“Liberalizing the possession of guns will make the ordinary citizens more equipped to fight crime” Orji Uzor Kalu

The above statement was by Orji Uzor Kalu the former (believe it or not) Governor of Abia state. He made that statement while advocating for a law to allow all Nigerian carry guns , this he said will stop Kidnapping and the like….ok what’s wrong with that? Heaven they say helps those who help themselves” abi?
Lets stretch Kalu's Argument, if we can allow citizens to carry arms cause of kidnapping surly we can allow citizens buy SUV to get over bad roads, surly we can allow citizens “manufacture” their own “pure” drinking water, surly we can allow citizen set up their own schools, surly we can allow citizens drink Agbo as primary health care………….abi the government cant protect us so he wants us to carry guns.


By last count Abia gets N3billion a month from Abuja, so he got give or take N288billion in 8 years. now if the 2 time governor had invested just 1% of this just (N2.8b) in building a small 1,200kva power plant to provide power to the Barbers, Hairdressers, Tailors, Artisan, Bar owners, Welders, Vulcanisers, does he know how many jobs he would have created? Or better still how many kidnappers he would have given a job?
Had he spent another 1% in rural roads surely the Aba palm oil industry could have gotten palm kernels out of the forests faster and cheaper, more jobs created, less kidnappers abi
had he spent another 1% in free hospitals in the local governments (i.e. N164 million per Local Government) surly people would not have to kidnap to pay hospital bills, you see has he even spent just 10% of what he got in Education, Health, Roads, Power then there would not be any case of Kidnapping in Abia state. Now imagine if all the Governors spent just 10% on education, power and health care…..just imagine.
The Niger Delta militants opened our eyes, the Inspector General of Police told us that kidnappers made $100m between 2006 and 2008 , 2 years N17.5 billon, pure profit , no cost of production (ok a phone) , no taxation. Now Kidnapping has become a business, because the state has failed to provide an alternative. Outside the Niger Delta, the South East now especially Anambra State is the HQ of Kidnapping, Orji Kalu state is a close second, hence you see his point in allowing guns. Guy for the record It’s jobs , not carrying guns that will stop kidnapping.
People like Orji Uzor Kalu are very dangerous, how? Well guy and the rest of the class of 1999-2007 have promoted a theory called “let them carry guns”, or simply “put give us the money, the people can take care of themselves” please explain

You see this “let them have guns theory can be seen in say, we allocate money for Rural Electrification but Elumelu and Co (Alleged) say “let them have candle” we allocate N240 billion for boreholes across the federation but they say “let them drink pure water”. We allocate N300m for health but Iyabo Obansanjo and Co (Alleged) says “let them drink Agbo”. We allocate $billions for Turn Around Maintenance of Nigerian Refineries but a few Nigerian say “let them have fuel lines”
The list is endless FIFA says “host the world cup”, NFA and the Sports Ministry say “let them watch it on DSTV” Yar Adua tell us that he want us to have electoral reforms the parliament says “let them have INEC”
The two richest Nigerians (according to Forbes) both made their wealth on the inefficiency of the government, Dangote makes money on the failure of the government to promote local production of Rice and feed her populace, Otedola make money by inefficiency in NNPC, so Nigeria says “let them eat Abakaliki rice” Dangote say no “let them eat Thai par boiled rice” the government says “let them have NEPA” Otedola says “let them use Zenon Diesel”. (I no dey vex with them ooh! No be them spoil am!)
What of Power i.e. Light, well the government says let them have NEPA but Mikano, Mantrac, Perkins, Jubalia, FG Wilson says “let them use generators” Do you know that Nigerians spent $12.3m (that N339b) in just 2 weeks importing Generators! (Source CBN report FOREX usage form 11 May to 22 May 2009)
Wow! This is so similar to what the queen of France told the masses in France, when they did not have bread, she said “let them eat cake” well sort of, but we put an African twist to ours.

The thing is that the French masses refused to eat cake, but the Nigerian has certainly eaten a lot of cake. We the people of Nigeria have eaten and like the cake the Orji Kalu are feeding us. We have eaten bad roads, no power, no hospital, no schools, and we are still hungry. And its get better, should they allow us carry guns, who do you think will import and sell it? You or them?

It’s our problem, we can fix it
ps
Agbo is that stuff young girls carry about and sell in mostly Western Nigeria. Agbo (so they claim) can cure everything so a cup a day keeps the doctor away.