By Ben Ikari.
Looking at the way things are going
at the so-called national confab, it's proper to declare that the status quo
will remain to boost the cabal and rich while the common man stays at usual
crossroads counting the stars and waiting for a God they're promised but
nowhere to be found as their worsening conditions deepens. So-called Thirteen
percent has been forced by the north to stay and a better federalism that will
work with a regional system and crush the current states' structure, which
benefit the north and others will also not be the outcome.
This is based on the Bible or Quran
according to Northern dictates. I'm not surprised because I sounded the warning
from the beginning that the confab is about boosting political interests,
especially Jonathan's 2015 electability since he's nothing worth of an iota of
good leadership to show but advanced corruption and total insecurity at all
corners of the country.
I was succinctly clear when I opined
that nothing will come out of the conference, even though there was small room
left for a possible radical change. The core issues I cited to be the crux of
the matter that will determine the conference seriousness and sincerity have
been touched and nothing positive has come out. They're resource generation and
control or ownership, true fiscal federalism, which should come with the
recreation of the current states structure or a return to regionalism, which
worked well for the country in the early days and will dismantle this state
structure used mostly as a pipeline for sucking oil money from Niger delta,
hence the obvious corruption and bloodletting.
The conference has no room for
resource control or ownership, and has referred it to the air in the guise of
the need for amending Section 44, Sub 3 of the illegal military constitution of
1999. Jonathan and the conference delegates knew there was no constitutional
law permitting the amendment of the illegal constitution by the delegates, but
went ahead with the dead on arrival confab. The so-called Committee on Power
devolution and other matters has concluded recommendation that the current
thirteen percent derivation fund stay intact. This comes after the north
greedily and criminally resisted the idea of resource control or ownership
introduced and insisted upon by Niger delta delegates whose region have the
right to control its lands and resources of oil and gas among others
therein and like the north control its lands and resources of agriculture
and solid mineral that abound to the peoples' benefit.
The north has insisted to continue
sucking oil from Niger delta to run their nonviable states...an idea which led
to their staunch stance on allowing resource control demand to succeed, and
that the current structure of the country, including state which they've the
most should remain. That's, the north opposed regionalism, states recreation,
resource control and anything that will change the way the people there suck
oil money. Northern delegates' position has come to stay as Jonathan/federal
government promised them to save his head before they agreed to take part in
the confab.
Some of us knew the games and
outcome. Therefore, a complete waste of time, money and deceit of the people is
the conference. The confab may change one or two things that really don't
matter when considering the age-long problems. Such changes will have no impact
on tension reduction, thus the country will stagnate and never move forward.
The status quo that has come to stay will cause further injustice,
marginalization and conflicts, up to disintegration as I and some others
predicted.
Consequently, Niger delta delegates
can walkout of the plenary session coming up next week or so, and return home
to educate and mobilize the people to stop all oil from flowing. This way we
will see who own the Niger delta land hence the oil and gas the north wants to
die and have killed too many for. Walking out could also mean moving forward
with a new country, since this imposed one has no respect for the region nor
respect for human lives generally. The former will be the best option for Niger
delta and will encourage others to possibly sick independence from Nigeria.
Nigeria's disintegration is the best thing the peoples of the rogue British
baby-crooked nation (Nigeria) need for a breather.
There can be no best time to act and
secure freedom but now, that it's become obvious the suffering will continue
because the status quo ante, which benefit the north-particularly Hausa-Fulanis
and their nonviable but oil-sucking states and other ethnic groups which have
the most states next to Hausa-Fulani and the north in general. The freedom
Niger delta and any other group deserve includes the freewill, right to a
nationality of choice or live anywhere a person or ethnic indigenous peoples
want so as to determine their socio-political, economic and other life without
hindrance. Niger deltans must cease to suffer by seeking to be free from
tyranny and gross exploitation and disregard.
If the oil-rich people are
denied the right to their resources, so they can pay taxes to the federal
government as operational in other federations, and this same people
chooses to remain in Nigeria and continue enduring this inhumane
treatment by accepting another sharing formula of thirteen or whatever
percentage for the wealth of their land then something the wrong with this
people. How can they continue to concede sharing formulas to a people
(Northerners) who have no sensitivity or the slightest respect for Niger
deltans to the extent that their delegates requested that the people of the oil
region should be relocated to somewhere else in the country since they complain
about the environmental consequences of oil exploitation? I wonder what else
the oil-rich people need but to declare themselves as 21st century slaves
should they close their eyes, don't control their land and resources and
continue with the status quo. Or what else do they need to determine that
Nigeria isn't a place for them, therefore the need for a holistic march to freedom?
Meanwhile, note that the
opposing and proposing views on resource control, plus the relocation comment
on Tuesday led to the Niger delta delegates walking out of the session and it
ended unceremoniously as was reported by Nigerian Pilot of May 13, and
republished on Premium Times, though the Nigeria media seems to generally keep
silence over it-whether it's true or false.
Nigerians are not ready for change...at least not yet! Mstcheewww!
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