IF GOWON LOOTED CBN... @TomTugendhat who made an unheard-of accusation that Gowon looted half of CBN was barely 2years old when Gowon was removed in 1975. It was in 1973, the year @TomTugendhat was born, "Gowon gave the original Benin Bronze head to Queen Elizabeth as a gift."
Gowon built 3rd Mainland Bridge up to the Adekunle end and other enduring landmark in Lagos till date. He built Kanji Dam as we know it. But the focus here is about @TomTugendhat pointing us to the veracity of his claims that Gowon looted CBN, if he was 2yrs old when it happened.
If the civil war was fought under Gowon, then only God knows how CBN came about the money Gowon looted. Oil boom started just 2yrs before he was removed and our parents told us he paid UDOJI, which remained an unreplicated good time for Nigeria and Nigerian workers till today.
That Gowon looted CBN is d other side of the coin - UK museums filled with 950 stolen Benin artifacts. @TomTugendhat grandstanding in the parliament with a pub gossip is an indictment on UK. Gowon was exiled in UK after he was removed. Now, we know where to look for his CBN loot.
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FOLLOW THE MONEY
Whatever you start now with ~30 clientele in Lagos, will grow to ~275 clientele in 3yrs at current growth rate. +16million will be added to Nigeria's population by 2023. At least 1.1million of this 16million will be in Lagos. This is d money you are looking for.
An unprecedented 87 Jss1 students were admitted in my school in September. This is November and we are still turning away at least 5 students daily, because we no longer have space. The pandemic is pushing the density equilibrium of trade and services towards lower income band.
If we stick to a school case study, started in a low income area of Lagos, in a purpose built detached building rented at +/-N1million per annum, by 2023 you'll have ~270 students without advertising. After expenses, your income as d school owner will be about N1Million monthly!
NIGERIANS DONT KNOW NIGERIA
Nigeria is not a sachet economy. A fickle-minded few, whose horizon is bounded by d perimeter of their mother's beer parlour will tell u it is. Have u heard about Escravos-Gas-To-Liquid, a rare gas monetization innovation hidden in d creeks of Nigeria?
Gas-to-liquid (GTL) is a new technological innovation that converts natural gas to ultra-pure, sulphur free diesel & naphtha. All over the world, there's currently only two! The first is ORYX GTL, Qatar, the second is Nigeria's Escravos-Gas-To-Liquid (EGTL), operated by Chevron.
Nigeria's GTL combines a slurry phase distillate process called Fischer–Tropsch, a patent technology of Sasol Synfuels, South Africa and Chevron's Isocracking refining technology. The kick-off process is a delicate bombardment of liquid oxygen with natural gas at over a 1000°C.
THINGS WE COULD HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY
Its time to stop making it look like #EndSARS is primarily responsible for the current spate of robbery all around us. The protest is well intentioned, but robbers now gun down bullion van in daylight. This turn of events may consume us all.
Its unlikely there's any living Nigerian who havent received a dose of @PoliceNG madness. But now that we are becoming estranged with many people we share banter with, over a cause that's meant to end police high-handedness; this should make us take a step back in introspection.
That somebody added Rev. Sam Adeyemi's name to a criminal complaint filed in Abuja is like an acute madness to me. The complainant also told the court, rightly so, his investments were burnt. At this point, the people we should dread most are the conspiracy theorists amongst us.
AT LEKKI TOLL GATE
When I offered a few a place to sleep, many of the online propagandists who continually heat up the polity with incitements were tweeting "why ladies?" As small as the offer is, this is what others and churches saw and started asking people to come for shelter.
@UN's Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict stipulates priority protection of women and children. International Committee of Red Cross has its equivalent (30-10-85 article, No. 248) for priority first aid treatment. Its common sense!
Ironically, its women who started querying why women, before men. This is d extent to which many stoking this fury are ignorant and tweeting it from their homes when these people are in peril.
I'm not in Lagos, talk more of being at the place I asked people to run to for shelter.
Dear @Mochievous@fkabudu@mrmacaronii@falzthebahdguy
Nigerians, not just youths, owe u gratitude for pushing issues that have troubled us for ages to d front burner. Unlike spineless keypad warriors, u followed your conviction with affirmative actions, at d risk of your lives.
Now that d outpouring of goodwill from Nigerians towards you is unwavering is also d time you should show astuteness with d peaceful #EndSARS protests. Coalesce your resources, deftness & ideas into helping Govt bring to a halt, violence unleashed by thugs hiding behind #EndSARS
Its dubious for failed presidential aspirants, who want to live their unfulfilled dreams through you to have claimed #EndSARS have no leaders. You are the leaders! Saying otherwise is an old trick, with which they portray you as humble, so as to leave the cockpit empty for them.
#ENDSARS- IN BUHARI'S FAVOUR
The seat of the president isn’t as powerful in a federal democracy as we often think, except d occupier is brazenly tyrant. Buhari's sarcastic emphasis and throat clearing, when announcing d amount NASS appropriated to itself for 2021 buttresses this.
If there's no #EndSARS protest and the arrest of erring policemen are ordered, there would have been conspiracy theories saying it's a move targeted at "Christian" policemen, seeing that many of the policemen accused of being brutal are Christians of southern extraction.
If govt had gone after CSP James Nwafor who was accused of killing one Chijioke Iloanya, there'd have being questions asked about other killer policemen in the West or elsewhere who aren't Igbos. Now it seems #EndSARS is louder than the usual ethnic jingoism or religious bigotry.