By Ben Osuagwu
Recently, a Section of the media in the country carried the story that Dangote Refinery will soon start production. Prior to the exit of the immediate past administration, the head of that Government hurriedly commissioned the Refinery and Nigerians thought that with its inauguration, the price of Petroleum Products will come down,but all to no avail. Well that is a good development for an individual to build a Refinery. But Nigerians expect that the news that would have appealled to all is that the nation’s Refineries have started production. Dangote Refinery is a one man investment. The leadership of Nigeria should tell the Nation’s populace when the nation’s refineries will start production and not their private ones with a pseudonym.
The man whose Refinery is being projected has monopolised virtually all commodities in the country. He went into Cement production, Cement jumped from N900 & N1000 to N4,000 and presently to N5000 a bag.
Now, he has gone into Refinery, Fuel and its allied products have jumped up from N87, N187, and presently to N640 and if care is not taking, it will jump up to N1000 per litre by December this year. We are no longer interested in all these nonsensical nonsense(s).
The same man went into Noodles, the price of noodles jumped up from N80 a sachet to N500. The most annoying and frustrating is that in all these, he holds the monopolies because the Cabals know their own and agents.
In other developed Climes, you become the richest investor when market environment is very free, friendly and highly competitive and not when other great Investors are crippled, stifled and dumped inside a dead ocean that they could neither breath nor swim out because of one individual. Today’s Nigeria or whatever anyone chooses to call this nation State requires open door marketing policy where anyone who feels he or she can invest should be not only carry out a planned investment but should be appropriately encouraged. A situation where the leaders ensure that only their cronny should be allowed to decide the market forces of major businesses is highly inimical, unpatriotic, retrogressive, and satanically dangerous to the wellbeing of the entire citizenry. For many years now, it has been one person deciding the economic situation/affairs of over two hundred millions of people without minding how they feel or exist.
The dangerous Cabal causing this mayhem to this land should be divinely dismantled and banished. All other nations in the world look up to this country to champion the development and democratic survival of their region. Rather than doing that, the so called leaders are joyfully championing the death of their people so that when the people are exterminated from the surface of the earth, only them and their families will live. Unfortunately, they are not God, no matter the kingdom they belong. God is God and not a god. What we desire in this situation is Catalystic progressive economic revolution with a purposeful Leader who understands the feelings, aspirations, needs and beliefs of the people not minding where the person comes from. The idea of recycling mentally incapacitated beings should be discarded. We need forward looking motivational leaders who will not come to fight ethnic Cleansing like what Nigerians witnessed in the hands of the immediate past regime. However, what has baffled millions of Nigerians was the statement by the man who took over from them that he will continue from where the man stopped. One wonders which of the areas he will continue with. We have seen him in the area FUEL. We are waiting for the other areas. We are all watching and waiting.
This Writer believes strongly that the only way forward for this country is total liberalisation of both DOWN STREAM and UPSTREAM of the Oil Sector,allowing interested investors in Cement and Building Materials Manufacturing, Electricity Generation and Opening of the Borders with other countries but NOT WITHOUT Checking THE INFLUX UNDESIRABLE MIGRANTS as was the case in the last eight years. This cannot be solved by N8000 palliative. In the era of the immediate past administration, the Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele was quoted as saying that he was releasing Five Hundred Billion Naira (N500 Billion) monthly for Eight Years to the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs for what only her and those who appointed her knew. Till date, no one knew what the Minister did with such huge sums of money. It has also been said that trillions of dollars, pounds and Naira have been found in many bank accounts of some of the Cabals holding the nation hostage. Instead of prosecuting them, those whose duty it is to do so usually end up bringing frivolous charges against them which the courts easily threw out for lack of merit. Billions of Naira was used to print new Naira notes, till date the new Naira has escaped from the country. The immediate past regime promised Nigerians N5000 monthly. Only God knows what happened with the project. With what has been seen in the nation’s leadership, Nigerians no longer want any such criminally tented palliative meant fetter the nest of some Cabals who have wickedly plunged the nation and its citizens into unprecedented pitiable condition. Truly speaking, it will not be out of place to describe the Cabals as the worst murderers and real economic Saboteurs in Nigeria.
Recently, report has it that the sum six hundred and thirty million US dollars was found in an Account of a Special Assistant to a President. Another report has it that over two trillion dollars and Naira was seen in the Bank Account of one of the GMDs of a Nation’s Petroleum Corporation. Whether verified or not, there is no smoke without fire. It is because of these economic imperialistic madness that these demonic Cabals do not want any policy that will impact positively in the lives of the people. Yet, they do not make use of the money or invest it positively.Report from foreign media houses about the activities of the Cabals and the corruption of those in government in Nigeria are very shamefully disgusting and nauseatic.
What we need is a long lasting economic recovery solution that will be beneficial to all. .
The leadership of the country should ensure that they remove the Toga of a Blessed Country with Cursed Leadership on Nigeria. Enough of the planlessness in this country.
BEN OSUAGWU
FMR IMO NUJ CHAIRMAN.
