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Once in office, their aims ceased to be the care of the masses, but simply how to keep themselves perpetually on top and privileged. It was for this reason that Chief Akintola, although totally defeated in the Regional election of October 1965, refused to quit the premiership of Western Region and publicly stated that he would rather be killed in office than voluntarily quit the stage! It was typical.
Under our planned revolutionary social system, the cleavage in the community would at once be obliterated, so that the community would be one indivisible unit. Every member would have a comfortable and respectable dwelling inside well- planned villages, towns and cities.

Another factor responsible for social injustice was the existence of secret cults. These cults helped their members to exploit the remainder of the society in many ways, such as making sure that they always won in law courts, that they always got the few available contracts and that they always got all available privileges of the society. In ages past, when our forefathers worshipped idols and trees and stones and animals, they had need to make secret sacrifices. They knew that such deeds were repugnant to the tender hearts of women. Therefore, they did most of these sordid things in the night, and under the cover of darkness. Also, they had banned women from coming out on such nights when they did those horrible and detestable things. They also forbade women from entering into groves where signs of their misdeeds remained visible, say, in the form of newly de-skinned human skulls. The cults contributed in no small way to the ineffectiveness of the rule of law, corruption of officials and the enthronement of nepotism, mediocrity, avarice, greed and burglary as the rulers of society. The net result of all these was the chaos and confusion which we had in the society in 1965 and which still persist in our society today. These cults are known to practise human sacrifice and other repugnant antisocial rituals. It was a shame that in 1965 the Nigerian society, which claimed to be mainly Christian and Muslim, allowed the continuity of these antisocial behaviours.

The revolutionaries planned to obliterate these practices so that everybody practised his or her worship in the open, or forgot about it in the name of civilisation and mental evolution.
The posts of obas, obis, emirs and amanyanabos constituted the greatest anachronisms in the Nigerian Society of 1965. These natural rulers were useful instruments of corruption and compromise, first under the British and later under the Nigerian politicians. Of what use to the society were those glorified idols that had eyes but would not see and had ears but would not hear, but merely served as conduits to pass a bribe to the people in order to miscarry social justice? Many of them were diabolical and their continued existence is inimical to social take-off and progress. The popular television series created by Segun Olusola and titled "The Village Headmaster" had simply illustrated to the Nigerian public the parts being played by these so-called natural rulers in the society. Whenever any matter was hot and demanded immediate action to punish the evildoer and save the society, the "Oloja of Oja, Oba Adenrele II" as he was styled in that programme would simplify pontificate, moralise, threaten heaven and hell, and then would take absolutely no action in the matter, thus letting the sleeping dog lie and of course, letting the grass grow under his feet. In the end, it was the ineffectiveness, the conservative and changeless part of the Oloja as a leader of men in the village scene, that "killed" every member of the village and the Oloja himself, so that the series came to a natural end. Under our planned revolutionary social system, these anachronisms would be quickly brought to an end and the good people so wrongly employed would be integrated into community development projects.

On foreign policy, we agreed that the approach was not in tune with the thinking of the majority of Nigerians. Nigeria spoke with uncertain voice at the United Nations. She seemed always to act as a mere outpost of the British sphere of influence in Africa and as if she was tied to the apron strings of Western powers. Although she proclaimed herself a non-aligned nation, yet she always toed the Western line in her international politics. It was our intention to quickly reverse these tendencies, in order to match our professed non-alignment with relevant action and so open a new era of strong, virile and principled foreign policy. Under such a policy, Nigeria would not merely profess non-alignment, but would indeed shift her stance from the extreme right to the centre, thereby shedding her erstwhile attachment to Westminster in international relations. She would therefore be in a position to stand up and speak vociferously for Africa and wrest a place for the continent in the Security Council and other world organisations, thus occupying her place in word and in deed as the giant of Africa. Furthermore, she would snap her total dependence on NATO weaponry and feel free to take her few necessities from both the East and the West, while vigorously pursuing her vital self-reliance in the production of defensive stores and consumer products.
Hand in hand with her self-liberating policies would be her active development of an African continental sphere of influence, wherein she would gradually lift her African sister- countries from the crippling abyss of economic disability into which the imperialist nations had effectively dumped them. She would no longer need to beg Britain to act for the independence of Zimbabwe as was the case in early January 1966. Instead, she would herself take steps to forestall further British manoeuvres to continue keeping that country as her colony and really make the British quit the place through an effective economic coup de grace the like of which was staged by the Obasanjo Administration in 1979.

Most Nigerians did not realise that this country had very powerful instruments of coercion which she could effectively employ to influence the trend of affairs in international politics. It was the aimlessness of the Sardauna/Balewa Administration that made her seem impotent and helpless in the global affairs of 1965. Moreover, Nigeria's posture of anti-communism and of non-involvement with the Communists did her more harm than good. She had a lot more to learn from the social and economic organisations of those countries than she had been learning from the rabid capitalists of the West.
Nigeria would have made friends with the Eastern countries and educational exchange programmes would have been arranged, so that our students could attend their higher institutions to acquire scientific and technological knowledge upon which they could build. This programme would have been extended to our politicians, social workers, economists and civil servants, in order to let them see other ways of tackling problems, and know that there were alternatives to the Western solutions they were used to.
In this way, Nigeria would have emerged as a country with very strong legs to stand upon. She would have seen things more clearly like a nation that had discovered the use of her second eye. We would have started to speak like a people who had learned to use their brains. And we would have started to perform like men who have a destiny. This was our stance. We cherished the ideology and discussed it like brothers very often at the Officers' Mess and in working units. We had no need to doubt that we would accomplish our task. Thus, we began to prepare for the great day that would mark the beginning of a definite effort to awaken the country from her slumber.

There would also be no need for lawyers to pursue other businesses like buying and selling, importing and exporting, constructing, transporting, hotelling and so on.
In summation, all professionals would work collectively for the community, sharing a common ideology and objective.
If these plans were fulfilled, the whole community would work together and pull together as one people. Individuals would work selflessly for a common enrichment that would redound to the happiness of one and all at the same time. There would be no need for cut-throat competitions, or for the "grab- grab" of those who rob the people because they are at the top, and those who amass wealth to such an extent that a thousand generations of their children would live without working at all. There would be no more highway robbers who see themselves as the deprived, whose opportunities had been taken from them by stronger forces to ingratiate the lusts of the grabbers, and who therefore see nothing wrong in having their own back on the wicked society, by killing and maiming before stealing.

As mentioned earlier, the Armed Forces would no longer be separate from the people. They were only separated under the capitalist system which we had inherited from our past colonial masters and our present-day neo-colonial subjugators. Under the capitalist system, every professional and non-professional separates himself from the remainder of the people so as to exploit and cheat them. He does not see himself involved in the community any more than he can use it to feather his own nest; and is always disposed to consider first, foremost and finally, his own personal and family interests. This is an extremely wicked system which perpetuated corruption, burglary, car-snatching, stealing, highway robbery, ostentation, power grabbing, money-grabbing, fraud, bribery, misappropriation of funds, and chicanery. Welfarism in the form of free education, free health services, and cheap housing, will only dent the faces of the evil, it will never kill it. To kill the wickedness, the people had to be brought together as was successfully done in certain countries such as Russia and China. But the extremely powerful capitalists who use money and propaganda to thwart and suppress the souls of men, are everyday using all available means to force us to be believe that those two countries are not socially successful and that their citizens are not free to choose and practice evil and man's inhumanity to man.

To be quite honest, is it not well known that the United States of America which is said to be the freest nation on earth has at the same time the highest crime rate in the world? In that country, women are raped every day and successful men are killed regularly- that is the worth of their so-called freedom. But if the USA has the highest crime rate in the world, Nigeria of 1981 which has adopted the American system of government since October 1979 was closely following in her footsteps. Under our planned revolutionary system, the Armed Forces to take part in civil productions, working with professionals, artisans and tradesmen. They were to work with farmers and with public utility workers, to distribute both water and electricity. They would encourage our workshops and factories to produce military weapons and defensive stores so that we would cease to depend on foreign nations for our own defence materials. If the Armed Forces had been integrated into the community as planned in our revolutionary system, it would have been unnecessary for them to live apart from the people or be hostile to them in times of stress, and it would have remained a continuously productive and profitable institution of the people.
The police would also have found it much easier to do their duties collectively to preserve the peace and orderliness of the community. In the first place, the police would cease to be remote from the people. They would not always wear uniforms.
They would be found in workshops and factories, in the offices and public places, in the shops and markets, and in the streets and hotels. They would generally brief the people on what was legal or illegal in their proposed actions, and would promptly being offenders to book. Our revolutionary society would have no need for riot squads or for the armed police. People would be willing to come forward to give useful information for combating crime. The few suspects would have no need to be tortured in police cells.

Under our planned revolutionary economic policy, every individual would work as a member of the composite community. The goods of the community would be equitably distributed and everybody would have his own fill, for the money would go round. Tax and trade laws would be such that it would be unnecessary for any individual to accumulate unspent money in local and foreign banks, while millions of Nigerians have little or nothing to survive on. It would be impracticable for a single man to spend two million naira to build himself a personal house, while a very large number of Nigerians in the same community dwell in hovels, and sleep in the gutters and under bridges. The Government would not cater for the interest of a few people, while denying the great majority of Nigerians their rights and privileges as happened with the Obasanjo Government. That Government helped a few Nigerians to make easy millions of naira through oil distributorship, while denying the majority of Nigerians their rights to obtain loans to buy motor cars, on the selfish declaration that "it is not the intention of the Government that every Tom, Dick and Harry should own a car." Such a declaration constituted a most diabolical comment on the good intentions of the January 15 revolutionaries, who removed the evil politicians with the purpose of instituting a corrective and revolutionary military era.

Educationally, we had agreed that there was only one answer to the mass illiteracy that troubled Nigeria in 1965, namely, mass education- both formal and informal. This was deemed essential to lift the vast majority of our people out of the bog of ignorance and disease, to make every individual a productive part of the community and to destroy the people's enslavement to myths, misconceptions and superstitions. It was also necessary to liberate the minds of the people from darkness, to keep them informed of the truth and to make them appreciate the need for the revolution and for a new way of life. Moreover, the people, especially in the North, had been exploited for a long time and had become inured to suffering, so that they no longer knew or fought for their rights. Rather they acquiesced in their suffering, blaming their man-inflicted wounds on the will of Allah, whereas Allah was totally opposed to such human wickedness. Mass education was therefore essential to awaken the people to their rights and responsibilities for their own freedom.
To give mass education to the people, it would be necessary to initially mobilise them so that both the teachers and their students would regard themselves as having a common cause to destroy a common enemy, namely ignorance. The teachers would be made to see themselves as serving the community and as having a mission to carry out. In this way, they would be motivated to give instruction under any conditions whatsoever and regardless of personal conveniences. This would in turn stimulate students' interest and seriousness. Workshops and factories would be used as schools. This educational revolution that we envisaged would have contrasted a great deal with the UPE (Universal Primary Education) later introduced by the Obasanjo Administration in 1976. That UPE was too slip-shod, badly handled and ineffective to achieve its objectives.
Instead of improving the literacy level, it only succeeded in lining the pockets of governmental functionaries, "ten-percenters and emergency contractors".
Under our planned educational system, learning would have been made more practical to the learners, not only at the elementary and secondary levels but also at polytechnic and university levels. It would have been made result-orientated. For, what is the use of an education that does not make a man either practical or productive? Up to this day (1981), all our schools from the bottom to the top are still teaching theoretical arts and sciences. Judging by the average, the elementary school child could not tell the difference between a yam leaf and a vegetable. The secondary school child could not explain the seasons, and the agricultural significance and expectations of the months of the year.
The polytechnic student had not seen a mould, much less make one. He could not make an ordinary pen, not to talk of paper, both of which are instruments of his daily training and usage. The university professor of mechanical engineering could not service his own motor car; his electrical counterpart could not repair his own radio. What a hopeless educational system that made everybody a consumer of foreign products and a "zombie" of present-day technology! It was really a shame.

Under our planned revolutionary education policy, it would have been possible for our elementary school children to know the various herbs of the forest, the various seeds that are planted in Africa, the seasons and their significance in their own locality and how these vary in other localities and climates. Secondary school students would have been motivated to produce their own microscopes, copper wire, chemical reagents, rulers, set- squares and so on; while polytechnic students would have been able to build their theatres, sports stadia, even furniture, pens and, of course, machine guns. It would have been normal for our universities to produce planes, rockets, missiles, remote sensors, computers and other products of high technology. In this way, there would have been no need for our electricity supply to continue to be interrupted every hour or for the dwellers of our state capitals to drink untreated well water. Our salt factories would have ceased to break down, calling for foreigners to resuscitate them and Government would not have invited foreigners to take over our farms and run them for us. So would we have ceased to spend all the earnings of our country on arms, armoured vehicles, planes, warheads and other defensive weapons from abroad, while the masses were much more impoverished. New ideas on inventions would have been encouraged and immediately transformed into practical terms, followed by government financially backed mass production for local and foreign consumption. By so doing, our intellectuals would have been well motivated and the country's currency would have been made stronger.

Socially, we realised that the society was split into two broad were housed in divisions - the privileged class that Government Reserved Areas (GRAs) and the masses who lived in the slums. This was inherited from the British administrators who lived far away from the people they governed. The separation of quarters and the difference in living standards brought a great cleavage into the Nigerian society, such that government officials and newly elected political officers such as commissioners and ministers moved into the GRAS. Once they were so uplifted by the society, they became solely and wholly motivated to use every opportunity to lift their immediate family out of the level of the masses into the privileged class and also to keep themselves perpetually in that class and totally abandon the masses. This was the main reason why some of them became in the main, sit-tight and irresponsible ministers and commissioners, as well as rabid, fraudulent and corrupt officials.

Ideologically, the core of the revolutionary officers had agreed on a programme of action to be implemented if we had successfully taken the reins of power into our own hands. This programme covered areas of politics, economy, education, social and foreign affairs.

Politically, we believed that our immediate step would be to correct the worst anomaly of the 1957 constitution, by breaking the country into smaller units or states. In other words, the four Regions which existed till January 15, 1966, were to die instantly and on their dead bodies were to emerge fourteen states, each of which would be coterminous with two of the former twenty-six provinces of the federation, except Sokoto and Oyo states which were to be coterminous with one province each. In effect, there would be seven states each in the former North and South.
These were to be governed by military governors who would be chosen on their merits and loyalty to the revolution. We also believed in the immediate release of political prisoners of those days, namely, Chief Awolowo, Jakande, Anthony Enahoro, Onitiri, Omisade and so on. As we saw it these actions would bring immediate relief to the suffering masses of the West and North and would generate peace and control throughout the Federation.

Politically too, we embrace collective leadership and we planned to include both military and civilian personalities in the government, but the Army would have the principal role of laying down and maintaining the principles and the momentum of the revolution.
Unlike those military leaders who cashed in on our revolution and ruled the people carelessly and without direction, we would certainly have created a mass political movement which would lead and vigilantly guide the nation along the path of pure democratic socialism. This would have meant that the Army would see itself, not as an Army of occupation which indulged itself in political reaction, revisionism, economic robbery, corruption and sabotage as it did under the regimes of Ironsi and Gowon; but as an integral part of the people, ideologically linked with them, economically employed with them, educationally trained with them and socially adjusted to them. There would neither be need for the Army to be separate from the people, nor excluded from politics. The Army would never have remained an instrument of force and coercion.
If the Army was made to see itself as part of the people, to embrace the same ideology as the people under a revolutionary and not a political party system and if the Army was turned into a productive arm of government, then it would neither have been used as an instrument to sponsor political riot, as was in the case in the days that Lieutenant-Colonel Hassan U. Katsina governed Northern Nigeria, nor could it have been used as an instrument of pogrom, as it was used in the days that Gowon took over the reins of power in the Federation. It would also not have been used as an instrument of arson, looting and brigandage as it was used during the civil war.

Economically, we agreed that we had an extreme form of capitalism in Nigeria in 1965, which was not good for a newly emergent nation. Under that system, the vast majority of our people, that is to say, about ninety-nine per cent, were extremely poor and lived in abject poverty; while a few millionaires were being created here and there all over the country, by using their political connections to divert government (the people's) money into their hands. To be specific, there were governmental Finance Corporations and Marketing Boards which were used to divert public money into private hands by way of loans and inflated contracts. This system also favoured a few middlemen, whose palms were greased by this diversion of funds. The masses did not benefit but were impoverished thereby, hence the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor. No avenues were open to check or correct these horrible anomalies.
Our revolutionary principles provided for a total change of that economic order. We planned to mobilize the people so that they would produce most of the things that they needed for the betterment of their lives. It was already established everywhere in the world that when people worked collectively, they produce much more than than when they worked individually. Therefore, farms where to be enlarged for the people, not grabbed from them and concentrated in one or two hands, as happened and still continues to happen, to this day. If farms were enlarged and held collectively, everyone would have a sense of belonging and would take part in communal production. Thus, it would be more more profitable and socially desirable to bring in tractors, harvesters and other agricultural machines to serve the whole community, than to buy these machines with public money for private individuals. It would be more profitable and socially desirable to introduce new crops and new farming technology for the benefit of the whole community, than to hand over these public benefits to private individuals. It would also be more profitable and socially desirable, to collectively build well planned, modern houses in the form of flats, flatlets and hostels for the whole community, than to leave individuals to continue struggling to build for themselves hopeless little huts and single-room houses, which provided neither comfort nor self-respect.

This revolutionary system would have certainly put an end the ever widening-gap between the labourers and the master-landowners, who had only acquired such lands by using governmental powers to grab land from the people. For instance, many Army officers, civil servants and others emerged as master-landowners owning several hectares of land, not by inheritance or natural results of hard work, but by twisting and using governmental powers to deprive the people of their land, while grabbing the same into their own hands. As this master-landownership was already developing in 1965, the masses were being turned into landless serfs without visible means of livelihood, and without anything at all to pass down to their posterities. They could only work as farmhands in a cut-throat system, in which the master fixed the wages, irrespective of whatever the government fixed as the minimum wage for the area.
Under our planned revolutionary system, workshops were to be collectively built for artisans and tradesmen to practice their arts and trades communally. They were to collectively enjoy the benefits of mechanisation and automation, adequate provision of infrastructures such as access roads, water supply, electricity, houses and recreational facilities. They were also to enjoy adequate availability of raw materials, good stable prices and marketing facilities. Transportation was to be facilitated by the fusing of our transport services into a network so that transporters could work together to serve the people more efficiently. Transporters on the other hand would enjoy increased and constantly maintained roads, railways and airways facilities, and adequate provision of public garages, car parks and repair workshops equipped with recreational facilities. The workshops of artisans and tradesmen would be merged into factories and labour-saving machines would be made available to them on a part-ownership basis. In this way, development would be more rapid. There would be no need for a few people to steal public funds with the purpose of using such money to establish octopus factories, and employing thousands of workers who have little or no stake in the business, but stand the risk of being thrown out of jobs at any moment for any real or imagined shortcomings on their parts, or simply because a new machine had been installed to take over their duties.

Under our planned revolutionary system, construction work would be done communually. House builders would work for community, planning and building such houses as were conducive to comfortable and decent living, for all and sundry.
It would not be possible for a man to steal money, escape imprisonment through bribery and corruption, use the stolen money to build a few houses, raise the rents to the sky and defy all the laws of the land with impunity by extracting five years's rent from tenants, only to start building more houses again and for the same purpose. Communal house builders would be made to put the interests of the community above personal interests, and would be made to utilise local resources and encouraged to introduce innovations in construction methods. The government on it's it's own part would make sure that such facilities and materials as would be necessary for the smooth running of their jobs and constant employment were made available to them.
Civil engineers would work collectively on construction projects. There would be no need for them to plan and work in isolation, competing fratricidally with each other and depending so much on foreign planners who only came to inflate our costs, and to us rob us not only of our money, but also of our native intelligence. They would be encouraged to use the nation's potential in mental, physical and natural resources to the full. Working for the community and being part of that community, they would plan to the benefit of their community by encouraging our workshops and factories to produce most of their needs, and would benefit from the ownership of such businesses. They would be made to see their workers as part of themselves, sharing the same ideology, aspiration and goal of life. In this way, it would not be possible for one engineer to be the sole owner of a business, merely exploiting other engineers and workers to his own personal and family advantage, and to the utter wretchedness of the producers and their own families. In this way, the little money that the community has for physical development would go a long way. The resources of the people would be tapped to the maximum and the community as a whole would benefit.
Accountants and auditors would work collectively and scrutinise government accounts to make sure that public money was well managed, and the account of Corporations to ensure that the investments of the people were maintained in good hands and in the direct interest of the people. They would monitor the accounts of public services such as airways, railways, shipping lines and public transport to ensure that local resources both natural and human are used optimally, and that they make good financial returns. In this way, they would effectively check the abuses of office and the ubiquitous waste and misappropriation of public funds. They would put an end to fraudulent supply systems and wasteful public contracts, and minimise the undue influence being exerted by private companies on government officials. There would be no need for accountants to work separately and secretly, bowing down to bribery, falsifying accounts and conniving at fraud, colluding and working hand-in-glove with public and private thieves and spoilers of the system. Our accountants and auditors would benefit by taking part in the ownership of such businesses and from government-sponsored and increased patronage.
Doctors would work collectively to cater for the health of the community, with emphasis on prevention of diseases. They would make use of local herbs for preventive and curative purposes. By facing their jobs squarely, they would not descend to the level of "emergency contractors", in importing and exporting businesses, for the purpose of making extra money. Because doctors would be well paid, there would be no need for a doctor to set up a hospital to exploit his patients.
Lawyers would work collectively by interpreting letters of the law the right way up and based on the nation's Constitution. In this way, they would bring the benefits of the rule of law to every individual and therefore to the community as a whole, such that there would be no need for lawyers to condone law breakers and those who hold the society to ransom simply because they have the money or the force to do so.

Chimarto:
Can someone explain what this mean in details?

All na wash, let him reduce fuel price period

His DNA is from Ogun state

Rubbish

Bauchi season

Let someone mine that skull asap, it can't go for nothing inside Ogun

TUANKU:
Never make a w.h.ore a housewife.

Now this this is one of them occasions
where the homies not doing it right
I mean he found him a hoe that he like

Ikem11:
Na this thing I secretly did ...I don transfer everything to my family Na them dey pay for any single thing I get .

The little million and small house I get make someone no come tomorrow put hand for my hard for am.

Any reasonable man should follow this method cos this thing call love these days Na scam

One person for that your family fit still kpai u collect everything.. The dark African mentality is brutally different

HeatSeeker:


Omo! Na my mama go dey manage my finances from now on o!

Wetin be that your job again?

Nigga made extra cool $500k outside the ring

Mother's love no get duplicate..
Curse on whosoever that have the heart to take the life of the woman who went through pains to bring him into this world and care for him till he's old enough to know his right from his left.

I lost my lovely mom in 2022 till date it hurts knowing that I'm never gonna see her face again.. I miss her beautiful smiles, I miss her voice, I miss her food, I miss her powerful words of advice, all I'd ever say is thanks for taking care of me from the day of my birth to my schooling days to her very last moment. My mom sacrificed everything to make sure that I'm fine. God bless her soul

Kingzmate:
FAILED DNA TEST

Who give am money for DNA

Okaynaw:
This is the main reason helinues need to find a job

ASAP

essentialone:
Sexual Harassment accusation is just a trick, used by ladies to pull down successfulmen, that they do not like.

Akpabio spotted on Nairaland

EponObi:
The cone head is giving "that" vibe though. You sure say no be case of fake identity?

na for this kind post una dey rush quick to spew balderdash

Sheuns:
This one wey no fit attract African presidents na him Trump go come visit? LMAO.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

As in he stole a bottle of kunu

Hope they let him have it after the shaming

GOFRONT:
Question is..... How does that Absolve them from being a chronic liar when judging cases??

It doesn't matter, somethings need to be fixed in our dark black mentality

Sheuns:

OBJ. The only Nigerian leader that three sitting USA presidents visited in Nigeria during his tenure.
Late Jimmy Carter in 1978, Bill Clinton in 2000 and George W Bush in 2003.

A true Omoluabi.

Relax Trump will visit tinubu soon

Thundafireseun:
A lot of Pastors in Anambra are worse than the Native doctors Governor Soludo has decided to pursue….

May God protect us from Devils in human form

Shebi na Anambra this one happen

YoruBads:
Mercy Eke is known to be a hard working lady

Wetin she dey work? 🙄