E•X•P•R•E•S•S•I•V•E! Cri De Coeur...ARE WE ALL FOOLS?

The above question sure sounds ridiculous, yeah, it sure does! Sometimes in 2010, I had cause †ơ͡ enter the NNPC towers in Abuja and was amazed of the magnificent and gargantuan edifice put in place by the military boiz, though vehemently castigated and roundly rejected. It's unequivocal that the 4-towered skyscrapers is a building †ơ͡ behold, in fact, a cynosure with its strategic location in the heart of the Central Business District of Abuja. To think that such a "National Asset" will today become the drainin' pipe through which our politicians loot our common wealth 's ludicrously lugubrious. When 'Bàbá Òtà' held sway for eight {8} good years, he appointed NO Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, by this, he doubled as the substantive Minister as well as the President. For those 8 years, he was not responsible †ơ͡ anyone and in the like manner, successive personages ђα√e not deemed it fit †ơ͡ take probity seriously.

Very many of us may not like this, but for me, in terms of asset management, considering nigeria's heterogenous diversity, the 'kakhi boiz' {military regime} in my assessment 's been better off. Be that as it may, my 'Cri De Coeur' today 's why these group of peculators in the name of politician continue †ơ͡ usurp our resources with brazen impunity! Central Bank's governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi raised and alarm of the endemic corruption in the nation's largest
repository of wealth but some persons were callin' for his head. A whopping sum of about N1.75trillion 's missin' and somebody said it's bad that the Apex Bank helmsman raised an alarm. Now, †ơ͡ cover their dirty dealings, the touch-not-my-annointing Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, in connivance with her cronnies within the NNPC quickly asserted the "missing" were actually spent on fuel subsidy and pipeline repairs, hahaaaaa! Are we {Nigerians} all fools? How can you spend money that was not appropriated for in the budget, much less †ơ͡ talk of an amount that's half the country's total annual budget? Again, when has it become NNPC's duty †ơ͡ pay for fuel subsidy? This readily brings †ơ͡ the mind the veracity of former Petroleum Minister, the Niger Delta man, Prof. Tam David-West that there's really nothin' like 'Fuel Subsidy' but a FACADE!

Like a comrade opined, it is only in a very corrupt country as Nigeria that a whopping US$10.8billion is unaccounted for, but the only thing the federal govt is doing is asking the whistle-blower, Mallam Sanusi to quit his job as CBN Governor. Sanusi's letter helped bring to public knowledge that NNPC squandered a whopping US$10.8billion in a shambolic manner. If such huge amount of money is missing in any civilized country, the culprits must have been arrested, and remanded in jail till court trial. There are two things involved here; first, the US$10.8billion was NEVER remitted †ơ͡ the Federation Account, which by implications means that it did not even enter govt coffers in the first place, much less, spendin' same. It is completely different from trillions of Naira released annually by fed govt †ơ͡ pay the pseudo ''fuel subsidy''. Secondly, like I mentioned earlier, the NNPC claimed that they squandered the US$10.8billion without recourse †ơ͡ National Assembly nor Presidency, when has the Corporation become an authority on spendin'? So, the amount was neither included in Nigeria's ''fiscal earning'', nor in her ''Annual Budget'', who therefore gave them such power?

But wait, what ''fuel subsidy'' is NNPC claiming that it paid when it's in the public glare that fed govt directly releases money for payment of ''Fuel Subsidy''? How on earth is NNPC telling us that the money was used on subsidy, when on several occasions, we were told that Mrs. Okonja Iweala (Finance Minister) is responsible for releasing money to pay fuel subsidy. News reported it, way back then that those who kidnapped her mother even mentioned that they targeted Mrs. Okonja because of her delay and strictness in releasing money to pay 'fuel subsidy''. So, who is fooling who? Are these payments corruptly duplicated and looted? Are we in another round of ''fuel subsidy scam''??? Do we have someone responsible for taking account of money in this country? You can fool us once, but not everyone can be hoodwinked all the time.

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