4-12-2024.

Of recent, I had not been hearing the recitation of the Al Qunut from the Mosques, but did not summon the courage to ask for the reason of the development. However, as I was called on the phone yesterday from out of town by a relative, he casually mentioned that ‘the present regime has banned Al Qunut in Mosques’, as our discussions on the situation in the country progressed. That provided me with the answer to my unasked question.

Those who advised for, and those who ordered the cessation of, the group prayer during the five daily prayers, surely knew and believed in the efficacy of the prayer, but probably not aware of the unencessity of its recitation by victims of whatever injustice from whatever quarters it was perpetrated. The simple act banning it by fiat would not absolve the perpetrators of injustice. God has promised to recompense the victims of bad deals, whether or not they prayed to Him for avenge, unless they themselves VOLUNTARILY forgive the offence, or the perpetrators ask for the victims’s FORGIVENESS.

The official order to stop offering the prayer is an admission that most of the citizens are, in reality, being DELIBERATELY shortchanged by the regime of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and are therefore in a never-experienced-before (extremely) bad situation in the country. Not only that, but also that the perpetrators would continue with their bad actions the way they know best.

No honest and sincere citizen who lives in Nigeria will claim not to know that there is severe and pervasive poverty, hardship, hunger and anger in the country. The only people who can lie about what is happening in Nigeria are some of the corrupt, incompetent, inconsiderate, insensitive, insincere and self serving leaders the country is unfortunate to be saddled with at present.

The country is ruled by a regime led by a spy of a foreign country, which is not a friend of Nigeria by any stretch of the imagination. It would appear that the supposed leader derives extraordinary pleasure in visiting more hardship on the citizens of Nigeria to please his foreign masters.

Recently in France, President Tinubu lied to the world that there was no hunger and poverty in Nigeria, that the citizens were only complaining because of the removal of the fuel subsidy. The president was completely telling the world anything but the TRUTH. There is poverty, there is hardship, there is hunger and there is anger in Nigeria, ALL caused by the overbearingly corrupt and incompetent present regime in the land.

By the way, if the president’s supposed economic reform policies were working, why does he always rush to France to get ‘medical’ attention, whenever he falls (feigns) sick? Why do the so called big people under his regime rush to the best hospitals in Europe, Asia or the Americas for as much as a headache? Or why do such people rush themselves or their family to the most expensive private local hospitals or clinics, if there is no time to go to foreign hospitals?

A top functionary of the present regime was said to have one day rushed his small child to a local expensive private hospital to have tap water pumped out of the child’s stomach, who made the ‘mistake’ of drinking it. All these done by leaders and the so called important people in the country because the money to settle the huge hospital bills would come from the government directly or indirectly (which is often the case), since Nigeria is said to be one of the most CORRUPT countries NOW in the world.

It was like the case of the billionaire drug load of the Medellin Cartel, Colombia, Pablo Escobar, who burnt $2 million in $100 bills, to keep his pneumonia-stricken daughter warm, before she could get proper medical attention from qualified doctors.

The Tinubu regime is run, in the main, by a bunch of pathological liars, who appear to have found extreme pleasure in misleading the population, and misinforming the entire world. They may be students of Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels who expounded the theory that believe repeating the same lies over and over would make them appear as the truth. The regime tells about its so called ‘achievements’ but there is ABSOLUTELY nothing on the ground in Nigeria to suggest that any achievement has been made in the last one year and twenty months.

In a press release he posted on his X handle, Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, made the false claim on behalf of his principal that the contentious Tax Reform Bill was not meant to disadvantage the North, but to provide succour to poor citizens, by reducing the many taxes they are paying.

The reality on the ground is that, instead of reducing taxes in the country, the Tinubu regime INTRODUCES new tax almost on a monthly basis. But in his statement, the SA Information and Strategy claimed (FALSELY) that the poor citizen pays less taxes under the present regime.

Even the leading citizens is the developed economies of the West do not support too many taxation on the people, and the West’s loans to poor countries, particularly those in Africa. According to them, such so called economic reform policies do the exact OPPOSITE of the ‘good’ that they are supposed to serve.

One time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK), Margaret Thatcher, known as the ‘Iron Lady, voiced her opposition to too much tax on poor citizens, saying that the policy could only impoverish the poor further, as they did not have the wherewithal to pay the taxes. A serving Senator in the United States (US) insisted, before a large audience at an ABC TV debate, that only debt forgiveness could enable poor countries in Africa to develop the needed infrastructure in their lands. He said poor countries would never be able to repay the loans that they take from the West.

The recent loan of $2 billion taken by President Tinubu from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was the subject of analysis by white financial experts, with almost all of them agreeing taking the loan by the Nigerian government was an UNWISE decision. They argued that since Nigeria was blessed with abundant human and material resources, all it needed to do was to utilise them maximally to develop the economy.

 

According to them, the country did not need such loans as the one taken by the President, on account of the stringent conditions attached to it, which are designed to pay 16 times more than what was originally taken, concluding that ‘Nigeria would have been better off without the loan’.

Anyway, Nigeria has never had things so unbearably bad, expensive and severe as they are NOW, to the extent that we are compelled to quote the revered Shiekh Usman Bin Fodio, the famous 19th century Islamic Revivalist, who famously said that “Governance can endure with unbelief, but NOT with INJUSTICE. Pharaoh, the once Egyptian ruler, who was a great non believer (he claimed to be God), ruled for upwards of 40 years, because he was a just ruler.

A doctorate thesis by a Niger Republic indigene studying in the US, found that the infamous Pharaoh was, unfortunately, a very long and unwanted cousin of yours sincerely, because he was alleged to belong to the same same HAUSA tribe as myself.

May God protect Nigeria against, and from the evil of, the Pharaoh of our country.

Malumfashi wrote from Katsina.