OBASI IGWE
Hypocritical and insulting “warning;” it’s already practically long passed 44%, and along a free-fall as we continue to be humoured by IMF/World Bank insulting interferences.
Nigeria is now the Pakistan of Africa, where the US and West dictate what happens or does not happen, all to promote chaos and neo-imperialist aims. Is the naira free fall not of their benefit, of their making through our “patriotic leaders”?
“Subsidizing” life, “subsidizing” the economy, is the other meaning of governance, of social contract. It’s not a privilege extended to the governed, it’s a responsibility a serious government is duty bound to loyally and patriotically discharge. Preexisting “subsidies” never happened, were merely a scam, and Nigerians were demanding the removal of that scam in “subsidy,” the arrest of the majorly Western-assisted perpetrators, and return of the looted funds, not “removal of subsidy.”
Men around our distinguished President ought to be ideologically driven; they gain nothing misdirecting the President to satisfy the insatiable West, punishing and enslaving their country just to prove they are loyal stooges of Western imperialism against the black and African peoples.
Great countries are being admitted into the BRICS, Belt and Road, and all other groupings presaging a new world order of civilized multipolarity. Nigerian leaders should begin to ask themselves why they are being kept at arms length, even within and around their ECOWAS region.
Let’s keep moving on backwards, turning round endlessly to wreck vengeance on our own peoples. Otherwise, let genuine fuel subsidy be implemented immediately, pump price returned to no more than #100.00 a litre, luxury and unessential goods multiply taxed or outrightly banned, private and public school fees drastically reduced, the government assisted or condoned Fulani and other terrorists expelled from the forests and highways with the unhindered help of locals, the millions violently eradicated from their homes into IDPs camps, hungry, sick and dying off, be assisted to return to their homes to start rebuilding their lives, and the federal government immediately release all political prisoners, and end the orchestrated and/or condoned insecurity, “Unknown Gunmen,” kidnappings and extrajudicial killings against sections of the population as being widely alleged.
These steps are easy, and the only way to return the society to peace, immediately re-jumpstart the economy, and prove that post-2015 Nigerian governments are capable of anything other than orchestrating murder and mayhem against innocent citizens. PARTY OR NO PARTY, WE SAY NO TO IMF, NO TO WORLD BANK, NO TO ANOTHER SAP! Yes to national sovereignty, yes to peace, prosperity and honest nation-building.
Igwe is UNN retired professor of Strategic Politics
