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IBB started the first lady tradition. Before IBB, it didn't exist. In my opinion, we need to do away with it or severly limit it in the nearest future.

As for Patience Jonathan, I really don't see why anybody is concerned, except they are just being petty (since bullet no de against Jonathan). It is in very poor taste to go stoop so low as to go after an opponents wife, simply because there is nothing to nail him with. The quality of some comments here can only be found in the gutter. Shame on the guilty.

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Dude, something tells me you mean well, but when we speak in ignorance, it can be percieved as wickedness by those affected. Read the link I gave you to educate yourself about the oil industry in Nigeria. Koruji gave a few hints that lead to the land use act, read up on it. When you are done , you wouldn't innocently propagate some of falsehoods you are guilty off on this thread.

Niger Deltans are not out to do Nigeria in or sieze the oil, no they want justice and equity; not some braindead idea of how to further nationalise what is already nationalised (you do not understand out of ignorance); Niger Deltans are nobodies slaves.

Another funny bit of info, is that the so called MEND that issued a threat in Zamfara, spelt Niger Delt[b]a[/b] as Niger Delt[b]er[/b].

There is some pretty good gist though, that govt is holding one of the guys that set off the bombs as well as the man who bought the cars; but its grapevine, so I can't back it up.

Corroboration;

[size=14pt]2011: Militants hold secret meetings with IBB, Buhari[/size]
•Ex-military president given conditions
Written by Idowu Samuel and Emmanuel Adeniyi
Monday, 06 September 2010

THERE are indications that President Goodluck Jonathan is yet to strike a deal with leaders of key militant groups in the Niger Delta to strengthen his chances of winning the South-South zone if he decides to run in the 2011 presidential election.

Indications to this effect emerged in the light of efforts by leaders of the militants, who had given up on the government amnesty initiative  to engage presidential aspirants from the North in exploratory talks on how to fit into their presidential programmes.

Two leaders of militant groups which surrendered arms in the wake of the Federal Government’s amnesty had arrived in Abuja last week to hold talks with northern presidential aspirants, including General Ibrahim Babangida and General Muhammadu Buhari.

Nigerian Tribune learnt through aides of the aspirants that the militants complained that they were not being consulted by President Jonathan.

The militant heads were said to have canvassed a view that their full participation in the ongoing political process would enhance their resolve to finally discard the toga of militancy, just as they reportedly expressed dismay that their efforts to dissolve into the campaign programme of President Jonathan were not being appreciated.

It is not certain which specific roles the militants desired to play in the presidential campaigns of the aspirants, whom they reportedly met. However,[b] it was disclosed that tentative agreements were reached by the campaign team of General Buhari that they should make a bold appearance during his inaugural campaign summit scheduled to take place in Abuja any moment from now.

Checks within the IBB campaign organisation revealed that none of the militant leaders was able to meet the Minna general in person, but reportedly met his aides in Abuja and told them about their desire to feature in his campaign programmes.

When the militants met with the representatives of the ex-president recently, Nigerian Tribune gathered that they vowed to support him if he agreed to a one-term tenure and hand over power to a candidate from the South-South geopolitical zone in 2015.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that Babangida was told to rescind his decision of handing over to a candidate from the South-East, choose a vice-president from South-South, implement the white paper of the Ledun Mittee committee and create additional states in the South-South geopolitical zone.

Investigations by the Nigerian Tribune revealed that the militants were working with notable South-South governors, who were said to be working underground for different northern presidential aspirants following their irreconcilable differences with President Jonathan[/b]

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/10635-2011-militants-hold-secret-meetings-with-ibb-buhari-ex-military-president-given-conditions

I wish after convicting the klepto, he will be sent to somewhere like Iran or the tribal lands of afghanistan to complete his punishment. The bloody thief.

[quote author=Akin-Egba link=topic=533693.msg6958814#msg6958814 date=1287334204]Jonathan declared Anambra the brain box of Nigeria recently. Accepting or not accepting the declaration by a vote-seeking Jonathan depends on which side of the divide you belong. Many Anambrarians have declared that the presidents declaration is correct while others claim Ekiti is the brain box instead. Now let us compare
1. How many Ekitians are there in Nigeria compared to Anambrarians?
2. How many of those are professors in the two states?
3. Does being a professor translate to brain box?
4. Are there any recent data regarding university admission  in Nigeria comparing Anambra and Ekiti?
5. Which of Anambra and Ekiti is more developed and why?
6. Can you be a brain box without being a professor? In other words, must you be a prof to be a brain box?
7. Why are the profs in Ekiti not translating their professorship to tangible development like people may see in Anambra?
8. Does classroom teaching equate to using your brain to develop a product?
9. Compare and contrast the brain boxes that have served Nigeria (ministers, etc) from both states? Which were more outstanding?
10. Why is Ekiti a relatively unimportant state in Nigeria compared to Anambra?

Ekiti appears to be a tardy underdeveloped state and Ogun (my state) should be the state competing with Anambra for the brain box competition. Imo state is to Ekiti (too many lazy profs) what Anambra is to Ogun (productive brain box).[/quote]The only state in Western Nigeria that can compare to Anambra is Lagos (and Lagos simply dwarfs all). It isn't possible to compare Anambra with Ogun, Ekiti, Oyo, Ondo or Osun.
The closest state to Anambra in the geographical west of Nigeria, is Delta state (trumps Anambra hands down ); unfortunately though, its in the South South and Niger Delta.

OnlyTruth, weh you?

krendo:
I think the immediate solution to this Niger-Delta crisis is immediate NATIONALIZATION of oil wells. Thay way Oil wells will no longer belong to Northern generals but Nigeria.

The Militants can not also lay claim to a National resource or property as that will also be criminal.

Government can then legislate environmental protection laws to protect the riverine people.

Read Asari Dokubo's expose below to see the criminality going on in Niger Delta. Politicians, Militants etc are all thieves.

Federal Government must intervein.

http://saharareporters.com/interview/asari-dokubo-me-henry-okahjomo-gbomo-judith-asuni-and-niger-delta-insurgency

Go and learn before you open your mouth. This article is a good starting point; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_nigeria
When you people grew groundnuts, was the land nationalised? No insult infered, but, don't open your mouth on issues you are clearly ignorant of, read the link I gave above from beginning to end, after that, read as many of its references as possible. When that is done, come and post an article and you'll be making sense, not talking over your head.

stormm:
Four years left. Ref: Peter Obi- Anambra, Segun Mimiko- Ondo, Adams Oshiomole-Edo. Got it? His tenure starts from the day he was sworn in.

Remember the judgement against gov Amaechi? He's got just a few months.

"Abubakar" has started again!

[size=14pt]First of many calls[/size]
Point of Order Oct 17, 2010 By Tony Momoh

Someone called me at noon on Tuesday October 12. He told me his name which I first thought was a title. After he had lectured me for the better part of 15 minutes on the Niger Delta and the distraction the bombs of October 1 seem to be causing, and after I had wanted to explain a point or two but he would not let me, insisting that as someone who writes for people to know what is happening, I had to listen to him, I told him no one imposes their views on me.

If he was going to do all the talking and would not listen to what I had to say, I would not hesitate to cut the line. He did not seem to be impressed by my threat to cut the line. He said the country ought to be alarmed by the bombs that were exploded at the venue of the celebration of our 50 years of “regulated neglect of the Niger Delta”.

Instead of seriously settling down to look at the causes and doing something about the problem to prevent or lessen worse situations occurring in future, the country and its leadership were debating whether or not MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) did it. I asked, “Did MEND do it and are you part of the MEND?”

He ignored the question and said I seemed to be joining the group that would not appreciate that a place had been bombed and find out why the bombing took place. My concern should be less who did the bombing than that there was a bombing. If I decide to be as “shameless” and “senseless” as those arguing about who bombed instead of working for how to prevent more bombs exploding, you bunch (meaning my humble self and all others who plead that there is a country we must all unite to save) will be shocked.

He would not even want to listen to the three options I wanted to say Nigerians can look at to live together. He broke in at least three times to say we shall meet at the United Nations, that Lugard caused the trouble and the people of the Niger Delta would lead in resolving it. He went on and on. I engaged him to know whether someone was just bluffing.

First, is he Niger Deltan and if he is, where in the gathering of the groups would he belong? I know the voice of a Niger Deltan when I hear one. Just as I know when a Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa speaks. The one who spoke was a million per cent Niger Deltan. I am telling this story because we seem to be more comfortable ignoring warnings, waving off tips.

My mind went back more than 40 years when I was editor of Spear Magazine, and also much later when I was in Calabar at a gathering of Niger Delta nationality groups in October 2001. I told my caller the stories because I wanted him to know that I have as much stake in the Niger Delta as he may claim to have, and also as much concern about the problems there as any other.

I told him I have known about the Niger Delta struggle for longer than he may think. I knew Adaka Boro (he sounded relieved and listened more), and I published exclusively the experiences he documented when he went to Ghana to train for the revolt that led to his seizing power there and declaring a Rivers Republic.

He was overpowered in three days and charged to court for treason and jailed. He was released to be part of the Rivers Battalion that formed the core of troops that liberated the Rivers State from Biafran control.

He was to die under circumstances that were suspect after the liberation of his home state. With the coming of more turbulent and sustained resistance to the deprivations that the Niger Delta people suffered, many more groups, more desperate and deadly, emerged. In a piece I wrote in the Vanguard of Sunday, October 28, 2001, I referred to a force emerging in the Niger Delta which those who love this country should monitor with understanding.

I had been at Calabar from October 18 to 20 to give a paper at the Niger Delta Ethnic Nationalities Conference whose theme was “Union of Niger Delta – A movement for the political and economic emancipation of our people through resource control and true federalism”. There were presentations from the Middle Belt, and I heard someone deliver a message of solidarity from the Oodua Peoples Congress.

One young man said he was the former “defence minister” of the Ijaw national youth council. His roaring speech shook the assembly. He picked his words, chewed them thoroughly and spat them into the audience.

At the end of his speech, he apologized to the elders for his mannerisms. But he said he had raised questions which needed answers. He was in support of a national conference. He wanted to know what happened to the 13 per cent derivation money being paid to the governments of the Niger Delta. He wanted his elders to tell the youth when the conference of ethnic nationalities in the country would be held.

In other words, he was not part of the debate about whether a conference would be held or not. He wanted to know when because tempers had begun to rise in the area and the people would not be held back forever! The caller on my line on October 12 is not interested in any talks. With his utterances, the stakes are upped.

In the 60s, the people pleaded for attention. By 2001, they were asking for talks for control of their resources. Now, someone is telling me we will meet at the United Nations. He is not interested in three areas of possible restructure of Nigeria I mentioned – unitary government, federal government and confederation.

He said what they want is separation. This may well be rubbish to some of us who believe they have more answers than others. But to those who know what war games involve, that nothing is left to chance, they would look at all the scenarios and know what to do if any come comes to become. I am worried that in the recent history of our country, there is more divisive talk than any other time I can recall.

We are packaging ourselves into ethnic closets the same time that we assert claims to rule at the centre. The stakes are getting higher and, unknown to those who are angling for the cake, the determination not to be controlled by other groups is assuming a force all its own. We are planning to conduct elections in a country that we are working hard enough not to make secure for elections.

And when we make it ungovernable the way we are going, we will not have to call on any doctrine of necessity to put off the elections and the date of handing over because the constitution already provides for what to do when the country is at war. And who says we are not at war when there is no visible attempt to provide an enabling environment for elections to be held!

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/10/first-of-many-calls/

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Oduduwa, how far na?

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=532981.msg6956527#msg6956527 date=1287298602]Possibly true.
But if Ekiti ppl were willing to stick with him since the rigging to seek justice, I hope his popularity lives on till the next election.
Nobody is expecting a quick miracle, as long as he can show us [even by sth small] that he's not another Oni. [/quote]I hope so for you, just pray that Oni doesn't have a dirty pot of soup waiting for him; because by the time they fill the air with rumours of scandals the man has never heard off, you will find that little by little, some of the mud might actually stick.
If mudslinging does start, then you people bera know whats up and not fall for it.

james1:
Am shocked.if this is true it is a big shame.this man is rich by any standard,he went on tv to say that?
GEJ should not listen to the garbage FIFA is saying:silly laws of their's that apply to certain countrie's,why did they not suspend france?they did not even say a word after the initial warning to france not to tamper with their own team!who the bleeping bleep doe's FIFA think it is?
NFA official's mismanaged money and when taken to court they had the gut's to say that the court don't have the jurisdiction to hear them!a nigerian court and they live and earn their wage's here!!they should be charged for contempt of the court and thrown in jail for that insult on the court.
FIFA can go burn itself up for all I care.rubbish organization with senseless rule's.

He didn't go on TV, he was secretly filmed and the video broadcast on Sky news. He looked like a fool and sat like a bushman; its such a pity we have such clowns representing us. You should see the video, the man had all the grace of someone lethargically milking cows behind a hut.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=532981.msg6956496#msg6956496 date=1287297930]I think he has a few months left. Can't he be re-elected?[/quote]Yes he can, but the danger is he'll not have enough time to settle in, talkless of organising for elections.
The same old tricks of distabilisation being used against GEJ can be used against him, being a new guy taking over in all the chaos and tumble of election season.

The big question is, how long does he have left? This isn't a real victory.
We really need to fix our judicial system so court cases don't last forever, only to deliver pyrrhic victories like this one.

Abagworo:
Stop lying my friend.Who in Niger Delta are you?Name your hamlet,village,town,LGA and write in your dialect.To you Ateke Tom and Asari are MEND.Quit the lies bros.What happened when Asari was arrested and detained?Henry Okah is a gun runner but there is more to it than you know.His arrest nearly crippled Nigerian economy.Those Militants that went to dine at Abuja were repentant criminals save for one or two.

I wonder why his current arrest isn't even registering on the economy of his village?
Could it just be that MEND is no more as JRC have said?

We need all other mafia's to be smashed as well. Next to go must be PHCN and generator mafia's.

What a terrible disgrace! I watched the bush man asking for the money on TV. What a massive disgrace!
This is what FIFA wants to protect by suspending countries that tamper with their football associations. GEJ must face them down and eject any corrupt people in our football.

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Thanks dude. Much respect.

mukina2:
No, they are different people.
If you had reported it, three pair of eyes wont have missed it,( Aisha,jarus and Mukina2).
I just hope you'll stop blaming the mods for things you didnt report.
Also please stop posting in extra large fonts to pass across any kind of message

There is no "if" in the matter, I am dead certain I reported the thread. Maybe, you should do a thorough check.
After I reported it, I kept checking to see if it had been locked or deleted, but it never was. It is for such reasons I made sure to make a public report this time.

I have also reported the current matter today which already seems to be going the same way.

The punishment for kidnapping should be something like death by drowning.

mukina2:
Reports are being checked daily, and all reports are treated equally, if you had reported all the other accusations, we would have seen them, that is why there are atleast 2 mods to a section.

That is not true, I have processed reports from you on many occasions.

You reported OYB, now you are reporting OYBmend's thread AFTER you posted in it then and saw nothing wrong with it?
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-508939.0.html#msg6702115
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-508939.0.html#msg6703241

I reported OYB_MENDs thread on the day it was created, I am 100% definite about that.
The issue at hand now, is as much that nothing was done when I reported, and even more importantly, the part oyb, a moderator who should have known better, played on that thread.
My post on that thread was to prove that nothing was done when I reported it, that thread is still alive as far as I know.

Fine as long as they are not part of the cabal, but if they were, let them lobby on till doomsday.

[size=14pt]Yar’Adua loyalists lobby to join Jonathan’s campaign[/size]
•As President clears air on relationship with govs
Written by Idowu Samuel, Abuja with Agency Reports
Sunday, 17 October 2010

Some loyalists of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who for some time have been in political limbo following the sudden death

of their mentor are now set to re-launch themselves into the mainstream politics and they have been said to be banking on former President Olusegun Obasanjo as a joker for actualising their dreams.

Most of the Yar’Adua henchmen who wielded enormous powers while he lived, had planned to contest high political offices including the governorship and Senatorial seats in their respective states, but these dreams dissolved rapidly in the face of Yar’Adua’s exit from the corridors of power.

Sunday Tribune can report that three of the stupendously rich Yar’Adua men have suddenly been all over Obasanjo, whom they have been entreating with pleas of assistance to get them hooked up with President Jonathan so as to play prominent roles in his campaign agenda.

To get Obasanjo’s attention, the ex-ministers who headed the most juicy ministries during Yar’Adua tenure, had to lobby some top Obasanjo’s aides who served in his regime as special advisers and ministers and who still keep close contact with him, to help them seek the face of the reigning President.

Two of the ministers, it was learnt, had been taken to Obasanjo twice at Ota, following stiff pressure which they mounted on his aides, and had appealed to him earnestly to assist them overcome the problem of exclusion which they were currently facing in politics generally, disclosing to the Ota farmer that they still had keen interest in serving their fatherland.

The former ministers, who all hailed from North-West zone of the country, in their different encounters with Obasanjo, lamented that the political structures that they had built in their respective states had been dismantled by the state governors in control, hence the need to re-launch.

An insider at the meetings which the Yar’Adua’s men had with Obasanjo, disclosed to Sunday Tribune that on each occasion, the ex-ministers were very sober and portrayed themselves as politicians who had suffered so much neglect and that they appeared to be with believable intention to make restitution if given another chance to serve.

The source, who is a member of the Senate, disclosed that Obasanjo surprisingly gave them audience but was smart enough not to promise them instant result, just as he bade them to give him sufficient time to network on their behalf for the actualisation of their requests.

One of the former ministers had engaged the governor of his state in a media war for some time without success, and had to make recourse to Obasanjo to help present his frustration to President Jonathan, so as to obtain succour.

Sunday Tribune findings revealed that the former ministers are not aversed to working for Jonathan to attain his presidential ambition, a bid they see as a veritable opportunity for them to break into political circles in their states and through which they could rebuild their political structures at the state level.

It is not certain what disposition President Jonathan would accord the attempt by the Yar’Adua henchmen to embrace him, following the roles each of them reportedly played in frustrating his ascension to power during the period of the former President’s absence from the country.

Meanwhile, President Goodluck Jonathan said in Owerri, on Friday, that he had no problem with any state governor, even as he advised politicians to learn to play the game according to the rule and to avoid politics of blackmail.

Jonathan made the remark at a state banquet, organised in his honour by Imo State government, in reaction to speculations that he had strained relations with some state governors.

He said such insinuation was “part of political set up,” adding that, “There is no basis for anyone to insinuate that I have problem with any governor.

“I have no problem with any state governor or government.

“Even the Kwara State governor, Bukola Saraki, who wants my job, I have no problem with him.

Before he declared his intention, he came to me in Abuja (to inform me) that he wanted my job. He came to tell me even before some of his colleague governors got to know about it. Assuming we are having problems as people insinuate, he would not have come to tell me,’’ the President said.

Jonathan said Imo State was his second home and assured the people and government of the state that the Federal Government would work with them for the development of the state.

He commended Governor Ikedi Ohakim for the good job he was doing in the state and noted that both the federal and state governments were moving in the right direction.

Earlier in his remarks, Ohakim had declared total support of the South-East zone for the president, saying “the entire Igbo land is with you.”

He welcomed the president and his entourage to the state and assured them of peaceful and remarkable working visit.

The president had on arrival in the state, inaugurated Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Drive, built by the state government in memory of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/sun/index.php/front-page-articles/2318-yaradua-loyalists-lobby-to-join-jonathans-campaign-as-president-clears-air-on-relationship-with-govs

@princekevo

I can only remember being at loggerheads with you, so abeg, stop the long sermon. What I wrote is simple enough to be understood by all.
Conversion to pidgin for greater clarity; "if una no know IT and una begin de yan about email, na bringing out be dat!"

rasputinn:
@ Beaf

Don't waste your time.
Who is peacesak (I'm very suspicious of posts emanating from VERY RECENTLY REGISTERED NLANDERS,who dwell mostly on sensitive topics)
Nuff said

Abi o!

mukina2:
Did you ever use report to Mod in any of this cases?

When someone 'insults' you, and you reply in kind instead of reporting the said post/thread it makes you culpable as well.
Do not accuse moderators of what they know nothing about,
do you have links to prove that the mods where partial, you have also created threads to attack people ( Tpia and Bkbabe99) on both occasions the threads where reported. You also post in huge fonts or post pics depicting it as Nlanders and plenty times your posts have been reported, No member is above the rules of the forum, when someone offends you use report to mod link, how would you expect the mods to act, if you didnt report all these accusations, how then do you want the mods to see them?

I have used the report to a moderator button several times and never any action taken. Why for example is this thread still open after I reported it? Does it not break all NL rules? https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-508939.0.html. To prove my point, I have just posted to it.
Now you have seen the links and quotes, has their offensiveness been diminished by age or has the offense they convey expired?

If anything, the lack of response to my past complaints has only made me more combative. You will find there is a clear difference between my responses now and a few months back.

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truly:
Without Ribadu's work in getting Nigeria certified by the FATF, the amount of foreign investment would have been paltry
Please remind us of the experience of GEJ
And do you want me to reproduce GEJ's falsehoods and his broken English?

You are funny. FATF is about money laundering and funding terrorism not about foreign investment.
For me, effectiveness is better than spoken English, however Ribadu's English and demeanour are much worse than Jonathans.

babapupa:
Blowing up innocent people like the blood thirsty mend did in Lagos was a terrorist act. Now about oil, till you form your own separate nation, the oil belongs to Nigeria. To highlight your stupidity and ignorance, do you see local terrorists blowing up and killing people in Saudi arabia, in Mexico, in Libya or any oil producing nation because the oil is theirs? In any oil producing nation, oil belongs to the country, not the local location of the oil.

Not that I expect ignorant olodo like you peope to understand that basic fact.


You are killing innocent people oil over the place for some dumb nonsense while your leaders are having a good time and living large, even Henry okay is sitting on over a million dollars in SA. The only thing the clowns are fighting for is there pockets, and you dummies are sitting here talking rubbish.


Fools,

Why so many abusive words? It just makes you seem like you are covering the fact that you have no point to make.
If the oil is for Nigeria as you say, do all Nigerians share in the cancers, respiratory problems, acid rain etc that plague the people of the Niger Delta? Or is it just that conscienceless Nigerian governments, cheered on by a few equally conscienceless citizens like yourself, have not cared a jot about what happens to the health and wellbeing of the people whose lands and waters were forcefully seized to build the economy from which you benefit?

Nigerians hate each other and the oil problems go a long way to underline it. It really is a sorry state of affairs when foreigners show more respect for Nigerian aspirations than fellow Nigerians would. Another case in mind that shows our depth of hatred for one another (as long as we are from a different ethnic group) is the Jos crisis. The same rabid voice castigating Niger Deltans here, rather than express sympathy, posited that the dead were foolish for going to live in Jos.

To Niger Deltans, aware Nigerians and the EU, MEND is no terrorist group. Live with it.

mukina2:
erm you meant 'signature' right?
This is why https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-1026.0.html

AS for the other stuff you posted, will look into it

My signature was also removed after it made it a simple text link. Right now, it is just text, so your reply does not address the issue.
I can point to a few users with taller (or similar height) signatures than what I had, however I realise it is possible they were missed.

[size=14pt]How Reps stopped fuel cartel in NNPC –Ikisikpo[/size]
From Our reporter
Sunday, October 17, 2010

House of Representatives Committee Chairman on Petroleum (Downstream), Hon Clever Ikisikpo, has ruled out the possibility of a new regime of fuel scarcity in the country, saying the cartel in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that creates artificial scarcity has been dislodged. Ikisikpo said in an interview with journalists that for as long as President Goodluck Jonathan remained in office, it would be difficult for the cartel to resurrect.

He said the House, in partnership with the presidency, had dethroned the cartel for good. “There is no state in Nigeria that did not have the effect of fuel scarcity. Even, there was a time that adulterated fuel was shipped to the nation. If you remember my motion on adulterated fuel, when the committee saw it, it took it upon itself and the issue was arrested.

“With the joint effort of the committee and that of the president, there cannot be anything like fuel queue again. And believe me, even the price of petroleum products, if you go to some places in Lagos, though government prices is N65.00 per litre, you would see N62, N64 just because of the effort of the committee.

“We have done a great job and I believe the country appreciates the work we have done,” Ikisikpo noted.
He said the House decided to undertake a study of the fuel situation in the country at the time it was becoming very difficult to access petroleum products freely and discovered that a few people in the NNPC were feeding fat on the sufferings of the masses.

Ikisikpo added that the cartels were not in a hurry to change until the government descended on them and closed all their routes. “The cartel was the worst thing that ever happened to the nation’s petroleum industry. Our fight was how to break that cartel. That had been the biggest fight because we know that if it was broken this issue of fuel importation whereby some people were deprived will not be there again.

The cartels were feeding fat from Nigeria and allowing the common man to suffer. So they were one of the major causes of the fuel scarcity.” He also spoke of the relationship between the Bayelsa governor, Timipre Sylva, and politicians from the state based in Abuja, saying that the President has urged everybody to sheathe their swords and work together to move the state forward.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/oct/17/national-17-10-2010-013.htm

Is the OP suggesting that Nigeria should not have celebrated her Golden Jubilee?
I'm sure some clowns would have preferred for GEJ to hire a taxi or arrive by molue.