Mr. President, stop the Centenary waste

I do not understand why the President Goodluck Jonathan-led federal government is hell bent on celebrating 100 years of Nigeria’s amalgamation with so much billions of tax payers money when the country is virtually in ruins.
Instead of providing basic infrastructure for millions of suffering Nigerians, a few men in Aso Rock led by President Jonathan and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, are busy squandering our commonwealth on an inconsequential celebration.

Still can’t fathom why this government derives pleasure in pursuing anti masses initiatives that does our nation no good.
The question the promoters of this laughable and wasteful project have not answered, especially Anyim, is the benefit of the celebrations billed for next year, to the average Nigerian.
We are still waiting for the dividends of their SURE-P programme.
They keep lying to us that funds for the celebrations will be sourced from the organized private sector. Who are they deceiving? (Papa will always deceive pikin, PDP). When they are already sharing millions to Nollywood practitioners and other stakeholders, all in a bid to convince them to endorse the wasteful extravaganza.
I keep asking those trying to convince me to buy into the forthcoming Aso Rock orchestrated jamboree what do suffering Nigerians stand to gain. And painfully, the answers I get are usually the same balderdash. “Nigeria in the last 100 years, has remained indivisible.” And so what?
A country that cannot boast of four-hour uninterrupted power supply in this 21st century, is proud to waste and squander billions on the centenary of a forced amalgamation, that has only benefited a few men in power over the years.
Quite disheartening, inglorious and also a global disgrace that Nigeria, a country of over 160 million people is proud to be generating a meagre 4,503 megawatts of electricity in 2013, the highest so far in its corruption laden history.
While, with a population of 190.7 million people, Brazil, which was on the same economic range with us in the 60s, boasts of 100,000 megawatts.
How about South Africa, with a population of 50 million people, proudly generates 40,000 megawatts.
With the above embarrassing situation and many more crises facing our nation, one would have expected that Mr. President and his vision less team would have put on their thinking caps, hit the ground and start running. But shockingly and shamefully, they are busy planning an inconsequential jamboree that won’t be beneficial to an average Nigerian, except them, their families and cronies.
Mr. President and his hurriedly-put-together team are desperate to celebrate 100 years with billions of Naira, when the citizens virtually live in perpetual darkness with no gainful employment for the teeming youths and insecurity being the order of the day, as Boko Haram continues to dictate the pace. What a Presidential shame!
Again, Mr. President, of what use is the celebration when the country you are celebrating on their behalf is in complete ruins and tatters?
You cannot be celebrating 100 years with billions in a country where the security of lives and property have gone to the dogs.
Disgracefully, it is only in Nigeria that the government at the centre will budget a staggering N4 billion, for the construction of a mission house for First Ladies and another N150 million for the renovation (not building o) of the Vice President’s Guest House, yet, nobody is talking.
How about the now infamous Pension Thief, Yusuf, who was hailed and hugged by a Judge, after being convicted of stealing over N32 billion?
Such absurdity can only happen under Jonathan’s administration, where looters and liquidators of our national treasury are treated and pampered like royalties.
Like the Punch Newspapers rightly captured it in one of their editorials: “The carnival is unnecessary and a waste of resources, it offends reason and existential realities.”
Another portion of the bold and very caustic editorial read: “Obviously, the Presidency is up to some pranks. If the project is a private-sector driven, why is Anyim wasting time and taxpayers’ money in running around promoting it?... As it is often said, there is no free lunch anywhere. Such funds when doled out, are repaid through corrupt contracts or patronage network… Boko Haram, an Islamic fundamentalist sect in the north, remains a clear and present danger to our communalism, while peaceful co-existence of ethnic nationalities in Jos, Kaduna and in some other northern cities presents a picture of a polity that is out of joint. Are these challenges worth celebrating?”
The answer is a capital NO!
Sincerely speaking, I think Mr. President and his inept team should seriously face the business of governance, which is beyond partying and organizing jamborees and shindigs with tax payers’ money, all in the name of celebrating 100 years of non-stop looting and poor leadership. Enough of these poorly plotted dramas from Aso Rock cinema and theatre house.
Permit me to leave Jonathan and his clueless cum incompetent kitchen cabinet with the immortal words of revered Martin Luther: “It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against the conscience.”