dayokanu:

We know some of them are sychophants.


Lets ask where were they during the pro democracy protests  against despotic leaders like IBB, Abacha ?

We didnt hear their voice during the oppression of OBJ rather it was the Tai Solarin, Frank Kokori, Gani Fawehinmi, Abubakar Umar

rather they chose to be Walter Ofonagoro, The Uche Chukwumerije, the Arthur Nzeribes and lately the Ikemba who saw Jonathan a fellow Southerner contesting but chose to endorse IBB

We know who they are the cowards who would rather be subordinates of Balewa and bello that have a separate country Pre 1960.

shioor

VoodooDoll:

^^^^^

Those who have solid minerals would like to exploit them but the corrupt and pathetic PDP system in control at the centre corrupts everything and frustrates everyone.

Which is why I get amazed when ignorant people speak foolishly.

People keep insulting the North not knowing the region is awash with treaures: How many people know that Niger state is awash in gold and rare metals?

[b]The SW is self-sustaining and [b][b]produces more oil than it needs, and used Agriculture to build Lagos[/b]

I repeat:  Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin. The old ways of ruling Nigeria have been found wanting and their days are short.

warrior01:

you dey mind the foo.ls, instead of them to put on their thinking cap on how to be productive for once in history of this contraption called nigeria they are here whining. parasites

Olodostein:

Man, better say what you know. We all know who the cowards are in this country. We don't like to TALK too much. We act when we want to. We have our own minds to think for ourselves. Some groups are fighting amongst themselves in this NIGERIA and we don't want to be involved.

Please Leave Igbo's out of this!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let us mind our own business. We have been the punching bag in this country for 51years.

http://www.elombah.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9323:another-view-removal-of-subsidy-is-good-for-nigeria&catid=25:politics&Itemid=92

Another View: Removal of Subsidy is good for Nigeria

Written by Ben Oguntuase  
Tuesday, 03 January 2012 14:47
There are three levels of high fraud that the removal of subsidy will tackle. The first is fraudulent payment on phoney import of PMS. The product is fraudulently certified as imported into Nigeria but is actually diverted to other countries in West Africa. Meanwhile, the documentation is perfected by criminal elements in Customs, Directorate of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Pipeline and Products Marketing Company (PPMC)
and Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA). They not only collect the subsidy (which actually is outright theft), they also connive to collect demurrage on product that really never entered the Nigerian market. The reality is that what we actually consume in Nigeria may not be up to half of what the records or statistics say we consume.

The second fraud is the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF). PPMC used to have a network of pipelines and depots across the country. Supply envelopes were created around each depot in a way that ensured all parts of the country are covered. Each supply envelope is divided into zones. Actual transportation cost was calibrated according to zones within each supply envelope. The objective here was to ensure that products sell at the same price throughout each depot's supply envelope regardless of the distance of consumption from supply.

There was also Bridging, the system whereby products are moved by road across depots as may be permitted in what was meant to be exceptional cases such as when repair is being carried out on the pipeline or at a depot. Over time and driven by fraudulent intent, what was designed to augment became the routine practice. Products would be released from Atlas Cove in Lagos ostensibly for bridging to say Kano or Sokoto but would actulally be sold at nearby stations while the documentation is “perfected†and bridging allowance is paid.

The products were also meant to be sold at equal prices at all locations nationwide. When the refineries were working and the pipeline/depots were also functional, the products were pumped through pipelines from the refineries to the various depots from where they were picked for distribution within the supply envelope covered by each depot. In principle, the Eastern axis was meant to be supplied by the now obsolete Port Harcourt Refinery 1. The Northern axis was meant to be supplied by the now thoroughly cannibalized Kaduna Refinery. The Midwest and Middle Belt were meant to be supplied by the also obsolete Warri Refinery while the Western axis was meant to be supplied by products shipped to Atlas Cove from Port Harcourt Refinery 2. This refinery was also meant to export products to West African countries.

All marketers were given a price structure by PPMC which routinely (and frankly unprofessionally) decided the marketers' margin and overhead allowance, the transportation allowance and the dealers' margin. Such a terrible system it was! The standard Transportation allowance was decided based on what was required to move products from the depot to Zone 3 within the depot's supply envelope. Transporters moving products to Zones 1 and 2 are paid less than the standard allowance while the balance was meant to be paid into PEF by the marketer. Transporters moving products to Zones 4 to 9 are paid the additional cost of transportation from PEF. Most of the consumption in around each depot occurs in Zones 1 to 3, usually up to 70%. The fraud: sell all products within Zones 1, 2 and 3 but collect PEF allowance as if almost all products were sold in the outer zones. This has been on for a very long time.

We can imagine why all the various adjustments and maladjustments occurred over the years especially during the military era when the fraud was mostly perpetraded, actively promoted and culturally institutionalized by high ranking Generals and Administrators. We can also see why all refineries eventually had to be crippled and pipeline network/depots of PPMC had to be paralysed.

Two things would immediately result from the removal of subsidy. The first is that Nigeria would actually pay only for what is consumed in Nigeria. If PEF and Bridging are removed completely from the equation and this must be the case, prices nationwide can no longer be the same. Another derived benefit would be that refineries can actually be located in Nigeria now based more on economics than political consideration. High price high volume would attract investment and eventually lead to low price high volume. This is simple supply economics.

Efficiency within the marketing companies would improve, so would competitiveness. Of course, there may intially be some retrenchment within the industry and safety may be compromised as marketeres would try to improve on their profitability. Ultimately, the system would stabilise and Nigerians would be the better for it. Professionalism should result in higher profitability. All these is conditioned on total withdrawal of subsidy, complete elimination of bridging allowances and dissolution of PEF. If any of those mechanisms are retained in the system, then removal of subsidy would be a meaningless exercise, one in futility.

The most compelling moral imperative is for the administration of Dr. Jonathan to arrest and prosecute the fraudsters. If this happens, hostility to the subsidy removal would diminish significantly. Meanwhile, the cartel will fight back, and viciously too. They have the money and other resources to sponsor social unrest. We are already seeing their hands. How much moral courage would a perhaps repentant (very doubtful!) IBB have to criticise subsidy removal when it was under his regime that fraud in the industry actually became institutionalized?

by Ben Oguntuase
Former Customer Services Manager
National Oil (now Conoil)

dayokanu:

Everyone knows who the cowards that couldnt face Abacha, IBB were

We know the cowards who preferred to be boy-boy to Balewa, Shagari, Tofa etc


We know the cowards who went to kill sleeping politicians on their beds but knew how to flee to Abidjan when faced by Military men

We all know, Its well documented

chima12:

^^^ bros nobody go mind them.anybody or group that wants to protest should go ahead.Some people are looking for how to bring out the  SE/SS to join their protest so that they can hide behind the SS/SE  protesters so that if the protest works,they will run out and stand in the front but if the protest fails,they run away as usual.We all saw how occupy lekki played/ended up pathetically.This protest will be no different.FUEL SUBSIDY IS GONE,RESOURCE CONTROL COMES NEXT.

Since the subsidy removal is all about oil, why are there no protests in the oil producing states of the SE/SS? It is strange.
All Nigerian states do fuckall and get a 100% of their upkeep from oil proceeds shared in Abuja, yet it is states that do not provide a drop of oil that are the venues of the anaemic protests we have seen so far. A very disturbing fact indeed.

No Nigerian state manufactures goods to the extent that they can feed their people. WHY?
No Nigerian state provides jobs and wellbeing. WHY?
Why would states that are basically useless and are fed by the proceeds of others go demonstrating? Are they meant to produce nothing or is the average Nigerian happy to be funded like we are disabled or lazy retards?
Why can people not see that the real problem is the fact that their states and LG's who are supposed to look to their welfare are useless and packed with thieves who are only there to steal the money that is generated from the oil producing states.

Why are people not demonstrating against your governor, if not mental and physical laziness? Why do the "revolutionaries" not think their laziness is not a major part of the reason Nigeria is undeveloped?

afam4eva:

Lmao @ SW used agriculture to build lagos. Nothing wey man no go hear for obodo nigeria.

dayokanu:

Everyone knows who the cowards that couldnt face Abacha, IBB were

We know the cowards who preferred to be boy-boy to Balewa, Shagari, Tofa etc


We know the cowards who went to kill sleeping politicians on their beds but knew how to flee to Abidjan when faced by Military men

We all know, Its well documented

chima12:

@ olodostein,
make you ignore that guy.Him and malam put leg for thesame trouser.malam no go free them.once SS/SE take off ,malam go hold them.That lagos port na malam get am.

Olodostein:

We faced the whole nation in 1966 including world powers who laid embargo on us. No be moi moi. I am certain that the youngest in our kindred is braver than you.

Well, when Jungle mature AGAIN. We will know who the Real cowards are. We are doing our thing and living comfortably in our own spartan way. We don't want to take center stage in your Nigeria quagmire that was created by Your folks and others.  We will know when to act,when and if it is right for us. We don't need no one to tell us. We have our own minds.

In Nigeria, it seems when it comes to the igbo man. "We are damned if we do; damned if we don't". Cmon, are you guys so much in love with us?

To update you,your beloved Boko haram issued an ultimatum to all southerners; your folks have already started to run notwithstanding the desperate threat for attention.    

Now who is the coward?  

When Biafra's military resistance collapsed, [size=28pt]Ojukwu fled to Côte d'Ivoire[/size].

Efiong assumed leadership in this situation of turmoil, starvation, and collapse. He became Head of State of Biafra on 8 January 1970 and on 12 January announced surrender.[1]

At the time of the surrender, Efiong believed that the situation was hopeless and that prolonging the conflict would have led only to the further destruction and starvation of the people of Biafra. At that time Effiong said, "I am convinced now that a stop must be put to the bloodshed which is going on as a result of the war. I am also convinced that the suffering of our people must be brought to an immediate end."[1]

Nnaemeka L. Aneke wrote, "General Efiong’s handling of Biafra’s surrender is one of the most tactical and devoted maneuvers ever seen on the Nigerian scene. Those who do not appreciate the depth of it may not have appreciated what was at stake as Biafra capitulated."[2] Many observers had expected wholesale retribution at war's end.
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Later life


In a 1996 interview, Efiong reflected on those events:

   I have no regrets whatsoever of my involvement in Biafra or the role I played. The war deprived me of my property, dignity, my name. Yet, I saved so many souls on both sides and by this, I mean Biafra and Nigeria. . . .

   I felt that I played a role which has kept this country united till today. . . .

   At the end of it all when I saw they (Biafran soldiers) could no longer continue and [size=28pt]Ojukwu had fled[/size], I did what was ideal after wide consultation . . . [2]

Efiong died 6 November 2003, at the age of 78 less than two weeks before his 79th birthday.

The most compelling moral imperative is for the administration of Dr. Jonathan to arrest and prosecute the fraudsters. If this happens, hostility to the subsidy removal would diminish significantly

Beaf:

[size=33pt]What do we want?
True federalism or everlasting hypocrisy from lazy phucks?[/size]

WE WONT EVER GET FEDERALSIM UNDER GEJ AND PDP LET ALONE A SPLIT

Beaf:

I wonder why nobody is answering my simple question after so many pages:
Why have those from receiving states not carried out revolutions against their governors? Is it ok for all states to be beggars? Where is our pride and dignity as human beings?

Gbawe the champion bigot and self aclaimed representative of the "owners of Nigeria," would you care to reply?

alj_harem:

Shut it. listen and listen very good.

Our country was formed because of Ironsi and Nnamdi. Both of them were easterners. Now they did it to get all the power from Nigeria in the demise of this "non oil producing state".

Now that things does not suit you, you think you can side line others just because you produce oil ?

The SS/SE minus delta and edo can do what ever they link

protest to start in warri and benin-city tomorrow. stay there dey watch.

sheyguy:

@BEAF dont forget there was no oil in pre-1960s when we all depended on money from tin minning in jos, plateau state. Whenever there was oil on the waters of ND and they had no source of livelihood they enjoyed benefits from the tin money without complain.
Dont also forget the days of agriculture were certain percentage of the regional procedes went back to the regions, if Gej and his brothers feel they deserve more why not increase the 13% derivation they are getting like OBJ did when he took it from 3 to 13%.
Why is it always the SS/SE causing problems when it comes to benefits and resources control. Dont forget everybody was allowed to work in the mines of jos, in agriculture the west contributed very large amount compared to others but there was no noise from their angle.
The ss/se has always been the most lazy set of pple mentally, look @ all their freedom fighters/top men and it is easy to see: Tom polo, Gen Togo, Asari Dokubo, beaf and co on NL, Okah, Alams, Sylva, Gej, Dame, Dickson.
Beaf, i am eagerly waiting if u r man enuf to reply me . . . .