The Problem with
Nigeria
Revealed
By
Salihu Yarima
abdu852933@yahoo.com
This
article will delve into the dilemma of becoming a successful public
office holder in
Nigeria
of today and at the same time, surviving foreign
interference.
Nigeria
is now a country where one achieves success in
government by doing the destructive biddings of foreign agencies such as
the IMF and World Bank. In order to be successful and rewarded, one has
to auction off state assets, destroy the only chance of
industrialization (steel production at Ajaokuta), remove petroleum
subsidy or create an artificial crisis in the banking sector. Contrary
to popular knowledge,
Nigeria
seems to have been re-colonized only this time other
Nigerians under the control of powerful foreign agencies are running the
country rather than directly by Caucasians as it was done in the past.
One may ask, how did
Nigeria
come to this?
A
look back at Nigeria in the early seventies shows Nigeria was well on
her way to a successful future as a growing country with few mineral
resources , a small literate population and a thriving agricultural
economy albeit, agrarian. This all changed with the Arab oil embargo of
the seventies when the developed world needed an alternative to Arab
Oil. The foreign oil majors invested in Nigerian Crude oil exploration
subsequently discovering massive deposits of crude oil and natural gas;
the most compact source of cheap energy known to man (forget about
nuclear energy which is too messy and creates nuclear waste). It takes a
few dollars (below $5) to get the oil out into drums which can be sold
for a price of $25 after which it is refined into something called the
composite barrel that sells for over $100 a barrel (this information was
provided by OPEC “who gets what from Oil”).
It
seems no other raw material produces so much profit. One barrel of crude
oil bought at OPEC’s Benchmark price of twenty five dollars (Price
band not withstanding) can be refined into a one hundred dollar barrel
called the composite barrel! This sounds like the ultimate dream of
every medieval king; the pot of gold or black gold. Thus
Britain
for instance buys one barrel of crude oil from
Nigeria
for $25 and refines and sells the same single barrel
for over one hundred dollars, out of which the British government makes
about forty nine dollars a barrel profit (tax). How can the consumer
countries make more money out of refining crude oil, than the producers
who make less than $20 per barrel (FOB)? Multiply $49 profit per barrel
by over two million barrels a day and one gets an idea of the profit
made by Britain or similar countries on a Daily basis (Other countries
tax at $20 a barrel, Britain gets the honors for making the most
profit).
Here
lies the reason why the Refineries in
Nigeria
will never work no matter what the NNPC boss says.
Nigeria
has to import refined products so that the foreign
shipping companies make money,
Nigeria
pays taxes indirectly to foreign governments since
the refined products imported into
Nigeria
have already been taxed by the government of the
country where it is refined. Who pays for all this? The Nigerian masses
of course, those hungry good for nothings who have no choice but live
perpetually in poverty. One should not forget that interest (fines etc
whatever the Paris Club of creditors names it) on the thirty billion
dollar national debt is accruing daily for the masses to pay! From
macroeconomic indices,
Britain
should actually be in debt right now since it
imports more than it exports however, Oil, money brought in from
Nigeria
, interest on the $23 billion
Nigeria
pays and other ventures help the British economy to
remain out of debt (any economist to prove this wrong is welcome).
It
seems that whenever the Nigerian government is about to discover the
truth about the problems facing Nigeria, something drastic suddenly
happens (many people have noted this happen for over four years, all
Nigerians should start taking similar notes), like a riot or suddenly
the price of petrol is increased and the leadership of the NLC calls a
“fake” strike as if to distract the masses or government form
tracking down the culprits. An artificial banking crisis is created like
the time Bank of the North was about to be liquidated (fortunately, the
Northern states came to its rescue). Now with the new CBN governor, a
new crisis is about to be introduced after which the Nigerian currency
would probably be devalued again.
An
appointed minister accuses elected senators of bribery or asking for
bribes, or perhaps all Certificates of Occupancy in a city are revoked
(probably to prevent Nigerians from keeping their wealth in landed
properties or real estate while the Naira is devalued). A governor is
told he would be murdered or someone threatens a politician. Retired
Col. Umar stated after he published his letter that he got threats.
General Buhari also reported threats. This list of avoidable induced
crisis seems to increase constantly, the question is why? The answer
seems to be a Distraction for
government, keeping the Nigerian government occupied while the economy
is slowly being taken over. The saying goes “once you control a
man’s pocket (money or economy), you control him.” This writer does
not believe the President of Nigeria is even aware this is going on.
Hopefully this article would bring it to His Excellency’s attention so
he may shake the leadership of the SSS and all the security agencies in
Nigeria
the way he removed the facilitators in the Nigeria
Police under the leadership of Musiliu Smith, consequently reducing the
ethnic crisis that shook
Nigeria
from 1999.
Within
the last few years over ten thousand Nigerians died in one ethnic or
religious crisis or another (at that time rather than arrest the
culprits, Musiliu Smith’s police was busy writing false reports about
the situation, no one knows who advised Musiliu to write those reports
but the writer’s guess is as good as the readers). An explosion in a
military facility suddenly happens for no reason costing the lives of
approximately one thousand people and till date, no one has been
arrested or charged. In the history of
Nigeria
, this has never happened, the question is why now?
This is the first time foreigners have unfretted access to
Nigeria
. The leadership of
Nigeria
was constantly distracted with the crisis while the
economy was slowly being taken over by foreign agencies. The refineries
were slowly being sabotaged and the pipelines were being damaged.
Although the aging pipelines in
Nigeria
also compounded the problem, it was reported that
petroleum pipeline saboteurs used Scuba gear to damage underwater
pipelines. The question is who in
Nigeria
has expensive Scuba gear and would put it to use
cutting petroleum pipelines?
It
is easy to solve electricity (NEPA) problems in
Nigeria
by simply building a large natural gas powered
electricity power plant right by where natural gas is being flared.
Build a garrison of Soldiers right next to it for security and solve
electricity problems in
Nigeria
for a very long time. That way no pipelines are
needed to carry natural gas, the high voltage pylons can be built in
less than three months to feed the national grid. Would the IMF/World
Bank and its cronies allow this? Of course not! This would help
Nigeria
industrialize so it must be stopped or filibustered!
The IMF/World Bank has seen to it that the only thing implemented by
NEPA is privatization, sacking workers of the corporation and a lot of
double-talk. These foreign agencies are really smart since they do what
is called Double-Talk. Double-talk is when the IMF says to the Nigerian
government “to build your steel industry you must privatize it”
while in the real sense, the words should have been “to destroy your
steel industry privatize it, give it to our people who would destroy it
and change it into the most expensive power plant ever made, that way
Nigeria will always remain an undeveloped country.”
One
wonders if this is the reason why the late Abacha tried to stop all
Internet access to
Nigeria
when he was Head of State (it must take a lot of
coordination using the Internet and cellular telephones to create or
start old inter-tribal battles, or coordinate the creation of several
crises at the same time in
Nigeria
). Probably why Cellular telephone access is a
success in
Nigeria
today while others like electricity, water, job
creation drive, etc are all failures. Perhaps this is why countries like
China
use its security agencies to monitor all Internet
access and Cellular telephone communications heading into
China
.
It
is helpful to know that
China
today is the largest producer of steel in the world
(Ajaokuta steel comes to mind), the GDP of China is growing in such a
rate not seen by economists in a very long time. A macroeconomic
indicator of growth in an economy is the consumption of steel which can
also be the production of steel.
China
has till date not followed IMF/World Bank requests
to devalue her currency or destroy her local industries and thus the
growth. Neither does
China
collect World Bank loans so as to auction off state
assets like the BPE in
Nigeria
has been doing for years.
Nigeria
like several other slave countries who followed IMF/World
Bank policies is at the edge of collapse just like
Argentina
. The mouthpiece of the IMF/World Bank in
Nigeria
claims industrialization in the new age only comes
from high-tech development knowing full well without a steel industry
(so called heavy industry); high-tech would never take shape.
Semiconductors needed to produce a High Tech industry would have to be
imported rather than manufactured. The high tech industry relies on
semiconductors (Microprocessors, Integrated circuits, Transistors etc)
which are made by a simple process of growing silicon (sand) which is
then “doped” and changed into electronic parts in something called a
“semiconductor clean room.” How can a country develop a high tech
industry without steel to create the equipment needed for a
semiconductor clean room? It’s like trying to build a house without
blocks and cement while at the same time installing the fittings!
In
contrast, privatization has seen to it that
Argentina
a once thriving economy with some of the world’s
largest beef exports turned into a bankrupt economy. Ninety five (95%)
percent of all public companies and utilities were privatized in
Argentina
between 1980 and today. Now Argentinean bankruptcy
is fit only for its foreign creditors to sell the land to would be
buyers. Even the president of
Argentina
has to be accepted by foreign investors or he would
be changed the next day! One wonders if this would happen to Nigeria
since the BPE was almost successful at doing the same to NITEL, NEPA,
NNPC, NAFCON, Nigeria Airways, nine thousand to be sacked from NPA,
Ajaokuta Steel plant given to a company that would destroy it, ALSCON,
etc.
Can
the Nigerian government today take the excess savings from crude oil
sales to build three new refineries in each of the zones such as three
in the East, West and in the North of Nigeria? Of course not, IMF/World
Bank will use their people in government to block it (Filibuster). There
may even be new rumors of Coups if government even thinks of resolving
the petroleum import issue. Thus nothing can be done anymore since
Nigeria
has been re-colonized. What people like the late
Chief Obafemi Awolowo, late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Late Sir Abubakar
Tafawa Balewa fought for has been lost.
This
comes full circle to the original discussion, if one is not an IMF/World
Bank supporter, one will never reach any powerful position in
Nigeria
today. These organizations now control the economy
of
Nigeria
regardless of what government officials tell the
masses. If IMF/World Bank does not control
Nigeria
’s economy as suggested by government propaganda,
how come
Nigeria
only has IMF/World Bank people running the Nigerian
economy? Why is it that the refineries cannot be repaired, Nigeria
continues to collect World Bank loans, Nigerian oil (Bakassi) is taken
away from Nigeria and given to Cameroon (that way, the oil in Bakassi is
not under OPEC’s control).
Everything
that would help build
Nigeria
today is clearly targeted for destruction by the
foreign agencies we know (IMF/World Bank) and some we do not know. There
is now a new threat from NGOs who get their financing from unknown
sources. For instance even the Nigerian Army was almost destroyed a few
years back with over forty thousand soldiers retired or dismissed. One
does not ask why a government would stop soldiers from working while it
pays them pension. Would it not have been better to have the soldiers
working and receiving a salary? Of course the foreign interests do not
want this. They wanted
Nigeria
to disband its Army similar to what Aristide did in
Haiti
, now
Haiti
is in the hands of non-Haitians and the duly elected
president is hiding in another country while the new puppets run the
country under the control of foreign masters!
It
seems the Sovereign National Conference (SNC) was supposed to be the
catalyst of
Nigeria
’s destruction since the Nigerian Army has been
ethnically reduced in size (over forty thousand solders have been
retired or dismissed). The present small Army cannot protect
Nigeria
if violence escalates. The SNC was supposed to
declare the presidency null and void so as to escalate violence,
disorder and allow foreigners to walk into
Nigeria
and take over just like in
Haiti
where a rebel army formed by retired military
officers ousted a democratically elected government simply because
Aristide stopped obeying IMF/World Bank orders.
Now
the only advice for anyone who wants to build the Nigerian economy is
HIDE YOUR IDEAS! Once the people who control the Nigerian Economy find
out you will go against their policy, you will never amount to much in
Nigeria
. They will grind you to the ground. However, if you
show yourself to be very destructive such as destroying people’s
properties or suspending Certificate of Occupancies, help to demolish
Ajaokuta steel plant, stop the idea of dredging the Niger, open the
Nigerian ports so arms can be freely imported under a privatized NPA,
removal of subsidy or the so called liberalization of downstream oil
industry (causing hyperinflation), support forever importing petrol from
overseas, you will be promoted and become extremely wealthy. So good
people of Nigeria, HIDE; hide your plans or you will lose your life
(late Okadigbo comes to mind) or they will destroy your chances of
serving Nigerians (Professor Tam David West who successfully made oil
lifters refine a portion of
exported crude oil to be brought back into Nigeria for local consumption
was setup with a wrist watch!).
Nigerians
should not lose hope since things are bound to change and would not
remain the same for ever. For the only constant known to man is change.
The great French seer by the name of Micheal De Nostradamus made a
prediction over four hundred years ago that scares the developed world
till this day and hence has not been discussed extensively. Nostradamus
stated that “Out of the dark race (Africans), out of the country by
the gulf (Probably Nigeria or some other African country), would a ruler
rise up above all nations”. From a scientific point of view, one does
not know whether to believe Nostradamus or not however, since he
predicted this along with other things that have happened over four
hundred years ago before present day
Nigeria
was made, one is at loss for words. Time alone will
tell.
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