MALLAM NASIR AHMED EL-RUFAI: THE
MAN OF THE MOMENT
Please permit me to
use your widely read Newspapers to salute our able minister of Federal
Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir El-Rufai on the good work he is
doing to sanitize Nigeria’s capital city Abuja. Indeed Sir you are
doing a very good job even when so many families have been destroyed
in the name of Abuja Master Plan; some have been sent to their early
grave. What is Master plan? Master plan to my own opinion means
“Master of all” both the rich and the poor. But in Nigeria context it
is different, the poor are not carried along. Since this demolition
exercise, what structures have you put on ground for
the low income earners? I mean the poor civil servants (and
other workers) who can not afford to live in Asokoro,
Maitama, Garki to mention but a few.
Those driven away
from Abuja are now mostly in Mararaba; some in open fields or in
uncompleted buildings. Nigerians suffering in the midst of plenty! Is
this what Nigerians deserve? Life in Mararaba has become unbearable.
The place has been overpopulated with no additional infrastructures. I
must not forget to thank the Nasarrawa state governor, Alhaji (Dr.) Abdullahi
Adamu who chose to turn his state to a dumping ground
and a perpectual rural state. What an irony! Minister of FCT is doing
everything within his power to get rid of ruffians while his Nasarawa
state counterpart is busy eating his (people's)
tomorrow. Please Governor Adamu, leave a
legacy so that by tomorrow if you are not there your children will not
be treated like Abacha’s children after the exit of their shylock
father. FCT is becoming more heaven on earth while Nasarrawa is being
forced the opposite way.
Mallam El-Rufai you
are indeed my icon. A man with big guts. It is my wish that after May
2007, that the next regime will still choose you. But this time around
beg them to give you a portfolio that is creative rather than
destructive one. This will erase your name from the masses' black book,
since they never knew that what you are doing was a mandate from the
Federal Government.
My able Minister
before you leave office in May 2007, try to build something that you
would be remembered for. The clock is ticking; the day is far spent
and the night is at hand. Even if it is only the execution of the AYA
fly over, so that the people you drove from the FCT will for once,
benefit from your administration. Just find a solution to Abuja Keffi
road snarl.
Rita O. Inegbu
FCT, Abuja
rita_okwuchi@yahoo.co.uk
