NGOs HAVE BEEN RECRUITED TO DECIEVE NIGERIAN PEOPLE ABOUT OIL SUBSIDY REMOVAL

Rather than talk to people directly, the Jonathan Government seems to have hired some Nigerian NGOs, some of them have just been created, to market the unpopular plan to increase fuel prices.

Maybe, that's Mr. President's way of creating jobs for the youth, afterall very many of them have been looking for decent jobs without success, so if they chose to have a share, even if very temporary, of the resources allocated to market an unmarketable policy we can only remind them that partaking in any way by any means in any process that will further mortgage our collective future is historically self destructive.

All those who have worked with the oppressor against the people while pretending to be with the people historically end up dumped, rejected by both sides, and eventually destroyed.

The state of the Nigerian economy and education has completely distorted the values that existed up to the early 80s when Ibrahim Babangida invaded campuses and destroyed intellectual discourse through the tactical ban on sympossia, radical campus based organisations and harrassment of radical teachers who were ''teaching what they were not paid to teach''. Even students unionism was not spared. We used to have serious Students Unions, now what exists are Students Union GOVERNMENT with the officials also having Personal Assistants, Special Assistants etc.

I was ashamed listening to one guy who claimed to have been a former President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) at a programme organised by one of such NGOs yesterday in Abuja. He declared his support for ''subsidy'' removal, which is definitely his right, but painfully this former NANS President could not say anything to further convince the audience to support ''subsidy'' removal except telling us that he was with Mr. President the night before. He was as tactless as the organisers.

I wonder why government keeps making the same mistake over and over again each time there are contentious policies eliciting the anger of the citizens. The next thing they do is to hire some empty characters, throw some insulting crumbs at them and fire them unto the streets to deceive people. It has never worked and it will never work. The path of honour and self esteem is to talk to people directly. Why waste public funds on some directionless people who ordinarily should have been engaged in productive and more fulfilling jobs.

We should all be vigilant, and take more time to find out those behind events we are invited to in future.

Is it not a shame that while our government is lying to us about the impossibility of building or even repairing our refineries, neighboring ''poor'' Niger Republic successfully built a state of the art refinery which was commissioned three days ago? President Jonathan was even represented at the commissioning by a Nigerian State Governor.

We simply have a ruling class that is grossly deficient in intellect, inept in governance and crude in corruption. They lack honour and self esteem. Their quest for private accumulation of public property has befuddled their ability to even have some respect for their personal names, which obviously means nothing to them.

They are prepared to steal and steal and steal and get regularly mentioned in the news media as thieves, while they keep roaming about in siren blaring convoys. Absolutely shameless thieves.

How did we get here for God's sake?
We need to keep organising the oppressed for the revolution, which is the only solution that can rescue our country from the grips of these crass, inept, hollow, corrupt, shameless opportunists who, when added up, are just 1% of the Nigerian population.
ARISE, NIGERIANS AND BE PREPARED TO OCCUPY THE STREETS. Chikena!