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Popular comedian, Chief Chika Okpala, also known as Zebrudaya Okoroigwe Nwogbo, alias 430, gained prominence for his role in the TV drama series, New Masquerade.
The veteran actor recently bared his mind on the state of the nation. According to him, Nigeria needs to boost our performance economically. He added that the dependence on oil for the economic sustainability of our nation, has been the bane of Nigeria.
Hear him: “Let’s come to the issue of leadership and restructuring again. Instead of looking at how to kill people or how to maim them or divide them, we should think of how to boost our development in economy. What are we adding, supposing there was no oil?
“Our people lived when there was no oil and encouragement at that time was in tasks: East you produce your palm oil and palm kernel, your palm produce; West you give us cocoa; North you give us groundnuts. Now the north does not give us groundnut anymore, we don’t see the pyramid of groundnut rather it is where to go and kill. East you don’t give us palm produce again rather you are concerned with where to go and fight. West stays in the…they are neither here nor there but they don’t give us cocoa. Less emphasis on what united us before is what we see today.
“We used to live without oil; oil came as a kind of succour to make sure that we can have development to accelerate our growth after independence that is if we had good leaders. Unfortunately the thing went into their heads and they didn’t know how to manage the funds. We still have the land, God has not polluted our lands, and our lands are still productive. I think that the leadership is faulty, 90 percent faulty”.
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