Ondo State: I Weep for You, By Dayo Williams

Another gubernatorial election draws nigh in Ondo State and the Governor Olusegun Mimiko, in his usually characteristically cosmetic approach to governance known only to the deep – for the masses are largely unaware of this – has signed another Memorandum of Understanding with an American bitumen exploration company called Liquefied Resources LLC.
A random check of the company on the internet shows that it has no functional website. There is no nothing to show that it has the capacity to do the exploration which requires so much technical-know how, coupled with an established track record of completed or ongoing projects in bitumen exploration processes.

Again, the company based at 107S Beech Springs, Cir Spring, Texas, 77389, United States of America, was only incorporated in February, 2012 according to the Houston-based 75-year old President of the company, Thomas Elard Cooley. Yet, the Managing Director of the Nigerian subsidiary of the company, one Mr. Tony Amechi James, on his LinkedIn page says he has been with the company since 2006. Who will reconcile the difference in the dates? Does it mean that the Nigerian subsidiary was created before its American parent? Something appears clumsy there. And who does business with such a company in this 21st century?