EDO STATE COLLAPSES; ON THE LIST OF STATES IN CRITICAL CONDITION: THE SENATE MAY SCRAP EDO STATE OR MERGE IT WITH OTHER STATES: HOW ADAMS OSHIOMALE & OTHER PAST GOVERNORS RUINED EDO STATE;THE GREAT PLANS OF PRINCE FRANK ONAIVI UKONGA TO MAKE EDO STATE GREAT AGAIN.
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Edo State of Nigeria has been classified among the States in critical financial condition by the recent release of the financial conditions of the States of the Nigerian Federation by the Governor’s Forum, a great initiative of Prince Asishana Okauru who is the Director General of the Governors Forum. And many Nigerians that spoke to National Peoples News are full of praise for the organization for speaking out the true situation so that quick remedies can be worked out to salvage these states from total collapse.
In the case of Edo State the major cause of this Failure is due to successive bad and kleptomaniac leadership of the state for the past 12 years since the beginning of this nascent democratic dispensation in 1999.
The State gets the normal funds from the Federations Account and also as a Petroleum Producing State get part of the 25% derivative allocations to the Petroleum Producing state monthly as well are getting support from the Niger Delta Region Agency that was formed by the federal government to assists all the States of the Niger Delta to achieve rapid social and economic progress.
The various governors of Edo State only achieved ruining the state through massive looting of the treasuries of the good people of Edo State.
Now what can be done to restore Edo State back to its former greatness?
The only solution is to vote into office in 2012 a competent Governor that will take Edo State to greatness…Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga , a great son of Edo State has been persuaded by his people to contest in the governorship election of 2012 and hopefully, if he wins then we are optimistic that he has the capacity and international connections to take Edo state to the promised land.
Right now Edo state has no single industry that is functioning or any functioning Factory in the great state. A State that has a population of above 4 Million people.
Many of the sons and daughters of the great state have checked out to other states in Nigeria while some have traveled abroad in search of greener pasture. Whereas in Edo state God has blessed them with virtually everything that can make them the leading state among the 36 federating states of Nigeria.
Edo state is blessed with Petroleum, lime stone, calcite, granite, ferrous iron, gold diamond, radium, uranium, barium and many other valuable minerals.
The agriculture and animal husbandry is also blessed as Edo state has cocoa, cashew, palm oil, timber, rubber lattice, cotton, ginger, etc.. And as in food crop Edo state is also a leading state. The only problem with Edo state is the wrong leadership. And once Edo State can vote for the right person in the forth coming election then they are set for greatness.
The educational sectors were Edo State used to lead other states has plummeted with the advent of the draconian rule of Adams Oshiomale who charges exorbitant fees from all the schools of Edo State. For instance in the universities and Polytechnics the fees was at N15000 Naira before Adams Oshiomale came to power but after he resume he hiked the fees to N80,000 Naira making it virtually impossible for the parent to afford to sent their siblings to higher institutions. And it is the same for secondary schools.
Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga has promised in his Manifesto, that if elected the Edo State governor in the 2012 general elections, he is going to make education free and qualitative at all levels; as he believes that a sound education is the greatest asset, a state can ever bequeath its people.
Currently Adams Oshiomale is taxing the Edo State peoples to their blood. He has recently introduced a transport corp. similar to the FRSC of the federal government competing with the agencies under the presidency in order to create a quasi sovereignty of Edo state and put the state into slavery in perpetuity as his colleague Gov Raji Fashola is doing in Lagos. They belong to the same ACN party. There method is to Rule using the methods and philosophy of Machiavelli to control, dominate and enslave the people through stilt, disinformation, brute force and unusual tragedies, systematic disparaging and impoverishment of perceived opponents and a blatant arrogance that they have a monopoly of wisdom. We all know this is a pathological disease suffered by people evincing a deep sense of guilt and self pity of lack of adequate expositions and enlightenment.
Recently Adams Oshiomale demolished the houses of a former great military Governor of the state General Osaigbovo Ogbemudia and that of Senator Owie because they belong to the opposition coalition of parties that are ready to wrestle power form him come 2012 polls. That is how his demolition squad demolishes the houses of millions of people in the state for questionable infrastructural developments at over inflated bills to the great peace loving people of Edo State.
THE GREAT PLANS OF PRINCE FRANK UKONGA TO DEVELOP EDO STATE:
Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga studied Road ,Bridges and Highway Construction from a prestigious Soviet Union [Russia] University so the aspects of infrastructural development is his field of study and he is going to develop all the Edo State Roads, Bridges, Airports, Stadiums, Town Halls, dams, boreholes, electricity, and other infrastructures in partnerships with his former class mates in Russia using direct labor system which is going to create lots of jobs. The amiable Prince of Igarra said the direct labor force in infrastructural development of the state which he is going to implement as an expert in the field will create at least 0ne million jobs and also train Road and civil engineers in his former school in Russia…
“I promise that Edo state is going to get the first biggest asphalt/ bitumen production factory , a modern quarry industry and would be the largest in Africa in the aspect of provisions of Road and civil construction raw materials like building blocks, cement, iron rods, flat sheets, angles…electrical components bulbs…glass making factories.. Granites, tiles, plumbing materials, interior decoration and roofing materials, nails, aluminum roofing, asbestos roofing materials etc…we call this in Russia – “stroitelnoye materialov” and it’s a very big profitable industry...this will increase to hundred folds the resources of the state-
Alhaji Aliko Dangote is the richest man in Africa because he is investing in that field of construction material of cement etc and he never studied that field in school…
But I studied it in school. I can tell you how to make cement, build the components that will process the lime stone and will grind and heat it into powder and use either the wet method or the dry method… same with the manufacture of bitumen, asphalt, tiles, paint, iron rods, roofing sheets , nail making and virtually all building and construction materials. I can in a jiffy put up any factory including cable factories, tools factories…just name it… we do a lot of practical in Russian Schools but remember I will not build these factories in my name, I will build them for Edo state people , in their name…you must understand that Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga is an acetic Prince.. That is such Princes that hates the mundane accumulation of money and material wealth for personal use and hates ostentatious living…I am like Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru…Murtala Mohammed, Aminu Kano, Obafemi Awolowo, ….”.
In the aspects of industry the Prince promise an industry to be sited in every local Government area in the state… the big industries will span food canning, ginnery, textile, cement production, fertilizer productions lines, palm oil processing factories, tools making factories, cocoa processing factories, refineries, automobile manufacturing factories ,computer and electronic manufacturing factories, cable manufacturing factories, Plastic manufacturing, pulp and paper manufacturing factories, printing presses, and also to invest heavily into small and medium scale industries… he is also convinced that Edo state should be the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria in the distribution of all goods in the country as it is located in the heart of Nigeria. So warehouses will be built to stock and distribute goods from all manufacturers in the country.
He also promises to support market women by building good affordable stores and markets all over the state and also give direct grants to all market women in the state.
Scholarships and bursary awards to all students of EDO State as well as social security salary to be paid to people without jobs…it may not be much but everybody must get something from the Prince at the end of every month to keep body and soul together.
As for the hospitals; new hospital with modern equipments, will be built in all local government headquarters of the state..
And pharmaceutical companies will be invited to Edo State to manufacture the genuine drugs for the state great citizen. “We shall not tolerate fake drugs in Edo state as soon as I become the governor of the state.”
Said the Prince of Kukuruku Provinces, principalities and powers.
“My birth was a foretold one …and I reincarnated from the spirit realm into the material world to come and help people, and alleviate their sufferings., bringing smiles and joys to their faces…that is my destiny in life….I hate treasury looters; if I am in the position of power I will execute or give life jail terms to treasury looters…just as done in China and Russia…”
As for water, it is also his field of study and he has promised to provide drinking water to run in the now dry taps of the Edo peoples.
As for electricity, because of our need for rapid development we shall assist the federal government to generate electricity of above 5000 MW to the national grid.
As for Steel rolling mill he offered the following…” No nation or State can become an industrial giant without the capacity to produce liquid steel. We shall commence our liquid steel rolling mill the first day I become the governor of the state…and this will attract investors to the state like bees to honey”
As for sports, culture and youth development the prince promised to take the state to the highest level of sports, youth and cultural development…
As for Education he promised to build new universities, secondary schools, research centers, nursing schools, agricultural and technologically equipped polytechnics and to invest in nursery and primary education.
“I strongly believe that the aspects of industrial and agricultural development should not be left for the private sector alone… I believe in a well managed mixed economic and industrial state and my prerogative will be to form and run numerous factories and industries and to partner the private investors through share acquisition and access to state debenture capitals, Tax relief incentives as well as tax deductibles…”
“Most of what I will do to revamp Edo state , I wrote in my award winning book published in 1992 – The Seething World- Reparations for the Black Race- the book is a modern dictionary of how to develop and govern a state to success; the book made the Deans list of Northwestern University In Illinois State of the United States along with the book of Prof. Wole Shoyinka and Prof Ade Ajayi as most valuable books of the Human Race,-a very short list of 20 most valuable books of the world- it also made the list of most valuable books of Open Library of America along the books of great sages like President Kwame Nkrumah, Leopold Senghor former President of Senegal, and Secou Toure former president of Guinea…also a very short list..., and also classified by the United State Library of Congress as a most valuable book, as well as in many countries of Europe, Asia and Africa…”
“It also made the Wikipedia list in the Deway class of best books ever written by mankind- also a very short list and the Google books, Amazon books, E-bay, GET Cited, Abe books, Yahoo books, and all the book marketing sites of the internet on their own digitized the book without my knowledge and are selling it and using it to promote their sites. I am talking of big corporate institutions of the world investing courageously in a book without seeking the author’s permission…they would not take such great risk if the book is not a genius material, of course a golden book has no hiding place as the adage goes…Many of the great ideas in the book are being adapted by many countries of the world…”
“When a book is classified as most valuable category, what it means in most cases is that you have to get permission from an Attorney at law or a recognized, qualified Lawyer, to have access to my books in most exclusive libraries of the world”
“I appeal to the entire peoples of Edo State, to the entire great peoples of Nigeria and to all the powers there be, to the shakers and movers of the country and to the entire world in generality to assist me become the Governor of Edo State come 2012 general election so that we can all join hands to make the great legacies of king Ewuare, of King Esige, of queen Idia, great again….I am begging with honesty, humility and nobility…
Long Live Edo State …Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Amen.”
The Amiable, handsome, gentle, soft spoken Prince concluded.
By all indication, the Prince is a great asset to Edo State, the Nigerian Federation and the world in generality in the aspect of polished, educated and enlightened, post modern human resource development.
BY DR PAT IWEBO: National Research and Development Editor National Peoples News.
Monday, 31 October 2011
EDITORIAL: NFF SACK OF SIASIA; NATIONAL EAGLE COACH FOR FAILING WOEFULLY TO QUALIFY THE GREEN EAGLES FOR THE AFRICAN CUP OF NATIONS;-A COURAGEOUS STEP
EDITORIAL: NFF SACK OF SIASIA; NATIONAL EAGLE COACH FOR FAILING WOEFULLY TO QUALIFY THE GREEN EAGLES FOR THE AFRICAN CUP OF NATIONS;-A COURAGEOUS STEP…. http://nationalpeoplesnews2.blogspot.com
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| KESHI- NEW EAGLE COACH |
The NFF sack of the National Eagle coach for failing woefully to qualify the Nigeria National Football flag bearers the Green Eagle for the African Nations Cup has been commended by many as a giant step in the right direction.
It is time we start taking our duties seriously in Nigeria and to shun the lazy lackadaisical attitude to National calling to serve. For instance in Japan; when the first born of a family fails the National School Certificate Exams he knows exactly the import of this as accepted by the Japanese culture.. He is expected to commit suicide for bringing the family name to disrepute as a first born. It is a disgrace to leadership. Similarly the Jewish culture does not tolerate failure either from the first born or from any child sent on a National or even sundry mission…little wonder they are so highly successful the world over.
But in our culture as well we do not tolerate failure in the days of our fathers and ancestors. It is only of recent when nepotism, laziness, tribalism, occultism and other satanic virtues crept into our body history that we begin to notice this alien phenomenon called failure. You see some parents, their sons and daughters will fail the WASC and NECO AND JAMB and they will go to any length to influence the University Rectors to admit their failed siblings into the universities and these students will graduate and get the best jobs in the country and mismanage the position and become National embarrassments. We should turn a new leaf to promote ingenuity and hard work as our new National culture rather than tolerate mediocrity.
Sunday, 30 October 2011
CBN CEO MALAM SANUSI LAMIDO SLAM GOVERNORS & MPs
CBN CEO MALAM SANUSI LAMIDO SLAM GOVERNORS & MPs
The CEO of the Central Bank of Nigeria - Malam Sanusi Lamido yesterday in a book launch ceremony in Kaduna blasted the Governors of Nigeria for their squandimania and looting character and reiterated that many States and many Local Govt councils are not viable and that they should either be scrapped or merged with other viable ones. Earlier on Malam Sanusi had warned before now of the salaries of the Senators and legislatures that consume 30% of the GNP of Nigeria in making laws ...and they are less than 2000 people, who consume all the money of Nigeria and leave the other 250 million Nigerians to wallow in poverty, scavenging and poor health delivery, hunger , poor education , illiteracy etc... all they do is globe troth with their girlfriends buying everything all over the world ...the situation is pathetic....
SUNDAY NATIONAL PEOPLES NEWS:THE ROLE OF CHURCH IN A DEVELOPING ECONOMY: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE: CAN A NATION STATE CALL FOR SUPPORT FROM CHURCH FUNDS TO FINANCE ITS CAPITAL AND RECURRENT EXPENDITURES? SHOULD CHURCHES PAY TAXES?
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| BISHOP OYEDEPO |
The globalization of the Judeo Christian History and pattern
of ethics is a great blessing to mankind and the CHURCH and SYNAGOGUES became
the flag ship of that culture order.
The history of the church and synagogues dates backs to the
origin of mankind and has gone through thick and thin to survive and bloom in
contemporary time with general acceptability due mainly to the premises of ethical
morality of love, goodwill, order addressed for mankind to be at peace with his
fellow man and at concord with his creator.
Whence their role in molding, the behavioral ethics and
motivation of devotees is commendable. This has become a great legacy that has
boxed the Hobe’s nature of man’s carnality where life becomes brute and short
to the corner albeit still growing to achieve full conquest in this context..
THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NATION
STATES:
The church was very supportive to the development of many
Nation States the world over in the context of governance, statehood, diplomacy,
& financial support to governments and in many other ways, in its great
turbulent history.
The Roman Empire that embraced the Catholic order was a
Nation built around the philosophical and political system of the Bible, adulterated
here and there with the doctrines of men in most instances addressed to jockey
the society to acceptable standards…Church funds, offerings, tithes and
contributions became very supportive in the infrastructural developments of
these nations as well as in the capital, and recurrent budget expenditure of
these nations.
After the Roman Empire, the
Russian Orthodoxy, the Renaissance period of central Europe of Zuigily
movement, John Calvin and the times of Ignatius Loyola all paid loyalties to
their respective states…
Though at this juncture we need to quickly mention the
Crusaders wars that were financed with church money waged by Christian Nations…
A major milestone was recorded in history, in the context of
the great use of Church money to finance state budgets in the Era of King Henry,
the Grand Father of Elizabeth 1 who for other reasons of search for a male hare
to the throne of England Devoiced his wife ,Queen Mary the Nice of the Roman Papacy
for the inability to born him a male child,
and was subsequently excommunicated by Rome.
He quickly formed the Anglican Church and mandated Lord
Cranners the Archbishop of Canterbury to Nationalize all Catholic churches to
the Anglican faith and got independence form Rome…This was a great mile stone
in the spread of new marketable variation of same underlying reality of God
worship among men and subsequently this great risk of King HENRY paid off as
the Church Money was able to consolidate in the British society, rather than
the est while capital flight as in church money being sent to Rome all the time..
Britain soon became capitalized and with support partly from these Church funds
was able to kick start the British Industrial Revolution and today Britain is arguably
the centre of Western Civilization…There are countless other examples of how great
Nations looked up to the churches for funding their capital and recurrent
expenditures…
ANALYSIS OFF CHURCH FUNDS IN NIGERIA:
Nigeria
is a country with a per capital income estimate of above $1500.. with a GNP of
above $300 billion annually and a large population of above 250 million people
according to the 1963 census; so an estimate of growing number of the believers
may put at an estimate of more than 100million believers in Nigeria and the tithe
from these people 10% of their total earning, coupled with church offerings
every Sundays, Wednesday and lots of offerings and harvests of churches, the
Church institution in Nigeria has an access to colossal sums of money put at an
estimate of above $80 billion annually.
And when the new
systems of having foreign branches as in big churches like the Redeem group of
Adeboye, Christ Embassy of Pastor Chis Oyakilome, Bishop David Oyedepo’s Church
group etc, with numerous branches in more than 80 Nations of the world the
capital repatriated from these Nations all goes to the head office in Nigeria.
Whence the Nigeria Church has become a great money spinning
industry on a global scale and if one is not being conservative with the truth
the Nigerian Churches collectively generate over 60% of the GNP of Nigeria i.e.
above $200billion dollars annually. This is a colossal amount of money left to
the hands of a few church leaders who unfortunately are not sensitive to the
plight of the devotees paying the money in slavish reverence, as many devotees
are redundant, jobless and poor, while the Church leaders globe trot round the
world buying Airplanes, riding Jeeps all over the places with countless of
security escorts and are living in breathtaking mansions etc.. Really living
like oil sheiks….
The question is:
1] Should the Federal Government and State Governments pay
deaf eyes to the cry of the devotees who are crying out for equity in shearing
the dividends of the church money?
2] Should the Govt look up to the churches to cough out some
of this colossal capital in their hand for National Developments of
infrastructures which we all know are in bad shape…?
3] Should the government collect taxes from Churches as they
also benefits from the general spending of the government in keeping the
sovereignty safe, and prosperous for them to ply their trade..?
These are a few pressing questions that the States and
Federal Governments has to look into with a view to come to equity in the
aspect of Church money in the Nigerian State.
Whence there is the urgent need for the Federal and State
Govts to invite all church leaders to a table conference and appeal to them for
support in this hour of need of the Nigerian Federation.
SUNDAY NATIONAL PEOPLES NEWS:THE ROLE OF CHURCH IN A DEVELOPING ECONOMY: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE: CAN A NATION STATE CALL FOR SUPPORT FROM CHURCH FUNDS TO FINANCE ITS CAPITAL AND RECURRENT EXPENDITURES? SHOULD CHURCHES PAY TAXES?
SUNDAY NATIONAL PEOPLES NEWS:THE
ROLE OF CHURCH IN A DEVELOPING ECONOMY: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE: CAN A NATION
STATE CALL FOR SUPPORT FROM CHURCH FUNDS TO FINANCE ITS CAPITAL AND RECURRENT
EXPENDITURES? SHOULD CHURCHES PAY TAXES?
The globalization of the Judeo Christian History and pattern
of ethics is a great blessing to mankind and the CHURCH and SYNAGOGUES became
the flag ship of that culture order.
The history of the church and synagogues dates backs to the
origin of mankind and has gone through thick and thin to survive and bloom in
contemporary time with general acceptability due mainly to the premises of ethical
morality of love, goodwill, order addressed for mankind to be at peace with his
fellow man and at concord with his creator.
Whence their role in molding, the behavioral ethics and
motivation of devotees is commendable. This has become a great legacy that has
boxed the Hobe’s nature of man’s carnality where life becomes brute and short
to the corner albeit still growing to achieve full conquest in this context..
THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NATION
STATES:
The church was very supportive to the development of many
Nation States the world over in the context of governance, statehood, diplomacy,
& financial support to governments and in many other ways, in its great
turbulent history.
The Roman Empire that embraced the Catholic order was a
Nation built around the philosophical and political system of the Bible, adulterated
here and there with the doctrines of men in most instances addressed to jockey
the society to acceptable standards…Church funds, offerings, tithes and
contributions became very supportive in the infrastructural developments of
these nations as well as in the capital, and recurrent budget expenditure of
these nations.
After the Roman Empire, the
Russian Orthodoxy, the Renaissance period of central Europe of Zuigily
movement, John Calvin and the times of Ignatius Loyola all paid loyalties to
their respective states…
Though at this juncture we need to quickly mention the
Crusaders wars that were financed with church money waged by Christian Nations…
A major milestone was recorded in history, in the context of
the great use of Church money to finance state budgets in the Era of King Henry,
the Grand Father of Elizabeth 1 who for other reasons of search for a male hare
to the throne of England Devoiced his wife ,Queen Mary the Nice of the Roman Papacy
for the inability to born him a male child,
and was subsequently excommunicated by Rome.
He quickly formed the Anglican Church and mandated Lord
Cranners the Archbishop of Canterbury to Nationalize all Catholic churches to
the Anglican faith and got independence form Rome…This was a great mile stone
in the spread of new marketable variation of same underlying reality of God
worship among men and subsequently this great risk of King HENRY paid off as
the Church Money was able to consolidate in the British society, rather than
the est while capital flight as in church money being sent to Rome all the time..
Britain soon became capitalized and with support partly from these Church funds
was able to kick start the British Industrial Revolution and today Britain is arguably
the centre of Western Civilization…There are countless other examples of how great
Nations looked up to the churches for funding their capital and recurrent
expenditures…
ANALYSIS OFF CHURCH FUNDS IN NIGERIA:
Nigeria
is a country with a per capital income estimate of above $1500.. with a GNP of
above $300 billion annually and a large population of above 250 million people
according to the 1963 census; so an estimate of growing number of the believers
may put at an estimate of more than 100million believers in Nigeria and the tithe
from these people 10% of their total earning, coupled with church offerings
every Sundays, Wednesday and lots of offerings and harvests of churches, the
Church institution in Nigeria has an access to colossal sums of money put at an
estimate of above $80 billion annually.
And when the new
systems of having foreign branches as in big churches like the Redeem group of
Adeboye, Christ Embassy of Pastor Chis Oyakilome, Bishop David Oyedepo’s Church
group etc, with numerous branches in more than 80 Nations of the world the
capital repatriated from these Nations all goes to the head office in Nigeria.
Whence the Nigeria Church has become a great money spinning
industry on a global scale and if one is not being conservative with the truth
the Nigerian Churches collectively generate over 60% of the GNP of Nigeria i.e.
above $200billion dollars annually. This is a colossal amount of money left to
the hands of a few church leaders who unfortunately are not sensitive to the
plight of the devotees paying the money in slavish reverence, as many devotees
are redundant, jobless and poor, while the Church leaders globe trot round the
world buying Airplanes, riding Jeeps all over the places with countless of
security escorts and are living in breathtaking mansions etc.. Really living
like oil sheiks….
The question is:
1] Should the Federal Government and State Governments pay
deaf eyes to the cry of the devotees who are crying out for equity in shearing
the dividends of the church money?
2] Should the Govt look up to the churches to cough out some
of this colossal capital in their hand for National Developments of
infrastructures which we all know are in bad shape…?
3] Should the government collect taxes from Churches as they
also benefits from the general spending of the government in keeping the
sovereignty safe, and prosperous for them to ply their trade..?
These are a few pressing questions that the States and
Federal Governments has to look into with a view to come to equity in the
aspect of Church money in the Nigerian State.
Whence there is the urgent need for the Federal and State
Govts to invite all church leaders to a table conference and appeal to them for
support in this hour of need of the Nigerian Federation.
Saturday, 29 October 2011
EDITORIAL: STATE GOVERNMENTS COLLAPSES IN NIGERIA: SENATE MAY MERGE SOME STATES, WHILE SOME WILL CEASE TO EXIST; DECADES OF SQUANDERING, SENSELESS LOOTING & LIVING RECKLESSLY; A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS.
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| GOV ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE |
State Governments in Nigeria has crash; the Second constitutional Tier
of governance of the Nigerian Sovereignty has become a great embarrassment to
the peoples of Nigeria,
the entire African continent and the world in generality…due mainly to decades
of wanton looting of the treasuries of the state by successive governors since
the independence of the Nigerian Nation state…
A giant sprawling civilization of Sub-Saharan
Africa with a population estimate of 250 Million people projected from the
authentic 1963 census and peopled by the Bantu stock of dark pigmented negroid
typology, mixed with the Meronik peoples from the kursh civilization of the
Middle Nile as in the Yoruba's, Igarra, Kanuri, Basange ….etc and a sizable
percentage of the Fulani tribesmen who migrated to that part of the world after
the collapse of the Fulani rule of the Mali Empire……
With this type of mixed tribal
setting of more than 300 different tribes of Africans living together in a
geo-political entity it became imperative to adopt a system of Federalism based
on the concepts of 36 federating States under a Federal Government of
presidential system and another third tire of government- Local Government, was
added into it for reasons that the dividends of the sovereignty to trickle down
to the poor dispossessed natives and those living in the rural areas..
the system is great as designed
by those who drafted the constitution but those who become elected into offices
are the problem of this large country as the genuine patriotic people are edged
out of elective offices by the looters and mostly questionable leaders of this
part of the world who rig the elections and grab power at all costs and begin
to loot the nation dry in a vicious dangerously calculating cabals.
Little wonder after decades of
looting more than $30 trillion dollars earned from petroleum export resources of the Nigerian hard working peoples
the state governance structure as in many of the federating states have become
either distressed or in critical conditions, only four states [ Abia, anambra,
akwa ibom and…. ]out of the 36 federating state are adjudged healthy with clean
bill of health, all the other 34 states are either distressed as for…[Niger state, Kano State, Katsina
state…]..While a large number of the them are in critical condition category as
in [ Kaduna, Edo,Oyo, Ekiti, Ondo…]and lastly a
handful fall under the category of tolerable as in [Lagos State…….]
The collapse of the state
structure has finally vindicated all the civil right groups and other pressure
groups, including the world and Nigeria
media that has been vocal against the recklessness and wanton larceny of the
states by the governors.
For instance about 40 percent of the total
earnings in the federated account are constitutionally allotted to the states
government every month since in the
inception of the nascent democratic dispensation in 1999 and within the period Nigeria
has earned more than $ 4 trillion dollars from the recent increase in the
prices of petroleum in the world market , that means close to $2 trillion
dollars has been allotted to the state governments since 1999 plus the IGR
internally Generated Revenue of average of 30% of the federal allocations, the
states had access to above $ 3 trillion dollars in the past one decade but unfortunately has nothing to
show for this colossal sum of money that the federal government had sunk into
them other than bad roads, lack of portable drinking water, illiteracy, poverty
of the majority of peoples, poor and declining standards of education, mass
failure in schools[ 77% failed both WASC, JAMB, NECO EXAMS], poor health
delivery systems, the hospitals are mere consulting clinics, redundancy of
skilled and unskilled labor, more than 200 million Nigerians are unemployed
according to manufacturers Association of
Nigeria, youth restiveness, insecurity of lives and property, ravaging
cases of AID ,HIV pandemic etc. Malaria and typhoid fever that is curable has
become the major source of death of the people… right now the average life span
is less than 40 years, no industries, nor factories, while the once that were operating
before are checking out to other neighboring countries like Ghana, Togo .etc
when they saw the situation of the leadership as abysmal.
Rather than the governors to assist the
Federal government in the aspects of electricity power generation, all they do
is globe troth round the world with their wives and girl friends, buying
everything in site in a gluttonous fashion, as if tomorrow will never come…alas
tomorrow is just by the corner and it is
come. The day is dawn… the hour of reckoning is come… and all we have to show
is failure of virtually everything in the polity….One of the greatest
embarrassment in the entirety of the history of the Human Race in the aspects
of statesmanship… the situation is despicable …
And like a sinking ship who is
desperate vulnerable and dangerously calculating the governor grabbed all the
funds allocated to the third tier of governance the Local Government structure
of 774 local government like Counties and embezzle all the funds meant for the
third statutory parallel tier of government because they operate the same joint
account of which the governors are sole signatories..
So, through greed, indiscretion
and mismanagement of resources have also killed the Local Government structures
as well. And if urgent drastic action is not taken to shape things up they have
the capacity to drag the entire sovereignty into further embarrassment as they
are strong collectively.
WHAT SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT DO TO
SOLVE THE SITUATION?
The functional approach is to
isolate the specimen than can cause further destruction to any ecosystem and
begin to give it serious medical treatment addressed to rapier that portion in
this context the followings must be done urgently by the federal government
!] Separate the Local Government
account from the state government account and have the first tier of governance
firmly rooted as an anchorage of last resort. The advantage of this is to have
774 genuine authentic functioning Local Government with a review of their
constitutional provisions as in power devolution from the states to the Local
government councils….so that they can function on autonomous status and bring
rapid social economic development to the grass root of the polity.
2] A committee to be set up by
the federal government to look into the proper situation of things with the states
under the following mandate:
a] Causes of the failure of State
government institution in the country
b] The actual amount of money misappropriated
or looted from the treasuries of the states and a record of those who looted
them
c] A recovery back of this looted
funds back to the state by appealing to EFCC for support.
d] What is to be done to revamp
back to standard practice the State Government institution in the country.
e] Deterrence; after bringing
them back to the standard practice what cane be done to make sure they do no go
distressed again.
CONCLUSION:
In classical economic theory, the
conclusion will always be that funds are insufficient as the reason for the
failure of the states; and if after crucial examination this was the reason for
mass failure of state governments then the Federal government will have to do
something for them as in re empowering them back to stable functional
capacities…
NOTATIONS:
1] BLOATED LARGER THAN LIFE IMAGE
OF GOVERNORS:
It is only in Nigeria that I have seen governors
behaving as if they are head of Sovereign countries. They compete with the
President and Ministers and Senators as if they are all equal. In trying to
meet up with this bloated over inflated status quo of borrowed robs which they
clad themselves in, is the crux of the entire reason of bloated state
government spending and the inability for the allocations from the Federal
accounts to cover their large recurrent expenditure budget, leaving nothing for
the capital expenditures.
2] INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT
LOANS: Those state that have taken loans of infrastructural development bias
will come to ruin and grief as it is a very technical aspect of governance that
can easily ruin any government be it state or federal if the moneys were solely
spent on development and constructions of Roads, bridges etc in a resilient and
reluctant industrial environments or perhaps non existent industrial
environment… you will only be constructing roads for a few rich people to use
and the majority to trek on foot , poor, unemployed, denigrated and wallowing
in illiteracy, poor health delivery system, lack of portable drinking water and
lack of electricity… So thenceforth all governors and local govt chairmen
should invest directly in factories and take loans to build factories and not
just leave that aspects to the private sector.. as the real sector of the
economy contribute less than 3% to our GNP… that is the area the governors
could have been highly invaluable in forming, investing and promoting small and
medium scales industries with their resources… this will create a wealthy
market and the multiplier effect will increase the IGR via taxes, create employment,
reduce poverty and improve education and health care sectors…
DEFINITIONS & MISCONCEPTIONS
ON BUDGETARY ANALYSIS:
In modern economic theories,
government spending as in budgeting is classified under three categories
namely:
1] CAPITAL EXPENDITURE,
2] RECURRENT EXPENDITURE
3] SOCIAL SPENDING
In Nigeria there seems to be a mixed
up of this three aspects of budgeting to our own peril. For instance Road
Construction is classified as Capital expenditure for the single reason that it
is capital intensive; were as, this is perhaps an obscuring interpretation ;as
to whether Roads have the capacity to return back the huge sums of money out
played in its construction is not taken into consideration…
Road construction in comtempory times will be
classified as social spending which though mandatory but should not come before
industries, investment in the real
sector of the economy, production lines, electricity, etc are the crucial
substances that should be classified under capital expenditure in the aspects
of developing economies. State and federal government spending should be
directed to the areas of the real sector of the economy which has the immediate
capacities in paying itself back directly and not on Roads that has only an
indirect effect of paying itself back… when you have many factories, industries
and commerce in place you can now tax the industries to build modern roads….
What we are saying here is that industries and the availability and plentiful
of it should be the natural areas that the state government should invest in as
in the U.S.A, Germany etc that has a large percent of small and medium scale
industries rolling their economies these are the real middle class that are
powering big world powers…
RECURRENT EXPENDITURE: All the
three tiers of governance should as a matter of urgency cut down on recurrent
expenditure that is taking over 80% of the fund of the country. Looting of
public funds and treasuries should also stop as this further exacerbates the
situation.
AUSTERITY MEASURES: All the Tiers
of Government are advised to immediately declare austerity measures and cut
down on spending and spend prudently. There must be no wastage any more.
THE SENATE & LEGISLATURES
CONSUMPTION OF 30% OF THE GNP TO MAKE LAWS:
Malam Sanusi Lamidi made a public
out cry that if the country does not cut down the allowances and overhead of
the third arm of government of National Assembly; Nigeria runs the risk of becoming
bankrupt in 10 year. And it has begun just a few months after he cautioned all
of us… Malam Sanusi Lamido is rightly guided…may God continue to bless him…. In
Ghana, Liberia etc and most West African countries MPs have voluntarily slashed
down the cost of overhead on those Nations so that money can be made available for
other more pressing needs; and indeed urgent needs of other parts of the
economy, but in our own case the MPs are increasing their take home and as time
goes on the predictions of Malam Sanusi Lamido will come to pass …it has come
to pass on the State level…we pray earnestly that it will not manifest on
Federal Level….
We wish the sovereignty of Nigeria the
best of all three be now and for ever…
LONG LIVE FEDERAL
REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.
Friday, 28 October 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MS HILARY CLINTON;THE SECRETARY OF STATE USA By Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga, Senatorial Candidate of the 7th Republic of the Nigerian Federation.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MS HILARY CLINTON;THE SECRETARY OF STATE USA
By Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga, Senatorial Candidate of
the 7th Republic of the Nigerian Federation.
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| MS HILARY CLINTON |
EDITORIAL: MS FARIDA WAZIRI, THE EFCC, THE LEGISLATURES AND THE NIGERIAN STATE; THE R & D OF NATIONAL PEOPLES NEWS.
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| MS FARIDA WAZIRI |
EDITORIAL: MS FARIDA WAZIRI, THE EFCC, THE
LEGISLATURES AND THE NIGERIAN
STATE; THE R & D OF NATIONAL PEOPLES NEWS.
The constitutional amendment to change the position of the
CEO of EFCC from the department of the Police force of the Nigerian Federation
to be headed by a retired or serving Judge is wrong, illogical and untenable to
due process and philosophical aspects of rational inferences.
This proposed bill if it is passed into law will ultimately
kill the anti corruption crusade of the Nigerian Federation and inadvertently
kill the entire polity as looting , anarchy will become the order of the day
and could be the very causality of Nigeria becoming a failed state.
Reason must prevail that in the order of protocols of Nation
State an established precedence of Crime and restitution is adhered to by all
Nations of the world.
It is the duty of the Police Force to hunt for, and catch
criminals as their statutory and constitutional responsibility and whence that
department called EFCC- Economic and Financial Crime Commission should be
headed by the Police Department, just as the name implied – Crime-- ECONOMIC
& FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION-…
We have never seen any where in the whole world were judges
go about hunting and looking for criminals all over the world, why then should
our own in Nigeria be a difference… Even in the United State, Russia, United
Nations etc and all over the world where the person who started the commission
in Nigeria H.E Malam Nuhu Ribadu, one of the greatest sons of Africa is helping
to establishing the commissions all over the world, and a great consultant in
that field for the entire world,- they always use a Police personality serving
or retired to head such a commission.
The Police are
trained in hunting and catching criminals looting the treasuries of the Nation.
What experience has a retire judge , who mostly want some quiet of retirement
to begin to head a hot commission in search of vicious, draconian , devilish
and dangerously calculating treasury looters and financial crime criminals…?
Is it the duty of a judge or a retired judge in the court to
hunt for criminals of economic or financial crimes,? This is very funny and all
of our Legislatures cannot put Heads together and arrive at this simple logic
that on no condition must any other person except a respectable police officer
or retire police officer head the commission and hunt and search for criminals
that loot the treasuries of the Nigeria state and have plunged us into this
shame and economic quagmire…
Where was the House when EX-President Olusegun Obasanjo and
H.E Abubakar Atiku were forming the EFCC Commission? , was it the duty of the
presidency to form and fund such a commission?, The House were sleeping then
and wallowing in indiscretion and the usual lackadaisical milieu of service delivery
in the Nigerian State..
Now that the Police commission of the Nigerian State has
been able to achieve an enviable novel concept in the aspects of financial
crimes and restitution that the whole world is adopting including the United
Nations as there own contribution to world social and economic entropy the House
of Representative want to steal this concept out of their hands and jettison
it. This is unfair and unacceptable to all Nigerian of patriotic will. It is
malicious and devilish...
If you have as axe to
grind with Ms Farida Waziri , the present Amazon of EFCC as in the trial of the former speaker House
of Representative Honorable Dimeji Bankole over an alleged 10 billion Naira
fraud you can do so by other means by requesting her sack but to because of the
running feud between the former Leader of the House change the constitution and
destroy the importance and strength of such a great commission is unpatriotic
and a disservice in the aspect of legislation, and statesmanship on a global
basis and a disgrace to intelligence.
In the aspect of bringing people to restitution the world
over there is precedence, especially when it comes to crime and punishments…
It is the duty of the Police to catch the criminals,
investigate the cases and charge the persons to a recognized court for
subsequent hearing… that is the established sequence of protocol all over the
world.
One wonders what we are becoming in this Nation… where has
it ever been told that a judge heads a police commission that hunts and catch hardened
criminals looting the treasuries of the state and the hard earn taxes of the
great people of Nigeria thereby putting the entire polity to wallow in poverty
, penury and denigrations of shame, ruin
and grief… the import of the offense of treasury looting is really grave and to
begin to trivialize it as the Legislatures are doing is really questionable as
to how patriotic this present elected 7th
Assembly of the Federation are?
Where has it ever been done that a judge head a criminal
commission to hunt for criminals of economic and financial crimes…Please the Nigerian
people are begging the Legislatures not to destroy Nigeria and make us a laughing
stock in the international community…
And we appeal to all men and women of goodwill, that loves
the continuous existence of Nigeria,
to beg the Legislatures of the 7 TH Assembly not to collapse Nigeria.. This
is the only country we have to call our own, let’s join hands to make it great.
LONG LIVE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. AMEN.
NATIONAL PEOPLES NEWS: INTERNATIONAL: WE CONGRATULATE THE LEADERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH UNION FOR THE COGHAM MEETING IN AUSTRALIA
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NATIONAL PEOPLES NEWS: INTERNATIONAL: WE CONGRATULATE
THE LEADERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH UNION FOR THE HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING IN AUSTRALIA
The Publisher, Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga, and Editors
of National Peoples News-ISSN 1549-0595, congratulate the Leaders of the commonwealth
Union in the recently help successful meeting in Perth, Australia.; most
importantly on their candid reflections of the problems and prospects of the
commonwealth Nations , with a view to finding solutions to solving the problems
of the Declining fortunes of Western Civilization of which the commonwealth
Nations are strong allies; as in general
infrastructural decay, redundancy, looting and mismanagement of peoples
resources, economic recession, political and restive youth, etc. The
resolutions of the communique if well implemented
Thursday, 27 October 2011
EDITORIAL: LETTER TO ALL NIGERIANS ON THE TOPIC OF THE BAD SHAPE OF THE ECONOMY, OIL SUBSIDY, REDUNDANCY& CAPITAL FLIGHT. FROM PRINCE FRANK ONAIVI UKONGA & THE EDITORS OF NATIONAL PEOPLES NEWS
EDITORIAL: LETTER TO
ALL NIGERIANS ON THE TOPIC OF THE BAD SHAPE OF THE ECONOMY, OIL SUBSIDY,
REDUNDANCY& CAPITAL FLIGHT.
FROM PRINCE FRANK ONAIVI UKONGA & THE EDITORS OF NATIONAL
PEOPLES NEWS
Fellow Compatriots,
I Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga, Publisher of National Peoples
News-ISSN 1549-0595, a Registered Newspaper of the Nigerian Federation with the
responsibility to gather, process and discriminate information addressed to
educate, promote, entertain and develop the geo-political polity towards higher
standards of rectitude & summon bonum posits the following observations:
THE BAD SHAPE OF THE ECONOMY:
This Week the
President of the Nigerian Federation, H.E. Goodluck Jonathan announced candidly
that the economy is in bad shape. It is a courageous President that can come
out and tell his people the bitter truth. I acknowledge his candidness and
stratagem of coming to equity with clean hands and it will be morally justified
for all and sundry to accept his humility and nobility addressed to cooperating
with him to find solutions to improving the shape of the economy and get the
sovereignty out of economic stagnation. And in this regards creative ideas are
needed from the entire polity and we offer our own contributions from National
Peoples News-. The Peoples Assembly…
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES: DECADES OF LOOTING &
SQUANDIMANIA:
The classification of
the Nigerian Economic Sovereignty by most exclusive world organizations, classify NIGERIA , as a Nation with GNP of
about $250 billion dollars per Annum, oil producing Nation and a great country
of sub-Saharan Africa. That means since independence in 1960 about $12.5
Trillion dollars has accrued to the Nigerian state in estimate and the social,
economic and industrial development we have to show for this large sum is
rather portable. Due mainly to decades of reckless looting of the treasuries of
the Nigeria State by its kleptomaniac leadership; as well as dysfunctional
policy formation, inconsistent strategy and ideological thrust , lack of patriotism, a 3 years bloody
civil war, restive youth, social strives, etc….. And all other ills that we are
all cognizance of…we shall not remain in one spot wallowing in regrets and self
pity, we have to move forward, despite all odds.
THE CURRENT
STATE OF THE ECONOMY:-
The economy is evincing symptoms of the Venezuela
effects as having taking in more than it can chew and this results in stagnation
of virtually all the aspects of Nation building:
INFRASTRUCTURAL DECAY;
Virtually all the national infrastructures in the country
like Roads, bridges, airports, Steel Rolling Mills, Ajaokuta Iron and Steel
Complex, Textile industries, Railways, Tran – Saharan gas pipeline ,
electricity generation and supply, water, hospitals, schools both the
university , secondary and primary schools are in bad shape. To move Nigeria
forward there is the imperative of a massive policy thrust in the aspect of
reconstruction and rebuilding infrastructures on a gigantic National basis.
This will create jobs and stimulate the economy as spending, demand and supply are
corollary colligating in a Siamese symbiosis. But funds, colossal funds are
needed for this.
How do we raise funds
for infrastructural development…?
In classical economic theory, the two ways ever known to
mankind of raising fund for development is either we use our own funds by
saving it gradually until when it is big enough to fund the projects or on the
contrary to use other people’s funds, and in this category you either solicit
for grants from other countries as gifts or you go a borrowing if you cannot
get grants and remember virtually all Nations of the world have their own
problems as well so grants are few and far between… so the only option left is
to go a borrowing. But remember the classical axiom that those who go a borrowing
go a sorrowing. Our case is a bad case having squandered all our earnings and
goodwill away in mundane adventurism out of commissions and indiscretions we
have no other options but to go a sorrowing; to a borrowing.
INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT LOAN OFFER OF 100 BILLION POUND
STARLING FROM THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT:
With the public out cry of Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga
through National Peoples News, for Reparations payments from those who
colonized us, in all the Media that be all over the world, as well as in the
most exclusive circles of decision making of the world, we have been able to
adequately sensitize the problems of Nigeria and Africa as a continent in dire
need of support to be able to meet up in the 21st Century.
In the past few weeks we stepped up the dreams of Basorun
MKO Abiola as for Reparations payments to be in the form of assistance and not
necessarily cash donations to African countries but in the aspects of foreign
direct investments, loans, technological support , beneficial cooperation in
trade, power generation, mining and explorations of petroleum and natural
resources and we are happy that this global out cry of National Peoples News
and Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga, has began to yield great fruits in the aspects
of many Nations heeding our clarion SOS call and offering mutually beneficial
proposals for assistances. Just yesterday the United
States of America offered a support of $ 1 billion
dollars to Nigeria
in the energy sector etc.
We believe at National Peoples News that we should grab the
emerging opportunities of loan offers, grants, foreign direct investments etc
and use it well as a second chance to quickly jump start and leap frog our
economic fortunes to the right path of sustainable growth and economic
prosperity…
We strongly believe that accepting the British Government
offer is in the right direction.
100 BILLION pound starling will be close to N30 TRILLION
NAIRA and that is just the right type of stimulus package in terms of push that
the economy needs to jolt it and prod it out of sleep, drowsiness and
stagnation…
The British are more cognizance of our problems in magnitude
and the solution to our problems than we ourselves know it.
The United State is proposing a similar bill of job creation
through a National infrastructural development of $ 447 billion dollars to
develop the inner cities ghettos, build Roads, and to develop the Rural Areas
of the American State. We are in the right path to join
the band wagon if we pursue a similar orientation.
NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT: STRATEGY AND POLICY
THRUST:
THE PPP- Private Partnership Participation in
Infrastructural Development: A few year ago I was supportive to the development
of the PPP aspects of infrastructural development in developing its
conceptualization on a National basis addressed to lift the burden of
infrastructural Development from the shoulders of the various tiers of
governments in Nigeria, through adequate concessionaries of reconstruction, and
maintenance of infrastructures to the private sector of the economy.
The theory we developed only had its necessity reason de
entrée, the sufficiency reasons of success of the theory was still shrouded in
other factors remaining either constant or scaling upwards. But unfortunately
due to the down turn of the economy those sufficiency factors that are germane
to the success of the PPP plummeted along with the crash of the Stock Exchange
and the world economy in generality.
ROAD & AIRPORT CONCESSIONARY:
Whence all the Banks that gave out infrastructural
development loans to beneficiaries of government concessionaries became
distressed and the companies themselves also crashed or barely surviving. They
did not went wrong but rather they did their best as in Dr Wale Babalakin’s
Airport and Lagos – Ibadan Road Concessionary, Gov Raji Fashola’s Badagry Road
and a host of others. The concessionary as regards Road and airports are
slightly different from those of industries. Roads and airports does not have
the capacities to generate resources as much as industries, therefore other factors
has to be re examined in this categories to guarantee the investments of the
private sector in Roads and Airports, otherwise the private investor will come to ruins, shame and grief.
CONSCESSIONARY OF INDUSTRIES:
The Ajaokuta and Delta Steel companies concessionaries is
excluded as those involved in the steel companies’ concessionaires were merely
looting the country. President Jonathan is strongly advised to recover back the
Ajaokuta, Itape, and Delta steel as well as the Oshogbo tool making Rolling mills
and use it as a catalyst to jump start the Nigerian industrial and
technological revolution under the watchful eyes of the presidency .The three
Steel companies can generate more than 3 million jobs when fully operational and
its multiplier effect on the economy would be tremendous…
It is general knowledge in esoteric circles that no Nation
can develop that cannot generate liquid steel; this is the simple truth of
technological and industrial giant strides the world over. Apart from
propaganda and profiteering of unpatriotic elements a serious investment of $1
billion dollars will be adequate to successfully jump start the 3 rolling mills
to full capacities utilization and all its auxiliary industries.
We at National Peoples News Interviewed the former Russian
CEO of Ajaokuta Steel complex, Alik B, Karaev in 2003, who works for a steel
construction company called Tyxempromexport in charge of Ajaokuta steel mill;
He told us that his company constructed 4 steel Rolling mills for India, One
for Egypt, 2 for Iran, One for Britain, Some for USA, for Bulgaria, Poland etc and
has constructed more than 60% of world steel Rolling mills that are working
perfectly today…
We have published copies of the interview for record
purposes, for any body who want to read the full details of the plans of Alik B
Karaev to industrialize Nigeria.
It is not too late, we can ask him to come back to finish what he started as he
told us that the steel plant then was at 98 % completed. I think what he needed
the money for was for a general torn around maintenance/ overhaul and
installation of some new model equipments to take the steel plant to
international standard.
And he told us that if the Nigerian Government mobilize him with
$500,000 dollars he will get the Ajaokuta steel plant working at full capacity
and, also generating up to 800 mega watt of electricity to the National grid
which if given maximum interpretations in the Schumpeterian order could be
expanded to generate double that power of electricity to the national grit or
ever more through replications of a same underlying concept in a favorable environment.
The idea here is that Ajaokuta would kill several birds for
the federal government as in job creation, electricity generation and industrialization
and many other subsidiary industries that will move in droves to Nigeria if
they know that we can now produce liquid steel; our imports of tools, spare
parts for industries both in automobile, tools and other industries will
drastically reduce and this will conserve the billions of dollars we expend in
importations of spare parts and CKD components… if we have the will history is beckoning
at us to make our country great .
Usually the aspect of steel and its importance to national
development and pride comes under national priority interests in order to make
a success of it by what ever means possible. It was a fatal policy thrust and a
security risk to give out those industries…Ajaokuta ,Itape, Delta and Oshogbo mills to the
private sector.
The Alscon concessionary was a success story because the
Russian company involved were genuine and want the best for themselves and for
Nigeria as well as, though they were the lowest bidder but ex President
Obasanjo got it right, to psychic all the investors before awarding it to the lowest
bidder who is serious minded. Alscon have started exporting Aluminum ingots.
And these are part of what we should take into consideration before we give
concessionary to private companies.
THE POWER SECTOR:
One of the most important measures of strength of Nations
and standard of living is the Power Generated/ Head, by Nations. The usual standard
practice of using the GNP/ Head is only for students. In reality and in
exclusive business and investment circles of the world ,it is the electricity
generated by Nations that is considered first, in the aspects of transfer of
technology, destination countries of location of foreign subsidiaries and
branches of multinational production and secondly comes the Market volume and
lastly is the GNP/HEAD…
In contemporary times it is impossible for ambitious nations
to meet the actual power requirement through natural hydro electricity and gas turbines
while it is costly and cumbersome…
Today, it is fashionable, cheaper, and prestigious for big
Nations, like Nigeria to urgently explore as a matter of expediency the Atomic
and Nuclear power generation options…while it cost above to $1 billion dollars
to generate 1000 MW of electricity through other forms of gas turbines, hydro
electricity etc, it cost only a trifle of less than
$500 million, to generate its equivalent, using the Atomic/ Nuclear
options.
Whence it is imperative to go nuclear by what ever means
possible at the shortest and fastest time frame.
THE FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVAL:
At this juncture we have to tell each other the truth. And
before I delve into this most important crucial issue of public discuss in Nigeria, I want
to remind all that I am coming to equity with clean hands and unbiased mind for
the good of the country. We squandered all our monies and opportunities before
the coming to being of President Jonathan; this is truth self evident. He now
came in, saddled with the responsibility of curing a sick patient. To perform
surgical operation on a patient, with a terminal ailment, so that the ailment
will not kill the patient. We all know that surgical operations performed to
heal patient are painful and costly but necessary and mandatory for the patient
to live…
And that is the whole crux of the petroleum subsidy and the
reason why it has to be removed.
Apart from the fact that the actual amount of subsidy needed
to cushion the economy is embellished, it is pertinent to impress it that any
Nation whose main source of export earning is the oil industry runs the great
risk of being underdeveloped by subsidizing that same product from where its
main source of income originate .Its like you are earning with the right had
and giving it out immediately with the left hand. It is illogical and
uneconomical. All Efforts to diversify the oil earning into the development of
a vibrant real sector of the economy failed woefully in the past.
So we have become a net exporter of capital invariably, and
the little that comes from the oil export we take it again to subsidize the
internal consumption; a vicious circle to no where. Then how do we get money
for other aspects that needs urgent attentions like infrastructural development
increase in minimum wages, health care, housing, other recurrent and capital
expenditures…
We are all witness to the wanton looting of the economy for
the past 50 years of our independence…we ate our tomorrow the day before yesterday;
we embezzled our future yesterday; and looted our posterity and that of our
children and grand children today.
One cannot eat his cake and still have it…that is the simple
adamantine truth of subsequent creation in the spiritual substantiated realms…
It is time to call ourselves to a critical discussion as
brothers and sister in a locked up room and tell each other the bitter truth;
as the adage goes that; when brothers and sisters tell each other the truth
they will start crying, but when they deceive each other after a family re
union meeting you will see them smiling and laughing when coming out of the
meeting.
In my own case, as
Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga, Publisher of National Peoples News, Please, count
me out of such meetings, where we shall tell each other lies for the sake of
smiling…I have spoken..
Good luck, President Jonathan.
LONG LIVE FEDERAL REPUBLIC
OF NIGERIA.
SIGN: PRINCE FRANK ONAIVI UKONGA: PUBLISHER NATIONAL PEOPLES
NEWS: ISSN 1549-0595.