Benevolent dictatorship? No way! We want firm, assertive and forceful democrats who know how to act with resolve when popular consensus is reached. Nigeria is complicated and too politically alive for a dictator to emerge without being shot in the foot. I have waited for the meat of the argument for benevolent dictatorship, but have not found any flavoured munch so far. We have survived dictatorship, and as a united Nigeria, any ill-conceived benevolent imposition will be an anachronism destined to annihilation at conception.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Nigeria's tokens in the east (at 50)
We cannot swallow saliva
because the jaws are in
stationary parade of decadence
openly begging for trifles
when the mobile force of swift agility is required
to bring coarse behaviour to a fine one
In the east
we must stop going
to check the teeth at 50
In the east
the teeth are not baby's
and must not pretend again
In the east
wise men come
at the golden time of 50
In the east
aren't we weary of checkpoints
when we wale for agile force
In the east
shall we give the cheetah
so that our peace keeper may move with blazing eyes
In the east
shall we give the digital tokens to communicate
not the crumpled tokens for the grumbling belly
Nigeria's tokens at 50
You don't see
a new born baby
empty-handed
You don't see
a baby's new teeth
empty-handed
You don't grow
teeth that don't bite
only to champ
At road blocks
we go with tokens
for the teeth of babies
A token of chicken
A token of soft liver
With eyes to see dissidence
Born 50 years ago
the teeth are milk
not strong for the bone
A token for the teeth
never mobile for the crunches
only stationary for open menace
The teeth have come
of age but presumed young
because of stunted growth
May the jaws
move and bite with teeth
grown with 50 years strength
May the jaws
forsake and lose the milk
for wisdom teething to crush
A token for the wise ones
an honour to them bestowed
for they are the heroes to emulate
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
P. h . D
I have a P. h. D.
Persistent hope Developing
Jega is here now
digging out the jiggers in our feet
so that we can stand painless
Monday, July 26, 2010
NNPC and the national threat.
Shadowy Oil (I)
When the heart of a nation has a threatening tamponade from a suffocating malfeasance, everything (to the rescue) must be thrown into the emergency room. NNPC cannot be allowed to toy with Nigeria's destiny. This is possible with a very meticulous legislative oversight. Over to the National Assembly!
NNPC is a national threat when its operations fail to guarantee a sustainable future for Nigerians.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
The price for more refineries in Nigeria
The word "deregulation" has come again and the merchants of linguistic abuse have not relented. We hear it is the price for more refineries in this country. Those with clear eyes will see the surrogates of international leeches in the 'oil' waters. These sophists are trying every possible trick to offer our sovereignty on a golden platter to whom they wish for their personal benefits. These controversies are foretastes of the deceits in NNPC. I still believe we have a clout holding NNPC in recurrent pin-fall. Either this clout gets a re-grafted brain or is compelled to have a robotic thinking pattern for Nigeria as a nation. Jonathan will certainly fail if he has weak handle on NNPC. The way NNPC is 'regulated' determines the survival of Nigeria and the national policy defined by law will check the excesses of psychopathic deviants in the oil sector. Let's know what PIB contains!
Read this: NNPC Insolvent? Never! Says Levi Ajuonuma.
Some points to note in the report that stimulated my comment:
“……you will agree that NNPC is the most efficient and transparently set-up in Nigeria.”
“Do you realize that for more than 12 years, the Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) on the Kaduna refinery was not done because of bureaucracy?”
“…..the Russians are here for our gas, the Germans are here for power, and the Chinese are investing about N8 billion to establish three refineries in the country.”
“Importation is important but we need more refineries to be built, and the only way more refineries can be built is if the prices are right.”
Monday, July 5, 2010
CBN and Petroleum Subsidy!
On these blog pages, I analysed some of the issues around international politics of oil subsidy. Goodluck dismantled the mafia at NNPC and we have fuel in every filling station. I see the Nigeria of my dream again in that sector with fuel availability. What about the sustainability of the policy? With resistant strains like the CBN boss (LS) in a thinly walled sequestration, a recrudescence of the fuel infamy may be possible. Jonathan will lose his good-luck with unrestrained and unrepentant extremist neo-capitalist ideologues on his flanks. Nigeria must survive with the thoughts of real Nigerians.
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