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| A Letter To Northerners Asking For The Country To Split: by DatNiggaAk(m): 4:11pm On Mar 09, 2012 |
[b] Why is it that some of yo like to blame everybody else apart from those responsible for the outbreak of violence in the north. Why is the north impoverished despite the large area of land it covers and none of the northern states can generate up to 50% revenue internally but rely on oil money to pay workers wages? I happen to know a former governor in one of the northern states who was in power for 8 years. He did nothing to improve the lot of his people but all he was doing was to share the monthly allocation to the 9 former generals resident in the state, pay staff salaries of a private school owned by the wife of a former head of state apart from paying the utility bills for the mansion owned by a former head of state. He was buying cars and dashing it to people who had no work and also dashing them money at will. He bought okadas and shared it to area boys and encouraged the sale of black market fuel in the state resulting in perpetual fuel scarcity. The tax collection from okada riders, taxi drivers, shops, markets etc was given to his political thugs to manage so they never remitted anything to the states purse. The most painful part of it all was that the indigenes of the state said he was a good man. They said he was godly, generous and all that (rankadede culture) He hardly repaired any road in the state and when his political cohorts were paid for contracts that they didn't execute, he did nothing about it. Mind you Umaru, he was from the state and not a military administrator. The second governor who is now doing his second term, repaired some roads, dualised roads in the state capital, expanded the towns by building housing estates (ppp) that were sold with priority given to state civil servants, but because he was not dashing out free cash to those who come to rankadede him, they say he is a thief, a wicked man, a junkie etc etc Despite the fact that to me, he did better than his predecessor in the infrastructural development of the state, he is accused of building a private university in Ghana, he repaired a road that led straight to a farm he owns that they have been building for the past 3 years with huge earth moving machines(i wonder at the size of the farm), state scholarships to study abroad is shared among his family members and that of his cabinet. Those are the type of governors we have in the north. Instead of educating and developing their states, they amass so much wealth without developing infrastructure that would encourage self development by their people. The people are impoverished, jobless and hungry meanwhile they see so much wealth being flaunted by their elite and supposedly by hard working southerners living among them. Why do you think boko haram won't have a mainstay in the north? Instead of screaming blue murder that Nigeria should divide and blah blah, address the basic issues in your backyard. Ask your leaders where the groundnut pyramids and large cotton farms disappeared to? Ask them why the state owned schools are dilapidated and the state owe teachers salaries? Ask them why the failure rate in WAEC & NECO is extremely bad that only 17 students(most of who are from the south) will pass WAEC in a state like Gombe? Ask them why they don't have functional industries in their state? Insurgencies are successful where there is widespread poverty. That is why Boko Haram has a stranglehold in the NorthEast and it is gradually spreading to soon envelop the entire north. Talk to your governors, senators, honorables, emirs, Dangotes, Ciroma's, Babangida's and make them develop the north. Stop fanning the embers of war by talking tough. Talk is cheap but when directed in the right direction, it becomes a force that is unstoppable.[/b] |
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