MAKE NIGERIA ONE AGAIN

NATIONALISTS AND NOT HIGHLY DIVISIVE ETHNIC BIGOTS…NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE NIGERIA ONE

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! What of the ethnic organizations? Some of them, especially those claiming to be championing the causes of the so-called majority ethnic grouping got more than N40, 000, 000 each from the GEJ Government.

But who needs these highly elitists ethnic-political organizations such as Afenifere, Ohaneze Ndigbo, Arewa Consultative Forum and many such Kilejeku (?), Come Chop and Food is Ready confraternity, despicably littering the Republic’s landscape with their greed, gluttony and self-interest, always moving in and out of the Presidency and States Houses, rummaging for crumbs from the tables of the murderers in high places and the purveyors of injustices in the land?

These ethnic bigots, some of who are former Federal Officers, but now retired and tired never did anything for these their so-called people for whose ‘sakes’ they deceive the naïve and the untutored Nigerians that they are speaking and fighting, nor did they ever remember when they were shameless and openly cooperating with the nation’s expropriators, oppressors, profligates and “wretched prodigals”, singing “The Boy is good” and “He is a jolly good fellow”, so they could partake of the inglorious and ignominious national cakes in order for them to send their children/wards to expensive schools abroad, whilst living an unbridled dissipated kind of live at the expense of the dregs of the nation.

But whilst they were chopping with their prodigal-profligate and kleptomaniac Fulbe-Hausa-Kanuri masters, all was well with Nigeria – and whoever dared talked and wrote about the injustices in the land, suggesting restructuring as the way forward for Nigeria, was shouted down and such so-called “rebels”, as they were wont to be calling them were branded as “subversive elements”, collaborating with foreign Governments to destabilize their masters’ governments, and subsequently attempting to fracture and divide the country.

These now so-called elder statesmen, who dominate these ethnic associations were then behaving like Alsatian bulldogs, barking and attacking every shadow, who even were thousands of miles away from their masters.

Virtually all of them were on record to be mouthing then that “Nigeria’s unity was sacrosanct and non-negotiable!”

But their new-found song that will secure them the lost goodwill from their so-called people they had loved to despise then and fetch them their daily bread from the high places in their old age is: “Restructuring.”

These latter day Apostles of restructuring, also, as part of their stock in trade and monkey trick revel in constantly heating up the polity just for crumbs from the Presidency and states houses, as they would keep moving in and out of theses exalted offices, full of accolades for the people in power, so they can secure their daily bread to feed their very, very large families – with some having between 100-400 children!

Having retired and with nothing else to do, and having not saved for the rainy day as when the going was good, they forgot that life itself is transient, that nothing is permanent in nature as they continued to delude themselves that the power and authority in their disposal was perpetual.

But as the reality of life dawned on them after retirement, and seeing themselves now thoroughly useless first to themselves, their families and society – the nation, they retreated to their ethnic enclaves, where they now claim to be championing the cause/s of their people and the generality of the Nigerian people.

They talk about the injustices against their people who they never, ever remembered when in public offices; they talk and write about democracy when they don’t practice democracy in their midst; they talk and write about the rule of law when they don’t observe the rule of law; they talk and write about zoning/ when they don’t do zoning or rotation in their Kileje jeku(?) associations.

Readers should check for how many years these self-proclaimed democrats and rule of law observers together with the so-called “Generals and Field Marshals” of their militant arms (their ethnic armed forces) have been holding onto their currents positions – they can tell politicians for how long they can hold positions, quoting constitutions to buttress their points, yet everyone holding positions in these ethnic associations hold it for life; they talk about accountability and stewardship in public offices when they themselves don’t apply these virtues amongst themselves – for examples: first and foremost, what are the sources of their funding – at a time when both the Federal and States governments cannot pay Nigerian workers, they move in and out of the Presidency and States Houses with brown envelopes and fat pockets, only to set up businesses later, whose sources of capital are unknown to the Nigerian people – who audits them and isn’t it about time they made their sources of funding public?

Isn’t it about time too that apart from making their sources of funding public, they equally make their income and expenditures too public with both independent auditors as may be engaged by either the Federal Government or any interested party such as the civil societies?

They talk and write about nepotism, yet they are the most nepotistic of all homo sapiens; they talk about restructuring when they have not been able to restructure themselves and their associations; they talk and write about a Buhari dividing the nation, whereas they were the first to have put a sword on the things that hitherto held us together, having so divided the country into ethnic groupings, constantly heating up the politiy for their bellies; they cowardly remain on the thresholds of their ethnic enclaves and talk about the Nigerian nation, giving the world the false impression that they are nationalists, or should be so seen – but they have forgotten that you cannot be an ethnic irredentist/arch ethnicist and be a nationalist at the same time, for a person is either an ethnicist or a nationalist as it is NOT possible to be both or wear the toga of both at the same time.

ETHNIC ASSOCIATIONS/TALIBANS ON THE BALANCE

Ethnic Talibans or jihadists or ideologues or irredentists or chauvinists are a bunch of senile, fossilized brains and beggarly self-appointed political correctors with one or too irresponsible Almajiri youth in their midst acting as their mega phones for their daily crumbs from these old-tired bigots, destroying our Nigeria for their own very self-interest and greet.

Their monkey tricks are to use pre-historic or antediluvian platforms to seek political relevance at the centre, using the instrumentality of political connections to connect/link their offspring/wards to the nation’s political cows upon whose hunchbacks they will perch picking fleas and lice.

ELECTIONS TIMES: HARVEST TIMES FOR ETHNIC ASSOCIATIONS, CHURCHPRENEURS, MOSQUEPRENEURS, JOURNALISTS, TRADITIONAL RULERS, IYAOLOJAS AND TRADE UNIONISTS

Season of endorsement

Election times are now around the corner – this exactly is their time – their harvest time, and a time in which they delight in heating up the polity.

And now they are all over the place endorsing their fellow crooks and charlatans, whilst asking their political clients/customers, thus: KILE JE KU?

The wind of endorsements now blowing all over the nation is not just an ego-booting malady, nor a money-making exercise, but it is as well an act of illegality and a high level criminality against the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Nigerian people, promoting and encouraging a form of nepotism – favouritism, tribalism, it is a national shame and tragedy and at once a national embarrassment which attests to not only the dearth of creativity, imagination, innovation and inventiveness , but lamentably and mournfully too, speak of the absence of all these virtues and national conscience.

Also, an endorsement is a type of mind leprosy, and a delusion of grandeur, whereby the endorser does not have or enjoy any iota of political base, whatsoever within the Nigerian Federation. Consequently, all who have at one time or another endorsed a politrickcian must immediately check into Ward 0001 at the Yaba Psychiatric Hospital, and thereafter, visit a Leper colony for a comprehensive diagnosis and treatment; and this must before the forthcoming elections! Failing to heed this warning and advice; every endorser risks losing their citizenship of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Let us look at the above assertion against the backdrop of the type of educational system the Nigerian nation inherited from Britain – education whose sole goal and philosophy is that of learning by rote, hence the nation has since on the departure of the British colonialists been producing parroty and coconut graduates, incapable of thinking outside of the box with the nation’s politico-socio-economic and cultural landscapes littered with stark, lettered and functional robotic illiterates.

Thus, our educational system since the departure of the colonialists has remained and glory in its non-functional state, all because successive governments and education managers have not overhauled, reviewed and re-invented the nation’s educational system and shifted it from the parrot-robotic type education the colonialist had left us with – just learning how to read and write!

And having just finished courses in education and training in England’s most prestigious Further Education, my eyes were opened to the unjustness of the British colonial education in sub-Saharan Africa and the ignorance and stupidity of the Africans in not putting machinery in place to invent a distinct African education system that is in tandem with the African reality, and yet globally competitive.

And as in every other thing such as condemning and writing everything beginning from the skin colour politics, so that their cream-toning and skin-changing cream industry may thrive, cashing in on the general inferiority complex amongst most persons of African ancestry, their education rankers every year sit in pubs to decide each how NOT a single university in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa is good enough to educate our children.

Expectedly and stupidly too, Africans have bought into this and this consequently has taken corruption in Africa to a new and an abysmal level, as amongst other things African thieves, crooks and criminals in elective/public offices have been trying to outdo one another in other to educate their butter-brain children/wards in the most expensive schools in the West.

Again as in every other type of ranking which always put anything African at the bottom-most, not a single soul amongst all persons of African ancestry has stopped to ask the question: How many Africans do really sit on these panels that always score anything Africa so abysmally low beginning from our skin colour, intelligence and all what not, because to us as a people, whilst anything about Africa/Blacks is evil, so NOT good, anything Western to all persons of African ancestry is status conferral!

How stupid! How idiotic!

****To be continued.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Odey Aduma was formerly Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria; Southern Coordinator and the Public Affairs Manager of President Muhammadu Buhari's pastoralists NGO - THE PASTORAL RESOLVE; Chairman, Editorial Board of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc; member, National Committee for the Nigerian Youth Festival, 1993; Core Committee, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF)/Ford Foundation, Kano Eastern Bypass Roadside Tree Planting Exercise, 1997; member, core Committee of the National Technology Summit and was the Summit's chairman for two of its sub-committees - Publicity and Exhibition, 1998; member of the Administrative Panel of Inquiry set up by President Olusegun Obasanjo to investigate the illegal trade in and smuggling of endangered species of wild fauna and flora into and out of Nigeria, 2003.

He was the Chairman, Planning Committee of the General Murtala Muhammed Memorial Lecture for two consecutive years, 2001 and 2002 before it attained a Foundation status in 2002, having first been upgraded to that status in 2001.

General Murtala Muhammed was one of Nigeria's former Heads of State and was killed in the abortive coup led by the then Colonel Buka Suka Dimka on February 13, 1976.

That same capacity saw Mr Aduma delivering huge successes during the Daily Times of Nigeria's 75th Anniversary (in which he raked in N6, 000, 000 into the coffers of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc) and also, playing a similar role in a similar capacity during Dr Isma'il Babatunde Jose's 75th Birth Day. Dr Jose, doyen of Nigerian journalism was Mr Aduma's personal mentor. That relationship was so close and solid such that whilst Aduma was leaving the shores of Nigeria for Britain in 2003, Dr Jose gave him N10, 000.00.

In 1992, Mr Aduma's contributions to journalism was recognised with the awards of the Nigeria Media Merit Award as the Investigative Reporter of the Year and the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence as the Reporter of the Year, and the British Chevening Scholarship, which saw him studying International Journalism with Specialism in Environment at City, University of London in 2003-2004.

Aduma is the author of the inspirational best-seller, THE DIAMONDS ARE HERE and the founder of Vigilance, the World's Leading Security Magazine and Scorpion News Corp, in addition to founding the Nationalists Unity Movement of Nigeria (NUMON).

He is also, involved in professional mentoring at Post Graduate level in the City, University of London’s Post Graduate Professional Mentoring Strand.

• Johnny Boy

ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM.