My Dear President of N. R. M:
I want to let you know that I read all that you had to say regarding the subsidy removal and other economic mismanagement going on in our land. I believe that we must not give them the joy of wasting our time retailing their misguided policies such as the deregulation that fall into line with their other criminal activities against our land and its people. I followed your write-up all the way to the end and I have the following contrary views regarding your stated objectives especially the way of execution. You began suggesting what and how our universities (fourteen of them) will be assisted by a regime that you earlier stated that it is comatose and for you to again be making those lively suggestions to a regime that is actually on the verge of loosing its life support machine, made me to wonder if it is possible to administer life support to a dead body? Your recommendations to this criminals to me is worse than giving the food of the kids to the dogs. How can you be doling out these great ideas to those depraved minds such as those ruining our land? The sermon is being directed at the wrong crowd if you ask me. While you were dealing with the Crude oil matter and the removal of the subsidy which every regime have dealt with to punish our people, I was looking forward to reading your take on the fact that when crude is shipped out for refinery, the exporting country or entity looses at least seven by-products which comes after you must've extracted fuel, diesel, kerosene etc. I believe that what you were conveying to us is that industrialization is possible using what we have presently but what about those criminals holding and mismanaging power? what are you going to do with them? Do you think they will just fold their hands and let you change the landscape thereby destroying their means of making a mighty living? IBB & co will not easily never allow local refinery to flourish since that will destroy their business interests without a fight.
You are preaching the gospel of educational upliftment, industrialization and people empowerment to a system that kills its own for seeking resource control? Don't you see my drift here. Your take here mirrors those MEND affiliates who went to make peace negotiation with the government of Rivers-Nigeria and then got arrested instead. I bet you will be arrested and your passport confiscated if you ever venture into Nigeria with this package of goodies which will help our people and then isolate the cabal. First things first and until we do those things that must be in place, every other attempt at rescuing Nigeria will be a mirage. Let me not waste your time by stating it unequivocally that I am of that school of thought that believes strongly that Nigeria will never know peace until we shed the blood of those that have desecrated the land and only then will you begin to even attempt some of the wonderful things that you listed on your article. Our land have been polluted and there is the need to clean up before doing anything or else, where then do we begin?
In Nigeria there are no structures that will allow peaceful execution of those programs that you listed without it being messed up on the alters of nepotism, tribal sentiments as well as sectionalism among all other evil that will destroy such a lofty ideas if the ground is not well watered with the blood of those that have driven the country to the current state of comatose that we find it today. Negotiation will not work considering that all the so called national conferences conveyed never really served any meaningful purpose to address the disunity and directionless drift that Nigeria is engaged in. We have seen national development as well as industrialization in different countries over the years and one thing that have been consistent is that development never takes place in fragile environments. Look at South Korea for example: They were still under military regimes until late 1980's or early 1990's but while that was going on, there were other institutions of the country that were alive and functioning such as the schools which produced educated labour force. One thing will surely lead to the other, if we really want to go in the right direction we must study how revolutions were carried out in other developing countries and then see what and how we can apply some of their strategies for our victory. This will not happen over night so we must start somewhere. One good place to start will be to support MEND in every way that you can especially in alerting your current home governments if you are outside or supporting what is already on ground in the best safest ways possible.
Nigeria with its current spineless leaders and the docile seven pointless agenda will continue to go in circles like a mad chicken until its head is severed off. Let's spend our time consulting and hashing out what and how we will take back our land from those we never elected in the first place. It is perfectly legitimate to call for the removal of those usurpers who are impostors by every means possible. That is why in one of my articles last week, I prayed that we develop MEND sort of approach in every nook and corner of our land if we are really serious about seeing a change in the country during our life time. Anything short of a far reaching revolution that will eliminate all the seating robbers in our land will amount to pouring water on the rock. It must cut across the entire land without sparing anyone like what happened during Late Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu of blessed memory's led coup to clean up the land of pollutants. There is great need for clean up not just in the Niger Delta area but also in the East proper, West, North and every place in between. There is nothing else that will work especially when those cankerworms/impostors are using the instruments of state to stifle the opposition and killing those that appear to resist them. A revolutionary movement like MEND, active within and without the creek and spread across the land is going to be an effective means of achieving a far reaching change we can believe in, then we can go into the execution of those well thought out plans that you laid out in your article.
I wish you well with your NR movement but please consider the things I have stated above and tell me if it is really possible to attempt most of what you suggested 'without first cleaning up the house'? Building on a poor foundation is a guarantee for failure. Take a closer look at Nigeria very well and tell yourself that it is not on a very poor foundation, then your patriotism will become very doubtful. I know that you meant well that is why you indicated those goals and with time, I hope we will be able to follow that blue print.
Peace,
Yusuf N'danusa
Reformed Mend Supporters Network
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