In The Dangote Refinery and other APC Kumbayayas, Nnaemeka Obiaraeri wonders why government projects are overpriced and shoddily executed.

They realise that a majority of us are ignorant, partisan and ethno-religiously brainwashed. So, they keep duping  and messing up our minds with 419 rulership and political scam artistry.

Nnaemeka Obiaraeri

If you want to hide anything from the average African, kindly put it in a book or study manual. They hardly interrogate matters,  painstakingly study or do deep researches on issues. It is  usually either copy and paste or regurgitation of the lies they have been sold. Or lazily, fatalistically handing over everything into the hands of  God (who may  actually be  weary of these  specie of human beings that love to suspend their brains most of the time).

Question: When  will the people of Lagos state start using the Lagos Blue Rail that was commissioned in January 2023 by President Muhammadu Buhari?

You will recall that Addis Ababa Municipal, in Ethiopia, started the same kind of  light rail project (34km), with the same Chinese technology and engineering company, within the same year (2009) that Raji Fashola flagged off the 27.5km  Lagos Blue and Red Light Rail project.

Also, Rotimi Amaechi, as Governor of River state, and within the same 2009, started his own 17km mono rail project in River state. Amechi squandered over $200m doing only 2.6km carcasses. Chai!

The  $475million [34km] Ethiopian light rail project was designed, fully funded, constructed, completed, delivered and commissioned in 2015/2016. Today, that rail network within the Addis Ababa Municipal delivers over 60,000 passenger traffic per hour and $29million revenue per annum. Under a robust PPP framework, they are already doing the phase two…

Another $4.5bn standard gauge rail project [759km), constructed over a mountainous and rocky terrain by Ethiopia and Djibouti in 2011, using the same Chinese company working in Nigeria, was completed, delivered and  commissioned in 2018, seven years after. It is fully operational..

Comparatively, the APC government did only 156km Lagos to Ibadan rail in eight years at very inflated and over-invoiced value and want us to clap for them.

Our people are actually clapping 🙆

Here in Nigeria,  after 14 solid years of political gamesmanships, ghaghaaness and squandering almost a billion dollars,  what Buhari came to Commission in Lagos state was an uncompleted light  rail project, with no completion date in sight.

And people clapped. Most of the brown envelope-loving media men never interrogated it …

The River State rail  project was abandoned by the  garrulous  tyrant who took over from Rotimi Amaechi. He made no efforts to recover the project or the funds wasted therein …

The APC Governor in Imo state, targeting the 11 November governorship elections, wasted hundreds of millions of naira to gather gullible and complicit elders to flag off batymeric survey of a river channel. He tagged it flag off of River Dredging exercise. Apart from the minister, none of the elders asked him to show a copy of the Feasibility Studies and Strategic Work Plan schedule and documentation on the project detailing the project  design, structure, funding and execution architecture . How will he secure the tens of billions of naira for the project?

All na political bubu yaya ….

Since 1999, the average Nigerian politician operates like bandits, except for  very few shinning  lights here and there in the likes of Peter Obi,  President Olusegun Obasanjo and President Yar’Adua. Unlike our forebears in the First and Second Republic, they do NOT care about legacy or good reputation after power …

They are mostly  interested in what they can share, loot, destroy and decapitate ….There is no accountability, responsibility,  patriotic zeal, passionate creativity or love for the people …

They are usually goaded on by a motley crowd of cowardly, weak and compromised elders, elitist gangsters and mostly ignorant, partisan and ethno-religiously brainwashed masses …. They realise that a majority of us are ignorant, partisan and ethno-religiously brainwashed. So, they keep duping  and messing up our minds with 419 rulership and political scam artistry. This is the sole reason why Nigeria today is the most terrorised country in Africa and headquarters of mass poverty in the world …

The same shameless gang of political elite and corporate scavengers for eight whole years could not repair any of the 3 Refineries that Gowon, Obasanjo and Babangida built as military men in under 15 years. They gathered in Lagos on Monday, 22 May 2023 to commission a private refinery that was actually funded with subsidised and undercut government subsidies and concessions – and which will not be ready to produce significant white Petroleum products till mid 2024.

As we are certain of daylight and night, Nigeria’s petrol subsidies scam may continue deep into 2024… Majority of the political elites (unlike Obasanjo and Peter Obi) do not  have the balls for patriotic driven political will to do anything drastic, right and altruistic… This is a pitiable  summary of what mother Nigeria has been subjected to by few men and women in places of power and authority. Who will  deliver her?

Let’s keep pretending and singing Kumbayaya….One day it shall pour.

The Dangote Refinery

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