CRUDE TEARS OF OIL - Mortgaged beneath the ground

CRUDE TEARS OF OIL  -  Mortgaged beneath the ground

“Weep not my child, with these kisses let me wipe out your tears” – James Ngugi (Ngugi Wationgo).

A nation sweating crude oil, and weeping with painful tears of crude oil rolling down both cheeks like a spoilt, sniveling, over-pampered little brat of the house.

If you didn’t know why the country’s energy crisis lingers endlessly, ask yourself why a president with so much on his executive desk, insists on being also a minister of the crude oil business?

If not to hold the lid down, very tight so no one gets to know the rot beneath.

If you got to know that the country had mortgaged it’s raw, crude oil  under the ground, yet to be drilled, for monies now being used to buy new presidential jet, yatch, VP’s 20 billion residence; to pad the national assembly with individual SUVs, each gulping 160 million, the judiciary and the executive with undeserved comfort in the face of stark, raving mass poverty, then perhaps you might find solace in letting crude, oily, hurtful tears drip from your eyes.

Many politicians on the most wanted list of EFCC for corruption have found their way back into the corridors of power and, Nuhu Ribadu, then head of EFCC has been silenced with a plum job as head of National Security!

A huge cover-up is underway, which can only be suppressed under pressure, subdued by the enormous weight of Mr President alone. No petroleum minister can hold that office for more than 24hrs before the roof caves in.

We understand that the country started selling yet to be extracted crude in the ground under President Buhari. Now Tinubu has to sit on it, keeping the lid down, while the foreign oil drillers sort him out for keeping it down.

No wonder the country has no oil left to supply to Dangote refinery, now that the oil is to be supplied at naira rate! But there was enough supply while it sold to Dangote in dollars.

We’re so much in love with the Dollar. Why not change our local currency to dollars and cents, and stop buying it ? Recall when 1 British pound = 2 Naira? 1 Dollar=1 Naira?

How did we get here? We suspect the African Leadership ‘Vhop and quench” syndrome. Look how lean the world leaders that we borrow money from are, compared to our fat,over-blown, surgical  tommy-tucking policians.

Did you know that not one single Nigerian comes within ten miles of the oil well where crude is sucked out from the ground? It is only what the foreign operators say they have drilled is declared as official. Stamped. Muted. Approved by Mr President. Sealed.

Our heart goes out to Dangote, a patriot who demonstrated love for his country by investing billions of dollars in a modern, sophisticated, automated state-of-the-art refinery in his homeland.

The pity of it, is that our leaders let this man invest so much resources in the business, knowing fully well that the refinery will not be able to function optimally. Such is the depth of rotten, back-handed, heartless, soulless leadership that keeps pulling down the country into perpetual debt.

Dangote refinery is gradually, and forcefully being conscripted into the most thriving multi-trillion dollar business in the country – Not Working Incorporated International.

Dangote is renown for running successful multi-billion dollarbusiness around the world, and here in his home town, he is about to be crunched into another failing corporation, because he dared tangle with a deadly monster, Dangote himself described as the “Oil Mafia”!

Why the long queues, hiked fuel price, no subsidy, yet no fuel? Was this not the heaven promised long long ago?

Good news is that the poor farmer who’s faced with the burdern of preserving unsold tomatoes because the poor masses could not afford to buy, and the rich who are so few cannot eat all the tomatoes in the market, have been forced to relax their hiked prices!

With this “Renewed Hope” let me wipe away your oily tears.

Weep no more.

Keep safe.