NDDC - The House The Elders, The Governors & Legislators Squeegeed!

Do not be deceived! Its a Hoax by the men on it…

The NDDC Probe = Nothing will Happen thereafter!
It has been converted into an Elitist Distraction.
We all know that these NDDC monies have made Billionaires without viable businesses who have Jets, Bentley and Pay tithes from these monies!
We know the plethora of problems presently in the Niger Delta! Ask from the people if they have even eaten!
The condition of the Niger Delta is appalling and manifests the paradox of penury and poverty in plenty which is epitomized by the no presence of infrastructure amidst all the revenues.
Note that Corrupt officials probing fellow corrupt officials = Zero!
Mathematics helps thus that anything divided by Zero is Zero!
We know the NDDC was setup in the Year 2000… over 20 years ago

In the first 5 years of operation there was no visible assets to the Niger Delta
10 years after there was still no tangible infrastructure in the Niger Delta
The NDDC rolled into 15 years and yet nothing worth boasting of as a Niger Delta stakeholder in the Niger Delta!
I must give an isolating commendation to Nigeria's President as a courageous person to have ordered an Audit at the over 20 years operations of the NDDC.

In case you do not know, over 15 Trillion Naira has passed through the Niger Delta Commission since its inception!
N15,000,000,000,000. 00k = $40 Billion USD! equivalent

The Burj Khalifa cost = $1.5 Billion USD under 6 years
It means we can have 9 Burj Khalifas in the 9 Niger Delta states at $13.5Billion USD and the recurring employment it will create and still have $26.5 Billion remaining.

The Dubai Metro was built at a of cost = $7.8 Billion USD not to talk of the employment that will come with it and every other things in the Rail value chain.
If we take that out of the remaining we will still have $18.7 Billion USD.

I can go on and on with the many infrastructures and the value chain dividends that these monies that passed through the Niger Delta Commission would have done in Assets to the Niger Delta and its people

BUT

You see… these monies were stolen by the very people who were supposed to serve its peoples' bidding… they stole it dry alongside their cronies of greed and evil!

They do not own any industries or commercially viable business but once the NDDC contracts were signed they became billionaires.

The many Bombardier Jets privately owned and parties in Dubai and Nigeria by Niger Delta sons and Daughters some come from those contracts awarded to them!
The unexplained mansions you see scattered across Niger Delta, Abuja and some foreign locations are from these monies and yes they are hailed and conferred titles for stealing!

Even the so called Niger Delta Elders that always pop-up and scream for their own selfish gains have gone AWOL because they benefited from these ravishment.
The scholarship process for example is saddled with a glorious fraud process that just favors even the National Assembly members slots… I remember the NDDC paying me N10,000 transport after 3 years for coming for a scholarship interview they had sent their wards overseas for.

It is easier for you to write an entrance exam into Oxford, Harvard and Cambridge than to get an NDDC scholarship!
It is apparent that the monies since year 2000 have been stolen and lavished.
It is then near impossible to recover these monies unless we are ready to truthfully hold every Managing Director accountable for every kobo spent from 2000 and contractors to date for this monies.
We will then go ahead to recover the cars, houses, jets and other assets which they put the monies to and probably sell them off to get some tangible monies back and jailed them… otherwise all of them chop the money… Period!

Since year 2000 The National House of Assembly members have been accomplices, The Governors are also accomplices.. some people in the federal cabinet also have been accomplices…

Who will bell the Cat! for the Niger Delta?

The Niger Delta people are pitiably at the receiving end of the NO presence or feel of electricity, water, roads, education or medical facilities. In case you do not know The Niger Delta is supposed to look least like Dubai with these funds.

SOLUTION…

Mr President, they have all since year 2000 misappropriated these monies to date and I think for the development of the Niger Delta there has to be another way for it to be developed BUT certainly Not the NDDC way! Afterall OMPADEC also went the same way and the choppers are around while some have died.. and these ones too will die some day…

The mere fact that the funds that have passed through the Niger Delta does not match the seen or felt assets/infrastructures in the Niger Delta is enough to sentence/execute most of the fund administrators in some countries!

We are tired of audio development in Niger Delta!
These criminals live within Nigeria and even move around with police protection at least I have witnessed a convoy of a nonentity leaving the NDDC building on Aba road Port Harcourt and saw the police and civil defense convoy following him.
Most times I drive through Aba road and see the NDDC building and the many hanging marauders entering and leaving the building and I think about the impoverished Villages and its people with no access to any amenities.
If you go presently today round the Niger Delta you will see projects signage without start or finish dates.

Mr President, I think The Niger Delta can be developed with even lesser resources/expenditures speedily in the following ways… It has to be taken off the hands of these systemic and bureaucratic Marauders
1. A Town Hall Approach
2. Bottom-Top Approach
3. a. There are approximately 185 LGAs in the Niger Delta. This should serve as the canvas-template for its development plan.
3. b. Dissolve the NDDC because its too cumbersome to run itself on its own talk less of facilitating the development of the Niger Delta.
3. c. Use 185 LGA manned structure who would even earn less with less resources to see that their LGAs are developed or held by its own people.
4. Open public and Published Procurement
5. LGA Based recruitment, supervision and execution
6. At LGA level the people can hold their own accountable in time for progress and punished or praised for worked done.

We can have a feasible and cost effective overhead for administration and devote more of these resources to the development of the Niger Delta away from these people.
We do not need that gigantic building on Aba Road in Port Harcourt.

Mr President dissolve NDDC its not working for the people… They have wasted our time for 20 years. Use the locals in the LGAs away from these people!

Its not rocket science…how does Dubai, Singapore do it?…Even writing about this is exhausting…

Wish you had Data?

Wish you had Data?

Don’t be perplexed! Sometime in March 2019 I posted the message via Instagram about Data— find/click the link below.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvF-YRMl37x/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Apparently by now we know that Data scarcity is one of the major bottlenecks for changes; but an interesting question is — Have you used the data you have already? The reason is simple: data, or the lack of it and its use is why some change projects fail.

Pre-COVID we have been evangelizing about the 4th Industrial Revolution and the Internet of Things (IoT)… Its birthed itself! And the realities of this is the conversion of skills. Your passions and purposes have forever been disrupted!

You have to ‘redistribute the same energy’ to play in this era or you have already self-eject. I remember when I preached for long to some organisations to get to start the augmentation process that would have cost nothing.

Automation has and will continue to define the future of work, globally. As with all global trends, there are important regional nuances. Africa and Nigeria in particular faces specific challenges that will impact how the future of work evolves.

Religions, Firms, economies, governments, and societies have been challenged and will constantly be challenged and transformed. Despite apocalyptic predictions, the full implications of automation are still unknown. Change will come in waves that include currently unrealized technologies.

All firms are in a difficult position: Act too slow and risk falling behind; act too quickly and generate unnecessary complexity and confusion.

As we ride the wave I will strive to communicate insights on the following:

1. Pragmatic view of the future of work in Nigeria— how considerations such as talent pool distribution will impact the pace of change. 
2. Discover what organisations can do now to stay in front of the automation revolution.
3. The Return to Business-As-Usual

Remember do not let anyone claim mastery of understanding the pandemic! No one living has experienced COVID-19 before now… 

You've got Data? 

Mid Management decimate Organisations more…

Mid Management formations will kill more organisations and projects now and Post-COVID.

Most times the failures of Organisations and Projects are mostly perpetrated by the exonerated middle management positions who would do everything possible to abort submissions/solutions of sub-ordinates and unconnected external personnel. Some never allow the use of a new idea or suggestion coming from the bottom or outside the organisation for the fear of change in the Business-as-Usual.

Short of a decade ago I was I.T. Project Manager of a team that helped deliver a great solution in the shortest possible time for a Nigerian Bank. Lessons learned from that Project opened up research areas in Digital Strategies for Banks with focusing on the Nigerian side of things.

With that research on Digital strategies and Agile in mind I expended resources to carry out the research tailoring it to 3 Nigerian Banks specifically. Complete and armed with Digital Strategies and a Novel Agile Framework (This got an APM UK Award) that would certainly reflect profits in the P&L at the end of every financial year I sent them in to the 3 banks.

Only 1 out of the 3 banks gave a reply to implement in parts because I had even offered to implement incrementally for free at first.

Tailored eBusiness Framework — Effiong Attai, 2014

Today and most importantly during this COVID era the Bank that implemented this framework had seen bottom lines add up and will triple the bottom line this season. On the other hand, with recent analysis one of the Banks that supposedly trashed my submission have struggled for some share of the market for the past 4 years and most especially this COVID era.

Although some of these failures for organisations do not come from the Leader they are a result of some mid management cogs on the wheels of progress of such organisations.

In order to ascertain the damage these mid-management cogs cause for organisations I also carried out a Hypothetical test of Management Buy-in and Project successes with syndicated samples of over 100 from these banks .

The two tailed Pearson correlation test that was performed alongside the description, significant correlation and scatter plot between management Buy-in and Project Successes showed in the results that Management Buy-in and Project Successes are strongly correlated with r(22) = .748, p<0.000026 and was under the 99% confidence level.

Now more than ever company organograms will have to be peeled and flattened to allow Agility. Organizational bureaucracy would be overcome slowly but not having a digital strategy and executing these things highlights will allow the Big Banks get bigger in the e-Space and the small will get smaller.

Corona Chronicles -Thank You Corona

Thank You Coro...
Thank You Corona for you have remastered the tapes we've been playing to the actors for a longtime.
Thank You Corona for poising what then really matters.
You have discombobulated the configurations
Making Diviners Mad

Religion Rephrased
Economies Eschewed
Secured seeking security
Money mourning
United Nations not united afterall
Common wealth is on Common death
G8 is ginning

Corona you emptied The Vatican!
You caused restrictions in Jerusalem.
Oh Corona You 
Halted Hajj
Mecca is mending. 
Synagogues, Churches and Mosques have banned services (what happens to Tithes and Offerings)
The Hindu River Ganges is still flowing

But 
Please Coro Coro.. 
You cannot leave without visiting members of the Nigerian National Assembly, 
The Governors and state Assemblies.
No Coro you have to pass through them... and they pass through you Coro!
So the survivors will build the remains of the Nigeria they have preached!

Thank You Coro...

Effiong writes for the Corona Chronicles

In other news If Nigerian Church leaders can lead the way they just did yesterday by conducting Physical services... do not question failings of the Nigerian government... They are all accomplices in the decadence and destruction!

Self Isolation

Seasons have their lexicons; with this season has been the words;

• Lockdown
• Corona virus
• Stockpiling
• Hoarding
• FTSE 500
• Grounded
• Self isolation
• Quarantine e.t.c

Particularly, the most used word apart from the Corona Virus will be Self Isolation!

The word isolated comes from the Latin word Insula, which means island. By that definition it is imperative to say that spending time on an Island presents some form refreshment to the soul.

While Isolation may imply being alone, let me Introduce the word SOLITUDE. Both words may imply being alone and similar in definition but are very different in such great extents.

Isolation is usually activated or forced by external extremities BUT Solitude comes as a result of the personal intrinsic choices.

As the tide of self isolation passes, that is the first phase... I would love you to move on to the Solitude! 

For you know by now that energy can neither be created nor destroyed but converted from one form to another... Solitude allows for expansion and freedom of thought, providing the chance to soar above the ordinary in order to come back to the world refreshed and reinvigorated. Isolation contracts the walls and makes a prison, draining the will and leaving you exhausted.

Anthony Storr puts it this way - “The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.” 

  

If Only

If only your Governors had built Roads,

If only your Governors had built Schools, 

If only your Governors had built Markets,

If only your Governors had built Hospitals,

If only your Governors had developed your states!

But;

They built their Pockets,

They built their Roughs,

They built their Mansions,

They built their Parties!

If only you could ask them;

But you can't ask them!

You can't speak for they have

Positioned the Police and Minted the military into the Fabrics of their fallacies

For You have oh Nigeria

Con Cronies of the Colonies in the Corners and Corridors of Power worse than the corona!

As the other parts of the world ravage in Corona... Nigeria would have been the best travel destination for the west... But your Governors! they killed your states.

Since 1999... Over 20 years your states regressed based on the monies that passed through them

Notably, Rivers, Bayelsa , Akwa Ibom, Delta States have no business being poor or having unemployment rates as they do...

But 

If Only you knew...

The Oxymoron of Jobs - Government

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves.
To stop being conned, stop conning yourself. James Wolcott

Its clearly an Oxymoron - Jobs and Poverty to be tackled by the Nigerian Government. 

It's insanity to think that the Nigerian government can and will create Jobs! Doing the same things since 1960 and expecting different results in 2020.

The underlying notion of such proposal by the 'rulers in office' that they can create jobs and the government can solve poverty — is riddled and an economic fallacy.

The logic underpinning a government jobs creation program or a so-called poverty alleviation program was best epitomized by an advocate who declared that, “The goal in and of itself is job creation. You create the job to fit the person.” and Julius Nyerere illuminatingly submits that “Capitalism means that the masses will work, and a few people – who may not labour at all – will benefit from that work. The few will sit down to a banquet, and the masses will eat whatever is left over”!

I guess every Nigerian except the Governors, Senators, Reps, LGA 'Chairs', and the Bigger Animals of the Assemblies will agree that the previous paragraph mirrors the alleviation Program of the Nigerian state. Interestingly, employment is not an end in and of itself. Instead, it is a means to an end: namely the increased standard of living that the worker obtains by trading his labour for wages.

In a free market, employment is a value creation process — with jobs stemming from the wants and needs of consumers as conveyed through the price system. It is this productive nature of free-market jobs that make them desirable and capable of increasing a worker’s standard of living.

Wages spring directly from, and are proportional to, the degree in which a job creates wealth by helping to satisfy an unmet need. As is the case for all mutually-agreeable trades in a free market, both sides gain and wealth is created: the worker receives wages that he values more than his labour and the consumer receives a product or service he values more than its price.

In other words, a worker’s wages are reflective of the additional wealth he helped create, which enables his newly improved standard of living. Thus, government-created jobs are devoid of this wealth creation process, they are merely a transfer of wealth from taxpayers to the program’s beneficiaries.

This is made clear by taking the argument to its logical conclusion and considering a government proposal that paid one set of workers to dig ditches and the other set to fill them back in. While there would be a virtually unlimited number of jobs that could be created under such a program, there is clearly no value creation of any kind. Throwback to Abuja, a government regime paid contractors to build speed breakers on the roads and next regime came along and paid for its removal.

Thus, a government-mandated job omits the very thing that makes employment desirable in the first place — Value creation.