By the same token, the question begs to be asked -- what is the political debt of gratitude that the South-west owes Buhari? At the time Buhari seized power, the government of Alhaji Lateef Jakande had embarked on a turnkey infrastructural project that would have had a revolutionary mobility impact on the economy of the South-west in particular and Nigeria in general. The project was the construction of a light rail city wide system known as the Lagos metro line-an infrastructure that had proved indispensable to the evolution of all developed economies. Can we for a moment imagine the consequence of the absence of the sub-way rail transportation system for the London or New York mega polis? One of the first steps Buhari took as military head of state was the cancellation of this socio-economic transformative project. And the tragedy did not stop there. For violating the terms of the contract of the project, Nigeria had to pay a penalty of about $600 million. And again, the tragedy did not stop there. The penalty of $600 million actually translated to over 60 per cent of the entire cost of delivering the project-yet this was the choice Buhari made. How a man so socially and economically obtuse and cruel can now be peddled as the solution to the problems substantially created by the megalomaniac misdeeds of rulers like him beats the imagination hollow. AKIN osuntokun
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 17:46:25 +0000
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