Societal Keepers Atrocities

The idea of British government compensating atrocious slave owners instead of the slaves for their years of unreciprocated toil and intimidation is tantamount to rewarding a criminal for committing a crime, which is a thunderous blow on the faces of the oppressed slaves and of everyone who functions on equal footing with his or her conscience court. It is a show of shame on the part of a leading body in the new world order to vindicate and compensate criminals while snubbing the victims of their crimes. In my view, we should channel our efforts and emotions towards the sanitization of the altar of our leadership settings instead of demanding compensation from those who enslaved our ancestors and continue to enslave us ideologically. Even if the said compensation is made, our criminal leaders will feast on it. Leaders that borrow without a clear road map to pay back. What a headless horse galloping in the dark in the city of sleeping hollow!

The evil done to us by slave monsters is of a lesser measure in comparison with the ones our criminally minded local leaders are doing to us presently. A harm from a stranger can be assumed, but that from a brother consumes the bone.

Oil theft on the part of the government has been trending in the media. There is no way a huge ship capable of carrying a million barrel of crude oil will enter Nigerian waters without the knowledge of our security body. When the authority authorizes stealing, such a giant ship will not be seen, but a locally made wooden boat carrying 2,000 liters of petroleum product will be set ablaze. Huge oil theft in Nigeria is an organized crime with the support of top players in the government. The collaboration of top keepers of our treasures facilitate the looting of our treasures without pressure. They loot our treasures beyond measure for their pleasures and dish out pressures for the public in a solitary confinement of economic dungeon.

In the oil theft industry, we have the ‘kpo-fire’, the trunk line and the terminal stealing. The ‘kpo-fire’ is the local illegal refinery done by men of few means with high level of negative environmental impact. The trunk lines are being carried out by men of means and connections. They transport stolen crude oil with feeder-barges to mother vessels. While the terminal stealing and high end-balance of trade points are carried out by top players in the government and in the security bodies. ‘Authority stealing’!

‘Kpo-fire’ is portrayed to the public by politicians and security agents as the major threat to the survival of our oil industry while the big thieves, who also are the guardians of our public treasures run their illicit affairs unchallenged. A Divisional Police Officer was accused of being the owner of an illegal refinery spot (Kpo-fire) by the Governor of Rivers State, His Excellency, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike. And he stretched on to accuse Civil Defense officers of leading and protecting oil pipeline vandals.

With the claim of the existence of high standard oil theft dated back to 50 years ago in Nigeria, according to Elder Statesman, Edwin Clark, proved that a pro-people leadership mindset was, and is never in the character of most past and present political and security leaders in the top echelon.

Nigeria as a nation is not poor. It is just that the majority of Nigerians cannot see the evil done by few that hold sway over the successes and the survival of many. Yet, the above majority who can see the evil, heartily want to benefit from it. Even some Churches and Mosques where oil pipeline passed through are culpable of oil pipeline vandalism and oil theft. Nigeria for sale!

“Food for the belly and belly for food, Future shall destroy them both”(Paraphrased).