As the nation grumbles, the elders are fighting dirty over resources in land. That petroleum resources in the Niger Delta belong to the people of the region. While Okogie backs Clark, he faults Obasanjo on resource ownership. Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie faulted Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on the claim that the mineral resources belong to the Federal Government regardless of where they are domiciled in the country.
Energy is life, as we all know it, we all need it. Every single note is needed by Nigerian citizen’s as our main economic survival is dependent on United State dollars, the Oil money which this world’s black gold is sold.
Used for the betterment of their citizens, only few sensible third world and developing nations are ambitious enough and many of which now became world class players in the energy industry. Totally transformed their citizens’ life and their society to be among world best and class using the same energy and abundance of resources.
Transforming it in many ways, rather ironic that energy is wise enough to have started reinventing itself but in our own case, our energy journey which started decades ago is not only seems to be fading us economically but also imperialist logic of many years is still active in few major minds.
But welcome to Nigeria’s squandering world. Maybe it was an accident or a coincidence but who cares in the world headquarters of poverty, where its leaders are no different from looters.
Blunder of epic proportion or what else can such be tagged? While the elders are busy fighting over who owns what in Nigeria, a nationhood of over five decades bedevilled with terrorism and banditry has seventy-five percent poverty population two-third of which are able bodied jobless youths.
Welcome to Nigeria’s squandering world. It may be an accident or a coincidence but who cares in the world of poverty who are leaders and who are looters.
The juxtaposition between keeping in trust and keeping by force and at all unnecessary cost seems to be the main cause of these elders’ fights over the nation’s abundant natural resources, the crude oil.
No hesitation on many easy recollections. While OBJ presided over the final redaction of the nation’s constitution which places control of oil under the control of the government at the centre. Federal Government because what obtains in this country today cannot be honestly described as federalism. And the Niger Deltans are said to be treated like second-class citizens in Nigeria despite producing the oil and gas resources that had sustained the country.
As the nation grumbles, the elders are fighting dirty over resources in land. That petroleum resources in the Niger Delta belong to the people of the region. While Okogie backs Clark, he faults Obasanjo on resource ownership. Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie faulted Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on the claim that the mineral resources belong to the Federal Government regardless of where they are domiciled in the country.
Still anchoring solely on the imperialist logic law, that the land and the people belong to the state may be tenable but unworkable. The Federal Government is the ‘de jure’ owner of the oil, keeping the mineral resources in trust, while the communities where they were sited were the ‘de facto’ owners.
While the owners of the land own whatever is on the land or under the land and to deprive people of that right is to be patently unjust. Arguments are many, to some who anchored theirs solely on law, whereas the answer on the ownership is found in the extant provision of our laws. Causing many more Nigerians to join in the debate to want to know who owns the oil.
Many accused Nigerian leaders to be still under the British colonisation perplexity in 2022 causing not only them with mind boggling issues but also and rattling more than their common-sense.
The British may have conquered the land around the Niger and I believe not the minds of these people except those who sold theirs. Still blaming narratives of British imperialist colonialists in the year 2022, after many military and civil dispensations in the country seems laughable, the elders should think about this.
Whatever declared amalgamation handed over to a state operated are on paper and of course except some few peoples’ minds who are direct beneficiaries of the rottenness that surrounds such imperialist logic.
The inclusion of mineral resources on the Exclusive Legislative List in the 1979 and 1999 Constitutions which effectively legitimises the unjust deprivation to which the people of Nigeria have been subjected for decades.
Solutions to such is in the way we viewed from the geopolitical perspectives of Nigeria of today’s fragile existence federalism cannot claim to hate the people of Niger Delta over there due to resource control agitation.
So bizarre that many find it difficult to believe such. While the land belongs to the people, not to the government, oil in the Niger Delta does not belong to Nigeria, or any state or local governments in that region, but simply belongs to the people of the region.
Justification of outdated imperialist intent of the final redactors of the 1979 Constitution which is still in play. Dubitable denial of reality or lack of deficiency in the system, would cause the Federal Government, who was supposed to only keep the mineral resources in trust, to turn around to ever claim ownership.
Adetunji Ayobrown
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