Saturday, September 1, 2007

Things fall apart

Now Umaru is embarking on a demolition exercise.The monster called NNPC will now be broken up into 5 smaller parts.The committee charged with this humungous responsibility is headed by the C-in-C himself.Does this bring back memories of the last administration?OBJ was petroleum minister for long periods during the last dispensation.
What benefits will accrue from this brave but patently symbolic gesture is left to be seen.One thing is sure though....it doesn't matter how many fragments we break up the NNPC into,something has to be done about the Niger-Delta problem.
Today the curfew in Port-Harcourt has been extended indefinitely.If this does not warrant a state-of-emergency declaration,then i don't know what does.I mean the place looks like Iraq...with corpses littering major streets and masterminds of these criminal gangs,while widely known,still roam free.
A state where the governor does not dare travel in broad daylight on the roads of his own state capital cannot be said to be safe for common citizens...especially when hungry,impoverished and sex-starved federal soldiers roam the streets to enforce a fractious curfew.
Security is an issue nation wide,but few major cities have ever witnessed in their modern history the kind of desolation and fear currently ruling in PH.
I hope the federal government can bring back some semblance of sanity to this once glorious city while they are busying themselves with restructuring the NNPC monster.

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