Are our leaders cursed?

 

Fuel price is very high and there are threats of further hikes.  As crude prices are falling, one would expect fuel to cost less in Nigeria but the problem is that Nigeria is earning less dollars, so Naira is weak.

To cushion the effect, we have to refine

our crude at home and sell in Naira, not import in dollar and sell in Naira.

The above is known to me as to many Nigerians.

Why then is it not working?

Our leaders are not ignorant but uncaring.

They are uncaring because just like our colonial masters branded our local gin, illegal and our herbalists pagans, so too, our local refineries are branded illegal.

Necessity, they say is the mother of invention. During the Biafran war, Biafrans refined their own fuel.

Many Nigerians are refining crude and selling and all government can do is destroy the refineries.

I ask, are our leaders cursed?

Governors are reducing days of work as fuel prices are making movement prohibitive and all Government can do is forbid local refineries from opearating.

These are the same people who praise foreign countries and believe that the draw back to Nigeria's progress is not their disservice but the Nigerian factor.

Nigeria has refineries with workers yet no refining.

Many people have built refineries, yet no support to refine.

Government is removing subsidy and hiking the price of fuel, because it is imported.

Let us refine our crude ourself and sell in Naira.

It is no rocket science, but my brother, Tony Iroulor, says some elders feed from confusion, so do not be surprised.

Those who lead countries where our leaders steal our money to go and invest, are they more knowledgeable than our leaders?

They are not but their people will not let them get away with what we stomach from our leaders.