SANUSI L SANUSI: WILL HE SUCCUMB TO THE EBINO TOPSY SYNDROME?
Ebenezer Babatope and Abubakar Rimi were well known firebrand radical figures in the days of yore. Their first calling, besides loving their respective wives, was allegiance to the cause of the down-trodden masses of Nigeria. They have the battle scar to prove this but they have since switched allegiance to fight on the side of the bourgeoisie and the ruling criminal cabal of the PDP, who are hell bent on sending the vast majority of their populace to an early mass grave through plain looting of the treasury.
Umaru Yar'Adua, who was described by Paul Adujie as 'uncorruptible' before he assumed the presidency, also flirted with radical politics in the form of the PRP before his late elder brother, an associate of another 'uncorruptible' military General thief, Olusegun Obasanjo, showed him the RIGHT PATHWAY TO RICHES AND GLORY without sweat. Assuming office as a government official preferably in an executive capacity.
What has this got to do with Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, our new Central Bank Governor? He too has an antecedence with flirtations with radical ideas that would make EDWIN MADUNAGU and BALARABE MUSA green with envy.
Hear him in a paper penned in September 2002 - BUHARISM BEYOND BUHARI: A RESPONSE TO MOHAMMED HARUNA.
'What, pray is patriotic in prescribing an economic policy that is bound to condemn the majority of the populace to great poverty and hardship, with the only 'positive' effect of handling the economy over to foreigners and creating a small clique of the super rich?'.
'At the heart of the problem is the emergence, in Africa of a crop of 'intellectuals' who are the heirs to the old colonised minds. These are not just persons with bourgeosified intellect. They have lost all originality in thinking and all critical ability because their minds have become standardised and commodified to the IDEOLOGY OF THE MARKET'.
Another one goes, ' Everywhere you turn, you see them preaching the benefit of the MARKET, OF EFFICIENCY, LIBERALISATION, PRIVATE SECTOR and PRIVATISATION, DEREGULATION ETC. They do not ask how we can STOP PUBLIC SECTOR CORRUPTION OR MAKE GOVERNMENTS MORE EFFICIENT AND ACCOUNTABLE'.
The above excerpts gives an insight into Mr Sanusi's thought process and gives some credence to his being tagged 'radical' and this is not helped by his penchant for quoting radical thinkers like Karl Marx, Chomsky, Trotsky, Bala Usman , Omafume Onoge and the Cambridge don, Noriena Hertz.
Hear what caught the eye of Sanusi in Noriena's book, The Silent Takeover- Global Capitalism AND THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY.
'Propelled by government policies of PRIVATISATION, DEREGULATION, and TRADE LIBERALISATION, in the last 20 years, a power shift has taken place. The hundred largest multinational corporations now control 20% of global foreign assets; 51 of 100 biggest economies of the world are now corporations, only 49% are nation states. The sales of GM and Ford are greater than the GDP of the WHOLE OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA and WAL-MART has higher revenue than most cebtral and eastern European States namely POLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, UKRAINE, HUNGARY AND SLOVAKIA.
Fast forward to 2009, the radical ideas which Sanusi appear to favour are becoming EVIDENT. The world has since been plunged into a dangerous recession made possible by the FREE MARKET ECONOMY in which corporate monopoly and GREED now hold sway with balloning unemployment sure to challenge social cohesion and equilibrium in the advanced economies. Forget about the economies of those at the foot of the food chain, they will be simply wiped out and a new cycle of Ethiopian famine-style AID TO AFRICA will be rolled out by the West. If their people let them!
Previously PRIVATISED PUBLIC SERVICES LIKE RAIL NETWORKS are again finding their way back to PUBLIC OWNERSHIP, not forgetting some of the biggest banks in the world previously thought to be efficiently run by the best brain in the land! Welcome to the world of BRITISH RAILS AND ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND!
The problem now is, how can a man who favours ACCOUNTABILITY, REAL ZERO-TOLERANCE OF CORRUPTION work with say an ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION who prefers the very antithesis?
How can he successfully work with a clique hell bent on forcing through DEREGULATION even though this has been shown to have resoundingly FAILED?
How can this very clever man work with a semi clever ex-chemistry teacher who assumed the mantle of leadership via a MASS FRAUD?
And since NIGERIANS NEVER RESIGN WHEN THEIR JOB BECOME IMPOSSIBLE, AM I TOO CYNICAL TO THINK THAT THE EBINO TOPSY SYNDROME IS BOUND TO STRIKE HERE? Sanusi L Sanusi welcome to the job of governor of CBN.
I will be reassured if you do not have the phone numbers of one Professor Chukwuma SOLUDO, EBENEZER BABATOPE AND ABUBAKAR RIMI.
I agree whole-heartedly that CYNICISM is a lazy approach to intellectualism, but this i am afraid does not apply in a country called NIGERI Originally posted by PAPIG on Nigerian Village Square. http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/jideofor-adibe/sanusi-a-radical-in-a-conservative-job.html |
