do ABCD.”
~@ChimarokeNamani
“The world is evolving and there are places in the world where gender is not simply classified in binary terms. Therefore,I do not use gender inequality,rather,I use women equalization.”
~@ChimarokeNamani
“Agriculture provides for 50% of employment and 20% of non-oil revenue. A lot of these agricultural labor are done by women, unskilled casual labor.”
~@ChimarokeNamani
“There are traditional practices where women do not own land nor have access to factors of production and women naturally bear the burden of the triads of poverty, ignorance and disease.”
~@ChimarokeNamani
“Lack of access to education for women in states such as Jigawa has women illiteracy rate of over 94%.
Imagine a state where 94% of women cannot read!”
~@ChimarokeNamani
“Absolute poverty is not affected by economic growth. If a country’s GDP is going well, it does not have anything to do with absolute poverty. The poor remains poor and the rich get richer.”
~@ChimarokeNamani
“Nigeria had an economic growth rate of about 7% in the early millennial years (2004-2012).
Then poverty increased to 69M-120M whereas the percentage of millionaires increased by 44%.”
“Economic inequality is also exasperated with the conspiracy and alliance between those who are extremely powerful and those who are politically powerful.”~@ChimarokeNamani
“There is always a synergy between money and power so the alliance between the rich and politically powerful is in terms of government decisions, import licenses, budget allocation.”
~@ChimarokeNamani
“The issue of where government would give allocation to high visibility projects, highway construction and ignore areas of social protection like health, education, poverty reduction.”~@ChimarokeNamani
“Nigerian budget allocation education, health, poverty reduction sectors is on the average of 6% each compared to Ghana that is about 12% and USA that is about 16%.”~@ChimarokeNamani
“The conspiracy synergy between the rich and politically powerful are also in the areas of taxation where multinationals and rich keep their money made in Nigeria abroad using tax shelters to move their money to low taxation countries.”~@ChimarokeNamani
“State agencies, local government agencies, tax enforcement in local parts collecting all sorts of tolls, aggressive taxation on the poor and people in various locations.”~@ChimarokeNamani
Nigeria is described as the largest economy in Africa. In 2015, when PDP was leaving power, Nigeria was number 2 in rising economies. Today, it is number 7 behind S.A, Tunisia,Algeria, Egypt,Kenya, Ghana. ~@ChimarokeNamani
“In Nigeria, who is at Aso Rock does not determine the social fate of the average Nigerian. It is a false concept that because your man, kinsman/tribesman is in Aso Rock that your fate would improve.”~@ChimarokeNamani
“62 years of independence, maybe 40 years have been dominated by Chief Executives from Northern Nigeria yet we have poverty rates of between 70-90% in Northern Nigeria.”
~@ChimarokeNamani
“16 million children are on the streets, 14 million of them are in the North.
Nigeria is number one in open defecation, largely in the North.
Nigeria is number one in poverty, largely in the North.”~@ChimarokeNamani
“The absence of ideological distinction between political parties is why someone can jump out of PDP,becomes a liberal social democrat and in two weeks,shakes off the shackles and impediment of a vehement PDP and becomes a liberator of the people.”
~@ChimarokeNamani #ebeanoTalks
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“Chapter 2, Sections 14,15,16,17 of the CFRN(1999 as amended) are not justiciable. That means, you do not have the locus standi to sue or compel the government to provide these amenities.
Section 17 provides for free and compulsory Universal Basic Education is not justiciable
Along with other sections, but there are exceptions through Specific Legislations such as the Universal Basic Education Act which compels the government to provide basic education to children in primary and secondary levels.
This act makes section 17 justiciable because of the
Provision of a specific legislation.
To make sections 14,15,16,17 justiciable, we must enact laws that makes provision for the enactment of these laws or make it justiciable for Nigerians who seek redress.
Government should strive so that people are a par and to ensure that
“According to Chimaroke Nnamani, Gap Crisis is the space for inequality between the greater poor masses and a few wealthy people. He explained that poverty is divided into absolute poverty and relative poverty.
Absolute poverty is the lack of inability of the index individual of
The family to provide basic needs such as health, education, clean drinking water.
There are other areas of inequality such as gender inequality whereby certain discriminatory acts are enabled by the constitution against the womenfolk of Nigeria.
And economic inequality which
Can be described using the reference of the Amazon Rainforest compared to the Desert of the Sahara. Being the lungs of the earth, no matter where you are, you feel the impact of the Amazon through the production of 80% of the world’s oxygen which is equally beneficent for all of
ebeabo LEGACY:
The conversion of New Haven main road from a single carriage road to a dual carriage road, knowing the fast increasing population growth in Enugu and the New Haven road users was imminent.
Judging by the traffic that was already existing as at then, 1/3
the impact of the dual carriage road drastically controlled traffic congestions which would have contributed to increased carbon emissions, heat, slow movement and public nuisance. 2/3
The idea and mindset of implementing a lasting solution to problems and issues facing Enugu State, South-East and Nigeria at large, is the true embodiment of the ebeano legacy.
Ka #aladimma na South-East 3/3 #ebeano
#ebeano:
One of the largest political families in the world. A well-known political family in South East Nigeria that has given birth to many governors, commissioners, senators, councilors, permanent secretaries, party chairmen and other political Leaders both in State 1/5
and Federation, including serving and ex-service Leaders.
#ebeano is a loving, caring, ever healthy and resilient family, with zero boundaries, leveraging commitments, balancing interests, leveling opportunities for common advancement 2/5
resulting in Elite disruption and rearrangement.
#ebeano is a feel good evocation, common good, equal founders and joiners, acculturated joint ownership, all ground, no high tables, no special canopy, no special service. 3/5