Letter to my country men and women

Letter to my Country men and women Dear Country Men and Women, Never be fooled by movement of politicians from one party to another; they are not jostling for you they are simply jostling for what they would use to line their pockets! Nothing more! Also don’t forget that actual card carrying members of PDP and APC nation wide are less than 6 million! Don’t mind their propaganda that they have several millions of members! In order word the power to determine who is who is not in the members of any of the political parties it lies with you! Don’t make any mistake of this. On one hand when APC says they are going to ‘wipe out corruption’ you wonder who is the corrupt when same APC field people like IBB that up till today he has refused to account to us what happened to the $12 billion gulf war oil money wind-fall! Senator Bola Ahmed Tinumbu that is believed to own intercontinental hotel that the foundation alone cost a billion Naira and the 25 storey all glass edifice may cost close to 200 billion Naira, he is also believed to own Shoprite that is worth over 300 billion Naira , intercontinental TV , Renaissance Hotel just to mention a few. In the order words if all the Senator has interest in are added up you may be guessing up to perhaps a trillion Naira! Look at this analysis if whilst his Excellency Bola Tinubu was governor of Lagos state and he chose to pay himself N500 million per month as scandalous as that amount is he would have only earned just N48 billion Naira! Now you may wonder how come he owns all that is believed that he owned! Gen Obasonjo’s library in one of his schools is believed to worth over N6 billion Naira! Gen Buhari himself has not told us the any reasonable thing about the $3 billion PTF fund! Atiku Abubaka has also not said much about how he got stupendously wealthy that he even owns a university! I am sure you have not forgotten the Harri Button, Siemens and other high profile international corruption cases and the people involved! So how can these men congregating together now claim they are angelic champion of fighting corruption an intelligent mind may question! When some politicians left PDP to the opposition they said that the reason was that Jonathan signed for only a term and now attempting for a second term! Any person that have his brain where it is supposed to be knows that that reason is only good for monkeys! I may be bold to say that perhaps Jonathan realized that you may need a magnifying glass to be able to pick out who is not corrupt in Nigeria and so instead of fighting it and grind the system to a halt as it happened to Gen Buhari he chose to make it impossible for people to carry out new corrupting in certain sectors of the economy for a start. Example the cabals in PDP that was in charge of perpetual fertilizer scam were downloaded by registering the farmers and send fertilizer to them directly! You recall what these scammers do before were to collect the subsidy the farmers were to enjoy and still add a juicy mark-up to swell their pockets! That some times was not enough for them even some time mix the NPK fertilizer with sand and still sell it well above subsidized price! The cabals in charge of perpetual money apparently meant for rail because even though train stopped running in late eighties yet year in year out whether civilian or military keep allocating money to rail! President Jonathan had thrown those groups out in the cold and fixed the rail and not just that flood the lines with brand new modern state-of-art trains! The cabals in PDP that milk us year in year out by ensuring that shoddy jobs are done on our loads so that each year they same road would be awarded over and over have been shown the door out! You recall for eight years of Gen. Obasojo Lagos Ibadan/ Benin high way was in perpetual construction year after year and yet people spend days on the road while travelling! The cabals manipulating petroleum product importation storage and distribution has been dealt a devastating blow that you may have noticed that you hardly see fuel line up during festivals; the PDP cabals and other in charge of the outrageous wheat importation with cassava flour are at a loss how to keep earning the kind of money they were making before! So if one says that perhaps the real reasons why those characters left PDP and are seeking all means available to kick Jonathan out so that they can continue with their looting that they don’t mind to pitch tent even with Lucifer all that matters is that Jonathan who deprived them of means of drying our treasury should go! Having said these I have to say that it is worrisome that corruption is tearing our treasury to tatters, though I might want to buy President Jonathan’s strategy but more than that the citizens must do something t make it difficult for this bunch of Nigeria politician to loot our treasury. The question is how can we achieve this? It is with your vote! It is power! Do you know why it is easy for corruption to take place without mush stress? It is because we have been stupid to allow one party to control the executive as well as the legislature! If really we are serious of repairing our battered country irrespective of who is there we must ensure that on no account should one party be in control of the executive and legislature! What I mean is where PDP wins the executive APC should be in control of the legislature and where APC is in control of Executive PDP should control the legislature! When this is done both the legislature and executive would sit down to work now that there is no hiding place for any one! With this the development we have in the next four years would triple what we had done in the last ten years! First thing first take out time and make sure you secure your voter’s card PVC Now! Igwegbe Lawrence

Market Fires in Lagos and Survival of Igbos Though the Igbos had been and are still the lubricant for Nigeria economy, the prize for this is rather too much when you take everything into consideration. Who can count the number of times goods and merchandize belonging to Igbos in markets across the country were consumed by fires set up wicked and questionable means even sometimes remotely by some government agents. When these happen it is often difficult to prove without doubt that indeed it was miscreants mobilized by some unscrupulous government agents that are responsible! Lagos in very recent time has indeed become very notorious and the Igbos and Igbo traders in particular have been constantly fed with law deals. You recall when Gov. Fashola started his ‘Eko ni baje’ he and his agents single handedly branded the Igbos as responsible for the way Lagos was looking. From time to time then his agents while demolishing shops of Igbos across the entire states simultaneously would ask if the Igbos could try what they tried in Lagos at Onitsha Bridge! Even the governor was quoted as saying that any one who is not ready to comply with his directives on environment should come and collect an amount from him to enter luxury bus and leave and before he leaves he would be photographed so that if he ever comes back he should be thrown out of Lagos. You have also not forgotten so fast that while Igbo places of businesses were simultaneously being destroyed across the Lagos state same traders werse also arrested and tax of tree years were demanded from traders whose shops were demolished and where you were unable to get the tax you are tried by kangaroo mobile court and sent to jail. I am sure that you have also not forgotten a batch of such jailed Igbos who had just finished serving about four years jail term and Gov. Fashola fearing that media may pick the story and that would be bad for APC, branded the released prisoners street beggars and bundled all of them over night and dumped them at his much refereed to target, Onitsha Bridge! There is information going around that Lagos government has legislated that any property that gets burnt automatically becomes property of Lagos state government even though the Lagos state government had issued previously an CofO for that property! I don’t want to believe that this is true; however you recall that all of a sudden in one night the Tejuosho market was set ablaze and instantly Fashola and his political father, Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other stepped in and took away the property . After taking several years to put in place what ever they had in their plan they now sell a shop for nearly N2 million! Now it is Balogun Market, we are hoping that once again the Governor would not step in to seize landed properties belonging to Igbos and then build it up and start selling same shops at an amount that he had pre-determined. Most likely that is what is going to happen! The question is what does the government of Lagos have in mind for coming up with the wicked, devious and criminal property law and can you really rule out that based on this law there is a remote possibility that the government could possibly send agents to set any market they are targeting on fire to be able to take it over! Come to think of it, why is it that it is always from 3 to 4 am in the Night that the fires always start!? In the day time when traders are around with a lot of activities and even use of electricity there won’t be fire but when they are gone shot down electric supply that is when fire would gut the market! Like I said earlier in my book, “Niger Delta Agonies of Igbos and other nationalities” the Igbos and other Niger Deltans should realize that the wealth that drives Nigeria for the last 40 years come from South East and South South majorly so why should we shy where ever we are doing business in Nigeria. Igbos should stamp their feet on the ground any where within this country to protect our wealth from rascals and hostile state governments. It is irritating to me that a market where Igbos is 90% in majority an ‘indigene’ would come there and lord it over you! For what reason should this ever happen!? Who the bloody hell is the so called indigene!? The Igbos must stop this crazy aberration and show of uncommon cowardice! I charge you to establish authority in any market you have numerical preponderance within and without Nigeria and not only that use that as a negotiation tool to deal with the governments of those states or even countries. In addition the Igbos must realize that the world is a global village and as such any where you are and have the capacity to do something political; don’t waste time to do something! Finally Igbo traders must organize the day and Night securities in all markets they operate even when the government of that state or country has provided something. The two securities must work together in order to ensure the protection of your wealth and where possible send message of a kind to hostile governments that might want to mess up with your means of livelihood. Igwegbe Lawrence Emeka