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The American
Pprediction of Ffifteen
Years to the Fall of
Nigeria
Must not be Ignored
By
Obadiah Oghoerore
Alegbe
oghoerore@oviri.com.ar
While it may feel
very distasteful to the President, the
America
report must not be ignored, in fact, the Americans may not be far from
being correct.
The situation in
Nigeria
is very sad indeed. There is crisis with Massob, the Niger Delta etc. If
we do not change things in Nigeria, if we do not respect civil rights, if
we do no include all in the economic process, Nigeria may not reach the
fifteen years as one, in fact 2007 will tell us where we go. If Obasanjo
is given by fraud a third term, then he has not learned from the lesson of
history.If the Americans are mentioning junior officers, it is because
they are preparing the gorund for bloodbath because of our oil and we must
move at once to arrest the situation not by sending suspects to the
firinmg squad but to make them more patriotic by listening to their
reasons and using them more positively as agents of peaceful change.
For now in reaction to this intelligent report, The President did the
right thing to inform the Senate President, it is a sign that the
President wants Nigeria to remain united for this reason he must see all
that is wrong and proceed with the corrections. I still believe that
undermining many of his errors, President Obasanjo is still the only
person that can set
Nigeria
on the right course if he wants.
The ways our politicians are looting the country can also be evidence that
they are storing away money for a come back to their individual domain if
Nigeria
becomes split. I will prefer that they use that money to support keeping
us together. There are African countries that want
Nigeria
to disappear. During the Nigerian civil war, Julius Nyerere said that
Nigeria
was too big and a security threat to other Africans, for that reason
Nigeria
must split, and he supported
Biafra
not because he liked the Igbo but because he does not want a powerful
African country. What a shame on Nwalimu.
Sovereignty is in
the hand of the people. Sovereignty is making every
Nigeria
part of the economic process; everyone must have some interest at stake to
protect the sovereignty of the country. If the grand majority continue to
be excluded from the economy, the fifteen year deadline will be tomorrow
and no one can stop it.
What are the signs
that
Nigeria
may not reach fifteen years and how do we take up the challenge to save
the nation from collapse?
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Absolute respect for civil rights
without ignoring the sacred values of our traditions. A typical example
of violation of civil rights victim is that of a Nigerian who is married
with in Nigeria with Nigerian wife or wives and with Nigerian children
in Nigeria, but because of hard life he travelled abroad to work to
support his family at home, for this Nigerian to survive, he took up
foreign citizenship, but when he goes to the Nigerian Embassy for visa,
they request him to get a letter of visitation to enable him go back
home to his wife and children in the village where there is no
electricity and no post office. The Embassy officials see the face and
even speak Igbo, Yoruba or Urhobo with him or her, but
still request visa. This Nigerian is very active in the Nigerian
community and still his visa denied. Thus a nation then sends out such
diplomats really wants to survive? Such a disappointed Nigerian could
become agent of perturbation to the nation. It the President want to
prevent
Nigeria
from splitting, he must address this social injustice.
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I am a citizen only of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, I lived in the jungle working with my parents as
farmers, I lived in the desert of Chad, I lived in the jungle of Liberia
for two years and served as village headmaster for one year, today I am
a trained engineer horis causa, I lived in one of the largest cities in
the word for the past 28 years, I have worked with machines, I developed
technology, I have compiled technological solution that suits the jungle
people that I knew, my projects could bring millions of Africans into
the economic system thus maintaining the sovereignty of Nigeria, I have
compiled information on machines available here in Argentina that will
help the villager to increase their productions, I have on hand simple
technology that will in five minutes after installation will provide
organic material free water to every inhabitant, non of the three-tier
governments in Nigeria would sponsor my projects compiled in a civilized
countries for our people but Nigerians envoys abroad are looking for
solutions from white men abroad who are strange to Africa to offer
solutions to Africa. The Governor of Kwara State gave U$D 260,000 to
every white farmer to immigrate to his state whereas with U$D100,000
dollars my project could be set up in one village serving all the
production in 10 villages of his state, this in turn will
relocate me home and the loan for this project will be paid back in just
one year. That is why we have the former Vice President of The World
Bank as our Minister of Finance, to grant loan to white farmers. Let us
ask her that since she was appointed as Minister of Finance how many
viable loans have been given to Nigerian Engineers to create Engineering
solutions for our people. Does she not know that Nigerian
Engineers are what are needed to create the infrastructures needed?. My
people! The President may want a better
Nigeria,
but he is surrounded by ‘vende patrias’ the sellers of our homeland. I
feel discriminated and excluded from the economic process in Nigeria, I
feel discriminated as a black man by the Nigerian authorities. Mr.
President, there are thousands of Engineers like me in the Diaspora who
are being discriminated by the Nigerian polity and if you do not want
Nigeria to split, use all in your power to bring us into the system and
we shall sustain the sovereignty of The Federal Republic of Nigeria. As
I wrote earlier, I have the simple technological solution to the water
problem in
Africa;
I can go into any village to any mud house to set up the system for the
villagers. I am an African. I know how my people fetch the water they
drink and how to make that water safer, the only raw material needed is
salt and the water they now drink. An organic material that falls into
it will be destroyed. These so called Foreign Investors that are
uncontrollably being invited into
Nigeria
will on the long run be the agents of the split of
Nigeria
along their economic interest, they will demarcate
Nigeria
to suit themselves. Yesterday at the Africa Day Celebration in the
Argentine Foreign Ministry, I had conversation with the Editor of The
Buenos Aires Herald the most important English Speaking daily newspaper
in Argentina during which I told him (he is British) that the so called
Development Team for Africa set up by Tony Blair is a mockery based on
the fact that it is headed by a non African musician that is far away
from the realities of Africa. I added that you can not develop
Africa
without the Africans, if Tony Blair is serious, he must head the team by
an African Engineer based in
Britain
because that Engineer can go into the jungle without problem. The
exclusion of African Engineers with concrete solutions to African
problems is tantamount to planting time bombs for Africans especially
Nigerians.
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Social justice. The President must
address the question of social justice if we want to succeed in
sustaining
Nigeria
as one. Civilization is the absolute respect and maintenance of civil
rights. Cicerone said “domicilum vastare, et civet comuni domus privare
nefas est” which interpreted means, a devastated home, to bar a common
citizen from his home is wrong. When Aldo Moro was kidnapped by the Red
Brigade in
Italy,
the Italian government did not wage war on innocent people – that is a
sign of civilization. When the IRA killed Lord Mountbatten with a bomb
inside his boat, the British Army did not invade
Ireland
– that is civilization. Upon all the atrocities of ETA, the Spanish
government did not invade the Basque country, in fact the Spanish
Princess got married to a Basque – That is civilization. In
Nigeria,
because six policemen were killed in Odi, The gallant Federal Troops of
Nigeria moved in to destroy a whole civilization of the
village
of
Odi.
Some villagers in
Delta
State
killed cows of Fulani which destroyed their crops; the gallant Federal
Troops destroyed the village when the Fulanis reported to them because
The Federal Troops is a property of the Hausa – Fulanis and once you
speak Hausa, you are a noble citizen of the Hausa Fulani Empire even if
The President is a Yoruba. In civilization, CIDs would be sent into Odi
all the time it takes, the citizens will on the long run cooperate when
they understand that their individual right to life was respected and
will give viable information that leads to the arrest and trial of those
responsible. That is why it is said that The mill of justice runs slow
but sure. Justice processes are slow because the right of the innocent
is sacred. The villagers in the Delta state should have been taken to
court and monetary compensation paid to the Fulani if it corresponds and
life and property saved. These errors of process create holes that the
enemies of African can exploit. Mr. President, you have history in your
hand, correct these errors committed in this your administration and go
cleanly into the history books.
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An economic process that involves all.
The lack of inclusion of many in the economic process gave birth to a
corrupt Police whose Capi Tutti Capi made away with the police fund. The
police in desperation being wronged also resorted to doing wrong, when
the police is immersed in wrong doing like in
Nigeria
today, our country’s security is vulnerable, the unity of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria is threatened if the common man can not feel safe
near a policeman. This situation gave rise to the Bakassi Boy, OPC and
many more uncountable. The only way to eliminate the need for Bakassi
Boys, OPC etc is to get every inhabitant busy in the economic process
including the police and security organizations, and this can never be
achieved by the economic policy based on the agenda of The World Bank
and IMF. Since the Wold Bank openly took control of the Nigerian Finance
through Okonjo-Iweala, various Nigerian Embassies in the world have no
fund to operate, many have not paid local staff salaries for more than
six months just like what these two diabolic agencies did to
Argentina
few years behind. How can a country that is running for a permanent seat
in the United Nations starves its embassies abroad that are supposed to
campaign for the seat. This situation only creates channels for
corruption in the Embassies, when a Nigerian goes for passport, they
will say there is non, when a Nigerian needs an affidavits, they will
say it is not possible etc. Mr. President remedy the points in this
article and you will prevent the split of
Nigeria.
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Industrialization based on Nigerians.
For some years, Bellview, Okada, Kabo among others have proved that
Nigerians even with errors can provide airlines services, these brains
are the ones that the government need to study well and provide logistic
for to provide a viable world class airlines for
Nigeria
instead of handing it over to foreigners. Those in authority are jealous
of Nigerians of other tribes making headways and instead go in
partnership with outsiders to compete with their own. We will succeed by
joining hands to improve our own than competing with our own. A Nigeria
from the eastern state developed a car that could have been the pride of
Nigeria, five percent of the amount used to import foreign cars into
Nigeria could have been used to help him build a world class car factory
and many of us Engineers could relocate into the country to support him,
but instead we compete with our own, because he is an Igbo man, then let
him not grow. We Nigerians are the worst enemies of our own. So many
export abroad of our money weakens the nation and create loop holes for
a possible split. Mr. President, to prevent
Nigeria
from splitting, we must involve all Nigerians in the industrial process.
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Abalaka was made to suffer so much
that
Britain
carried him away with 20 of his immediate family to settle in
Britain.
Later the vaccine he develops will be tried on Nigerians as guinea pigs
while some Nigerian Envoys abroad are carrying foreign pharmaceutical
companies to
Nigeria
to sell drugs. A country that exports brains will never stand upright.
Mr. President to prevent Nigeria from splitting, let us honour Nigerian
brains and encourage them to stay by at least giving them loans to
research in the country and reward those successful and rescue those who
fails by adding brains to support them. If a Nigerian Engineer failed
trying to manufacture a generator, support him with brains to correct
his failure, the man of initiative is the owner of the initiative and
the added brain must be rewarded accordingly as a professor, thus we
encourage self and home made initiatives which form the road to
progress.
Nigerians today can not
boast of potable water even when there are rivers everywhere. No
electricity in a country that is one of the largest oil producers in the
world. No medical facility, no healthy environments, majority shit in the
streets for dogs to eat. If this country refuses to employ his own
engineers and charge them to create solutions, she is heading for
doomsday.
There are many
challenges facing our generation, Mr. President, take up the challenge!
Produce the change that will prevent
Nigeria
from splitting. I on my part, I strongly and spiritually believe in one
Nigeria.
La patrie u mort, nous
vencerons.
Obadiah Oghoerore Alegbe
Oghoerore@oviri.com.ar
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