Nigeria: Apapa Tank Farm - Nigeria's Hidden Danger

21 November 2015
opinion

As a social commenter and writer on a brazenly corrupt society like Nigeria, it's hard not to be viewed as a doomsday prophet like the biblical Jeremiah. This is because any predictions made for a morally decaying polity would usually result in an immoral judgment so to speak. But in the drunkenness of national corruption, avarice, looting and plain thievery, it is also important to understand how all this wealth gets to your table and how all the economic activities that produce the wealth are made possible. This strategic perspective would go a long way in the appreciation of the crucial steps necessary for nation building and the weak points that may mean life and death for a country like Nigeria.

In plain terms, there is a single light-switch industry that one may say supports all the others and is essentially the life blood of the entire macro-economic system. If this switch is turned off, the entire nation is thrown into darkness, a single factor which if affected adversely would essentially cripple the entire country within hours indefinitely. The longer one brainstorms, the clearer it becomes that as a country, the Apapa tank farm is as important to Nigeria as the head is to the body of a national organism.

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