In 1914 Sir Frederick Lugard decreed the unification of Southern and Northern Nigeria. Most critics have asserted that the British Empire did not provide and/or facilitate adequate consultations between both regions that eventually evolved into the United Nations of Nigeria. Instead they used the divide and conquer strategies which were the catalyst to the Trans Atlantic slave trade expeditions that took Africans to the West and ensured genocidal warfare in places like the Benin, Ghana, Nri, Kano, and Opobo Kingdoms to mention a few. In reference to ending the Nigerian and Biafran civil war through the SNC, the reality remains that since 1967 southerners have been demonized and killed in the north for the flimsiest of reasons. Our natural resources such as peak petroleum and liquefied natural gas in the Edo-Delta region are now a curse. The powers that be like the federal government of Nigeria have a vested interest in the instability and militarization of the region. The western countries and their multinational companies/cabals are actually cartels (an insignia that is used for OPEC by western news agencies and governments) that want to oil us dry and would also like to maintain the current structures. Over the years our Nigerian government has remained lazy and reluctant to equitably diversify the economy. The government, the military, and the Oil companies (such us British Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell) are willing and eager to wage wars in the Niger Delta instead of setting up commissions for peace and conceding to the reasonable demands of the poor. The Niger Deltans live with exposures to carcinogens and oil spills that make the Louisiana gulf coast oil explosions seem like a joke while the government and oil company cartels would rather murder our community leaders like Dr. Ken Saro Wiwa and Chief Albert Tombari Badey and then setup discord among us. Where are the apologies and restoration for these brutal realities? Why did the Nigerian government and Royal Dutch Shell fail to consider the demands of a non-violent progressive human rights movement? These inactions have spurned the current instability, killings, and kidnappings in the south south region of Nigeria. How do we begin to account for the billions that were siphoned from projects like the Ajokuta Steel Rolling Company and the National Fertilizer Company of Nigeria (NAFCON) at Onne by the General Babangida administration? Notwithstanding these thefts of national resources the Northern Military Industrial Complex (NMIC) wants to rule us again. They are crying about staying out of power for only 17years when they have held us in servitude for 50years. NMIC members like Babangida and Rilwanu Lukman (former Minister of Mines Power and Steel, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Petroleum, Chairman of the Board Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, and Secretary General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC) have sliced the Edo-Delta regions into Oil blocks for their personal interest and foreign business partners/criminals. Then, they wonder why our impoverish people and their children who graduate from schools without any economic opportunities have arisen to stop these madness. After all these atrocities General Babangida is able to profess his love for Nigeria. If this is how the love is manifest we pray not to know his enemies. We have a situation where resources are allocate in the federal, state, and local governments and one or few persons can boldly steal these monies without any hesitations and accountability. This leads to the nonpayment of civil servants, teachers, and societal breakdown. Can we not have a situation that informs all the citizenry about national revenue allocations? Have 50years of experiences not proven times without number that secrecy is the brainchild and toolkit of the ruthless embezzlers in the United Nations of Nigeria and indeed worldwide. How can a civil servant in the National Assembly be in the position of importing 6 armored vehicles and conspire to defraud the department of customs in the process by not paying the required clearing fees. The first and obvious question is the source of his money. Did anyone bother to ask this representative and others to declare their assets before they contested the elections? Another point of inquiry should be about his constituents, are their interest really been served.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:01:15 +0000
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