Premature Sentiments Against the South South of Nigeria

Mr. Pius Adesanmi published an article on 234Next.com dated July 4, 2010 06:44PMT

The article is (here)

that stressed the obvious about some activities of the Goodluck Jonathan Government especially the I plan to spend huge sums of monies on the 50th aniversary of The Federal Republic of Nigeria. 

While I agree with the fact the such huge sums would better serve Nigerians spent on health sector or education,

I don't agree with his sentiments about the generalisation he made about the people of the south south.

I do not know if my comment will be approved on the site or if it will last a day there. by I'm using this opportunity to respond to that sentiment.

So Mr. Pius,

How do you expect him to carry out SUSTAINABLE changes and programs you speak of with such little time(1 year) ?

I mean there are actions like the Petroleum Industry Local Content Bill for starters.
To be honest this is something that will be sustainable and we should look out for more of these or encourage him to embark more sustainable programs to enhance our economy and put us on a sound footing for the future.

There's the Tinapa project that has been bogged down years after the Gov. Dukes Govt left. the project has not taken off. the customs has been used as a tool to hold it down.
We need less white elephant projects and more sustainable systems that enhance our position as a reigion and a country as a whole.

There was the mention of a tech city, which is fine. but only if it's not done and ran by the Government, if the government empowers it's people to do that, then it's sustainable. cause if you take a look at everything the Governemnt has their hand on since Independence, they are all gone bad. a glaring example was our communications before GSM(NITEL), and Ajaokuta, or Delta Steel Compnay, we need less Gov intrusion in little thing like Tech Cities. We need them to build roads or contract Private Orgs to build them with some form of partnership.

Plus you were being mischievous with the statement

"na una dey do una selves. When you had your chance, your son blew it on an owambe party. What did you do to stop him?"

It's not fair to be already engineering the wrong sentiments against people of the south south or do you think it would be right to say the Yoruba/West people looted the nation when Obasanjo was in office ?

You should not generalise like you just did up there. it's un-called for, totally irresponsible, and not fair at all.