Nigeria’s Ministers Say No Discrimination In Development

Nigeria's ministers of Power, Mines and Works have said that the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan is doing its best to ensure that development projects in other parts of Nigeria equally get to the north, insisting that there is no discrimination.

Giving a report on Friday to the Nigerian president about developments in the sectors they head, the ministers said that  the northern part of the country was not excluded from President Jonathan's development activities.

The Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu Nebo, said that there were some ongoing power projects in the north-east. "Already on the ground, we have in place, work that is being done by the Project monitoring unit under financing from World Bank for which at this present time, thousands of transformers are already on ground to strengthen distribution in the North-west zone.
The figure and facts are there." Professor Nebo said. The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Musa Sada, said that mining was beginning to record some growth in the provision of jobs in the northwest zone.

Meanwhile, the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties has said that "as much as it agrees with President Goodluck Jonathan that he doesn't hate the North," it contends that "Mr President hates the entire Nigerian masses both North and South".

The group claimed that the truth of the matter was that President Jonathan by his inchoate, and anti-peoples' economic model, an economic policy which is at variance with the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria hated the entire Nigerian masses, even those in Bayelsa, where the president is from