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THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA BY DR AUSTIN ORETTE

THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA BY DR AUSTIN ORETTE

 

I want to live in a country where there is fiscal probity and justice. I want to be sure that the tax that comes from liquor is not used to pay those who will burn places where beer is sold.

Why is Abuja so opulent? What does Abuja produce? Abuja is a city that produces nothing and consumes everything. Warri should have more verve.

The Niger Delta is blessed with abundant natural resources, huge oil and gas deposits. We have the people, the ocean and the oil but we are forced to be like a hamlet.

There is abject poverty in the region in spite of billions of petrol dollars that had accrued to the federation. The region is suffering from severe environmental degradation, problems of erosion, pollution of land and water, rapid resource depletion and deteriorating economic conditions.

No doubt, fiscal federalism, honest leadership will bring Warri to par. Fiscal federalism should be the goal of any senator from Delta South. We have enough to develop our places and it is not necessary for the federal government to treat Niger Delta with palliative therapy.

We must put a stop to this paternalism. They can give palliatives to Almajiris. The Niger Delta can develop its institutions, provide health care and education to the people, revitalize inland waterways, build roads, supply electricity and create jobs for the youths.

We can also manage our security. The police check points on our roads are a signpost of government intimidation and exploitation of hard working citizens. Those checkpoints have nothing to do with security. We are not at war and we should never have militarized police in our land and roads. Impeding the free flow of people, goods and services is unconstitutional. Successive governments have kept police on our roads to intimidate us. A lot of police men and women are corrupt and a large number of them seem to be taking hard drugs. This is the only way the murder of citizens by the police can be explained.

The centralized bureaucracy of the federal government of Nigeria is a major issue. It has destroyed the creativity of our people. The federal government of Nigeria is a leviathan with an insatiable appetite and propensity to use Niger Delta as a canon folder. There is the case of the oil. I am from the Niger Delta. The federal government has neglected the region in terms of concrete development projects.

We need 60 percent of the oil and no sheik from outside the region should tell us what to do. We don’t tell them how to manage their resources.

Why are the ports in the Niger Delta not operational? We had Koko port, Warri port, and Burutu port. We were a country. My people are tired of applying for a visa to clear their goods in Lagos. We have been threatened with deportations. We are tired of staying in a place that has so much federal money thrown at it but cannot manage to come up with sensible urban and housing policy.

A tour of the oil rich Niger Delta is a journey of chaos. There are no basic amenities in most parts, no good schools. There are no good roads and potable water. What are our Senators doing? Can they work harder and give the Niger Delta   the Dangote Deal? There is no oil in Kano.

The Federal government should start giving the sons and daughters of the Niger Delta the Dangote deal. His monopoly is beginning to rear its ugly head. Business is no charity. We need to compete with this federal government created leviathan.

 

The price of cement is going up. The leviathan they created has started devouring us. We must have laws to protect us from exploitation.

Today, the APC led government wants us to pay international prices for petroleum products when we don’t have the international Standards of existence. We must control our destiny by paying royalty on resources found in our land.

Successive governments used subterfuge and violence to suppress the will of our people. The federal government is not a repository of good resource management. The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has not been responsive and accountable to all its principal Stakeholders. It has not accelerated the development of the region.

We don’t need NDDC or the Ministry of Niger Delta to develop our terrain. Those agencies are nothing but bureaucratic cobwebs of duplication. We must restructure.

Restructuring means spending and managing what you produce. It is the law of the farm. You reap what you sow.

We need a federal government that does not baby sit in any region. No region should become bloated and lazy.  Excess fat prevents it from serving the people. Those who are addicted to that feeding bottle should be weaned. That is true federalism and equality.

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THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA BY DR AUSTIN ORETTE

THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA BY DR AUSTIN ORETTE

 

Is President Bola Tinubu the cause of Nigeria’s problem? Some time ago, I wrote that I did not endorse Tinubu because he will reduce the misery index of Nigeria. I did not endorse him because he will stop corruption and other ills that plague the Nation. I did not endorse him because he is a saint. The only reason i supported him was that of all the candidates, he was the only one with the sagacity to push Nigeria from the status quo of mediocrity.

 

So far so good, I am not disappointed. He is doing so well. He has ruffled the feathers of the imposters who assumed that Nigeria belongs to them.

 

The Tax Bill is our ticket to restructuring. I have always believed that the federation cannot progress unless those who believe in unitarism are excommunicated from the bus of progress. They will call Tinubu many names, but he will go down as the author of New Nigeria. We will all be equal in this federation.

 

I want to live in a country where there is fiscal justice. I want to be certain that the tax that comes from my boozing is not used to sponsor hajj for those who will destroy the establishment of those who sell beer. There is the case of the oil. I am from the Niger Delta. We need 60 percent of the oil and no Sheik from outside the region should tell us what to do. We don’t tell them how to pray. Why are the ports in Niger Delta not operational? We had Koko Port, Warri Port and Burutu Port. We were a country.

 

My people are tired of applying for visa to clear goods in Lagos. We are tired of staying in a place that has so much federal money thrown at it but cannot manage to come up with sensible urban and housing policy.

 

A visit there is a journey of chaos. What are the senators doing? Can they work harder and give the Niger Delta the Dangote Deal? Dangote is in Nigeria with his own refinery and ports. What is next for him? With the way things are going, he might end up with his own currency. Who says monopoly doesn’t pay?

 

Nasir El-Rufai has been popping up lately, threatening the president with electoral misfortune. Can you imagine the effrontery? He became a governor with Amajiri votes and he did nothing for them. These people think they own Nigeria. Where was he when Buhari filled every position with his and his wife’s relatives?

 

Restructuring means you spend and manage what you produce. It is the law of the farm. You reap what you sow and don’t raise your livestock in another man’s garden without any compensation. There is Mr. Peter Obi who thinks the road to the presidency is through educating the Almajiris. If it didn’t work for Goodluck Jonathan, why do you think it will work for him?  El-Rufai is no fool. He has the Amajiri votes locked up. The solution is to ship the Almajiris to my village. We have highly motivated mothers who will adopt them and turn them into lawyers, engineers, doctors and respectable members of our society. The amajiris are orphans with living parents who don’t care. We can care for them in my village. With 60 % derivation, the sky is our limit. After they come of age and have become very educated, we will send them to the North to recolonize the North.

 

We need home grown colonizers in the North.  They will bring progress faster to the North than the Fulani who are in a race to return to the 7th century.

 

Now they will accuse me of asking them to turn their hearts away from the gods of Saudi Arabia to the gods of my village. Who knows, some of them might become educated Imams and not hypocrites who hide Ogogoro in their prayer kettle and underage girls, under their agbada. They will not be hypocrites. This will bridge the gap in the distribution of graduates during NYSC.

 

Peter Obi should address this. Why should states that have so many Almajiris and no graduates have more NYSC graduates serving than states that are producing graduates? We must correct this Dangote equation. Obi should learn from Tinubu. You don’t placate bullies. We are on the way to a new Nigeria, the end of serfdom. The cacophony all over the place is beginning to be louder than Biafra. The halls of academia have just been opened in Southern Zaria and El-Rufai is apoplectic.  He cannot even comprehend that Nigeria can grow beyond one school of aviation. He is inviting Nnamdi Kanu to Dinner and wants to review Nnamdi’s notes. These are interesting times to be alive in my dear country, Nigeria.

 

We will end up with a federal government that does not baby sit any region. We must have a government that does not rob Peter to pay Paul. No region should become bloated and lazy with excess fat. Those who are addicted to that feeding bottle should be weaned. That is true federalism and equality.  Are the Fulani and Biafrans against this? They are five and six. Don’t let their recriminations fool you. They have one agenda.   They are one and the same side of a bad coin.

 

DR AUSTIN ORETTE WRITES FROM HOUSTON, TEXAS

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THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA BY DR AUSTIN ORETTE

THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA BY DR AUSTIN ORETTE

THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA BY DR AUSTIN ORETTE

 

Is President Bola Tinubu the cause of Nigeria’s problem? Some time ago, I wrote that I did not endorse Tinubu because he will reduce the misery index of Nigeria. I did not endorse him because he will stop corruption and other ills that plague the Nation. I did not endorse him because he is a saint. The only reason i supported him was that of all the candidates, he was the only one with the sagacity to push Nigeria from the status quo of mediocrity.

 

So far so good, I am not disappointed. He is doing so well. He has ruffled the feathers of the imposters who assumed that Nigeria belongs to them.

 

The Tax Bill is our ticket to restructuring. I have always believed that the federation cannot progress unless those who believe in unitarism are excommunicated from the bus of progress. They will call Tinubu many names, but he will go down as the author of New Nigeria. We will all be equal in this federation.

 

I want to live in a country where there is fiscal justice. I want to be certain that the tax that comes from my boozing is not used to sponsor hajj for those who will destroy the establishment of those who sell beer. There is the case of the oil. I am from the Niger Delta. We need 60 percent of the oil and no Sheik from outside the region should tell us what to do. We don’t tell them how to pray. Why are the ports in Niger Delta not operational? We had Koko Port, Warri Port and Burutu Port. We were a country.

 

My people are tired of applying for visa to clear goods in Lagos. We are tired of staying in a place that has so much federal money thrown at it but cannot manage to come up with sensible urban and housing policy.

 

A visit there is a journey of chaos. What are the senators doing? Can they work harder and give the Niger Delta the Dangote Deal? Dangote is in Nigeria with his own refinery and ports. What is next for him? With the way things are going, he might end up with his own currency. Who says monopoly doesn’t pay?

 

Nasir El-Rufai has been popping up lately, threatening the president with electoral misfortune. Can you imagine the effrontery? He became a governor with Amajiri votes and he did nothing for them. These people think they own Nigeria. Where was he when Buhari filled every position with his and his wife’s relatives?

 

Restructuring means you spend and manage what you produce. It is the law of the farm. You reap what you sow and don’t raise your livestock in another man’s garden without any compensation. There is Mr. Peter Obi who thinks the road to the presidency is through educating the Almajiris. If it didn’t work for Goodluck Jonathan, why do you think it will work for him?  El-Rufai is no fool. He has the Amajiri votes locked up. The solution is to ship the Almajiris to my village. We have highly motivated mothers who will adopt them and turn them into lawyers, engineers, doctors and respectable members of our society. The amajiris are orphans with living parents who don’t care. We can care for them in my village. With 60 % derivation, the sky is our limit. After they come of age and have become very educated, we will send them to the North to recolonize the North.

 

We need home grown colonizers in the North.  They will bring progress faster to the North than the Fulani who are in a race to return to the 7th century.

 

Now they will accuse me of asking them to turn their hearts away from the gods of Saudi Arabia to the gods of my village. Who knows, some of them might become educated Imams and not hypocrites who hide Ogogoro in their prayer kettle and underage girls, under their agbada. They will not be hypocrites. This will bridge the gap in the distribution of graduates during NYSC.

 

Peter Obi should address this. Why should states that have so many Almajiris and no graduates have more NYSC graduates serving than states that are producing graduates? We must correct this Dangote equation. Obi should learn from Tinubu. You don’t placate bullies. We are on the way to a new Nigeria, the end of serfdom. The cacophony all over the place is beginning to be louder than Biafra. The halls of academia have just been opened in Southern Zaria and El-Rufai is apoplectic.  He cannot even comprehend that Nigeria can grow beyond one school of aviation. He is inviting Nnamdi Kanu to Dinner and wants to review Nnamdi’s notes. These are interesting times to be alive in my dear country, Nigeria.

 

We will end up with a federal government that does not baby sit any region. We must have a government that does not rob Peter to pay Paul. No region should become bloated and lazy with excess fat. Those who are addicted to that feeding bottle should be weaned. That is true federalism and equality.  Are the Fulani and Biafrans against this? They are five and six. Don’t let their recriminations fool you. They have one agenda.   They are one and the same side of a bad coin.

 

DR AUSTIN ORETTE WRITES FROM HOUSTON, TEXAS

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