USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: CONFAB ADDS 19 new states - See list

My People:

I continue to maintain that the best thing for Nigeria is to have an administratively re-REGIONALIZED Nigeria, in which each region has its right to form as many states and local governments as it wants, provided the Federal does not MANDATORILY have to feed those lower tiers of government financially.  As such, I am opposed to the creation of even ONE more state.

Having a total of 19 new states, for a grand total of  54  states  + 1 FCT in Nigeria - presumably each with a Governor  and House of Assembly, with a paraphernala of commissioners and civil servants - is crazy and madness capitalized.    America with three times our population and ten times our land mass and a zillion times our GDP has only 50 states. 

I believe that it is a sneaky attempt to DENY those who genuinely may have qualified for a state or two.

Unfortunately, the present basis of state creation appears largely to be on ENVY: i.e. this zone has MORE STATES than my zone, so create more in my zone even though I dont REALLY need more .  Envy is a bad character trait.  Rather, the basis for additional state creation should be four major factors:

1.  Population - pf    

2.  Land mass - lf   

3.  Economic Viability - ef

4.  Agitation - af

with some heavy index given to 3+4 so that they are (say) 75% of the total sum(1:4), and some index given to 3 so that  it is (say) 55% of the sum(3:4), with 1 and 2 equally weighed (say). Above, I put an agitation factor f (= 0 or 1), such that if there is no agitation (f=0), there should be no state creation at all.

If the major factor for additional state creation is envy masking as equity, then we should create two more states in the SE, one each in all the other four geo-political zones except for the NW, where no new states should created, so that ALL geo-political zones have seven states each.

  

Yes, six more states because of our envy-induced stiff-kneck-edness - shikena - for a total of 43!  Still a crazy thought....

And there you have it.

Bolaji Aluko

On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Igietseme, Joseph (CDC/OID/NCEZID) <jbi8@cdc.gov> wrote:

Did they forget AFENMAI State from the present Edo state? After all, the population of one million is not likely to be a problem; the viability of such a state is unquestionable because the natural resources are there; most IMPORTANTLY, the nationalism in the indigenes will support a united Nigerian nation against any ethnic revanchists around such an Afenmai State. Let's TRY IT! Hehehehe!!! JUI [Supporter/Advocate of AFENMAI State, if more state are SINCERELY needed in Nigeria!]

 

P.S: can some of us exercise the discipline and self-control to leave the subject title of a the topic under discussion alone?

 

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Confab's new States are jokes! some of these LG new States may not survive. Njaba- Anim  or Orashi carved out of Imo and Anambra will be an oil producing area because of Ohaji- Egbema, Izombe, Awoomamma and Uzinaumu untapped Adax oil wells. Unfortunately, present Imo State will no longer get federal oil allocations and how can they survive after the politicians  shares the money. Is not better when we had Eastern Region, Northern and Western Regions without the third tiers of the govt and all powers to the center. All these 36 or 54 states  and US opting out with our oil resources, wahala go dey with the cake and pies.

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Subject: [imostatecongress] Re: [IgboEvents:Live] RE: [Live] CONFAB ADDS 19 new states - See list

 

 

Confab's new states. Note the ones marked asterisk, they are from south East.

Apa from Benue state,
kainji from Kebbi,
Katagum from Bauchi,
Savannah from Borno,
Amana from Adamawa,
Gurara from Kaduna,
Ghari from Kano,
*Etiti from South East,
*Aba from Abia,
*Adada from Enugu,
*Njaba from Anambra and Imo,
Anioma from Delta state,
Ogoja from Cross River State,
IJebu from Ogun State and
New Oyo State from the present
Oyo State.

 

 

HEN-USA

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On Friday, July 4, 2014 9:42 PM, "Collins Ezebuihe Collyezebuihe@hotmail.com [IgboEvents]" <IgboEvents@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

 

And if oil dries up, would a lot of these 54 states file for bankruptcy?
 
Colly. 

 

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Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 18:35:30 -0700
Subject: [IgboEvents:Live] CONFAB ADDS 19 new states - See list

 

The new states proposed by the conference are: Aba, to be carved out of the present Abia State; Katagum, from Bauchi State; Ijebu, from Ogun State; Amana, from former Sardauna Province; Apa, from Benue State; Anioma, from Delta State, Savannah, from Borno State; and Etiti, from South-East.

Others are Njaba/Anim, from Anambra and Imo states; Gurara, from Kaduna State; Ghari, from Kano State; Adada, New Oyo from Oyo State; Orachi, from Rivers State; Ogoja, from Cross River State; and Kainji, from Kebbi and Niger states.

Two other states, one each from the South-East and South-West zones, are also yet to be named.

It was agreed by the delegates that the 18 new states would be shared among the six zones in a manner that no zone would have more states than the other.

 

 

HEN-USA

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