WHAT I HAVE DISCOVERED OVER THE YEARS IS THAT OIL IN PARTICULAR IS A CURSE! LOOK AROUND THE WORLD AND YOU WILL FIND THAT MOST DEVELOPED NATIONS WERE'NT OIL PRODUCING NATIONS. JAPAN, US, UK, RUSSIA, GERMANY... YOU NAME THE REST. BUT WAIT A MINUTE, WHAT IS THE FATH OF THOSE ARAB OIL GIANTS? WAR, LAZINESS, FEAR, MONARCHY, ETC. OR BETTER STILL, WHAT CAN THEY ACTUALLY OFFER THE WORLD? OIL...IN IT CRUDE FORM I GUESS. VERTUALLY NOTHING, NOT EVEN REFINING TECHNOLOGY. FOR YOUR INFORMATION, ADVANCED COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD ARE MORE FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING THEIR HUMAN RESOURCE AND NOT OIL, AS IT IS THE ONLY SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF DEVELOPMENT. ONLY LAZY PEOPLE THINK ABOUT MAKING MONEY FROM RESOURCES, WHICH OFCOURSE IT IS BY COINCIDENCE THAT THEY HAPPEN TO BE THERE, IT COULD HAVE BEEN THE NORTHERNERS IN THE NIGER DELTA.
MY FRIEND, IF YOU THINK NIGERIAN MASSES AS A WHOLE (NOT TALKING ABOUT THE NORTH FOR NOW) ARE SURVIVING ON OIL, THEN THINK AGAIN. GO AROUND THE VILLAGES AND TELL ME ANY SIGN OF OIL DOLLARS. FOR YOUR INFORMATION, MOST NATIONS WITHOUT OIL ARE DOING BETTER THAN THEIR OIL PRODUCING COUNTER-PARTS.
AGAIN, IF THE NIGER DELTA PEOPLE WHERE TO BE LEFT TO CONTROL THEIR OIL???, THEN THEY WOULD HAVE SEEN THE END OF PEACE, COS EVERY VILLAGE AND HELMET WOULD WANT TO CONTROL THEIR SO-CALLED OIL. INFACT NIGER DELTA WILL DIS-INTEGRATE INTO SEVERAL AUTONOMOUS COUNTRIES...GOD FORBID.
LASTLY, AS A NORTHERNER, I WOULD LIKE TO SINCERELY ADVISE THE NIGER DELTA PEOPLE TO EXPLORE THE OPTION OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT IN THE AREA OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AGRICULTURE AS A VERITABLE MEANS OF LIBERATING THEMSELVES FROM THEIR PREDICAMENT AND EQUALLY FOCUSE ON MORAL RE-ORIENTATION OF THEIR YOUNG ONES SO THAT THEY DON'T GROW UP IN THE LIGHT OF PEOPLE LIKE ODILI, DSP ALA AND ALL THOSE NIGER DELTA GOVERNORS THAT HAVE STOLEN THEIR STATE ALLOCATIONS AND DEPOSITED IN FOREIGN ACCOUNTS, LIVING THEIR PEOPLE WITH GUNS, POVERTY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION. AS FOR WE THE NORTHERNERS, OUR GRAND FATHERS LIVED BETTER AND IN A MORE PEACEFUL NORTH WITHOUT OIL THAN WE ARE LIVING NOW WITH OIL. IT WILL BE OUR PLEASURE TO RE-EXPERIENCE THE PAST. ATLEAST WE HAVE PLENTY FOOD TO EAT AND LAND TO BUILD HOUSES AND FARM. BESIDES WE HAVE PLENTY OF RESOURCES THAT WE COULD DEVELOP AND MAKE TWICE AS MUCH AS NIGERIA IS MAKING FROM OIL! WHO SAYS THERE IS NO OIL AND GAS IN THE NORTH??? ONLY TIME SHALL TELL.
THE NIGER DELTA PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE IT EASY, OIL IS NOT EVERYTING AND NOT HAVING IS NOT THE END OF HOPE. A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE!
SHAMSUDDEEN MAHMOUD
[email protected]man i love ur write up
but then let me tell u somthing about one of ur point
its about ur claim tht ''oil is a curse' with u giving the ARAB OIL GIANTS as an example,
should i tell u tht the north and the arabs r having the same problem?
yea they r coz of their system of leadership.
imagine tht the north has produce most of our rulers and yet they remains the poorest zone
but u will notice tht they ve much rich men than other zones, likewise the kings in saudi arabia who control the oil whealth there therby enriching thelmeselves.
while the westhern countries who does not ve oil and still make progress are fully democratic with visional leaders
the northen leaders only know about their pocket and with them we seems not to go anywhere in this country.
well when we say they cant survive without all money, we are not saying they will all die,
take for instance in those days when we pratice confedralism in nigeria take a look @ what the south-westhern poeple were able to achive through their farming then.
THE FIRST TELEVISION STATION IN AFRICA, LOCATED @ IBADAN,
THE FIRST UNIVERSITY IN NIGERIA,UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN,
FIRST SKY SCRAPER IN WEST AFRICA.COCOA HOUSE.
(UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL, IBADAN WAS AWARDED THE FOUTH BEST HOSPITAL IN THE WORLD THEN)
THEY WERE ABLE TO PRATICE FREE EDUCATION THEN, AND EMERGE AS THE FIRST ZONE TO DO THT IN AFRICA
SO WHEN U TALK OF AGRICULTURE NOW, R THEY NOT PRATICING AGRICUTURE THEN?
WHAT DO THEY ACHIEVE WITH IT?
SO I THINK THIS IS THE REASON WHY D NIGER/DELTANS SEE D NORTHS AND PARASITES AND THT THEY WILL ACHIVE A LOT WITH THIER OIL WHEALTH IF THEY CAN SET THEM FREE
BUT NEVERTHELESS I SUPPORT THT STATEMENT(NORTH IS A PARASITE) FOR ONE REASON IT WILL MAKE THEM TO SIT TIGHT AND MAKE SOME POSITIVE IMPACT
BUT MY FRIEND I MUST CONFESS TO U THT THE FIRST PROBLEM OF NORTH IS LACK OF EDUCATION
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