When, by some deft electoral legerdemain and tendentious lawfare, APC’s Team Tinubu (ATM) captured presidential power and assumed rulership of the country, informed minds, clear eyed crystal ball gazers and deep seeing clairvoyants openly announced the coming of the season of the locust; the dawn of the days of ‘gloom and doom’ over the country. They have been proven right. They knew too well, as the saying goes, that “a pot can only drip what is in it”.
Ever since, building upon the pathetically abject failures of the insular APC’s Team Buhari, the equally ego-maniacal and kleptocratic incompetence of APC’s Team Tinubu, determined to reinforce failure with greater failure, has unleashed on the country a cost of living crisis as was never thought possible.
When families turn to animal feeds for their daily meals, because food prices have become unaffordable, when car owners abandon their cars and turn commuters, because gasoline prices have raced beyond their reach, when commuters turn leg-farians because they can no longer pay the high bus and taxi fares, When the sick and ailing resort to pastors and shamans “miracle waters” and “snake oils”, because prescription drugs are exorbitantly expensive, When businesses have to close shop because of sky high electricity and diesel prices, and, when N1,700 can only buy you USD($) 1, then what you have can no longer be called inflation. The correct name for it is TINUBUFLATION – defined as a scourge of inexorable price increases, resultant from quick-fire exponential expansion of a regime of taxation in an environment of stagnated or diminishing incomes of the taxed. It is a hair-brained neo-liberal fundamentalist principle never known to have worked anywhere. It is a pestilence that came from Lagos.
That APC’s Team Tinubu – the Tinubu political clan and entourage, the Lagos political haute monde, could unleash such a hair-brained principle of “economic reforms” on the country does not surprise. The ego maniacal incompetents and adept praise singing ego-masseurs, well educated in useless humanitarian disciplines, are the acclaimed masters of toeing the line and weaseling their ways to the commanding heights of state power and lucrative sinecures.
The exorbitant price of their capture of state power is that the country is now being run by one of the worse imaginable kakistocracy – a gang-up of usurer financiers, oligarchs, media propagandist and fascistic security goons, all of whom are united by a common motivating drive; insatiable greed and corrupt allurement of the public till.
Now comfortably reclining under the banner of the National flag and securely tucked underneath the armour of the national coat of arms, the shield of state power, these kakistocrats who came to power by virtue of stolen elections and mass propaganda, are now ‘democratically’ subjecting the country to the rule of the iron fist. Worse of all, they have unleashed upon us a destructive brand of predatory neo-liberal capitalist fundamentalism, under the audacious claim that it is their turn to rule over us – as it pleases them, aka, “emi lo kan”. Audaciously, In response to the loud cries of hunger, lack and deprivations ringing across the country, they wag dismissively at our lamentations, saying to dissentient voices to wait until 2027 to bid their luck ‘voting’ them out.
Until such a forlorn eventuality, the ruling class of Lagos boys, the products of the Chicago schools of neo-liberal ‘shock and awe’ capitalist economic fundamentalism, are steadfastly razing down the economy through their toxic admixture of incompetence, greed and corruption at a staggering scale.
The country is being laid bare and prostrate from the twin combo of the removal of subsidies from energy products and quantum size devaluation of the national currency, a damnable neo-liberal policy imbecility derived from foreign tutored junk economic mis-teach, wholly imbibed by the Chicago trained Lagos boys. The resultant Tinubuflation which this imbecility has unleashed is speedily destroying whatever remnant of productive economic activity still left in the country; haven made any manner of economic production so prohibitively costly as to be unprofitably uncompetitive, thereby, steamrolling the economy along the tracks of the primitivitization of industry and agricultural productions. Tinubuflation is absolutely ruining the country. it is destroying the livelihoods of the common citizen and transferring enormous wealth to the oligarchs, banker financiers and sincurist bureaucrats.
With energy products; gasoline, diesel and electricity are unavailable, and when found, unaffordable, the production of what people need to survive and thrive ceases. This makes whatever illusions of economic revival and job creation a pointless phantom.
The conditions for genuine economic rebirth and growth cannot come from any foreign tutoring on financialization and monetary gymnastics. It can only come from the revival and empowerment of the productive sectors – which is impossible in a climate of severe energy deprivation and cost. All productions are basis and centered on energy; plentiful and cheap energy. The coterie of dollar counting accountants, lawyers of lawfares and propaganda publicist from Lagos don’t know this. It is not thought in the Chicago economic schools.
The economy is energy; energy is the economy, plain and simple. You desire to attract foreign investment? Assure plentiful and cheap energy. You desire to develop and grow domestic productions? provide handy and affordable energy.
The problem with these ekolites of high humanitarian education is that they don’t understand the dynamics of real production; of the functioning of a production driven economic system. Being programmed for ego-maniacal showmanship and unproductive consumerism, the humanitarian brain is locust-like. It knows nothing outside grub, copulate and flight.
This is why the simple innocuous locust can suddenly turn a terribly debilitating assailant. It lies low for long times, innocently chirping away, munching, breeding, stealthily populating and gathering strengths. Then, with surprising ferocities, the clan takes flight, descending in menacing numbers upon every field crops and granaries, mercilessly eating up everything – the yet harvested, and the stored seed corns. The result is mass hunger and starvation. This is what makes the season of the locust a feared harbinger of famine and death. The invasion of the locust can become the heaviest calamity that can befall a country.
Through the same innocuous gamesmanship of the locust, the Lagos ego- masseurs had deployed stealth, PR propagandizing and blame projection to powerfully maneuver their ways into positions of state power. And being locust brained, they are destructively eating away every resource of the land, to forebode terrible hunger, famine and the economic death of the country.
Like a locust clan, the Lagos political haute monde are exhibiting their total lack of humanity; exposing themselves as anti-people retrogrades; as predatorial, parasitical, exclusivist tribal libterds (retarded liberals), who, operating with the mentality of common pick-pockets, are concerned with nothing else but the counting of money and showy ego-fueled spendthrift consumptions.
The danger which these locust-brained libterds pose to our democracy is that having exposed themselves as utterly incompetent, and therefore absolutely useless, they begin to fear that their time of undisturbed ‘chopping’ could be cut short or made tenuous by citizens protest and peoples power. They show this fear in their virulent hate speeches and the insults they haul at others, especially those with proven records of productive wealth creation and capacity of doing useful things – not toeing the line, noisy praise singing and greedily feeding-off on public largesse.
Thus, they are endlessly harassing every voice pointing out their cluelessness, as they resolve to destroy dissent; brandishing and slapping treason charges and waging brutal lawfares on activist and the political opposition. Hence, a climate of gloom and doom now hangs heavily over the socio-economic frames of the country. This is the dawn of the season of the locust from Lagos.
But one way or the other, this locust swarm must have to be insecticided as it represents nothing but the germ-plasm of our neo-colonial economic and political subjugation – which must be shaken off. This is a clarion call to action to all true lovers of the sovereigntization of our economy and governance.
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