FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NEEDLESS
DELAY IN IMPLEMENTATION OF FUPRE ACT: A SHOW OF MARGINALISATION, DERELICTION OF DUTY AND
LOATHE FOR SOLUTION TO OUR TECHNOLOGICAL AND DEVELOPMENT DOWNTURN AS A NATION.*
MUST READ OPEN EPISTLE TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA!!!*
SEN. COMR. OHANWE EMMANUEL. I,
GCUF (SUG PRESIDENT, FUPRE)* ON 15TH APRIL 2018 BROKE THE SILENCE ON
FEDERAL GOVERNM,ENT DELAY IN FUPRE ACT IMPLEMENTATION . BELOW ARE THE WORDS OF
THIS HONORABLE COMRADE.
I won't allow my bittered, wounded and aggrieved heart
to withdraw the etiquette of communication and engagement I have nurtured
overtime and that's why I would seize three lines to bring you greetings.
I bring you revolutionalised Aluta greetings from
FUPRE combatants and solutionists who are integral citizenry of our indivisible
amalgama.
I write from my secretariat situated in the first
petroleum varsity in Africa and sixth in the world as the Grand Commander of
all Unarmed Fuprites (GCUF) in representation of battalions of armless,
research minded and volatile fuprites.
THE PRESIDENT IN ACTION |
No long sighted government will hesitate in transforming
FUPRE to a research hub that will receive the nation's technical, scientific
and engineering problems and profer immediate solutions. An institution that
has never received take off grant since existence while schools receive N5b and
above as grants; whose students have converted their residential areas to
research hub and workshop; whose students irrespective of the poor Federal and
industry presence have become petrobowl champions, NAMCOSS gurus, Automobile
producers, seasoned researchers, NAPE irreplaceable reps, Shell Eco Marathon
victors etc; A school that has established a team with a compendium of
Practical reforms in the power sector, oil and gas sector, socio economic and
environmental sector, and the entrepreneurship axis; even Vice President
Osibanjo can testify our worth in the last Expo exhibition at Abuja, yet many
wonders why government commendations are always oral and vocal, lacking
realities. This alone justifies closing down Aso rock.
It could be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari
signed FUPRE bill into law on 17th October, 2017 and the Student Union
Government FUPRE sent him a two page letter of appreciation on the 18th
October, 2018 through his SSA on media - Garba Shehu, we rained encomiums on
his forthrightness in identifying the need to have our nation industrialized
and technically developed by assenting FUPRE bill, we further stated the need
to implement this act without delay in the letter, but It still puzzles my
imagination how the North Eastern Development Commission bill (NEDC) which was
signed into law lately one week after FUPRE bill, but was captured in the 2018
national budget even before its assent and currently have received a whooping
sum of N45b while FUPRE act is being politicized, what explanation should be given
to the stillborn of FUPRE act? Why have we chosen to allow nepotic and fanatic
politics replace egalitarianism? Why have the collective patrimony and
resources of our nation converted to a kith and kin affair? How has 2% of few
parastatals become a burden to a nation that coughs out unestimated 1billion
Dollars to fight insurgency, Without mincing words I am made to say that this
is the height of marginalisation, nepotism, dereliction of duty and
inexplicable hatred for solution and progression.
I still wonder how Mr. President envisions to retain
his seat come 2019 without the support of the nine states in the Niger Delta
and some northern acquaintances, let me make the record straight to the Federal
Government of Nigeria that FUPRE case is not an Ugbomro thing, its an injury to
the Niger Delta, this alone has prompted pressure groups and concerned youth
and student political movement to add their unequivocal voice while holding
back aggressive and volcanic approach as the last resort, we all enjoy the
peace in the region and the nation in relative, and we wouldn't want to bowl
the Federal government a googly because of her gross negligence. Crises are
instigated and not genetic, we hope to maintain national harmony and modus
vivendi.
It's my honest advice and admonishment to the Federal
Government that for the sake of National cohesion which is a precursor in
national building and for the sake of the untapped human capital and human
resources tangential to our growth as a nation which has been fallowed for over
11 years in the First petroleum varsity in Africa and sixth in the world, let
the FUPRE act be captured in the 2018 budget. This alone will make
"continuity of the present holders of power" a considerable agenda by
the Niger Delta region as we have totally lost fate in.
Governments have come and gone since the existence of
FUPRE, and our request has been severally handed over and consistently swept
under the carpet, but here comes a messiah, the Buhari led government, who
passed and signed this into law but and is yet to receive the full
glorification and aggrandizement of this move from the Niger Delta and her
allies because of delay in implementation. Remember, "nearly can never
kill a bird neither can proximity be mistaken for connectivity", let the
needful be done so we can move forward as a nation.
We have willfully retracted the aggressive and
volcanic approach, but I must tell you that as I navigate round my keyboard, we
have been pushed to the wall and we can't afford to jump the fence to the other
side but rather confront the oppressor. This is oppressive to our progress as a
nation, it's oppressive to humanity, it deflates your oath to serve the
Nigerian populace without sentiments, it's oppressive to the 1914 amalgamation
that gave you the room to share from us, it's oppressive to the Niger Delta who
abhores the nation's largest source of income and yet bear the consequences of
environmental hazards without commensurate discharge of their corporate social
responsibility (CSR), this could be likened to milking a cow, claiming the meat
and leaving the dungs for the owner to pack up.
Let's avoid the avoidable.
Let's avoid the avoidable.
Signed:
Sen. Comr. Ohanwe Emmanuel I.
Grand Commander of all Unarmed Fuprites.
Grand Commander of all Unarmed Fuprites.
For :
Aggrieved, embittered and embattled Fuprites and Niger Delta in whole.
Aggrieved, embittered and embattled Fuprites and Niger Delta in whole.
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