Nigeria: Agoro Wants Yar'Adua to Imitate Gaddafi On Oil Windfall
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Vanguard (Lagos)
6 September 2008
Posted to the web 6 September 2008
Ebun Babalola
DR. Olapade Agoro, the National Chairman, Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, has called on president Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to imitate his fellow man, Colonel Muhamah Gaddafi of Libya by making life comfortable for Nigerians to live.
Agoro who challenged Nigerian government's phlegmatic attitude on the groaning of Nigerians said instead of allowing Nigerians suffer unnecessarily hardship on fuel and kerosene scarcity, the federal government should make excess crude oil windfall to benefit Nigerians.
According to him, Yar'Adua's government is oblivious to the pains of the masses of this country who are daily searching for kerosene to fuel their cooking and as well the industrial sector now grinding to a halt due to scarcity of diesel fuel to run their generators, a necessity in a regime of lack luster power supply and governance inefficiency adding that instead of the government to be looking how to make life meaningful to the public, it is planning to increase the pump price of fuel coming new year 2009.
His words: "With the huge inflow of excess crude oil into the coffers of the Federal government one wonders what should deny 50 percent derivation to the Niger Delta region, the nation's main source of revenue generation and life more abundant to the masses of this country.
"Governance must be all about making available to the people in quantum all the basic necessities of life".
He further continued to say that the seven points agenda of Yar'Adua 's administration are mere propaganda noise making on the national radio and television net works with nothing positive to show on ground.
If the fact must be said in the nationalistic sense, this Yar'adua's government is the worst this country has known and possibly the worst of its type currently in black Africa, he added.
In his words: "In the altruistic sense that the peoples of this country have suffered enough of degradation and retarded progress, and have had enough of governance by trial and error, this is hereby calling on President Umaru Musa Yar'adua to borrow a leaf of wisdom from Colonel Gaddafi and allow Nigerians a right to their belongings if only to taste happiness for the first time, the years past of misirule and mis-governance by each of the successive governments".
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He then called on Nigerians to stop been made to look like a cursed generation adding that excess crude windfall should be distributed to the peoples of this country like was done in Libya, after all what is good for the goose is good for the gander, he noted.
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