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DELTA LINES: DISPENSING WITH POLITICAL CORRECTNESS – By Paul Odili

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Am going to dispense with political correctness. Delta lines should long have been sold. It was a correct decision to sell it. Delta line is a big drain pipe. It's a good Public Relation if you can fund it but if you can't, Delta line is a dead asset. So long as it was managed by civil servants and as political patronage by politicians, Deltans are better off without it in the present form.

The sell price might be an issue but having not seen the valuation report, it's hard to say much. Then the issue of due process in terms of tendering process, was it a competitive bid or was it single sourced? Transperancy is overriding in view of emotional and political ramifications of Delta lines.

Government should provide more details. Governor Uduaghan experimented a PPP arrangement with Agofure motors. It worked. Returns/revenue came to coffers of government by Agofure motors wing of Delta Lines, meanwhile Government run Delta Lines never returned a dime. Its vehicles were ran aground. I think if we were paying attention that was when Delta Lines should have been sold. So much for government running transport business.

From mid-1980's as Nigeria embraced neo-liberalism the consensus is government has no business running business (some might disagree and can marshall strong points for it. In fact, some schools of thought argue that privatization is a subsidy to the rich, because the sell price are usually not market driven and those assets end up being stripped. Valid point!) hence privatization policy of govt since then.


In Delta, a lot of government assets have been privatized, it is just that some programmes have more significant social impact on the poor and therefore deserves some kind of subsidy like transportation but sadly that has still not worked in the past.

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