If the knuckleheads bombing and sabotaging Nigeria’s infrastructure in the creeks had remembered what I wrote about elite understanding of “progress and development” in Nigeria’s power sector, they would would not have resorted to crime against the Nigerian people and the Nigerian state to “avenge” darkness imposed on them by 8 years of Obasanjo.
The darkness was sustained and amplified for 8 years by their own son, Goodluck Jonathan, whose own mother relied on the benevolence of others for a borehole after her son left office. They are still supporting him despite daily evidence of the financial genocide he wrecked on Nigeria. The least we say about those still campaigning for a future Nigeria in the hands of Diezani, Dasuki, Badeh, Obanikoro, Fani Kayode, and Tompolo, the better.
Just as Jonathan stole billions but did not provide potable water for even his own mother, Olusegun Obasanjo stole and stole and stole until stealing had to appeal to him for amnesty. Yet, he has no road to his own house in Ota. Jonathan has first world infrastructure in his compound in Otuoke. Obasanjo has first world infrastructure in his compound in Ota. Obasanjo stole all the money meant for power under him. Ditto Jonathan. You stupid Creek terrorists, does your bombing affect the first world lives they both live right there in Nigeria under your poverty stricken noses? Yeye baff una!
What links Obasanjo to Jonathan to Buhari is the idea of progress in Aso Rock. Under Obasanjo, the generators powering Aso Rock were not soundproof. By the time Ogbeni Goodluck Jonathan got there, we were in the era of noiseless soundproof Mikano generators and that is how he and Dasuki and Diezani enjoyed 8 years of uninterrupted electricity in the Villa. The light did not blink once to interfere with their daily shipment of dollars in raw cash.
I tell you, the only improvement the villa can make to her Mikano generators under Buhari is to ask the Japanese to invent newer ones that can be suspended in the clouds so that Aso Villa will be powered by generators that are not only silent but also invisible. It doesn’t matter their ethnic, religious, or political differences: this is how the Nigerian elite basically defines progress in the power sector. More silent, less visible, less intrusive Mikano generators in the Villa, in Government House, in their homes.
Then you brainless retards calling yourselves a freedom movement in the creek go about bombing infrastructure. Oho, it will affect Buhari’s electricity supply in the Villa? Is that not why the utterly insipid and intellectually impecunious Femi Adesina brazenly told the Nigerian people to go and catch you folks vandalizing infrastructure in the creeks? What is his own with una when he and his Oga exist in Mikano’s nirvana 24/7?
I am of course not surprised that nobody is bothering to ask Baba and Femi Adesina for any reaction to the Creek bombing. Maybe they have eve reacted. I don’t know. I did not bother to check in with them for a simple reason: whether they react or not is of no moment for their reaction has been deligitimized beforehand by the irresponsible manner in which they handled the terrorism of the Fulani herdsmen until they were literally dragged kicking and screaming to react.
Self-delegitimization in the arena of perception is the worst form of violence a government can inflict on herself. The moment a government allows the perception to spread that she operates from the perspective of an Orwellian ranking of crimes, where some criminals are more equal than others and some crimes of terrorism are more deserving of the government’s heavy hand than others, she loses the capacity to fulfill her fundamental obligation to fight crime for her actions will always appear biased to one segment or the other.
The Buhari administration has extremely serious work to do to reclaim lost ground and lost confidence in this domain. Anybody telling them otherwise or defending them for losing the ground in the first place does not mean well for them. The administration has shown itself as effective as the one before her in the assemblage of pin-headed supporters who privilege fetish loyalty to a man above the fundamental and transcendental obligation of loyalty to Nigeria.
Let’ have a society where crime is crime. Let’s have a society where the punishment fits the crime irrespective of the ethnic, religious, and political provenance of the criminal. If we cannot agree on this minimum, well, yeye baff us before the world.
Credits: Pius Adesanmi
Opinion in this essay is purely the responsibility of the writer.