Author: kaparah
Wed Aug 20 14:39:13 2008

There is an old saying exhorting us to "make hay while the sun shines". The saying comes from farming communities. There would often be only a short time in which the hay would be ready to cut- reap too soon, and the hay would be too green. Reap too late, and you run the risk of rain ruining it all. Still very good advice for this Yar Adua administration who thought that the world would wait for him and the world economic dynamics would stop and the price of crude oil would remain as high, indefinitely until Yar figure out issue #1 (while whistling the ruse of law tune)out of the seven (7) agenda he promised Nigerians would lead to the attainment of Vision 20/20. Sorry, the world ecconomy rolls along while we dither and puff, running in cicles and getting nowhere. Perhaps when crude oil price falls back to its usual $10 per barrell, Yar would wake up to another $10 Billion foreign debts that would in due course rise up to another $36 Billion debt (a la Shagari-Abacha), then we are back to our old 1999 economic stagnation, if not recession. Way to go, Naija. Under the OBJ's administration, Nigerian economic growth rate averaged about 9% during his 8 year tenure which is unprecedented in Naija's history. We shall see what YarAdua's economic growth rate would be in 4 years. OBJ's administration is the benchmark upon which past, present & future administrations would be measured. Unfortunately Nigerians lost its greatest oportunity when it unwisely gave up a proative, result-oriented leader when it doggedly chose to put mediocrity back in play. You all deserve what you asked for...Nigerian-shuffle - one step forward, 20 steps backwards.




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