By Eze Eluchie,
Was this ‘Bridge-across-the-Atlantic’
project, transporting water across over 2,400 kilometres from Congo River basin
to Lake Chad under the guise of beefing up the quantity of water in the Lake (a
natural phenomenon attributable to climate change and desertification), which
the Nigeria Government is the major funder, reflected in the 2017 Budget?
What will
Nigeria benefit from wasting Billions of Dollars in this Transaqua project?
Was
appropriate Environmental Impact Assessment carried out?
Were
adequate psychiatric evaluations of the promoters of the project undertaken?
Whoever
crafted the idea that refilling Lake Chad (if ever this is feasible) would
enhance economic prospects and thus directly reduce extremist Islamist
terrorism which seems to have taken hold in the region seems oblivious of the
fact that the Gulf Arab countries where the major Islamist terror groups were
founded and headquartered are very wealthy states.
At a time
when millions of Nigerians are starving to death, basic childhood killer
diseases and high maternal mortality is decimating the population, some smart
alecs in the Nigerian government and its bureaucracy have found a novel means
of looting the treasury dry and burdening the future generations with
insurmountable debts via a multi-billion dollar TRANSAQUA project.
The shroud
of secrecy foisted over and been accorded the Projects and the signing of an
‘agreement to collaborate’ in this wasteful drain-pipe endeavour between
Italian engineering firm (Bonfica) and one of China’s largest multinational conglomerates (China Power) which took place in
Hangzhou, China, on the 8th day of June 2017, in the presence of officials of the Governments concerned
should sure be a source of worry. More particularly as the TRANSAQUA project is
being embarked upon at a time when the Nigerian Government is foot-dragging in
efforts to clean-up the Niger Delta region, claiming that paucity of funds was
preventing commencement of Clean-up operations and other protracted projects in
Nigeria such as the dredging of Rivers Niger and Benue, extension of Rail
Tracks to the South Eastern States and a Highway linking Nigeria to Cameroun,
amongst other practical projects.
What next
will they come up with to deplete and pauperize the State? An underwater tunnel
from Nigeria to Australia?
It appears
that diverse forces are utilizing the absence of a President in office in
Nigeria to perpetuate all manners of scams in the name of the Nigerian State.
Picture: Lake Chad
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