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  • These are interesting times

    These are interesting times

    SIR: We live in interesting times. The political class is having a hell of a jolly time. The judiciary is courting public scrutiny because judges are now living in interesting times. Public servants are also having a swell of a time. The senators are leading the dance in this interesting milieu. The representatives are not immune to the bug of interesting times. In a nation that brags about as the giant of mother Africa, it should be expected that Nigeria must be a land of interesting people.

    Take our love for life and fun. We are loud. Our men are loud. Our women are loud. Our youths are loud. The rich are loud. The well connected are loud. Our politicians are loud in their habits. They are loud in their manner. They are loud in their tastes. They are loud in their sartorial elegance – whether in suit or agbada. President Jonathan controls 11 aeroplanes. They call it presidential fleet. He goes about with a fleet of darkened SUVs and battalion of minders. His public-funded kitchen budget still stands at N1billion. That kitchen must be loud with expensive utensils that befit the ruler of the giant of Africa.

    Nigeria is now a country without Pentecostal modesty. Our pastors are modern day arrogant Pharaohs. In carriage, in cassock, in speech they all look like medieval emperors. Churches are no longer a place of celestial calm and repose but consulting malls for business deals. The glory of Christ has been replaced by the glory of materialism. They now indulge openly in the things that will make Satan proud.

    The story of one big time crook called John Yakubu Yusufu and his other loud crooks did not surprise me at all. He is the feral meanness of the triumph of corruption in Nigeria. He is a true apostle of loud greed and a good discerner of our interesting times. History of big, loud stealing is not new. What we have are new actors from unlikely places. Abacha stole loudly. James Ibori stole loudly. Actors in the Halliburton scandal stole loudly. Worse, these looters are still living loud and large.

    Why would anyone agonise over a man who defrauded pensioners of a mere N27billion? To be shocked or surprised is to diminish the stature of Nigeria as giant of corruption in Africa. Anyone who is angry over the maltreatment of police pensioners is yet to understand the depth of our soulless embrace of love of money. Look at the president. Despite his utopian pledges to transform Nigeria and exorcise the ghost of corruption, the guy is nothing but a latter day Nero who fiddles away while Nigeria burns.

    John Yakubu Yusufu is hugely heartless. However, we have to thank Justice Mohamed Talba for bringing forward the inevitability of Nigeria’s Spring or grassroots revolution. His judgement on the N2732billion pension scam is nothing but a calamitous retreat from judicial fairness. His inaction to take proper action on the scam is affirming the accusation that in Nigeria justice is now privatised to the highest bidder.

    Abroad, the actions of both John Yakubu Yusuf and Justice Talba will again begin to prompt the racist conviction that Africans are naturally prone to evil, lying, stealing, wickedness, corruption, venality and mismanagement. Revelation of scam like this is guaranteed to contribute to the centuries-old racist slur that Africans – blacks – are inherently amoral, lazy and corrupt.

    •Taju Tijani,

    Lagos.

  • Crime and punishment in Nigeria

    Crime and punishment in Nigeria

    There is inevitably something comic about this political enterprise of ours, something decidedly beyond reason. Does it not seem the people are falsely imprisoned, though it appears it can only happen here, N23.3billion stolen admittedly by one Mr. John Yakubu Yusuf, a former Assistant Director in the Police Pension Office, in inordinate vanity and a dreadful humiliation of the country’s national character in another classic now known as the Police Pension Scam, and after months of back and forth, he gets two years imprisonment with an option of N750, 000 fine only.

    What does the country get? Nothing, but a disgraceful applause. What do the people get? Shock, perhaps mild disbelief, pain and destroyed hopes. Can I ask, did our government not spend more than N750,000 to prosecute that man? Maybe am just wondering. Gleefully, the matter is reported as plea bargain, and even though am a lawyer, being familiar with that word, yet my mind begins to extrapolate the things of the deep, and somehow this epiphany that can only be occasioned by logic leads me to perhaps what plea bargain indeed means here; another word for the arrest of justice and its subsequent trial on the altar of bargain, and by the time bargain is closed, the highest bidder is throwing a party. Sounds to me more like justice auctioned to the highest bidder.

    I thought there is something referred to as the Mischief rule in the Canons of Interpretation, a rule which I suspect solemnly calls on today’s actors in the theatre of law and justice to reach out to the original intention of the Parliament, to help them unearth the mind of the then makers of the Law, to order their steps in doing justice. In the same vein, I would suppose that the makers of our criminal cum penal sanctions must have had the likes of Mr. John Yakubu Yusuf in mind while drafting our laws, but was it the intention of those same lawmakers that a man guilty of stealing N23.3billion be handed a two year sentence that can simply be exchanged for a paltry sum of N750, 000? Certainly, I think not.

     

    By Olusola Adegbite,

    Abuja.

     

     

     

     

     

  • Bayelsa: One year after Timipre Sylva

    Bayelsa: One year after Timipre Sylva

    By the time Chief Timipre Sylva was one year old in office as Governor of Bayelsa State in 2008, he had struck a chord that gave clear clues about where he was heading. He proved he had adequately prepared for the onerous task of governance in a state that had seen probably the worst bashing in the hands of ecological degradation and militants fighting a brutal and merciless war against the government, society and oil companies.

    He had no illusion what he had set upon himself. Sylva knew the war was one that must be won on behalf of the people who voted him into power. He had to battle the militants while tackling the issue of statecraft in a relatively new state like Bayelsa.

    The burden he shouldered was akin to what the Greek mythological Atlas did when he carried the sky on his shoulders as a punishment for offending the erratic god Zeus.

    Because the militants had also resorted to hostage-taking in addition to their war in the creeks, Sylva inherited quite a handful of abductees. It was a scary situation that could discourage any administrator from serious business. An ordinary person would have used it as an excuse not to deliver on his election promises.

    But not Sylva! He moved into action to deal with the host of monsters he had inherited. In his first year in office, he adopted what he and his team called the “Triple E” Strategy: Engagement, Education, and Enforcement. By which he meant his administration would first engage the militants in a dialogue to convince them to drop their arms. Thereafter, he would offer education to those willing and malleable for academic work. For those averse to the classroom, he would empower them for artisanship and lastly through a series of multi departmental policies enforce the execution of the strategy.

    The plan succeeded and became the forerunner to what we now celebrate as the Amnesty Programme of the Federal Government . He went on to record great achievements in the following years after winning peace as a basis for development. Indeed by October 2008, a group, Security Watch Africa, which is respected for its integrity in monitoring security concerns in Nigeria and across Africa, had recognised the work of Sylva and rolled out honours for him. He was awarded two prizes for his “dogged efforts to install stability and peace in a terrain said to have been rendered a no-go area by heavily armed militants.” The two awards Sylva got were Best Governor on Security Matters and 2008 Best Governor on Conflict Resolution. He beat other formidable contenders such as Babatunde Fashola (Lagos), Bukola Saraki (Kwara) and Ibrahim Shekarau ( Kano), among others, who were shortlisted.

    Later, Bayelsa under Sylva, after peace had been won, was to witness a steady improvement in education, power generation and supply.

    The trend was to continue until last year when in the typical Nigerian spirit that kills the goose that lays the golden eggs, the sledgehammer fell on Bayelsa and stopped the music and dance of progressive governance. One year of the Henry Seriake Dickson government in Bayelsa has not been as portentous of a promising future as that of Sylva Whereas in one year of Sylva as I have shown above, you could point to a road map that indicated serious and purposeful governance, you have no such thing in the past twelve months of Governor Dickson . He has spent the period in a futile chase of the ghost of Sylva, who, mercifully, has refused to join issues with him but has rather allowed his achievements to speak for him .

    Dickson has remained stagnant and clay – footed, rooted in one spot of unfounded and sometimes ridiculous claims about his predecessor. The governor hasn’t posted any strategic performance to offer an inkling that he is poised for great achievements for the rest of his term. The first move a leader makes marks him out. It is true some leaders are slow, hesitant starters. But even in such stuttering steps, you would discern an element of certainty and knowledgeability of governance.

    We have not seen this in Dickson. And this is making us Bayelsans nostalgic about the past era of Sylva . Dickson should stop weeping about a phantom legacy of debts and empty treasury and give us what Sylva gave us : Hope !

     

    By James Wanimighe

    Sagbama, Bayelsa State.

  • APC is symbol of hope

    APC is symbol of hope

    SIR: The formation of the All People’s Congress (APC) via a merger of the ACN, ANPP, CPC and APGA is one of the few positive developments that have come to the grief-stricken, badly managed country. Nigerians should ensure that this new party is allowed to end the tales of misery, anguish and pain, which the PDP has levied on Nigeria since the past 14 years.

    That the merger is coming at a time official looting and plundering, insecurity and impunity, decay and unrestrained rot has become directive principles of state policy under the disastrous watch of the PDP shows that there is a flicker of hope for Nigerians. We want to assure Nigerians that there is still hope in a country where youth unemployment has become a norm, where life has become so terribly cheap, where infrastructures continue to deteriorate, where cleansing of state resources has become the order of the day, where power outages, incessant increment in fuel prices, hardship and other forms of suffering have become tools of governance.

    We want to assure Nigerian people that the new party best approximates their hopes and desires for a credible alternative to a PDP that exists first as a vote stealing machine and second, as a looting agency where extreme greed and inordinate selfishness prevail.

    While we urge all Nigerians to embrace this new dawn of hope, we urge them to look for the dirty tactics of the PDP, which will employ any mean and dirty trick to sow mistrust and discord as a way of sustaining its corrupt leadership of the country. We warn citizens to beware of the agents of the PDP, who are beneficiaries of the present state of decay and we want all Nigerians to rather cast their eyes on the gargantuan opportunities the country has lost in the past 14 years of PDP’s destructive rule. We urge all to sheathe their self-interests and put those of Nigerians in front in building this new dawn.

    We urge that personal political interests take back seat while the urgent need to remove the decadent PDP kleptocratic rule should be the motivating principle in the new party. Giving famished Nigerians a new lease of life from the regime of rot, despoliation and impunity should be the immediate priority of the members of the new party and all Nigerians. We charge that no one rests on his oars until victory is achieved and Nigeria is given a responsible and accountable leadership that will lead this country’s march to greatness in 2015.

     

    • Joe Igbokwe.

    Publicity Secretary,

    ACN Lagos

  • Okorocha and the limits of ambition

    Okorocha and the limits of ambition

    SIR: When Owelle Rochas Okorocha was elected governor of Imo State, people were rejoicing in the erroneous opinion that he was better than his predecessor, Ikedi Ohakim. Ever since he came into office, the people have not stopped asking themselves how they could have made the mistake.

    His rascality and especially his disregard for due process has made a nonsense of all that is pure and decent in the act of governance. Recall that after the election in 2011, even before he was sworn in, he wrote to banks freezing all government accounts. The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) had to call him to order by reminding him that there was a government in place regardless of the outcome of that election and advised him to rein in his inordinate urge to assume power.

    As soon as he came on board, he declared war on the system in place in Imo State, doing the unheard of, by commercialising the civil service, as well as dissolving the Local Government as a tier of government. He went ahead to violate the constitution of the federation by introducing an ill-conceived fourth tier of government that is lacking in definition and focus. In Imo State today, there is no local government worthy of the name; yet the allocations to that tier of government has not stopped coming and into someone’s private pocket.

    Not too long ago, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) paid the state a visit and arrested two top government officials for questioning on a N44billion scam. He is trying to divert attention from that issue by making a feeble attempt to probe his predecessor.

    For him, governance is akin to show business that thrives on razzmatazz. That can be deciphered from his abuse of television air time. Okorocha’s face must appear on the screen everyday even if he has to fight for it as he did in Enugu at a State function where he fought with a protocol officer over sitting position.

    Towards the 2007 election, he toyed with the idea of running for the presidency on the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP). At that time, the ante for the Igbo presidency was at its upmost. But because of the way Okorocha went about it with his nauseating display of wealth, even the Igbo elite said if he was the kind character vying for the position, they would have nothing to do with it.

    Now, he is back on the beat. He wants to be a presidential candidate in 2015 and he is trying to buy into the ongoing merger talks by opposition parties, promising to bankroll it on the condition that they give him the ticket. But ambition ought to be made of a sterner stuff which the self-styled Owelle lacks. The good thing is that he is going to have to deal with smarter politicians who know who he is and where he is coming from. He abandoned ANPP when he failed to get what he wanted and returned to the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) to accept the position of Special Adviser. He moved on soon after and joined the Progressive Peoples Grand Alliance (APGA) and rode on Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu’s booster rocket into office as Governor. To him, the envisaged mega party that would emerge if the merger talks succeeded would be a veritable platform to re-launch his presidential ambition. Of course, he will fail again and he will surely move on because he is the quintessential fair weather politician lacking in ideology and commitment.

    Imo people are earnestly waiting to see how he will account for the billions that accrued to the state through the monthly federal allocation to the local government areas. Such a character is not who the Igbo nation should offer to the rest of Nigeria as their candidate for the exalted office of the President of the country.

    • Ogbonna Eze

    Owerri

  • Who will save Nigerians from PHCN’s crazy bills?

    Who will save Nigerians from PHCN’s crazy bills?

    SIR: That the services of PHCN is highly epileptic throughout the country is stating the obvious. The citizens have resigned themselves to fate as the fact remains that the government they put in place to make lives liveable seems helpless to tackle the monster. But the posers now are: Why is Government/PHCN killing the helpless and the hapless masses with crazy and ambiguous monthly PHCN bills? In the face of continuous blackout, when were these electricity units consumed?

    Consider the situation in Ado Ekiti where I reside. Let us assume there are average of 720 hours in a month (i.e. 24 hours X 30days). Ado residents hardly get 100 hours for a month. These few hours of electricity mentioned are either during midnight or few hours when people have gone to work. As soon as people are waking up around 5.30am or when people are returning from work, the light would go off. Again, there are several days light would not even blink!

    The funniest thing is that by the middle of the month, PHCN would start distributing bills ranging from N2,500 to N3,200 per month per household! This is a country where N18,000 is the minimum wage. If people fail to pay on time, the connecting wire would be cut off, thereby using force to rip off hapless people. Must these ugly scenario continue? I continue to wonder, if the commodity is 80% available an average household would cough out almost half salary to pay PHCN bills in a month.

    I hereby use this medium to appeal to the government/relevant authorities to come to the rescue of the masses from this oppression and consider making electricity regular and affordable costs to the masses; If the above task is too tall to be met, reduce drastically these killing bills. They should also ensure, in no distant future, that all electricity consumers, get pre-paid metering system at minimal or no cost.

    Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) Civil Society Organizations, Human Rights activists and our elected lawmakers should come to the aid of the masses. They should not watch helplessly and allow the octopus called PHCN to impoverish the masses more.

     

    • Sanmi Olofinmuagun

    Basiri, Ado Ekiti.

  • Nigerians, so religious yet ungodly

    Nigerians, so religious yet ungodly

    SIR: In Nigeria, religion plays a prominent role in every aspect of our national life. The most terrible Nigerian professes to be an adherent of a particular religion. Most national, state and local government events in the country are heralded with prayers to hypocritically commit things into the hands of God even when the outcome of such events have been pre-determined by men whose intentions are far from being godly.

    In one of his hit songs, the late Afro beat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, berated Nigerians for hiding under the cloak of religion to perpetrate more evil than the devil himself. Public funds are stolen and spent with impunity by so-called ‘religious’ men and women.

    The popular saying that ‘religion is the opium of the people’ is, perhaps, more apt in the case of Nigeria. Rather than get more focused on the challenges of governance, our leaders are either busy traversing one religious centre or the other.

    To underscore the emptiness in our self professed religious activities, the more we ‘pray’ in the country the more of a prey we become. What with the many unprecedented calamities that the country has been experiencing of late. Road accidents, plane crashes, kidnapping, flooding, religious crisis, armed robbery attacks, among others, that have continued to become part and parcel of our national existence.

    Ironically, things work better in advanced nations of the world such as China, Russia, USA, UK, etc where the leaders and the people are not as ‘religious’ as we are.

    Why is it that our self professed religious piety has not put us out of the abyss of poverty, infrastructural decay and unemployment among other rots that pervade the polity?

    How come our leaders don’t feel ashamed with the state of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway whenever they attend religious programmes around the axis? How can a leader who got to power through wrong means suddenly become a self-styled apostle of holiness? By their fruits, we shall know them. Most of our leaders are chameleons who disguise under the garb of religion.

    Aside our leaders, most of us are equally nothing but a group of ethically decadent hypocrites passing for Muslims and Christians. We invoke the name of God only when it suits our purpose, while in reality we live a very deceitful lifestyle trying to deceive ourselves and the rest of the world into thinking that we a more religious people than the rest of humanity. There is no better word for this than hypocrisy.

    Religious leaders in the country should stand for the truth like the prophets of old. There is need for them to return to the basis of their religion. They should remember that they are accountable to the Almighty God. Rather than sell their souls to the highest bidders, they should genuinely turn the rulers and followers to God. If religious leaders fear men more than God, what should be expected of a mere member of the congregation?

    Of what use is an ungodly congregation of eminent thieves and charlatans to the Almighty God whose only interest is for us to imbibe godliness?

    Religious leaders should deemphasize materialism in all they do. They should live what they preach by ensuring that they provide leadership by example. This would go a long way in discouraging questionable people from associating with them. Respected men of God, whom people look up to for the right leadership direction, should be careful in dealing with political leaders. Genuine men of God should not be seen to be fraternizing with men who inflict pains on Nigerians.

     

    • Murphy Arigbabuwo

    Ministry of Information and Strategy, Alausa, Ikeja.

  • Much ado about NCC’s frequency management

    Much ado about NCC’s frequency management

    SIR: There has been an unusual media attention, and comments about frequency spectrum sales and allocations by the telecom regulatory body, the Nigerian Communications Commission, (NCC). The allegations of underhand frequency dealings were made topical by one of the national dailies which devoted its front pages to report the matter.

    The allegations were that the commission, in less than one year, and during the regime of Dr. Eugene Juwah as chief executive, sold the spectrum that belonged to the Nigerian Police to a private firm, Openskys Ltd at a price adjudged to be below value in comparative terms. There was also another report that a set of frequency was sold to a private company, Smile Communications, without due process and at a price also argued to be below par.

    Since this development, several commentators have begun to discuss frequency issues in a manner that has reduced the intensity of the technicality of the subject. Even some non-governmental organizations that have no knowledge of the subject joined the fray, which prompts the question: Who is afraid of frequency management by the telecom regulator?

    The main question which the traducers of the NCC have raised is why it did not subject the frequencies in question to a public auction. Their position is that an auction would fetch the nation more income. The commission responded that the law allows it to use whatever method prescribed by law and that suits it in maximizing the allocation of any frequency. It added that it has already used this same process to allocate frequencies to several operating companies in Nigeria, including Multilinks, StarComms, Intercellular, and a host of other companies that have been operating in the country in the past 10 years.

    There is something curious about the allegations on the allocation of frequency that belongs to the Nigerian Police. Since the controversy has raged, the Nigerian Police has never claimed publicly that its frequency is missing. The commission claimed that it has allocated a frequency designed for security operations to the police while relocating them out of a commercial frequency. The Police never disputed the position of the commission; this is what makes those making the accusation to appear as crying more than the bereaved.

    For several years, the NCC has staked its claim to transparency in the manners it has handled the spectrum management for the nation. In 2001, it recorded globally acclaimed success when it successfully managed the auction for digital mobile frequency licenses which led to the mobile revolution in Nigeria. In 2008, its claim on excellent frequency allocation management came under test and from its own backyard, when the then Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, accused the commission of not following due process in the sale of the 2.3GHz spectrum frequency. This allegation became a major subject in the media for several months, eliciting all kinds of comments until a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja declared the allegations by the minister as false, and gave the commission a clean bill of health.

    There are curious similarities in the ignition of bogus allegations about frequency sale at the NCC, between former minister and the erstwhile Executive Commissioner of NCC, Dr. Gwandu as both are insiders who have access to whatever information they needed to substantiate their allegations, but for some strange reasons failed to do so.

    I acknowledge whistle blowing as a safety valve against fraud, but such whistle blowing must be based on facts not on the misplaced fantasy of a self-appointed whistle-blower.

    • Daku Abdullahi,

    Abuja.

     

  • Ihejirika must hear this!

    Ihejirika must hear this!

    SIR: I wish to draw the attention of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika to the victimization and harassment of innocent civilians in the hands of some soldiers of Asabari 244 Recee Battalion, Saki, Oyo State.

    There was a party holding at Dove Merdian Hotel (a.k.a Eleyele Hotel) at Oje-Owode in Saki-East Local Government area of Oyo State on Saturday, December 29, 2012. The party was going on smoothly until the arrival of two soldiers. With their arrival, argument broke out and the soldiers started using the sticks in their possession to beat people and at a point they started breaking bottles and they threw the hitherto peaceful party into a chaos.

    Many bottles were broken, many wooden doors were destroyed, many glass doors and windows were destroyed and many people were seriously wounded. Summarily, these two soldiers caused confusion leading to destruction of properties worth about a million naira.

    The soldiers of this barrack were noted to be civilized before now but one wonders why they had been misbehaving since the arrival of the current commanding officer.

    They (the soldiers) harass, intimidate and beat up innocent citizens as if they cannot be checked. A lot of innocent citizens have been dehumanized and terrorized by these soldiers. This write up is necessary so that the commanding officer can be advised to caution his soldiers in the way they pounce on innocent civilians.

    • Ajetoro Ololade,

    Sango, Saki,

    Oyo State.

     

  • Presidency, South-south and Ijaw hegemony

    Presidency, South-south and Ijaw hegemony

    SIR: Events that began with the death of President Umaru Yar’Adua in 2010, have come to unveil the historic fraud that was then held as a South-south political platform.

    Presently, the flag of the irredentist Ijaw minority has been treacherously substituted as a South-south political platform, even as their ethnic leaders have superimposed themselves as South-south leaders leaving the peoples and nationalities of the zone without any facility for their own true political expression.

    Today, it is clear to the people of all nationalities in our geo-political region that the sole aim of what was presented to them as a regional mandate in 2011, was actually the establishment and perpetuation of an Ijaw hegemony that subsumes the political expression of the entire zone to its exclusive agenda. This hegemonic ambition, verifiable by the pattern of President Goodluck Jonathan’s appointments since his emergence, is characterized by a near-monopoly of significant empowerment and strategic ministries and positions by the Ijaws to the exclusion of other South-south nationalities. For example, of the six ministerial slots given to the South-South zone, three are occupied by the same Ijaw ethnic nationality. A similar analysis of other key appointments in the presidency, federal departments, parastatals and agencies, portray the same lopsidedness and inequity against other nationalities of the South-south.

    This dominion and monopoly over the other South-south nationalities like the Urhobo nation, which constitute a major block of zone, is classically illustrated by the fact that the entire Bayelsa State which is exercising the so-called South-south Presidency, in addition to a full minister, is made up of the same eight local government areas as the Delta central senatorial district of the Urhobos in Delta State. Yet in the entire South-south, the Urhobos can only boast of chairman of a moribund river basin authority. Even of the eight LGAs that make up the President’s Bayelsa State, a couple of them such as Sagbama LGA have significant Urhobo population. In Delta State, where the Ijaws are a small minority, with Urhobo as the overwhelming majority, the only minister from the state is ironically from the Ijaw minority. What do we call this if not internal colonialism?

    Of equal symbolic evidence, is the exclusive appropriation of the amnesty programme and other related patronages by the Ijaws in the aftermath of a struggle that was supposed to be of the Niger-Delta region. Thus, both the Niger-Delta minister and the head of the Niger-Delta amnesty empowerment programme are both of Ijaw extraction. It is also manifested in the sudden spate of territorial expansionist crises involving Ijaw communities in different parts of the Niger-Delta region such as Edo and Ondo states.

    Now, the cumulative internal crisis of confidence in our zone, engendered by this surreptitious superimposition has degenerated to such depth of bitterness. On top of all these, is the growing realization that our collective political future as minorities stand the danger of being irretrievably compromised in the politics of Nigeria by the accident of history that precipitated the Jonathan Presidency. Our people have come to realize that the dishonesty and betrayal of trust that trailed the president’s candidature, in relation to the zoning principle of the People’s Democratic Party, after the death of the late President Yar’Adua in 2010, is capable of collectively stigmatizing us as an untrustworthy people in the future politics of this country.

    The time has come, to put an end to this national deception, to deconstruct the fraud that is presently assumed to be a South-South political platform and to herald the true political vision of the present day South-south Nigeria.

    • Maxwell Okirikpo

    Effurun Delta State.