You
heard it: They eagerly wish to privatise the airports next. The
Jonathan administration has a single legacy to its name: Privatisation.
Inherited from the Obasanjo administration, the President’s godfather,
the Nigerian government is in a hurry to sell every national asset
sellable to its friends. Despite all past sales of national assets
having no record of success and easing the problems, but having rather
ended up in greater burden for the people for the same poor service, the
government unabashedly forges ahead proposing more and more
privatisations to ensure that Nigeria is completely sold to the cabal
before their day is up.
The
privatisation of NEPA/PHCN has resulted in customers paying more for no
power. The Nigerian people via the government have been forced to bail
out some billionaires who bought the PHCN with government subsidies and
billions in government cash that have been donated to bail out the
private PHCN. In contrast, small business owners in Nigeria do not get
these government handouts to help them float. And these bailouts are in
addition to the ridiculously cheap amounts these national assets were
“dashed” to the cabal who right after the privatisation was publicised
for having made some quick billions over night. The Nigerian masses were
forced to literally dash the cabal N2.6 trillion in the privatisation
sham earlier this year. Our money is being poured into their pockets
every day as we wallow in horrible poverty and are denied prosperity,
dignity and hope.
The ban on car
importation to enable private companies to reek profits from foreign
partnered car assembly plants in Nigeria has led to – as we predicted –
the skyrocketing of car prices in Nigeria, now out of the reach of the
common man. And with no public transport system first put in place to
protect the middle class and 100 million desolate Nigerians living under
a dollar-a-day according to latest counts by the Nigerian Bureau of
Statistics, people will be forced to walk, and the few fortunate
proletariat will be dragged into taking high interest usury loans from
the cabal-run banks to finance cars from the few, exorbitantly priced
selections assembled locally.
Yet,
despite the massive direct looting of public funds by these government
officials and their cronies, they also wish to loot and subvert all
public assets before their tenure is up. Sixteen years of this democracy
has robbed Nigerians of billions of dollars and billions more in public
assets. The Nigerian masses are being turned into end-time scenario
slaves in their country. Even roads are not spared as they are being
privatised. Our food is not spared either as the so-called
Green-revolution being promoted earnestly by the Minister of
Agriculture, Dr. Adesina Akinwumi, is rendering our farmers dependent of
GMO Big Corp. seeds that are destructive to the land in the long run
and force farmers to a state of chronic suicidal dependence on big farm
and Big Corp. banks for patented seeds every season (You cannot replant
most GMO seeds from old harvest season stock by design and by law).
It
can be recalled that Haitian farmers in 2010, after the earthquake,
burnt donated Monsanto seeds due to their experience with the dangers
this Big Corp. business posed. (See:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beverly-bell/haitian-farmers-commit-to_b_578807.html)
What
has been experienced thus far in terms of the Obasanjo-Jonathan
privatisation mania is just a tip of the iceberg. Once Jonathan wins in
2015 and enters his next four years (third term, totalling 12 years in
Aso Rock), there will be full swing privatisation of everything in
Nigeria; water, food, airports, roads, even air.
Did
we not learn anything from the similar event in the US history – the
Robber Baron period associated with the 1934 Great Depression; and are
we not learning anything from the crash of capitalism in the Western
world where after giving too much power to the cabal, the global
recession hit and the government had to start taking over and
controlling all industries?
Selling a people to a handful of individuals, is apart from being evil, suicidal and simply not sustainable.
What
is peculiar is that if indeed the government knows that it cannot
handle the operation of national assets, due to its incompetence; does
such an incompetent government have the credibility to conduct
privatisation exercises? And why does the government not first privatise
itself?
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