By Chinweizu
07feb15
Is this one of them?
Global
Research, May 28, 2010
Or is this
one of those off-the-radar reasons that it pays not to mention to the people?
Now, about
my friend and old sparring partner WS. If you want to know what the Western
powers are up to in Nija, you just watch WS. He has been their boy-in-the-hood
ever since one of his lecturers at IU inspired him to set up his Pyrates as
cover for a Nija network branch of British intelligence. And you think he got
his Nobel for his unreadable books? But that’s another story.
Anyway what
has that deal, signed in May 2010, got to do with Wole’s pro-Buhari position,
or with the momentum of the Buhari campaign despite his being prima facie the
Boko Haram candidate?
The report
about that China
deal concluded on this note:
“Western
policy on Nigeria
is driven by the super-profits generated from the extraction of oil and its
processing. While publicly the US
and its allies proclaim the need for democracy and openness, this is window
dressing. Anything that impedes their drive for profits, whether from local
opposition or from a rival nation, will be dealt with ruthlessly when required.
The latest moves by China
will have caused consternation in the boardrooms of the big oil companies, and
countermeasures are all but inevitable.”
That’s the link, I tell you, to events now unfolding in the
2015 elections.
Is the
pro-Buhari campaign momentum part of the countermeasures? An effort at regime change
by orchestrated propaganda?
To appreciate that possibility, go watch the film “A Very British Coup” to see how such is done.
But what was
the deal for? Why did it give offence and cause consternation in the boardrooms
of the western oil giants—Shell, ExxonMobil and the lot?
“China has signed a $23 billion deal with the new
government of Goodluck Jonathan in Nigeria to build three oil
refineries and a petrochemical plant. . . .The three refineries are to be built
in Lagos, in Kebbi state and Bayelsa, . . .The refineries would have a combined
capacity of 900,000 barrels per day (bpd), double the expected domestic demand
of 450,000 bpd by the time they are due to be completed in five years.” [i.e. in
2015]
*Tinubu, Soyinka, Akande, Fashola
That’s just
the foreplay. Now here is the main bedmatics:
“Plans
by the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to buy up to
six billion barrels of Nigerian reserves became public last year.[i.e. 2009] Yar’Adua, the president at the time, received a
letter from the Chinese state-owned oil company CNOOC expressing an interest in
the 23 prime offshore fields where Shell, Total, Chevron and ExxonMobil
currently operate. If this were to succeed, it would . . . mark a
significant change in policy for the Nigerian government. . . .. The price of the deal is reported to be between $30
billion and $50 billion. . . . The
Chinese deal may well lead to further tensions with the US, . . . He
[GEJ] plans to introduce a sweeping package of reforms that will result in the
privatisation of this state-owned company. While this is in line with US
demands, it will inevitably open up further opportunities for China .”
And that’s the real offence—opening the gate for China to access Nigeria ’s resources for the benefit
of ordinary Nigerians and, above all, displacing the big boys from their
existing oil blocks. How were similar offences dealt with in the recent past?
“In the Democratic Republic of
Congo , China ’s
attempts to get an oil deal were thwarted by the countermeasures of the United States
and the International Monetary Fund.”
But in the
more complex situation in Nija, the countermeasures would take time to
orchestrate and implement--and to disguise so as to fool Nija mumus.
Has that
deal been concluded? I don’t know. But even if it hasn’t, the fact that it was
being considered would be cause for retribution by the Western powers. Nigeria ’s opening to China ,
initiated by these two deals, would be a beginning of Nigeria ’s
economic liberation.
Whereas the case of
the DRC was dealt with swiftly by the IMF and the US ,
the case of Nigeria
would call for more elaborate and convoluted countermeasures. Hence, they are
manifesting five years later.
You don’t
dare jeopardize the super-profits of the oil giants and expect to get away with
it—not unless you are a Vladimir Putin, with control over a big nuclear
arsenal. Which GEJ doesn’t have.
*President Jonathan and Gen Buhari
But who
would benefit from this opening to China ? Who would benefit from those refineries and
petrochemical plant? Who but the Nija people? Who would benefit in the long run
from better terms from China
for Nija oil? Who but Nigerians? So,
this regime change could be like that mounted by the West against Mugabe for
realigning Zimbabwe ’s
economy towards China
and for recovering land stolen by the white settlers.
Do Wole’s 60
reasons include (1) why Buhari is not in the dock in De Hague for threatening
post-election violence for 2015?
Do Wole’s 60
reasons include (2) a convoluted disinformation scam in which the APC alleged
that Jonathan won’t hand over to Buhari, but rather to the military? [APC worried
over plot to scuttle Buhari's victory
By News Express on 18/01/2015]
Do Wole’s 60
reasons include (3) the APC spin to lay at GEJ’s door the Pastor Bakare call
for postponing the elections and setting up a transitional government for two
years—despite the fact that Bakare said he is
“100% with Buhari”.
The point of
(3) being to smear GEJ with attempting tenure elongation in the mode of OBJ’s 3rd
term bid, thus discrediting him before Nigerians? And the point of (2) being to
set GEJ up for De Hague if he should challenge rigged election results that the
Carter Center and co are sure to ratify.
Anyone acquainted with US electioneering dirty tricks and with theUS regime change playbook would, on
seeing these scams, know that something ominous is in the works. That’s
my take on Wole’s 60 reasons.
Anyone acquainted with US electioneering dirty tricks and with the
In other words, for taking
measures to benefit the Nija people, and liberate us from neo-colonialism, GEJ
is being subjected to regime change just before his measures mature for the
Nija beneficiaries to see and enjoy and hail him. And for taking measures to
serve us rather than the neo-colonialists, he is to be punished by being
railroaded to De Hague. . . or worse.
So, when GEJ is gone and his
measures mature, Nijas will rejoice and Buhari will take credit for the
benefits GEJ created, and tell Nijas: “See the change I promised. I told you I
could solve your problems!” And while we celebrate him, Buhari will quietly
restore the oil fields to the neo-colonialists and return us to the old system
that will get us exploited and impoverished all over again. That’s the game
going on right now before our mumu eyes.
*Chinweizu contributed this article to SCRUPLES
I laugh and laff in vernacular when failed intellectuals want to climb on towering intellectuals to shout to the market place. Chinweizu is not fit to shine Our WS's shoes. Can some one tell him to stop clowning?
ReplyDeleteMr. Kargbo, you really made a fool of yourself because of this comment. Are you sure you know Chinweizu very well and has read him? Are you sure you are not merely fawning before Soyinka because of the opinion of the West about him or because they gave the Nobel? Have you taken the works of both men and compared them to know which has real depth and insight? Did you follow the famous Chinweizu-Soyinka literary debates of the 70s and 80s? You didn't even bother to dispute Chinweizu's points, probably, because you knew you can't. And so you merely resorted to insults. Not even Soyinka will dare talk to Chinweizu the way you just did, which is very
DeleteAnyone thinking that China's investment in Nigeria are altogether altruistic needs to have his head examined!
ReplyDeleteOf course they are in Nigeria to make slaves of us.
I do not see how exchanging one set of yokes for another can be deemed wise!
So these very wonderful and compassionate Chinese people are so fed up with Nigeria (Africa) being exploited by the West that they would sacrifice their hard earned resources to set us free!
ReplyDeleteAnyone believing this needs to have their heads examined. China is not 'investing' in Nigeria for any altruistic reasons. They want to enslave Africa just as much as the West or anyone else for that matter did in the past.
I suppose the competition for supremacy amongst nations as as fierce as it gets, with the weak bearing the brunt of the detrimental effects.
Exchanging one set of handcuffs for another if no progress! Nigeria should solve her own problems and chart her own path to greatness.