THE DEATH OF FUEL ERA IS VERY CLOSE: RISE UP

  By Michael Ukanga Ekpo

  mike_ekpo@yahoo.com

Samsung launches solar powered computers & laptops, Nissan launches Nissan Leaf (a car that can run for years without fuel - electric car sold for less than (N4 million), Airtel & other telecom companies to launch solar powered base stations worldwide, Nigerian banks and many more Nigerians clinch to solar & power inverters too. From the foregoing, very soon, our oil will be needless & useless. Now is the time we need to quickly fix Nigeria's big challenges fast & then start shopping for alternative means of livelihood & source of income b4 it's too late.

We must not continue to tolerate our figureheads & watch this great nation fall flat because ONLY we the masses will suffer it as they have all stolen monies enough to cater for even their generations unborn. We have to take after Egypt & Libya on peaceful demonstration but if they continue waging war against us, we might have to take the bull by the horn & begin to respond violently. Enough is enough. Boko Haram, Fuel Subsidy Removal, No Light, No Roads, ASUU on Strike, No Water, No Health Care, No Education, No freedom of Speech, Bad Governors, Bad Senators, Bad Rep. Members, No Government Airlines, Even Police & Army are used against the poor alone. Innocent boys & girls have turned Kidnappers, Scammers, Fraudsters, Armed Robbers, Prostitute & other alternative means of survival! How long must we continue 2 suffer in abject poverty even when we are naturally blessed by God from origin?

Time to act is now!! Even the kingdom of God suffereth violence & violence taketh it by force. We need to do it at least for our children & grand children. 28th JANUARY 2012 IS THE BIG DAY. Make plans 2 join other Nigerians in Abuja as we storm d FCT to demand our rights. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan & his CLUELESS team have to work or GO! Please support this move by keeping this message circulating till every Nigerian has read/gets it. Signed by all Nigerian youths! Kill that fear & pass this on.

Michael Ukanga Ekpo

Accra, Ghana

The Earth is the Lord…

Oyinbo Is Not Stupid - Nija Take Note!

"The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Nigeria, and continues to recommend U.S. citizens avoid all but essential travel to the Niger Delta states of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers; the Southeastern states of Abia, Edo, Imo; the city of Jos in Plateau State, Bauchi and Borno States in the northeast; and the Gulf of Guinea because of the risks of kidnapping, robbery, and other armed attacks in these areas. Violent crime committed by individuals and gangs, as well as by persons wearing police and military uniforms, remains a problem throughout the country. This notice replaces the Travel Warning for Nigeria dated October 19, 2010, to update information on recent violent activity and crime in Nigeria. "



The above excerpt is Paragraph One of the travel warning for Nigeria with the US State Dept. The website address is http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_5580.html. This website was updated on 10/31/11.

Who are we deceiving ?????? That an American company will ignore the warning from its own State Dept and do considerable investment deals with us?
I have not heard any dialogue nationally or otherwise on how we will take this country off that list !!!!
We need Investments and Trade Deals but every American Company before leaving the shores of the United States checks out with the US State Dept. When a deal is made it is not a hidden thing. The three trade deals worth billions of dollars with Panama,South Korea and Colombia were announced worldwide. Real deals are announced openly,they are not hidden !!!!! Real investment like Range Rover going to India is announced openly ,or like google setting shop at Sweden or AT&T trying to merge with Sprint etc.
However there are rules of engagement. We will not force Oyinbo to invest with us(Which involves them spending their money) in the midst of Assassinations,Kidnappings,Murders,Corruption and all other kinds of chaos. Contrary to what sycophants may want to say, things are relatively peaceful where these huge companies and conglomerates open shop at. We may smile at them and they may smile back at us but the fact remains that they are not stupid. They know everything that is going on and they will surprise you if they want to describe your own environment for you !!
The sub division of the G-20 countries ,the G-8 (Canada,France,Italy,Japan,United Kingdom,United States and Russia) control the world's economy and they have standards. We will not dictate to them, they rather dictate to others. Silent observers to this group include China,Brazil,India,Mexico and South Africa.
So we can go for investment meetings, theycan even be gracious enough to open the wine bottle for you but it ends there. When it is over they will open the door and let you go quietly with your issues. You will not force them to invest in your chaos ridden society reeking of corruption.
All that Akwa Abasi Ibom state needs is one,I mean one Fortune 100 Company to come and open shop in Uyo and Three-Quarters of Akwa Ibom is employed in no time with a huge crowd of foreigners working and living there and buying land too and building houses !
However,whenever I put my ear to the ground it always us doing deals with some company that is so africanized that they are as corrupt as the people themselves like Julius Berger etc.
How about a Fortune 100 company like HoneyWell, Google, Cisco, Northrup Grumman,Boeing, Apple, Microsoft, Dow Chemical, Walgreen, Walmart, Proctor and Gamble , HP, Dell, 3M, General Dynamics, Intel just to mention a few of them. You cannot close a deal with these guys by force. They will not invest in your area when you cannot even take that stuff in the travel warning off from the US State Dept website.
So who are we deceiving ??
Investment is not having all the outfits in the state being co-ops of the State Government. Investments for Akwa Abasi Ibom State should "Heavily" affect the lives of the common man. I would rather prefer a Fortune 100 company coming into Uyo and the service companies to that investment belong to the common man. Say Intel came to Uyo and opened a Billion dollar plant. Let the Cafeteria Caterer be from Akwa Ibom state,same for the Stationary supplier,Car Fleet Managing Company,Pharmaceutical Supply Company, Maintenance supplies,Travel Agency,Auditing Firm,Technical supplies and the list goes on and on.
When it is real it is open. CNN would just announce that Microsoft is going to Uyo, nothing is hidden. Trade deals are announced openly and worldwide. In fact it is like a kind of signal that the country or area is opened for high powered business with the atmosphere to match. So all these "hidden" attempts to pull investment into the state is just something else. It is a reflection of a forgone era that we will not let go. The fact also is that instead of admitting the truth ,people would rather die in silence.
Ghaddafi figured this out and he spent millions of dollars with consulting firms trying to regain the image of Libya and it paid off . So what are we doing to attract investment ? Rather Nigerians want to eat their cake and have it. With all the inconsistent electric power, Assassinations,Corruption,Kidnappings, we believe we will make the world come in and invest in us by force !!!! Obama in fear of Nigeria will announce a major trade deal with Nigeria or Akwa Abasi Ibom State ! Right?
I repeat again and again as some people who travelled are beginning to realize. Oyinbo are not stupid. Like most of our people are beginning to recognize, after all the talk ,they opened the door and the team left. If there was a major trade deal signed or investment agreement signed and made,we would have heard about it in their own foreign TV stations and ours too and CNN does not miss that kind of news with Fox Business Channel too. Never heard Nigeria mentioned not to talk about Akwa Abasi Ibom State.
Oyinbo are not stupid,they will not spend a dime in your land if the atmosphere is not conducive. They do not have a problem taking your money and building Airports/Repair Hangers and Seaports and Hotels and stuff for you. However it is another story when you say that Mercedes Benz has decided to build the Assembly plant for the next generation S-class in Akwa Abasi Ibom State. This would entail Mercedes Benz buying land in Uyo and building their own Residential Estate,then a huge Industrial complex and employing the local populace and then shipping the finished product from a Sea port in Akwa Abasi Ibom State to the rest of the world. That is real investment and Oyinbo are not moved by words to invest in less than ideal conditions and spend their hard earned money where they could easily get killed or kidnapped or get annoyed by Corruption.
It is a bit humbling ,the day you go to Boeing and start trying to have them assemble engine parts of the New Dreamliner 787 in your state not to talk about country. That is when you know how powerful you are in the world business scene. Asking Wal-mart to use your state as an "experimental hub" to penetrate the African market(knowing that entails them spending millions of dollars) and they delay you in a hotel room cuz they cannot wait to penetrate your part of the world and want you to sign a deal.

Oyinbo are not stupid

If this administration is not careful,they will end up being the administration with a record that succeeded in paying huge sums of money to foreign companies for contracts and services rendered but could not attract a single solid fortune 500 company to invest likewise in the land.
A super spending state that spent every single dime away.

Bringing Life changing investment is where the real work begins and we shall come to notice that Oyinbo are not stupid.

They are rather ready to give you awards than to bring a company to your land that will make 2000 Americans to be permanently stationed in Uyo spending cash like no man business.Oyinbo are not stupid.

Until we get our name off that travel warning list no solid company will want to do business with us and we can continue to act like we are superior to them and that we do not need trade and investment with Europe and the United States of America.
In fact we don't need their help because oil money is flowing and AIDN will figure out how to get companies into Akwa Abasi Ibom State with the name of our state on a warning list.

I also anticipate all those that will attack me for bringing to notice the fact that the name of Akwa Abasi Ibom State is on a travel warning list.

Oyinbo are not stupid
 
Clayton Udoh
Defender of the Down Trodden Masses.

Gov. Akpabio's Corrupt Practices: A LETTER TO THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

                                              Gov Akpabio: Indicted

A LETTER TO THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

THROUGH

THE SENATE PRESIDENT,

THE SPEAKER OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY COMPLEX,

THREE ARMS ZONE,

ABUJA-FCT.

Your Excellences, Mr. Senate President and The Hon. Speaker

House of Representatives

RE: NIGERIA; A NATION OF DOUBLE STANDARD AND COMPLICITY

Let me crave your indulgence to address you on the above topic in my capacity as a tax payer and bonafide citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

In 2009 when our President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Alhaji Umaru Yar’dua became incapacitated by illness, the issue of vacuum was resolved through what is now known as the doctrine of necessity through which the Vice President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan became acting President and Commander in Chief of Armed Federal Republic of Nigeria.

May I also recall that the event that led to the manipulated impeachment of former Governor of Bayelsa State Dr. D. S. P Alagmehsia by the Obasanjo Presidency in addition to state of emergency declared in Plateau and Ektit States by that regime.

My belief is that those actions were taken to launder the national image at a time there was a need to do so. Right now, Nigeria is in more desperate position as it is deep in the mud water of corruption and other anti democratic tendencies.

I wish to draw your attention to what is happening in the 21^st state of Nigeria, Akwa Ibom State, otherwise known as The Land of Promise. The present regime ruling the state came into existence by fraud and corruption and has no accountability to the people. This is manifested in the exhibition of total impunity and recklessness.

Governor Godswill O. Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State does not understand the Federal Government Procurement Act and to him the due process theory belongs to the winds. Bills of quantities used in construction in the state are probably copied from the astral world as 1 kilometer of road is estimated and fixed between N1b and N3b Naira.

When Mr. President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in his maiden visit to Gombe state 2009 he observed and remarked that the Governor of that State Danjuma Goje was very prudent in management of resources of that state. He openly announced that Federal Procurement Officers may be sent to learn from the State. Mr. President was particularly excited by the cost effectiveness on projects like the Airport and the Banquet Hall of the Government House. The Airport project was put at …… while the Banquet Hall consumed N1.3 Billion Naira. Mr. President did not know that in Akwa Ibom State the Government House built at the cost of N7.4 Billion Naira in 2008 to 2009 also added a Banquet Hall in the 2010 Budget at cost of N10 Billion Naira. Today Akwa Ibom State Government House Complex is worth N17.4 Billion Naira and must be the only of its kind in Africa.

Your Excellences let me reproduce for your perusal a part of the corruption index I wrote and sent to the Presidency on the 6^th Day of September 2010. It covers a period of January 2008 to June 2009 taken as a case study. A compressive review and auditing will reveal that most of the awards upon which mobilization of anything from 30 to 100% were mostly scams. They should be made to publish the status of those jobs that earned 100% in the last four and the half years. They should be made to identify all vehicles purchased during the period. It is noticeable that vehicles are not ordered in the terms of their makes, units and quantities.

All the contracts recorded against the Hon. Commissioner for Works and Transport should be made public in complete details including all those that were mobilized 100% at the first instant.

On Akwa Ibom International Airport Project, which was re-awarded to Alcon Ltd. by Governor Akpabio, there is need to explain the exact job the new outfit did for $150,000,000 in addition to the 80% contract value already paid for by immediate past administration in the State. More so, when the contractor on the runway has not been changed.

Who owns the following companies, PROD GLOBAL LIMITED, CHINTO TECHNOLGIES LIMITED and OAK MOTORS? Please check also the date and the frequencies against each contract award on the enclosed table. The mind bugling revelations therein will be difficult to comprehend.

The highlight shows that the Hon. Commissioner of Works and Transport awarded contract at alarming rate directly to himself and the operating companies are run by his elder brother. Information including bank accounts and the account officers in various banks have been made available to relevant agencies including the anti-graft agencies. Unfortunately, nothing came out of the exercise.

Please find enclosed table for total details.

Recently, association of quantity surveyors of Nigeria cried out at the outrageous contract costs in the country and called for actual valuation of roads and other constructions in the country. There is no doubt that Akwa Ibom in particular is their reference point.

Your Excellences, in Akwa Ibom State Project are mostly designed for the purpose of siphoning our resources to align the pocket of the Governor, his family members and cronies. Today, there is no Akpabio either by birth or marriage that has not joined the league of Billionaires.  Media houses are heavily hired to sing the song of massive infrastructural development. Sycophancy is reaping the highest harvest in Akwa Ibom State. This is the picture of lootocracy and kleptocracy on exhibition in our State. It is more than a calamity.

Recently the House of Representatives rejected supplementary appropriation bill of N96 Billion Naira for the remaining part of the financial year from the Presidency. The reason for the rejection was for non inclusion of details regarding the actual implementation of the whole Budget.

Your Excellences, as I write this letter the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly are busy rubberstamping a whooping N94,000,000,000.00 supplementary estimate  for road construction and payment of salaries for the remaining 2 months of the year 2011. The roads in question are mostly Federal roads including the dualization of Uyo - Ekot Ekpene - Ekot Umoessin to Aba in Abia State, covering a distance about 50 kilometers, Oron Ibaka, Ini to Ikono road among others.

It is doubtful whether any information to warrant such an extravagant spending when the financial year is almost ending is available. This represents the level of inferiority and ineptitude the State House of Assembly.

Currently, the Federal Government and Lagos State Government are having serious friction over who should rehabilitate/construct the Lagos Ibadan Express way.

If Nigeria is not a country of double standard, is it possible an act of this nature could be tolerated? Thus the misapplication of public fund not amount to financial indiscipline and abuse of office?

Form the mouths of Mr. President and Senior Federal Government Officials have clearly stated that any State Government who undertakes building of Federal roads shall be compensated at the standard rate for a single lane whenever they are ready to make such refunds. In other words, dualizations and expansions shall be deemed illegal. If this is the position, is the Federal Government not encouraging fraud and corruption as well as guilty of complicity against the people of Akwa Ibom State? The much publicized war against corruption, where is it being fought from? How does the International Community see this Giant of Africa when people like Godswill Akpabio are given the free hand to destroy and loot away the collective destiny of Akwa Ibom people through massive fraud and corruption?

Your Excellences, personally, the recent statement by our President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan to the effect that he was not a General, Lion, or a Pharaoh, to say the least, was not only disappointing, but very embarrassing.

Please Sirs, when next you meet our President tell him that apart from the fact that we need much more, we expecting him to be a Moses. A leader, who was trained in the best tradition and education of the Egyptian Empire, remained a mould and decoy of God and eventually manifested supremely in the emancipation of Israelites from the land of bondage. We certainly need a Moses.

Your Excellences, in addition to the issue of corruption we cannot ignore the case of terrorism and insecurity created in the State by Governor Godswill Akpabio and his government. The recent landmark judgement from two separate High Court Uyo Akwa Ibom State in respect of State sponsored crimes and subsequent frame up of innocents persons for the same crime. Rivers and Bayelsa State have been exposed to be their breeding ground for terrorist, murders, assassins and kidnappers. This is perhaps why Akpabio as a com man has been accusing neighboring state of harboring the bandits.

May I refer you to two judgement mentioned above;

1.     THE HIGH COURT OF AKWA IBOM STATE

HOLDEN AT UYO

CHARGE NO HU/12C/2010

JUDGMENT DELIVERED ON THE 14^TH JULY 2011.

BEFORE THE HON. JUSTICE E . I EDEMEKONG

2.     THE HIGH COURT OF AKWA IBOM STATE

HOLDEN AT UYO

CHARGE NO HU/10C/2010

JUDGMENT DELIVERED ON THE 4^TH AUGUST 2010.

BEFORE THE HON. JUSTICE ANDREW OKON

I enclosed here with certified true copies of the two judgments for your perusal.

In the recent report on the Federal Government Administrative panel on pre and after election violence headed by Hon. Justice N. Aremu, Akwa Ibom State has been indicted. The report, inter alia commented on the sophisticated weapons used in the Akwa Ibom for the violence, whereas those used in the North were mere local items such as knife, matchets, bottles and other minor weapons, the Akwa Ibom action involved weapons such as Ak 47, Machine guns and Grenades among others.

The judgment mentioned above has already showed that the Honorable Commissioner for Works and Transport is the State arms and ammunitions coordinate for the Governor. He is the head of “the Peace House”, the killers squad of the Governor.

Finally Your Excellences I see the National Assembly as the supreme authority with relevant oversight functions to properly fix this Nation for us, our children and posterity. You cannot afford to be indifferent when people like Godswill Akpabio are with impunity making nonsense of the rule of Law and Order as well as general recklessness.  To do otherwise will see you as Emperor Nero of Rome sleeping while Rome was burning. The Auditor General of the Federation has already indicted the National Assembly for encouraging corruption in Nigeria.

Do something.

Thank you

Ime T. Mbatessien