Olusegun Obasanjo on Frost Over the World
Posted March 24, 2009 · Charles O
Placing aside for a moment Obasanjo’s colossal failure in setting Nigeria on the right trajectory at the commencement of the fourth republic, his pronouncement (Frost Over the World interview, below) that the Niger Delta unrest is a criminal issue rather than a political one is not only immensely offensive, it betrays the fact that the man just does not have a grasp of the situation.
How can a man who has been president on two occasions, two decades apart, not fully understand the underlying political issues that are the root causes of the current instability in the Niger Delta? How could he ever so carelessly transpose the criminality of a handful of opportunistic kidnappings and bunkering onto an entirely legitimate political agitation?
Perhaps if he had directed more of the revenues from oil to the development of the areas from whence those revenues derived, while he was President and Federal Minister of Petroleum, the Niger Delta unrest might have dissipated by now!
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