...questions!
¨ Who owns Ajaokuta Steel Mills, Delta Steel Complex, Jos Steel Rolling Mills, Oshogbo Machine Tools, and Itakpe Iron Ore Company? Who is deceiving whom?
¨ Who is the largest shareholder in UBA? Who bought out the shares of Akeem Bello-Osagie and threatened him with arrest and imprisonment?
¨ Who was the largest shareholder in First Interstate Bank Ltd, before the merger into Unity Bank?
¨ Who owns the majority shares of Virgin Nigeria? Who gave the airline special facilities at the international wings of our airports at the cost of N400 million? Why does Virgin Nigeria not pay parking and landing fees and purchase aviation fuel at a discount, while at the same time competing in the same market with other local airlines?
¨ Why should one man set up Transcorp, devalue our national assets, obstruct free and fair competition and sell everything to himself and family? If not, why did Transcorp purchase almost the entire NITEL for $750 million when Globacom bidded $1.2 billion for the same property? Not too long earlier, VMobile sold a fraction of its shares for $1.2 billion. How could all of NITEL with a vast net worth of digital exchanges, armoured cables, three international gateways, among others, sell of only $750 million?
¨ This one man operates six farms in six states of the federation. What is the source of the funds for these massive investments?
¨ What is the deal between the one man with the owner of Mittal of India? Why the hurry in granting Block 246 (oil block) to the Indian conglomerate? Is Nigeria for sale?
Signed by Taiwo Abdulrasak, For Nigeria Anti-Corruption Collective, 26, Ahmadu Bello Way , Kaduna
In this age of anti-corruption and EFCC raids, it's time Nigerians started asking critical questions and seeking answers that will lead to action. I got this forward this morning, and it got me thinking. We complain constantly about how corrupt the nation is, but nobody ever seems to be held accountable for their shady behavior. Now, there is a wave of anti-corruption prosecution, but still, the greater part of society allows the superficial nature of the anti-crime "movement" sweep away more of (what should be) their crucial concerns. How can we make all the big men of Nigeria assume responsibility for their corruption and, more importantly, their hypocrisy?
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4 comments:
Is this OBJ alone?
I know that 4 or 5 of those questions refer to him, so methinks that the rest would be referring to him as well. Plus, with a writeup such as this, the author would be trying to point out the hypocritical nature of the anti-corruption head honcho, who is OBJ, since nobody trusts his motives.
Nigeria is dangerously driving round a bend, the driver (Obj) may lose control and the brakes may just fail. So the question ... if the crash were to take place what will become of the loot.
i'm reading this book called "World On Fire" which hypothesizes that countries like Nigeria walk a trajectory path to severe economic and social problems. To be less polite, we're fucked if things don't change. Nigeria will see destruction and chaos on a scale of Zimbabwe, at the very least, and Sierra Leone at the very worst, unless the leadership realizes that their "I go chop" mentality is going to lead to their ultimate, painful demise and, more scarily but importantly, ours - the not-so-rich folk.
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