"Provocatively, not a single of all the appointments made by this jihadist has come from the South East!"

"all dis sack, sack, sack, i hope buhari no go sack my papa & bring a man from daura to be my dad."
- Otunba Alao Oriowo from Facebook1 hour ago
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/breaking-news-buhari-sacks-okogu-appoints-gusau-as-dg-nigerias-budget-office/#sthash.xRcE1fNf.dpuf

SERIES: BUHARISM AND THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW

Acts of a President with a mustard seed-mind and a pawpaw tree hight
“I hope you have a copy of the election results. The constituents, for example, gave me 97% [of the vote] cannot in all honesty be treated on some issues with constituencies that gave me 5%.”
Buhari, had during a question and answer session with journalists in the US on July 22, said, “(Going by election results), constituencies that gave me 95 per cent cannot in all honesty be treated, on some issues, with constituencies that gave me five per cent. I think these are political realities. While, certainly there will be justice for everybody but the people who voted, and made their votes count, they must feel the government has appreciated the effort they put in putting the government in place.”
In the 21st century Nigeria, naivety still pervades its politics:
It is shocking and embarrassing to learn that in the midst of the position-sharing crisis at the Apex Legislative Assembly, Buhari who has chosen and has been so advised to play the silent sentinel behaving like a pendulum is being honoured with the excellent attribute of a tolerant, unobtrusive, non-interferring democrat who is giving all sides in the fracas the wide democratic space to exhibit their felinity and dogtitude. Truth is, Buhari and the Arewa cohorts out to pursue the ONE NORTH AGENDA are merely hibernating at the background, quietly moving things and directing the course of events at the ALA, hence to say that Buhari is non-committal, uninterested and nonchallant is to exhibit the worst form of pitiful and incurable naivety which is tantamount to a gross lack of the basic understanding of the complexity of the Nigerian politics as far as power struggle between the North and the South of Nigeria is concerned.
What is more, whilst the crisis at the ALA persists with its potential capacity to get messier, if not quickly arrested, Buhari, unknown to Nigerians, particularly the likes of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Bisi Akande, John Odigie-Oyegun and Rotimi Amaechi, is quietly recloning the Nigerian State in the image of Sharia through all of his appointments thus far, especially such appointments starting with Ahmed Joda (Muslim/North), as Chairman of his own side of the transition committee, knowing full well that the former President, Goodluck Ebele Jonahtan had chosen his Vice President, a Muslim in the person of treacherous Namadi Sambo (Muslim/North).
Other such appointments which have confirmed our earlier assertion that Buhari, a jihadi-Sharia bigot, an ethnicist and regionalist is a conginital nepotist and an Islamist include :
1. Acting Accountant General of the Federation Mohammed Dikwa (Muslim/North);
2. Acting Chairperson of the so-called Independent National Electoral Commission, Mrs Amina Bala Zakari (Muslim/North), who replaced another Muslim Ambassador Ahmed Wali (Muslim/North) who held that post for just 8 hours;
3. Chief of Staff to the President, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali, former Military Administrator of kaduna State (Muslim/North);
4. Chief Security Officer to the President, Abdulrahman Mani (Muslim/North;
5. The President's ADC, Lt. Col. Muhammed Lawal Abubakar from Kano (Muslim/North;
6. State Chief of Protocol Lawal Abdullahi Kazaure (Muslim/North;
7. Director, Department of Petroleum Resources, Mr Modecai Danteni Baba Ladan
8. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu (Muslim/North);
9. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity Femi Adesina (Christian/South West);
10. Professor Umaru Garba Danbatta, Chairman and CEO, Nigerian Communications Commissions, North West, Kano State?
11. Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, South South, Delta State
12. Chairman of IPCC, Mr Itse Sagay, South South, Edo State, Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption, South South, Edo.
13. Aliyu Yahaya Gusau, Director General, Budget Office of the Federation, North West, Zamfara State.
14. Dr William Babatuned Fowler, Acting Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, South West, Lagos State.
15. Retired Brigadier General Peter T. Boroh, Niger Delta Amnesty Coordinator
SERVICE/SECURITY CHIEFS
16. Major-General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin (Chief of Defence Staff), Ekiti State/South West
17. Major-General T.Y. Buratai (Chief of Army Staff), Borno/North East
18. Rear Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas (Chief of Naval Staff), Cross River State/South South
19. Air Vice-Marshal Sadique Abubakar (Chief of Air Staff), Bauchi/North East
20. Air Vice Marshal Monday Riku Morgan (Chief of Defence Intelligence), Benue/North Central
21. Retired Major-General Babagana Monguno (National Security Adviser), Borno State/North East,
THE APEX LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
***IN THE WHOLE OF NIGERIA, NO CHRISTIAN IS QUALIFIED ENOUGH TO BE OLUBUKOLA SARAKI'S PRINCIPAL STAFF, BUT ONLY MUSLIMS...WHAT A SHAME!
⦁ Senate President, Senator Abubakar Olubukola Saraki (Muslim, North Central);
⦁ Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu (Christian/South East);
⦁ Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, Bauchi State (Muslim/North East)
⦁ Deputy Speaker of the House, Hon. Yusuf Sulaiman Lasun, Muslim/South West;
⦁ Chief of Staff to the Senate President: Senator Isa Gbadu (Muslim);
⦁ Special Adviser to the Senate President: Yusuph Olaniyonu (Muslim/South West);
⦁ Special Adviser on Lagal Matters to the Senate President, Mr Ibrahim El-Sudi.
⦁ Special Assistant on Public Affairs to the Senate President, Mr Mohammed Isah
Principal Officers of The Senate
⦁ Sen. Olubukola Abubakar Saraki, Senate President
⦁ Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, Deputy Senate President
⦁ Sen. Mohammed Ali Ndume, Majority Leader
⦁ Sen. Godswill Obot Akpabio, Minority Leader
⦁ Sen. Olusola Adeyeye, Chief Whip
⦁ Sen. Tanimu Aduda Philip, Minority Whip
⦁ Sen. Bala Ibn Naallah, Deputy Majority Leader
⦁ Sen. Emmanuel Garba-chede Bwacha, Deputy Minority Leader
⦁ Sen. Alimikhena Asekhame Francis, Deputy Chief Whip
⦁ Sen. Biodun Christine Olujimi, Deputy Minority Whip
Principal Officers of The House of Representatives
⦁ Hon. Dogara Yakubu, Speaker of the House of Representatives
⦁ Hon. Yusuf Sulaimon Lasun, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives
⦁ Hon. Olufemi Gbajabiamila, Majority Leader
⦁ Hon. Ogor Leonard Okuweh, Minority Leader
⦁ Hon. Ado Garba Alhassan, Chief Whip
⦁ Hon. Umar Barde Yakubu, Minority Whip
⦁ Hon. Umar Buba Jibril, Deputy Majority Leader
⦁ Hon. Chukwuka Wilfred Onyema, Deputy Minority Leader
⦁ Hon. O.pally Isumafe Iriase, Deputy Chief Whip
⦁ Hon. Binta Bello, Deputy Minority Whip

PRINCIPAL ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Alhaji Salisu Maikasuwa, Clerk of the National Assembly
Mr Ben Efuri, Deputy Clerk of the National Assembly
Alhaji Muhammed Sani-Omolori, Clerk House of Representative
DIRECTORATE OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND THEIR SECRETARIES
⦁ Barrister Daniel Adem, Secretary, Directorate of Legal Services
⦁ Dr Eme Moma-Efretuei, Secretary, Directorate of Common Services
⦁ Alhaji Lasisi Bukoye, Secretary, Directorate of Finance and Accounts
⦁ Mr Olaide Adelami, Secretary, Directorate of Procurement, Estate and Works
⦁ Alhaji Mohammed Sulaiman, Secretary, Directorate of Corporate Affairs

HEAD OF SERVICE AS PART OF THE PRESIDENT'S TEAMLESS TEAM
Mr Danladi Kifasi (Christian/North).
FEDERAL CHARLATAN (CHARACTER) COMMISSION
Alhaji Muhammed Alkali, Chairman
SCRAP THE FEDERAL CHARLATAN COMMISSION NOW!
Although an excellent idea in a multicultural-multi-lingual-multi-religious polity such as Nigeria, it has simply since its establishment in 1996 proved totally useless with all of its decision-making staff and become a mere money-guzzling outfit. Hence I want to again as I had been doing for years now call for the immediate scrapping of this SATANIC and Arewa outfit and I hereby call on all well-meaning Nigerians to join me in calling all of its principal staff one by one and shaming all of them and going ahead to call on the FCC's Chairman Alhaji Muhammed Alkali to resign immediately as he is NOT fit for purpose and NO GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY!
Go, Alkali! Alkali, go! You are simply USELESS in that office, GO!
NEPOTISM AND ISLAMISM INHERENT IN THE BUHARI'S SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL AND MILITARY CABINET
JANUARY 1984: SUPREME MILITARY Council.
Name
Position
State of Origin

⦁ Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, Head of State, Chairman of the – Supreme Military Council, Chairman of the Federal Executive Council, Commander in Chief – Nigerian Armed Forces, Kastina.
⦁ Brigadier (later Major-General) Tunde Idiagbon, Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, Kwara State.
⦁ Major-General Domkat Bali, Defence Secretary, Plateau.
⦁ Major-General Ibrahim Babangida, Chief of Army Staff, Niger.
⦁ Commodore Augustus Aikhomu, Chief of Naval Staff, Bendel.
⦁ Air Vice Marshal Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa, Chief of Air Staff, Adamawa.
⦁ Major-General Mamman Jiya Vatsa, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Niger.
⦁ Brigadier Yohanna Kure, GOC, 82 Division – Enugu, Kaduna.
⦁ Brigadier Ola Oni, General Officer Commanding, 1st Mechanised Infantry Division - Kaduna, Lagos.
⦁ Brigadier Sani Abacha, General Officer Commanding, 2nd Armoured Division – Ibadan, Kano.
⦁ Colonel Salihu Ibrahim, GOC, 3rd Mechanised Division – Kaduna, Kwara.
⦁ Brigadier Mohammed Magoro, Minister of Internal Affairs, Sokoto.
⦁ Brigadier Gado Nasko, Niger, Brigadier Paul Omu, Bendel.
⦁ Navy Captain Ebitu Ukiwe, Imo.
⦁ Air Commodore Larry Koinyan, Rivers.
Above were the names and States of origin of members of BUHARI's Supreme Military Council. Then the SMC was the highest lawmaking body in the land - unarguably the equivalent of the Apex Legislative Assembly, your so-called National Assembly - the Senate and the House of Representatives combined.
It must NOT be lost on Nigerians that out of the 16 Council members of the then SMC Bigot Buhari appointed 11 from the North, leaving the whole South with just 5 members!
The danger inherent in this type of lopsided composition of the national decision making body in a military setting is better left in the realm of the imagination.
Buhari's Cabinet Ministers
OFFICE NAME TERM
⦁ Head of State Muhammadu Buhari 1984–1985
⦁ Chief of Staff Tunde Idiagbon 1984–1985
⦁ Defense Domkat Bali 1984–1985
⦁ Agriculture Bukar Shuaib 1984–1985
⦁ Trade Mahmud Tukur 1984–1985
⦁ Communications A Abdullahi, Lt Col 1984–1985
⦁ Education Yarima Ibrahim 1984–1985
⦁ Finance Onaolapo Soleye 1984–1985
⦁ Abuja Mamman Jiya Vatsa 1984–1985
⦁ Health Emmanuel Nsan 1984–1985
⦁ Internal Affairs Mohammed Magoro 1984–1985
⦁ Foreign Affairs Ibrahim Gambari 1984–1985
⦁ Minister of Information Sam Omeruah 1984–1985
⦁ Transportation Abdullahi Ibrahim 1984–1985
⦁ Energy Tam David-West 1984–1985
⦁ Justice Chike Offodile 1984–1985
⦁ Works Patrick Koshoni 1984–1985
Whilst Nigeria is being cloned in Sharia/Muslim image, it is very unfortunate that the Christians in Nigeria have as ever remained largely ignorant and stupidly displaying their trademark ignorance of and total lack of knowledge of their country reducing as usual, everything to prayer without action. And Pastor Oluleke Osinbajo just sits there like a rubber stamp! But the Bible says "Faith (prayer) without actions/works is dead."
Christians in Nigeria are so timid and naive to the point of not speaking out when it matters the most or fighting for their constitutional rights as in such other aberrations in the body politics as Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), beginning from September 25th, 1969 in the Kingdom of Morocco when Yakubu Gowon, a Christian sent a delegation led by Sheikh Abubakar Gumi in an observer status capacity to the eventual membership of Nigeria under Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida in 1986; membership of Developing - 8 under Sani Abacha; Sharia under Olusegun Obasanjo, a Christian; establishment of the so-called Islamic Bank; domination of the armed forces, the police; all para-military institutions; the civil service with the secondment rubbish which makes States in the North withdraw Federal civil servants of junior ranks to serve in their States of origin, where they are given rapid promotions to senior level positions within months and a few years, say two, and afterwards return them to the Federal Civil Service as Directors and Permanent Secretaries, etc, whilst their more educated, more qualified, more competent Southern compatriots still remain where their Northern compatriots left them - ENTRY LEVEL - and have returned now as Directors, Permanent Secrtaries(!); the Muslim/Muslim ticket of Moshood Kashimawo Abiola/Baba Gana Kingibe and the recent Muslim/Muslim Chairmanship of the so-called National Transition Committee in which Muhammadu Buhari deliberately brushed his Vice President Professor Oluleke Osinbajo aside, thereby excluding the Christian community in Nigeria of the headship of that so-called national committee.
What is more, since the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29th, 2015, the Christians and Southerners have been sleeping and snoring, whilst Buhari the arch agent of Arewa is quietly and steadily making what I'd like to call TELEGRAPHIC APPOINTMENTS OR TELEGRAPHIC RECRUITMENTS, so the Nigerian people don't decode his islamic intent - and all these are in blatant disregard for national inclusivity.
Provocatively, not a single of all the appointments made thus far by this jihadist has come from the South East!
With the exception of the Baptists and the Catholics whose priests/pastors/ministers have been very well trained to have a thorough grounding in all things, in every department of life, believing with ALL CERTAINTY that even though they are not of the world, but being in it they should have encyclopaedic knowledge of their HORIZONTAL RELATIONSHIPS as well as their VERTICAL RELATIONSHIP and MUST subject all things to thorough scrutiny including how their flocks are governed by the secular rulers taking cognizance of the fact, although as an international scholar, I would say arguably, that all authorities are of God, the Baptist ministers in all history are the most vocal against injustices, and they have been doing this across ages by holding Governments and nations accountable for all their actions and inactions whilst governing their people and they providing spiritual governance to their nations - with this little, will you still be at sea as to why Baptists were in the front rank of the pioneers/purveyors of those who stirred up the spirit of the age to rally round other like minds to fight against slavery culminating in actual abolishment of the evil trade?
And what is more, the Baptists had been foermost in the founding of the LIBERATION MOVEMENT - the Civil Rights Movement - Foremost of the 20th Century Civil Rights Activists was a Baptist Minister Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. who in one of his many sermon declared:
"Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the Gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. You know, actually all that I do in civil rights I do because I consider it a part of my ministry. I have no other ambitions in life but to achieve excellence in the Christian ministry. I don't plan to run for any political office. I don't plan to do anything but remain a preacher. And what I'm doing in this struggle, along with many others, grows out of my feeling that the preacher must be concerned about the whole man."
—King, 1967[34][35]

...Buharism and the Fierce Urgency of Now

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...job done, Bala! Gudu! Gudu! Arewa Government in progress, keep off, Oduduwa...NPC so sai! APC yamutu!

SENATOR GU WON NI ISO

HON GBA WON LETI

It is now clear to everyone in Nigeria that the chaotic House of APC which in another dimension is the Arewa House of Treachery and Kataka which is of the lineage of Uthman Dan Fodio, which is of the family compound of Uthman Dan Fodio, otherwise known as the House of Uthman Dan Fodio is not only in a state of permanent flux, but full of arch coup plotters and coup plotters, both of the military and civilian types. Did not one Muhammadu Buhari smuggle himself and his gang into power on December 27th 1983 by truncating a democratically elected Government?

Did that same Muhammadu Buhari not get back to power on May the 29th, 2015 having earlier been elected on March 28th, 2015 through couptimidation or better still, electimdation, only for the reactionary elements from the Axis of Political Pendulum (APP) or Axis of Political Prostitution (Middle Belt or Midland) in collusion with some rebels from the opposite Party, funded by very powerful vested interest groups within and outside the Parties ganged up against the effeminate APC in a Saracoup?

And is the anti-Nigerianist and arch-nepotist Muhammadu Buhari not currently plotting a coup against Nigerianism, and the Nigerian electorate who were couptimidated/electimidated into voting for him and his Arewa Political Consortium (APC), the APC by way of telegraphic political appointments - appointing only the Arewites as his core security and administrative staff, and then extending this legendary nepotism of his dating back to his days as a military dictator, through the Petroleum Trust Fund when he hurled mostly Southern politicians into jail and gave juicy contracts to his kinspeople?

Therefore, as our attempt to foil the many types of coup that abound in the Arewa Political Caliphate (APC), it is hereby as a matter of national urgency and without further delay and much ado demanded herein, inter alia, that unless General Muhammadu Buhari is running a secret-cultic Government, he has just this week to cause the publication of the Ahmed Joda Transition Committee Report (TAJTCR) in all national dailies or put same in the public domain by creating an official website or cause to put same on the official website of the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria solely for the purpose, display copies at the APC Headquarters in Abuja, in States Houses of Assembly Libraries or Lobbies, Local Government Headquarters, Council libraries, community libraries (if any), national libraries, museums, 5-Star hotels' lobbies, send copies to schools, colleges and the universities, display copies in palaces, constituencies headquarters/wards, so that Nigerians can download, read, make copies for themselves or purchase copies and have insight and perspective into the contents (therein) of the Arewa Manual (AM) or Arewa Planogramme (AP) or Arewa Plan of Action (APA) or Arewa Action Plan (AAP), otherwise known as the Ahmed Joda Transition Committee Report.

Similarly, the PDP as a matter of same exigency should do likewise for the same purpose by putting their handover note to the APC/Buhari Administration in the public domain with a view to ending their tissues of lies about empty treasury.

Also, self-righteous Buhari and his Government must publicly account for all revenues the nation has been able to generate under their watch, both at home and abroad to confirm or otherwise the veracity of their wolf-crying.

MR PRESIDENT, FAIRNESS AND BALANCE (FAB), BALANCE AND FAIRNESS (BAF), MR PRESIDENT

What is more, the President has just one week to reverse all appointments already made to ensure ethnic, religious and regional balance. Any Nigerian can serve their country, guard and protect their President - the President is the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and not the President of any regional enclave.
What is more, Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu have just this week to cause the removal of the President's picture from the Arewa Consultative Forum's webiste. It has taken me years to call for the removal of the pictures of all former Presidents/Heads of State from this regional association, and I'm not going to have it any more this time round, unless the President indeed wants to tell the world he is the President of Arewa and NOT the President of Nigeria.
Elsewhere, having his picture on a sectional/regional/ethnic website is enough to disqualify him from being picked as a Presidential flag bearer of a national Party as his allegiance to the Nigerian State is already in doubt.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR ALL GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES/DEPARTMENTS & AGENCIES

Henceforth, the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Apex Legislative Assembly, Government agencies, States Government and Local Government Councils must bring their existing official websites up to date and to international standards supplying all relevant information such as names of principal staff, contact persons, emails, telephone numbers, press bureau, names and emails of media staff, reliable and comprehensive "Contact Us", short message form, press releases, latest news, speeches of the Head, case studies, white papers, photo gallery/projects (optional), drop your feedback, suggestions/ideas section, complaint section or "Tell it to the Head/Minister/Governor", etc.
Also, each website must have the head shots of principal officers, their biogs and the department's/ministry's organogrammes, facebook, twitter (etc), and those who are yet to have websites MUST as a matter of necessity create websites which are of international standards - and these websites must be regularly updated as it is usually very frustrating to obtain reliable/authentic/confirmed information about virtually everthing Nigerian, specific departments of Governments, business/political information, coupled with the fact that one doesn't usually get any person from whom to obtain general information, special information or pass security information to the Nigerian Government all of the time. What a grievous shame!

WARNING ON BUILDING/COUNSTRUCTION OF OFFICIAL WEBSITES
It must not be an opportunity to Fasholise the price/cost please!

EXAMPLES
Some years back I personally was to pass security information to the Jonathan Government through the SGF or any designated person, but that patriotic efforts of mine were frustrated.
Just last year, 2014 when the Western media were claiming all over the place erroneosly that over 2000 people were killed by Boko Haram at Baga, I did not then and up till now still do not believe that cooked up figures meant to damage the country before the international community, and having carried out investigations in all of the Northen States of Nigeria in the last 23 years and being very conversant with all the terrains the terrorists are operating, I had got in touch with the National Population Commission in order for us to get the actual official population figure of Baga and up till today, 04/07/2015, the NPC is yet to revert back to me on my official request!

I have also had the same frustration with the Corporate Affairs Commission when I sought to know officially in writing about a particular organisation known for its penchant for heating up the polity in the last 16 years and up till this time the CAC is yet to reply to my email to them seeking a very important information about a notorious organisation from a Government arm such as the CAC!

THEIR CLAIM AND BLATANT LIE

"The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) is a coalition of the elected Governors of the country’s 36 States. It is a non-partisan association which seeks to promote unity, good governance, better understanding and co-operation among the States and ensure a healthy and beneficial relationship between the States and other tiers of government."
NIGERIA HIGH COMMSION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
It is far worse at the NHCUK if you are looking for any information from them about the Commission and about Nigeria from their officials. In fact, staff of the NHCUK here treat their fellow compatriots like pests and outcasts with inexplicable disdain from personal experiences as witnessed by me, but my personal case appears different because they know I'm a journalist.

Moreso, I had spent years of being up with my winnowing fork to see things changed/done there properly to international standards - although a little better now as at the time I visited some years back, but complaints of Nigerians to me still leave much to be desired.
The last time I was at the NHCUK, they just had toilets for both sexes in the same cubicle, not partitioned, which made males and females to be inside the same cubicle, stepping on each other without privacy. I did complain about this and was directed to an elderly man who was supposed to be a senior person, but whose level of reasoning was like that of a child. He ONLY showed seriousness after I had introduced myself.
Nigerians had complained to me about how they were usually left under rains and cold each time they had something to do there and the elements were unfavourable. These have painted Nigeria in a very bad light in a multicultural Britain as other nationals often do ask: "Is this how you treat your citizens?"

My first shocker when I went to the NHCUK with Stella Marris-Ekpene to arrange for the Lecture I was to deliver there in 2004 was to find that the whole of the Consular Office was peopled with Yorubas with just one Hausa person. This was under Dr Chrstopher Kolade. It was only diluted after I had complained in writing to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and published my findings at the High Commission in the Nigerian news media.
The case of one Mrs Obileye Minister level 3, brings to mind the saddest expereince I had ever received from any human being, when I was barely a year in the UK, whilst preparring to deliver a lecture at the Commission before and on the day of the lecture on August 31st, 2004 under Christopher Kolade. Mrs Obileye was then in charge of the Consulate Affairs on Chancery Lane at the time and she did everything to frustrate our efforts first in getting a date for the lecture took upward of four months.

On the day we had a meeting for the fixing of the lecture date, I went in the company of Ms Ekpene, Francis Amedjornoku, a Ghanaian and where Mrs Obileye felt best to receive the 'pests' - was in a dusty storage non-spacious office where old-dusty file cabinets were kept, instead of the very-large spacious Committee Room which she had 'colonised' as her office to play a queenly despot in her delusions of grandeur.

Taking us as she later confessed as those Nigerians whom she said went to the Commission to make monetary demands on them, hence was treating us in such a shabby manner. She had to have her bloated ego bursted by the then Ms Ekpene (now Mrs Orji) who out of that burst up anger at the mistreatment we were getting from a fellow Nigerian, introduced me to her as formerly Chairman, Editorial Board of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc and saying forcefully to me in that angry mood: "John, show her those pictures of yours with the President - (former President Olusegun Obasanjo) and copies of your books! That man, you see there is not a small man, he's one of the great Nigerians of this generation, but he doesn't carry it on his head. The President of Nigeria knows about what he's doing here as well as Governors back home!"

It was only when Mrs Obileye saw all these that she sat up and and now accorded us the respect we all deserved. But must it be so? The High Commssion and Embassies across the globe are supposed to be places of refuge for Nigerians in the Diaspora, but from the reports I have from all over the world, Nigerians abroad are treated like faeces by their compatriots working in High Commissions and Embassies Offices, hence some Nigerians have been dying avoidable deaths abroad when they have problems with their host countries - something that could have been averted had these officials think the lives of their compatriots abroad matter and moved quickly. The President's attention MUST be drawn to this shoddy attitude of Embassies/High Commissions officials in the Diaspora towards their compatriots and he MUST thereafter make policy/public pronouncements on this shoddiness, gross irresponsibility and lack of patriotism.

Some years back when I was to renew my passport, I was told by London it would take a month to be done and when I sought an explanation they said it would take Abuja a month to process it. And being not satisfied I asked for the phone number of the Abuja office and the contact person and upon contacting them, they confirmed the veracity of London's claim. But no sooner had I dropped the handset that they phoned me up and told me it would be ready the following day. They then asked me to go to the Nigeria High Commission Office in London to pick up my passport the following day.

When they were queried on both sides of the Atlantic, they simply told me: "Na because you be Oga, we no want enter trouble. We don hear so much about you."
I then mildly reprimanded them and told them services to the nation and their customers ought not to be based on status, reminding them of the need to treat every Nigerian equally and afterwards advised them they needed to adopt international standards in the provinsion of services to their compatriots who are their customers and are in fact, regarded as CUSTOMERS here in the West.
To be continued.