Nigeria Would Explode

Nigeria is founded on lies, deceit, laziness, retrogression, oppression and the sooner it dies and gives way to a just entity the better - either as a compact whole with federating units or separate countries. Until resource control is enthroned, Nigeria must die, die, die, die, die, and die! Nigeria is built on quick sand, on an uncharacteristic clay soil of perfidy, where slugabeds revel in bacchanalia, where myths gambol as reality.Commonsense is a strange substance in this land. Far from the barberry people eulogize, Nigeria is a pond of absurdity.

States rely on the Niger delta for oil with little or no initiative to generate wealth. Not one person has thought it fit to stray or vociferously pursue a bill to kill this monthly-allocation malady like the legal spearhead against slavery in Britain, William Wilberforce who pursued the cause with might and main until slave trade was delegalized in 1807.On March 25 Britain would remember him for being a strong voice against the dark, barbarous trade in humans.

People sulk at easy oil doles from Abuja and pride themselves with achievements derived therein without a sense of shame and contradiction. They’ve never thought it fit to devise more constructive ways from limited resources to exponential heights using their own land resources and leaving others absolutely to theirs.The afectless idiosyncrasy of the affecting plight of oil-producing communities would, I have no doubt, dynamite Nigeria to shreds unless a hands-on, immediate corrective policy is instituted.

Creativity is a strange man with four legs in Nigeria .There is little or no interest in diversification. I am looking for a governor, a minister, local chairman who would refuse oil allocations and come up with something creative to live on. I search for that government martyr willing to receive the sack over refusal to be another governor receiving oil doles monthly.I get irritated when a hear: ‘This non-Niger Delta governor gets a fifth of what Niger Deltans get and yet he is able to do much’? Why can’t that governor use his ‘prudence’ and find a way to earn money other than oil? It could mean exploring solid minerals in his land, taxing people and other abundance waiting for judicious use. Instead we swell the head of people averse to performance whose only faculty recognizes oil and pontificate therein.

If I ever get to any position of authority as governor/minister et al I would break ranks!I would rather be thrown out and let the message beam that a cause was advanced: to free Nigeria from the shackles of mediocrity and enthrone commonsense, talent, development. Not a Nigeria where all component parts prey on the largely weak ethnic groups of the delta but a Nigeria where everyone utilizes the resources within their borders and generates clean income for use in running government and society.

Nigeria is a vicious cycle of the same defeating occurrences, only with increased tempo at every turn. One government replaces the other in mediocrity, rhetoric, corruption, backwardness, and oil-dependence. Here we are now with the same drumbeats of: ‘Yar Adua would present good leadership. He is a meek man.’ Yet he had almost eight years to prove his mettle, instead he introduced Sharia and fought the Niger Delta over their oil resources. He is a bantamweight of no relevance and we must be spared further irritation by further promotion of his name. His recent predicament should teach him a lesson of the effect of poor leadership he helped nurture while his eyes were abroad.

The same lukewarm praises were said of this present government, the one before it and the one before. Litanies of sycophantic outpourings stream out on every turn. Few bother to check facts before speaking. Sometimes you wonder whether it is a pathological defect in reasoning. For goodness sake, how would a man of miserable performance discharge a greater calling? Shouldn’t the little legacy presage the future? But no this is Nigeria. The Odilis, Atikus, Buharis, Ameachis, Ubas et al still factor in people’s consideration for leadership. Under Odili’s governorship poverty worsened, hardship increased in heat. Yet these precedents do not sound an alarm.

Today there are people crying because Atiku was removed from the presidential list, a list I shudder with pity at the caliber of people therein, yet this is a man who under his joint trust $20 billion disappeared. This amount may never be discovered, it will be another historical theatre of accusations, denials as Babaginda’s regime. He has no scruples because the money wasn’t derived from his earth. Fire and heat never blazed in his hometown to acquire the money. There was no oil spill, no pollution to acquire the money.Yet we have to endure this clutched mediocrity as he runs around like a headless chicken around our courts.He should plunge his head into the dustbin of history.

He has won himself a name like many others - a name in ignominy, but of course he shoots on. Nigerian leaders do not understand the concept of falling on the sword. They stay because they never had an ideology that emphases vision. That is why we have had a president, vice president, governors, and local chairmen for almost eight years. They lacked the internal framework to throw in the towel after six months in government. They allowed us - and still do - feel the full force of the injection.This is never a time to feel pity for anyone. Time has far been spent on worthlessness, now our language and action must be plain.

Aside from the fact that the terrain of Niger Delta demands great funds for road construction and other efforts compared to the hinterland they deserve to enjoy the full flow of their environment. Those with gold, coal and other mineral resources can also join the South Africans, the Namibians, and the Ghanaians in reaping from precious earth. If not I implore them to tie themselves in explosion. The explosion of the Roman Empire and other empires or entities that have dwindled in world influence serve as lessons to those who can read the handwriting on the wall.

Those who revel in obfuscation and sophistries can only continue deceiving themselves until the sledge hammer of history that visited the Soviet Union, Apartheid South Africa, the Balkans, and Segregation etc smashes them into smithereens.Justice to my understanding contends that a deal under a ratio of 13:100 with component parts contributing nothing certainly is a bad contract and therefore an equitable remedy only right.

Perhaps no where does the fraud that is Nigeria find expression than the solid mineral department.Solid minerals held great future in the thrust for diversification and achieving a federating status as almost all if not all states have solid minerals of economic worth in their domain but the forces of uncertainty have hijacked the initiative. Since the Mining Act - designed to ensure exploration - was signed into law there has been a painful haze of confusion over the viability of the law.

The Tide newspaper reported on February 27, 2007 that forty-two (42) new mineral deposits were found in Nigeria. Until, parasitic, cave-dwelling Nigerians shed themselves of their inabilities Nigeria, I have no doubt heads towards extinction. History is a wonderful brother because it reveals great implosions certain for any unjust country.