THE EVIL MACHINATIONS OF THE INTERNAL COLONIAL MASTERS. (Part 1).

THE EVIL MACHINATIONS OF THE INTERNAL COLONIAL MASTERS.

(Part 1).

THE EVIL MACHINATIONS OF THE INTERNAL COLONIAL MASTERS. (Part 1).

The truth is that, the North is not interested in the affairs of the Southern part of the country except the Oil & Gas.

The issue of Nigeria as one country is the biggest fraud that has ever existed. The South should know that there is nothing like Nigeria.

What we have is northern interest above any other interest.

Right from independence, the North has dominated in the leadership of the so called Nigeria as a country. Dictators, all from the north has ruled the country and has developed tribalism, hypocrisy, nepotism and what have you?

If there is anytime this hatred for the South is manifested so grossly, it is the dictator Buhari's Government, first in 1983 as head of State and now as the civilian dictator of the APC oppressive Government.

Anytime, the Oil producing zone is provided with a special programme to take care of the peculiar environmental considerations, the Northern rulers who have for the greater part of the forced existence of the entity called Nigeria colonised the South as it where have always duplicated such intervention bodies in their domain unjustly for selfish reasons.

Let us trace the Historical background of the establishment of the Niger Delta Basin Development Authority and see how the Northern colonialists bastardised the concept.

Historical background to the River Basin Development Authorities

The 1958 Nigeria Constitutional Conference agreed that a Niger Delta Development Board should be established, and provision for its establishment was made in the Nigeria (Constitution) (Amendment No. 2) Order in Council, 1959.
Since the colonial era, some policies and programmes within national development plans have been formulated to address the minority status, agitations and perceived marginalization of the people of the delta.

But the recurring feeling in the region is that it is often pushed aside within the Nigerian Federation.

This is particularly true for minority ethnic groups. The first major attempt to address these grievances was in 1957, when the colonial administration set up the Willink’s Commission of Inquiry to investigate the fears of minorities and how to allay them. The Commission reported in 1958 that “the needs of those who live in the creeks and swamps of the Niger Delta are very different from those of the interior".

The Commission also noted that it is not easy for a government or legislature operating from the inland to concern itself or even fully understand the problems of a territory where communications are so difficult, building so expensive and education so scanty are so a country which is unlikely ever to be developed. Perhaps more importantly the commission concluded a feeling of neglect and a lack of understanding was widespread - a case has been made for special treatment of this area. This is a matter that requires special effort because (the area) is poor, backward and neglected. That conclusion is as true in the Niger Delta today as it was in 1957. Be that as it may, the immediate post-independence Government eventually responded to the Willink’s Report by setting up the Niger Delta Development Board (NDDB) in 1961.

The NDDB could not solve the problems of the Niger Delta enunciated in the Willink’s Report.

THE DUPLICATION OF 11 OTHER BASINS WAS EVIL

Nigeria currently has twelve river basin development authorities, their creation commenced when the federal government passed the River Basins Development Authorities Decree nos 32 and 33 of 14th August 1973 to give legal backing to the establishment of the Chad and Sokoto - Rima river basins development authorities.
Subsequently, the river basins development authorities decree no 25 of 15th June 1976 and the Niger Delta Basin Development Authority Decree no 37 of 3rd August 1976 was also promulgated.
These decrees created 11 River Basin Authorities. In 1994, government approved the division of Niger Basin Development Authority into Upper and Lower Niger Basin Development Authority, thus bringing the number of river basin authorities to 12.

This has always being the case not only for the NDBDA, but as we shall se in a sun
Bequest article, the North has duplicated other such agencies that was meant to handle the peculiar developmental problems of the Deltaic region