Mr. President's Fault-Filled Address

by Eze Eluchie,

Without any apologies for a 100+ days absence from the country over which he is supposed to be presiding as President, the ensuing international odium and embarrassment Nigeria and Nigerians had to contend with on account of their absentee-President, the Nigerian ruler, in his first national broadcast choose the part of filibustering, issuing threats, drawing imaginary red-lines and sanctimoniously projecting his beliefs regarding the Nigerian polity as a fait accompli.

Whoever wrote the address for the Nigerian President needs to go for more training in Presidential speech writing. The address takes off with a fallacy: 'My dear citizens'. Nigerians are not Buhari's 'dear citizens'! Presuming Buhari's citizenship is ascertained, Nigerians are Buhari's fellow citizens! The mindset of a population being mistaken for 'my dear citizens', belonging to the ruler of the contraption, to the 'supreme citizen' of the polity, has often times led to very dire outcomes.  

Whilst we welcome Muhammadu Buhari back to Nigeria from his protracted medical tourism trip to the United Kingdom and wish him more years ahead in good health, it is pertinent in view of the multiple agitations from diverse constituent entities of the Nigerian state, that the following facts are appreciated:

* It is delusional to think of any national borders as not-negotiable.

* Nigerians never decided on discourse of national issues as ‘national red lines’!

* Nigerians are entitled and empowered to engage in national discourse; no statutory bodies whatsoever has exclusive rights to engage in this vocation.

* Buhari’s reference to a so-called discussion he had with late Odumegwu Ojukwu (even if such ever took place) is misplaced and irrelevant.

* Further reference in the address of ‘bringing back order, if necessary with their blood’, is typical, unnecessarily threatening and unfortunate.

As evidenced by the video below of European borders over the past 1000 years, national borders are transient and liable to amendments at the will of the people and depending on several factors – they are not, and can never be, permanent.

Nigeria must be Restructured & Renegotiated – time to do this peacefully is fast ebbing away!

Video: Very dynamic borders of European countries over the past 1000 years:
http://ow.ly/rGdx30eyh1r


Picture: Nigeria's President Buhari, during a nationwide broadcast after staying away from Nigeria for medical reasons for 106 days.

The TRANSAQUA Project – Nigeria's Federal Government Surreptitiously Spearheads Africa’s Whitest Elephant Scam

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  

Nigeria: Disincentivizing Education

by Eze Eluchie,

Shame of the Nigerian contraption:

Prize for Multina Family Dance competition – N10,000,000.00 + SUV (approx US$67,000.00)

Prize for Gulder Ultimate Search competition – N15,000,000.00 + SUV (approx US$84,000.00)

Prize for Cowbelll Mathematics competition – N100,000.00 (approx US$334)

Prize from GTBank to Best Graduating Medical student – N10,000.00 (approx US$34)

The banner on which the N10,000.00 mock cheque is printed actually cost more than N10,000.00!

GTBank should be ashamed of itself for mocking academic excellence. This perfidy is akin to the boast of the so-called ‘richest man in Africa’, Aliko Dangote, that PhD Degree holders applied to be Articulated vehicle Operators (Drivers) in his company......and we are still wondering why we are where we are whilst the rest of the world keeps on forging ahead?

Ruled by a brood of vipers who take delight in sending their children to foreign universities with funds looted from state resources whilst ensuring that local educational institutions remain decrepit and unfit, Nigerian youths are deliberately being schemed out of being positively relevant to the global economy. The rulers of the Nigerian contraption are hell-bent on disincentivizing education – discouraging the Nigerian population from venturing into the pursuit of academic excellence and rather promote mundane vocations and ignorance.

The socio-political structure of Nigeria and the quality of rulers such structure elevates to high political offices enthrones mediocrity, ignorance and ultimately an unproductive population. To have any hope of a meaningful existence, the present order has to be drained and replaced with a radically new crop at the helm.

Time however appears to be running out for the Nigerian state to right itself.

Picture: A GTBank Director proudly mocking education by presenting the N10,000 (under US$34) prize to the Best Graduating Student of the College of Medicine.