Hamid

Self Employed, Progressive

[Ben Murray-Bruce @benmurraybruce]

Mr President,

I write this as a supporter of your administration and as a Nigerian who wants you to succeed. But support must never become sycophancy. Sometimes, the greatest service a supporter can render is to tell the President what others around him may be too comfortable—or too frightened—to say.

Mr President, Nigeria needs more mad men in your government.

And before anybody deliberately misunderstands me, let me explain what I mean by mad men.

I mean men and women who are crazy enough to confront a broken system, step on powerful toes, offend entrenched interests and refuse to accept mediocrity simply because mediocrity has become normal.

We need people who wake up every morning obsessed with results.

We need people who are prepared to become unpopular in Abuja if that is the price of becoming useful to Nigeria.

Look at the Central Bank under Olayemi Cardoso. Whatever disagreements anybody may have with individual policies, there is no question that the institution has undergone a serious reset. Discipline and credibility have returned to monetary policymaking.

That is one mad man.

Look at Mallam Nuhu Ribadu. Nigeria still has serious security challenges, and nobody should pretend otherwise. But there is a seriousness, coordination and strategic direction in the national security architecture that deserves recognition. Ribadu is prepared to work, confront problems and take responsibility.

That is another mad man.

Mr President, two mad men are not enough for a country of more than 200 million people.

We need another one in petroleum.

In fact, give us two more.

Nigeria cannot continue to behave like a poor country sitting on the assets of a rich country.

We produce crude oil. We possess enormous reserves. We have decades of petroleum expertise. We have spent fortunes on refineries. Yet for years we became accustomed to exporting crude and importing the products refined from it.

That is economic madness of the wrong kind.

Now we need madness of the right kind.

Mr President, make the rehabilitation and commercially viable operation of the Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna refineries a national obsession.

And please, no more excuses.

Nigerians have heard enough explanations about turnaround maintenance, contractors, technical reviews, committees, timelines and billions spent.

We want products coming out of those refineries.

If government cannot operate them efficiently, find the structure that can. Bring in world-class technical partners. Introduce private capital where necessary. Restructure them. Concession them if that produces the best outcome. But whatever model is chosen, the objective must be brutally simple:

MAKE THE REFINERIES WORK.

Dangote has shown what is possible on Nigerian soil. Its refinery was designed for 650,000 barrels per day and has reportedly demonstrated even higher throughput during performance testing.

So let us establish an audacious benchmark.

Mr President, let the three government-owned refining complexes target, at minimum, the equivalent of 50% of Dangote’s nameplate refining capacity—about 325,000 barrels per day of reliable, commercially viable throughput. Then push beyond it.

Nigeria should not merely aspire to satisfy its domestic demand. Our ambition should be much bigger.

We should become a refining powerhouse for Africa and a major exporter of refined petroleum products.

And upstream, the instruction should be equally uncompromising.

Your administration already has a stated ambition of taking Nigeria towards 4 million barrels of oil per day by 2030.

Mr President, find the mad man who will deliver it.

Find somebody who considers 1.5 million barrels unacceptable when the national ambition is 4 million.

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[Reno Omokri @renoomokri]

Dear Austin,

Thank you for your feedback. Are you sure about your statement? Nigeria is the largest Islamo-Christian nation on Earth, therefore, not only should we avoid such prejudice, as you have just displayed, but we should take time to understand each other better. Perhaps you may need more education on how brainy, intellectual, and progressive the global Muslim Ummah has been over the years and to this day.

In Southern Nigeria, my family and the family of the Oba of Benin were the first families to receive a Western education. My ancestor, Ogiame Atunwatse I, graduated from a Portuguese university in 1611.

But long before then, Nigerian Muslims already had formal Eastern education and had been travelling to Makkah from the 14th Century.

For your information, many intellectuals in Sudan are descendants of Hausa Muslim pilgrims who undertook the return journey from Makkah on foot or by camel centuries ago, and, owing to the hardships of the journey, decided to remain in the Sudan. There are three million Hausas in the Sudan, and they form much of the intelligentsia and academia of that country.

You and I have a lot to thank Muslims for. Even the very foundation of the Internet, which enables you to make these claims, originated from Islamic science.

The word 'algorithm' is named after Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, a Persian Muslim mathematician who helped develop the discipline of mathematics. Without him, there would be no Internet as we know it.

The word 'algebra' is taken from his book, Kitab al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabala, which means 'The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing'.

The father of modern surgery, Abū al-Qāsim al-Zahrāwī, was an Arab Muslim physician, surgeon and chemist. He invented the first forceps, which are still in use today, over a thousand years after he introduced them to the world. His other creations were medical bone saws, scalpels, and sutures.

Some of the scientific tools that we use today were the brainchild of Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham, a Muslim Arab mathematician and physicist who lived over a thousand years ago.

Ismail Al-Jazari, the polymath and inventor, who invented the crank-connecting rod system as far back as 1206 AD, was a Muslim.

The concept of hospitals was first introduced in Baghdad by Muslims in 805 AD, when they founded the Hospital of Baghdad.

The oldest university in the world is the University of Al-Karaouine, founded in 859 AD in Fez, Morocco, by Muslims.

And this brilliance continues in modern times. A Tunisian Muslim, Moungi Bawendi, recently won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The CDMA technology that led to 4G mobile technology is the invention of the Egyptian Arab Muslim Dr Hatim Zaghloul.

Even here in Nigeria, a Muslim man, Aliko Dangote, is the single largest employer of labour in Nigeria. Through his enterprises and business ventures, he employs more people than any state government. Only the Federal Government employs more people than he does. But when you count his employees in other African countries, he almost matches the Nigerian Federal Government.

What about Jelani Aliyu, who is from Sokoto and designed the bestselling Chevrolet Volt Electric Car?

Austin, are you saying that all these people do not have brains?

Austin, you need not see Muslims as your enemies. Try to understand them. They have existed as a religion in the geographical area known as Nigeria for far longer than Christianity or Judaism. Therefore, it is in your own economic, social and political best interests to understand them and learn how to coexist peacefully with them.

Finally, I strongly urge you and others like you to read history. Images, such as yours, were the triggers for the July 29, 1966, counter-coup and subsequent pogroms, which eventually resulted in the unfortunate Nigerian civil war.

We would be wise not to repeat religiously outrageous actions that led to catastrophic consequences.

Thanks again, and may God bless you.