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NIGERIA: PARADISE RECONSTRUCTED, REBUILT
OCTAVIUS
Let us do so. For we are at the stake
And bayed about with many enemies.
And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear,
Millions of mischiefs.
- William Shakespeare, Julius Casar, Act 4, Scene 1, Line 55.
Haba, Mallam…. action! Action! Action!
Zer bandits under ya bed…
Aso Rock surrounded, wake up, Mallam!
Mallam, wake up!
Series: The Philistine are all over you, O Nigerians!
“We are zoning to zone the unzoned, surmounting the surmountable.”
- Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe, a Nigerian politician and statesman.
PART 40) OF THE FOOLS OF THE SOUTH AND THE MIDDLE BELT…THERE WILL BE WAR AGAIN, BUT A DIFFERENT WAR
(PART 40): Porous borders and national security in times of national emergency and unparalleled adversity
“Our flag shall be a symbol
That truth and justice reign…One Country, One People, One Destiny, One God
“…. sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Mummy, when you get back to Nigeria, tell my people to remain one in unity. Tell Nigerians to remain one in love, tell my Plateau people that they must remain one. Tell my people to imbibe unity, peace and love."
- - The last words of Chief Daushep Solomon Lar, through his wife, Mary Lar to his Plateau people, the Middle Belters and Nigerians in general.
THE BIG BANG: DON'T LET IT BANG! DON'T LET IT SCATTER!
“What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
RECONSTRUCTING EDEN, THE TREE PLANTING REVOLUTION NATIONWIDE, BUT PARTICULARLY IN THE NORTHERN GEOPOLIZONE AND THE JOHN ADUMA’S IDIOT’S GUIDE FOR MOVING THE PASTORALISTS FROM NOMADIC LIFESTYLE TO SEDENTARINESS
TOWARDS PASTORALISTS SEDENTARISM: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN - AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
THE LAND GRABBERS’ LAST-MINUTE RUSH: MB, stop these rampaging and very desperate land grabbers prowling all over Nigeria now!
Because I have spent the last 33 years of my life repeating myself over and over on the self-same subject matter, this Idiot’s Guide of mine will here be presented in a form of EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR THE BLAH, BLAH, BLAH GENERAL:
- Kick-start the process of education or re-education aimed at persuading, encouraging the nomads to embrace sedentism against the backdrop of the current Nigerian and global reality.
- Build multipurpose ranches.
- Designated shelters/settlements for the pastoralists and their cattle ONLY in the North.
- Provision of basic needs for the nomads, their families and animals aimed at bringing them to modernity properly.
- Feeds for their animals – open up the grass economy (home grown) and not imported grass please – whether from Cambodia, Brazil, and other Latin American countries) or in the West or from Asia, for it is sheer madness and crass stupidity to import grass as animals’ feeds from abroad!
- Establish Vet Clinics to treat their animals.
- Hospitals, community clinics, dispensaries, surgeries within their commune
- Build modern or state of the art abattoirs
- Build allied/subsidiary factories side by side with the livestock farming or animal husbandry economy.
- Build community sports centres
- Build Community town halls
- Build Ultra-modern markets
- Build Retail Parks/Business Centres/Shopping Centres/Business parks.
- Water for both the community and animals, but how? Wells?
- Review and reconstruct existing mega dams such as Tiga and Challawa Gorge dams to be replaced by pockets of smaller dams and make water available to the herders, their animals, the downstream people, traditional farmers for use in their fadamas, etc.
- Halt the fast-disappearing fadamas/traditional farming in Northern Nigeria, and in the South too, as able-bodied men and women have been migrating to cities – and those staying back in the villages prefer to trade in provisions/beverages instead of continuing with the trade of their forebears. FAMINE HAS ALREADY BERTHED IN NIGERIA!
- Again, identify as many towns/urban areas as possible and upgrade them to cities or potentially viable Local Government Areas can apply to the Federal Government after relevant legislations have been enacted and be upgraded to cities, starting especially from those former Provinces which have not yet been upgraded to state status, especially Ogoja (Ogoja City or The City of Ogoja), Ijebu City or The City of Ijebu, Umuahia City or The City of Umuahia formerly the seat of the Government of Eastern Region of Nigeria), Onitsha City or the City of Onitsha, Warri City or the City of Warri, etc. As a matter of fact, the nation must aim at spreading development and infrastructure, nothing in the constitution that says all MDAs, including those at state level must be cited in capital cities. I used to live in London, but since moving out of London, I have never missed it for one bit nor are there anything in London, that I cannot get where I now live in. This is what is called planning and development. A situation where all rural areas in Nigeria are now empty, but the cities overcrowded is not good for the health of the nation nor for its economy – and unarguably, our planning and developmental strategies serve as a catalyst for criminalities. Any government that is serious should build 12 new cities – two each in the six Geopolizones of the country within its two terms in office. And towards this, huge sums of money can be earmarked for this vision, having special votes – THE CITY CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDS (CCDFs).
- Spread all the MDAs across Nigeria – stop being stupid perpetually! Be wise, be creative, be innovative, be inventive, be imaginative; concentrating all CNI in Abuja or in capital cities have grave security implications!
- Also, all States capital should be given special status such as FEDERALTERITORY (FT)/FEDERAL PROTECTED ZONES (FPZ) or Greater…Authority with each having an elected Mayor and Officers, who together with his team should be Federal Officers. For example: GREATER CALABAR AUTHORITY, GREATER KANO CITY AUTHORITY, GREATER PORTHARCOURT AUTHORITY, etc., etc.
- Embark on extensive national tree planting programme all over Nigeria, especially in the North to halt the seemingly intractable and aggressive march of the desert fires – desertification.
- Monitor the Northern Poligeozonal spaces to avoid bush/wildfires.
- Discourage use of massive pumps by owners of mechanized farmers, who of course, are the Generals, emirs, top level serving and former civil servants and other elites/businessmen and women, etc.
- Embark on aggressive building of green belts/shelter belts/wind breaks, etc.
- Establish meat processing factories.
- Establish milk processing factories, both small and large scales.
- Establish vocational/life’s skills academies.
- Introduce family planning for, and amongst the pastoralists, including all Nigerians to check the current run-away population growth. The habit of indiscriminate births/procreation/breeding must be considered by all Africans as having passed their use by dates, including polygamy which has been encouraging all sorts of disrespect for the womenfolk. Going forward, the natural and commonsensical rule should be breeding with restraint, consideration for the environment, with responsibility, breed-feed and train – THE BREED, FEED, TRAIN SYSTEM/FORMULA. Muhammadu Buhari and his ilk in the blah, blah, blah APC Government must be made aware that investment in human capital is as equally important as ‘laying’ white elephant projects here and there in the name of building infrastructure as an evil hen would in an African village, laying eggs here and there, only for vipers to devour. What is more, that international Almajjri called Muhammadu Buhari, who is always at the World’s Beautiful Gates, perpetually asking for ‘alms’ (loans) must be told in clear term that it is an exercise in crass stupidity to mortgage a people’s future, just because he wants an unearned and sensational headlines from the press in Nigeria in the name of making giant strides in the building of infrastructure all because he naively thinks, once infrastructure are in place, the people will take care of themselves. Again, infrastructural development must go pari passu with human capital development.
- Establish loan schemes for the herders and upstart business owners under the National Upstart Businesses of Nigeria (NUBON) in partnership with financial institutions and organizations.
- Build the largest abattoirs in the whole of ECOWAS, in addition to establishing the West African Meat market. In a Lecture delivered by Major General Muhammadu Buhari in year 2000 in his capacity as the President of the West African Cattle Breeders Association (WACBA), he said the whole of ECOWAS then boasted of over 400, 000, 000 herds of cattle. If this was the case, why was the Murtala Muhammed Government busy importing the so-called “Murtala meat” from abroad in the 70s? And why do all West Africa still import beef from abroad? How stupid! In like manner, even though the continent is surrounded by waters – streams, brooks, rivers, lakes, wetlands, seas, oceans, African countries still import fishes and all other sea foods from abroad. Why? Why, eh? Eh, why?
- Again, how stupid! Or there are no fishes in African waters? No fishes in African waters?
- We have before us a virgin economy, all that is required from all of us is to think outside the box. Also, why do some Nigerians rush outside the country to celebrate, hold conferences/meetings/summits/weddings/birthdays in Dubai, London, New York, including shopping abroad? Is it the spirit of adventure or sheer stupidity? Why can we not have our own DUBAI, INSTABUL, HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, SEOL in Nigeria to attract the rest of the world to our Nigeria?
- In this day and age, our night time, weekend, Sunday and public holiday economies are still nil – highly disjointed, disorganized and uncoordinated, and we don’t know how much each generates nor do we have the daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly statistics of how much each state, LGA and each GEOPOLIZONE generate per second, per minute, hour, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and monthly -and which state, LGA and POLIGEOZONE generates the most income during the times referenced nor any such statistics sector by sector, and profession by profession nor those of secondary schools, colleges and the universities economies. For example, which university, schools, colleges generate the most income monthly or we have been cursed perpetually to scramble for allocations from the centre in the name of the so-called NATIONAL CAKE, turning all Governors especially, to EXECUTHIEF ALMAJIRAI, sitting on every President’s hallway for the so-called NATSHANAL CAKE to be dropped into their bowls by the President’s Chief of Staff?!
- What are the pubs, bars, cafes, restaurants, snacking economies like in Nigeria?
- Again, as I keep saying, the university is just a pathway out of the countless pathways of life that abound in Nigeria, Africa and universally.
- Again, WANTED: Graduate cleaners – those who do cleaning so well to later set up FACILITIES MANAGEMENT COMPANIES, graduate pepper grinders, bread sellers, pure water sellers, mushroom sellers, vegetable growers and sellers, poultry and pig farmers, graduate bakers, graduate kunu sellers, graduate pepper soup sellers, graduate conductors, graduate fish mongers, graduate butchers/meat sellers, graduate moi-moi sellers, graduate kerosine sellers, graduate akara sellers, graduate groundnuts/peanuts sellers, graduate sugar cane sellers, graduate dry cleaners, graduate suya sellers, etc, etc.
- And don’t forget my cottage thinking philosophy: START SMALL AND GROW BIG – this is what cottage thinking is all about, and you don’t want to commit the same old mistake amongst Nigerians of renting posh offices and expensive cars when they want to start any form of business as you can start any type of business from anywhere – back of car, car boots (start car boot market in your local area/community), garage, motor park, inside molue, inside toilet, inside church, in a one-room apartment, boys quarters, at bus stops, living room, bed room, verandah/hall way, parlor, school environment, roadside, in and from a hut, on top of trees, inside water, on top of mountains, hills and valley, etc., etc., but ensure whatever you sell, will not bring God, yourself, family and the nation any form of shame. And may the Almighty God crown your efforts as you want to take a step by not scorning your humble start/beginning.
- What is the state of car boot sales economy in Nigeria?
- How about truck/wheelbarrow sales economy – starting and selling in wheelbarrows?
- Formulate a national policy with a law backing it to start the much-needed Nighttime Economy (NTE), Weekend Economy (WE), National Holidays Economies or Festival Economies (NHE or FE), Sunday Economy (SE), High Streets/Broad Street Economy (HE/BE), etc. Ahead of time, what appropriate security measures and infrastructure will be put in place before the take off?
- SECURITY VOTES – Since all state governors have come to see and regard SVs as freebies, money for their concubines, free money for their girlfriends, free money to buy private jets, free money to buy expression of interest forms for political office, and then go on to classify such expenses under miscellaneous, free money to feed their unbridled dissipated lifestyles, it is here to be suggested again that a ministry should be created to be known and called: FEDERAL MINISTRY OF SECURITY & SAFEGUARDING (FMSSG) to henceforth take custody of all the security votes to be under the Presidency.
- The EFCC and ICPC should collect all the billions that were collected from ALL THE POLITICAL CROOKS in the country by their parties in the name of expression of interest and actual buying of forms, hand them over to the Government to use them to build vocational academies and build community libraries in all the constituencies and LGAs of the country – 774 in number.
- And since all the Almajirai are now so stupendously wealthy through begging that they can buy form for GEJ, they should start to help themselves by way of establishing schools, vocational academies and build factories for themselves because God helps those who help themselves and also, charity begins at home.
- But where from did Ichabod Gbolahan Bakare get the N100, 000, 000 he had used to buy the expression of interest form to contest for Prezdent? Would that this money was given to the poor labouring for him and his natural family in their ‘family factory’. Were EFCC and ICPC set up only to be chasing the likes of Abdulkareem Ango Okorocha and such other political crooks or they are meant to look into the cupboard of pulpit crooks and other persons of ill-gotten wealth too and find the many skeletons therein?
THE NATIONAL RETAIL CALENDAR AND THE NATIONAL RETAIL ECONOMY IN NIGERIA
- Christmas
- Boxing Day
- New Year’s Day
- Valentine’s Day
- Easter
- May Day/Labour Day
- Children’s Day
- Mother’s Day
- Father’s Day
- Democracy Day
- Sallah
- Ramadan
- New Yam Festivals
- Veganmas
- Pridemas?
- Independence Day
- Cyber Monday
- Black Friday
- Democracy Day
- Children’s Day
- Labour Day
- Army Day, etc.
Can the Office for National Statistics of Nigeria (ONSON) tell the nation where we are presently in the national retail economy regarding the above NATIONAL RETAIL CALENDAR (NRC), and in comparison, with the global retail calendar and economy, including the above microeconomies?
OCCUPY THEIR MINDS WITH SERIOUS THINGS WHILST TO ALL THE NIGERIAN & WORLD YOUTH, I SAY: OCCUPY YOUR MINDS WITH POSITIVE THINGS
The Greeks of yore were wont to be advising their young ones thus, with the African saying: KNOW THYSELF (not Socratic please), in addition to asking them to: OCCUPY YOUR MIND WITH SERIOUS THINGS. In like manner the nation must henceforth begin to occupy the minds of her children and youngsters with SERIOUS THINGS if we are to get out of our current insecurity and all other mess facing her right now.
And if you want to stop banditry and all forms of terrorism, STOP THEIR FLOW STATIONS/SOURCES OF SUPPLY. Then engage them!
WHAT WILL SISTER DUBAI BE REMEMBERED FOR?
Lest I forget, what will MAMA YUSUF be remembered for, better still, how does she want to be remembered? Has sister Dubai like an evil hen in an African village just been laying eggs all over the place these past seven years or she will want history, the Nigerian people, the world, and posterity to remember her as a mere Jack/ress of all trades and master of none? Whoever stole the words: CONCENTRATION AND CONSOLIDATION from her dictionary?
Perhaps, like her husband, hers too will be regarded as THE EIGHT WASTED YEARS?
Maybe some Nigerians out there will remember her as THE SCREAMIING LADY OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA (SLOFRON) or THE DUBAI PARY ORGANIZER (DPO) or the DUBAI PARTYGOER or simply as THE SHOPPERHOLIC?
Again, just how will MAMA DUBAI be remembered and for what? Simply as MAMA DUBAI?
A MESSAGE TO THE NORTH: LET THEM GO TO SCHOOL OR GO AND PLANT TREES TO HALT DESERTIFICATION OR GO AND LEARN HANDWORK OR GO AND FILL POTHOLES INSTEAD OF TERRORISM AND BANDITRY
In particular, let all Nigerian youths in the North, almajirai included, who cannot proceed to the university, go and learn a trade like their counterparts in the South. Truth is that 99.9% of the trades/handwork in Northern Nigeria are done by the Southerners, that is why even Ardo Bayero, the late emir of Kano whilst he was still alive, whenever all Ndigbo and all South closed their shops during crises – be they political or religious, the entire North would be grounded. Once the effects of that closure began to bite very hard, the emir would be everywhere begging Ndigbo and all South to come out and open their shops for people to buy food stuff and enjoy essential services once more.
TIME FOR NORTH TO SHINE THEIR EYES in the area of apprenticeships, vocational and life skill’s acquisition such as mechanics, electricians, plumbers, gardeners, bicycle and bike repairers, watch repairers, radionics, bricklayers, carpenters, painters, hairdressers, cobblers, pedicures, manicures, hair dressers, etc., etc.
What is more, let GUMINESTY’S FOREST BOYS and all the members of the BUHARI BRIGADE (BB) put down their guns and then go and learn trade/handwork or plant trees or embrace MODERN EDUCATION (not Western education as there ought not to be such a thing as it is not only the Western world that have contributed to knowledge and learning from the earliest times when man began to settle down till now – the term WESTERN EDUCATION therefore is a misnomer, hence my coinage MODERN EDUCATION or UNIVERSAL or GLOBAL EDUCATION or GLOBAL OR UNIVERSAL LEARNING/KNOWLEDGE) if they want to be competitive.
ORATURE: IN SEARCH OF COMMERCIAL STORY TELLERS AND POETS IN NIGERIA
But why have we abandoned the art of storytelling in modern Nigeria when before the modern writing art, this was one of the countless number of ways we kept records and transmitted information and history, whether micro or macro history? By this writer’s reckoning, this untapped industry could be worth trillions of pounds annually if well explored using stories to open all events including weddings, telling stories in marketplaces, on buses, trains, and other socio-politico-econo-cultural intercourses, including travelling band of storytellers, solo storytellers, having stories in songs or embedded in songs, etc.
What is more, having stories in writing form, oral, audio-visual, audio, on all the social media platforms, having them on DVDs, CDs, kindles, etc., etc.
Henceforth, Governments, blue-chip companies, individuals, groups, organizations should start featuring storytellers and poets as apart from promoting indigenous cultures and perpetuating them for posterity, it will go a long way in jobs and wealth creation. In trying to solve unemployment problems in Nigeria, thinking outside the box is here highly recommended – and there are many talents out there. What is more, there isn’t a Nigerian/human being out there without at least a talent by which they can earn their daily bread without having to depend on the government or anyone else in society.
ARE BANDITS MUHAMMADU BUHARI’S CLOSE ‘PROTECTION OFFICERS’ OR HIS REAL ATTACK DOGS?
Study their modus operandi of striking – whenever anybody, group/organization/institution or Geoplolizone criticize/s MB or his Government– see how they go to work. Since there are no longer security agencies in that country, I call on fellow Nigerians to study their pattern of attacks?
It is verry sad, yet ridiculous that in Nigeria, the security agencies do not arrest bandits, terrorists and other violent people or criminals, rather it is bandits who (now) arrest every Nigerian and take them into captivity to be imprisoned nor do honest people in Nigeria arrest criminals (?), not even doing citizen arrest, but it is the self-same bandits and other criminal elements, both local and aliens that (now) arrest honest people – abduct and kidnap them for ransoms.
But when a three-member band of bandits get a ransom of $800, 000, 000.00, from their victims’ agents or relatives, where do they bank this Ogbonge money – inside the ANT HILL OF THE SAVANNA BANK, of course?!
And it is also a truism that bandits are aliens from far off Jupiter, they never fall sick, they never go to hospitals when injured during a face off with the security fifle nor do they go to markets nor live amongst people
Nigeria, we hail thee!
ANATOMY OF GLOBAL YOUTH VIOLENCE & ZERO YOUTH MORALITY
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- ODEY OKABO OBOYA ADUMA (Johnny Boy).
One of God’s workmanships in His service, that of country and humanity.
CCLPS, SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM.
** *The Voice of One crying in the Diaspora…proudly leading the NATIONALISTS UNITY MOVEMENT OF NIGERIA (NUMON).
God bless our Nigeria.
Please take a pause and listen – source: Bob Marley - Everything's Gonna Be Alright - YouTube.
Good morning, fellow Nigerians and all friends of Nigeria, worldwide!
THE BLURB
Why does one youngster stab another with a knife which they will never, ever dare to stab themselves with? Why are our young people killing themselves without thinking of the pains and sorrow such barbarism and bestiality will leave their loved ones with for the rest of their lives? Why do some young persons - members of the same community prey on one another with such jungle-like ferocity in the nation’s cities? Why, why are there now so many of such gruesome, purposeless, wicked and unwarranted killings in the nation’s cities as if Britain is now a land that devours its children? More worrisome is the fact that when they are hacked to death so young, what happens to their dreams, visions, goals and aspirations?
Heart-rending as these painful questions are, Be A Beacon of Hope in the World: A Message to Young Britain does not attempt to offer answers to these puzzles arising from the untimely deaths of Britain’s children through knifings. However, it seeks to act as a guidepost, compass and a Sat Nav to point young persons in the direction of the good way and on the path of civility, decency, common sense, humaneness and universal altruism, whereupon they are expected to have respect, first for themselves, for others and for all of life’s forms. Therefore, let the alarm bell which this book has triggered off to warn all young persons in Britain and the world over that to live in the fast lane is to die young, reverberate through the vista of time.
Enter, Bob Marley singing:
…..everywhere is war
Me say war
War in the east
War in the west
War up north
War down south
War – war…
