As it stands, not only did late Ige discover this clandestine fraud against Nigeria and its peoples, it was gathered that he was about to launch a sweeping overhaul at NEPA or disintegration of the republic and put to an end this massive exploitations against Nigerians and Nigerian-state. Sadly so, these top NEPA Executives, ultimately were shocked by Ige’s restructuring moves and without hesitations, demanded for his immediate removal or transfer from Ministry of Mines & Power to another ministry. The attended fallout was his transfer to Head the Justice Ministry. For records, NEPA dollar-drunk[s] from the North, feeding off of NEPA via destabilization of the latter weren’t satisfied with his transfer...

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It's Over: NEPA, Ige, And, Secrets Behind Obasanjo/Atiku's Feud---Revealed PDF Print E-mail
By Carlisle U.O. Umunnah
The multifaceted problems facing the country called Nigeria will not go away anytime soon, as long as murderers and mischief-makers are not stamped-out of our public space. Some observers, critics, particularly activists and opponents of anti-people’s policies, who in the past were incarcerated by past and present administration because of their social and political ideals—will attests to the fact that Nigeria is a contraption, a contraption that has trickled down to its prison industrial complexes. These prison industrial complexes have in turn created the climate which facilitated and re-produced the blood-letting and inflammable power-tripping that is found in that enclave—Nigeria.    

 

Bola Ige


Between 80s till date, socio-economic-political indicators show that our prison system, and other related institutional structures are in dilapidated state. To refresh our minds, recall that, it was in this prison system that the winner of June 12, 1993 Presidential Elections, M.K.O. Abiola, dropped and died; it was in this prison that Shehu Musa Yar’rdua dropped and died; it was in these prisons that thousands of innocent Nigerians have dropped and died; died just because they were canvassing against numerous societal-ills found in Nigeria. Perhaps, within the walls of this prison, Obasanjo, would have dropped and died. Thanks to late Bola Ige, former Minister, Mines & Power, who later became the Minister of Justice of the Federation; may, his indefatigable soul not rest until the storm he went through reaches out to God. May his spirit lives on to torment these killers; may his spirit be around to deny these assassins access to peace now and hereafter. They must either come forward, confess their criminal actions publicly, otherwise, may these evildoers kiss the dust. Indeed, may their confusion persists, until their filthy bloody hands tainted with innocent bloods across our land are apprehended, prosecuted and remanded behind bars—Thou will be done, Oh God!     

 

Compatriots—the country called Nigeria is sick and systemically sinking fast. It is sinking fast, regardless of the constitutional reviews/amendments, regardless of the heating up of the body-polity toward 2007 elections; regardless of numerous man-made orchestrated religion killings, regardless of real and imagined enemies of the state, regardless of the hypocrites at EFCC whose, operational capacity emanates from Abuja including other purported apparatuses this administration claimed to have instituted toward addressing myriad ills facing enterprise—Nigeria. The truism is that President Obasanjo and his Vice President, Atiku, are the greatest threat to peace and tranquility in Nigerian-state. This writer came to this conclusion in part, because of an exclusive-stunning secrets—now revealed. It is clear that these two men: Obasanjo and Atiku and their cronies have the intelligence operations leading to the killing of Bola Ige and kept it quiet. To this end, this writer faults Obasanjo, for not sharing this information/secrets with Nigerians, Nigeirans whom he sworn under oath to defend and protect because of selfish reservations. I am afraid many, including Dikibo, Harry Marshall and others have gone the ways of the earth in an untimely manner. Rather than Obasanjo address these issues of national importance, preferred to pre-occupy himself with the project of protecting a failed administration. If—Obasanjo dares speak up on Ige’s assassination, there would be consequences. This administration fears it will be dragged to International Court of Justice in Hague, Netherland by Citizens-Lawyers-International [CLI] and other watch-dogs think-tanks that fight crime against humanity, including crimes committed by this administration against fellow Nigerians. He fears for his legacy and security as he prepares to return to his Otta Farm Inc. He fears being investigated; fears sizzling impetuses that would knock open his past and present atrocities against the citizenry. By application, these criminal practices against our peoples, with its attended fallouts have dwarfed the population through untimely deaths and diseases—the impact thereof has grossly traumatized, deprived and pauperized this people. It was gathered that the killing of Ige was prompted by Atiku and his henchmen. Like many other killings in Nigerian-state, the question is: why kill Bola Ige? The answer is simple! The assassination of Ige created opportunities and a sea of wealth for some notables inside and outside Nigeria, obviously. It was gathered that Ige, while serving at various capacities, including ministry of Mines & Power, discovered a colossal gridlock of illegitimate cash flows at apex leadership at the Nigerian Electric Power Authority [NEPA]. These illegitimate cash flows technically and systemically caused and continued to cause power failings in the Nigerian-state. Some remember vividly that Ige, while serving as Minister of Mines & Power seized the time, and made bold organizational restructuring toward revamping NEPA. At his behest, we uncovered that the reason why NEPA was unable or unwilling to provide steady electricity 24/7, to the citizenry was at issue, this subsequently led to the assassination of Bola Ige. At this juncture, it is important to note that our small neighboring countries such as: Cameron, Benin, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast which, for the most part, derive its energy supplies from Nigeria, have stable power supplies. These countries’ organizational leaderships made it a must do item by adopting professional and critical-fundamental-work-ethics as its standing modus operandi in the day to day running of its operations. In these countries, if power-repairs are needed, the administrations acts quickly and, respectfully and informs the citizenry about anticipated repairs. Note that the time, the location and how many days or hours, it would take to get these technical concerns fix is disseminated to the public, and once fixed, power returns to normalcy. Information dissemination approach is meant to prepare its population toward impending repairs and its attended interruptions. But in Nigerian-state, the premise and operational characteristics are antithetical and reversal when compared to the aforementioned synopsis. Nigeria is a classical case study of unprofessional and colonial morbid when it comes to power supply. Its work orthodoxy and trajectory at this level is meshed with total instability, massive-exploitation of power supplies to domestic consumers. According to my source, who asked to remain anonymous, informed this writer that Ige had a “Master Plan” to change NEPA; that Ige was essentially following the foot-steps of late Baba Tunde Idiagbon, toward a massive-restructuring of the enterprise. Additionally, before Idiagbon’s mysterious death, it was gathered that preparations were on the way to appoint Idiagbon as Minister of Defense by Obasanjo.

 

To avoid digressions, it is important that we beat a quick retreat and return to Ige’s assassination saga. Information has it that Bola Ige, uncovered sleazy top Executives at NEPA who were paid billions worth of dollars annually to make sure NEPA doesn’t provide steady electricity to the Nigerian public literally. This criminality—these anti-peoples policies were and it still is economically driven. Retrogressively speaking, it’s self-evident that this unholy alliance has been entrenched for decades in our body politics and does benefit top NEPA leaderships; unfortunately these illegitimate acts went undetected by Nigerian-masses. By application what that means, is that, some foreign plant manufacturing companies with its partners/distributors collaborated and continue to collaborate with their domestic partners in dishing out billions of dollars to these discredited top NEPA officials in order to maintain accessibilities to contract accreditations from one administration to another. In turn, they were/are compensated via uninterrupted monopoly of generator supplies to the Nigerian-market. These multinationals and their fraudulent domestic cronies curiously found at NEPA, made deals at the expense of Nigerians. The list of their responsibility includes but not limited to: intentional interruption of power, disruption and sabotage of Nigeria power-lines to make Nigerians nervous, which, stimulates the climate for plant marketing. This ill-intentionality prompted unreliability of our power-grid-locks across the land. This is a cause for alarm. This creationism of instability including, location and time of chosen for interruption are in the hands of top NEPA officials and their puppets, who display comfortability doing their dirty job against this people whenever they deem it necessary. This is Nigeria! This construct allows plant manufacturing companies to use Nigeria as market-place for bad business practices and more, especially considering the fact that Nigeria has a staggering purchasing power found in its population of over 160 million—a large market indeed for these plant-suppliers and marketeers.

 

Consequently, when market reviews are made comparatively in conjuncture with other manufacturer-competitors/consumers, indicators show that power-plant acquisitions are in decline in the rest of the world by over 70%; while the demand for alternative power supplier in Nigerian-state, has quadrupled astronomically, above 80%. What that means is that the fallouts of this bad business practices has turned Nigerian-state into a dumping ground for plant manufacturers and their finished products. Nigeria automatically is home to variety of toxicologically generated emission which, statistically was upped by these plants. Nigerian is a large market with a staggering 300 percent jump in population when compared to its post colonial era. Evidently, Nigeria has the highest buying indexes when it comes to plants merchandize. In every Nigerian home, urban or in rural-dwellings, it’s almost certain to find two to three stand-by plants depending on the families which can afford them. Directly or indirectly, this has saturated its air-space with toxic-emissions as aforementioned. That said, besides United States which, refused to sign the Kyoto Accord in the 80s on global warming, with one or two other nuclear-power competitors, Nigeria, has become a green house nexus for global toxic-emissions and has contributed more to global warming more than all the ECOWAS states put together. To make matters worse, it is lacking in the area of sensitivity training for foreign corporate investment firms-and their employees when it comes to toxicology-neurology studies & technical-implementation/compliance. Now, imagine what our oil-exploration sectors such as Egbema, Niger Delta and other areas would look like with spill messiness. Our good governance agenda indexes are zero, technically and structurally. On maintenance perspective, Nigeria lacks maintenance culture; because of this reason it has already collapsed under previous military administrations and has worsened under the current administration. If there is a better terminology to dissect this lapse in a country called Nigeria—perhaps, the possible lexicon would be force-multiplier-collapse under Obasanjo administration.

 

Nigeria, through its misguided privatization, liberalization and corporitization was long sold out to imperial energy-multinationals of the so-called industrialized world. These foreign oil-entrepreneurs are its major controllers and imperial beneficiaries whose strategic interest cannot be compromised by Washington D.C. The word sovereignty of this former colonial space is not only compromised but is attended and graced literally by local collaborators that will circumvent anything for dollar. Let’s face it, the parallel here is that western nations didn’t takeover Nigeria-state by force, rather, Nigerian-state and its peoples either by omission or commission sold itself for a dime to western imperialism with its undemocratic oil-multinationalism because of greed and corruption. Oh! What a sophisticated country!

 

Make no mistake—there is still possible light at the end of the tunnel. Nigerian-state and its peoples can beat a retreat, using massive educational mobilization campaign to educate itself and, take back its country from foreign dominance. They reserve the right to take-back their country, take-back its oil/gas-wells and other resources from American and European imperial oil-giants; they reserve the rights to regain their freedom and liberty from foreign and domestic dominance, these greedy exploiters, collaborators can be expelled, via nationalism.    

 

According to this source, it was gathered that these Chief Executives at NEPA were mainly Hausa/Fulani power-trips from the North, some Yoruba, and you bet there is an Igbo somewhere in-between. As it stands, not only did late Ige discover this clandestine fraud against Nigeria and its peoples, it was gathered that he was about to launch a sweeping overhaul at NEPA or disintegration of the republic and put to an end these exploitations against Nigerians and Nigerian-state. Sadly, these top NEPA Executives ultimately were shocked by Ige’s restructuring moves and without hesitations, they demanded for his removal or transfer from Ministry of Mines & Power to another ministry. The fallout was his transfer to Head the Justice Ministry. For records, NEPA dollar-drunk[s] from the north, feeding off of NEPA via destabilization of the latter weren’t satisfied with his transfer. They feared Ige, will expose their criminal practices to the public that would evidently anger the population.  As a trained attorney, they believed that Ige might use his legal prowess, his international connections to effectively speedy up shack-ups toward stabilization of power supply throughout Nigeria, and action that would have saved billions worth of public funds from ruination by vandals into the state coffers, annually.    

 

The interconnections: there exist mutual respect between Obasanjo and Ige. Back in the 90s, we all know that massive imprisonments, disappearances occurred under Abacha’s draconian military regime. The likes of Obasanjo, Olu Falae, Ige and other opposition groupings challenged Abachaism—authoritarianism. Many of these activists or “wannabe” activists were incarcerated and jailed by the late despot. That regime, accused many of these individuals of treasonable offenses—including coup plotting to overthrow the then military authoritarianism under Abacha. Information has it that, Bola Ige saved Obasanjo’s life, while, the latter was serving time under Abacha.

On record, Obasanjo has no jail experience. This was his first time of experiencing what it really means to be behind bars. As a neophyte, it was gathered that Bola Ige, in an act of friendships to his kinsman wrote a letter addressed to Obasanjo. It was gathered that the said letter was dispatched to Obasanjo through his close lieutenants. The content of the letter explicitly cautioned Obasanjo not to eat any specially decorated food from the prison authorities—or from the government. Ige, in that letter, advised Obasanjo to eat whatever other prisoners ate or were served with, regardless the quality of the meal. In this shocking revelation, it was gathered that not long the letter was delivered to Obasanjo, Obasanjo who was visibly nervous and suspicious of mails especially with the way he was abused by junior military officials, refused to open the letter—with the assumption that it’s a letter bomb. It was further gathered that Obasanjo asked the mail-man to open the letter himself; and finally, Obasanjo read the letter. Some hours or so later, after he had red the letter, the well prepared meal arrived from prison authorities. Obasanjo accepted the food but did not eat. Some hours later this attractive officially prepared VIP delicacy melted into acid. Some months or so later, the maker of mankind called Abacha home. Under this impasse of leadership vacuum, some retired Northern military cabals fearing the unknown, including disintegration and the direction of Nigeria, invited Obasanjo for a conversation. Present at that summit was Abdul Salam Abubakar who continued Abacha’s misrule. Under pressure from international community, fraudulent elections were quickly organized and Obasanjo became their man to pacify the “Wild Wild” West. The idea was to compensate and pacify the fallouts of June 12, annulments by Babangida regime. It was the same Babangida according to Mr. Johnson, in collaboration with other northern military elements which, planned to build a canal, by diverting River Niger or the Atlantic in Lagos to the North and break-away from Nigerian-state. According to this informant, the construction of heavy-water-channel of hydro-like powered-water-way to the North was supposed to be in similitude to the one built in Ivory Coast some decades ago. The bad news: when the Americans and their European construction consulting firms presented the cost and effect of this adventure worth billions of dollars, Babangida and his cronies backed off of the project. According to this source, the North does not believe in Nigeria from Adamawa, Bauchi, to Kano and so forth listens to BBC Hausa Service or Radio Cameron; they do not listen to listen to Radio Nigeria. The only thing holding the Northerners from breaking-away from the union is possibly lack of Sea-ports, and fear of massive poverty in the north. Additionally, North fear paying heavy-shipping-tariffs and other fees to either the Western and/or Eastern regional powers of Nigeria—supposing the latter were to disintegrate today; they also know that if Igbo if given the chance to lead that country law and order will immediately be restored—Bakassi-Boys Security Network in Aba-Ngwa that later spread to the whole East was a typical example about organizational and security leadership across the Niger which organization, was later-on dissolved by the powers that be; these narcissists whose riches-triumphalism is built on lawlessness and chaos are enemies to an egalitarian society.

 

From prison to Presidency: by omission or commission, Obasanjo hits a gold-mine: a machination that was orchestrated by Northern oligarchy. Obasanjo did not hesitate to appoint late Bola Ige as Minister of Mines & Power. Albeit, it was gathered that some machinations were working at all cylinders along the line of Yorubanization of Nigeria-state under Obasanjo administration—which intentionality was overtaken by events. But, truth be told, Ige was qualified for the ministerial position. He had credibility and integrity, and had gain the confidence and respect of Obasanjo as his savior while serving jail time.  

 

It was no surprise that Obasanjo reacted vehemently, when information filtered-out that Ige was tracked, and murdered by Atiku people according to this source. Without hesitation according to this anonymous person, Obasanjo launched a secret investigation to determine what the ruse was. Sadly, the initial investigation trails stopped at Atiku’s desk and the desk of his henchmen. With details of this secret assassination and other assassinations now revealed, Obasanjo became extremely agitated and bitter at Atiku. Indeed, this was one of the reasons why Obasanjo vowed that “Atiku can never succeed him.” With these scandals on the table, Obasanjo was in total disarray, confused on exactly what to make out of it all. It was gathered that Obasanjo was equally afraid of his own life.

 

In the finally analysis, at the end of the day, Obasanjo and Atiku are both members of PDP and will live with this assassination burden the rest of their lives. Under normal circumstances, one would assume that Obasanjo would be motivated to dig deep to the bottom of matter with respect Ige’s assassination. But till date, he has done nothing substantive. Atiku apparently denied involvement in the assassination of Ige; Obasanjo has remained mute on the matter, but has remained in constant beef with his second in command. To buttress this position, recently, the daughters of these two men got married—neither of these men attended each other’s daughter’s wedding bash.  

 

In the meantime, as Obasanjo’s apologist including Reuben Abati and Tanslim Anibaba, and others sing their Obasanjo forever, one really wonders what will become of 2007. Will there be a country called Nigeria still around for them to loot and plunder remains the big inquiry?   

 

It was gathered that Obasanjo out of pressure from Yoruba elders on this matter—the assassination of Ige—has no option than to reveal this shocking secret to close aides, including sharing it with some elders—mainly elders of Ogun-State extraction. These elders were visibly unhappy with Obasanjo on the matter. These elders lamented why the Chief Law Enforcement officer of a country, could be assassinated and till date not even a single arrest has been made, let alone conclusive investigation on the matter. These elders have since placed Ige’s assassination squarely at Obasanjo’s feet and his administration.

 

Like Dele Giwa’s assassination, it was also believed that Giwa’s assassination was state sponsored. Time and again, we are witnessing another trend of killings with impunity in the enclave; we are witnessing massive killings of Nigerians in Nigeria, including assassination of political opponents by this administration. Giwa’s assassination went without a trace.  At issue was Giwa’s report that exposed one Gloria Okon—a cocaine trafficker—best friend to Miriam Babangida. Ms Okon was apprehended in London, because of the aforementioned offence. Ms. Okon was reportedly missing or dead by the then Babangida military regime but was later sighted in London, and the Newswatch picked the news and published it. Akilu, Babangida and his cronies at the Nigerian intelligence community as it were, has too many innocent bloods in their hands. One must remember that Akilu was former Director of National Intelligence & Investigation Bureau [NIIB] and or SSS under Babangida authoritarianism. The same selective-operative-destroyers under Babangida’s regime also got the Net communications with its documentations detailing revenues generated from petro-dollars in the Operation Dessert Storm [I]—First Gulf War burnt to the ground to cover up their loots. By the destroying the Net-Communications, records classifying and analyzing crucial information with respect to billions of dollars from that Oil-windfall, which, billions are today starched-out into foreign banks accounts including ECOWAS countries has never been accounted for by Babangida his cronies. Thousands of Nigerians are murdered every day without conclusive investigation; thousands more of Nigeria especially those of Igbo extraction are murdered everyday, a murdering that is ignited by man-made religious machinations without conclusive investigation; yes, without the perpetrators apprehended, prosecuted and punished for their crimes.

 

Since 1934 post-colonial era, during NCNC, Action Group [AG], Northern Elements and others political pressure groups, in this country has seen and continue to see massive killings, assassinations of fellow Nigerians and nothing done to right these murderous acts. In all, Nigerian-state, has done nothing concrete to confront this lapses, we have witnessed same old-inconclusive investigation with nobody punished for these criminal killings and assassinations. How long will it take to bring these thugs and killers to justice? At when will justice and rule of law be entrenched in the land? If we cannot live together, it is appropriate that we go our individual ways peacefully and stop these heinous murdering and blood letting of our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children, pregnant women, and elderly. These secrete killings, disappearances and tortures will not go away as long as there is absence of rule of law and, absence of law enforcement sustainable capacity to implement the law. Then, there is this wide-spread un-abating corruption in the land. To this writer, be it known to all, that if you kill my mama, my papa, and my siblings and kinsmen, there will be a swift response in like manner—it’s called the “New Igbo Doctrine”. Days are gone when Ndiigbo return in their thousands and millions crying from the North. Anybody can go right ahead and interprets this communication as insensitive and emotional. Let’s face it, one cannot just standby and watch his/her relatives slaughtered secretly and openly and act indifferently. Not so fast! Biblically speaking, the good books are in affirmative of the “New Igbo Doctrine”. Ndi-igbo and other nations in Nigerian-state have every right to defend themselves wherever they found their lives threatened within Nigerian-frontiers. Consequently, besides defending themselves in the North and elsewhere, there will be swift consequences in Enugu, Onitsha, Aba-Ngwa, Port-Harcourt and other Eastern frontiers. People must be warned! The scriptures remarked that if individuals or groups act with the intentionality to harm you, your family, children, kinsmen, and other relatives and in self-defense you kill—you are justified. It is challenging to absorb anguish and pain especially when you loss loved ones to barbarically inadequacies just for living in a country called Nigeria. Let me be clear, this writer is not interested in any handshakes with those who reign in blood and horror. If hand-shake is alright with humanity, it is fine and well. However, I wouldn’t be a participant or encourage hand-shakes with Babangida, Atiku, Obasanjo, Zarmani, Akilu, Aneni, and their likes—not really. These individuals’ hands are tainted with innocent bloods; these men need appropriate restitution, repentance and purification at the appropriate time—today. And, indeed, it’s demanded of their humanity to confess these crimes before the sun goes down. One cannot sleep with a leper and come-out to claim purity—to pass a night with a leper free of leprosy literally—impossibility.    

 

As I was putting this shocking material together, I asked my informant few questions:

 

1] Why is it that this important information was not published in Nigerian national dailies? His response: “Nigerian media is corrupt and hungry… you see, this kind of information is usually published outside Nigeria, and by the way, if I may ask where is Dele Giwa” referring to Newswatch writer that was killed by a parcel bomb during Babangida military tyranny; II]. I informed my informant that, I am a Freelance Columnist, alerting him that this exclusive news will hit the websites and other international media with global-reach.  His words: “I careless, my family has long left Nigeria and relocated to Ivory Coast since 1930; and many Yoruba people especially people from  Ogbomosho/Ejigbo are leaving Nigeria and relocating in large numbers into neighboring countries of ECOWAS States because of the lawlessness, uncertainty of Nigeria.”  He told me that there is over 1 million people from Ogbomosho & Ejigbo alone, who left Nigeria and have since resettled to Ivory Coast and other places. He is a

Rev. Dr
. This classical news provider is married, and has since left ECOWAS region—and now in the United States.

 

It is unfortunate, that Obasanjo betrayed Nigerian-state and Nigerians because of his ineptitudes. He failed Nigeria woefully prompted by his attempt to serve the interests of his western masters. One must remember that Obasanjo never admitted the corruption at Nigerian Aviation industry, until planes started dropping off the sky. It was at that point, that Obasanjo finally admitted and declared: “Nigerian Airways is corrupt.”   Everybody knows that EFCC is not serious about fighting corruption in Nigeria—otherwise, how come Balogun former Inspector General of Nigerian Police and others get a pat on the back and sit back and enjoy their looted billions. Obasanjo has betrayed fellow Yoruba, a patriot, a goodly Nigerian found in Bola Ige by refusing to apprehend, prosecute and jail these well known assassins. He betrayed Ige, to avoid national and international embarrassment; he did this to save his presidency, and avoid the collapse of his purported reform arguments as this administration would want us to believe; just as he connived with a war criminal like Charles Taylor and gave him passage to escape out of Nigeria, and then blamed Nigeria intelligence community. He betrayed Bola Ige, a messiah, who saved his life while he was in prison. He has betrayed the confidence reposed in him by Nigerians by not obeying Court orders. The fact, that he backed away from pursuing the truth, disallowing the completion, continuation of this criminal investigation that would have exposed, shamed these killers tells much about the character of the man—grossest disgrace, disappointment. You can be assured that these killers of innocent Nigerians will live in fear, forever; while, their innocent blood will continue to bleed before God demanding vengeance. They shouldn’t have died and—it’s a crime against humanity.  

 

This writer shares this information and stand by it unless contradicted. I know them to be true, as it was handed down to him by a Nigerian-Ivorian. I use this communication-out-fit to call the attention of international community, and other concerned communities, other groupings interested in issues and happening in Nigeria, including illegitimate incarcerations, killings, maiming of Nigerians. This got to stop forthwith. I call for immediate release of: Adams, Uwazurikes, Dokunbos and others who were illegally incarcerated. The ongoing disappearances, torture, and other crimes against humanity in Nigerian-state must stop forthwith with immediacy. All illegal arrests must stop now; those incarcerated illegally without trail must be released unconditionally without further delays. From the foregoing propositions, it is pretty clear therefore, that no amount of budgeting will ever revamp NEPA as long as its CEO’s take home billions annually from foreign-manufacturing plant companies. It is unfortunate that avarice, lack of sustainable development, lack of maintenance, greed and monopoly has indeed facilitated and strengthened ignorance and mediocrity in the land. These mass-killings are very appalling and have shamefully gone unaddressed for decades. It is my hope that God will in His infinite mercy and justice quicken the temples of many to learn kindness, charity and love one for another. Justicity—and final triumphalism of the rule of law over lawlessness can be attained in our public space when implementation of laws of the land takes its dominant place, through nationalism. Accountability and responsibility will become societal catch-phrase that would gravitate toward bettering and promoting good practices in societies. In conclusion, budgeting billions of dollars into energy sector, and other sectors is no panacea and will not work, as long as these questionable characters at enterprise that receive billions of dollars annually from foreign plant manufacturing multinationals, who in turn starch more including petro-dollars into foreign accounts are stamped-out of NEPA. Nigerians must speedily takeover their country from foreign—smothering-imperial-capitalism, this can be done through workers’ revolutionary volunteerism and nationalism. The foregoing proposition must be re-enforced and upped with transparency and participatory leaderships, democratically. Effective and efficient best practices, good business practices will follow and inculcated in the psych of the citizenry. Accomplishments and maximization indexes must be sustained through effective and efficient consolidation for generation yet unborn—it is called building nexus-of-wealth not riches. Anything short of these and other recommendations will sink the enterprise further into depletion.  

 

Carlisle U.O. Umunnah

Is New York based Freelance writer

Contact: cuu1_liberties@yahoo.com

March 2006

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 # 1 | 28.03.2006 18:30

The multifaceted problems facing the country called Nigeria will not go away anytime soon, as long as murderers and mischief-makers are not stamped-out of our public space. Some observers, critics, particularly activists and opponents of anti-people’s policies, who in the past were incarcerated by past and present administration because of their social and political ideals—will attests to the fact that Nigeria is a contraption, a contraption that has trickled ...Read the full article.

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 # 2 | 28.03.2006 21:00

This guy should be working for Encomium, Fame, City Life or better still, Ikebe Super Story......that is if the elendu or sahara guys do not snatch him up first. What in God's name is this nonsense?

This site is fast becoming like the Charly Boy Show (CBS) where anything can happen. Here, anyone can describe himself or herself as a Freelance Writer. And here, any form of sensational report can surface....afterall, it's a no man's land as far as "journalism" is concerned!

This one na wah! wah!!

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Mark LarMark Lar is offline

 # 3 | 29.03.2006 05:05

Aso Rock (a.k.a. Boy oh Boy), I am quite amused by your response to Umunna's article, be it a little bit stretching. The chap has provided some valid insight into the machination of this administration and that of the puppet's master (the caliphate), and has gone on to buttress this with logical events enamating from the plots.

On the other hand however, on some points I wondered if Carlisle was not puffing a stick of goof whilst tapping on his keyboard

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 # 4 | 29.03.2006 06:26

"In the meantime, as Obasanjo’s apologist including Reuben Abati and Tanslim Anibaba (sic), and others sing their Obasanjo forever, one really wonders what will become of 2007"

Hello Mr. Carlisle Umunnah,
Your above quote refers.
I have been reading Reuben Abati regularly since 1992 when he was at Hints Magazine up till when he moved over to the Guardian newspapers and he had never disappointed me. I am therefore confident to say that he had never canvassed suport for Third Term for Obasanjo.
Or if you think I'm wrong, kindly quote your source. If you can't, then stop disparaging other people's good names and make sure you get your facts right before disseminating any information.

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 # 5 | 29.03.2006 07:41

What sort of rubbish is this. i have to agree with Boy o Boy. anyone can now claim to be a freelance writer. Pure hear say. i think i will write an article on nigeria producing Enriched uranium at the Delta steel plant @ alaja the the ajakorta steel plant. watch this space.

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 # 6 | 29.03.2006 13:59

I am not surprised at all by the reactions of some Nigerians to this article. Why you might ask?.

Well the answer is very simple. Look at it this way, every single Nigerian has been so bastardized, not only are the majority of us (including your BSc, MBA, Phd's) ignorant of our fundamental human rights, we dont even know what constitute a fundamental human rights.

Every single Nigerian that was ever born and raised in that country even only for 10 years at any time in thier life have had their integrity, common sense and any single part of the brain used for thinking beaten and snuffed out them. Yes! including you with all your degrees and international awards. To the extent that we don't even know the truth anymore. we love mediocrity and make heroes out thieves and vagonbs.

I mean for anyone to suggest that the people at the helms of power did know how and who killed a federal Justice (highest law maker in the land) justifies my point. I guess Ige, Dele Giwa, Harry Marshal and many more that have gone and will follow very soon ( in the name keeping power) were killed by USA, since we are blaming them for everything now.

Mr. Umunnah, please don't waste your time and energy discussing issues with these people. I guess Fela Anikulapo Kuti said it best when he called us Nigerians suffer heads and too stupid to know facts from fiction. Can you imagine, Fela predicted the future of Nigerians. Some you might still be in denial, call any sorts of name you want, that country is destined to fail very soon. It's about time we start telling each other the bitter truth. Forget about the the fact we have been raised with don't worry e go better mentality for years. It's not getting better it is getting worse.

Let me guess, these people might even say all the deplorable conditions of an average Nigerian that Fela sang about 25 years ago have gotten better right?

An average Nigerian doesn't know better Mr. Umunnah do not waste your time.

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TASLIMTASLIM is online

 # 7 | 29.03.2006 15:37

MR. UMMUNAH,

YOU WROTE "In the meantime, as Obasanjo’s apologist including Reuben Abati and Tanslim Anibaba, and others sing their Obasanjo forever, one really wonders what will become of 2007. Will there be a country called Nigeria still around for them to loot and plunder remains the big inquiry"


I HAVE NEVER READ SOMETHING MORE STUPID AND SENSELESS SO FAR IN MY LIFE.

HOW CAN YOU INSINUATE AND INDEED WRITE "Will there be a country called Nigeria still around for them to loot and plunder remains the big inquiry" WHEN YOU HARDLY KNOW ME.

I AM NOT IN GOVERNMENT YET NEITHER AM I A GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR IN ANY FORM. WHICH MONEY DID I LOOT?

IF YOU CHECK ON THE INTERNET YOU WILL HAVE AN IDEA OF THE PLACES THAT I HAVE WORKED.

IS IT A CRIME TO SUPPORT OBJ FOR WHATEVER REASON I CHOOSE?
MUST I FOLLOW YOUR STEPS OR WAIT FOR ORDERS FROM YOU BEFORE I CHOOSE THE PATH THAT I DESIRE.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION I AM AN ADULT AND I CAN CHOOSE WHAT I WANT.

YOU WILL SURELY BE A LAUGHING STOCK TO THOSE WHO KNOW ME BY THE TIME THEY READ THE TRASH YOU WROTE ABOUT ME.

FINALLY, IT IS A PITY THAT THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE OPPOSSED TO THIS ADMINISTRATION DONT HAVE BRAINS TO THINK, NO STRATEGY, NOTHING . ONLY BLACKMAIL , STUPID AND OUTPOURINGS FROM DEPRESSED INSANITY AS REFLECTED IN THE RUBBISH YOU WROTE ABOUT ME AND REUBEN ABATI.

IF YOU HAVE BEEN READING ARTICLES IN THIS VILLAGE, YOU WOULD HAVE NOTICED THAT REUBEN HAS BEEN RECEIVING SERIOUS BASHING ON ACCOUNT OF HIS WRITINGS AGAINST OBJ LATELY.

OGA LOOK FOR ANOTHER JOB OR PAST TIME, WRITING IS FOR DEVELOPED MINDS AND THAT IS WHY SOMEONE ONCE WROTE " OF ALL THOSE ARTS IN WHICH THE WISE EXCEL, NATURE'S CHIEF MASTERPIECE IS WRITING WELL"

DO YOU EVEN REALISE THAT I AM A CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT AND DID YOU CONSIDER THE IMPLICATION OF YOUR STATEMENT. I COULD MAKE MILLIONS OUT OF YOU IF I DESIRE. FEMI EWETUGA PLEASE BE ON STANDBY

TASLIM

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BayoBayo is online

 # 8 | 30.03.2006 03:50

Carlisle, you are very correct on the above subject matter.

In 2001, i led a delegation of my company from overseas to NEPA headquarter in abuja with a proposal to revamp the organisation as it was done in other countries by my company. In the proposal, we would do the financing to rehabilitate the dead generation power station and after 1 or 2 years, Nigeria will starts exporting power and another earnings from it. To my greatest surprise, NEPA management refused and thereafter, they set up the so called TECHNICAL BOARD headed by Imoke.

My conclusion is that since money will be used directly to rehabitate these power station with no money going through anybody in NEPA, they rejected our proposal.

Inview of the above, I want to believe that your informations on NEPA are very CORRECT.

Please keep it up.

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 # 9 | 30.03.2006 04:53


FINALLY, IT IS A PITY THAT THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE OPPOSSED TO THIS ADMINISTRATION DONT HAVE BRAINS TO THINK, NO STRATEGY, NOTHING . ONLY BLACKMAIL , STUPID AND OUTPOURINGS FROM DEPRESSED INSANITY AS REFLECTED IN THE RUBBISH YOU WROTE ABOUT ME AND REUBEN ABATI.


What a sweeping and inaccurate generalization from a supposedly intelligent mind. As they say "by their fruits ye shall know them". No strategy? You've got to be kidding. Watch, listen and learn dear man. Blackmail? Ask the PDP and this Government, they should know about blackmail. Stupid and outpourings from depressed insanity? No brains? Come on, you say you are a Chartered Accountant. Surely, you are more intelligent than that.


IF YOU HAVE BEEN READING ARTICLES IN THIS VILLAGE, YOU WOULD HAVE NOTICED THAT REUBEN HAS BEEN RECEIVING SERIOUS BASHING ON ACCOUNT OF HIS WRITINGS AGAINST OBJ LATELY.


Some exaggeration won't you say? Abati has had more support on this board than criticism and his critics are predictably the same people. In my estimation, his views have wider acceptability in Nigeria than yours. The continued wide readership of his newspaper surely attests to that.


DO YOU EVEN REALISE THAT I AM A CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT AND DID YOU CONSIDER THE IMPLICATION OF YOUR STATEMENT. I COULD MAKE MILLIONS OUT OF YOU IF I DESIRE.


Holy Mackerel! Do you know that the man has millions for you to make out of him? Talk about blackmail and from the same person who has made a highly libellous statement about the opposition?


IS IT A CRIME TO SUPPORT OBJ FOR WHATEVER REASON I CHOOSE?


Holy smoke! No!! In today's Nigeria it appears a crime to oppose him.


I AM NOT IN GOVERNMENT YET


Now you are talking. So is this the point of all the sycophantic exaltation? Interestingly, one Anibaba has recently been appointed Minister of Works. Any relation?

Carlisle Umunnah, I have read your article which tends to ramble a bit. It is weak on substantiation and incredulous in places but I find it interesting all the same. It would appear that you are saying that it is the fault of the North that NEPA does not work. That requires an amazing leap of faith and to my mind is fatuous. Nevertheless, the government is the villain here because in the absence of clear answers (instead of spin), speculations of the sort you have provided will continue to thrive.

Finally, Taslim please stop shouting. If the caps lock is stuck on your keyboard, get another one.

Aluta!

Gwobezentashi

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BawaBawa is online

 # 10 | 02.04.2006 20:11

Well, yours is read and the content well clear, i was just wondering why your informant decided to keep quite until 2006 when election is just around the corner. If what you've reported is true, then it is really very unfortunate for nigeeria and nigerians.
One thing i like about the report is your unbias in condeming both obasonjo and atiku, but my reservation is just in the way you are generalising and attrubiting corruption to the northers. It may be that the south have their resources, but from my experiance with the happenings around the world and especially the humiliation we are facing internationally due to the corrupt practices of your kinsmen, the Igbos I feel highly relagated and ashamed of introducing myself as a nigerian. Going by the present stigma, i will prefer nigeria to dissintigrate so that igbos will demolish their houses and farm, yorubas to continue to eat garri and cassava, while the northerners eats hunger and probably cows and maize.
Finally, i thank God that either your informer is affraid of telling the truth, considering the sacrifice as too grate, or it is politically motivated so that people will underscore the likes of atiku. Which ever the case may be, i dont see myself going to nigeria to cast a vote for either IBB, ATIKU or OBASANJO, I may vote you to see how you and the entire igbo kinsmen will rehablitate the igbos in their criminal acts, especially armed robery. No wonder the CBN governor states that the igbos are maginalized even in corruption hence organised a dinner where banks are compell to pay #2M each.
 

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