Preface of Thought
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My heart is saddened by the kind of leaders that are littered around in the political cloud of Nigeria. Leaders whose goal are as existential to remaining in
power than to bring succour to her people. There is no doubt that
neo-liberal economic policies is the thrust of governance at all level in
Nigeria. The reason privatisation, commercialisation, outsourcisation,
Private Public Partnership (PPP) are trending in all sectors of the
economy.
Privatisation for the benefit of government
"Gusto's" is the selling of public properties or better put the Heritage
of the country to group of private profiteers with the aim of reducing
burden and increasing wealth (that will later be stole by Polithivians)
of the State via reduction of investment in the sector been privatised.
For emphasis, the sold Heritage would be in the hands of these few, run
as private business for private profit. It is needless to say that the
interest of any private business is huge profits at the expense of the
people.
Privatisation is a new word in the political lexicon of the West
(IMF/World Bank) and their aim is the continuous colonisation of the
Black Race. We must understand that it is a shiftsim from Structural Adjustment Programme
(SAP) introduced during IBB's regime.
What this West does is to
identify with few criminals who lack the capacity to run the affairs of a
State, or business men who can assist them in selling their capitalist
ideas. These class of people I call them "Comprador Elements". A
Portuguese word for "Buyer". What they do is to infiltrate the political
parties we have either for political positions or to be friends of
polithivians in order to be closer to power, so as to carry out the biding of their pay masters (America
and Britain).
These characteristics are not fortuitous; they
correspond strictly to the nature of capitalist system, which transfers
to the dependent countries the most abusive and barefaced forms of
exploitations.
Albeit all this existential of privatisation of
public heritage, nobody would ever thought that our public educational
institutions like primary and secondary school will one day be put up
for Going! Going!! Gone! Something synonymous to auction, bazaar or
harvest where product are been sold.
But this came up as a rude
shock when it became a truism that Oyo State has put up for sale public
primary and secondary schools.
As condemnable as this act is,
there seems to be a general complacence by some sections of the state. This arises due to varied view that is peddled by the governor. Governor Ajimobi has said that he
wants to return schools to the Missionaries, in another instance he said he only wants to sell 13 out of the 636 schools in the state because
of dwindling economy.
I want to state categorically, that the so
called missionaries are not different from the polithivians that we
criticise daily. Private institutions like Babcock Uni owned by Seventh
Day Adventist Church, Redeemers Uni owned by RCCG, Covenant Uni owned by
Winners Chapel just to mention but few, pay school fees ranging from
600, 000 Naira to 1.2Milion Naira. These Missionary homes take our
tithe, first fruit, building levy, good will levy etc, yet the poor
congregation cannot afford to take their children to those schools.
When a government cannot provide basic social amenities like education,
water, electricity, transportation, roads, security, shelter etc., for
the people, except when they would make private profits from it, then the government ought to be disbanded. Now,
education has been put up for sale. Why then do we have governments? It
seems governments has lost it pedigree in this part of the world.
The people are already tensed and agitative, the governor need to rescind this obnoxious policy to avoid anarchy or implosion.
