Abike Dabiri writes!

ABIKE DABIRI WRITES:
1.Saudi Arabia with a population of 26m has 16 functional refineries, to commission another 2 of 400k barrel each per day capacity in 2016.
2. The U.S State of California alone has 26, Texas has 19 refineries
3. While Singapore with a population of 5.6million people has 3 refineries with combine refining
capacity 1.3m bp/d
4. Nigeria has 3 or 4 (non functional refineries) built in the 70s & early 80s...now obsolete...16 years of oil boom we didn't add even ONE.
5. When you don't invest in our downstream sector, but handed out importation licenses to cronies & acolytes. Today we are paying the price.
6. We are paying the price of our past profligacy, irresponsibility in governance and blind leadership.
8. Egbin power plant was valued at $1.2 billion a German electricity company budded but GEJ sold is to Sahara energy at $470m.
9. Sahara had no previous antecedents on power plant aside importation of petrol but we handed them our LARGEST thermal plant.
10. Easier to cry today but whatever problems we see today was created yesterday with the active connivance of all of us...
11. Active connivance in the sense that we all kept quiet & looked away... Our day just dey break?
12. I am not exonerating the FG of blame, but laying the facts as they are... While you have the right to be angry, pls be angry with sense.
13. Change will come but it will not come overnight... A lot of mess was made either out of omission or commission, change will take a while,
14. I am laying these facts out and I challenge anybody with contrary facts to bring it.
15. I am doing this bcos I feel the pain and agony we are going thru and I feel the collective hurt but we must understand why we are here.
16. I pray that the present FG will have the courage and conviction to right so many of the ills of the past. Our future depends on it.
17. May Nigeria be great again & may our collective suffering spur us to a greater sense of true nationhood. Nigeria shall rise again!!!