By Comrade Osanga Oswanga Niger-Delta
For young Mr. Williams, a 22 years old Nigerian who was born and brought up in New-York City, United State of America (USA), the only thing that will ever make him to again visit Nigeria, his ancestral country of origin is when the high level of corruption that has eaten so deep into every segment of Nigeria is reduced into the barest minimum.
Williams was sobbing profusely over the high spate of Corruption in Nigeria as he narrated the stories over the predicaments he faced when he recently visited Nigeria, to the Media Practitioner that boarded the same Emirate flight with him on his return trip to New-York. For Williams, he believed the Nigeria security apparatus need total overhaul in view of their non-professional ways of handling security issues he said made him to be turned into Automated Teller Machine (ATM) anytime he plies the Nigeria on a visit to his relatives outside his hos environment.
He also believed the political leaders in Nigeria are the worst enemies of the country. He described them as a clog on the wheel of progress of Nigeria. Williams observation and complains about the high level of corruption in Nigeria is just one out of hundreds of thousands of Nigerians spread across the globe, that as a result of high level of corruption, vowed never to return back to Nigeria, their Father land.
Well, some analyst in their own view on the spate of corruption in Nigeria, believed corruption is a global phenomenon.
They felt there is no organization or country on the planet earth that is free of corruption. Nevertheless, they felt the Nigeria style of corruption is a menace that if not tackled head on, will in future cripple the existence of the country as an entity. Once more, a critical look at the observations of some of these public analyst may not be far from the truth, for the fact that corruption boils down to every human way of life which in turn manifests into the generality of the society.
Because, it is the negative, dubious, criminal and callous attitude, behavior, character and habitual lifestyle of those who manage the resources of the public that most often metamorphose into the corruption prevalent in the society. Honestly corruption is a monster that every reasonable citizen of Nigeria that believes in the corporates existence of the country should collectively join hands together to fight.
Corruption is extremely wicked. It is a disease and a monster that every Nigerian should rise up to fight. The earlier, the better, else the aftermath effect of it would no doubt be very calamitous. By and large, I shall not in this context dwell so much on the menace of corruption but shall in totality condemn the recent news that is making waves in all the media platforms in Nigeria and even at the international media platform on how a single individual who claimed to be a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, illegally awarded to himself a total number of 300 contract projects at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) simply because, he sees every other indigene of Niger Delta region as moron and therefore, feels he has the overall power as a demi-God to cart away such large amount of contract projects and nobody dared ask him why?
What an irony and wickedness of the highest order been meted on the highly civilized and educated people of Niger Delta. We live in a lawless country where those who are well known for their criminal lifestyles are the ones piloting the affairs of the country while those that are well equipped with enormous intellectual prowess and earthshaking dreams and visions are left as bystander because, they have no capacity to match evil for evil.
In this connection especially for those that may not really know where I am driving towards, I am in particular referring to the news on how a single Senator from Niger Delta Region of the Federal Republic of Nigeria who had used and even till now still using his position as the Senate Committee Chairman of one of the juicy committee both in the 8th and 9th Assembly of the Red Chamber of the Nigeria National Assembly, to illegally allocated to himself 300 number of contract projects with over 120 out of these number being fully paid by the Management of NDDC to the said Senator even when there is nothing tangible on the site of the 120 contract projects, which were fully paid for!
Imagine the blatant mindlessness and outright wickedness this monster of a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is displaying and yet, no one dare call him to order? Well, thank God for the lion heartedness of Hon. Cairo Ajuigbo, who in his fearlessness and boldness decided to blow open the whole secret while some elements as a result of the stipends they are getting from the Senator in question decided to keep quiet over this callousness either for fear of being denied the little that supposed to get into their pockets or for the fear of being killed by some clueless youths that are highly bewitched by the satanic lifestyles of the said Senator that illegally carted away 300 number of Contract Projects belonging to NDDC and the entire hard working, educated and beautiful people of Niger Delta.
Honestly corruption and those who see it as a profession to be corrupt are over wicked. Imagine a single person allocating to himself 300 number of Contract Projects while many others are looking for just a single contract project to execute even at a very minimal cost in order to meet their necessary needs? And here is a lone Senator with 300 number of contract projects which he unilaterally gave to himself with the cost of those contract projects running into billions of naira!
Come to think of it, what can he alone do with the profit sum of billions of naira from those 300 number of contract projects? Honestly it’s laughable and unimaginable. Meanwhile so many people keep blaming the army of unemployed youths in Nigeria for crimes and other social vices especially in the Niger Delta Region where this particular Senator hails from. As I head towards the conclusion of this articles, I want to specially use this medium to appeal to all the citizens of the Niger Delta Region that the Federal Government of Nigeria in their magnanimity decided to established Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to carter for their basic needs in view of the fact that the major source of the country’s source of income is deposited on their land.
I urge you all to rise up against this evil Senator. Rise up and hold him accountable for the non-execution of those 300 number of contract projects. He needs explanation. Remember he is not God and even if he is, he must be held responsible for the non-execution of those contract projects!
I urge you to give all the necessary support to Honorable Cairo Ajuigbo to come out boldly with the true result of the forensic audit of NDDC which the Senator is already paying the hungry and clueless army of youths to scuttle. And those youths agreed to carry out this assignment because, he so much impoverish them to paved way for him to achieve his devilish and dubious agenda of continuing to feed fat while large number of them continue to die in penury.
I urge you to join hand with Honorable Cairo Ajuigbo to ensure that he is arrested by all the anti-corruption bodies and prosecuted.
Come to think of it, a human being like him with a long history of criminality should not even be in the hallowed chamber of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to represent highly educated people of Delta State! Unlike other states and ethnicity in Nigeria, or in the developed world, by now, he ought to have been recalled from the Senate to face the wrath of the law!
I call on the EFCC, ICPC, NFIU and Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) to get him arrested immediately to account for the 300 number of Contract Projects. Enough is enough. How can a single Senator pocket the destiny of millions of well-educated people of Niger Delta Region and the entire Nigeria, while most of the rural communities the said projects were designed and awarded for, keep wallowing in abject poverty with no single social amenities like portable water, good roads, modern hospitals, affordable and well equipped schools in sight?
I call on all citizens of the Niger Delta Region to rise up and support His Excellency Distinguished Senator Godswill Akpabio, Honorable Cairo Ajuigbo and every other sons and daughters of the Niger Delta Region that are insisting on the forensic audit of the NDDC! They should be given all the necessary support to succeed else, development will continue to elude the people of the Niger Delta Region in this 21st Century that people are turning hamlet into cities via their intellectual prowess and natural resources deposited in such environmental
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