Between
1999 and 2017, Aba north and Aba south collectively received a total of N47
billion. Yes, you read it right, (Forty-Seven billion Naira) as part of their
own Federal allocation. This is not part of their own IGR. But go to those two
local government areas today and what you would see will either make you cry or
curse someone or start a fight with anybody out of anger and frustration. Even
the road leading to the best "Ulo Ashawo with umu Asa ri sharp" in
Aba has falling into a state of "amaghi nke emere" or disrepair.
Then,
it might interest you to know that within that same period, Abia state received
a total of N337 billion. Yes you read it right. And if you use both old and new
dollar rates, the money will still remain in dollar as billions.
Unfortunately,
most of the people in these two local government believe that it is those in
Abuja who mismanaged or stole or
misappropriated the money and not their three governors so far- Orji Uzor Kalu,
the idol worshipper TA orji and his boy Dr Okezie Ikpeazu.
Instead,
they would blame Obasanjo who has since retired, or blame Buhari who has
consistently released all due Federal allocations to each state- they don't
blame Yar'Adua and Jonathan because they love those ones and they don't blame
the state governors because "they are their brothers." What nonsense?
But
how can we solve our problems when we eat with those who hate us and then fold
the table before those who love us?
Since
it is not Buhari who failed to develop Aba North and Aba South for example, and
since it is not the Hausas and Fulanis and Yorubas who received the money on
our behalf and then failed to develop those areas, the right cause of action is
to identify the embezzlers and proclaim them "Enemies of Abia."
And
yes, they are our brothers, but they are the thieves; not Westerners and
Northerners; these people have their own problems of embezzlement over there
and of whether they want to deal with it or not, na dem know!
But
we know who got all the alerts in Abia and we know those who impoverished Abia
and Abuja is not primarily one of them! God bless. (MIU, Sept. 2017).
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