Open letter to Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma.

29/04/2020

To 

Your excellency,

Mr Hope Uzodinma,

Executive Governor of Imo State,

State House Owerri.

            

                                   

Your excellency  Sir,

The aim of this letter is not to question your competency, which I know you are a competent man but to make a humble suggestion because IMO indigenes have suffered enough from the previous bad government, and it is high time to make some amendments on certain things that has become a norm in our society. A man is not measured by the content of what he has, but by the content of his characters. A good leader is one who refuses to lead, while a bad leader is one  who is desperate to lead and at the end, he or she happens to be a corrupt person and he or she has nothing to offer in terms of good governance to the people.

In security study, there will be no peace in a society/country when an average citizens are living in an abject poverty. Poverty is a social construct, I watched one video cerculating on the social media, where a truck loaded with rice were being distributed in Lagos and the number of people fighting to get the rice is disgusting. I then asked myself, is the organizers indirectly spreading the Corona virus to the masses or stopping the Covid 19? 

Have you seen what greediness of some politicians has caused all of us? Politicians stole the money meant for taking care of the people and dumped them in some western bank thinking if there is crisis, they will fly out with their families and be safe. Corona virus has disappointed them and it is not too late to change our ways. The situation that we all have found ourselves was created by our selfish interest. The west have closed their boarders meaning that the stolen money kept in their bank cannot be returned back now. They are using the stolen money to take care of their citizens while our politicians watch their citizens dying in hunger. 

I know or guess that you are a man who has the interest of the Imo indigenes in his mind, that was why you were chosen to be IMO State governor, to show the people how governance needs to me. I must congratulate you for that and also congratulate you on your 100 days in office. I lived in Europe, I studied in Europe and I have toured the 27 states in Europe. One thing I love about this continent is their infrastructural revolution. As a graduate of international relations and diplomacy, I do know that there was a time the Europeans were in a mess like Nigeria. But through a collective effort, they became developed. We can be like Europe, if only we can remove some certain selfish interest and laws in our land, to develop our States.

 I want to propose something that will help my/our state to be developed like others. When you hear about development, people thought it is something that is very difficult to achieve, without knowing that it is very simple. The three important things that makes a state beautiful are good Roads, Electricity and water. Kindly make a law to strip away all the people that has owned a street in IMO State because street should be named after our heroes. An illiterate money missed road, that has not contributed anything to better the life of IMO citizens or to his people, should not be named a street after him. 

I think your office should make a law against this practices and also put a condition that before someone must own a street, the person must meet some requirements. The first requirement must be to interlock that street and do away with asphalt because it does not last long, and the gutters must be 6 fits deep covered, so that when it rains, the flood will not destroy the street. 

By making this law, within a twinkle of an eyes, all the street in IMO State will be interlocked because I know how egoistic our people are, that is why they have messed up the Chieftaincy titles in our land to the extent it is worthless now. With this law, it will remove some certain burdens that your government will face with roads construction. People will hip the praises on your government as part of your achievements in office. 

Remember that soon, oil will be worthless. That is why we are hearing about the 5G technology today. There are a lot of conspiracy theories about the 5G technology, but what those pushing the conspiracy theory forgot to understand is that those who have started these 5th revolution, will manipulate their way to achieve it because 5G is for artificial intelligence. As soon as the 5G has arrived, a lot of things that depends on oil, will be reduced. 

When this happens, how  will your government be able to build infrastructure and pay salaries with limited resources when Aso Rock have decided to reduce your monthly allocation which will happen soon. Now it’s the time to start planning ahead. 

Revive the postal services in IMO Sate, make a law that every communication between banks, government and the people must be through post. With this, you are creating jobs. Even Europe with their technologies, refused to kill the postal service. But Nigeria does because they are running to Abuja every month to share oil money. 

Let the Corona virus pandemic be a lesson to all of us for what is about to come in the future because something worst than Corona virus might happen soon. I know that Rochas Okorocha has his own challenges while he was in the Office, but he has vision so invite him and tap from his wisdom. Don’t follow the footsteps of Hon Emeka Ihediora, because his green cap has failed him. 

Instead of Hon Emeka Ihediora with his exposure to continue on what his predecessor has achieved, he went and be destroying what was built by his predecessor. Without knowing that what was important is not about who has built the infrastructure, rather who it was built for. People in politics, should know that in governance, what matters is to whom that was built for and not who has built it. 

The infrastructure he was destroying was built for the people, not for Rochas and his family. Equip and restructure the 27 hospitals that Rochas Okorocha has built. The hospital has been built, what left now is to create a system to run them. 

Health is wealth and It is better to be poor and healthy, than to be rich but sick. If possible, create an insurance scheme and issue a card to every citizens of IMO state, including residents so that, with this card, people can use the card in any of the 27 hospitals and get treatments. 

The question is how will you finance and maintain the hospitals, there will be a monthly payment to everyone that has been issued the insurance card or interested in the scheme so that every individual will have a computerised history. The value the money you have, depends on  what services it can provide. Money kept in a bank, has no values.

Yours Faithful,

Mr Oscar Iwuama (Bc, MA)

CEO, ZINNOB TRADE LTD

WhatsApp contact: +41779854634

Coronavirus Pandemic in Nigeria/Africa, matters arising

This is what I think about the current situation in Nigeria/Africa👇

Two main pandemics at the moment we are fighting in Nigeria/Africa

1. Coronavirus

2. Hunger virus.

Two main group of people at the moment fighting the pandemics...... 

1.  The Rich and 

2. The poor.

The global irony and the African outlook...... 

The rich is afraid of the virus. 

The poor is afraid of hunger. 

The rich wants the poor to stay at home to avoid the spread, but hunger won't allow the poor to stay at home. 

The poor fears that if they stay at home,  the hunger virus will kill them. 

The rich fears that if they also come out of their homes the coronavirus will kill them....... 

What a delicate situation we have ......... 

Opinion: 

In other to restore the world or Nigeria to it's normal social equilibrium. 

The rich should assist the poor with food, so that they can stay at home. 

When the rich succeeds in keeping the poor at home by providing enough food. 

The spread of the coronavirus which the rich fears the most will be chased out!

This is common sense.....Yet because some people have the microphones, all you hear is ...... “stay at home”.......... “stay at home” . 

How can they stay at home when the hunger virus is at home.

fight coronavirus

fight Hunger```

Mr Oscar Iwuama (Bc, MA)

WhatsApp contact: +41779854634

Open Letter To Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Executive Governor of Lagos State

10^th of April, 2020

To

Babajide Sanwo-Olu,

The Executive Governor of

Lagos, State

                                             Open Letter to His Excellency Lagos State Governor

Dear sir,

 Let me begin by congratulating you for winning the election as the executive governor of the Lagos State. But the bigger compliment goes to your ability to set us a rapid rescue team for the Covid 19 pandemic without waiting for west world to come and help you like most African leaders does. It shows that the lagosians did not make a mistake by electing you.

Having said all that, the main aim of this open letter to you is to point out on certain abnormal things that has been going on the Okokomaiko-Iddo-Marina Blue rail Line, in Lagos for the past 12 years. Your predecessors started a mega project of building a Red/blue rail, which is commendable.

According to Wikipedia, “In April 2008, the Lagos State Government approved ₦ 70 billion for construction of the Okokomaiko-Iddo-Marina Line, with an estimated completion date of 2011. However, the project suffered many delays due to funding shortfalls. The opening date was revised to June 2013, then December 2016, then 2017. As of November 2016, only 16 km of the 27 km Blue Line had been completed”.

For your information sir, this rail line from Okokomaiko-Iddo-Marina Line, the construction has been going on for the past 12 years without bringing any income to the state government. Yearly, the state will complain on how to borrow money to finance the same project which is annoying and the delay is causing hardship to the citizen in your State.

Your excellency, this is not how to build such a project, in a society that solely depends on monthly allocation from Abuja and an import economy. Sir, when building such a mega project, first thing one needs to ask is how to finance the project without a debt burdens to the State. I’m not from your state, but I feel consigned seeing how people are suffering because of the delay on the project and also because each time I’m in Nigeria, I spent 70 percent of my days in Lagos.

Leaders should learn how to build to solve problems, and not how to build to get praises. What I’m seeing on this project is a political manipulation to use the project to stay in power. Without knowing that, finishing that project will also give the person, those things that they have wished for at the same time. Which are Praises, income, staying in power longer than anticipated and above all, solving the congestion problem that Lagos State are facing today. 

So the question is how do you build such project, and not feel the burden of over indebtedness it will cause to the State government? For example, If the cost of the 27 km was 70 billion Naira, all your predecesors need to do was to check the cost of the 10 km rail line, and  start with the first 10 km. When they have completed the first 10 km, next was to open it to the public. Let’s say from Marina to Iganmu is 10 km, let the first face terminates at Iganmu before starting the second face to give time to generate money from the first section of the rail line.

 Let’s say that 1,000 people are boarding from Marina to Iganmu every day and you are charging them 200 Naira per a passenger trips. You will be making 200,000 Naira a day, 6 million a month, 72 million a year. Give the period of 3 years to generate more money from the people that are using the rail and if possible, add little money to start the second face of another 10 km or use the money generated from the first face to start the second face, which will start from Iganmu and terminates at Mile 2. Then when the second face to Mile 2 is ready, you then open it to the public. The blue rail will then start from Marina and terminates at Mile 2. Marina to Mile 2 is the busiest place, which means the number of people using the rail line will increase and the amount of money it generates will also increase.

I have heard that you have banned Okada people from operating on this road? You don’t need to ban Okata or Moluwa that are operating on this road, they will ban themselves when no one needs their services. While the people are now boarding rail from Mile 2 to Marina, you will be generating more income and upon that creates more jobs. The third face will continue from Mile 2 and terminates at Trade Fair. And when it was time to open it to the public, people will now take a train from Marina to Trade fair. The fourth face will start from Trade Fair and terminates at Okokomaiko.

Your excellency, have you seen the amount of money Lagos State government is losing for the past 12 years that this projects has been going on? And the funny part of it all is that by the time you will commence operation in 2022, on this idle rail line, you will still need to borrow another money to maintain the rail line for durability. Allowing this mega project to be laying idle for the past 12 years, without generating any income shows that our brains are not working. We all have complained about lacks of Funds to complete the projects, at the same time, we have the funds to complete the projects at our disposal without knowing how to generate them. This is the difference between western world and Africa. Lagos sea port, Airport and rail system can build a world class city without looking for help from outside.

Transoprtion business is one of the lucrative business in the whole world, countries without natural resources, developed their country from the money generated from their transportation business and other technologies. Rail systems, reduces the burden our roads are facing because of heavy usage. It also open the society because everyone must not live in Island/Lekki.

If we have a good rail network, Apap congestion will disappear because all we need to do is to construct a rail from Apapa wharf to Trade Fair, and other big markets to reduce the number of trucks that ply on the roads. Someone can live in Ceme Boarder still be going to work in Island within 30 minutes, without having any stress from heavy traffic jams. We all have travelled to the Western world, but the funny part of it was that we only traveled there to enjoy without learning anything, without asking question.

In every human being, there are three important questions we should be asking ourselves. The What, Why, How questions, if anyone is able to apply these three structures in anything he/she wants to do, believe me, it will be perfectly done. I lived in Europe, studied there, and gained a lot of experience. I did not go there to look for only money and good life, but to gain a lot of experience which I’m giving some to you for free.

We should not surround ourselves with bunch of selfish people that reason from their anus instead of from their brains. I think it is time for us to start reasonably like humans, let’s use this opportunity the Corona virus has brought to us to unity ourselves and also look inward to found the ability on us, instead of looking outside. You don’t need the western world to develop your country because they have developed theirs without you, to show superiority.

China that every one are running to for help today was once isolated, segregated and even ridiculed from the rest of the world as they are doing to Nigeria and other African countries, before the Chinese people looked inward, to discover their ability and potential. Today, any country that avoid China is doing that at their own peril. The wealth of a man does not lay in the content of what he has but in the content of his character and his ability to discharge services to the people. When preparation mixed up with opportunities, it often result to success. And every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. It is time to force/task our brains to start working, instead of allowing it to be idle waiting for when help will come from above.

Our Leaders failed because they were not prepared to govern. They see governance as a lucrative business, without knowing that people became rich by offering services to the people. Countries become wealthy by selling what they produce, and not by selling what they have. That is why Africa and Nigeria are poor because we are selling what we have and not what we produces. Thomas Sankra says “Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We have been blackmailed by the western world thinking that we cannot survive or do anything without their help, and we all have bought that idea which is a neocolonialism.

Thanking you for your time spent in reading this open letter and I pray to God to bless and protect you and also to give you the wisdoms, to continue to lead the people without sentiments.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Oscar Iwuama (Bc, MA)

CEO, ZINNOB TRADE LTD

WhatsApp contact: +41779854634

Open Letter to all Nigeria Politicians Both Serving/Retired.

Open letter to all Nigeria politicians

5^th April, 2020

Your Excellencies

Nigeria Politicians

Abuja/other States

                                   Letter of Appeal to all Ex/Serving politicians

Dear Ex/Serving politicians

It is my pleasure to first congratulate all of you both serving and retired, for the sacrifices you all have made during your time in the offices both serving and retired. Our elders says that when your village people are chasing you, the only option you have to be safe was to run to your maternal home. If you have problem with your maternal people, then your chance of survival is low. Europe is not safe and Nigeria is also not safe.

 In my village, there are these particular kindreds. These groups of people, specializes in stealing. But when I was studying about their criminal activities, one thing that I have found very interesting about them was that, they never steal from our communities. They only went outside of our neighbouring communities to steal, and returns their proceeds back to their homes.

 Then I left to Europe, during my days in the University in Europe, I did a case study of Western politicians behaviours. What I have found out on the Western politicians are similar to these groups of people from my village that specializes in stealing from outside our communities.

The funny thing was that the western politicians specializes in stealing from Africa and outside their country and brought their proceeds to develop their countries. The reverse is the case with the Nigerian politicians.

 Having said all these, I think now is the time to change from our evil ways and do the right thing that will benefits all. I’m appealing to all of our politicians to please return the money you have stolen from the country through donations to Corona Virus help channels provided by the government because the country needs money to fight the corona virus pandemic and also to serve your own life and our own life. You need to understand that he Corona virus does not segregates, and it kills both poor and rich.

 Right now, the Nigeria total debt is above 27 trillion Naira. If I’m not mistaken. And to Nigerian politicians, I’m appealing to all of you to use this corona virus pandemic to return 100 percent of your stolen money through donations.

 The funny thing was that these money was borrowed and 60 percent of the money was shared between you all. We have borrowed this money, to fix our infrastructural decay, yet we could not boast of good hospitals, we could not boast of 24 hours electricity, we could not boast of running waters, we could not boast of refining our products like crude oil and co. We could not boast of a world class cities.

 We could not boast of good road or a world class international Airport or even speed train. So ask yourself one question, what was your /my contribution to develop Nigeria? Ask yourself was I good to my country or bad to my country during my time in the offices. If the answer is negative, then start behaving like the western politicians. How I wish God will limits this Corona virus to only all the criminal politicians in Nigeria.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Oscar Iwuama (Bc, MA)

WhatsApp contact: +41779854634

Open Letter To President Muhammad Buhari, The Nigeria President.

5^th April, 2020

To

President Muhammad Buhari,

The Nigerian of President

Aso-Rock Villa,

Abuja, Nigeria.

                              Letter of Appeal/Advice on Corona Virus Pandemic

Dear Mr President,

The aim of this letter is to advice you on certain issues that you can do to help ordinary Nigerians to survive this period of Corona virus pandemic. Your excellency, permit me to advice you on how to tackle the hunger crisis that will befall Nigerians in due time if the lockdown continues. The aim of introducing BVN was to identify Nigerians within the Banking industries.

Since the outbreak of the corona virus pandemic, many world leaders have shown leadership skills by looking for a solution to ease the suffering of their citizens. Some have taken some extreme measures to make sure that their citizens are well protected and also not to have a serious negative effects on their daily life during this world most dangerous pandemic in the 21^st century.

I know your government have also taken some measures to protect her citizens by locking down the country. But one thing I do not understand is how your government wants to ease the hunger crisis that the citizens will face during the period of this unexpected lockdown in Lagos, Abuja and other parts of Nigeria.

I have seen some news that shows cash disbursements to the poor people in the Northern parts of the Country, and that your government have disbursed so far the total sum of 3 billion to poor Nigeria? But I have not seen any news about the cash disbursement to other parts of the country. If i may ask, is the South East/South South and Western region part of this cash disbursement arrangement? And how do you determine who is poor and who is not poor? There are people that drives cars, but they find it difficult to fuel their car.

What I’m trying to say is that let the government stop the discrimination of funds disbursement. I was told that so far, the total money generated through donations was 15 billions plus, why not add money to Make it 10 Trillion and give out 50,000 Naira to 200 million Nigerians, which is less than 150 Dollars to all the citizens through their BVN. America and other Countries are giving out something bigger than 150 dollars to its citizens. 

By doing so, some people that are really rich, might decides to return back the money that was given to them. Then lockdown the country for one full month and people will not feel the negative impact of the corona virus pandemic on their daily life. And also, slash the cost of clearing goods at the sea port within this period of Corona virus pandemic so that importers can reduce the cost of products and make goods affordable to the citizens. This is a period of sacrifice, let us help each other and please, don’t discriminate on this sacrifices.

It is funny that a country that have claimed to be the giant of Africa, does not know the number of its citizens because of political manipulation. For how long are we going to continue ridiculing ourselves in front of the world. Sometimes, we need to put away sentiment and get things right. The time has come, when the government should put a law that gives jail term to any citizens without a national Identity cards and also give banks and other institutions a directive to stop attending to anyone without a national identity card.

Let us use this opportunity to come together and get things done for the first time. Let us put outside, who did that and who did not do that, or who has failed and who did not and see this corona virus pandemic as a way to fix this country. Oil is becoming worthless, countries with oil reserves, have use the money during the oil boom to fix their infrastructure, but Nigeria could not account for any tangible things they have used the oil money to do, other than purchasing luxuries items.

Thanking you for your anticipated cooperation and I pray to God to bless and protect you and also to give you the wisdoms, to continue to lead the people without sentiments.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Oscar Iwuama (Bc, MA)

WhatsApp contact: +41779854634