[size=14pt]DEPRIVATION & DERIVATION PRINCIPLES: WHY THE NORTH IS POOR (I)[/size]
26/02/2012 06:24:00 THEWILL

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"According to official figures, the leading oil producing state, Rivers, received N1,053 billion between 1999 and 2008 in federal allocations. By contrast the North-eastern states of Yobe and Borno, where the Boko Haram sect was created, received N175bn and N213bn respectively. Broken down on a per capita basis, the contrast is even starker. In 2008 the 18.97m people who lived in the six states in the north-east received on average N1,156 per person.

"By contrast Rivers state was allocated N3,965 per capita, and on average the oil producing South- South region received on average N3,332 per capita. This imbalance is compounded when the cost of an amnesty programme for militants in the delta is included together with an additional 1 per cent for a special development body for the Niger Delta. To boot, the theft of oil by profiteers in the region diverts tens of millions more weekly from federal coffers." – Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.

Yes, forget these per capita figures! I agree the North is poor. Yes, I agree the poverty has bred millions of destitutes, who have become instant and easy recruits for Boko Haram. But my question is: Who impoverished the North?

A caveat: I am an unabashed capitalist who believes that every citizen has a right to do good business and make profit. I salute hard work and do not disparage honest efforts. However, uncompassionate capitalism driven by pulleys of aristocracy breeds a brutal class order worthy of condemnation.

In my last article titled – “Elrufai’s amnesia: The day Boko Haram Wore Jeans”, I categorically stated that greed and the senseless chase for power by the Fulani aristocrats and political elites of the North are responsible for the extreme poverty of the North. I still and will always stand by that. My position did not go down well with my targets; they responded with vituperations.

[b]Mallam Sanusi’s statistics was intended to mislead us by ruffling the rudder of our common sense. See, Ekiti state has a 2012 budget 0f N88 billion; Kwara state, N90 billion; Cross River state, N144 billion; Anambra state, N82 billion; Enugu state, N74 billion. Now let’s look at the 2012 budgets recently passed into law by the four major Boko Haram occupied states – Kano state has a budget of N 210 billion; Borno state, 150 billion; Gombe, N94 billion; Yobe state, 80 billion.

A simple comparative analysis shows that Ekiti state has about the same revenue as Yobe and Gombe, but only 17 students passed WAEC and NECO in Gombe state last year, while Ekiti is known for its high literacy level. Gombe state has a bigger budget that Enugu and Anambra, why hasn’t MASSOB bombed anyone. Borno state has a budget twice that of Enugu state but the poverty and unemployment level in Borno state is more than thrice that of Enugu state. Borno has a bigger budget than a Niger Delta state- Cross River, while the leaders of that state over the last decade have transformed it into the Nation’s leading tourist destination; those of Borno have transformed it into a Somalia.

Kano state gets the highest statutory allocation from the FG, because on paper Kano is the most populated state in Nigeria, yet Kano has about 1.6 million destitute Almajiris. Kano has a budget almost thrice the budget of Enugu, twice the budget of Kwara, Anambra and Ekiti, but how come almost 90% of students in Kano fail WAEC? How come the poverty level in Kano is higher than all these states put together?[/b]

Why is the North so poor? From the figures above I have shown that Southern states with lesser budgets have shown better development performance than most North Eastern states with bigger statutory allocation and budgets.

Now, I need to tackle the sensitive question of revenue allocation that has infuriated the Mallam Lamido Sanusi and Mallam Elrufai and their likes. Niger Delta states get higher revenue allocation because they contribute virtually all the eggs in the national crate. That is expected. Albeit the 13% remains grossly inadequate, the CBN Governor has suggested that his Boko boys are resisting the disparity.

[size=14pt]I want to posit that the North-East through their aristocrats and ex-military rulers (except Gen. Mohammed Buhari) rake in more oil money (from the Niger Delta) individually than any Niger Delta state, and collectively more than twice the entire Niger Delta put together. In this disquisition, I have attempted to show that 80% of crude oil and gas produced by indigenous companies is controlled by the North-East. It is an area they have well conquered through General IBB, Abacha and Abdulsalami. However, the loots never get back home.[/size]

In this first part I will attempt to describe the very uneven nature of the distribution of the nation’s wealth among the Northern aristocratic families and their military generals who for decades looted Nigeria. They did so blatantly, and while Nigeria was weeping about oil windfall loot and others, Nigerians would wail if they know how much of the nation’s resources these folks allocated to themselves and their business fronts before they stepped aside.

Let us therefore begin.

To the state of origin of Boko Haram: Borno State. Enter Cavendish Petroleum, the operators of OML 110 – with good yielding OBE field. This oil block was awarded to Alhaji Mai Deribe - the Borno patriarch, who even in death will remain the richest man dead or alive in the history of Borno state- by General Sani Abacha on the 8th of July, 1996. OML 110 has a proven oil reserve in excess of 500 million barrels (More than the entire 300milliom barrels reserve of Sudan). As yet with the capacity to produce about 120,000 barrels of crude oil daily from its OBE 4 and OBE 5 wells. At current production levels, the Mai Deribes net circa N4billion monthly in crude oil sales (Using current oil price of $100pb). Cavendish Petroleum’s N4bn monthly net dwarfs the monthly statutory allocation of Borno which is about N3bn and its internally generated revenue staggers around N1billion.

See his mansion, a tourist attraction -
http://kyata.aminus3.com/image/2009-08-17.html

[b]I will then shift to the centre of the Fulani aristocratic hegemony in the North East – Kano. Here. Enter the Fulani Prince Nasiru Ado Bayero, Mallam (Prince) Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s cousin. He is a Key shareholder and director in Seplat/Platform petroleum operators of the Asuokpu/Umutu Marginal Field with a capacity of 300,000 barrels monthly and A 30mmfcsd gas plant capable of feeding 100MT of LPG. The Ado Bayeros, Yar’Aduas and Atiku Abubakar are Nigerian holders of Intels. It is a private port that has grounded three Federal ports in the South. Intels is discussed later.

Enter South Atlantic Petroleum Limited (SAPETRO). South Atlantic Petroleum (SAPETRO) is a Nigerian Oil Exploration and Production Company that was created in 1995 by General T. Y. Danjuma. General Sani Abacha awarded the Oil Prospecting License (OPL) 246 to SAPETRO in February 1998.

The block covers a total area of 2,590km2 (1,000 sq. miles). SAPETRO partnered with Total Upstream Nigeria Ltd (TUPNI) and Brasoil Oil Services Company Nigeria Ltd (Petrobras) to start prospecting on OPL246. Akpo, a condensate field was discovered in April 2000 with the drilling of the first exploration well (Akpo 1) on the block. Other discoveries made on OPL 246 include the Egina Main, Egina South, Preowei and Kuro (Kuro was suspended as a dry gas/minor oil discovery).

In June 2006, General TY Danjuma divested part of its contractor rights and obligations to China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) for $1 billion (N160bn). Akpo exports about 230,000 barrels of condensate daily. Condensate export is not regulated by OPEC, so SAPETRO/TOTAL exports as much as possible each day. Egina exports about 75,000 barrels of oil daily.

Therefore, Akpo and Egina fields export just over 300,000 barrels of oil/condensate daily (three times what the country Ghana exports). SAPETRO (TY Danjuma) get 25% of this. Now, note I have not talked about the gas component – it’s about 2.5 trillion cubic feet. The money SAPETRO nets each month is more than the monthly statutory allocation of all the Niger states combined and also more than the oil revenue of Ghana. Do your math.

Enter AMNI (or is it AMIN?) International Petroleum Development Company. AMNI owns two oil blocks – OML 112 and OML 117. In the production sharing contract, AMNI gets 60% for owning the oil block and Total gets 40% for providing technical advice. OML 112 was awarded on the 12/02/1998 while OML 117 was awarded 06/08/1999 all by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar. Operations started on both blocks 0n 26/02/2006. The licenses are due to expire 11/02/2018 and 05/08/2019 respectively. (Now you see why the next election is important?).

The Okoro and Setu fields in OML 112 are operated by Afren Energy, a company substantially controlled by Rilwanu Lukman. The Okoro and Setu oil fields have about 50 million barrels in reserve and currently produce/exports just a little below 20,000 barrels per day. The chairman of AMNI International Petroleum and Development Company is Alhaji (Colonel) Sani Bello a Fulani from Kontagora, Niger State. Lest I forget, Alhaji Bello’s son- Abu, is married to General Abdusalami Abubakar's eldest daughter.

Enter Oriental Energy Resources Limited, a company owned by Alhaji Mohammed Indimi, a Fulani and close friend of General Ibrahim Babangida. Also worthy of note is that General IBB’s first son is married to Alhaji Mohammed Indimi’s daughter – Yakolo Indimi-Babangida, who also serves as a director in the company. Alhaji Indimi hails from Niger State.

Oriental Energy Resources Limited runs three oil blocks: OML 115, the Okwok field and the Ebok field. OML 115 and Okwo are OML PSC, while Ebok is an OML JV. All of them crown offshore oil blocks. OML 115 on its own is 228 sqKm. On OML115 Oriental Energy Resources Limited has 60 per cent while Equity Energy Resources AS, which Alhjai Aliko Dangote’s oil and gas investment vehicle has 40 per cent (Aliko Dangote is from Kano). On Okwok, Addax has 40% and on the Ebok field, Oriental Energy Resources shares with none: its 100%. AMNI produces twice as much as Cavendish Petroleum.

Enter Express Petroleum and Gas Limited floated by Alhaji Aminu Dantata, solely for the purpose of fronting for winning oil block(s) even though he and the company are in no way qualified for the award. General Abacha awarded him OML 108 on the 1st of November, 1995. CAMAC Houston, a company owned by Kase Lawal bought 2.5% of Express Petroleum’s 60% holdings. The other 40% on OML 108 is owned Sheba E&P Limited an IBB tributary company. SEPCOL operates the Ukpokiti offshore field in Shallow water Nigeria, which was acquired from ConocoPhillips in May 2004.

Enter Shebah Exploration And Production Limited (SEPCOL) . It is the operator of the Oil Mining License 108 offshore Nigeria. Head office is in Lagos, but ‘head quartered’ in Minna.

Enter Consolidated Oil. Conoil Producing Limited is an integrated upstream oil and gas company. They are the operator of six blocks in the Niger Delta as well as 25% Equity holder in the Joint Development Zone (JDZ) Block 4. Corporate Head office is in Lagos, but its ‘Headquarters’ is in Minna, Niger State.

Conoil signed a technical operator agreement with Continental Oil and Gas Limited (CONOG) to provide 100% funding and technical service agreement to operate blocks OML 59 on a 40% (Conoil) / 60% (CONOG) basis. Conoil entered into a Production Sharing Contract with the NNPC by virtue of an agreement executed on 17th October 2008.

Conoil’s has overall potential hydrocarbon resources of over 1.0 Billion Barrels of Oil and 7.0 Trillion Cubic Feet of Gas. General Ibrahim Babangida awarded the first oil block to Conoil in 1991. The company produces about 100,000 barrels per day.

Enter Rilwanu Lukman, another Fulani multimillionaire with fronted controlling holdings in Afren, the operators of AMNI oil blocks and also with very key interest in the NNPC/Vitol trading deal, Vitol is a London based oil trading company. Vitol lifts 350,000 barrels of crude oil daily from Nigeria.

Enter Intels and the Yar’Adua , Ado Bayero family and [size=14pt]Alhaji Abubakar Atiku.[/size] The Oil and Gas Free Zone and Oil Services Centres, as well as Support Bases, are operated from government-owned facilities, leased to Intels under long-term agreements. Intels runs a ‘private port’, a venture that has systematically killed the Calabar, Warri and Port Harcourt ports. There are over one hundred major companies operating at the Intel facility in Port Harcourt. The company makes more money in profit than the government of Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta states put together. I shall give details and figures in the part two of this disquisition.

Finally, for the Part I of this disquisition, I introduce you to NorthEast Petroleum. The name is as clear as the message it sends. I do not need to write so much about NorthEast Petroleum registered as NorEast. NorthEast Petroleum Nigeria Limited is the holder of OPL215 license, covering an area 0f 2,564 square kilometres in water depths between 200 to 1600 metres. NorEast is the parent company of Rayflosh Petroleum Nigeria which got the 2005 bidding round and was awarded the blocks OPLs 276 & 283 closing thereupon a Joint Venture Agreement with Centrica Resources Nigeria Limited and CCC Oil and Gas.

Not surprising, NorthEast Petroleum is owned by another Fulani businessman from the North East, Alhaji Saleh Mohammed Jambo. The license was awarded to him by General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida in 1991 and then renewed in 2004. So far $50Million has been spent on the very promising Okpoi-1 and Egere -1 exploratory well.
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In the Part II, we shall finish the discussion. We will table other North Eastern billionaires who make more money than their states of origin from Niger Delta oil blocks.

With all these oil blocks owned by ‘North- Easterners’ in the Niger Delta, it should be clear to Elrufai and Sanusi who really benefits from the Niger Delta Amnesty Programme.

Sadly, National Bureau of Statistics reports from 2010 show Niger State as the poorest state in the Federation, and the North East the poorest region.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/35947-nigerias-poverty-level-rises-hits-715-sokoto-niger-top-list-of-poorest-states.

With these figures from the National Bureau of Statistics, I rest my case.

Written By Ross Alabo-George
imaginasion@gmail.com

http://thewillnigeria.com/opinion/12652-DEPRIVATION-DERIVATION-PRINCIPLES-WHY-THE-NORTH-POOR.html

Is that Mansion in Nigeria? Anyways just look at how the resources meant for millions are enjoyed by very few.

Oh my God!!!

Oil block AWARDED. SMH

General Theo Danjuma earlier confessed about his $1 Billion dollar (and counting) oil block. He didn't even know what to do with the money.

How many people did Abacha award oil blocks to sef ??

This is insane.  . . . .!!Gawd, can't stop reading and looking at the pix.

ilugunboy:

This is insane.  . . . .!!Gawd, can't stop reading and looking at the pix.

Just understand when looking at those pics that you are seeing real gold. I keep saying the richest man in the World is not Bill Gates, but a Nigerian.
In the midst of such oppulence we find almajiri's and boko haram.

Chai, this headline should read "How the North violated Nigeria to death". I can't believe the entire Niger Delta has aready been allocated to Boko Haram progenitors. Where was my father when Nigeria was being shared? 

Beaf:

Just understand when looking at those pics that you are seeing real gold. I keep saying the richest man in the World is not Bill Gates, but a Nigerian.
In the midst of such oppulence we find almajiri's and boko haram.

Yes you are right, the richest men in the world are Nigerian elites

Start from Northern governors to their southern counterparts

From borno former governor to Lagos state former governor

From Kano former governor to Delta former governor

Alams, El-rufia, GEJ, OBJ, IBB, Ibori etc you name them

Revolution on the way.  

Meehn, this is so heartbreaking and so many children in that region are growing up with physical deprivations and desperate wants. This Hausa/Fulani really contributed a lot in putting Nigeria in the mess we are now. No wonder they always want to be in power and doing everything humanly possible to destabilize GEJ's administration.

I wonder how much they have doled out to Sanusi whom they are using as a tool for their propaganda. This goes to show that these mallams do not care for their own people, let alone Nigerians at large. Their "divide and rule" mechanism has really worked for them.

These are one of the things that make me wish we had our Biafra. Cos this is wickedness personified.

Nyc article but so many errorz.The writer was not able to differenciate the north from the northeast.These business men should not be blame for the poverty of the north,people like Indimi and mai dericbe struggled to be rich.THE STATE GOVERNORZ ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE

God help this country. So sad. I feel like crying but i won't cry.

The house is in maiduguri the family house of Alhaji Mai Deribe almost 10hectares.The house was commissioned in 1991 by IBB

The wonderful thing about this life is that TRUTH WILL ALWAYS COME OUT! Now with more information, we can see the treachery of the aristocrats in Nigeria

freegaza:

The house is in maiduguri the family house of Alhaji Mai Deribe almost 10hectares.The house was commissioned in 1991 by IBB

i remember seeing the house on ovation magazine some years back.
that house is massive - i think it was mentioned they spend around 5 million naira to clean the house monthly as at then.
feck knows how much maintenance that place gulps per month in these days of 97 naira per litre.

ambitious single men on this forum can hit my cell if you want the digits of mai deribe's daughter(mabruka)
she's based in abuja and she's still very single.
below is her pic.

Beaf:

Just understand when looking at those pics that you are seeing real gold. I keep saying the richest man in the World is not Bill Gates, but a Nigerian.
In the midst of such oppulence we find almajiri's and boko haram.

Yes I know, I schooled in Unimaid. . . . .funny things we were much brighter than their kids back them in school. . . .though they dont need the certificate anyway as they all ended in the family business.

BTW . . . .Indimi is a Kanuri from Maiduguri and not as erroneously posted in the article as coming from Niger. His house occupies acres and acres of land.

Ever heard of M&W Pumps? The M stands for Mohammed (Indimi) while the W stands for Williams (Bush). The families are long time business partners.

JESUS HAVE MERCY!
WHAT ARE THEY DOING WITH THE PETRO DOLLARS?
AND SANUSI IS AWARE OF ALL THIS, YET HE STILL MOVES AROUND TALKING TRASH? NOW I KNOW  WHY IBB WILL GO TO WAR TO KEEP NIGERIA ONE.
NO FURTHER COMMENTS.

@Beaf

GOD BLESS YOU FOR THIS EYE-OPENING FACTS. I CAN SEE WHY THE NEXT ELECTION WILL BE A DO OR DIE AFFAIR

Thanks to Adaka Boro, job well done.
Your wish is our command, One Nigeria.

Totally Speechless , BTW it will be interesting to see what Okija juju has to say about this, enjoy reading his posts.

Thank you beaf for all the explanation and the fact you had the courtesy to be mild with Buhari on this.You know what is even most annoying they keep sending there children to school abroad to come back as drug addicts and add not a single value in return to the society they owe all this.Today na there children take cough syrup and weed pass people.SO arrogant and useless to the average sane society.In a mosque i attended the Imam even suggest they stop wasting money sending there wards outside the country to only bring back shame to the nation.It is better they offer the excess monies as charity and allow there children school here in Nigeria.
Don't worry its just matter of time.About the resource control issue.I remain firm about it.Forget this stupid people and let them develop the north and then if they want steal from her own internally generated revenue than keep the north comatose and salivate every now and then over oyel allocations.

This is a fact exposing piece of the few nigerian capitalist and exploiters. But dont let us be sentimental here, same thing goes to the south. It's not only the northern elites that has marginalised their people, we have as many as possible of those too in the south.
An average nigerian is greedy, a glutton and parochial.

My follow Nigerian, SHINE YOUR EYE AND PRAY OH, because THIS COUNTRY WILL CATCH FIRE ONE DAY

And not to mention that part of the petro-dollar loot was used to educate d underwear bomber.

This makes me very angry. Look at how these Northern elites live, but their people only target poor and innocent Southerners.

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OMG! THIS IS D REASON WHY D ELITE CREATED ALL THESE MEND, BOKOHARAM, OPC ETC. NO WONDER WE IN D NORTH HAVE BEEN RENDERED COMATOSE BY ENSURING WE DO NOT GET D QUALITY EDUCATION AND QUALITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOTH PRIMARY & SECONDARY SO DAT WE REMAIN PERPETUALLY HALF BRED IN TERMS OF EDUCATION AND EXPOSURE - AND D DEVILISH OF ALL D ISLAMIC KNOWLEDGE WE ARE GETTING TO LEAD US MORALLY AND SPIRITUALLY HAS BEEN ATTACKED BY NAIRA MALLAMS & D ELITE CREATING DISCORD AND DISUNITY THEREBY RESULTING IN SUCH REACTIONARY GROUPS SUCH AS BOKO HARAM ETC. HOW VULGAR OF U D ELITE!

[size=16pt]JESUS CHRIST!! IS THIS FOR REAL OR IS NL BEEN HIJACKED BY VIRUS   [/size]

DO YOU KNOW THAT IBB ALONE CAN FEED THE WHOLE PEOPLE IN MY VILLAGE FROM NOW TILL DECEMBER WITH N150 EVERYDAY.

NIGERIA AND PEOPLE OF ND HAVE BEEN R, APED IN BROAD DAY LIGHT!! Infact people of ND should start their kidnapping afresh pls! they deserve 50% not 13%  

AND HAVE ANYONE FORGOTTEN BABANGIDA'S MINNA HILLTOP MANSION. HERE ARE PICTURES FROM NAIRALAND OF 2007

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-88311.0.html

OMG, So this is what is really happening? I am from the north, but can't believe my eyes what am seing. From now henceforth, i will never blame niger delta people for demanding that niger delta resources be controlled by niger deltans. People are suffering while others are building palaces as there home. My point is even if "some" made that money "legitimately", why can't they invest in there respective states? Enough. I am from the north, but i will say the north has no right, whatsoever to ask for more fg allocation. No person in the north will be poor if these "leaders" invested in there domains. Again, can't believe my eyes.