Imminent sale of Cross river's TINAPA and Imperative of Empowering the Citizens

Imminent sale of Cross river's TINAPA and Imperative of Empowering the Citizens Though projects like Cross River's TINAPA and the like embarked by governments of some states in Nigeria are quite different from deliberate waste and probably means to siphon the tax-payers money on white elephant projects like Okuiboku paper mill and Ajaokuta steel mill by the powers that be; in the sense that, that it was a genuine effort of the Governor to develop the state though it is now and even when it was being built a misplaced priority. Otherwise would one not question the wisdom of a governor in building world-class leisure out fit amidst a population that earns on average of a minimum wage? How could such a population afford to patronize such a great outfit? That population by Maslow's hierarchy of human need would be more concerned of their stomach and shelter and even those needs are in the strictest form of it no additions or surplus! The money that Governor Donald duke spent in building his massive TINAPA would have been better employed for Cross River State if it was used for instance to send 100 of Cross River Indigenes to acquire Harvard MBA Degree. Those 100 would have imparted Cross river several folds financially and other wise more than TINAPA! This is not quite different with the whopping 600 billion Naira dished out to rascal business men in the name of saving depositor of ailing banks. The 600 billion Naira would have provided the much-needed money to finance at least 2.5 million different small-scale business entrepreneurs that may have ended up providing close to 10 million jobs to oil the nation's economy. In the same vain the several tens of billion or perhaps hundreds of billions spent by Gov. Raji Fashola in planting trees and flowers in Lagos would have given Oxford university MBA degrees to hundreds of Lagos state indigenes and they would have imparted Lagos and the country several folds what a beautiful flower and tree filled Lagos would have. Don't get me wrong I like tress ad flower perhaps more than Fashola but what can flower and trees do to a hungry and angry man? I already hear you say nothing and here I also say nothing! It is time the few who have the chance to lord it over all of us know that what we care for is how whatever project the government is embarking on affect us individually and directly!