We must all rise against the manipulators and auctioneers of judgment in suit SC/69/2011 before the Supreme Court. This is our own invention worth more than ZMAPP and no one will take it from us. It will be a national tsunami if the benefits of this invention are lost to corruption in the Judiciary, nonchalance of public office holders, and all Nigerian citizens who are stake holders and automatic beneficiaries of this messianic invention.
We must heed the clarion call. There is a judicial tsunami. A national earthquake brimming. A judicially-induced national eruption of volcanic proportion. Will we only brace ourselves for the apocalypse or take precautions? The ball is in our court to do what is needful to forge a better life for ourselves and the future of our Nation. We must sail the Nigerian ship to a land of safety and greatness.
Already Nigeria has a very bad name. Foreign countries don’t want to associate with Nigeria except when we lure them with something juicy at our own detriment. The situation on home soil is nothing encouraging as our youths curse Nigeria on daily basis while they seek greener pastures abroad. Nigerians in the Diaspora experience stigmatization and racism all over the globe and it is so unfortunate that their plight means nothing to the Government. We are our own undoing.
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We have been blinded by personal gains and aggrandizement and that’s all we want from our involvement in politics. We are lost like a sheep without shepherd. Like a lost ship we wander the oceans hoping for a water goddess to show us the way. There are a thousand experiences to cite as it is no more news that nothing is working in Nigeria.
It is a national disgrace. We should bow our heads in shame and rethink. Does anyone remember the response of U.S. President Barack Obama to our plea for ZMMAP? An experimental drug famed to be the cure for Ebola virus that was used to treat two Americans on Ebola's death row was requested for by the Federal Government and President Barrack Obama was not economical in his outright refusal. He landed a punch that left us sprawling with a bloody nose. He asserted that we have failed to build strong public infrastructures over the YEARS hence, we deserve no pity. Nigeria has since been excluded from various grants.
While we have the resources and the skill to avoid our shameful begging and dependence on foreign aid, we still find ourselves in a sorry state. Why? A typical example is what brewed in our Judiciary in recent years. A classic case of how we sell our birthrights for a plate of porridge or morsel of bread. Suit: SC/69/2011 before the Supreme Court tells it all. While the United States basks in the glory and riches brought by various inventions including the recent ZMAPP we begged for, our judiciary and leaders are suppressing creativity and discouraging inventions.
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Inventions and innovations during the Industrial Revolution were main contributing factors to the process of acceleration of the industrial development of Great Britain. Its industrial sector benefited from trade protection and other forms of government intervention in the trade flow through the Navigation Act and by means of political power and even military power. What has happened to our Patent and Designs Act? Bill Gates comes to mind for the effect of his invention on the United States economy and I will not forget in a hurry his financial grants towards eradication of Polio in Nigeria and many other various noble acts. In Nigeria we still apply for grants from the Bill Gates Foundation till date. Inventors are celebrated around the globe. America didn’t smile on the infringement of Apple patents by South Korea-owned Samsung. The court was not undecided to speedily do justice.
It is a different story in Nigeria. The history of suit SC/69/2011 at the Supreme Court of Nigeria over infringement of patent rights is a classic case of how judges auction judgment for sale and jeopardize the future of our Nation and that of all stake holders. The invention called the Anti-Corrosive Special Paint is the enabling paint that makes possible the exploration of Crude oil offshore. It is being used by many oil multinationals in their daily operations and offshore oil drilling is impossible without it. The proud Nigerian Inventor of this enabling paint has been cheated, humiliated, and persecuted for more than 14 years by the oil multinationals that make use of the product, by the judiciary that has by ignorance and corruption denied him Justice and by the Federal Government that turned deaf ears to the cry for intervention in this cruel act. King Clement Uwemedimo, the proud inventor of the Anti-Corrosive Special Paint is yet to get rewards for this invention.
We care less about our resources, leaving it to ravaging wolves to plunder while we beg for crumbs from abroad. Patent RP 13522 issued by the Federal Government of Nigeria on the 5th of August 1999 is worth more than 150 billion U.S. dollars. The Inventor had prepared a blueprint of how the royalties should be used. The building of refineries across the country, provision of stable electricity, industrialization, motor-able and safe roads, employment, a social security scheme that will put an end to abject poverty to mention a few. Despite these noble intentions of our rights, a few corrupt individuals are placing cogs in the wheel of progress.
It is a matter of National Security because the invention is a game changer. It carries the financial power to set Nigeria free of begging and solve our infrastructural and institutional problems. It has the capability to create employment in millions as designed by the inventor. It will send a clear message to the outside world that we the citizens of Nigeria are not terrorists and scam artists. We are good people, hardworking and inventors.
We must all rise against the manipulators and auctioneers of judgment in suit SC/69/2011 before the Supreme Court. This is our own invention worth more than ZMAPP and no one will take it from us. It will be a national tsunami if the benefits of this Invention are lost to corruption in the Judiciary, nonchalance of public office holders, and all Nigerian citizens who are stake holders and automatic beneficiaries of this messianic invention.
Just as we must remove the Boko Haram cancer in our country, as much as need be for eradication of the stubborn Ebola Virus, we must also as a matter of public policy and national security ensure that the royalties of this Invention are gotten and put to noble use in good time.
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