Bishop:


Thanks for correcting yourself. was wandering that David Mark was still a small soldier then :-)

Bishop:
As minister he prophesied that communication was not for the poor, but God pass am... sim card is 100 naira, every single Nigerian can afford it. May God grant your soul peace

alexistaiwo:
hmmmmmmmm.
who cares. he is probably one of the looters. common men are dying everyday of disease and starvation in this country nobody is doing anything about it and you expect me to express sympathy for a man whose death can't be felt by his family because he had looted funds which can be passed on up to his next fourth generation.
next!!!!

bandad:
Your sympathy makes no difference to him nor his family. But come o, don`t you think you will go the he has gone someday ? Throw sentiments to the wind and think with your brain and not your a**.

Bishop:
As minister he prophesied that communication was not for the poor, but God pass am... sim card is 100 naira, every single Nigerian can afford it. May God grant your soul peace

It is a fact that Senator David Mark is a very controversial figure. He does things without very deep thought; he talks extemporaneously and in the process cause un-necessary anxiety in the process. It will be recalled that, his election as a Senator of the federal republic of Nigeria was a very polemical one, as he was accused of using unbridled violence as well as wantonly manipulating the electoral process. The controversies that dogged his election are still on-going.

But far more disturbing and worrisome about David Mark is his scant regard for the Nigerian people. He is of the firm opinion that the military is a special breed that should be emulated all the time by the Nigerian civilian. So, the question is, how can a person who has no democratic credentials and who has not thoroughly imbibed the basic tenets of democracy emerged as Senate President? What does this kind of garrison politics portends for the future of the legislature now and in the future? Has the Nigerian circulating elite learnt anything tangible from the events of the previous republics in the country?

It will be recalled that David Mark as the minister of communication said rather flippantly that, phones were not meant for the poor and the downtrodden in the society. To him phones should only be used by affluent and influential in the society. http://www.gamji.com/article6000/NEWS7164.htm

Ilaje44:
One of the many mediocre ministers ever produced by Nigeria. A useless square peg in a round hole who believed that telephone was not for the poor. I don't miss him kobo epinni rara

Tequilah:


Another fallacy. Don't you think it is time to stop peddling falsehood? David Mark made that statement NOT Tanko Ayuba. Do some research. Google is your friend!

Ilaje44:
So David Mark made it according to Google not? In what capacity did he make it?

David Mark, the Minister of Communication, the man whose duty it was to expand access to telephony and stimulate the growth of Nigeria-rooted telecommunication enterprises, decreed with conclusive authority that being poor and owning a telephone was mutually exclusive.

It was Mark’s present to a Nigeria whose telephone density was unaccountably lower than that of its smaller and poorer neighboring countries!

As I focused still on his contact, it occurred to me that if this was David Mark’s world, or if, in 2016, telephone access was still within his purview, there probably won’t be 216 million connected telephone lines in Nigeria today. The enterprises spinning-off from the GSM revolution may exist only in the realm of possibilities. And countless Nigerians employed in the telecommunications sector would be jobless or prisoners.

If Mark was still the proverbial custodian of the yam and the knife, the odds are that Mark would have fed the rich and left ‘the poor’ to starve. He would have worked to keep the circulation of telephones within his circle of the affluent. He would have endeavored to foreclose the democratization of telephones in Nigeria.

Mark’s idea of a healthy social order is one in which class apartheid prevails, one in which the state treats a certain demographic as subhuman, one in which the poor live off the refuse dump at the backyard of the rich.http://saharareporters.com/2016/05/09/encountering-david-mark-rich-poor-man-emmanuel-uchenna-ugwu

Tequilah:


Oh dear, weren't you taught how to use the internet to conduct research? Ok, let me indulge you for once. David Mark made that comment when he was Minister of Communications in 1989. Now admit you were wrong, and humbly apologise to those who have pointed out the error in your previous comments.

Ilaje44:
Well it's equally fallacious to think that everyone on Nairaland went to school in the age of the internet. It's even more fallacious to think you have provided a proof, when all you provided was just an opinion of one person, which also in no way proofed conclusively that the statement was indeed made by David Mark. Try again!