Calabar Lagos Rail Project

 

By Joseph Edgar . . .

I have read the clarification from the Ministry of Budget stating clearly that the two projects both the Calabar-Lagos and Lagos-Kano rial projects are in the budget. They in fact also confirmed that the two projects are being discussed right now by the President in faraway China. This I hope brings to rest the flaming controversy once and for all.

But if you ask me what I think or should I now say thought of the whole controversy, I would just say it’s distrust and selfish intent by those who have either been appointed  or elected to serve us.

Our government officials both elected and appointed go about their duties with a heavy dose of distrust and selfish intent, hence all these needless controversies. First the budget goes ‘missing’ it is found, it is padded and the President is scared to sign for fear that what he submitted is not what he sent in and going by his style will take forever to conclude.

So the way we are looking at things we should be getting this year’s budget first quarter next year.

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I sometimes ask myself why I bother about this country. What in effect is really wrong with us. Everything we touch is in shambles, why are we such a disorganized people. See the white man’s enclave even within us and you will weep with envy. If you go to LNG in Bonny Rivers State, the beautiful efficiency you see there will amaze you. Everything works, constant power, good roads, housing and medical. People observe the laws and even keep to traffic rules. If you enter any multinational office in this country you will see how things are meant to be, but in the outside world that is Nigeria, it is chaos.

Why would people have the temerity to pad a budget submitted by no less a strict person as Buhari. That means that during Jonathan’s time we were just being taken for a ride.

This distrust and lack of patriotism by our leaders will continue to be our bane. We are stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea. The leader that is incorruptible is bereft of any meaningful idea that could lead to economic emancipation, while the one that has the vision and brimming with ideas is an incurable kleptomaniac. Maybe we should just go back to colonialism.

Let them come back and rule us. Nigerians don’t need much, just good roads, basic food and clothing, primary healthcare and education. We really do not want to go to the moon, we really are not interested in nuclear physics and all those esoteric things the others are doing, we just want to eat.

 

 

 

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