06 Aug 2008 |
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| Is it true that the creation or the formation of Nigeria was a mistake? I doubt if this was a serious issue until the colonial masters handed over the reign of power to Nigerians in 1960. Nigerian politicians acted as crooks and criminals and destroyed the country rather than build on the foundations that existed until the time that the British left.
Even if Nigeria was an anomaly, the fact that there was “peace and prosperity” until the effects of sour leadership, greed, indolence, civil war, corruption and tribalism took their tolls means that it (that is Nigeria) is an anomaly that should have been harnessed into positive development. I have struggled very hard with myself not to deviate from my firm belief that Nigeria would have become the greatest country on earth by now if we didn’t have idiots, blockheads and nonentities as leaders, dictators and politicians. I still cannot believe that a dullard like Abacha for example was once upon a time a head of state in Nigeria. It is also unbelievable that the country continues to degenerate daily while a clueless mollusc-like Yar Adua is holding on tight to power illegally. In August 2008 Nigeria is almost at a zero level of power generation after 9 years of uninterrupted civilian rule! It is now very easy to accept afterall that Nigeria was a mistake since the concept of governance has been going there to chop my own . Summarily Nigeria now exists as a geographical expression and not as a nation that must be built or protected. No one cares; they are all pretenders in Abuja and other places of power. If I understood my parents correctly, they enjoyed living in Nigeria when they were under the Western Region. What happened to the Western Region of Nigeria? Where is the Eastern Region? What about the other parts? In my opinion whatever led to their collapse should be reversed or resuscitated without any unnecessary delay. It is arguable that Nigeria was an erroneous carving but it is certain that Abuja was a creation with diabolic intents. Babangida and the rest of the fools in power stole as much money as they wanted for themselves. They became power drunk and wished for everlasting power. Abuja was their dream world of perpetuating themselves in power. So far, it is working. That they stole from Nigeria and the Niger Delta especially in order to build Abuja now looks like the greatest error that would probably facilitate the splitting of Nigeria either now or anytime in the future. Isn’t it obvious that mad men rule in Nigeria? What psychological tests are we proposing? The federal government of Nigeria is the most insensitive government in the world. It is the most heartless. Is there anywhere else in the world where more than a thousand souls including children die daily due to preventable causes? The crimes that have been committed against the common people of Nigeria and the Niger Deltans are finally begging to be addressed and yet the attitude from Abuja is that of a clueless bunch. It seems that the day of reckoning is fast approaching and the deafness at the centre is a needed tool that would assist in the emancipation of the people. It will be impossible to exonerate the regional leaders of the Niger Delta area from the mess that had been created but the greater blame goes to the government at the centre. Does anyone know why the Niger Delta Region was not built totally just the same way that money from there was being used to build Abuja? At the time that Abuja was built, it was a waste of oil money because Lagos was functional and it is still functional. It has no relationship with foresight or development. The story of Abuja is the story of a mad act exhibited by power drunk and blood thirsty military gangsters and their collaborators. Indeed in the absence of both corruption and very bad governance maybe Nigeria would have become the greatest country on earth. We will never know. What we know is that there are people in Nigeria whose 14th generation from now will not experience poverty because some members of their families have looted and are still looting and preparing for them-the unborn. Instead of building a new capital called Abuja the right thing would have been the building of the Niger Delta and other places in Nigeria. If mumus and idiots like Babangida have built the Niger Delta, we would have no militants today. There will be no MEND. There would not have been any kidnapping in the Delta and Ken Saro Wiwa would not have died. Where there is justice, there will be peace and a relative ease to curb undue unrest. A number of writers and critics have stated firmly that Nigeria is not going to work and they have expressed their opinions that it is better to split it up now. How delicate is this issue? Nigeria itself is not just an amalgamation of North and South Provinces but a complicated combination of hundreds of smaller nations. Has anyone addressed this issue scholarly? I am convinced however that the concept of regional governments would not have created 90m people living on less than 1 dollar a day. This would definitely not have happened in western Nigeria where the generation of my parents had farm settlement schemes and the best form of education. If those regional governments have been sustained perhaps the Eastern Region today would be competing with Sweden, Germany, China and Japan in terms of development and technological progress. Who knows what the oil rich south would have achieved if they were left to determine their own fate and utilize their resources? Don’t ask me what would have happened in the North. It is what we have all been subjected to since the mad acts started. Absolute retrogression!
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