What actually prompts me to say no hope for Nigeria and Nigerians is a poser by Sam Nda Isaiah in one of his Leadership Newspaper weekly columns where he asked: Any hope? I therefore feel it is necessary to answer him in affirmative by telling him no hope!
Even before Sam asked this double-decker question I always think of writing directly to Adamu Adamu, Mohammed Haruna, Ujudud Sheriff, Modibbo Kawu, Mahmud Jega, Paul Mamza, Matthew Hassan Kukah, and all our Newspaper commentators and columnists to kindly put their hands up and stop wasting their time, energy and resources writing on Nigeria, because it makes no sense. I had also wanted to contact Mustapha Ali (Dan Barno), Asma Farouq(Husnaa), Salisu Dan Yaro(Kanoonline admin), Ibrahim Waziri, Engineer Mohammed Tukur Lawan, Gogannaka, Gimbiya, Usman 11, Muhsin and all active Kanoonline members to kindly put their pens up and watch Nigeria reach its nadir. Whatever these people are writing and what they are going to write in the future, have already been written and said in manifolds. There is virtually nothing that has not been said about the terrible situation in the country. Yet the “leadership”, seemed to have developed a thick skin until recently when Rhodam Hillary Clinton, the U.S secretary of state made a sincere comment about Nigeria, which Yar adua’s henchmen and party sycophants members descended on her like wounded lions;trying to eat her raw.
Clinton expressed her dismay over Nigeria’s leadership, which she described as a bad omen, because of its importation of oil from abroad even when the country has it in abundance.
Not only this, Clinton challenged Yar adua’s electoral process and his disco-dancing on Nigeria’s flat form that he shamelessly promised to rectify through his so-called rule of law gimmick. Yar adua it was, who childishly promised Nigerians 6,000 MW of electricity before December 2009, which I am ready to bet that he cannot achieve. Is it not a shame on us that Dubai city alone, with a population of 1.19 million people, generates 16,000MW? Poor Umaru proudly said to Nigerians that he is ready to provide 6,000MW for the entire nation of 140 million people.
South Africa currently generates more than 40, 000 MW of electricity- a country that got independence in 1994 exactly 34 years after Nigeria became a nation-state. Toyota Motors Company in Japan alone generates more than 36,000MW of electricity from its own private generating plants.
Singapore, a city of only 4.8 million people, generates 68,000MW. U.S.A with less than double our population, generates 3.2 million MW. But we are still talking of nonsense 6,000MW.
In fact, for those who still nurse hope I am ever ready to bet that Umaru is going to tell another lie under oath, because he will not deliver 6,000MW of electricity to Nigerians. What he said is dubious, criminal and irresponsible. As Sam rightly said, we need to start serious discussion of our country, but Umaru is certainly the wrong man for the job, and should by no means be one of our discussants.
