Quite apart from the fact that the assessment of the property deal involving High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo, as regards the National Maritime University, clearly indicates that Tompolo was merely legitimately paid what he negotiated with the Federal Government on the amount he was willing to sell his property as take-off site for the institution, certain alarming matters have been thrown up.
The last time I bothered to check, the Maritime University, over which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is clearly witch-hunting Tompolo, apparently at the behest of the All Progressives Congress, APC, whose chieftains and apologists have now appointed themselves the EFCC spokesmen in the matter, is situated in the Niger Delta. Of course, we cannot be too sure that it has not been miraculously transported from the South to somewhere up North, seeing that this is of course Nigeria where anything can happen.
The alleged N13 billion spent by the Federal Government on purchasing Tompolo’s private property as the institution’s take off site, as well as, what it spent on additional land for the institution in neighboring Okerekonko, coupled with what has been additionally expended thus far in developing the university are federal funds derived from the oil wealth belonging to the Niger Delta. The last time I also checked, none of the funds was mobilized from any resources the Federal Government might have mopped up from Katsina or from Lake Chad.
Yet the born-to-rule administration of the APC would have us believe it is now entitled to take Panadol for what – if at all – should be the headache of the Niger Delta while our President has devoted almost N40 billion of Niger Deltan oil money to search for oil in the same Lake Chad when more than 50 years of prospecting for oil in that barren wilderness has been completely fruitless till date.
Not done with such gambling with our common wealth by the APC-led Federal Government, our President is making the case for spending an astronomical amount of more Niger Deltan oil money on diverting a river all the way from crisis-ridden Central African Republic to replenish the very same Lake Chad, a lake which, from all indications, God has abandoned!
Suddenly in our country, everything must now be for the North. Our national patrimony must now be spent rebuilding the North-East that was destroyed by Boko Haram initially inspired by the zealots who spearheaded Shariah in the North and who remain the bigwigs of the APC as if we are the ones who charmed them into destroying a region they are indigenes of! Oil money, inhumanly appropriated from the Niger Delta and taxes heartlessly milked from similarly productive parts of the South-West, South-East and Middle Belt must now be misallocated to rebuilding the killing fields of Boko Haram only for them to destroy the place all over again and for us to be compelled at gunpoint to cough out more money to perpetually keep rebuilding it like a pack of fools.
Only northerners are qualified to man all three arms of government. Only northerners are qualified to head the entire military apparatus of a supposedly united, indivisible and indissoluble entity called Nigeria that was forged by an unscrupulous British military adventurer and was named by a woman with whom he was committing adultery.
Only northerners can be appointed to man scores of critical federal agencies from which hapless southerners are being fired on a daily basis. Only northerners are qualified to form the kitchen cabinet of a President who solemnly assured us he belongs to everybody and to nobody.
Before the APC plunges our nation into doom, probably in a bid to divert attention from its now all too obvious incompetence and unpreparedness to rule, can we all please come together and call the Buhari administration to order, please?
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