Nigeria has finally announced it intention to bar commercial motorcycles from operation nationwide. This government has lost it bearing and fast driving Nigeria and it abundant talent to graveyard. A living hell like Nigeria with millions of unemployed youths challenging for a top spot in world ranking of the highest nations with almost zero probability of getting a jobs, is said to be looking set to endanger itself by rendering it youths invalid without any means of livelihood.
Commercial motorcycle driving better known as Okada or Achaba is the leading employer of labour and source of survival to millions of youths with no access to jobs, electricity, security, clean drinking water, good roads, qualitative education, hygienic environment, farm input, healthcare and infrastructure.
Okada has been in operation for many decades now, providing Nigerians with basic needs than any known establishment. Okada has proven to be the top employer of labour more than the Federal Government itself with all state governments combined. I wonder how any responsible government that failed to create employments for it citizens will relieved them off theirs?
This government is so deaf and dump in all aspects of human development since it inception.
With the way things are moving, there must be a doubt if this current administration will be a successful regime. Nothing fruitful if not one (availability of pms) has ever been recorded from the fish brains in leadership and shows no sign of recording any. They are simply ninconpoops and devilish minds ready to destroy the foundations of Nigeria's founding fathers and disunite the long togetherness Nigeria and it people enjoys.
For any reasonable government to implement any national measure, those measures must be tested severally before implementation. Only tests that yielded desirable results aligned with national interest which must be of benefits to all citizens are implemented. But never in Nigeria, where measures are implemented based on personal and selfish interest.
Once you are giving a chance or selected to participate in leadership, You automatically became above the law, giving you the right to direct, command, mandate, instruct and implement whatever nonsense you thought of in beer parlours and your words are final like a revelation from above, you automatically became a living God.
Nigerian government failed to reason and learn from mistakes in many states that imposed ban on commercial motorcycles and the dangers it engulfed.
Let's use Kano State as a case study. Imagine the consequences in it and the dangers that will befall Nigeria very soon.
Achaba was banned in Kano state by the present administration about a year and half ago to curtail the rising cases of insecurity in the state. The state government imported more than one thousand commercial tricycles (Keke Napep) and distributed to various youths across the state to ease the transportation problems as a result of the absence of Okada and generate employments for the unemployed Okada riders that lost their jobs.
The government also bought about one thousand brand new Toyota Corollas for use as Taxis to replace Okada in the state. An institute of agriculture was commissioned alongside institute of security and sport in order to accommodate the teaming unemployed youths.
A skills acquisition center was also established where the Ex-Okada riders will be trained on various skills to be self reliant. But all in vain.
The city of Kano as at today, is home to all sorts of crimes, criminals stationed in all parts of the ancient city, mostly in the city centers where commercial activities are done.
A densely populated city like Kano ( being the highest populated state in Nigeria revealed by the 2006 national census) houses more than 1.6m registered commercial motorcycle riders and numerous unregistered riders.
Based on the outcome of our survey, the banned on Okada in Kano state rendered more than two million youths jobless.
Kano state government in its effort, distributed 1000 cars and more than 1000 tricycles to replace Okada and employ the youths feeding from it. A skills acquisition centers which trained thousands of youths alongside institutes of agriculture, sport and security.
All efforts by Kano state in training its youths to be self reliant didn't yield any desirable result.
The number of jobs created by Kano state government is nothing compared to the number of jobs lost due to the banned on Okada. The thousands job opportunities that were created can't match the over two million jobs that were killed.
Based on the final outcome of our research in Kano state. It's on record that the banned on Okada have resulted to over two million cases of divorce across the state in just two years due to lack of means by many men to cater for the needs and well being of their families. The banned on Okada is primarily the genesis of nearly 96% of the whole cases of divorce, because commercial motorcycle employed about two million of their husbands and they all depends on it for their day to day activities and is their only source of livelihood.
Crimes in the city are now at their highest peak, youths roamed the streets day and night without any sign of hope in search of what to eat, the government has failed to empower the vast number of youths it sacked off their jobs.
Their motorcycles are only used for evening shows or in criminal activities but never for business again, they are now nearly as useless and unproductive as a doormat.
Security of lives and properties has never been giving any priority from those in leadership rather than the growth of their bank accounts. Security is now a booming business sector where billions are bumped in everyday to tackle the menace of insecurity but ended up in someone's pocket.
Unaccountable billions ment for the funding of security forces and security operations are stolen every night with nothing giving to the appropriate channel. To my astonish, the whole security lapses are blamed on commercial motorcycle riders. What a tragedy.
You must concur with the fact that banning Okada in the trouble states of Borno and Yobe for the past 3 years since 2010 didn't record any success as nothing positive has been achieved as a result.
Heavy explosion and gunshots are heard everyday without Okada operating in the regions for more than three years.
Did banning Okada in Plateau State stopped the long existing crisis in the state?
Kaduna State also banned Achaba a year back or so, but later recalled them back to operations for reasons best known to them.
No state in Nigeria has recorded any success in trying to curve Okada out of their system for many useless security measures.
If at all justice is done, commercial motorcycles may never be a national issue. The best way for an improve security situations and reduce crimes in any habitat is to have God in mind, deliver justice and equal treatment to all regardless of ethnicity, cultural or religious dimension without any sentiment or politics.
Good governance and accountability will forever remain a tool in fighting insecurity.
Immorality and Illiteracy is among our major national deficiencies. High level of corruption always lead to oppression against the electorates, which in returns may force the oppressed masses to revolt and seek for their freedom.
I kept wondering why will any nation vested too much powers to some few corrupted opportunists that knows nothing compared to the taste of local gin (Ogogoro)? They own so much powers and immunity, giving them privileges and rights to loot the nation's treasury and remain untouchable. Are they above the law?
They feels too powerful, thinking they are heroes, not knowing they are nobody but a bunch of fools, a syndicate of unforgiving devils and products of a corrupt marriage.
They controlled and occupied all the national resources and can alter with it on selfish interest with little or non auditing from supervisory agencies once they are compromised.
Our so-called leaders are sucking the nation dry, they operate and manage the national resources like their fathers businesses at same time transferring whatever profit gained into their offshore accounts abroad and the capital itself is not secured.
Many developed countries strengthened their economy using Nigeria's stolen wealth while our economy is back sliding every count of the clock without any sign of kicking up not to talk of acceleration.
What only bothers to them is the welfare of their wards, their children's education, the exotic cars their girlfriends wanted, the kinds or designs of mansions they saw in the UK, safety of the jets hanging in their air wings, which designer suite to wear, which country to go shopping, which jet to use for holiday travels, which island has the most beautiful babes, how much to keep at home for domestic needs and how much to keep for their colleagues (Armed Robbers) in case they came knocking.
History will save it that the most greedy, wicked, corrupted and selfish humans evolved in Nigeria. Their ancestral origin and inherited characters still remained unknown, as no one could tell where they inherited their corrupt characters.
Generations came and go, each generation exhibits some certain characteristics and features in common with many generations before it. Ours is a generation of blood suckers, a people of mischief, envy, disaster, corruption, violence, hatred and all sort of criminal activities. Only God knows the barbaric generation that passed on this rotten and devilish characters to Nigerian leaders as Only Him (God) can tell who the mother of a cameleon is.
One day for sure, Nigeria must inevitably be a living heaven for us or our successors, only if we rise to reject bad governance and sacrifice our lives for the betterments of our generations unborn. Surely, Nemesis must take it cause, now or later, either by men or by God.
Please take this to be an examination question.
(Q1). The ban on Okada operations in Kano state is now about two years old. Discuss it significances and the way it positively affect the lives of the poor people of Kano state?
(Q2). Assuming to be an adviser. In which way will you advice any state or nation at a stage of total security collapse with high rate of unemployment intending to ban Okada operations?
USAMA A. DANDARE
04/12/2013
@osadaby
Movement For Accountability And Good Governance (MAGG).
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