A few random thoughts on resource control & the pragmatism of governance.

1. The #PAGMI document is brilliant. It looks at a national security threat in the North West (banditry), and tries to take the fuel (illegal gold mining and poverty) out of the fire.

Hats off to @kfayemi

2. It’s a miracle that it managed to be implemented. It broached a hot-button issue - resource control - and came up with a slick framework that recognizes private ownership rights over natural resources and allows the FG receive royalties and taxes. https://statehouse.gov.ng/news/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-presidential-artisanal-gold-mining-development-initiative-pagmi/

3. The only other similarly transformative policy I can think off is the National Livestock Transformation Plan developed by @ProfOsinbajo. Sadly it was hikacked by elements within the Presidency, injected with the Rugavirus, and is currently in quarantine.

4. Back to #PAGMI. If a policy was developed to address illegal solid mineral extraction, why has a similar policy not been developed for the oil sector?

Fayemi developed PAGMI while he was Minister of Solid Minerals. What are the Ministers of Nigeria Delta and Petroleum doing?

5. I ask again: What are Sen. Akpabio and Min. Sylva doing? Why does the Niger Delta not have a framework that allows artisanal oil workers earn a living in the Niger Delta?

Where are these two men? Have they not seen the deprivation and insecurity bedeviling the Niger Delta?

6. And for me that where are focus should be. I can’t blame Buhari for passing a sensible policy. I congratulate the cerebral Fayemi for developing a framework the rest of the nation can look to adopt.

But Akpabio. Sylva. Haba. Wetin una dey do?

Wake up o.