INDEPENDENCE MESSAGE FROM THE DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVE TO NIGERIANS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 49^TH ANNIVERSARY OF NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE, OCTOBER 1 2009.

This message is addressed to all Nigerians on the occasion of the 49^th National Independence Day on Thursday October 1, 2009. The entire members of the Democratic Alternative both at home and abroad commiserate with all our peoples, particularly for their entrapment in 49 years of exploitation, looting of our common heritage and waste that have been their sad experience since the departure of the colonialists on October 1, 1960. The massive resources that God has blessed this country and people with do not justify the increasing poverty that is pervading in the land. The resources that are being expended remain in inverse proportion to the rising level of poverty. A number of the ruling clique including Obasanjo, Orji Kalu and Yakubu Gowon have said it on different occasions and in various words that Nigerians deserve much better than they have been treated by the ruling politicians.

The blueprint of the much touted Vision 20:2020 is just being perfected with the aid of foreigners 18 months to the end of the four years government of third term of the Peoples Democratic Party in power.

In twelve years of PDP government, Nigeria is not among the 16 Third World countries that have recorded economic progress since year 2000. Instead Nigeria is in the category of countries such as Chad , Niger , Malawi , Benin and Yemen, Bangladesh , Uganda , Nigeria and Madagascar that have been listed as stagnant. Indeed, the case of Nigeria is worse than being stagnant: industries are closing; agriculture remains in a primitive system except for the isolated island of foreign exploitation by Zimbabweans who are investing in Kwara State. The core issue is that the ruling parties and politicians are disinterested in the economic development of a country that is among the very richest in human history. They are only keen in converting the national resources into private wealth, a process that is being accelerated with the programme of privatisation, deregulation and liberalisation that the PDP government is pursuing to the advantage of foreigners and the ruling clique.

The people of Nigeria cannot fold their arms and remain in the state of stupor and deprivation. There is a solution. The DA calls on all exploited Nigerians to join hands and build the party into a mass movement for the evolution of new politicians who are trained to be dedicated to the liberation of our peoples from the grips of predators and the rapid economic development of the country for the immediate upliftment of the quality of living of 140 million Nigerians. Otherwise, the PDP that has a plan to exploit the country for 60 years will put Nigeria in the category of Latin American countries with rich national resources but are trapped in 100 years of poverty by a few cohort of local exploiters who are in perpetual grip of power in those countries. We do not have to join that group. Organised political action is the answer.

The jobs at hand are to dismantle the mess in which we are trapped and restart the immense work of building our country with the objectives of

• Abolishing unemployment in five years of coming to power
• Minimum wage of 50,000.00 naira per month and a fixed ceiling to highest pay in the country on getting to power
• Rapid industrialisation and local investment in agriculture by Nigerians to create jobs and remove dependence on import of finished products
• Free and compulsory education to all children at primary and secondary schools 
• Free tertiary education and technical training for all who are in those levels of education
• Standardised roads, rail system, waterways, city subways and air transport to remove the current hardships our people suffer in the course of movement
• Family housing to be available to all in ten years of being in power and abolition of tenancy of residential properties
• Easy access to healthcare services for 140 million Nigerians at standardised health care institutions and abolition of receiving care abroad at public expense
• Full access to potable water by the entire population in five years of being in power

Nigeria has the immediate capacity to pursue this people oriented programme of development. We only need to remove predators from power. We can do it and we will. 

For Democracy and Liberation

Dr Abayomi Ferreira

President

Democratic Alternative

Robot  # 1 | 01.10.2009 09:04

...Read the full article.

britroyal1  # 2 | 01.10.2009 10:57

lofty goals, now tell me HOW?

PAPIG  # 3 | 03.10.2009 10:58

Hello Britroyal1 How? By joining hands with DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVE AND SIMILAR GROUPS and doing our bit to ensure a better society. Look at what happened to that common THIEF OBASANJO when he came to London for a Lecture or your kleptomanic AGF AOONDONKEY who came to launder the thieving image of thief Ibori recently. It may not have put Obasanjo or the AGF in jail, but it has served them notice that they have NOWHERE TO HIDE THEMSELVES OR THEIR ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH ABROAD. Let us not sit at home and expect others to do the job of cleansing Nigeria of rampant thieves and murderers to ensure good governance and upliftment our people from preventable poverty and servitude. That you contribute to this forum shows you care and i can only apologise to you if you are already doing your bit to make NIGERIA GREAT and NIGERIA CAN ONLY BE GREAT IF WE CONCERTEDLY RID IT OF ALL THE THIEVES THROTTLING OUR JUGULAR VESSEL. NO ACT IS TOO SMALL AND IT STARTS FROM NOW! Let us Start with our family members by educating them to vote for men and women with INTEGRITY AND COMMITMENT TO THE DOWN-TRODDEN MASSES and not to those in love with their own pockets as represented by the present PDP and equally culpable so called progressives in the mould of OTUNBA BOLA TINUBU OR RIBADU. We need a fresh start and it starts with US and OUR family and friends. Let us tell them to TAKE THE MONEY OF THE THIEVING POLITICIANS BUT TO VOTE FOR THE RIGHT PEOPLE AND ENSURE THEIR VOTE IS COUNTED, COLLATED AND ANNOUNCED TO THE WORLD. A thousand mile journey starts with a first step or What else do we want?