{"id":16117,"date":"2017-09-28T18:59:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T18:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=16117"},"modified":"2017-09-28T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T19:03:19","slug":"why-nigeria-cant-continue-the-way-it-is-edwin-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=16117","title":{"rendered":"WHY NIGERIA CAN&#8217;T CONTINUE THE WAY IT IS? &#8211; Edwin Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Ijaw Leader, \u00a0Chief Edwin Clark has declared that restructuring of Nigeria is a must for economic growth and development.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Clark, a former national commissioner who addressed the press in Abuja\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1393239554\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Wednesday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0on the perceived lopsidedness in the federal government owned oil companies, said the country cannot continue as it is now.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">He said a situation where states continue to come to Abuja monthly to collect money is very bad.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWhen we restructure this country, you look at what you produce in your area. What is going on today is very very bad. It is not good enough, where people leave their states to Abuja to collect money without knowing where that money comes from. They don\u2019t want to look back.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201d In our last constitutional conference, we said that five per cent of our fund should be devoted to exploring other mineral resources.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=14587&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cTell me one state in this country that can pay the salaries of their staff. Is it not a shame? Is that a country? \u00a0where states go to beg for money and at the end, he who pays the piper, dictates the tunes. So you are making the Federal Government more powerful. That is why devolution of powers is very very necessary.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cBut let us have a restructuring of this country. So that I know what is been produced in my area, you know what is been produced in your area so therefore if your state is not viable continuously dissolve it, join other people. We can not continue like this. Work for twelve months, working and have no pay. Nobody will take it, that is not a country, we are not running.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWhen people are talking about restructuring they know what they are talking about. We must restructure this country. And I am happy that everybody is now talking about restructuring. We are not talking restructuring to make some people our enemies or their enemies. Restructuring has been going on since 1945 in this country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cFrom Richard constitution to Macpherson \u00a0constitution, \u00a0to Littleton constitution, to independence.\u00a0 Even during the military. Constituent assembly were held all for restructuring. Let them create a better Nigeria for all of us, for our children in particular.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Speaking on the perceived injustice and lopsidedness of appointment in NNPC and it\u2019s subsidiaries which tends to favor the northern part of the country, Clark \u00a0insisted that recent appointments must be reversed for justice.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">He argued that a situation where the North corners 36 positions out of 55 as against 19 for the entire South is not acceptable.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">He therefore urged President Muhammadu Buhari to correct the lopsided in the appointments.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">He berated NNPC for deceiving the people in it\u2019s \u00a0refutal of the allegation of lopsidedness in appointments.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/clark2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15141\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/clark2-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/clark2-300x267.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/clark2-280x250.jpg 280w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/clark2.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ijaw Leader, \u00a0Chief Edwin Clark has declared that restructuring of Nigeria is a must for economic growth and development. Clark, a former national commissioner who addressed the press in Abuja\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0on the perceived lopsidedness in the federal government owned oil companies, said the country cannot continue as it is now. 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