THE RAW NAKED TRUTH SERIES
THE PROTESTS HAVE NOT Yet HAPPENED
Everyone knows that I am not interested in Political Power and I do not engage in partisan politics, nor do i chase clout or trends, that is why i waited till the noise has passed to give my take on the little wind that Nigeria barely avoided.
Fri.August.23.2024 - Ubochi orie
I write this article as a warning to the elite who "think" they run this society, so that they do not ruin us all, along with themselves.
Our people are hungry period! And there are too many of them for any army to contain and you have split them so terribly apart that if the seams come apart, this nation will be unrecognizable.
May it never come to pass, may your ends come before you destroy us and the beauty that this nation and its people can be, for themselves, other Nigerians, Africans, The Black world and the World at large.
I spit on your graves and wish you, exactly something befitting of the conditions that you have put my people in. May you in your next life return an Average Nigerian, unfortunately though, if our dreams materialize a Nigerian then, would not be a punishment, as it is now, in your time.
and so shall it be. Ise!
INTRODUCTIONS
The Protests of August 1st 2024 in Nigeria was not a protest, it was a minor show, a preview, a warning shot from a gun filled with blanks. If Nigeria and its "rulers" are not careful, a protest is coming.
Many people think that what happened in Bangladesh cannot happen in Nigeria, I agree, Nigerians if they ever arise will do much greater damage than in any revolution that has ever been televised.
May it never come to pass.
The protests of August 1st 2024, tagged the 10 Day Hunger Protest was a nice try but was lacking in some of the important conditions for a truly revolutionary protest. it lacked charismatic leadership, credible organization, univeral demands and the spontaneous combustion of genuine anger.
Many wanted to know if I supported the protests. No. Not because I was against the notion of protests, nor did i feel that Nigeria is not ripe for protest but because having analyzed its foundations, I knew that it would not yield results and if it did, it would be the same kinds of politized settlements that nullify every gain with its concessionary approach and in the inverse, it could have been a chaotic situation, where no resolutions could be reached, as there was clearly no one to reach the resolutions with.
Nigerians are hungry, yes, but past hunger they are angry and these protests were much too sane for popular adoption. And much too clandestine for organized mobilization or concrete people focused Agreements. Worse than the current bazaar of idiocy that rules Nigeria today, would be a random handover to unvetted caretakers or military incompetence, ruling a people, it cannot now merely protect.
The next round of protests, if they are allowed to happen (and I do not mean permitted), will be mad.
May they never happen. Not because I support the government in power, especially at the federal level.
I for one still consider them a fraud, a rape of democracy, a theft of common wealth, an intolerable reminder of my own current inability to rescue my people from the peasants who command our ancient stools and the mediocre Colonial pests that loiter our political offices and civil services.
My reservations are not in favour of the government in power but In fear of the possibilities, if the desperations of an angry population is ever given the weight of a viral movement, where clear leadership is in question. In such an instance, Nigeria may very well burn and that is a scary idea but it is also nothing less than "The Raw Naked Truth".
DANGOTE
Dangote, Bill Gates and Bola Ahmed Tinubu, After his assumption of office as President of Nigeria.
Many in government may not understand why an issue involving Dangote, the "richest man" in Africa would rile up the poor masses of Nigeria.
There are many reasons but let me give them to you in summary.
The sufferings of Alhaji Aliko Mohammad Dangote, a wealthy Businessman, Political Aficionado, Part of the Dantata Legacy, Supreme Son of the Hausa tribe and a respected member of the Kano elite exposed to Nigerians their powerlessness against the present rot and "rulers" of Nigeria.
If even Dangote can be so mishandled, they imagined, then all hope is lost, this country is going down and those who can jump out will flea and those who can not will fight with their last breate for some reprieve. Left with no hope in the government, the people now fully recognize that hope is only "through the Government", but this protest was not their response.
They have not ignited, they are merely smoldering in quiet anger and timed submission, waiting not for hope of a change but for hope that the government can be made to fall, break, burn, anything but stay.
For most Nigerians, pre 2024, the Dangote Refinery was a crude joke that they believed will never materialize. They believed that the Buhari administration was using it as a cover for incompetence and to prolong the fuel subsidy regime while tricking Nigerians with the hope of its removal. When in 2024 it became clear that the refinery was actually built and could function and seeing the clear results of its productions in the reduction of the price of diesel, they had hope that the same positive impacts will come to Petroleum Fuel and when this hope was dashed they were angry but not yet enraged.
The rage came when Dangote started talking and it became clear that he too was powerless, that he was not party to the joke being played and that the joke was being played on all of us, including our most powerful and loyal citizens, the rare players like AirPeace and now Dangote who we believe are actually good Nigerians.
If the best of us, at the highest levels of society, are locked out of economic success and a chance to help those at the lower end, then truely all hope is lost, and without hope, the next best thing is desperation. Added to anger, hunger and death, Desperation is a rampant release of fuel on the floors of the Nigerian society by political socio-paths who in the quest to match our Dangote's are auditioning for a general destruction of the Nigerian society.
with every new news of excellent industrial grade pillage of a society, where the people can barely eat and those who dare to feed them are now victims of the Peasants who rule in planes, a people who cannot even afford to walk on plains, lacking basic nutritional energy for road side parole, while small boys who thugged their societies pass by in flashy, reflective japanese plastic, moving in convoys as if driving a car is now a crime - they are testing us.
in a nation divided around religion, tribe and Politics, in the Absence of hope we are united in Desperation and that Desperation if allowed to fester, will consume our nation, because after we have started to react, we will remember our divides and start to pick sides and in the midst of a riot the sides are not clear. This is called Libya, may it never happen to Nigeria.
SUBSIDY
the problem did not start with Dangote and he is neither to blame nor a sufficient reference of the degree of the intolerable nature of the mismanagement of the Nigerian society.
The most perfect example is the fraud called "The Removal of Fuel Subsidy", which is turning out to be much more expensive than the fuel subsidy itself. In fact the Federal government of Nigeria now pays more to subsidize fuel now that the subsidy is gone than it ever did when the subsidy existed. This while Nigerians now pay 5 + times the costs in transportation and 4 + times the cost in fuel.
The corruption of the present regime is so resounding that one cannot even account for what is lost because while we see that there is no money in the account, we do not actually have a record of how it was spent. The present dispensation in Nigeria is so terrible, that it does not even realize that we are aware. It is so insitue with its tapping of the leaks it has created that it has no view of its citizens amassing at the top of the barrel, matches in hand, ready to blow its mouth off.
In removing subsidy Nigeria should have gained the ability to save ₦1tillion per month, here is what that translates to in possible palliatives, per annum.
1. 3,125 Luxury Interstate Buses,
2. 6,250 Innercity Mass transit Buses,
3. 1,250 CNG Fueling Stations,
4. 6,250,000 Bicycles,
5. Comprehensive Solar Power for all Government univerities in Nigeria, State and Federal, Private (625)
6. Increase the Salary of the Police (other non military Security Services) to N200,000 minimum with the condition of retraining and adherence to a new code of conducts,
7. Increase the Salary of the Military to N350,000 minimum with similar conditions to the Police,
8. Increase our road network by 500 kilometers of highway per annum (6 lanes),
9. Secure the core farming communities in Plateau, Niger and Benue States alone,
10. Speed up goods discharge at Tincan Island Port,
11. Start up a farming Equipment leasing company with spread across all 36 states, with 744 offices and
12. Keep the change.
This list is not either or, it is all of the above, the total Possibilities for the sane use of N12trillion and I can defend it with a broken calculator, any day of the week.
In the absence of these Palliatives, we suspect you all of being Thieves and the evidence is clear, while you claim to have removed subsidy, you continue to borrow funds and give out crude, claiming that it had been paid for - to whom, for whom? because our people are dying of hunger.
In the midst of this mess, NNPC declares a profit, non of which registers in the Federation Account. Charades, games that men play, which should not be played near the lighting fuse that is the current conditions of the Nigerian Family, where mother and Father, after a hard days work cannot subsidize a nice size meal for a mere family of 4 - What does it Profit a Nation to have an NNPC and be limited on food?, what subsidy is fuel, when a man is dying for simple lack of food?
Worse still, we can neither feel the subsidy, no have you admitted, that it exists. In our view, the word only exists to subsidize corruption and package your stealing as a service to the people.
MINIMUM WAGE
in a repetition of the sabotage of the saboteur council that is called the Nigerian labour movement, somebody accepted ₦70,000 as national Minimum Wage, ₦70,000 that i have been beating as a private enterprise since 2022. What madness? Why is a State that does not comply with laws, issue national wage bills to private enterprises that already beat their compensation packages? And why is it hiding under saving small businesses to pay a wage that is less than the wage value 24 years ago?
To understand why ₦70,000 is so poor let us pair some basic facts.
In 2011, the minimum wage was raised by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to ₦18,000, here were the metrics;
Minimum Wage ₦18,000 | $100 = ₦15,700 | bag of Rice ₦8,000 | 100 Tubers of Yam ₦20,000
In 2019, the minimum wage was raised by President Mohammadu Buhari to ₦30,000, here were the metrics;
Both of these former governments had fuel subsidy to contend with. In 2024 and without the adverse expenditures on subsidy the government of Bola Ahmed Tinubu (my failure to add president is intentional), introduced a ₦70,000 minimum wage, here are the metrics;
Minimum Wage ₦70,000 | $100 = ₦160,000 | bag of Rice ₦85,000 | 100 Tubers of Yam ₦250,000
Who exactly, is fooling who?, and we are not entertained by this bafoonery, it risks at all points that one little fuse finds a match and our beloved country falls to this bad composition of wicked music.
ROAD SAFETY
In a miraculous set of negative circumstances Nigeria is now less safe than at the height of the Boko Haram "Insurgency", Niger Delta Militancy and the days before ATM Cards when men travelled with their networth in their waist band.
A high majority of Air travellers in Nigeria cannot afford it, they risk hunger and empty fuel tanks in order to get to their destinations in one piece. Some of them are severly afraid of flights but the fear of kidnapping is the beginning of wisdom.
Nigeria is my home and I love it, but it is now a terrible place to live and the present administration of both Federal, State, Local Government, Traditional Rulers, Religious Leaders and Civil Servants are to blame. But the leadership at the top and the criminal body language that permits it all is strictly the preserve of the Federal Government which controls the Army, Police and all other vestiges of security architecture and investigative apparatuses.
The propergation of crime in nigeria, especially violent crime is not only supported by the Federal Government, it is sponsored by the security agencies, because if a kidnap victim cannot even confidently report his ordeal to the Police, then is the Police not a direct cause of insecurity?
In Nigeria today, if a man is being robbed in his home, he can neither trust himself to call the Police nor Army, unless he has a brother in the force.
is this not the height of insecurity?, wherefore the cost of inviting the Police to investigate a crime against you, often costs more than the crime itself and if the thief is powerful enough, might lead to your own arrest and embarrassment.
Again, I challenge the state to contest this, and i can proove it on personal experience alone and am sure that average Nigerians do not need my proof, they have already voted me right with the drastic reduction in road travel in Nigeria and their own personal experience (armed with less resources than i have) are proberbly much better proof of Nigeria's security degredation than my airconditioned versions.
As a direct result of insecurity, Nigerians now conduct traditional marriages in the City, have become more amenable to the idea of a Cemetary, have Learn'd to skip traditional Holidays and are now more Separated between City and Rural life, than ever before.
Maybe all of this is intentional and someone is trying to socialize us to alien norms, but I doubt it, this administration is not organized enough for even adverse social engineering, yet somehow, it thinks it can manage protests and probably thinks that it won the last round - it did not, Nigeria did - by sheer luck.
I now hope they take the lesson and begin to share the monies that they have stolen in half, so that Nigerians can at least share the rest, else, i do not want to imagine what real protests would look like and I am sure that they have not taken their mouth off the pipe (with which they are sucking us dry), long enough to smell the fuel that is leaking out of their incompetence, waiting for a little trigger - for the boom.
may it never come to pass.
INEC
Couldn't Mahmood been paid off and sent away? Why must you treat Nigerians as if they are "helpless" fools?
Nigerians very well know that a joke is being played on them but I do not understand why the present administration does not understand that it must not be so obvious.
Before you attack me with my tribe, let me make it clear, I am a proud Igbo man, but I am not an Obidient. This is not another Peter Obi supporter yelling in anger. I am not a Biafran, this is not another Nnamdi Kanu follower crying for a split. This is a proud, successful Nigerian, who is a benefactor of the status quo, who refuses to be complicit in the nonsense that we are feeding our people, as opposed to the food that they look to us for.
Every Nigerian, including those who "won" knows that the last election was not free, was not credible and the results till date cannot be used to teach primary school mathematics because it does not add up, no matter the condition of the calculator in use.
Fire Mahmood, Retire Mele Kyari and here is the one that gets the DSS disturbing my peaceful life, Resign... However, if you choose to stay on the seat do something to show that the election you Grabbed, Snatched and Ran with, was worth it.
And here are the very simple things you can do, without touching any of the monies that have already been stolen.
1. Don't take more,
2. Allow Dangote, BUA, Waltersmith and the NNPC Refineries to function,
3. Sell the NIPP Power Plants to any people who will setup industries around them and power the States in tow,
4. Sell Ajaokuta Steel Mill to someone who will give us just the ore and Ingots,
5. Share the equivalent of the national Assembly Budget to Students of all Universities in equal amounts,
6. In ₦11trillion, use the list above to Ameliorate the suffering of our people.
7. Keep the ₦1trillion that you have left, we won't miss it, nor bother you, and am sure that you can not finish it on food, so why would you want to grab the amount that will keep the rest of us from eating?
Of course if you did these, the Governors and the National Assembly may gang up against you and try to impeach you, but I can assure you that they won't be able to if you did these. And I will personally immolate myself in front of their assembly for your cause.
If you are worried about how you will be the richest man in Nigeria after doing all of this, don't worry, you were never going to be the richest man in Nigeria because all of the men moving bags for you, are planning on keeping them for themselves. Let them keep some and keep a legacy as the real Jagaban of Nigeria.
CURRENCY
Even I know better than to talk about currency, it is a topic that can get even the most escorted persons shot and even Presidents are not immune to the extra territorial reach of the U.S Federal Government and its many clandestine entities and agents across the world. Even I are well aware of their activities as a direct recipient of their interventions but this article Series is called the Raw Naked Truth for a reason, not just so that you know that it is uncensored but also so that I remember, not to filter.
Here is the filth we all know but never speak in public. Most of you are puppets of the American led western order and those who are not, are so tightly wound by the prison of your weird and illicit pasts and present corruptions that you cannot risk going against Western fiats that are ruinous to your own people and your personal legacy.
How can an African leader listen to the I.M.F or World Bank? is that person oblivious to the entire history of their wickedness in times of trouble, across Africa, Asia and the World?
How can a country with poor savings keep its lot in Dollars, stacked abroad and inflating it own economy by pegging lending at 20+ percent, thereby permanenting the lack of industrial production and securing its place as a slave of importations?
How can someone tell me that Nigeria has already sold the very oil it cannot articulately pump to meet OPEC quotas? Who but the most shady dealers will buy on credit, that which cannot be delivered even when paid in cash, except someone who is in on something all of us are oblivious to?
How can the giant of Africa be borrowing more now with Oil at $85 on a ₦1,600 exchange rate, that is ₦136,000 per Barrel verse the 2022 average of $100 at ₦461.6 or N46,160 per barrel and 2019 average when oil was at $56.95 with naira at ₦420 or ₦23,919 per barrel?
How can senators, House Member and Governors, governing an inflating economy buy vehicles that are a 100% export of over $100,000 per person, while boasting of a local Automotive Manufacturing masterplan?
How can a President of a nation in auterity but a brand new Airbus Jet, A yaght, A Vice Presidential Villa and many more appurtuencies of luxury self agrandazing advertisment, without shame or fear for the consequences of the hungry masses he will be flying over and driving past?
Do you know that if Nigeria condemed just one oil block and burn't the crude raw, it can provide power for 20,000 megawatts of electricity, 4 times the currently claimed power production, which we all never see at the meter?
In a country reeling under the pressures of currency depression, you continue to spend in dollar, ignore naira solutions and Heil Hitler to the Hegemonic powers and corporate overlords that superintend the global subjugation of our people, mines, minerals, common wealth and purchasing power. Aiding the erosion of our purchasing power and hoping that our ever growing list of brothers and sister in Diaspora can cover your waste with their charity.
At some point the people may loose interests in Visa's, or so many may go that the countries refuse to take more... the remainder, teeming youth with wild ideas, may not be something that can be bought to stay calm and may lead the next round of the storm.
may it not come to pass.
WORK
What the f^^k is this? Work? For what kind of animal - Nigerians?
An idle mind is the devils workshop and you have not observed the degree to which we have time to talk to this guy.
The last time i drove past Apo, towards the mechanic village in Abuja, it was around Ramadan and I observed the volume of young people surrounding each set of rams for sale. It seemed to be one Ram per person.
The same waste of human resources can be seem across every market in Nigeria and even in Hotels and Schools etc.
Nigeria's are Jobless and the few jobs that exist pay so little that they can best be described as volunteer positions with transport allowance.
We desperately need an industrial revolution and if it doesn't beat youth desperation, a small protest might turn into a real revolution.
As Nigeria keeps its Political games of who is fooling who, the kids at home do not know who is the fool between them and the ones at work. When a full grown man is expected to work and guard a bank for ₦50,000 a month, the question becomes whether he likes his life and whether the bank values its money. How can such a hungry man pay attention on a 12 hour shift?
In a hotel, where people pay ₦50,000 a night just to sleep away the stress of real work or stay awake with young darlings as righteous compensation, a young waiter is expected to give customer service on a ₦20,000 salary, an amount that cannot even allow him to host his girlfriend to a date in a fast food restaurant, a girl friend whose shadows he sees in the hallways of hotels.
At the right moment, one wrong action can propel our teaming volumes of unemployed, under employed and maltreated youths to the street and in their euforia, they may very well forget the object of their fight and clash with everything that resembles wealth, every memory of the pains and sufferings, both real and imagined, that they credit to their poverty that currently envelopes them.
We are sitting on a keg of gunpowder, in a warehouse of fuel, near a gas plant, woe betied all of us, if by accident, lighting strikes these fools that are smoking the cigarette of impundent bad leadership near the fuse of youth who are jobless, hopeless and now have the concentrated dry fasting of hunger to enable an electric transmission of any currents that touch the fuse.
one bad news, on a bad day, that moves men to the streets in frustration, anger or quarrel, best called Protest, may well go viral not because it is trending on social media, but because it is clear that what is happening to Nigeria from that moment on, is a virus and the country may well die of this disease.
May you all die first, before you kill us, alternatively quit and in the rare chance that it is possible, do all of the above basic things prelisted to rescue yourselves and all of us.
ELSE HERE IS THE RAW NAKED TRUTH
Nigerians are Hungry, Angry and Incensed, given the chance they will tear through you, just to a make a point, what happened on August 1st was not a protest. It was a well managed show that you were able to play to your side and tame to subside.
If another one happens, it will be 100% your fault and it will give you no warning and no chance to subside.
May it never come to pass - May you redeem yourself or 1st come to pass.
if Nigeria continues down the road that it is currently on, at some point it is bound to make a wrong turn down a road that may rupture the fuel tank, releasing the potent dose of a youth dejected, adults incensed and a wild explosion triggered by the incandescent lanterns of Religious bigotry, Tribal Intolerance and the combined challenge that in the midst of such divisions, even when our common challenge is bread, there may be no common ground that can unit the slice once the cut is made.
May those who risk this, be derisked by mass consciousness, civil revolt and the conscious investment of all who believe in Nigeria in ensuring hope for our youth, of a future in this nation, regardless of the cost and whose Ox is gored.
The Raw Naked truth is that if this nation combusts, no extinguishers exist in the Villa or Police commands, that can manage the flames of a complete generation of hopelessness, seeds of fathers who themselves were already loosing faith in this nation, fathers of Sons who they cannot feed.
Non of us who can eat will be safe and worse still, Neither will the nation called Nigeria have a chance to make it out of the flames, aided by the very divisions that our current leadership is known for and has used on their own opponents in the past.
May it not come to pass, may you reroute or be routed.
for the rest of us, in the words of our ancestors "Arise oh Compatriots".
CONCEPT
THE RAW NAKED TRUTH
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